Curry’s music infuses the Raiders’ aesthetic - discursive writing and hazy, aerated production informed by trap, horrorcore, and Clams Casino - with an unforced but fiercely individual perspective. ![]() Denzel Curry, 32 Zel / Planet ShroomsĬarol City wunderkind Denzel Curry rose from the ashes of the Miami-based, SpaceGhostPurrp–helmed Raider Klan with his 2013 solo debut Nostalgia 64 - quietly the best full-length to emerge from that dysfunctional circle. 1 If you’re still poring over Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise or - I hope for your sake - Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, then file these away for another time. This is by no means a definitive list or in any particular order. Perhaps this makes it all the more important to identify the smaller-profile gems, many of which were released to minimal fanfare on mixtape sites. ![]() During the past month alone, highly anticipated full-lengths from Chance the Rapper’s collaboration with Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment and A$AP Rocky have arrived, and Vince Staples‘s debut full-length is streamable. And with new albums from Meek Mill and Kanye West on the horizon, the rush isn’t letting up anytime soon. ![]() After a muted 2014, this year we’ve already seen the release of roughly a dozen major hip-hop albums in less than six months.
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