BensBeat Top 25 Albums of 2022

Finally, here are the best albums that 2022 had to offer. Looking forward to another year of great music in 2023. Honourable Mentions: Alvvays - Blue Rev Conway The Machine - God Don't Make Mistakes Dreamville - D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever Joey Bada$$ - 2000 Koffee - … Continue reading BensBeat Top 25 Albums of 2022

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Dreamville – D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape

While GOOD Music is fracturing and TDE’s marketing strategy seems to be out the window, there hasn’t been a top-tier hip-hop label consistently delivering quality and quantity to its fans like J. Cole’s Dreamville lately. Starting up its own festival, growing the profiles of artists like EarthGang, Ari Lennox and JID and releasing another compilation … Continue reading Dreamville – D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape

James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart

One of the music industry’s most sought-after collaborators, both James Blake’s touching and heartfelt folksy ballads and his tendency for experimentation and daringly jumping across genre lines to blend his malleable style with some of today’s biggest innovators have been drawing in more and more fans as his career progresses. Now on his fifth studio … Continue reading James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart

Various Artists – Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album

This might be a music blog, but we’re deep into Oscar season – and a star-studded soundtrack from one of the year’s frontrunning films has broken into the public consciousness in a big way. Curated by all-star hip-hop producer Hit-Boy, a wide array of rap and R&B’s young rising stars and absolute legends come together … Continue reading Various Artists – Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album