What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the top 25 of 2025! The year has some really great music, and so, we’re bringing it into the new year.

Tracklist (albums are listed in square brackets):

Niko B – Ring a Bell? [people. – EP/cheerleader]
Earl Sweatshirt – WELL DONE! [Live Laugh Love]
Mr. Muthaf***in Exquire – The Soloist [Vol. 2: The Y.O.U Print]
Mobb Deep – The M. The O. The B. The B. (feat. Big Noyd) [Infinite]
Blu – EASY/ALL NIGHT (feat. MED & Bane Capital) [Forty/God Loves Babies and Fools/GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS/York (2009-2019 Lost Sessions)/Kroyon/Ground & Water (Demos)/Learning to Smile in Conversation (Demos)/Holly Hood/NEU NGZ]
Lloyd Banks – Save a Spot [AON 3: Despite My Mistakes/Halloween Havoc VI: Sword of Sixes]
Billy Woods – Cold Sweat [GOLLIWOG]
Public Enemy – Ageism [Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025]
Big KRIT – Gotta Do It [Dedicated to Cadalee Barittz]
Yy – Not Spring in Winnipeg (feat. Gruf) [Dues and Don’ts]
Aesop Rock – John Something [Black Hole Superette/I Heard It’s A Mess There Too]
Ab-Soul – PERFECT 9 [FEAR AND LOATHING IN DEL AMO]
Cool Calm Pete – Online [Demolition]
Michael Christmas – ROB ME A PERSON [West Coast Mike/Proving a Point]
Atmosphere – Neptune [Jestures]
Open Mike Eagle – my co-worker clark kent’s secret box [Neighborhood Gods Unlimited]
Birdapres – An AI for an AI [Peanuts and Corn Archive Issues 01 and 02]
Mcenroe – Dollarama [Procrastination Street]
Buck 65 – The Break Room [Keep Moving]
Video Dave – that walk before dinner on xmas eve [Old Chicago Stadium]
Shad – Islands [Start Anew]
R.A.P Ferreira & Kenny Segal – credentials [The Night Green Side Of It]
Serengeti – ai demo [mixtape 2/mixtape 3/mixtape 4/universe/choo/ajai ii remix album/gasoline rainbows]
Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR – DIE TRYING (feat. Yebba) [$ome $exy $ongs 4 U]
Mac Miller – Excelsior [Balloonerism]

See y’all next time! Also, I’m launching a Substack soon, keep an eye out.