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Here's Johnbobb's comments on his choices this week:

"Brief writeups for the week of experimental alt. hip-hop:

clipping. - Splendor & Misery
Possibly my favorite rap album. Clipping is a group fronted by rapper Daveed Diggs (aka that guy from Hamilton) with incredible experimental beats by two nerdy white dudes. I've been very tempted to nominate one of clipping's later horrorcore albums, but ultimately always come back to S&M, their weird interstellar sci-fi concept album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUR_ChqUJbc

Madvillain - Madvillainy
A collaboration between rapper MF DOOM and producer Madlib. Again, tough choice to nominate between this, which is often considered Doom's best album and one of the most influential rap albums of the last 2 decades, and Mm..Food, which is probably Doom's best solo album and possibly a little more easily digestable than Madvillainy. A little weird, a little jazzy, and some of the best work Doom ever did. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJeHDlhYls

Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
A rapper directly inspired by MF DOOM! Goblin is not an EASY album to listen to by any means. It's long and violent and abrasive and disturbing in a way that is by all means horrorcore, despite Tyler's own insistence at every breath that it's NOT horrorcore (seriously, the album directly features the lyrics "We don't ****ing make horrorcore, you ****ing idiots" despite still being labeled as horrorcore on wikipedia). It's an album I'm personally really conflicted on because Tyler himself is pretty hateful and his lyrics are controversial for good reason, but the album is still filled with excellent flow and production to the point it's absolutely worth hearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw