The Young Folks’ Best Albums and Songs of 2015

You know it has been a great year for music when a song has completely changed the way that you would normally say “Hello“, “Alright” or even “Here”. Here at TYF, everyone has their own different taste in music, and…

Music Review: Vince Staples’ ‘Summertime ’06’

From “Nate” to “Kingdom,” pre-Summertime ’06 Vince was a talent to watch, with an appeal coming out of his first non-mixtape project Hell Can Wait. I remember “Nate” giving me goose bumps, but the sound was so clean and Vince…

Album Review: I Don’t Like Sh*t, I Don’t Go Outside – An Album by Earl Sweatshirt

To say Doris is really good or even great is an overstatement. The instrumentals were jazzy, lively, and dark and he’s a damn good lyricist. But his monotone flow didn’t want me to go back to it much. Yet, this…

Best Hip-Hop Records of 2014

[tps_title]Albums #10 – #6[/tps_title] 10. The Roots: And Then You Shoot Your Cousin The Roots, a band never afraid to confront the darker side of music, find themselves doing exactly that on And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. Honest and…

Common Seems Distraught on Nobody’s Smiling

Common has always been my all-time favorite rapper. This is due to his carefulness when he structures each album. As of recently, Common has become more apparent with his poetically heavy verses. And after finally forgetting his album Universal Mind…