Chains & Whips - Clipse, Kendrik Lamar, Pusha T, Malice

I don't normally like or even listen to hiphop (except Eminem, I'm a white boy and I say it proudly), but I was asking my favorite large language model (Google Gemini 3 Pro these days) what the best albums of 2025 were, maybe I missed something. And guess, I missed this one. Touted by The Needle Drop as the album of 2025, and half the internet as well, I had to just give it a listen.

And I listened, and it didn't click. So I listened again, maybe I missed something. And indeed, listening to this track a couple times more made it open up to my. Those lyrics are genius:

Crush you to pieces, I'll hum a breath of it
I will close your Heaven for the hell of it

And the rhythm, the beat, the flow. I don't know much about hip hop, but I can appreciate a good rap like this. It's been on repeat for a week now, and it keeps growing on me, give it a whirl as well: