Albums of 2012 - 19. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure

19. EL-P - CANCER 4 CURE 

Jaime Meline is right back in this shit. Jaime Meline is El-P and he dropped some fat fucking albums in the previous decade. In 2012, this boy and Killer Mike have torn shit up all over the shop. Meline sure can produce. Two albums of this year have almost defined it. This one is so apocolyptic and future sounding and "R.A.P. Music" for Killer Mike, with Meline on production just boils down all the core ingredients of hip-hop and pushes the product in such a hard-boiled way, more about that later, higher up this list.

For now, Cancer 4 Cure  is bassy, relentless and confident. I wouldn't even classify this as hip-hop, though of course there's spoken word over it, it's BASS MUSIC. Not down for copying and pasting any lyrics, they're sure good but the key thing is the bass and the production. Amazing work.