Suff Daddy is a producer from Berlin that has been at this thing for years and years, whether it be as a solo artist making his own music and remixing other artists or working as part of groups like the Betty Ford Boys. Most recently, we heard from him as part of the Baker’s Dozen series that Fat Beats puts out. Now he delivers a new solo album, Pompette. Pompette is the French word for “tipsy,” which is a good word for an album this loose and flowing.

Baltimore artist Height Keech has been making music for a long time, but he’s been on a tear recently, with a string of releases that include his solo albums Raw Routes and Computer Rocker, along with a collaborative album with Philly artist Ialive called Timewave Zero. Now he teams up with D.C. emcee Ardamus to keep the hot streak going with an album called Astro Blocks. If you’re familiar with Height Keech, you know that he tends toward the psychedelic with his production, and that’s certainly the base of what he’s doing here on Astro Blocks.

Los Angeles artist Rhys Langston has released a plethora of interesting smaller projects over the last five years, along with the big statement in 2017 when he released the album Aggressively Ethnically Ambiguous. Just this past year, we got a couple of EPs, Master Fader on Speed Dial and the T.C. Walsh Suite. Now he comes back with an ambitious full-length album, Language Arts Unit. Few things are more exciting than watching an artist you know is dope realize their full potential.

If you’ve been following the Austin hip hop scene, you know how things have grown exponentially over the last ten years, and now there’s a diverse talent pool that can collaborate with each other. In the latest example, three artists, Rav, Kill Bill, and Scuare have joined forces to drop an EP called Skin. While you might expect these three Austin-based artists to have met at a show or through mutual friends or something like that, it turns out the three actually met online about a decade ago on a website called Newgrounds.

Offsite is the nomadic emcee that you might find somewhere between Maine and Wisconsin these days. After a busy 2018, he laid low in 2019. Now he resurfaces in 2020 to drop a new project, i bought a ticket for my eye upon that White Sky Bird which never touches down. Over the last few years, Offsite has given us a wide variety of projects, but some of the constants have been his abstract poetry, his philosophical ponderings, his tight, complex flow, and his high pitched voice.

Three years ago, Twin Cities emcee Musab paired up with Las Vegas producer Ink Well to form a group called Mink, dropping their debut album as a duo, Intellectual Property. Now they have come back to establish that the first album wasn’t just a one off project, firmly establishing themselves as a duo with Deconstruction. Going into this project, Musab is describing the project as more of an audio seminar than an album, “more of a conference than a concert that exposes some of the harmful constructs within our society.

Chances are that if you know the man behind santpoort, you know him under the name Julien Mier, the producer from the Netherlands that has given us amazing progressive electronic projects such as Industries in the Trees and Out of the Cloud. Two years ago, though, he debuted a new project under the name of santpoort, cloudstreet, an exploration about feeling lost in identity and disconnected from the world. He now follows that up with a companion album, the art of being empty.

Canadian producer Elaquent has been going strong for over a decade, with notable releases on HW&W, Still Muzik, URBNET, and Fat Beats. Most recently, he teamed up with Mello Music Group to release his 2019 album, Blessings in Disguise. Now he comes back with a new album for the label, Forever Is a Pretty Long Time. For the majority of his career, Elaquent has been known for his instrumental albums such as Green Apples and Oranges or Worst Case Scenario.

Pep Love is a Bay Area emcee who is best known for his work with Heiroglyphics. Much like the rest of the group, he’s also led a fruitful solo career over the years, with his last solo effort coming with the 2017 EP, Fly Philosophy. Now he joins up with German label Jakarta Records to release a new EP a part of their dubplate series, Magnam Ostium. For the EP, Pep Love teams up with Oakland producer pAS dOO, a relative newcomer who has in recent years put out music on Hot Record Societe.

Philly artist Ialive is probably thought of more as an emcee, but the truth is that he’s been producing dope beats for quite some time. Well, now that production is front and center as Ialive makes his first album where he’s doing all the beats and all of his friends are doing the vocals with I’ll Wait Forever. For those that have been paying attention to Ialive’s production, you know that his bread and butter comes on some midtempo boom bap built off of a tasty psychedelic rock sample.