The Bat Cave

ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Benny the Butcher & Harry Fraud – The Plugs I Met 2

Rating Scale

10 – Masterpiece
9 – Amazing
8 – Great
7 – Highly Enjoyable
6 – Recommended/Good
5 – Decent/Cool
4 – Lackluster
3 – Bad
2 – Horrible
1 – Torture Material

Top 20 Albums in March (all ratings are out of 10)

Note: These albums are NOT ranked in order of preference; they are ranked in order of number of songs listened to (scrobbles) over the past month. Previous ranking in brackets. Year of release in parentheses if it’s not 2020 or 2021. I’ll include a rough rating for each album to make my feelings on each project clearer.  The more I’ve listened to an album, the more accurate my rating is. Any rating that has a + symbol means that I’ve found my floor, but I could rate it higher. I won’t leave a rating for anything I don’t have a good feel for yet.

*indicates February 2021 release

1. The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death (1997) – 9+ [unranked]
2. Jadakiss – Kiss Tha Game Goodbye (2001) – 6+ [unranked]
3. *Benny the Butcher – The Plugs I Met 2 – 7+
4. The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die (1994) – 9+ [unranked]
5. *Ghetts – Conflict of Interest – 6+
6. *Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club – 6+
7. The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You – 6+ [unranked]
8. Mos Def – Black On Both Sides (1999) – 8+ [unranked]
9. *Pink Sweat$ – Pink Planet – 6+
10. Marlon Craft – How We Intended – 6+ [6]
11. *Rod Wave – SoulFly
12. Toby Ganger – Free Machine (Unreleased) – 8+ [20]
13. JAY-Z – 4:44 (2017) – 8+ [unranked]
14. *KOTA The Friend – To Kill A Sunrise
15. Madison Beer – Life Support [11]
16. *Robin Thicke – On Earth, and in Heaven
17. Tash Sultana – Terra Firma – 7+ [1]
18. Tyrone’s Jacket – Tyrone’s Jacket – 8+ [unranked]
19. Courtney Bell – Poverty Stricken – 7+ [4]
20. Sheek Louch – Beast Mode, Vol. 4 [unranked]
21. *slowthai – TYRON

The 25 Artists I’ve Listened To The Most In 2021

Notes: Last month I listened to a ton of Biggie. I haven’t been posting many album reviews, but I got them coming for both of Biggie’s albums. I have also been a long time Jadakiss nonbeliever and I’ll probably be giving him some extra attention in the near future because I either wanna prove myself right or start loving someone I’ve never given enough credit to. I pretty much have his first album reviewed – I just need to post it. I started playing live poker again this past week and that is going to drastically increase the amount of time I spend listening to music. Yesterday I listened to Scarface my whole session and that was good enough to almost get him into my top 10 for the year.

1. The Notorious B.I.G. [unranked]
2. Eminem [2]
3. MC Eiht [1]
4. MF DOOM [3]
5. Benny the Butcher [unranked]
6. Kid Cudi [4]
7. Courtney Bell [6]
8. Tash Sultana [13]
9. Boldy James [5]
10. Nyck Caution [11]
11. Scarface [unranked]
12. Tyrone’s Jacket [17]
13. Dua Lipa [7]
14. Sa-Roc [16]
15. KOTA The Friend [unranked]
16. Jadakiss [unranked]
17. Toby Ganger [unranked]
18. Lana Del Rey [unranked]
19. Pharoahe Monch [19]
20. Chris Stapleton [unranked]
21. Marlon Craft [unranked]
22. SZA [9]
23. Kali Uchis [unranked]
24. Freddie Gibbs [unranked]
25. Mac Miller [14]

Bangerz Playlist Additions – Follow me on Apple Music @DarkKnight1717 to add my playlists
2020 Bangers Playlist
2021 Bangers Playlist

38 Spesh (feat. Benny the Butcher), “Stash Box”
Benny the Butcher (feat. 2 Chainz), “Plug Talk”
Courtney Bell, “Celebrate”
Elcamino (feat. Benny the Butcher), “Immunity”
Gukie, “Make It a Double”
KOTA the Friend, “Wolves”
Lil Tjay & 6LACK, “Calling My Phone”
Lucky Daye (feat. Mahalia), “My Window”
Masego (feat. JID & Rapsody), “Somethin’ Ain’t Right”
Nyck Caution (feat. KOTA the Friend & Erick the Architect), “Product Of My Environment”
Nyck Caution (feat. Joey Bada$$), “How You Live It”