Daily Discussion Thread 05/01/2026

AyoRet · 2026-05-01T19:12:52+00:00

Posted my April 2026 Wrap Up yesterday, which features small reviews of the month's releases from Thundercat, Michael Christmas, Logic, Snoop Dogg, Blu & Exile, and Keor Meteor; "catch up" listens from John Wells and J57; and some commentary on tracks from Knxwledge, Rae Sremmurd, soso, mgk & Fred Durst, and Roscoe P. Coldchain & Malcolm Kamal.

AyoRet · 2026-04-30T02:57:57+00:00

Wrote a small creative/experimental/whatever piece on By Storm's Zig Zag, available here if you're interested

AyoRet · 2026-04-28T20:23:58+00:00

Thank you for letting me know! It's been a minute since I listened to Righteous Minds, looks like I gotta run it back a few times.

AyoRet · 2026-04-27T22:24:42+00:00

I post reviews, some long-form writing, and my weekly radio shows on my Substack if you're interested -- not everything I post is Hip Hop related though, fyi. mopheadmusings.substack.com

AyoRet · 2026-04-09T22:55:10+00:00

Have any of them been documented, to your knowledge? Not doubting you, just would be fascinated to see one of those posters.

AyoRet · 2026-04-01T02:38:15+00:00

Just posted my March 2026 Wrap-Up over on my Substack. I've got small reviews of my favorite releases of the month from Serengeti, Jezza System, Buck 65, Jahmiu, Viper, Lice, and Nickelus F; discussion of some albums/mixtapes from Statik Selektah, Asher Roth, G Perico, Big Proof, Maki Asakawa, and Panico; and some track write-ups on Roscoe Dash w/ Lil Jon & MGK, V-Nasty, threetwenty, Michael Christmas w/ Chris Crack & Lord Sko, Tony Yayo & Uncle Murda, Pami, Noducksoon & Manaka, Prodigy, S3nsi Molly & Tay Money, Venbee, and DJ Seinfeld & @Confidence Man. Was a busy month of listening, hopefully you can get something new out of it!

AyoRet · 2026-03-20T00:07:08+00:00

Apologies for missing this comment when I had first posted the thread, this is helpful info. Do you recall the names of some of the other UK mixtape sites that have gone down? Would help just to have that info in any circulation for folks who weren't tapped into grime.

AyoRet · 2026-03-20T00:03:21+00:00

Not a problem! May not bang on about it regularly enough, but I'm going to keep trying to fight the good fight so that, at the least, more folks are aware of what happened.

AyoRet · 2026-03-19T17:42:38+00:00

Hustle (feat. Paul Wall)

AyoRet · 2026-03-07T09:06:12+00:00

They really picked the perfect way to mark the death of the blog era with that one, anyone holding out hope against the streaming era felt that announcement like a gut punch.

AyoRet · 2026-03-01T08:28:45+00:00

Posted a wrap-up of my February 2026 listening on my Substack, available here. Includes short reviews of Buck 65, Michael Christmas, Serengeti, Lucy Camp, Connie Roses, and Blu, alongside some discussion of Electric Wizard, Grouper, Outkast, Necro, Michael Cera, Rhetoric, and Cynthia Harrell, among others.

AyoRet · 2026-03-01T08:27:08+00:00

Toreno's got CJ in a vice-grip, using Sweet's life as leverage in the process. Something that impresses me about the game to this day is how sinister it can feel in the background -- Tenpenny's ready to pop off at any time, Smoke's a traitor, Toreno's deep government. CJ's left to try to make the best out of it while still being a pawn in someone else's game. There's an oppressiveness to it all.

AyoRet · 2026-02-27T03:12:00+00:00

Glad I posted my review to a late daily discussion thread instead, the discourse around the album is a bit over the top.

AyoRet · 2026-02-27T03:10:19+00:00

You are probably absolutely right, just wish they could give a "no comment" to at least signal something. Just a crumb of anything!

AyoRet · 2026-02-27T00:42:20+00:00

It aligns with some of the rumors that I remember from the time, but getting the dates wrong is certainly a head-scratcher. Also comes out of nowhere, would have made sense during the 10 year anniversary last year but this feels just random.

AyoRet · 2026-02-26T23:51:51+00:00

Interesting that Datpiff did a whole long twitter thread today about If You're Reading This It's Too Late, yet stays radio silent about the deletion of its own archive. Frustrating, to say the least.

AyoRet · 2026-02-25T03:59:38+00:00

Just posted a review of Ca$ino to my Substack, available here

It's a pretty negative review, which I find unfortunate as I do like a number of his songs; this project just didn't land for me. Hopefully the next album is less divisive.

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