JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES Expectations were high after Hiding Places, and expectations were met, and then some – the duo achieved a remarkable feat by producing something that is precisely what you might have anticipated and entirely novel simultaneously. With Maps, billy woods continues to redefine the possibilities of experimental underground Hip Hop – Maps is just another triumph for one of Hip Hop’s most innovative artists. Meanwhile, Kenny Segal uses his often chaotic and dark atmosphere of boom-bap and jazz fusion to provide an immaculate supportive vision, creating a framework that allows woods’ complex wordplay to shine to the max. On Maps, billy woods takes listeners on a road trip that depicts the ups and downs of touring, from the people and places to the food and the smells to the weariness of constant travel and performing. Weaving between poignant memoirs, deadpan humor, and incandescent bursts of surrealism, Maps cements both artists’ place amongst the best of their time.”īilly woods’ Armand Hammer partner, ELUCID, posed an interesting question upon the release of Maps: “Why is every billy woods album his best one?” This question is pertinent because it speaks to the consistency and quality of woods’ music – since the reboot of his career with the release of his monumental History Will Absolve Me album in 2012, woods has continued to impress with a string of exceptional solo and Armand Hammer releases. Segal moves effortlessly through styles but everything is underpinned with deep basslines and mean drums laid down like railroad tracks. Produced in full by Kenny Segal, Maps features Danny Brown, ELUCID (Armand Hammer), Shabaka Hutchins, Sam Herring (Future Islands), Quelle Chris, Aesop Rock, Benjamin Booker, and ShrapKnel. We needed to go on other journeys, artistic and otherwise, to come back and do something fresh.” Neither of us wanted to make Hiding Places 2. “I think we only collaborated once over the last four years and although we didn’t talk about it, I think we wanted to let that energy build again. “Kenny and I made more songs together before Hiding Places than we did after,” woods says. It is an album about trying to find your way home, after making your home wherever you lay your head. Maps is a story of the road, or roads, taken and untaken of living the dream and dreaming of another life. Four years after that landmark record, the duo has reunited with a vengeance. “ Maps is the new album from NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, their first full collaboration since 2019’s Hiding Places. Latest entries: #17 Danger Mouse & Jemini – Born Again #45 DJ Muggs – Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley #50 Raw Poetic & Damu The Fudgemunk – Away Back In #55 Zilla Rocca & Jason Griff – Stacking ChipsĪlso check: Greatest Hip Hop Albums 1980 – 2022 & Top 150 Hip Hop Albums Of The 2020s Let’s get into it, check out what we think are the best Hip Hop albums of 2023 so far – best first. This is a top 60, albums that don’t make the best 60 of the year but which are worth listening to anyway are mentioned in the honorable mentions. But having said that, lots of dope EPs drop each and every year, so we will not ignore them – scroll down for a section with some of the best EPs released in 2023, as well as a listing of 2023’s best instrumental Hip Hop projects. Some artists market barely 30-minute-long projects as albums – however, HHGA categorizes a project that clocks in at under 30 minutes as an EP, and we do not rank EPs on our album list: an album = an LP. ![]() It’s unlikely ALL of these albums will come out this year, but even if only a few drop we will be happy enough.Īs always on our best-of-the-year lists, not included are instrumental albums, compilations, and EPs. We’re also looking forward to expected releases from EPMD ( Big Business), Q-Tip ( AlGoRhythms, Riotdiaries, The Last Zulu), and Danny Brown ( Quaranta). There’s still lots to look forward to this year, with a bunch of ‘sequels’ slated to be released – Run The Jewels’ RTJ5, Redman’s Muddy Waters 2, Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx III, Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele 2, De La Soul’s AOI3, LL Cool J’s GOAT 2, Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 3, and Jay-Z’s Blueprint 4 are albums we are eagerly anticipating. This list will be updated regularly until the end of the year when it will result in our best-of-the-year list. The only way to compile an authoritative list is to keep track of new releases week-by-week, day-by-day even. The Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2023: This is a work in progress.
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