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ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Tash Sultana – Terra Firma

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 February (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. *Tash Sultana – Terra Firma – 7+
2. Eminem – Music To Be Murdered By – Side B [15]
3. SZA – Ctrl (2017) – 9
4. Courtney Bell – Poverty Stricken – 7+
5. MC Eiht – LESSONS [1]
6. *Marlon Craft – How We Intended
7. Pharoahe Monch & th1rt3en – A Magnificent Day For an Exorcism – 6+
8. *Devin the Dude – Soulful Distance – 6+
9. *Lucky Daye – Table For Two
10. Sa-Roc – The Sharecropper’s Daughter – review coming soon
11. *Madison Beer – Life Support
12. Brother Ali – The Undisputed Truth (2007) – 9
13. *Dorian Whyte – Truth Be Told
14. Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon III: The Chosen [5] – 6
15. Breeze Brewin – Hindsight
16. Che Noir – After 12 – review coming soon
17. Rapsody – Laila’s Wisdom (2017) – 8+
18. Mac Ayres – Magic 8ball
19. Nyck Caution – Anywhere But Here [14]
20. Toby Ganger – Free Machine – 8+
21. *VanJess – Homegrown
22. Your Old Droog – It Wasn’t Even Close

The 20 Artists I’ve Listened To The Most In 2021

Notes: I spread my listening out a lot more this past month and spent very little time focusing on brand new releases since there were very few I was interested in. I created a playlist of artists and albums I feel I’ve overlooked and want to get more familiar with and listened to that. I was actually inspired to do this when I heard MF DOOM had passed away and realized how little of his catalog I had listened to. I also split time between my Brand New, All-Time Favorites, and Best of 2020 playlists.

1. MC Eiht
2. Eminem
3. MF DOOM
4. Kid Cudi
5. Boldy James
6. Courtney Bell
7. Dua Lipa
8. Chris Stapleton
9. SZA
10. Joji
11. Nyck Caution
12. Roc Marciano
13. Tash Sultana
14. Mac Miller
15. Playboi Carti
16. Sa-Roc
17. Tyrone’s Jacket
18. Jessie Ware
19. Pharoahe Monch
20. Rina Sawayama

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

Courtney Bell (feat. Dcmbr), “Hold You Down (Super Woman)”
Courtney Bell, “25 Hours”
Freddie Gibbs (feat. ScHoolboy Q), “Gang Signs”
Gukie, “Make It a Double”
Nipsey Hussle & JAY-Z, “What It Feels Like”
Tash Sultana, “Pretty Lady”
WESTSIDE BOOGIE & Joey Bada$$, “Outside”