I just realized Pep Love has an album coming out this year??

This helped me realize I don't have a very good grasp of what is supposed to come out this year.

What you guys got? Any dates?

Off the top-

Pep Love
Oddisee
Danny- Payback
Kendrick's album
Good Music
That Finale/Oddisee joint supposed to drop?
MadGibbs
KRIT
OC Apollo Brown joint
Cult Favorite
Premo and Freddie Foxxx


I gotta be missing some....

links don't carry over but I'm keeping this list updated once a week at another board.

JANUARY

Mixtapes:
Beeda Weeda - Bass Rock Babies (Oakland, No Label)
Blue Sky Black Death & Nacho Picasso - Lord of the Fly (Seattle, No Label)
Bully - Reload, Cock Bak, Release (NYC, D-Block, Jadakiss/Sheek Louch feat.)
Chip tha Ripper - Tell Ya Friends (S.L.A.B., Wale/Bun B/KiD CuDi feat.)
Chuuwee & Sundown - The Millennium Falcon (No Label, Thee Tom Hardy/Big Remo feat.)
Cleeze Purp - The Color Purp 2 (No Label, Prezzeley P prod.)
Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee.tv (UK, No Label)
DropxLife - Further (No Label, Weeknd producer, R&B)
ESSO - Son of SAMO EP (No Label)
Fav - T.M.I. (No Label, Joe Budden/Mike Will feat.)

Future - Astronaut Status (A1 Entertainment)
Gensu Dean - Jointz (Mello Music Group, Large Pro/Grand Puba/David Banner feat.)
Gilbere Forte - Year of the Dragon (DJ Booth, Lloyd Banks/Freeway/Pusha T feat.)
Gritty Boi - I Want In (Zaytown USA, K Digga/King South/Coo Coo Cal feat.)
Heems - Nehru Jackets (NYC, No Label, Danny Brown/eXquire/Action Bronson feat.)
I Self Devine - LA State of Mind (Rhymesayers Ent.)
Issa - King Issa (ATL/DMV, No Label, Gucci/Swizz Beatz feat.)
Ja-Bar - TOKE, Vol. 1 (SODMG, Waka/Andy Milonakis feat.)
J-Hood - Fair Warning 2 (New York, No Label)
J. Capri - BornStars (North Carolina, No Label, Phil Adé, Laws, Kendrick Lamar feat.)

Jelly Roll - Mid-Grade Miracle (West Coast, No Label, DJ Paul feat.)
JigzTheFlyer - Catch 22 (No Label, Chuck Inglish/Vybe Beatz prod.)
John Qwest - The Art Of... (No Label, KD/Scotty/P.Dukes feat.)
J the S - The Last Days (No Label, Pill/Styles P/Emilio Rojas feat.)
K.D. - R.O.A.: Realest Out of Alabama (No Label, 100 tracks new&old)
K Digga - Str8 Drop 4 (No Label, 100% Zaytoven prod.)
KingPen Slim - Pass the Roc (Dec. 31) (DMV, No Label, Black Cobain feat.)
Kirko Bangz - The Progression 2: A Young Texas Playa (Texas, No Label, Paul Wall feat.)
Kollosus - Foreign (Atlanta, No Label, Future feat.)
Lil Lody - Heat n da Streetz (No Label, compilation)

Lil Mook - I Am Alabama 2 (Alabama, No Label, Rich Boy/2 Chainz feat.)
Lil Murda - By Any Means Necessary (Memphis, Strong Mind Ent., Starlito feat.)
Maaly - The Powder Show (Cleveland, No Label, 2 Chainz feat.)
Mack Mecca & BFN - Head of the Class (Dec. 29) (1017 Brick Squad)
Mr. Muthaf*ckin' eXquire - Merry ex Mas & Suck My Dick (Dec. 29) (NYC, No Label, support for $5 on bandcamp)
Nation - 3 Miles Per Hour (Family Ties Ent.)
NoCanDo - Zero Hour (L.A., Low End Theory)
Nutso - #Bangtime (No Label, Guilty Simpson/Nipsey Hussle/Pacewon feat.)
P. Money Bags - Streets on Fire (Alabama, No Label, Yung Ralph/Zaytoven feat.)
PaperBoy - Paper Route (Dec. 29) (1017 Brick Squad)
Philthy Rich & The Hoodstarz - The Conspiracy (Oakland Legend, No Label)

Planet VI - American Dream
Raekwon - Unexpected Victory (NYC Legend, No Label)
Ray Cash - Don King (Cleveland, No Label, Gibbs/Killer Mike feat.)
Red Café - Hell's Kitchen (Bad Boy, J. Cole/2 Chainz feat.)
Ricco Barrino - Twenty 12 Play (Grand Hustle, R&B)
Rick Ross - Rich Forever (Maybach Music Group)
Rockie Fresh - Driving 88 (No Label, Casey Veggies/King Louie feat.)
Saigon - Warning Shots 3: One Foot in the Grave (NYC, No Label, Budden/Lil Fame feat.)
Sean Falyon - SFBE Jackin' 4 Beats (Atlanta, No Label)
Self Paid - All on Us (Atlanta, No Label, Will a Fool prod.)

Shwayze - W.E.E.D. (No Label)
Sissy RIch - Welcome 2 Sissy Land (Miami, No Label, gay rapper?)
Smallz Karodiny - The Rise of Smallz Karodiny (Omaha, No Label)
SmCity - The Indie Life: Hate, Love, Money (No Label, Skyzoo/Oddisee feat.)
Smoke Bulga - #Hashtags #SmokeSignals (Boston, No Label, Drake/Kreayshawn/Max B feat.)
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - 50/13 (SODMG)
Stunt-N-Dozier - A View from the Ashtray (No Label, Fat Pimp/L.E.$./Zavey feat.)
Suga Free & Pimpin' Young - We Do the Work (Cali, No Label, Kokane feat.)
T.I. - F*ck da City Up (Grand Hustle)
Tony Moxberg - Black Cloud Friday (NYC, Black Cloud, Styles P/Jadakiss feat.)

Tony Williams - Some of My Best Rappers Are Friends (No Label, Kanye's cousin, STS/Gibbs/KRIT feat.)
Trae - King of the Streets Freestyles (No Label, Trae on radio beats)
Veli Sosa - Mr. 500 (Duct Tape Ent.)
Wiley - Evolve or Be Extinct (Big Dada, UK Grime)
Yo Gotti - January 10th (Dec. 31st) (Memphis Legend, No Label)
Young Buck & Drumma Boy - Live Loyal, Die Rich (Tennessee, No Label, Goapele feat.)
Young De - #HeadsUp (Los Angeles, No Label, Xzibit feat.)
Young Dro - We Out'chea (Grand Hustle)
Young Moe - Humble Hustle (No Label, Fat Trel feat.)
Young Scooter - Married to the Streets (A1 Recordings, Gucci Mane/Jadakiss/Zaytoven feat.)

Yung Brody - Burn Notice Part 2 (Pittsburgh, No Label, XV/Neako feat.)


Instrumentals:
Chuck Inglish - WRKING (free download) (Chicago, No Label, Cool Kids producer)
Ish D. - Trappin' Since '92 (No Label)
Lee Bannon - Gnarlon Bando (free download) (Sacramento, No Label, prod. for Willie the Kid, Chuuwee, Wiz Khalifa)
Rell - Rell on da Beat 2 (free download) (City Unknown, No Label)



Albums:
The Jacka - The Verdict
KRS-One & Kenny Parker - The BDP Album (6.8.2. Records)
ScHoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions (Top Dawg Ent.)
Yo Gotti - Live from the Kitchen (Polo Grounds)



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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas

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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Nodima/run_that_shit__nodimas_hip_hop_handbook

that actually does in-depth research?

all it really takes is a quick scan at livemixtapes.com every day and watching my upcoming release calendar on rateyourmusic otherwise. Some of them I only find out because of this board since they're too high brow for livemixtapes. I noticed I'm missing the Kool A.D. mixtape for example.

I would be a blogger but the site I'm trying to set up I'm told has never been coded before, or at least no one I've talked to who went to school for web design can think of anything they learned that would make the site possible. I've had a friend of a friend working on one pro bono for over a year now but I don't expect it to be done any time soon if ever.

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas

http://www.last.fm/user/NodimaChee
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Nodima/run_that_shit__nodimas_hip_hop_handbook

I don't know anything about coding. I want the third list in my sig (and the 1,500+ reviews that fuel it, and the 15-20+ lists that spawn from it) to be able to auto-update themselves whenever I publish a review, so all I have to do is write everything down and then all the math is done for me. Right now my process, unless I'm doing a review outside of rap:

1. Write review/score tracks/score album
2. Add base scores and leaner scores on calc, get % scores for each then find average /5
3. Open Run That Shit, find where songs + album = on list, edit entry and submit
4. Open Geek Down, find artist, add new album to entry, calc new average, adjust rank if necessary
5. Open relevant yearly list, find where songs + album = on list, edit entry and submit

It takes about five minutes to do, which isn't too bad, but the process of having to go back and edit all those lists if I should ever change my mind about something is pretty unattractive. You can see on Run That Shit that I update new entries FAR more often than changes. If I could open up an edit page on an album, change a few songs scores if I've changed my mind on them, and have everything sourced from that review page edit and rearrange itself without my input that'd make me so happy.

I asked around a few different places IRL and online but nobody could give me any leads, so a very distant friend of mine that likes to challenge himself took it on, but I hear from him maybe every two months and I've only seen a preview of the layout so far. He's never said if he's figured out how to code that, and since he's freelancing and just graduated I'm really not trying to pressure him to do a favor for me considering the first time we met was he found out I was hooking up with his best friend in school who he was obsessed with, lol.

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas

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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Nodima/run_that_shit__nodimas_hip_hop_handbook

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they just happen to be released for free via a mixtape site, so I figure the artists consider them mixtapes.

2010 and 2011 really flipped the game on its ass, hip-hop wise.

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas

http://www.last.fm/user/NodimaChee
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Nodima/run_that_shit__nodimas_hip_hop_handbook

Lana Del Ray (it isn't out yet)
Esperanza Spalding
Robert Glasper
Sleigh Bells
SlaughterHouse (supposedly August)
OC & Apollo Brown
Flying Lotus
Tanya Morgan & 6th Sense
G.O.O.D. Comp
Jay-Z solo LP
Porn's mixtape
School Of Seven Bells
Skyzoo-A Dream Deferred
Melanie Fiona (which should've dropped last year)
First Serve (or any De La project)
Carlitta Durand "I'll Be Gorgeous When I Die"
Lupe Fiasco
Mickey Factz
Danny!
Janelle Monae
Busta Rhymes
JEAN GRAE!
Talib Kweli (and Blackstar...March can't get here soon enough)
Nelly Furtado
Monica
SWV!!!!!!
B.o.B
MadGibbs

I'm forgetting a ton...especially on the indie rock side

phemom's the name, all-star writer/
searching 4 journalistic fame, mindframe igniter....www.twitter.com/hayabusaage

because I ran back Diamond District... and man.

P.O.S.
Mike Mictlan
Dessa
Aesop Rock(solo and maybe a couple extra projects)
El-P
Killer Mike(produced by El-P)
Intuition
Brother Ali
Damian Marley
K-os
Action Bronson
Curren$y
Macklemore

Yeah I forgot that El P Killer Mike release...

I don't have a date but I've heard it's gonna be a late spring/early summer release.

YEAH BOI

not yet mentioned (possibly out of date):

Soap&Skin - Narrow

Jonny Greenwood's collaborative album with avant-garde great Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia - March 13 through Nonesuch

Orbital's forthcoming 8th album, to be released in April 2012.

Garbage "We just approved the final mastering. The album is DONE! There are eleven songs that made the final sequence. And the album title is.... TBD"

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - second album, another collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous, will follow in 2012.

Black Sabbath
"For 2012, the band will be one of the headliners of the Download Festival and will be working on a new album – their first with Osbourne since 1978 – with producer Rick Rubin. According to Iommi, Rubin had been one of the driving forces in getting Black Sabbath together. He told the press: "He phoned us every five minutes.”"

big boi w/ modest mouse, little dragon & phantogram

air

major lazer

santigold

Rocketjuice and the Moon - Damon Albarn with Tony Allen and Flea

NIN - surround reissue of The Fragile

"so a friend of mine is friends with danger mouse, and apparently he's producing the new u2 album."

A Perfect Circle


and there's always d'angelo, dead prez, 'act II,' and 'detox' :/

His final Def Jam album...

Please? :/
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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

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