15 Awards given for 2025 over the last 30 days! Again the awards are less about crowing people and more about spreading the love and light to every nominee and even that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Hip-Hop in 2025 honestly. But these winners all shined bright and I’m proud to showcase everyone here any day!
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This years winners & their category!
Album of the Year: Boldy James & Chuck Strangers - Token Of Appreciation
Rapper of the Year: Boldy James
Female Rapper of the Year: Che Noir
Underground Rapper of the Year: Doza The Drum Dealer
Duo of the Year: Coyote
Song of the Year: Clipse - So Be It (Produced by Pharrell)
Mainstream Producer of the Year: The Alchemist
Underground Producer of the Year: ILL City
Favorite New Discovery of 2025: Rufus Sims
Lifestyle Rap Album of the Year: Vic Spencer - Trees Are Undefeated
Feature of the Year: ICECOLDBISHOP - Call Dat (Python P - Born)
Best Collaboration - Rapper/Rapper: 2 Chainz, Larry June & The Alchemist - Life Is Beautiful
Best Collaboration - Rapper/Producer: Boldy James & Chuck Strangers - Token Of Appreciation
Best Rapper 50+: Malice
Best Nas Feature: The Omerta (Raekwon - The Emperors New Clothes)
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Sound off in the comments on what you think and some of your favorite albums/artists & moments from 2025!
@ILLCITY25
I’ve seen multiple big names in Hip-Hop say the underground is the core and heart of the genre. And if that’s the case, which I believe, then Underground Producers are the blood pumping through that heart and making everything run. So in 2025, an amazing year for Hip-Hop, you better believe the Underground Producers were dropping heat
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The 2025 Nominees for Underground Producer of the Year are:
Doza The Drum Dealer
Futurewave
ILL CITY
JasonMartin
Malinisoundz
Nicholas Craven
Norman Sann
OldSouly
Python P
V Don
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My winner will be announced tomorrow! Drop who you think deserves to win in the comments, either from this list or write someone in!
@malinisoundz@ILLCITY25
This category is about the Best Collaboration between 1 Rapper and 1 Producer. It’s become a great wave for rappers and producers to team up fully to do full projects together for a while now. And it just works. It helps to keep things cohesive and the more artists work together the stronger that relationship becomes. What better way to get those hours in than doing full projects instead of a song here and there. From Mainstream ro the Underground, these are the top 12 Rapper/Producer collaborations of 2025!
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The Nominees in Alphabetical order are:
-Boldy James & Chuck Strangers - Token Of Appreciation
-Bun B & Cory Mo - WAY MO TRILL
-Daniel Son & Futurewave - Baggage Claims
-DeAngelo Xavier & Malinisoundz - Graffiti On Gold (Complete)
-Doza The Drum Dealer & Hobgoblinbeats - Five O’Clock Tea With Bricktop
-Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 2
-IAMGAWD & ILL City - City xf GAWD
-La Reezy & PJ Morton - Pardon Me, I’m Different
-Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years
-Pro Dillinger & Futurewave - DIRTWAVE, VOL. 3
-Rufus Sims & ILL City - ILL Dirty Rufus
-Saba & No ID - From The Private Collection of Saba & No ID
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The winner will be announced tomorrow! Comment who you would pick to win or write it in if they weren’t nominated! Maybe I’ll find something new!
@ILLCITY25@malinisoundz@FreddieGibbs@hobgoblinbeats@BunBTrillOG@CoryMoMusic@lareezymusic@PJMORTON
This category is about the Best Collaboration between 1 Rapper and 1 Producer. It’s become a great wave for rappers and producers to team up fully to do full projects together for a while now. And it just works. It helps to keep things cohesive and the more artists work together the stronger that relationship becomes. What better way to get those hours in than doing full projects instead of a song here and there. From Mainstream ro the Underground, these are the top 12 Rapper/Producer collaborations of 2025!
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The Nominees in Alphabetical order are:
-Boldy James & Chuck Strangers - Token Of Appreciation
-Bun B & Cory Mo - WAY MO TRILL
-Daniel Son & Futurewave - Baggage Claims
-DeAngelo Xavier & Malinisoundz - Graffiti On Gold (Complete)
-Doza The Drum Dealer & Hobgoblinbeats - Five O’Clock Tea With Bricktop
-Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo 2
-IAMGAWD & ILL City - City xf GAWD
-La Reezy & PJ Morton - Pardon Me, I’m Different
-Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years
-Pro Dillinger & Futurewave - DIRTWAVE, VOL. 3
-Rufus Sims & ILL City - ILL Dirty Rufus
-Saba & No ID - From The Private Collection of Saba & No ID
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The winner will be announced tomorrow! Comment who you would pick to win or write it in if they weren’t nominated! Maybe I’ll find something new!
@ILLCITY25@malinisoundz@FreddieGibbs@hobgoblinbeats@BunBTrillOG@CoryMoMusic@lareezymusic@PJMORTON
Album Review
The 17th Cipher - My Brother’s Keeper (B-Side)
A great project and part 2 to the Brothers Keeper album
@ILLCITY25
Full Review: https://t.co/5KEuP2UUpW
Wrapping up my 2025 Rising Stars with the 12 featured producers, I’m happy and proud to present everyone that I have. We got the rappers for the Thanksgiving and we get the producers for Christmas! These producers, especially are some unsung heroes that don’t always get the attention that they deserve, even if the rappers they are working with try their best to get that attention to them. But Hip-Hop heads know producers are the spine and base of everything.
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From the West to the east and everywhere in between, there are amazing people making great music and trying to make a name for themselves so they can feed their families. And I’m here to try to lift up as many people as I can and present fans with the best stuff I can! And I think we are all working towards that goal each day!
@malinisoundz@ILLCITY25