this is the rolling 2025 hip-hop thread
rio da young og - "wydt"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piVv_VFRio
cortisa star - "fun"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myKH6qlTekk
karrahbooo - "bossy booo"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXbqJlvEZbE
el snappo - "chicken"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0exwgzxC2k
fat trel ft. kp skywalka - "hit the brakes"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59fLdYX6gY
and the year's first viral rap hit, "tweaker" by liangelo ballhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MdybKPqfE
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 8 January 2025 22:54 (one year ago)
digging this from houston's deebaby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnLtVWNV6TY
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 9 January 2025 19:18 (one year ago)
haha good thread title
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 9 January 2025 19:21 (one year ago)
was thinking "rolling on/from/in the radar/block/booth 2025" but wasn't sure how the slashes would affect searching
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 9 January 2025 19:26 (one year ago)
yeah plus "rolling attack of the white clones 2025" might have been too negative of a start
jorjiana ft 1900 rugrat - turn you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmBWqg4gfA
(i actually like rugrat a lot, jorjiana otoh...)
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 9 January 2025 19:30 (one year ago)
i file both under "florida is another planet"
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 9 January 2025 19:47 (one year ago)
i kinda like the jorjiana song with loe shimmy lol, tho her ad-lib is nails on a chalkboard to mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4cxG4o17U
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 9 January 2025 19:50 (one year ago)
ot7quanny & bossman dlow - "bout my money"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS3oJMC1hPU
in which dlow repays my assertion that he's atlanta's e-40 by doing a "yup/nope" bar
― voodoo chili, Friday, 10 January 2025 19:03 (one year ago)
*florida, not atlanta, duh
― voodoo chili, Friday, 10 January 2025 19:05 (one year ago)
that cortisa star tune is terrific!!
― ava (aiva), Saturday, 11 January 2025 17:08 (one year ago)
liked wtm scoob and coffeeblack's album from last year, and they're back. they live somewhere in between valee and los & nutty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3SciFHX4II
― what angers me about the smurfs these days (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 January 2025 20:23 (one year ago)
also been running this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RokSYfF9rY
― what angers me about the smurfs these days (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 January 2025 20:32 (one year ago)
nino paid album is out and it is goooood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO5FlX5LlHw
― what angers me about the smurfs these days (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 4 February 2025 15:38 (one year ago)
this is the first solo track i've heard by frequent 454 collaborator pig the gemini. occupies the same sped-up sonic universe, but more contemplative and emotional than 454's stuff. she's less of a rappin' ass rapper than 454, but reminds me of some of his more laid back songs like "ice age"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPkcJFVdOVI
― what angers me about the smurfs these days (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 February 2025 19:34 (one year ago)
quickly becoming addicted to bloody!'s new mixtape so wavy luciano. style reminiscent of critical favorite xaviersobased, but with a more traditionally quotable kind of rap charisma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKAasbYGXg
― what angers me about the smurfs these days (voodoo chili), Thursday, 6 February 2025 17:36 (one year ago)
new mixtape from young dro & zaytoven. dro still has massive charisma and maybe fewer jaw-dropping bars than his prime, but they're still in therehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC1cvCdW6mg
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 February 2025 18:10 (one year ago)
That Bloody! tape is a fun vibe.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 7 February 2025 20:56 (one year ago)
yea, it's low stakes but has proven to be addictive
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 February 2025 18:17 (one year ago)
last night before kendrick's performance, apple music used a song by the underground rapper (and acerbic twitter presence) ghais guevara for the "apple music halftime show" introduction, from his album goyard ibn said. i haven't listened to the new one yet, but this song is great. it kind of strikes me as a earl sweatshirt-ified (or zeelooperz-ified) version of lucki?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvFIxd6lWA
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 February 2025 18:22 (one year ago)
I through on that ghais guevara album the other day (pre-superbowl, I just thought it looked neat) and it didn't fully grab me. But I do plan on giving it less of a commuter listen so clearly I see something there.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 11 February 2025 15:27 (one year ago)
getting into the rio da yung og deluxe, this is dope ("coincidence")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkQcWWYT1s
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 February 2025 20:28 (one year ago)
this too ("we need a pilot")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGjCHlrnTzw
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 February 2025 20:38 (one year ago)
loving this new mixtape by thirteendegrees. he's def a son of thug but most rappers who mimic him these days don't evoke the 1017 thug era, which is sorely missed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOI9biC1oUY
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 17:54 (one year ago)
enjoying rappers doing rio da yung OG karaoke songs and rolling out the red carpet for him to rap for the first minute plus. neither can hold a candle to him doing this but the beats are great and overall i find these fun in spirit
vonoff1700 ft rio - turnt in real life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdWTxTGDRg
ytb fatt ft rio - ghetto fox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSSB_-xFrDc
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:16 (one year ago)
my fav rap music right now is rroxket -- super fried post-baby voice playboi carti rap but i find him really compelling, love his beat selection and he has some memorable lines, there's fun imagery when you dig into what he's actually saying
"backwards" off his tape from last year is def one that pushes it to the limit but i think the concept really works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMvq9XgZY4A
"kim" is a recent one i really like, fun bouncy song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2iHiKscXU
and his songs about drugs are unsurprisingly very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mEnmek3-1Y
"trainwreck" was one of my fav songs of 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjAZrf2Omc
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:25 (one year ago)
so funny how rio refuses to rap over anything but those flint beats. i remember a big moochie grape song from last year that just cut and pasted a rio flint song in the middle of moochie's memphis-style song
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:39 (one year ago)
yeah i dug what i heard from rroxket last year, especially that red ranger tape. "scary" was a favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4bhPsNrg6o
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:54 (one year ago)
pig the gemini's ep is out, it's nice to spend 15 mins in her worldhttps://soundcloud.com/therealpig/sets/lover-girl
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 March 2025 20:49 (one year ago)
surprised by how much i like this new lil tecca song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIWsrh2BUQ
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 March 2025 00:07 (one year ago)
nice neptunes vibe
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 20 March 2025 09:29 (one year ago)
had missed this until recently. great beat, love the shakers. incredible veeze verse but all three sound really good
est gee ft rylo & veeze - "my love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQUtHDaGXwE
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 15:16 (one year ago)
that's one of my fav est gee verses in a while
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 21:06 (one year ago)
liking the new tape by uk rapper fenghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9V9X0_AsVs
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 25 March 2025 21:56 (one year ago)
lol i love the thread title
― some dude, Wednesday, 26 March 2025 18:03 (one year ago)
shaudy kash x top$side mixtape is so goodhttps://soundcloud.com/topsideproductions/new-york-freestyle-on-the
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 April 2025 17:21 (one year ago)
*top$ide
new daboii album is #goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucuh2lOy8ak
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 April 2025 20:06 (one year ago)
the 808 cowbell is one of the greatest sounds in musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhDfcVMk-bY
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 April 2025 21:28 (one year ago)
i like the new myaap single ‘fairy’
― flopson, Thursday, 10 April 2025 05:18 (one year ago)
yeah, i love myaap.
digging this collab between lelo and babyface ray. both from detroit. ray mostly likes glittering, luxurious soundscapes, while lelo plays in the murk. this beat does a good job of inhabiting both worlds. two great verses toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGpza1UcpM
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 15:39 (one year ago)
― flopson, Thursday, April 10, 2025 12:18 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
def don't want to blow past this one. the beat is incredible.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlC-gJQzfAs
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 15:43 (one year ago)
idk what to say really, to me this shit is beyond incredible but idk what you'll all think
https://dismissyourself.bandcamp.com/album/cult-subterranea
― imago, Monday, 21 April 2025 17:29 (one year ago)
open to that kind of thing in theory, but i really disliked the instrumentals, to be very honest. the album artwork is also aggressively ugly
imago, you might dig infinity knives & brian ennals, who have a new album out. there was something grating about the style of rapping that put me off the last album (it just felt a touch too...nerdy?), but the beats were noisy and ambitious, and i was close to seeing the vision. i am planning on checking out the new one (linked below). https://infinityknives666.bandcamp.com/album/a-city-drowned-in-gods-black-tears
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 April 2025 21:02 (one year ago)
really loving the new album by niontay. it's nearly impossible to understand anything he is saying on first listen, but the way he says it makes you want to listen enough to eventually get it lol.
beats are pretty great toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7942T8bTs4
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 17:18 (one year ago)
skino & kp skywalka - "doors n wheels"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdhhuJOj4Pk
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 May 2025 15:42 (one year ago)
seiji oda finally coming out with an album this month. "mobby miyazaki" is one of my fav songs of the year so farhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HESrstWMTw
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 May 2025 16:52 (one year ago)
nice, love seiji
― flopson, Friday, 9 May 2025 16:54 (one year ago)
you guys like vayda?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LyjNpIC9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hsFu1ukkEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kETs7-VsFjU
― flopson, Friday, 9 May 2025 16:58 (one year ago)
this beat is insane
ebk jayboo - f*ck everybody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWqcCjxtPA
― flopson, Friday, 9 May 2025 16:59 (one year ago)
yeah vayda is dope. similar vibes on the new album by spook (vayda shows up on "eat!" great song.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vw4JK-5Gs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9MoM9Xxjw
― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 May 2025 17:16 (one year ago)
new thirteendegrees album, sounding pretty great. good substitute for a disappointing young thug effort
"rooftopz"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7xfQ9MNYDQ
"chiraq child" w/ lil2poshhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg1MxK2BRKc
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 October 2025 15:47 (seven months ago)
i really like the best on the new rroxket song ‘massage’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_53PVnxM8Bk
― flopson, Friday, 3 October 2025 16:16 (seven months ago)
I just posted to a group chat that I think the thirteendegrees album makes up for the young thug album haha
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 October 2025 20:46 (seven months ago)
yeah he has enough chicago bop in him to not be a full stylistic clone, and he has a lot of the playful energy that thug has lost over the years
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 18:48 (seven months ago)
really love the new kp skywalka album. this one ("still bangin") features paco panama and shares a sample with "you're nobody til somebody kills you"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRicYiVIT8Q
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 October 2025 18:49 (seven months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZyn_w6Y1Q
I like I think it’s YKNiece saying “take me through dere” on this Metro Boomin track that gets a lot of airplay on my local dc commercial hiphop & r& b station
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 October 2025 05:21 (six months ago)
i need to listen to the metro album again. haven't listened since giving it a cursory spin when it came out but all the songs have popped when i've heard them out in the wild
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 October 2025 14:37 (six months ago)
Also have heard "take through dere" several times on a Sirius Xm hiphop station. I like it better than some of the other songs getting repeat play on such stations
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 October 2025 00:31 (six months ago)
new monaleo tape (who did the body) is a well-crafted product of the modern retro trap thing that's going on in texas and atlanta. she has a huge personality. i've been interested in her since "beating down the block" and it seems like she's fully put it together
"putting ya dine"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgPj14GtKJc
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 15:09 (six months ago)
one of the producers on "putting ya dine" also did this new lil karrahbooo freestyle track that i love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DOIXkWixE
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 16:39 (six months ago)
she's legit one of my fav rappers but whenever i tell people this they think i'm joking haha
i love her too, hope she's working on a comeback. she was the best of the concrete "boys"
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 16:59 (six months ago)
like Monaleo but this Lizzo guest verse is just horrible lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U354-i6AqsY
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 17:01 (six months ago)
yea it is pretty bad. rest of the album is much better.
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 17:04 (six months ago)
"we do it til the room stank like Fritos" jfc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 17:17 (six months ago)
after danny brown said "stank pussy smellin like cool ranch doritos" i'm not sure any rapper can come up w/ a food related stench comparison that will gross me out anymore
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 17:20 (six months ago)
yeah listening to chow lee and flint raps and dmv crank have completely overwhelmed my sensitivity to that sort of thing
interesting that they both landed on such a similar comparison. makes you think
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 October 2025 17:29 (six months ago)
Karrahboo said yachty is preventing her from releasing music since their beef...
― ANU (sisilafami), Thursday, 30 October 2025 08:49 (six months ago)
Yeah Frito breath. Your breath smells like fritos.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 30 October 2025 10:27 (six months ago)
new mike shabb tape is pretty goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8Wf7ayW_c
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, 31 October 2025 18:28 (six months ago)
love the new ep by mexikodro, just head down working-class trap music. he's also a genius producer, which is a bonus.
"aware" is my fav new song on the tapehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M9tK9q-Xm0
"no date" evolved into a decent-sized hithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xqpkNN2iI
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 November 2025 19:12 (six months ago)
"no date" is one of my fav rap traxx of the year
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 November 2025 19:13 (six months ago)
just for the record, i don't think he produces a single beat on this tape.
― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:09 (six months ago)
really? that’s interesting, i mostly knew him as the guy behind all the plugg beats so i assumed he did his own stuff
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 November 2025 22:21 (six months ago)
it's mostly produced by bapebrazy and ziggymadeit
― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, 7 November 2025 23:02 (six months ago)
so much interesting stuff this year. feel like loe shimmy has the best album, but i might change my mind as i revisit stuff
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 2 December 2025 16:51 (five months ago)
yeah i like him a lot. feel like the album was kind of a data dump, but it was pretty strong on a song-to-song level
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 December 2025 17:08 (five months ago)
oh and pink siifu. but that's on a different planet. really disappointed it doesn't get more love.
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 2 December 2025 17:38 (five months ago)
i respect him but have never actually enjoyed his music ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 December 2025 18:23 (five months ago)
same. but BLACK'!ANTIQUE got to me. i feel he has the least oldhead, or just most southern, taste of all the "abstract" artists.
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 2 December 2025 18:58 (five months ago)
missed that zeelooperz dropped an album earlier this year. like this one a lot, has some bay area retro funk vibeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQItUpgsjcA
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 December 2025 15:54 (five months ago)
oh, that song is called "bebe kids"
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 9 December 2025 15:55 (five months ago)
and the album is called dali ain't dead
alphonse pierre's rap list is interesting as always. lots of stuff i haven't heard. he shares my love for kp skywalka and lelo
https://pitchfork.com/features/list-and-guides/best-rap-albums-2025/
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 December 2025 16:15 (five months ago)
some of my fav rap projects of the year (leaving out some of the more obvious ones by billy woods, earl, carti, etc.)
rio da yung og - f.l.i.n.t. (feelin' like i'm not through)lelo - new detroitzelooperz - dali ain't deadmexiko dro - still goin the epmonaleo - who did the bodyde la soul - cabin in the skykeiyaa - hooke's lawnino paid - love me as i am1100 himself - janky kniontay - fada<3of$kp skywalka - i tried to tell yousaba & no i.d. - from the private collection of saba & no i.d. vol. 1zukenee - slaytanicdefcee & parallel thought - other blueslunchbox - l.b. coopermike & tony seltzer - pinball iifly anakin - (the) forever dreamthirteendegrees - clique city vol. 2bloody! - so wavy lucianodaboii - heart of a lion
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 15:16 (four months ago)
also really like the new conway the machine project, and i've been somewhat lukewarm on him in the past
thanks voodo
f.l.i.n.t is one of my most listened to records of the year. so great
― flopson, Tuesday, 16 December 2025 16:18 (four months ago)
rio free and the deluxe are nearly as good. i prob linked "coincidence" earlier this year, but absolutely love that one
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 16:31 (four months ago)
ya i have a giant rio spotify playlist i just throw it all into. i can listen to that stuff forever
― flopson, Tuesday, 16 December 2025 19:24 (four months ago)
planning to start a new thread sometime next week, open to suggestions on titles haha
rolling on stream 2026rolling snap revival 2026rolling astroturfed underground 2026
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 January 2026 16:11 (four months ago)
haven’t understood any of the thread names in years but it sure would be fun if there were a snap revival in 2026
― flopson, Friday, 2 January 2026 17:59 (four months ago)
if there are no objections within 24 hours, the new thread will be going up tomorrow with this title (lol)
rolling 6 7 all-star cypher 2026
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 January 2026 20:56 (four months ago)
rolling around in kai cenat's living room
― some dude, Tuesday, 6 January 2026 02:04 (four months ago)
rolling plaqueboymax twitch stream
― ANU (sisilafami), Tuesday, 6 January 2026 12:59 (four months ago)
duly noted but i feel like 6 7 needs to be in there
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 6 January 2026 14:17 (four months ago)
nu thred for 2026: rolling 6 7 all-star streamathon 2026
― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 6 January 2026 21:20 (four months ago)
Nobody was listening to Lil M.U. "Top of Cars" in 2025 ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZawiItC2s
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 January 2026 05:20 (three months ago)
Wow, that's pretty great!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 22 January 2026 08:39 (three months ago)
Saw it on a best of 2025 list that only was posted recently.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 January 2026 04:58 (three months ago)
I'm so depressed right now with everything going on thank God there is a new Roc Marci, I need this right now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 January 2026 19:10 (three months ago)