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KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #2: MACH HOMMY (Pray For Haiti)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #2: MACH HOMMY (Pray For Haiti)

Courtesy of Griselda Records When your home needs you, where will you be? When everything you hold dear starts to move towards disarray what can you do? These thoughts seems to have been weighing on the mind of Griselda Record’s newest star Mach Hommy, when he began crafting his incomparable 2021 album “Pray For Haiti”.…read more »

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #4: ISAIAH RASHAD (The House Is Burning)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #4: ISAIAH RASHAD (The House Is Burning)

Photo Editorial Credit: Warner Records The last time Isaiah Rashad dropped an album in the late summer of 2016, the world was a much different place. With his latest project “The House is Burning” Chattanooga’s finest has proved that he hasn’t missed a single step and might understand this new world better than all of…read more »

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #5: NAS (KING’S DISEASE 2)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #5: NAS (KING’S DISEASE 2)

Photo Credit: Sam Aronov / Shutterstock.com It’s been 30 years since the iconic verse from a then 17 year old named Nas, on the legendary track “Live at the Barbeque”. In those years since Nas has created one of the most varied and impressive bodies of work in all of music. His first release “Illmatic”…read more »

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #6: H.E.R (Back of My Mind)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #6: H.E.R (Back of My Mind)

Photo Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com There has been a lot of conversation in the past few years about the “death of R&B”, stemming a from a perceived lack of great albums/artist in the genre or a muddling of the actual meaning of R&B. And if R&B is in-fact on it’s last leg, no…read more »

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #7: WALE (Folarin II)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #7: WALE (Folarin II)

Photo Credit: Randy Miramontez / Shutterstock.com Most of the time when a project is named after a previous one, you don’t often see a connection between the two and it is mainly due to laziness or a marketing ploy to capitalize off a success project. This is not the case with “Folarin 2”, it’s to…read more »

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #8: WIZKID (MADE IN LAGOS :DELUXE)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #8: WIZKID (MADE IN LAGOS :DELUXE)

Photo Credit: Michael Tubi / Shutterstock.com Before you say it, yes, I know the original version of this album came out last year here’s the thing, I do not care. I wouldn’t care if this album was released 5 years ago, pretending that this album wasn’t one of the top projects of this year would be…read more »

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #9: POLO G (HALL OF FAME)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #9: POLO G (HALL OF FAME)

Photo Credit: Columbia Records Despite all of the twists we’ve experienced in 2021 one thing has seemed to be consistent the entire year, Polo G is going to make really good music and a lot of people are going to listen to it. Since the 2019 release of  his first true hit “Pop Out” you’d…read more »

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #10: JAZMINE SULLIVAN (HEAUX TALES)

KISS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #10: JAZMINE SULLIVAN (HEAUX TALES)

Photo Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com There aren’t many voices that have been missed in R&B over the past half decade the way Jazmine Sullivan’s has been. Legitimately one of the most powerful songstresses of her generation, it has been quiet album-wise since the 2015 release of “Reality Show”, but here 2021 we receive the bold…read more »

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