Blog: ChordStrike

Finale, A Pipe Dream and a Promis e Produced by the Motor City's lava-hot Black Milk, Finale's Pipe Dream was bound to snare at least a little underground notoriety. Instead, though, it's the clear-cut leader for the year's best hip-hop album. Track for track, Milk's beats outdo almost anything he's touched before, the pitched instruments rolling like waves atop the twos and fours, but Finale's delivery is the real discovery here. Lagging about as far behind the beat as possible without [...]