Focus Hip Hop

Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

  • Tardy Album Review | Denaun – Letter 2 Sydney

    This album was released on July 26th this year. Before checking this project out, I went back and listened to most of Mr. Porter’s previous releases, and I think he’s a really talented artist. I’m not a fan of D12’s music at all unfortunately. Devil’s Night is a really bad album, and D12 World is…

  • Tardy Album Review | Lou the Human – Painkiller Paradise

    This album was released on August 2nd this year. If you’ve read my reviews for Ceschi’s Sad, Fat Luck or Lou’s Promise of Paradise EP, you know that I don’t really have the best relationship with him. I’m not gonna go into the rough interaction we had here though. I’ve written about it enough already.…

  • The SaVon Interview

    Some of you may remember that I did a couple interviews around the middle of 2018. I’ve deleted them since then because they were terrible. I interviewed Kill Bill & MC Paul Barman, which was super exciting at the time, but I recently went back to read them, and my questions were so fucking bad.…

  • Thoughts on the “Deluxe” Version of So Much Fun

    This deluxe version of Young Thug’s latest album was released today—December 20th, 2019—and I figured that since people might wanna know what I think of the new songs, I might as well talk about them real quick. I’m gonna be treating the new handful of tracks like an EP. I’m really just expecting more of…

  • Tardy Album Review | K, Le Maestro – Lab Sounds

    This album was released on August 2nd this year. I’ve been making an effort to check out more instrumental Hip Hop releases this year, and I saw some positive reception for this album in particular, so I decided to check this dude out. I listened to his debut album, Hue., and I ended up thinking…

  • Tardy Album Review | BROCKHAMPTON – GINGER

    This album was released on August 23rd this year. I think I’m gonna enjoy this project, but it’s not something that I’m super excited to listen to. I considered myself a really big fan of BROCKHAMPTON around 2016 and 2017. I really liked Kevin Abstract when I heard American Boyfriend, and I ended up being…

  • Tardy Album Review | 38 Spesh & Big Ghost Ltd. – A Bullet for Every Heathen

    This album was released on July 19th this year. For whatever reason I was under the impression that it came out on August 23rd. I think that’s when it was added to streaming services, but I may be wrong about that. I don’t fuckin’ know. Anyway, 38 Spesh is one of the most exciting newer…

  • Tardy Album Review | Young Thug – So Much Fun

    This album was released on August 16th this year. I’ve been kind of dreading this review, mostly because I really don’t want to listen to an hour of Young Thug music. However, I don’t think this will be a bad album. I’ve never really been super into Young Thug, but I keep giving him a…

  • Tardy Album Review | Ceschi – Sans Soleil

    This album was released on August 4th this year. This is the second entry in Ceschi‘s latest album trilogy, and his second album of 2019. Typically when an artist releases more than one album in a single year, each project is worse than the one it follows. However, Ceschi doesn’t seem like the kind of…

  • Tardy Album Review | Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire

    This self titled album was released on July 12th this year. Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire is actually one of the first underground rappers I ever listened to. There was a shit ton of discussion around his two most popular mixtapes, Lost in Translation & Kismet, but ever since the latter dropped, he’s kind of been an…

  • Tardy Album Review | Jodi.10k – Time Will Tell

    This album was released on July 9th this year. Jodi.10k is another member of the popular experimental lo-fi Hip Hop group, [sLUms]. He’s one of the least popular members. I think the only member less popular than him is Booliemane, whose work I frankly haven’t heard enough of to understand why. Jodi.10k is an interesting…

  • Tardy Mixtape Review | King Carter & Rago Foot – Prayers Ain’t Enough

    This mixtape was released on July 17th this year. A lot of you may be familiar with the name King Carter. He’s a member of the popular experimental lo-fi Hip Hop group, [sLUms]., who’ve gained popularity mostly through the work of their most popular member, MIKE, as well as cosigns from Earl Sweatshirt. I’ve been…