Spirit World Field Guide is Aesop Rocks eighth full-length solo album and his third one released on Rhymesayers, following the great Skelethon (2012) and The Impossible Kid (2016), one of the best albums released that year.
Like him or not, theres no denying he has a couple of classic projects on his name especially his third album and Definite Jux debut Labor Days (2001) is a monumental album, followed by the equally excellent Bazooka Tooth (2003) and None Shall Pass (2007). There can be no higher praise than comparing an album to Public Enemys monumental 1988 classic It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, but in this case, the comparison is totally justified. RTJ4 is a near-perfect presentation of fresh, exciting, banging beats and politically potent lyrics. The success of the tour eventually led to the decision to form Run The Jewels.īecause of its predecessors, Run The Jewels 4 was one of the most-anticipated albums of the year and it delivered on all fronts. His best work of the 2010s includes (but is not limited to) Gas Mask (with DJ Soko Journalist 103 as The Left) and Brown Study (with Boog Brown) in 2010, Trophies (with O.C.) in 2012, Ugly Heroes (with Red Pill Verbal Kent as Ugly Heroes) in 2013, Blasphemy (with Ras Kass) in 2014, Grandeur in 2015, The Easy Truth (with Skyzoo) in 2016, Mona Lisa (with Joell Ortiz) in 2018, and of course what is arguably his best work of the 2010s: Sincerely, Detroit in 2019.Sure, theres still plenty of terrible rap music out there, but its becoming easier and easier to ignore the output of mumblers and trappers because of the breadth and depth in quality Hip Hop thats on offer these days in the mainstream as well as in the underground.Hip Hop has never been more diverse than as it is today, and this list will reflect that diversity.Limiting this list to 60 titles does a disservice to lots of great albums that had to be relegated to the honorable mentions section (which admittedly is ridiculously long, but all the albums there are worth checking out).Ĭreating an LP is an art in itself, releasing a couple of songs as an EP or dropping a 20-minute album with a bunch of 1 and 2-minute songs is not enough to make it on our best albums list.
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