🎤 🎉 2025 DiS Hip-Hop Albums of the Year thread 🎉 🎤

Maybe the 2025 DiS hip-hop album of the year was the friends we made along the way

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Far far later than I hoped it would be (& I’m sure everyone’s moved on) but here for the record are my Top 10 (& Top 50)…

  1. Jesse The Tree & Mopes - Worm In Heaven
  2. Boldy James & Nicholas Craven - Late For My Own Funeral
  3. Milc & Spinitch - Run For The Arts
  4. sleepingdogs - DOGSTOEVSKY
  5. Willie The Kid & Soop - A Fly In The Soop
  6. Domo Genesis & Greymatter - Scram!
  7. iAlive - Quietism
  8. PremRock - Did You Enjoy Your Time Here?
  9. Preservation & Gabe Nandez - Sortilege
  10. The Cool Kids - Hi Top Fade
11-50
  1. Boldy James & Chuck Strangers - Token Of Appreciation

  2. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 2

  3. Lukah & Statik Selektah - A Lost Language Found

  4. Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love

  5. Yungmorpheus & Dirty Art Club - A Spyglass To One’s Face

  6. Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream

  7. Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist - Life Is Beautiful

  8. Rhys Langston - Pale Black Negative

  9. Willie The Kid & Real Bad Man - Midnight

  10. Fines Double - Espejismo

  11. Billy Woods - Golliwog

  12. Mike Shabb - Fight The Power!

  13. Nacho Picasso & Televangel - Seance Music

  14. Open Mike Eagle - Neighbourhood Gods Unlimited

  15. Outstraight & Verb T - Dual Odyssey

  16. Zeelooperz & Real Bad Man - Dear Psilocybin

  17. Evidence - Unlearning Vol. 2

  18. Black Milk & Fat Ray - Food From The Gods

  19. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - A City Drowned In God’s Black Tears

  20. Mike Shabb - SHABBVANGOGH

  21. Theravada - The Years We Have

  22. Verb T & Vic Grimes - To Love A Phantom

  23. Mike & Tony Seltzer - Pinball II

  24. Black Josh - YSL Bootleg

  25. Bruiser Wolf - Potluck

  26. Joey Bada$$ - Lonely At The Top

  27. Old Grape God & Andrew - The News Ain’t News To Me

  28. Westside Gunn - Heels Have Eyes 2

  29. Tso Tsoh - Finding Our Balance

  30. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy

  31. Boldy James & Nicholas Craven - Criminally Attached

  32. Saba & No I.D - From The Private Collection Of…

  33. CRIMEAPPLE & DJ Skizz - Rose Gold

  34. Mick Jenkins & Emil - A Murder Of Crows

  35. Mike - Showbiz!

  36. Oh No - Nodega

  37. Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces

  38. Sleep Sinatra - TIMESOFPERIL

  39. Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette

  40. Mavi - The Pilot

I’ve done a playlist as usual;

And finally a Top 10 EP’s list.

  1. Milc & Televangel - Things To Do In Portland When You’re Dead
  2. Previous Industries - Evergreen Plaza
  3. Slick Devious - Industrial Beige
  4. Sonnyjim & Kong The Artisan - Effortless, Almost Dead
  5. Boldy James & Your Boy Posca - Magnolia Leflore
  6. Jesse The Tree & Jason Griff - Spruce Almighty
  7. sleepingdogs - Home Remedies To Cure Bad Luck
  8. AJ Suede, Lord Olo & Televangel - Relinquished
  9. Domo Genesis & Graymatter - World Gone Mad
  10. Verb T - Homer Loan 2
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my final top ten, bestest best to least best

saba & no id - from the private collection of…
gabe nandez & preservation - sortilege
key glock - glockaveli
premrock - did you enjoy your time here…?
ezale - town taxes
nino paid - love me as i am
billy woods - golliwog
boldy james & richgains - murder during drug traffic
mike - showbiz!
akai solo - no control, no glory

good year! wonder what the community’s album of the year was? we’ll never know

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Catching up on a few 2005 HH albums in the past month. Liking Scram! (and the World Gone Mad EP) from Domo Genesis & Graymatter, as well as PremRock’s Did You Enjoy Your Time Here…?. Not sure where they’d slot in my list of course but top 20 for sure.

Also listened to John Michel & Anthony James’ Egotrip last month, but not sure about that one overall. Need to revisit.

@JaguarPirate calling time on this. Just watched Gabe Nandez supporting Armand Hammer and I should really be able to cite him as’DIS hip-hop album of the year winning…"

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Did he have any records with him at the merch desk?

Oh shit, is Gabe the support for the whole tour? Nice.

Shamefully didn’t stop by to check, as wanted to make sure I could maximise drinking time after (a rare night out for me). I know Armand Hammer did as they were talking about meeting people outside to sign merch including records after the curfew.

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