Rap Royalty
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The absolute best in rap and hip-hop, celebrating the genre heavyweights from the boom bap beginnings to the modern trap titans.
What you’ll be listening to...
Your box will include a handpicked selection of two or three albums from this collection:
Redemption
Jay Rock

Redemption
Jay Rock
After a life-threatening motorcycle accident, Jay Rock returns with his strongest album yet, a collection of rap songs that highlight his struggle and journey.
Redemption is the most cohesive of Jay Rock's albums. He he puts up a career high and at 44 minutes, the album breezes by without many frills.
Rock raps, makes his point, and gets out quickly after, allowing the TDE vet to chalk up his biggest win yet.
Tracklist
A1 - The Bloodiest
A2 - For What It's Worth
A3 - Knock It Off
A4 - ES Tales
A5 - Rotation 112th
A6 - Tap Out (ft Jeremih)
B7 - OSOM (ft J. Cole
B8 - King's Dead (ft Future)
B9 - Troopers
B10 - Broke +-
B11 - Wow Freestyle (ft Kendrick Lamar)
B12 - Redemption (ft SZA)
B13 - Win

Rap or Go to the League
2 Chainz

Rap or Go to the League
2 Chainz
The Atlanta rapper rewrites the rulebook on winning on his most thoughtful album.
Rap or Go to the League feels like a personal triumph. There are more eye-popping 2 Chainz raps and more epic 2 Chainz songs elsewhere, but this album offers of 2 Chainz as a man and artist. It finds him retracing his own steps, looking to the world beyond himself, and seeking a way forward for others
Tracklist
A1 - Forgiven
A2 - Threat 2 Society
A3 - Money In The Way
A4 - Statute Of Limitations
B1 - High Top Versace
B2 - Whip
B3 - NCAA
C1 - Momma I Hit A Lick
C2 - Rule The World
C3 - Girl's Best Friend
C4 - 2 Dollar Bill
D2 - I'm Not Crazy Life Is
D3 - Sam

Big Bad
Giggs

Big Bad
Giggs
The London rapper’s fifth album reinforces his dominance of the UK scene and marks his increasing cachet in international waters, but the decision to sing might be the wrong kind of risk-taking.
Giggs is at his best while rhyming simple, fearlessly well-timed, cryptic truisms about the rougher edges of urban life, as calibrated by his razor-sharp mind and communicated via a slang dictionary that he's kept tight to his chest for over a decade. Big Bad... overflows with different iterations of this strength.
Tracklist
A1 - Great Collectives (featuring Gashi)
A2 - Set It Off
A3 - 187
A4 - Baby
A5 - Spun It
B6 - Mic Check (featuring Jadakiss)
B7 - Show Me Respect
B8 - Talk About It (featuring Kristian Hamilton and Theophilus London)
B9 - Don't Go Hungry (featuring Labrinth)
C11 - Nostalgia (featuring Lil Yachty)
C12 - Hold Up (featuring French Montana)
C13 - You Ain't...
C14 - Who
D15 - Turnt
D16 - Terminator (featuring Swizz Beatz)
D17 - Gwop Expenses (featuring Wretch 32)
D18 - Shade

The World Is Yours 2
Rich The Kid

The World Is Yours 2
Rich The Kid
While Rich's hyperconfident personality is in full focus, The World Is Yours 2 is elevated to a higher plane by its smart production and who's-who of guest rappers. Although the surplus of features is at times overwhelming, The World Is Yours 2, is an extremely strong sophomore album
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Tracklist
A1- World Is Yours 2 (Intro)
A2 - Slide
A3 - Splashin
A4 - Fall Threw
A5 - Save That
A6 - Two Cups
A7 - Racks Today
A8 - Woah
B1 - Tic Toc
B2 - Wrong Thing
B3 - 4 Phones
B4 - Rockets
B5 - Like Mike
B6 - Racks Out
B7 - Ring Ring
B8 - For Keeps

The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
The Streets

The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
The Streets
Welcome to Mike Skinner: the being dead famous and realising it’s “a load of boring shite” years
Mike Skinner follows two brave, brilliant records with an album chiefly about fame and its attendent trappings.
The first two LPs found him clambering for closer contact with the people around him; this record takes place almost entirely in his own head, where he's either engaged in a struggle to stay on the right side of sanity (and possibly sobriety) or to keep his misanthropy contained.
Tracklist
A1 - Prangin' Out
A2 - War of the Sexes
A3 - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
B1 - All Goes Out the Window
B2 - Memento Mori
B3 - Can't Con an Honest John
C1 - When You Wasn't Famous
C2 - Never Went to Church
C3 - Hotel Expressionism
D1 - Two Nations
D2 - Fake Streets Hats

Don't Sweat the Technique
Eric B. & Rakim

Don't Sweat The Technique
Eric B. & Rakim
The music Eric B. and Rakim make kicks because it sneaks into the ear like careless whispers before exploding on the brain like dynamite.
On Don’t Sweat the Technique, their majestic fourth album, Eric and Rakim expound further on the funky-fresh aesthetic. Don’t Sweat the Technique activates the mind — it’s erotic, playful, violent, dramatic, funky, jazzy and definitely dope.
Tracklist
A1 - What's On Your Mind
A2 - Teach The Children
A3 - Pass The Hand Grenade
A4 - Casualties Of War
A5 - Rest Assured
A6 - The Punisher
B1 - Relax With Pep
B2 - Keep The Beat
B3 - What's Going On
B4 - Know The Ledge
B5 - Don't Sweat The Technique
B6 - Kick Along

Milky Way
Bas

Milky Way
Bas
Milky Way is Bas more in his element than his past releases. It’s a self-assured, eclectic, mix of sonic elements that fit together with the ease of a children’s puzzle.
Milky Way is a carefully curated collection of controlled experimentation that works as separate pieces and as a whole. If — like he suggests — he’s giving New York City a “whole new sound,” then the future sounds … milky.
Tracklist
A1 - Icarus (featuring Ari Lennox)
A2 - Front Desk
A3 - Tribe (with J. Cole)
A4 - Boca Raton (with ASAP Ferg)
A5 - Barack Obama Special
A6 - Purge
B1 - Fragrance (featuring Correy C)
B2 - Infinity
B3 - Infinity+2" (featuring Correy C)
B4 - Sanufa
B5 - Great Ones
B6 - PDA
B7 - Designer
B8 - Spaceships + Rockets (featuring LION BABE, Moe Moks & mOma+Guy)

Mastermind
Rick Ross

Mastermind
Rick Ross
Rap's own Jordan Belfort doesn't have to be likeable to impress
There’s no doubting that the beats on Mastermind, as you would expect from a production roster including Kanye West, Jake One, JUSTICE League and The Weeknd, are exceptional, lush and bombastic and full of zaftig soul samples.
So, really, it’s all down to Rick and whether he shows up. And he does. On The Devil Is A Lie, on which Jay Z also kills it, he is almost possessed, roaring and gasping his lyrics. West’s contribution, Sanctified, is a glorious snail’s-pace gush of braggadocio (not convinced that being “the fresh David Koresh” is much of a boast though), likewise the ragga-heavy Mafia Music III.
Tracklist
A1 - Intro
A2 - Rich Is Gangsta
A3 - Drug Dealer's Dream
A4 - Shots Fired
A5 - Nobody (ft French Montana)
A6 - The Devil Is A Lie (ft Jay-Z)
B1 - Mafia Music III (ft Mavado, Sizzla)
B2 - War Ready (ft – Jeezy)
B3 - What A Shame (ft French Montana)
B4 - Supreme
C1 - Blk & Wht
C2 - Dope Bitch (Skit)
C3 - In Vein (ft The Weeknd)
C4 - Sanctified (ft Big Sean, Kanye West)
C5 - Walkin' On Air (ft Meek Mill)
D1 - Thug Cry (ft Lil Wayne)
D2 - Blessing In Disguise (ft – Scarface (3), Z-Ro)
D3 - Paradise Lost
D4 - You Know I Got It (Reprise)

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