www.thecryptonline.com presents the hiphopheads podcast episode 116! This is our year end spectacular! We break down our top ten albums of the year, theres some surprises and kung fu drew drops in at the end. Dont miss it!
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THE TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2014
10. Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron
This one surprised me as I never really fucked with Q, I had his other album Contradictions or whatever but never gave it a proper listen or it didn’t grab me like this latest album did.
09. Cole James Cash – BBW A Pornographic Opera
This one came out of left field for me an incredible concept album by someone I wasnt quite familiar with. This album was raw had excellent beats and is something you could just vibe to, I loved bumping this in the whip on long car drive and just gettin’ open. Get familiar with this dude, the albums free.
08. 100’s – IVRY
This is straight pimp shit mane, funky beats, dope ass misogynistic rhymes and cold ass perms. If you sleep on this freebie ya need to get ya mind right.
07. The Doppelgangaz – Peace Kehd
The Dopps dropped 2 albums this year and it was the non instrumental, Peace Kehd that made my list. If youre unfamiliar with the doppelgangaz, they have raw beats matched with great rhymes which often make you go OH SHIT! or make you laugh, seriously this guys have done no wrong yet and they’ve dropped something like 10 albums, thats a damn good track record.
06. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – Pinata
What can be said about the duo that’s Madlib and Freddie Gibbs? Expect amazing production and rhymes that will have you on the edge of your seat. Freddie Gibbs is easily top 5 rappers in the game right now and his work ethic shows it. Madlibs production is really on point and this is on par with his past releases and he really sets the mood for Gibbs to body shit.
05. Dilated Peoples – Directors of Photography
With some self production, help from DJ Premier, the alchemist and cuts by Babu, add Mr. Slow Flow and Rakaa to the mix and forget about it, this might be my favorite Dilated album thus far and that’s saying a lot. Like I mentioned the beats on this are heavy hitting and the Premo track is straight flames, get on it!
04. Step Brothers – Lord Steppington
The Alchemist and Evidence this was such a banger, Alchemist proving everyday that he’s the top rapper producer in the game, he came ridiculous on this and then add that incredible Scott Caan verse and forget about top 5 best albums of the year.
03. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
Killer Mike and El-P are at again and they delivered another classic. This album is at the number 1 spot or the top 3 for everylist on line and for good reason, it’s incredible. Mike and El are in your face from start to finish and the spaced out production never quits oh did I mention it’s free? Bring on Meow The Jewels!
02. J.Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Before you ask, I’m not trolling… This album imo was tight, I was always a J.Cole hater, I think he sucks, but perhaps thats what lead me to enjoying this album as much as I did. I expected an open asshole of an album was surprised by some great beats and J seemed to have stepped his rhyme game up, one gripe shut the fuck up about being the king nobody gives a fuck. Nice watch, RUN IT!
01. Your Old Droog – Your Old Droog EP/LP
Your Old Droog, the rookie of the year with the rawest raps out. Being compared to Nas and his producers comparisons to DJ Premier , really how could you lose? Your Old Droog has killed pretty much everything he’s been on. He’s single handedly brought back concept rap, is a master of the homonym rap aka the double aka double entendre, which is very difficult to pull off and make sense yet Droog does it effortlessly and masterfully. His 1st release IMO is a classic, let’s see if he can keep it up in 2015, in the meanwhile.. Where the Rhymes At?
This concludes my favorite releases of the year, if you did’t like the list you just have shitty taste in music and like I always say these lists are subjective by my taste is impeccable and should be used as guide to good music. So do yourselves a favor peep these albums and tel me how much J.Cole sucks.
Dead End HipHop discuss’s their albums of the year. Some of them had J.Cole at the top of their list’s.
Kurious is the man, The Bee Shine gets up with him to see what inspires him to do what it do
Pimp C wouldve been 41 yesterdsay, here’s a couple videos to keep his memory going. 1st is a video of his homies telling stories and remembering him for his life. The 2nd video is an hour and half of footage from a DVD Pimp C put out with Pimpin’ Ken. Check it out, Pimp C fans won’t be disappointed.
My Main Man Pat has some dope designs for us today in the form of Souls of Mischief and their classic 93 til Infinity and one of my personal faves to grace Pat’s site this beautiful Pimp C shirt showing Pimp C with angel wings gettin’ pour’d up. It’s kind of depressing design as Pimp C lost his life to an Overdose but it’s what Pimp C was into so I can’t judge.
We are in our 96th week and it’s because of you we have gotten this far. In an effort to reward those who cop our shirts on the regular, we have introduced a loyalty program to the page. Going forward, everytime you buy a shirt, 10% of your purchase will go into a bank of points which can be used as currency for future gear. You must purchase with a registered account in order to accumulate points. If you don’t have one yet, you will get 250 points upon signup, and if you do your account will be credited with that amount in the coming days. All the best in 2015 my people!
R.I.P. Kevlaar 7
In some sad news it seems that Kevlaar 7 has passed away. Probably best known for being a Wu-Tang affiliate MC/Producer with his Brother Bronze Nazareth in the group The Wisemen. I guess Kevlaar had a rare blood disorder of some sort and died from complications from that. It’s a damn shame when talented folks go too soon. Our condolences to Kevlaar and his fam, friends and fans.
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My Main Man Pat is back, Another week and another couple of shirts for ya’s
I have got to be honest folks, I am pretty happy to have two designs that everybody is going to be loving back on the page. We received a lot of feedback on the police inspired shirts we had up last week, some positive and some not so much. Then the shooting went down in NYC and I was close to pulling the shirts. In the end though, giving the artists an outlet to express themselves is what we’re supposed to be all about and that ended any second thoughts I was having.
I must say this week’s designers have embraced that philosophy. First time collaborator Justin Alejandro has certainly made a strong impression with “Forever Ever”, a line that needed to be illustrated on this site a long time ago.
On the right is something of equal beauty, a creation from the mind of Dutch artist P.Winkel. “Roll With It” is a tribute to one of his favorite Bronsolinio lines and I highly recommend taking this one in on full zoom as it is as intricate as the mans beard.
A very happy holiday to you and yours fam, will be back at you next week.
Pat
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