Best Hip-Hop Album

Nothing takes the sting out of my student loan payments (and looking back on a middling football program) quite like knowing that Middle Tennessee State University’s Blue Raiders are still producing some of the best hip-hop in the region. On her debut full-length WILD, Knoxville native, MTSU grad and Nashville resident McBride continues the tradition of Division 1A dopeness that Count Bass D started, mixing up classic funk intuition with futurist instincts and tight, tight flows while making connections across a wide swath of the industry. We’re anxiously anticipating her postgraduate work. SEAN L. MALONEY

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