Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone that celebrates it. While the albums out today might not be the most romantic ones to share with your significant other, there are some surprises. Curren$y drops off Muscle Car Chronicles. After many delays, it’s finally here and HipHopDX really liked it (read our review here). Meanwhile, the Jay-Z cosigned Danny! aka Danny Swain brings Payback, along with Ski Beatz’s 24 Hour Karate School Presents: Twilight.
In the land of pushbacks, we were supposed to get Obie Trice’s Bottoms Up at the end of this month. Instead, that album will be arriving on April 3rd so mark your calendars. Likewise, B.o.B. was supposed to deliver Strange Clouds in March. Bobby Ray moved that one over to May 1st. Some new additions made it, though. Melanie Fiona’s The MF Life was originally supposed to come in 2011, but now we can check that one out on March 27th. Before that? Diggy Simmons gets a release date for Unexpected. You can expect that on March 20th with Odd Future’s OF Tape Vol. 2. It’s time to welcome Hip Hop’s new school, everybody.
Check HipHopDX’s Release Dates page for all your Hip Hop album needs.
February 14
Sean Born – Behind the Scale
Various Artists (John Legend, The Roots, Wyclef, etc.) – Soundtrack For a Revolution
Curren$y – Muscle Car Chronicles
Ski Beatz – 24 Hour Karate School Presents: Twilight
Danny! a/k/a Danny Swain – Payback
February 20
Yelawolf – Radioactive (Deluxe Edition with Bonus Tracks)
February 21
Joe Budden – Mood Muzik Box Set
Monica – New Life
Tyga – Careless World: Rise of the Last King
February 28
Biz Markie – The Biz Never Sleeps (Re-Issue)
Chiddy Bang – Breakfast
Copywrite – God Save The King
Dark Monk – True Underlord Estelle – All Of Me
Gensu Dean – Lo-Fi Fingahz
Ja Rule – Pain Is Love 2
Kid Cudi x Dot Da Genius – W Z R D
Lee Bannon – Fantastic Plastic
Madchild (Swollen Members) – Dope Sick
Maino – Day After Tomorrow
Nneka – Soul Is Heavy
Stones Throw Records & Minimal Wave Records – The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2
Too $hort – No Trespassing
March 6
Alchemist – Rapper’s Best Friend 2
Pep Love (of Hieroglyphics) – Rigmarole
Chaundon – The Jammington
March 12
Boogie Down Productions (KRS-One + D-Nice + DJ Scott La Rock) – South Bronx Teachings: A Collection Of Boogie Down Productions
March 13
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – I Wish My Brother George Was Here (Re-Issue w/ Bonus Poster)
MC Shan – Q.B. O.G.: The Best Of MC Shan
Bow Wow – Underrated
March 20
Diggy Simmons – Unexpected
Odd Future – OF Tape Vol. 2
Planet Asia – Black Belt Theatre
March 27
Apollo Brown & O.C. – Trophies
DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles – The Kolexion
Georgia Anne Muldrow & madlib – Seeds
Gift of Gab (of Blackalicious) – Logical Progression
Iron Solomon – Monster
Mayday! – Take Me To Your Leader
Melanie Fiona – The MF Life
April 2
DeLaSoul’s Plug 1 and Plug 2 Present – First Serve
April 3
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Obie Trice – Bottoms Up
April 10
Oh No – OhNoMite
April 24
Sene – Brooklynight
May 1
B.o.B. – Strange Clouds
smh, Hip Hop aint what it used to be, bunch of want the spotlight beat and chorus having muthafuckers. No one on the list with creativity, pen skill, shit is depressing. ONLY album I’m even going to dig money out the wallet for is Obie. SHAME on Em’s soul sellin’ ass for replacing him with that new jack Yealowulf, dude is ass. Compare this album release list with ones of past and we can all see where music has gone. Oh well, Obies album hopefully is nasty, son’s pen game is SOOOOO underrated I miss those days when he was runnin with Shady/Aftermath.
amen to that. ITs not limited to rap; the whole music industry is terrible right now thanks to the labels. They’ve all restricted creativity in hopes of hitting on a single. Obie had no reason to be dropped, the guy sold a million and had a strong following. If they had released his album 3 years ago when it was finished I think it wouldve sold 150,000 first week. I hope people still go out and support it because you know it will be better than anything else coming out these days expect for GSNT(which ironically was alsho shelved)
Are you guys not noticing young talented musicians like Big KRIT or Kendrick? If they are the future of rap there’s no reason to focus on the past like you do.
Obie’s shit will most likely get pushed back….AGAIN. Other than that, nothing on this list peaks my interest. On the flip side, alot of shit is SUPPOSED to come out this year so we’ll see what happens.
ya’ll gotta add Tech N9ne’s “Klusterfuk” EP out 3/13 ‘n Mayday’s Take Me To Your Leader got moved up to 3/26
You guys talking about yelawolf can’t rap , u must be on crack or sum
Joe Budden – Mood Muzik Box Set and
Ja Rule – Pain Is Love 2
I dont care about the rest
Only one I got My Eye On Is..
Ja Rule – Pain Is Love 2
Dropping 2/28
Only one worth coppin is the bumpy/premo collab, should be pretty dope.
OF TAPES 2, WZRD
PIL2 JA RULE!
ony ones i want are obie trice, joe budden,boogie down productions, and yelawolf, wheres big ls album? to mainstream guys
Where’s KRIT’s mixtape? Dropping on 2/20.