Hip Hop Midyear Awards 2024 ft. Top 5 Albums, Songs, Verses, MVPs + More | Ep. 178

YO YO YO!! We are back with a SEVEN-HOUR rap extravaganza for all
you heads out there, summing up hip hop in 2024 so far. And boy
did we dig in, as writers and podcasters Dylan Green and SonRaw
join in the fun.



Get set for our Top 5 albums of the year so far, verses of the
year, songs of the year and MVP shouts...and a lot of Kendrick
Lamar talk. Featuring incredible contributions from the
underground rap scene:

Yoh Phillips


Ken and Beezy (Dead End Hip Hop)


PremRock


Defcee


Tokyo Cigar


Rob Kheul (Next Movement Podcast)


Dan O (Freemusic Empire)


Tom Comey (Shotgun the Aux)


 


So strap in and get ready to EAT


 


Show Notes


Least hip hop thing (00:00)

Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips (11:11)

Yoh Phillips - Moment of 2024 (45:57)

Cavalier - Different Type Time (53:34)

PremRock + Defcee (1:17:20)

Ras Kass + RJ Payne + Havoc - GUTTR (1:31:40)

Ken (DEHH) (1:40:45)

Heems + Lapgan - LAFANDAR (1:50:22)

Kam’s Verse of the Year - Kendrick Lamar (2:05:50)

Mike Shabb - Sewaside 3 (2:31:27)

Tokyo Cigar (2:46:16)

Roc Marciano - Marciology (3:06:50)

Mach-Hommy - RICHAXXHAITIAN (3:31:36)

SonRaw: Songs, Features, MVP etc (3:52:00)

NAHReally + The Expert - BLIP! (4:01:30)

Rob Kheul (4:10:40)

Ransom - Lavish Misery + Dan O (4:17:47)

Ritchie - Triple Digits [112] (4:44:10)

Double A.B. + Git Beats - Lungs of Mahalia + Beezy (DEHH)
(5:01:20)

FearDorian - FearDorian + Tom Comey (5:13:10)

Chief Keef - Almighty So 2 (5:26:50)

Apathy - Connecticut Casual: Chapter 2 (5:32:40)

Dylan’s Songs + Verses of Year: Mach-Hommy - SONJE (5:42:10)

Dylan’s Verse of the Year (6:13:10)

Dylan’s Artwork of the Year + MVP (6:18:10)

Ray + Kam Verse + MVP of Year (6:23:10)

Best album you'll never listen to again (6:40:00)

Ray + Kam Artwork of the Year + Features (6:49:10)



 


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