08/21/26 - 08/28/26 | Busta Rhymes, J Dilla, The Game, Skilla Baby, Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats, femdot, Gold Haze

This is Friday to Friday, your weekly rap wrap-up going through our favorite releases in rap and hip-hop from Friday, August 21st to Friday, August 28th.

My name is Jacob.

I'm a mixing and mastering engineer from California and your host for today.

And I have with me artist, producer, and DJ hailing from the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Terry V. Yo, what's up? As well as producer and artist manager hailing from Montreal, Canada, Matt Carrier.

Hey.

Yo, what's good?

Last but not least, we got producer hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Gav, a.k.a. Lunar G. What's good? Before we get into our picks for this week, here's the full list of artists that dropped projects.

We got Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats, K-Trap, Rhapsody, Skilla Baby, Ankle John, Busta Rhymes and J Dilla.

Yes.

The Game.

We were talking about this in the group chat a bit, but I think a couple of us were in agreement that this is possibly the strongest week of the year so far.

It was the first time that we've ever felt the need to have an honorable mention list because it's just too much good stuff to cover this week.

super super strong week

damn near a two-part episode worth of music like good lord