HUS KINGPIN – Wavo Forever
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HUS KINGPIN – Wavo Forever

The best Wu-Tang Clan album since the glory days is not a Wu-Tang Clan album. It is the one that Hus Kingpin - that great 90s nostalgist - put together by compiling his varied collaborations with some of the group's members, affiliates, and a few others besides, all set to music that, with its string sounds, piano lines and soul samples feels more Wu than Wu itself. Wu-Tang Forever. Wavo Forever.
BOSSMAN DLOW – Dlow Curry
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BOSSMAN DLOW – Dlow Curry

2024 was undoubtedly BossMan Dlow's year. After the "Mr. Beat The Road" mixtape came the "Dlow Curry" album, complete with all the right guest appearances, male and female alike. And on both projects, the newly minted XXL Freshman makes Detroit's gritty, abrasive rap sound rub shoulders with Florida's sun-soaked, sex-crazed show-offs. The result is simply irresistible.
BILLY WOODS – Golliwog
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BILLY WOODS – Golliwog

Indie rap isn’t dead. By bringing in his longtime producers (El-P, Ant, Preservation, Kenny Segal, The Alchemist) and rappers in his vein (Bruiser Wolf, Elucid, Cavalier), by invoking Company Flow, MF DOOM, and Antipop Consortium, and by delivering a Black, committed, and experimental form of rap, Billy Woods carries on the underground tradition of the 1990s.