Mobb Deep defeats Scarface's "The Diary" for the title. Read about all 35 albums involved in the deathmatch.
Voting open through Sunday, and the winner will be announced early next week.
Who will compete for the title of Hardest Rap Album of All Time? Vote until Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PST
| Bracket: Hardest Rap Album of All Time: The Hateful 8 | April 30, 2015 |
Voting for the Final 4 closes Friday at 5:00 p.m. PST
| Bracket: Hardest Rap Album of All Time: Vote on the Sweet 16 | April 28, 2015 |
Voting closes Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PST
Voting for round 1 closes Friday at 5 p.m. PST
| Son Raw’s 2014 Grime-related wrap up | December 29, 2014 |
As 2014 comes a close, Son Raw wanted to reflect on the past 365 days of music he's covered here.
| 2013’s Most Overlooked Albums | January 7, 2014 |
Max Bellwas once traded for Pau Gasol. Some pale and anemic soul slumped behind a computer will soon devise an algorithm compiling a list of all the lists on the Internet. Said meta-list will be outdated the minute it goes up; that is unless there’s some automatic refresh built-in. Until that ominous day the Mayans […]
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The 2013 Dirty Shoes Awards | January 6, 2014 |
What, you thought you weren’t gonna see Douglas Martin? He’s the Osiris of this shit. I’ve been away, but I’ve been watching. This is not going to be a long preamble to acknowledge what I’ve been watching while I was out of the office, because I’ve been running this column for almost five years; I’m […]
| Son Raw’s Grime Top 30 for 2013 (#15-#01) | December 26, 2013 |
Son Raw’s continuing look at the instrumental Grime scene. Ya ‘dun know. Part 1 here. 15 – Bloom Bloom fucked with everyone’s head in 2K12 and kept the madness rolling this year with choice remixes and a release on Visionist’s Lost Codes label. His music wasn’t pretty but it damn sure was effective thanks to […]
