XXL has released “The 25 Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2014 (So Far).”
50 Cent’s Animal Ambition, Ab-Soul’s These Days…,Step Brothers’ Lord Steppington and Atmosphere’s Southsiders are on the list.
“Atmosphere released their eighth studio album, Southsiders, consisting of 15 tracks without a single featured verse,” XXL says in its piece. “The project serves as an alternative sound for the hip-hop fan opposed to modern day trap or gangsta rap. Slug’s ability to be fun and clever with his rhymes without having to be super lyrical with every verse keeps his wordplay fresh, while complementing Slug’s style of rapping is the diverse production of Ant as he provides a combination of mellow instrumentals fused with jazz samples throughout the album.”
August Alsina’s Testimony, Bas’ Last Winter, Future’s Honest, Iggy Azalea’s The New Classic and Murs and Mayday!’s Mursday also make the list.
For more from the list, visit XXL.
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XXL knows whattup. They ain’t hate on real hip-hop shit like HHDX did in their Animal Ambition review.
what a terrible list i think they just listed everything that came out
how the fuck did Iggy make the cut or that YMCMB weed plate compilation?
Mursday killin this shit!
No ‘P.T.S.D.’, what the hell.
Riff Raff in front of Atmosphere? …Lol
YMCMB #1? over Gibbs x Madlib, Skyzoo x Torae, Stepbros, Atmosphere etc.
I expected a lot more from XXL
Stepbrothers, YMCMB, Pinata and a couple of other albums doesn’t belong on this list. Pinata had fucked up production and Gibbs’s bars cannot make up for that fact. The Skyzoo & Torae album was good, though. It had good production too, but there’s a couple of weaker tracks… Still much better than Pinata.
gibbs had what? gtfoh u troll
I stopped clicking through after i saw Iggy Azalea. The list isn’t worth your time, guys. Just another sorry excuse for click-throughs. You have been warned.
No Pharoahe Monch, no Blu, no The Grouch & Eligh = No credibility
IS IT ME OR XXL JUST LISTED ALBUMS THAT ACTUALLY CAME OUT THIS YEAR
I MEAN MOST OF IT IS TRASH! ESPECIALLY ANYTHING THAT INVOLVES YMCB, 50, PHARELL, AND WHITE BOY/GIRL RAPS
SO FAR MOBB DEEP ,FREDDIE GIBBS , SMOKE DZA ALBUMS ARE MY FAVORITES.
Pinata, PTSD, Phantom and the Ghost
Trash list!! XXL and HipHopDX always make trash ass list like this..