Focus Hip Hop

Music Writing with a Focus on Underground Gems

  • Tardy Album Review | DirtyDiggs – Asteroid Dust

    This album was released on June 1st this year. This was my first time ever listening to a full album from DirtyDiggs. I’m pretty sure I thought DirtyDiggs was just one guy for a very long time, but when I looked up this album I realized it was more than one person. I think it’s…

  • Don’t Sleep | Disco Vietnam – House Rabbi, Vol. 4: Hennessy & Apple Juice

    This album was released on June 10th this year. This is the first project I’ve ever heard from Disco Vietnam, so I’m not super familiar with them. I actually thought it was just one guy for a while, but I think it’s a duo. Yeah, they’re brothers. Cool. So, the only reason I even discovered…

  • Don’t Sleep | Jansport J – fades.

    Don’t sleep on this beat tape from Jansport J. It’s the 6th project that he released this year, and it came out on June 14th. Hopefully you remember my post about the previous project he’d released, sayless. He’s gone on to release two more projects, one in July, and the other in August. I think…

  • Tardy Album Review | Styles P – S.P. the GOAT: Ghost of All Time

    This album was released on May 3rd this year. I recently came to the conclusion that Styles P is the best member of The LOX. I know a lot of people say that Jadakiss is one of the greatest rappers of all time, but it’s not really close to me. In terms of just actual…

  • Tardy Album Review | Psalm One – Flight of the Wig

    This album was released on May 28th this year. Much like with Planet Asia, I was late to the party with Psalm One. I didn’t know about her until she was featured on a CunninLynguists song a few years ago, and she really stood out on that track. Since I was so impressed by her feature, I…

  • Rating Planet Asia’s Discography

    Planet Asia is one of those underground West Coast legends who I feel like people really don’t talk about enough. Given how prolific he’s been in the past decade, it’s bizarre to me that he doesn’t get that much attention. I feel like I don’t ever see any discussion about him at all really. It’s…

  • Tardy Album Review | Planet Asia – Initials on My Jewelry

    This album was released on May 3rd this year. I wasn’t sure if I should check it out at first because Apple Music had it listed as a compilation for some reason. However, after looking at the tracklist, I realized that it wasn’t just a collection of older tracks that had already been out for…

  • Tardy Album Review | Denzel Curry – ZUU

    This album was released on May 31st this year. I pretty much knew I wasn’t gonna like this project as soon as I saw the tracklist. Everything I had seen indicated that this wasn’t really worth taking too seriously. To be fair, I actually did like the two singles he released before the project came out, although…

  • Tardy Album Review | Tree & Parallel Thought – The Wild End

    This album was released on May 31st this year. Hopefully you may remember the album, We Grown Now., which I covered earlier in 2019. That was my first time listening to a full project from Tree, and I really enjoyed it quite a bit, so I was jazzed to find out that he was releasing yet…

  • Rating Keith Murray’s Discography

    Keith Murray is another one of those 90s artists who nobody ever really seems to talk about anymore. I think I kind of understand why. He was never a super original or creative artist in the first place, and, as I mentioned in the review for his latest album that I posted just a few…

  • Tardy Album Review | Keith Murray – Lord of the Metaphor 2

    This album was released on May 17th this year. I have to be honest; I really was not looking forward to this project. I’ve enjoyed music from Keith Murray in the past, but I’d obviously be lying if I said he was an artist whose music I get excited for, especially in 2019. I haven’t…

  • Tardy Album Review | $wank & King Draft – TwoFive to Jersey

    This album was released on May 31st this year. As some of you hopefully remember, I posted my review of $wank’s latest solo project, Random As F*ck, a few weeks ago. I was really impressed by it, so I was looking forward to checking this project out as well. Before I listened to it, I…