#186 - The 5th Annual Rap Music Plug Podcast Awards
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2024 was a year of maintenance and solidifying the foundation. While the show didn’t 5x in year over year growth, as it did from 2022 to 2023, the arrow has still been pointing up with some big artists joining the show, increased viewership and positive feedback. In particular, the RMPP patron group has grown to the largest its ever been, which has honestly been the biggest one of my most proudest achievements of my life. The community has progressed to a point where it’s become a staple of my life, and hopefully the patrons of this show feel the same way.
2024 was proof that this show is here to stay, and will be a fixture in indie rap media for years to come. To the RMPP patrons, as well as the rest of you listeners who support the show with your time and attention... thank you for entrusting me with this privilege to rap music plug podcast for you. You are greatly appreciated.
So now, without further ado... let’s talk about what music defined my 2024, and hand out some awards along the way.
Welcome to the 5th Annual RMPP Awards.
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The Plug (0:21)
The 5th Annual RMPP Awards intro (3:15).
Best Rap in a Supporting Role (4:42)
Nominees:
SKECH185 on “No Time to Spare” - off of Lt Headtrip & Bloodmoney Perez’s EMBLEMS
billy woods on “INSTANT TRANSFER” - off of E L U C I D’s REVELATOR
Chester Watson on “Free YSL” - off of Kent Loon’s Swamp Water
Cavalier on “Kdance92” - off of ØKSE’s S/T album
Quelle Chris on “Sword Lillies” - off of Cavalier & Child Actor’s CINE
Hook of the Year (6:38)
Nominees:
NxWorries - WalkOnBy (feat. Earl Sweatshirt & Rae Khalil)
Kendrick Lamar - luther (w/ SZA)
Lukah & Real Bad Man - The Cleansing
Papo2oo4 & subjxct 5 - Had 2 Ball
Seafood Sam - Overseas Sam
Vince Staples - Shame on the Devil
Beat of the Year (8:07)
Nominees:
Gifted & Talented (prod. Child Actor)
SLUM OF A DISREGARD (prod. E L U C I D)
The Cleansing (prod. Real Bad Man)
Uru Metal (prod. Controller 7)
Song of the Year (9:28)
Nominees:
Cavalier & Child Actor - Judy is Forever, off of CINE
E L U C I D - IN THE SHADOW OF IF, off of REVELATOR
jesse the Tree & andrew - Butterfly Tattoo, off of Not Fade Away
KA - Hymn and I, off of The Thief Next to Jesus
Kendrick Lamar - meet the grahams - Single
Lukah & Real Bad Man - The Burial, off of Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace.
Producer of the Year (11:41)
Nominees:
Child Actor
steel tipped dove
Messiah Musik
Kenny Segal
andrew
Controller 7
Rapper of the Year (13:10)
Nominees:
E L U C I D
Roc Marciano
Cavalier
KA
jesse the Tree
Top Albums of the Year structure (15:17).
The RMPP 25: my top 25 albums, inclusive of all genres (15:52).
Listen to my piece on Why Lawd? here.
Final reflection (23:53).
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The RMPP 100: my top 100 albums, inclusive of all genres
The following albums are my favourite 100 albums of 2024, categorized by style / vibe and ordered alphabetically.
Sunglass Emoji: music that makes you feel like the top cheese, cool as a cucumber
'89 the Brainchild - Night Lives
454 - CASTS OF A DREAMER
BIGMUTHA - sleep paralysis
Bruiser Wolf - My Story Got Stories
Cakes da Killa - Black Sheep +
Charli XCX - BRAT
J.U.S & Squadda B - 3rd Shift
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Lisha G & Trini Viv - Groovy Steppin Sh*t
Papo2oo4 & subjxct 5 - Mr. 3000
ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS
Feels: music that gets you in your feels
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
Arushi Jain - Delight
Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”
Joshua Virtue - Black Box: JOSHUA IS DEAD
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police
Mount Eerie - Night Palace
Nourished by Time - Catching Chickens
NxWorries - Why Lawd?
Parannoul - Sky Hundred
Seafood Sam - Standing on Giant Shoulders
yaya bey - Ten Fold
For the soul: music that is dripping in soul and wholesome vibes, which can help ground you
andrew & jesse the Tree - swan dive
Big Flowers & Messiah Musik - Save the Bees
Cavalier & Quelle Chris - Death Tape 2: We Gon’ Need Each Other
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
Frankie Jax No Mad - THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING
jesse the Tree - Not Fade Away
mary sue - Voice Memos from a Winter in China
MAVI - shadowbox
money for water - Traveling Light
Nappy Nina & Swarvy - Nothing is My Favorite Thing
Ncl-DøøFus - NCL-DØØFUS 3 : BULLETPROOF KUFFLINX
OKnice - Talking to My Dogs
Phonte - Pacific Time 2
Portraits of Tracy - Drive Home: Parting Gifts
Rich Jones & SINAI. - Sour Dub
Roper Williams - Too Beautiful to Die
sleepingdogs - will we ever dance again?
Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA
Grown person raps: music that really hits those mature themes of adulthood, growing up, growing old
Alaska & steel tipped dove - Reverberations of a Dead Man's Ego
Cavalier - Different Type Time
Cavalier & Child Actor - CINE
Danny Brown - Quaranta
DJ Muggs & Raz Fresco - The Eternal Now
Duncecap & steel tipped dove - The Need to Know
Heems - Veena
Ka - The Thief Next to Jesus
Lukah & Real Bad Man - Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace.
Midnight Sons - Money Has No Owners
Monzy the Terrible - Hello, High Water
NAHreally & The Expert - BLIP
PremRock & Willie Green - Through Lines
Previous Industries - Service Merchandise
Sunmundi & klwn cat - Lived and Born
Teller Bank$ & Ed Glorious - The Pride & Glory
Vic Spencer - Psychological Cheat Sheet 5
Vince Staples - Dark Times
Grimy s***: music that is gritty and hard af
Blu & Evidence - Los Angeles
Boldy James & Conductor Williams - Across the Tracks
Boldy James & Nicholas Craven - Penalty of Leadership
Estee Nack & Futurewave - "STONE TEMPLE PYREX”
Gangrene - HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE
Mike Shabb - Sewaside III
Nickelus F - MMCHT
Pataka Boys - Thugs from Amritsar
Revival Season - Golden Age of Self Snitching
WAVE GENERATORS - AFTER THE END
Lyrical wizardry: music that dazzles with its command of the English language, and its ability to paint lyrical pictures
Crimeapple & Preservation - El León
Heems & Lapgan - LAFANDAR
k-the-i??? & Kenny Segal - Genuine Dexterity
Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN
Roc Marciano - Marciology
Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - The Skeleton Key
serengeti - kenny dennis iv
YUNGMORPHEUS & Alexander Spit - Waking Up and Choosing Violence
Mind activation: music that melts your mind and pushes lyrical and musical boundaries
AJ Suede - Opta Mystic
AKAI SOLO - DREAMDROPDRAGON
Armand Hammer - BLK LBL
Blu & Shafiq Husayn - Out of the Blue
Cadence Weapon - ROLLERCOASTER
E L U C I D - INTERFERENCE PATTERN
E L U C I D - REVELATOR
Fat Tony, Fatboi Sharif & steel tipped dove - Brain Candy
Fatboi Sharif & Duncecap - Psychedelics Wrote the Bible
Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams - Something About Shirley
Hemlock Ernst & Icky Reels - Studying Absence
Hester Valentine - Valenta
JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
Lt Headtrip & Bloodmoney Perez - EMBLEMS
ØKSE - S/T
OneShotOnce & DRIVEBY - GWD
phiik & Lungs - Carrot Season
R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura - the First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap
RiTchie - Triple Digits [112]
Sadistik - Oblivion Theater
ShrapKnel & Controller 7 - Nobody Planning to Leave
Sleep Sinatra & bloomcycle - Memory(ummm...)
Honourable mentions:
Action Bronson - JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACHLAVA THE DOCTOR
Bad Tofu - Affordable Luxuries
Blackchai & August Fanon - Otherwise a Blur
Blu & Exile - Love (the) Ominous World
cropscropscrops & steel tipped dove - Long-Light Derecho
FearDorian - FearDorian
Nacho Picasso & TELEVANGEL - Jesse’s Revenge
Pink Siifu - GOT FOOD AT THE CRIB'! VOL.1
Shape - Midnight Geometry
shemar & Child Actor - sunscreen
Valee & SURF GANG - Grey Sky London - EP
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Video animation by: Big Flowers
Intro/Outro beat by: BLOODBLIXING
