ALBUMS OF THE WEEK: 14 New Hip-Hop & R&B Albums You Should Be Listening To (Week of 9/30)

Kid Cudi, Freddie Gibbs, ilham, Baby Tate, and more released projects on Friday. Rome Streetz also shares his first Griselda project, KISS THE RING.

Kid Cudi’s Entergalactic movie is finally out on Netflix. At midnight he dropped his eighth album with the same name.

In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, he shared that this album centers around love and that he was keying in on an R&B sound throughout it. With this in mind, it makes sense that Entergalactic the album features Ty Dolla $ign. Injected with production from Dot Da Genius and features from 2 Chainz, Don Toliver, and more, the album is the newest chapter of Kid Cudi’s artistry.

Freddie Gibbs releases his highly anticipated album $oul $old $eparately featuring Raekwon, Scarface, DJ Paul, Pusha T, Anderson .Paak, and more. A new posthumous album has also arrived from Prodigy: The Hegelian Dialectic Volume 2: The Book Of Heroine. The album features Remy Ma, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Scratch, and more. Boldy James and Nicholas Kraven connect for their collaborative project Fair Exchange No Robbery. Kamaiyah shares a three-pack titled 3 Nights In Seattle. YG unleashes a new album, I Got Issues. And Rome Streetz‘ KISS THE RING arrives, it’s his debut release from Griselda Records featuring the project’s executive producer Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, Armani Caesar, Stove God Cooks, and Benny The Butcher.

The talent Baby Tate returns to drop off her new project: Mani/Pedi with 2Chainz, Kali and Slimwav. Ilham releases her new self-titled EP featuring French Montana and Vory. Joya Mooi, a singer we have been fascinated with for quite some time shares What’s Around The Corner.

Additional releases that are top of mind this week include Denzel Curry‘s Melt My Eyez See Your Future (The Extended Version), The Womack Sister’s debut album Legacy, It’s Not Me It’s You, an album by DDG and Kenny Mason’s project RUFF.