Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "TOP 5 HIP-HOP ALBUMS OF 2022"

Episode Date: February 7, 2023

 “TOP 5 HIP-HOP ALBUMS OF 2022” OF THE NOTORIOUS MASS EFFECT EPISODE 114 // "2022 BEST HIP-HOP YEAR-END WRAP UP"But before that make sure to click my Linktree in my bio to access my social media and follow, to keep up with my latest activities, if you want to support the show financially click my cash app link located towards the top of my linktree as it helps the show overall, also make sure to share this podcast rating the show 5 stars as this helps the show reach more people so we can grow together and affect the masses! (MAKE SURE TO CLICK THAT BELL ICON FOR POST NOTIFICATIONS) Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Now, the time has come to get into the top five hip-hop albums of 20, 22. Now, you know I had to build a suspense. So for the people over at YouTube and Twitch, in general, the live stream experience is a lot more different than the experience you're going to get on the audio platforms, which is no problem with that. Because, of course, y'all both are getting the same values out of it, the key values of it. But, you know, it's a little bit more for the live stream because you get to see the behind the scenes of how every. thing is set up right so basically for this for this list for this list this is my criteria and i had to write this down because i don't want people to think i'm just making stuff up because i've been a hip-hop connoisseur for about 35 years now just playing i'm only like 23 you know people don't even say the age

no more but you know i'm not that old so you know i try to embrace it but anyways um the criteria all right number one it's lyrics Now that's the biggest criteria you need to know that I'm going with. It's lyrics. So all that mumbo-jumbo, all that mumbling, all that switch on the Glock and now I kill a person ten times over. I'll spend a block twice like there ain't nowhere to park. Don't expect none of that on my list, okay? There's only lyrical, miracle, spiritual content in my top five list.

And with that being said, of course, I got a little bit of kill them, you know what I mean? Spend a block twice like there ain't where the park type content in here. because, you know, as far as my number five, I mean, we might as well get into it because, uh, oh, no, hold up. I ain't finished my criteria. Why y'all, why y'all distracting me? Hold on. Let me get a second. Let me get back focused. I don't know why y'all distracting me like that. Anyways, yeah, I got to blame y'all. It's okay. Um, number two, repeatability. Because repeatability for me has to be a factor or else black thought would be on the top of everyone in my list. No disrespect to black thought, but does nobody, I mean nobody in their 20s driving to a party telling the homies to play that black dot but we all acknowledge

that he is a phenomenal rapper all right that's out the way criteria number three this is it this is all my criteria this is all i need is different moods aka vibes now this is the one that gets a lot of people confused what do you mean by different moods aka vibes what are you a a female, first off, that's offensive. But second off, I feel like for my favorite consumption type, that ain't make any sense. The best way I like to consume music

is to listen to somebody who can change up the variety of music they give to me. And that's going to come up on a plethora of these reveals because in general a lot of people don't understand hold up this is how I'm doing I'm put a banner up

I was wondering how it's going to be to hide the other selections because I wanted to build this I wanted to build the tension on the audio segment of course on the video they were the live stream the people who was on

the live stream was able to see what the candidates already have up but they don't know what order I'm going there but for the audio you don't even know what candidates are

so anyways back to all saying um most of these have a variety of moods you can tap into. One of them, actually two of these, is very straightforward in the mood they give you, but I excuse it, well, one of them

I excuse it because the lyric content, which you can priority guess who I'm going for as far as very high-lim lyric content, but may not be as repeatable as some of these other artists. And one of them is a complete opposite. The repeatability is on cloud nine, but of course the lyrics are some shoot-em-em-up. you know I do drugs like music you can priority guess who's gonna be on that list or who fits

that criteria without further ado now that I've got through my criteria hopefully y'all understand my list number one lyrics repeatability in different moods so that means the variety so if I'm at the gym I can play your album if I'm reading a book I can play certain songs from your album if I'm with a significant other I can play certain songs from your album if I'm with my parents I can play certain like different different moods helps repeat a repeatability for albums. That's why for most major label artists, they always have something for every type of

listener. That's why a person like Little Dirk will get on his what happened to Virgil tip and start singing because, you know, of course, the girls like when the guys sing. All right, I think I broke it down pretty good. I wish I could put that up here, like my criteria, like right here in the top. I don't even, y'all definitely can't even see what I'm

talking about. Um, okay, so I wish I could put criteria. I feel like that would help out a lot. Hold up. Okay, I just transition. Let me see. This is how I'm going to cover when I want to put some up.

Okay. Just copy and paste my criteria. Now, let me just type it out. You know what I mean? I did type in classes. You know what I mean? I am pretty quick with the typing. You know what I mean?

Shout out to grammarly, helping all college students cheat their way through English classes. um all right and then three different moods aka vibes all right this is how we're gonna do it because i don't feel like i don't feel like making this a whole big um i already customized all this other stuff so this one's just got to be ratchitivity on the screen okay i'll big i'll make this oh my goodness it went away

Hold up, I need it back. I need it back. Okay, here we go. All right. Y'all want to talk about the weather? What's up with the weather being like zero degrees? Anyways, let's get back to it. My bad.

My fault. Just coming out of nowhere with random. You know, somebody might be listening to this review wrap-up and, uh, what's another place that's, uh, what's that place with the giant spiders? I mean, like the humongous spiders. I forget that place is called. Is it Alaska? It's not Alaska. It's not Alaska.

other place it's like a humongous spiders i'm so off topic let's get back into the so basically um can i put this at the bottom yeah i have no i had no idea how to put this here i wish i could just type on this like why is it why is it not an option to type enter edit label text oh let me do that please let me yeah okay add roll below cool cool cool let's do that oh wow we definitely editing on the Flo, you love to see it, man, you love to see it. All right, shall I edit this part out? I ain't a lie. For the people listening live, I may reward y'all, man.

Y'all podcast and people got to listen to it too. Because there's a button there that most people know. It's like 15 to 30 seconds skip, and you can easily skip through this part. So, you know, that's on y'all if y'all want to listen to me, struggle. So that's one. And then let's change this to criteria. And then let's bring this back up because I'm definitely, you know, once I type Steps on once, I'm definitely not typing it again.

Let's copy and paste that. That's how you work smarter, not harder, you know what I'm saying? It's a description? Edit label text. I guess it's the only way we ever do it, okay. Let's make this a little bigger. Perfect. Criteria, lyrics, repeatability, different moves, aka vibes. Cool. All right, let me transition back, because I'm definitely not trying to give away my candidates, because that would be messed up. You know what I mean? It's not really the way I want to do this.

all right i've made y'all i made y'all wait long enough now y'all see how i edited this you know what i mean hey uh w tech guy you know what i'm saying w tech i anyways what was i about to oh now i mean i have to i have to add number five so we're starting at number five okay of course because you got to build up the uh the tension or the expectation or the what's the word we got built up the the attention, right? Anyways, we got built up to the winner, basically, because all these other people are just losers. And by losers, I mean that the nicest way possible. Because of course, what's starting with, and I know this is going to shock some of y'all, starting with my main man, Aubrey. So let me tell you some, man. Her loss is obviously one of the best hip-hop albums of

2022. But on the other hand, I cannot have it high on my list for top albums of 2022, because like I said, the lyric content matters for me. And 21 Savage is just the artist full of triple, no, no, no, double and triple entendres when it comes to killing people. Now, I know for some of y'all gangsters out there, you're like, man, that's the greatest thing since Beethoven. For me, as a law-abiding citizen, I'm not trying to hear how somebody spun the block twice like there ain't nowhere to part.

I'm not trying to hear somebody talk about if he was Will Smith in a hypothetical situation, he would have slapped Chris Rock with a stick. Now, 21 Savage said this. Over a beat, might I add, it did sound nice. But for the most part, lyrical content matters to me. And that's why this is number five,

because if it was just a Drake album, those sections where 21 Savage was rapping, I'm pretty sure Aubrey Graham, aka The Goat, what it came up with some more substance-filled or substance-heavy lyrical value. So that's why it's on number five for me,

but nonetheless, number five, I mean, number five for my top hip-hop albums of 2022 is her loss by Drake and 21 Savage. Because this album, all, okay,

first of all, let me, not get too crazy with it. The way that I pick albums is they have to have no skips. So this should go without saying, all of these projects I'm putting on here in my personal opinion has no skips.

So for this album, I have to put this on here because the way that they came out on a collab album, I have to give 21-7 some credit because I don't think Drake would have been able to do this with any other artists. If Drake would have a collab with Little Baby, they would have been comparing the Voice of the Heroes tape. And I don't feel like that would have held up in the light because Little Baby and Little Dirk collab album to this day. It's still a classic. I don't care what nobody says. Like literally, the album from Little Baby and Little Dirk, I think it's exponentially better than the album that Little Baby and Gunna put out.

And that had some bangers on it. I mean, some straight just classics on it. I mean, from a sales point-wise, I feel like that little baby and Gunna album to this day is one of the best-selling collab projects. So sad that Gunna had to turn into Gunnetelo. But of course for me, I don't care about that snitch life. But, you know, for gangsters that want to kill people, you know, they'd be caring all about it. So, yeah, Gunna's done, apparently, to them, to the streets. But for the most part, drip harder.

Was that the actual song name? No, drip too hard by Little Baby and Gunner is one of the best tracks in this generation. Like of this generation, drip harder or drip too hard by Little Baby and Gunner is one of the best tracks of this generation. Why am I comparing that? Because the whole Drake and 21 Savage Appeal, Drake couldn't have done that with any other artists around his level. Codec Black already did some with Kendrick. Little Dirk, I mean, come on now.

Little Dirk's been in the game for way too long. And that would have watered down Drake because in general, Lord Dirk has put out a lot of music, collabs with different artists. So he had to get some type of exclusivity with this artist, of course. Like what other collab tape have you heard

from 21 Savage except the offset one without timing? And that one was straight fire. So who else? He couldn't have done it with a few. future. Future is coming off. I never liked you. People would have been like, oh, he's obviously trying to hop on futures wave because we're going to get to future in a second. But I feel like he ran 2022 for hip hop, like just straight up. So 21 Savage to me was the only option. I mean, who else you have a little yachtie? I mean, come on now. Like Black already did someone with Kendrick. Little baby. I mean, that man's on tour, not really caring about music quality. That's why his last album came out like that. Little Dirk, he's doing his own thing. Plus, he was literally brought into the freight. about Drake. Like there's a reason Drake has so many singles featuring Lil Durk

because Little Durk was popping. But for the most part, 21 Savage was just an obvious choice. Going off Jimmy Crooks, going off Knife Talk, going off of what's the other one? Sneaking. Like Drake and 21 Savage's don't miss. So I was

glad to see this on the on, I was glad to see this come out and be as quality field as it was because they could have definitely missed with this one. they decided not to. And, well, basically, the goat decided not to, because in general, 21 Savage is usually one of those type of artists that's usually not for me.

Like, I'm not going to lie. Like, just a monotone, talking about killing people every two seconds, just it's not for me. So what else? Oh, and another reason it just had to be on my list is because the sales was out of this world. I mean, what did they do? Like, over 300,000 first week. Like, if I had to type it in, like, her loss, I think it was the best-selling album of 20, no,

no, no, no. Gunna's album, I think it was the best-selling album. But her loss had the best first week. Let me see. In 21 Savage. Let me see, first week. Because in general, people was like, oh, yeah. Honestly, never mind, didn't sell as much as Kendrick's.

Mr. Moran and a big stepper. So that means Drake's has fell off. So I feel like Drake needed this project. I mean, of course, Drake's the goat. But, you know, when you put out a different genre of an album, no matter, I mean, you're the goat. So whenever we see the sales projections,

I don't care if it's an album from a whole different genre. Like, we're going to compare you to your competition, which was Kendrick. And Kendrick outsold him in the first week. So, but with her loss, with 21 Savage,

um, it was the best first week for a hip-hop album. I mean, what they had like 400, I think it was 400,000 first-week album sales. Come on now. Like, you can't really compete with that. That's just like 404,000 first week sales, which is technically like 391,000 SEA units,

equivalent to 513 million on-demand streams. Like, come on, man. Worth largest streaming week of all time for any album. Like, her loss was just impactful on a whole different level. But the reason I happen on number five is because of the lyrical content from 21 Savage. I'm just, I can't, bro, I'm not trying to kill nobody, you know. I'm just, I can't relate to the. his bars. But, you know, Drake rapping about it, you know what he said? He said,

uh, now let me chill. That's a little, little provocative. But let me just say he had a lot of bars that was, that was very fitting if you are in the, uh, the lane of dating. You know what I'm saying? Anyways, like, what's wrong? Hold on. Now, see, now y'all y'all playing with the goat. Hold on. Now I got to bring it up. Y'all ain't even say nothing. I still, I still think you're playing with the goat. So let me bring this up because y'all, y'all tripping. So basically, let me see on this on this track I'm thinking about a specific track when I talk about a lyrical content

I'm thinking about um oh hours in silence oh yeah hold up now see I have to spend this much time on the goat because I feel like I feel like he doesn't get his flowers

like I feel like people just take his greatness for granted kind of like LeBron and people just act like another one of Drake is just going to pop up when it's just like we're not going to see it in this genre. Like, that's not going to happen. There's a reason why Drake and Eminem are the top selling artists in hip hop. I mean, the complexion for the protection and people talking about little babies next up, like, yeah, all right. Like, people talk about Jay-Z. Like, you know how

smart Jay-Z had to be to even be compared to Eminem as far as sales-wise? Like, plus, I don't even think Jay-Z compares in sales-wise. So, like, accolades, though, of course, he's the most decorated hip-hop artist because, you know, Grammys. Imagine they're making Eminem the most decorated. hip-hop artists. They would just call them every name in the book when it comes to being racist. So anyways, I got to pull this up because this is ridiculous right here. Like, this is just ridiculous. Hold up. Here we go. So this is the goat, of course. Let me get to a second verse because this is one I knew

this man was the goat. All right. Watch this. This man said, okay, so my fault. Yeah, y'all know how I do it for the people who listen to my album reviews. Y'all got to turn with me to the book of, give me a second, the book of hours in silence. And then if you turn with me to, let me see if you turn with me to verse four verse four what do you even see that in other artists in today's age verse four of hours in silence this man says man

for goodness sakes at this rate your funeral is going to have like 10 caskets on display one for you the other nine for everything you're taken to the grave you don't play you don't play no games there's three things I learned from love for free

only thing worth really worth chasing is a dream people don't know you play your roles on screen messy started getting trendy got to keep it clean and then he went on to say

all weapons formed against me got a gym brought you round the dogs treat you like the fam. You know how much you got like a girl to bring around your homies, but that's a whole other conversation. Should have been a wham-bam, thank you man.

Oh, okay, the whole thing went out of it. Should have been a wham-bam, thank you, ma'am. I don't know what he was saying right there. I know you got my confidence on sale case you want to feel better about yourself. Now, I feel like he was saying, I know you got my confidence on sale, like a cellular phone,

case you want to feel better by yourself. genius. They don't really know hip-hop lyrics. So they got sale right here. Anyways, for me, I feel like, no, you got my confidence on sale in case you want to feel better about yourself. You know what I mean? Like you call it. I feel like that's pretty self-explanatory. Whoever does these genius comments, like, were they a rapper? They ever like pin a verse, a 32, 16, anything? Like, bro. Anyways, my bad. My fault. All right, let's get back into it. Let me make sure you just don't. Okay, cool. It's still right there. All right. I want y'all to see the other albums I have up.

All right, that's enough on Drake. We did like 20 minutes on Drake. Okay, cool. I'm not going to give all these other artists that much praise because, you know, they're just not Drake. But anyways. So number four. Let's get into number four. Give me a second.

Transition. Okay. There we go. Number four. Hold, let me look at my list because sometimes I'll be forgetting. Number four. Now, this is the man that I said ran hip hop for 2022. So him being an honor.

this list so early might make some people upset but let me just say let me just tell you right now I don't care okay like I said with 21 Savage I can't relate to the drug and the killing bars and the murderous venom that comes out of these people's mouth and the toxic the toxicity that comes out of most of these people's mouth so for YouTube and Twitch you already see it but for my audio audience over on my podcast platforms. Let me just tell you this. Future I Never Like You comes in number four for me

from my top five albums of 2020. Now I know what y'all saying. I never liked you by Future is the best album of 2022. I can already hear y'all saying it right now. And honestly, I would not disagree to somebody who says that. But personally, the pick I have for number one is very personal because this artist for me, I just think he's the greatest.

I'm not going to give it away. But for people who've listened to me talking the past, I know that he's the greatest artist I've ever seen in my life. And I love the album he came with this year. Whoa, for 2022. So anyways, Future, I never liked you. I feel like the only reason is not number one for me. It's one, because I know that rap album I think is better.

But the lyrics. The lyrical content is another thing that I keep bringing up. Like with 21 Savage, just like with Future. The subject is something I can't gravitate towards as a law-abiding citizen. And I know that may sound corny for hip hop listeners. Be like, what you mean? You can't relate to killing a person. You can't relate to putting a price on his head.

You can't relate to doing drugs and giving Shardy a perk. No, I can't at all. I'm sorry. You know what I mean? It's just one of those type of situations where the repeatability, which is in my criteria, is through the roof. Probably the best future I never liked you off of this whole list has the best repeatability at the end of these albums.

but lyrical content and the different moods i don't think like it's as substantial the rest on this list the rest of the projects on this list because of course future has wait for you future has the other track when he's talking about um he was like you telling me i'm falling out of love with you what's that track called that one's fire but he slows it down at points but i'm just as far as the variety it's not as much as the projects that come after it so Where is it at? It's not stayed down. It's a stay down?

I think it's like right after Love You. Yeah, yeah. It's called Love You Better. So wait for you and love you better. It's back to back on the album for a reason. Like he really slows the album down, then gets back on this kill, kill, drill, drill type of mentality, which, to be fair,

future's not on that type of timing, like 21 Savage and Little Dirk, as far as to always having that lyrical content being as aggressive. But for the most part, he's talking about money, lavish lifestyle. I can relate to that type of stuff. But that's why it's number four ahead of her loss.

So I think lyrically and quality-wise, he's definitely way better than him, 21 Savage. I'm not comparing to two quality-wise at all. The only reason he is not above the other three on the projects is because simply because of the lyrics. And that's it. So, yeah, that's number four for me. So now let's get into number three. Hopefully I did have future justice. You know, I feel like Future Ran 2022, so I don't want that to be understated.

Like future with, I think future had the overall bestselling album of 2022. That's what I was looking at. The best overall selling album. Her loss had the best first week sales. But Future, I never liked you, had the best overall sales of 2022. It was Future, then it was Gunna. And I think it was like, Drake and 21 Savage with her loss. Anyways, let's keep going.

All right. So for number three, this may surprise some people. I don't think it will. because if y'all heard my review just go on Amazon music right now go to podcasts and look up Rod Wave

Beautiful Mind Review Notorious Mass Effect Just typed it in Rod Wave beautiful mind review My notorious mass effect You will understand Why this album is coming Number three on my list

This is a hip hop Top five albums of 2022 And if you think that Rod Wave is not hip hop Then I don't think he've ever watched the Rod Wave interview. I don't think you've never seen him perform on stage. And you obviously haven't seen the artist he's been featuring on his albums. This man is a hip-hop connoisseur who just knows how to sing pause, but beautifully. Like Rodwaves sonically

is probably up there with the weekend as far as talent. So, beautiful mind for me is number three on my top five albums list of 2022, simply for the fact that the lyrical content, the repeatability, and the different moods all set it apart from the rest of the competition. If I had to put a little space between one, two, and three, and the rest of the projects, I would put a space there because that's how much I feel like these next three projects are so much ahead of the competition that it wasn't even funny. Like the disrespect I hear being put on Rod Wade's name just simply because you won't do the outland and stuff, like film himself doing.

some crazy act just for views it's just it's just blast for me to quote stephen a smith this man is selling out arenas and he's an up-and-coming artist i mean i can't even say the sky like the the stars the other planets are the limit for for rod wave you don't do arenas as up-and-coming artists and that's what rod wave is currently doing so i think beautiful mind is just another showcase of how this man is just and creativity and creatively and creatively just better than of course all his peers but even some of the more veteran artists in the game i'm talking about the i mean i sure is kind of retired but um the neos of the world i mean he's retired too there's really no okay so let me name some contemporary rn b artists uh brent fias of the world the divisions of the world who else the party next door is of the world

I think Rod Wave does their genre way better than them and he doesn't even focus on the whole relationship part he really focused on heartbreak more than anything of course relationship is tied to that but it's like heartbreak first then relationship which for Brent Fias for party next door all of those are like

relationship then maybe some heartbreak but for Rod Wave it's like heartbreak space space space space then relationship ships. So it's like juice world type music, honestly. The subject matter. Um, so yeah, I mean, anytime I compare artists to juice world, like, you know, he's going to make it high on my list. So anyways, number three comes in at, uh, Broadway's beautiful mind. So anyways, number two. Now, I know y'all want to know the runner up. And as a Drake stand, this hurt my heart, man. This hurt my heart. Because once again, in the same year, I have to, I have a, you. I have a

have to put this man ahead of the goat. And y'all already know who I'm talking about when I say it. Mr. Morrell and the Big Steppers, aka Kendrick Lamar, is probably one of the best hip-hop albums I've heard in a while. Content-wise, it's very, very heavy. Lyrically, it's leaps and bounds above any project on this list. it's the other two that makes it fall off at number two for me

and you gotta know how high I keep this artist regarded as far as lyrical content to have it number two based off my other two criteria on the list repeatability

in different moods I feel like Kendrick has never been as diverse as his peers when it came to that but lyrically it's like comparing apples

to orange is Kendrick Lamar lyrically is one of the best rappers I've ever heard he's on my top five rappers list of like best rappers list of all time of course he's above Drake which hurts my heart to say but he is there's a let me let me let me run through my list because I don't think I've touched on my list before um my list is oh no all time is jZ number one of course notorious b iG number two uh Kendrick Lamar number three so I haven't at number three, number four, Tupac. And then, of course, I had to put Drake at number five.

You know, he's the ghost. So I had to put him in there. Anyways, that's how highly I regard Kendrick Lamar is a lyrical genius. Like, I have him up there with some of the greatest of all time, lyrically. It's just when it comes to repeatability, when it comes to different mood sets,

Kendrick is just not as diverse as his other artists in the game. But lyrically, that's why he's number two on this list. Like, Mr. Moran, the Big Stepers, is a clinic on how, the put words together for a 16 for a 32 for an whole album so anyways so that's number two on my list and then oh man you're ready for this you're not ready for this i feel like i really got to explain this one because y'all not you're not going to understand this is this is probably the biggest

you know in stories when they have like a plot twist and stuff it's probably the biggest plot twist as far as the whole review goes. I have Chris Brown, Breezy, as the best album, best hip-hop album of 2022. Now, I know what you're saying right now. Hold on, let me get my soundboard, because I, especially, I don't have a boo. I don't have a boo soundboard.

Hold on. I'm not to look at it up. I'm going to look this up just for y'all because I know some of the women listening to my podcast right now. It's just like, how could you? Like, you just, like, if y'all get locked up, I don't even care no more.

Like, y'all just, you just, Co-signed and is abuser which first off nobody's cosigned an abuser but well I guess it's no but no no no I guess there's a but after that person does what is it serves his debt to society of course because there's one thing right and of course I'm not gonna get canceled because I'm gonna explain this pretty thoroughly You you have a debt to society and then you have a forever debt to the victim So you have a debt to society, which you can pay off with a set amount of time. Then your victim, you're forever indebted to that victim. So I forgave Chris Brown when Rihanna forgave Chris Brown. And I know what y'all can say. Oh, abusive relationships don't work like that.

The abuse victim always takes the abuser back, which granted, I do understand that. But as far as an icon like Rihanna, I'm pretty sure she has probably the best mentors in her circle. well if not then you know i stand corrected but i think she's doing pretty well in life you know so for her to take it upon herself because you know that wasn't advising for that it was like no forget him forever that's probably where all her friends were saying but she came out herself and forgave that man and years later down the line she i mean she should she could just say that and not said anything else years later down the line she had his music blasting in the background while promoting her fenty products so when she forgave him i forgave him so that's that's how that's why

That's how that happens, okay? Uh, hold up. Yeah, I still ain't forget about, uh, let me see, sound effect. Yeah, I'm still gonna, I'm still gonna, I'm still gonna boo myself. You know what I mean, it's okay. You know what I mean? It's all right. Hold up.

Let me see how this gonna sound. Yeah, did y'all, did y'all hear that? I don't know. I thought it was gonna be like a continuous boo. Hold on, let me see if I can fuck. It was just like a, that was just like an abrupt boo. Oh, here we go. Oh, here we go.

There you go. This, look, I can already hear it right now. Hey, throw your tomatoes. Oh, your tomatoes, you know what I'm saying? I feel like the man off of Spongeball. I feel like Skirderwood off of that SpongeBob episode. You know what? I ain't got to take that because it's my platform.

Now, just plain, all right, my fault. My fault. It was a little egotistical. But you know what I mean? Y'all get what I'm saying. This is my personal opinion. I feel like Chris Brown Breezy is not by far, but is the best album of 2022.

I would go as far as to say that this is my favorite Chris Brown album of all time. And I'm a huge Chris Brown fan. Like I'm humonged. Chris Brown fan like yeah I think I'm a Drake fan but the only reason I can't really be as a Chris as much of a Chris Brown fan because his man off the field antics if this was an athlete this would be comparable to like Antonio Brown's a little bit too much but um this would be comparable to Kyrie yes perfect this would be comparable to Kyrie Chris Brown is the Kyrie of the

music industry he just got in his own way but he could have had everything that the next person who looked like, you know, who did his craft could have. I can't talk. Basically, they was comparing this man to Michael Jackson after he beat a Rihanna. Guess what? Guess what?

Guess what comparison stopped after he put hands on Rihanna, the Michael Jackson comparisons. But I feel like if he would have conducted himself like a law-abiding human, he could have been one of the biggest of all time. And for him to put his hands on Rihanna and still have this six, still have this longevity

as an artist, as a musician. I feel like that takes the cake as far as him being one of the best artists of all time. In my opinion, personally, I think Chris Brown is by far and away

the most talented artists I've ever seen. And albums like Chris Brown expanded edition in 2005, of course those got classics. People can say fame is probably a classic. People say fortune, I mean, it was a Chris Brown album. Heartbreak on a full moon.

What else? Graffiti. I'm not going to order. But basically, there's a lot of other albums you can say that Chris Brown put out as a classic. I would probably say 2005 and 2007. It's probably the strongest argument. But as far as breezy, it may not be sales-wise, but sonically from top to bottom, Lyrically, the repeatability and the different moods that he has throughout this whole album is all in one.

There's something for the R&B connoisseurs. There's something for the hip-hop connoisseurs. I mean, there's even something for the lyrical connoisseurs. I mean, he has Little Wayne on one of his tracks. And then he would turn around and have a person like ESTG, with no disrespect to ESTG. I like listening to him. I heard his last project. I liked it.

but as far as the lyrical content is not as uh heavy as little wayne so he he gave us a lot of different lanes i mean no pun intended because he did have tory lanes on this album but uh which is a bad combination a bad bad bad combination like come on man like who is chris brown's PR team but anyways um yeah man then you got the likes of whiz kid her i mean the different moods and the repeatability set this apart for me from mr more allen and the big stephers because i thought long and hard about putting Kendrick Lamar's album at number one for me. But at the end of the day, I can't put an album at number one that I cannot play at different,

like, try playing Mr. Moral and the Big Steppers at the end of the gym. You know what I'm playing in the gym when I listen to Breezy? I'm playing, um, I can play so many tracks off of here. Oh, catch a body with Fabio Forin. Like, I mean, like, if that's not, not, you know, fast-paced.

If that doesn't get you going, I don't know what will. Oh, Tase. Well, I think it should be called Tase, but the track with ESTG called Hmm, like, what type of name for that is for, like, who names a track? Hmm. Like, it's a sound effect, not a name. Like, I don't understand. I think it should have been called Tase, but that's what's that's point. Psychic, which Jack Hollow was fire.

Like, imagine getting a fire track at a Jack Hollow. That's how you know Chris Brown was cooking up. Especially in 2022, that man was mediocre at best. Little Dirk, the first track off the album. I mean, you start that, well, play the first track off of Breezy, and you understand why I have it at number one. That's all I'd say. So anyways, that's my whole wrap-up of the top five hip-hop albums of 2022.

And let me just tell you something. As you can see, I'm a hip-hop connoisseur, but that's why I always say with a little bit of R&B mixed in because I really enjoy listening to R&B. Obviously, three of the tracks off of this top five is hip hop tracks, but for the most part,

the R&B tracks is what really gravitates towards me. That's why the top two, I don't know, not top two, and there's two and the top three of my list. And just to compare it, I mean, if we looked at last year, of course, I had, no, I had Drake number one.

I had a lot of hip hop last year. The only thing I didn't have was a rod wave again at number four with Soulfly. But for the most part, I had Drake, Kanye, Jake Cole, and Baby Kim. So, you know, I feel like I listened to a lot of music. So it's like, personally, I can think in my mentor roller decks and go through all the songs I listen to all of them. Like, it's nothing that would skip past me. It'd be like, oh, did you listen to that? Yep.

Did you listen to that? Yep. and it was not as good as Breezy, it was not as good as Mr. Morale and the Big Stevers, and certainly not as good as a beautiful, beautiful mind. And, of course, future, I never liked you. Drake and 21 Savage, her loss, like all these albums

will stand the test of time, in my opinion, five years from now. But we'll see, you know, of course. You never know, man. Drake may come out, you know, Drake may come out gay and people may stop listening to his music because you know how that is. You know how hip hop is with,

with being gay, you know what I mean? They just, like, the amount of homophobic content in hip hop is just absurd. This is speaking, this is from a straight male. So you know that's, you know, they just, you know, they just outlandish with it. Like, if I got to say something, like, man, if Lil Nas' ex ain't been shamed for his sexuality, I mean, people literally coming out saying he faking. Like, you know what I mean? That's not disrespect.

I don't know what it is. Anyways, let me see. All right. So, I don't know. I'm going to leave that up to us because that's basically it. Okay. So now, let's switch it up. Now we're getting into, which is a whole different list, we're going to get into the top five rappers of 2022.