stream the new Janelle Monae album: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...e_via_vh1.html

the title track blew my mind. :eek:

The title track is epic! I dig the rap breakdown at the end too, and I love that she went political. I have been eagerly waiting for this record for several years now. I can't fucking WAIT!!! Thanks for posting that stream, I'm listening to it now on my prep period at work :)

love dat lady android.

This record is like, fucking fantastic. I was thinking like foreverkiss, like what is this? Art Rap? Hip Hop? Straight up old school 70s rock? Wait. ITS ALL OF THESE AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME??? AND ITS CONSCIOUS? Fuck. Its not exactly better than The ArchArachnid but its not exactly worse. Its different, in an evolutionary way. Great record. Looking forward to actually buying it instead of waiting for YouTube or SoundCloud ;)

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to dead_battery again.

Sort of. I was on my prep but I had to run and get some copies and shit so I heard like the first quarter and last third.

Yeah bra, I fuckin did! I went off when it first came out, but nobody seemed to agree/ disagree / care enough to comment (which, I'm ashamed to admit, pretty much removed it from active play on my iShits).

Hell yeah though. Now that I have someone else on board, I can listen again without losing respect for myself. :0

i've listened to that 2 Chainz album once and got bored. dude was trying to get introspective at the end.. felt awkward.

gonna check out Denzel Curry.

already much better lol, thank god.

great album!

SKY HIGH! SKY HIGH!

That's my shiz.

Also, if you haven't already downloaded, I'd highly recommend that YOU check out the NY Renaissance mixtape. It's a comp from earlier this year with Joey Bada$$, A$AP Rocky & Ferg, PRO ERA, etc. I'm really feelign the tracks by Dyme A Duzin too.

Haha, I just realized you were being literal! I didn't see that was actually Prince on that track!!!

ok maybe i'll give Summer Knights another chance.

this album is gonna be soooo good. sososo fckin good ahh man i'm so excited. DRAKE!!

as far as this year goes, i could name like 20 tapes which were pretty good based on 2-3 listens (sometimes more than that) but then i just forgot about their existence.

so Yeezus, Long.Live.A$AP, Acid Rap, Doris, N64.

best hip-hop in 2013, for me, so far.

"Wait, and tell 'em I'm mixing that Slayer with that 2Pac shit
One golden bullet to kill all that faggot pop shit"

OH. MY GOD.

man that album is just too dope!! caught me off guard.

yeah this was a pretty good year for pretty good mixtapes.

WTF is N64? (All I can think is Nintendo 64)

Acid Rap is good, but still not smething I love.

Long.Live.A$AP still #1. Yeezus is up there.

I still need Doris, bad.