Our last 2019 monthly round-up of the best new hip-hop on Spotify includes music Roc Marciano, Alchemist, Sean Price, Lil’ Fame, Masta Ace, Your Old Droog, Planet Asia, Czarface and many more.
Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
Another month, another stellar set of new releases, proving once again that 2019 has been pretty damn amazing for decent hip-hop. August’s playlist includes the return of Little Brother, new product from DJ Muggs & Mach-Hommy, and dope new tracks from Blu, Kev Brown, Inspectah Deck, Vic Spencer, Pete Rock & Skyzoo, Chali 2na, Rapsody and more.
Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
It’s been another stellar month for quality new hip-hop. July’s highlights playlist includes joints from Kook Keith, DJ Muggs and Crimeapple, Westside Gunn, Ras Kass, Ice-T, Ill Bill, DJ Shadow and De La Soul, Blueprint and many more.
Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
Our March 2019 playlist includes new hip-hop from Madlib, Oh No, billy woods, Quelle Chris, DJ Muggs, Mach-Hommy, Self Jupiter, Moka Only, Freddie Gibbs, A.G., Ill Bill and many more.
Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
This month’s playlist includes new hip-hop from legends like Smif-N-Wessun, Sean Price, Ghostface Killah and Inspectah Deck, plus Nolan The Ninja, Crimeapple, Blu, Oh No, Quelle Chris, DJ Nu Mark and more.
Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
Grown Up Rap’s first monthly playlist of 2019 highlights what a great start to the year its been for quality hip-hop, featuring new music from Conway, Blockhead, Sean Price, Pharoahe Monch, Nolan The Ninja, Smif-N-Wessun and more. Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
Welcome to the November 2018 edition of our monthly playlist series, highlighting much of the best new hip-hop from the last month. This month’s selection includes music from Black Thought, Masta Ace, Slick Rick, Ice Cube, Aesop Rock, Westside Gunn, Action Bronson, Benny and many more. Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
Welcome to the September 2018 edition of our monthly playlist series, highlighting much of the best new hip-hop from the last month. Listen to the playlist below, and then go support the artists with a purchase from wherever you buy your music. Check us on Spotify for more curated playlists.
The new album from Jedi Mind Tricks emcee Vinnie Paz arrived yesterday, The Pain Collector. To celebrate we asked Grown Up Rap contributor Nick Gauder to curate a playlist of some of his favorite tracks from Vinnie Paz. With so much to choose from, it was hard to keep this to a succinct 15 songs, but we think Nick did a stand-up job, included tracks from Paz’s solo albums, Jedi Mind Tricks and Army of the Pharaohs.
Check the 15-track playlist and listen below. Follow Nick on Twitter here.
Zilla Rocca continues his playlist of the greatest emcees you won’t find on your average list, suggested by his Twitter followers. Check Part 2 and Zilla Rocca’s intro notes below. If you missed Part 1, catch up here.
The Best MC’s Ever: The Other Guys – Part 2. Words and playlist curation by Zilla Rocca
What I love about this next group of rappers is how you have G. Dep in there, someone who lights up my mentions anytime his name is typed out on Twitter. G. Dep is the perfect example of being one of the greatest rappers of all time – sometimes you just need a small contribution to make a decades-long impact. That flow! From Special Delivery to Let’s Get It to Child of the Ghetto – do we need more than three songs to prove his talent was titanic?
Pace Won stole the show on The Fugees’ The Score with Cowboys, then electrified us with I Declare War and The Rah Rah. I don’t need five classic LP’s after that to tell you he’s incredible.
Cool Calm Pete hasn’t released a project in 12 years but Lost still sticks with people. How many other rappers are you still thinking about from 2006 who aren’t even active?
On a personal note, my friends billy woods and Elucid are now making it up the ranks and it’s incredible to see, but it’s also built on a four year run of those dudes pumping out incredible music every few months, solo or as Armand Hammer. They are the indie prog rap version of Redman and Method Man.
And don’t forget that Method Man has never gotten over his lack of props, which is astounding considering he formatted his rhymes on paper with the technical science of GZA and Rakim but delivered them with the rolling charisma and unpredictable catchiness of ODB. Just write down his rhyme scheme on Bring the Pain and see how he breaks up his punchlines. He is the rare rapper to completely map out his verses but deliver it in fashion that sounds freestyled. His rhymes are mechanical but his delivery is liquid.
