Off The Dome Music

Quick rundowns on everything that catches our ears. Hip-hop focused, but not exclusive

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A week or two ago, I put this up in my basement.

Overnight they started to fall off and I had to take it all back down, but I got this shot before I did and I’m fuckin proud of it lol

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Geese - Getting Killed

Rating: 8/10

It’s hard to think of this album being written & not just coming together organically through a series of LSD-addled studio sessions where each song is unbridled & then meticulously wrapped before it can become uncomfortable

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American Football - American Football

Rating: 9/10

It’s another album that if you don’t know the year it came out, it would blend into the sea of albums that have taken notes & ingredients from it since its release. I hear elements of this is most genres in the past 15 years

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@OVOJay1843 It sounds stupid if you yourself are stupid. The word to annunciate is rapper. Skill wise, as a rapper, those 2 and everybody else listed in the video are genuinely nowhere close to the top 100. If we’re talking “rap artist”, I can give that to you, but no man, they cannot rap

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Queens of the Stoneage - Songs for the Deaf

Rating: 6.6/10

I loooove the first 2 songs, & Mosquito Song is cool, I love the strings in that one, but so much of the rest of the album just feels like a barely decipherable wall of sound that my brain has to work to differentiate

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Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

Rating: 8.8/10

Guts seemed hell-bent on continuing the ground laid by Sour, I’m so glad to hear not only a new direction for ORod, but to hear it done so well, the writing here is just exceptional to me, great pop music

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2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music

Rating: 8.7/10

Man, idk, I have so much nostalgia for those 2015, 16, 17 trap albums so maybe I’m overshooting, but song to song to song, it’s still so fucking fire top down, man, I do believe this is 2 Chainz best project to this day

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@Tha_realangelo Kurtis Blow and Melle Mel shouldn’t be on here, I mean, Kurtis directly above the teacher is a criiiime, but overall this is a really good list

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Vince Staples - Cry Baby

Rating: 7.6/10

Vince isn’t releasing a damn thing unless he has something to say, & I feel like he’s consistently underrated for how musical he is. So many of his influences he’s talked about for years blaaaaze through in the drums & guitar-work on this

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@faviexx If you’re still putting Ye over Drake you’re either lying or a fuckin moron

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Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Rating: 6/10

What we have here is literally the invention of metal, so it deserves all the praise for its influence. That said, Ozzy’s vocals are kinda bad, there’s such little direction & the 4 subsequent Sabbath albums blow this out of the water

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Beyonce - B’Day

Rating: 7.6/10

This is like Dangerously in Love’s hotter sibling, it’s just a way better album to me, so much more memorable, kitted with the beat selection Jay’s connection gave her, she absolutely lit up a lot of sneaky bangers throughout this album

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Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay

Rating: 10/10

Man, I’ve listened to thousands of albums & ignorantly without thinking too hard on it, I would comfortably put this in the top ~50 or so albums I’ve ever heard. It’s an absolutely airtight, timeless half hour of perfection to me

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Kesha - Animal

Rating: 7.7/10

God, it’s just dated as hell, the production is just a snapshot of 2008 because this album absolutely fucking owned that year & I’d be lying if I said this album wasn’t super fun cause of the nostalgia, just so many bangers on this thing

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Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs

Rating: 8/10

If you’ve heard Big Iron, you get the gist. What was once inherent-with-the-times-racist-middle-America’s token country tape has become a meme coinciding with playing too much Red Dead Redemption 2 but it’s great fun

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Drake - HABIBTI

Rating: 4.3/10

“The way I call you baby girl, no wonder you feel pacified” yeah bro definitely lean into the whole baby / underage romantic partner thing, that’s smart. I’m the opposite of Kendrick cause I much prefer Drake w bars over these “melodies”this sucks

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Drake - Maid of Honour

Rating: 7.2/10

I’ve seen a lot of criticism of this album from people listening to this with a pen & pad in an arm chair, & that’s just ridiculous. This album was never meant to be anything more than vapid bangers to set the summer off, & some of these do

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Drake - Iceman

Rating: 7.4/10

Whole lot of venting & spite, still dwelling on that one time that most of his friends & people he brought up all took turns jabbing him. At first, I felt like it was ridiculous to still be in that place, but I can’t blame him + we got some bangers

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Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years

Rating: 5.2/10

This album feels like the fatigued product of years being pushed & questioned when the Nas x Preemo album will drop, the beats & Nas’ new sound don’t mesh often on this album & Premier’s sample style feels rusty & awkward throughout

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Kanye West - Billy

Rating: 7.7/10

It’s not my call to or to not forgive Ye for everything, but personally, this is the first I’ve felt comfortable listening to Kanye in a long, long time, and man, I miss the old Kanye. This is the best he’s done since Donda to me,I do like this

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Avril Lavigne - Let Go

Rating: 8/10

Idk if it’s strictly my geography that led this album to be so iconic through my adolescence but like 1/3 of the album is instantly recognizable, & the rest is so catchy & infectious that I’m surprised they’re not so too