Only just finished putting together my 2022 year end list and back again with a list of my most anticipated rap albums of 2023. Some of these have been announced - with or without firm dates - and some of have not, but there is a good chance they will come out in 2023. Let’s get into it! Skyzoo & The Other Guys: The Mind of A Saint Inspired by the TV show “Snowfall” which recounts the story of one of the most prominent drug dealers, the album will be tapped from the perspective of a fictional character, Franklin Saint, who has gone from through the trials and tribulations of a major trafficker. But unlike many rap albums that glorify the life, Skyzoo plans on addressing the harsh lessons of the life of crime and use it the album as a vehicle to show the double-sided reality, which is something many rappers fail to tackle. Knowing Skyzoo’s skills and with his 2021 album still in rotation, I’m sure we’ll be in for a treat. Dropping January 13th, 2023. El Michels Affair & Black T

When you listen to so much music it’s very hard to come up with any kind of top ranking. Even more so when a year is a busy and as good as 2022 was for Rap and Hip-Hop. But it’s good to take time to reflect on all the music that has come out and to try and put together a list of your favorite projects so that you can kind of keep a time capsule for the previous year that you can come back to later. You can then see how well these albums still fare a few years down the line and it’s a good opportunity for anyone reading to catch up on a project that they have missed out on. Usually you tend to forget the albums that have come out early or in the first half of the year as there is so much coming out and it’s difficult to keep your attention on one project for long. Remember the times when an album would come out and the only way for you to listen to it was to buy the CD? I can tell you that back then you’d take your time with a single album - sometime spending months with it - and would