B4.DA.$$ - Joey Bada$$ (2015)

Ideated from: my best-of-month lists for October over the years. also on the Oct 2015 list: Emacipator, Battles

A Brooklyn rapper doing excellent (if a little generic) brooklyn hip hop.

Tracks I Liked

Paper Trail$ - kind of channels J Cole. A good, grounded examination of making it.

Belly Of The Beast - one of the best beats on the record, with a great feature from dancehall rapper Chronixx

2010s music hip hop conscious hip hop

Guitar In The Space Age
Bill Frisell
nostalgic surf safari

Let Them Eat Chaos
Kae Tempest
Tempest's Masterpiece