You just need to close one door so the new one will open. In DJ Muggs’ own words: “ Death And The Magician is a sonic and lyrical onslaught on a dark rainy night in NYC, and is based on the Major Arcana cards in the tarot deck. The Death card signals that one major phase in your life is ending, and a new one is going to start. So even if the beats on Coup De Grace are less memorable than on some of both artists’ earlier 2021 projects, this is a super solid album with strong performances from Rome Streetz and Ransom, and from guests rappers such as Che Noir and The Game – especially Che Noir kills it (as she always does).Ĭoup De Grace means both Rome Streetz and Ransom are four-for-four this year, making the two of them 2021 MVPs for sure.ĭJ Muggs & Rome Streetz - Death & The Magician We do like the beats on Death & The Magician, Razor’s Edge, and Heavy Is The Head better though – getting just one top-producer like Muggs or Big Ghost Ltd to take care of the whole album is always preferable. Fortunately, that’s not the case here – the atmospheric boom-bap sound is cohesive enough throughout. Ransom already had three strong EPs on his name this year before this release, with Crime Scenes, Se7en, and Heavy Is The Head (a collaboration with Big Ghost Ltd).Ĭoup De Grace boasts production from 38 Spesh & Coach Bombay 3000 (exec.), V Don, Nicholas Craven, Wavy Da Ghawd, Stack Moolah, I Man Militia, Streezy, Lord Sear, Animoss, and Mayor – a risk, because a lot of cooks in the kitchen can turn a project into a hot mess.
Prior to Coup De Grace, Rome Streetz already had three excellent LPs out this year: Death & The Magician (with DJ Muggs in February), Genesis 1:27 (with ANKHLEJOHN in June), and Razor’s Edge (with Futurewave in July) – all among the best albums in the months they dropped. Regardless of what category label you may want to stick to these albums, for this list, we’ve selected 25 albums released in 2021 composed of nothing but hard beats and hard rhymes – presented here in no particular order.Ĭheck it out – what’s your favorite album on this list?īoth Rome Streetz and Ransom are on fire this year, they are two of the illest emcees active today. So also check Best 25 Underground Hip Hop Albums Of 2021, a list that contains a number of albums that could have been on this list, and vice versa. Instead of ‘hardcore’, we could have labeled this list ‘underground’ – there’s a lot of overlap, of course. Hardcore Hip Hop is a term that is not used that often anymore, but that doesn’t mean there’s no hardcore anymore – in fact, there is plenty. While the subject matter often addresses issues of gang-related violence, drug trafficking, promiscuous sex, and other topics attributed to Gangsta Rap, Hardcore Hip Hop tends to stay within the boundaries of battle raps or social commentary from the artist’s personal point of view, whereas gangster rappers adopted and spoke specifically from a gangster’s perspective regardless of being a gangster or not.] These beats were often piano-, guitar- or brass-based, focusing on brief and attention-grabbing blasts of noise to push the MC’s message.
Pioneering artists such as KRS-One and Chuck D took these ideas further, delivering aggressive stories of the street on top of loud, in-your-face sample-based music. Driven by aggressive drum machine beats and layered samples rather than synthesizers and simpler funk breaks, these artists aimed to make music that more closely reflected the harsh environments they lived in.
As Hip Hop continued to focus on boasting and party rhymes, artists such as Run-D.M.C. and Kool Moe Dee popularized a new form of Hip Hop. Best 25 Hardcore Hip Hop Albums Of 2021: [One of the more common forms of Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop emerged out of the early 1980s in a response to the music’s growing commercial appeal.
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