28. Mike Mictlan – Hella Frreal
Doomtree’s Mike Mictlan, long one of my favorite wordplay artists in all of rap, delivers a marked improvement upon his too-strange prior solo release. Hella Frreal sees Mictlan trying to carve out a space for achieving two possibly divergent goals: present an entirely unique artistic vision while also paving the way for a new Hispanic-American hip-hop. Tracks like “Mid-West-Coast” and “Benicio del Torso” are steeped in tales of how a young Chicano kid in Minneapolis finds their identity in and around underground hip-hop culture. The tension between paying homage to what raised you while also blazing one’s own path is palpable here. One of my favorite tracks of the year is album closer “Clapp’D,” Mictlan’s admitted attempt at creating a monster POS-like banger.
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