🎤 🎉 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.