The Rap album release world had a heavy Summer, and the Fall is geared to be just as big. This week sees some slow movement, with just a release from Diamond District’s Oddisee dropping the instrumental album Rock Creek Park. The only track that isn’t all instrumental is “Still Doing It” 
with fellow DD member yU. Last week, the third member of the District, Uptown XO dropped his free album / mixtape “Monumental II.” DJ Shadow was supposed to drop his album The Less You Know, The Better, but that has now been moved to October 4th.
Next week, Swizz Beatz was supposed to deliver Haute Living, but that date doesn’t sound like it’s holding firm. In addition, it’s rumored that Swizzy will be releasing the project on a track-by-track basis. Tha Dogg Pound’s Kurupt will present The Academy while next week Cormega will be delivering his greatest hits album Mega Raw along with Jeezy’s Thug Motivation 103. Jeezy just dropped his mixtape “The Real Is Back 2” in anticipation for the upcoming project. A week later, September 27th will be big, as Big K.R.I.T. will drop Live From the Underground, J. Cole’s Cole World: The Sideline Story, Pusha T’s Fear Of God 2: Let Us Pray, J-Live’s S.P.T.A., along with Evidence’s Cats & Dogs and 9th Wonder’s The Wonder Years and Phonte’s Charity Startes At Home. Then October begins…
In the world of limbo, Mobb Deep have announced a new album, title pending via RED Distribution. Asher Roth has also announced that his album formerly titled The Spaghetti Tree will be called Is This Too Orange? Well, is it?
September 6
Oddisee – Rock Creek Park
September 13
Bronze Nazareth – School For the Blindman
Kurupt Presents – The Academy
Shawn Chrystopher – Silent Films For the Blind
September 20
Cormega – Mega Raw/Greatest Hits
DTMD – Makin’ Dollas
G-Macc – The Opera/Angels & Demons
Hollywood FLOSS – One Fan At a Time
Mary J. Blige – My Life II: The Journey Continues
Tragedy Khadafi – Thug Matrix 3
Young Jeezy – Thug Motivation 103
September 27
9th Wonder – The Wonder Years
Big K.R.I.T. – Live From the Underground
J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story
J-Live – S.P.T.A. (Said Person of That Ability)
Phonte – Charity Starts At Home
Pusha T – Fear Of God 2: Let Us Pray
Evidence – Cats & Dogs
October 4
Drake – Take Care
Exile – 4TRK MIND
Freestyle Fellowship – The Promise
Maino – The Day After Tomorrow
Styles P – Master Of Ceremonies
DJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better
October 5
Cam’ron & Vado – Boss Of All Bosses 3
October 11
The Away Team – Scars & Stripes
Icebird (rjd2 x Aaron Livingston) – The Abandoned Lullaby
Roots Manuva – 4Everevolution
October 18
Witchdoctor – The United Race Ov America
October 25
Yelawolf – Radioactive
Statik Selektah – Population Control
Melanie Fiona – The MF Life
November 1
Bow Wow – Underrated
Torae – For the Record
Tyrese – Open Invitation
Wale – Ambition
I’ll check Out Yelawolf, Evidence, J Cole & Mobb Deep
I would rather have R. Kelly urinate directly into my ear than listen to an Asher Roth record.
That shit had me dying yo! Respect…
Lmao
lol kid asher is dope, but ur only 15 so u prolly think that lil wayne is the best…smh
I’m 23 and Asher Roth is not that special. Kind whack to me.
check out Ampersand. Different from the ‘I love college’ shit. pretty dope.
He’s like Wale. Great mixtapes, shitty freshman album.
It’s about damn time that DX recognized that Evidence is releasing Cats & Dogs on the 27th.
Bronze,Cormega,Tragedy,Shadow,and IceBerg I’ll be copping these for sure. May’be I’ll check for the Mobb Deep project as well.
Evidence and J.Cole is where it’s at. I’ll download Take Care since according to all of Drakes songs he has money
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA thats that shit right there
how come we ain’t hearing singles off KRIT’s album??
Way to underground? Wonder if its any different in ATL.
just to clarify, Drake’s album “Take Care” drops October 24th, anyone who bought Lil Wayne’s “Carter IV” would know. Bow Wow’s album is now called, “Who Is Shad Moss?”. Just thought i could help.
I repeat no one cares.
Buying Every album on the 27th, dope dope dope, maybe not evidence
Evidence shit is sick, if you haven’t heard the Layover you need to get it.
“Buying Every album on the 27th, dope dope dope, maybe not evidence”
Leave.
And none of these are going to outsell Carter IV. Weezy the GOAT. Fuck the haters! YMCMB 4 LIFE!
And that means he’s the best??? I don’t think so, I wouldn’t even put him in the top 25.
Carter IV sounded like some shit. His guest features came harder then him.
Vanilla Ice had more album sales than De La Soul, so I guess that means he’s the better emcee then, huh?
AZ came harder on an Illmatic guest verse than Nas on all the other tracks, so what’s the point?
Sept27 is big day, i want every single mixtape/album for dat day!!!!!
Agree
Ashers album was never called The Spaghetti Tree, that was a project of about 7-8 songs he did with Pharrell that will probably never be released.
get ur shit right DX. take care is droppin on the 24th
No one cares.
What about the 12th and last CD in the Madlib Medicine Show series, ‘Raw Medicine (Madlib Remixes)’?
infamous ceo new indie artist droping octber 31st
Honestly, the 27th may be one of the most loaded hip-hop weeks I’ve seen for the year. That’s a lot of talented artists that week.
Also, people need to stop acting like they never heard of J-Live. That dude’s mad talented, and easily one of the most underrated MCs. I mean yeah he hit a rut with some lackluster production in the middle of his career but lyrically he’s always been on point. Thankfully he seems to be back on track this time with cats like Nicolay, RJD2 and Marco Polo backing him.
J-Live is one of the best live shows you’ll ever see. Dude is jumps on the turntables, juggles a beat, while freestyling about the city he’s in. Crazy.
All of the Above is probably a top 15-20 album of all time for me. Beats, Lyrics, Concepts…all insanely good.
Oh God… the 27th! Damn, that should be a great day for hip hop, mainstream and underground. I can see all those albums maybe being quality releases, and then October 4th we get DJ Shadow, one of my favorite producers of all time, plus it will be at least INTERESTING to listen to Drake’s new album, regardless if you like him or not (I don’t mind him tbh). Exile and FF should be nice too.
Should be a great 2 weeks for hip hop!