Best Rap Albums & Songs Of March 2024

Overall, March was a great month for music as we were blessed with a plethora of amazing projects and songs. Having said that, it only makes sense that we would count down the best rap albums and songs of the month. We have been doing that every single month of the year so far, and we will continue to do so for the entirety of 2024. Below, you can find our staff’s favorite albums, as well as the songs they have continued to bump consistently.

Future & Metro Boomin – We Don’t Trust You

When Future and Metro Boomin dropped We Don’t Trust You, fans immediately rushed to the track “Like That,” for very obvious reasons. However, the entire album is just fantastic. Metro has always had the it factor when it comes to his production. Moreover, Future remains one of the most influential rappers of all-time. He has not lost a single step, and when he combines with Metro, it always turns into gold. We can’t wait for the second album which is due out on April 12th.

ScHoolBoy Q – Blue Lips

It had been five years since ScHoolboy Q had given us an album. However, with Blue Lips, he certainly made the wait worth it. Overall, this is a project that showcases Q at his best. From the lyrics to the storytelling to the production choices, everything here is on a whole other level. TDE has always put out quality projects, and this is absolutely no exception. We’re happy to have Q back, and we hope he delivers another album in the not-do-distant future.

MIKE & Tony Seltzer – Pinball

MIKE is one of those artists who is able to put out album of the year contenders seemingly at will. At the end of the day, Pinball, a collaborative album with Tony Seltzer, is a great example of this. Once again, MIKE delivers some fantastic flows and bars. The production throughout the project is otherworldly, and MIKE slides over it with ease. Furthermore, there are some dope features throughout the album. “On God” with Earl Sweatshirt and Tony Shhnow proves to be a perfect example of this.

Flo Millo – Fine Ho Stay

Lastly, when it comes to the album category, we have Fine Ho, Stay by Flo Milli. When the artist dropped Never Lose Me,” it was clear she had a hit on her hands. Once she added Cardi B and SZA to the mix, it was a cheat code. However, the entire album is amazing. Flo Milli is a hitmaker, plain and simple. From singing to rapping, she can really do it all, and her hooks are always catchy. If we continue to get more of this, Flo Milli’s ascension in the hip-hop world will be complete.

Sexyy Red – “Get It Sexyy”

Last year, Sexyy Red cemented herself as a bonafide hitmaker. Overall, she can crank out hits at will. Sure, her bars and flows aren’t next level, but they are extremely confident. Not to mention, while her lyrics are extraordinarily raunchy, they are funny and make for some viral moments. On “Get It Sexyy,” the artist has given us yet another anthem. It feels like she just cannot miss with these songs. Now that she has Drake in her corner, we’re going to be seeing a whole lot more of Sexyy, very soon.

Big Sean – “Precision”

On the same day that Kendrick Lamar broke the internet, Big Sean dropped “Precision.” Once again, it felt like Kendrick was purposely trying to take away from Sean’s moment. However, Sean was able to emerge through the noise. “Precision” is a great return track from the artist. His hitmaking abilities are still very much prevalent, and he has matured significantly with his bars. As for the production here, it is anthemic and uplifting in a way that is perfect for the spring and summer months.

Cardi B – “Enough”

Cardi B is at the top of her game right now. Although it has been years since her debut album, there is no doubt that she is in album mode. There is no greater indication of this than the song “Enough.” Once again, Cardi gives us one of her signature anthems. It is the kind of song you just want to rap along to. Furthermore, it reaffirms the fact that Cardi has one of the most commanding voices in the rap game. Hopefully, the album is real and it gets here in time for the summer.

Don Toliver “Deep In The Water”

Don Toliver is an artist who is always going to bring the vibes. His singing voice is lovely, and ever since he got together with Kali Uchis, it feels like he has brought things up a step. It also helps he uses her as inspiration for song writing. That is especially the case on “Deep In The Water,” which is yet another display of Toliver’s talents. It seems like a new album is on the horizon, and we can’t wait to get the full thing. Hopefully, we get some variety, as “Deep In The Water” is definitely a continuation of what Toliver has already given us. Albeit a heightened version of that sound.

Playboi Carti – “Ketamine”

Playboi Carti is someone who is very mysterious with his releases. At this point, we don’t know what to expect from him. However, “Ketamine” was a delightful surprise earlier this month. It is part of the rollout for his album I Am Music, which has no real release date. However, you can’t help but love the energy in this song. Carti is still doing that deep voice cadence, and he is embracing the punk and metal aesthetics that helped Whole Lotta Red standout. We cannot wait to hear what this entire album will be like.

Future & Metro Boomin ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Like That”

Like That” is a song that needs no introduction. Overall, it features Kendrick Lamar and it contains some shots directed at Drake and J. Cole. This was a song that was destined for greatness from the start. Not to mention, Kendrick and Future just sound amazing over it. Metro’s production and sampling is top notch, making this a true contender for song of the year.

Let us know your favorite rap albums and songs of the year so far, in the comments section below.

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All The New Albums Coming Out In March 2024

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Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in March. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, March 1

  • Abby Sage — The Rot (Nettwerk)
  • Amaro Frietas — Y’Y (Psychic Hotline)
  • Another Sky — Beach Day (Republic)
  • Asha Imuno — Pins & Needles (GUIN Records)
  • Ben Frost — Scope Neglect (Mute)
  • The Bevis Frond — Focus on Nature (Fire)
  • Big Big Train — The Likes of Us (InsideOut Music)
  • Bruce Dickinson — The Mandrake Project (BMG)
  • Bruce Sudano — Talkin’ Ugly Truth, Tellin’ Pretty Lies (Purple Heart Rec Co)
  • BrhyM — Deep Sea Vents (Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers)
  • Brynn Cartelli — Out of the Blue (Elektra)
  • Caravan Palace — Gangbusters Melody Club (Le Plan)
  • CHALK — Conditions II EP (Nice Swan Records)
  • Chloe George — A Cheetah Hunting in Slow Motion EP (FADER Label)
  • Dekker — Future Ghosts (Pure Noise Records)
  • Everything Everything — Mountainhead (BMG)
  • Faye Webster — Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
  • Ferris & Sylvester — Otherness (Archtop Records)
  • Footballhead — Overthinking Everything (Tiny Engines)
  • Jade Dust — Grey Skies (Council Records)
  • Jahari Massamba Unit — YHWH is LOVE (Law of Rhythm)
  • Julian Lage — Speak to Me (Blue Note)
  • Julien Chang — Home For the Moment EP (Transgressive Records)
  • Hannah Frances — Keeper of the Shepherd (Ruination Record Co.)
  • Hollow Coves — Nothing to Lose (Nettwerk)
  • Kaiser Chiefs — Kaiser Chiefs’ Easy Eighth Album (Bertus Distribution/Kaiser Chiefs Recordings)
  • Kitchen Dwellers — Seven Devils (No Coincidence)
  • Kyle Gordon — Kyle Gordon Is Great (BMG)
  • Lake J — Dizzy (Cadien Lake James)
  • Late Bloomer — Another One Again (Dead Broke & Self Aware Records)
  • Liam Gallagher and John Squire — Liam Gallagher and John Squire (Warner Music UK)
  • Mannequin Pussy — I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  • Master Peace — How to Make a Master Peace (PMR Records)
  • Mildlife — Chorus (Heavenly)
  • Mini Trees — Burn Out EP (Run For Cover Records)
  • Ministry — HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES (Analogue Productions)
  • New Years Day — Half Black Heart (Century Media Records)
  • Nils Frahm — Day (LEITER)
  • Pissed Jeans — Half Divorced (Sub Pop)
  • Punchlove — Channels (Kanine Records)
  • Robb Banks — I Think I Might Be Happy Pt. 1 (Empire)
  • Sarasara — Elixir (One Little Independent Records)
  • SAVAK — Flavors of Paradise (Peculiar Works Records)
  • Schoolboy Q — Blue Lips (Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records)
  • Scout — Everything Will Make Sense EP (Sweat Entertainment)
  • Shane Smith & The Saints — Norther (Geronimo West Records)
  • Sheer Mag — Playing Favorites (Third Man Records)
  • STRFKR — Parallel Realms (Polyvinyl)
  • Tish Melton — When We’re Older EP (CMDSHFT)
  • Tyla — Tyla (Fax/Epic Records)
  • Yard Act — Where’s My Utopia? (Island)
  • Zakk Sabbath — Doomed and Forever Doomed (Magnetic Eye)

Friday, March 8

  • Ariana Grande — Eternal Sunshine (Republic)
  • Bananarama — Glorious — The Ultimate Collection (London Records)
  • Bayonne — Temporary Time (Orchestrated) (Nettwerk)
  • BEO Lil Kenny — Don’t Let Up (Quality Control Music)
  • Bktherula — LVL5 P2 (Warner)
  • Bleachers — Bleachers (Dirty Hit)
  • Bolis Pupul — Letter to You (Deewee)
  • brother bird — another year (Easy Does It Records)
  • Charles Moothart — Black Holes Don’t Choke (The Red Recordings)
  • Conscious Pilot — Epoxy Plains EP (DevilDuck Records)
  • Dion — Girl Friends (KTBA Records)
  • Discovery Zone — Quantum Web (RVNG Int’l)
  • The End Machine — The Quantum Phase (Frontiers Music Srl)
  • Ghost Work — Light a Candle for the Lonely (Spartan Records)
  • Haux — Blue Angeles (Ultra Records)
  • Hijss — Stuck On Common Ground (Heavy Psych Sound)
  • Homeshake — CD Wallet (SHHOAMKEE)
  • Judas Priest — Invincible Shield (Epic Records)
  • Kilgour — How to Put Your Hat On (Last Night Glasgow)
  • Kim Gordon — The Collective (Matador)
  • The Klittens — Reading Material EP (AWAL Recordings)
  • Konradsen — Michael’s Book on Bears (777 Music)
  • Loreena McKennitt — The Road Back Home (Quinlan Road)
  • Luke Grimes — Luke Grimes (Universal Music Group Nashville)
  • Maggie Lindemann — HEADSPLIT EP (swixxzaudio)
  • Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley — Cuckoo Storm (One Little Independent Records)
  • Mayday Parade — Mayday Parade Lofi EP (Mango Wax Records)
  • Meatbodies — Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom (In the Red)
  • Moor Mother — The Great Bailout (Anti-)
  • Norah Jones — Visions (Blue Note Records)
  • Oisin Leech — Cold Sea (Outside Music)
  • Peach Luffe — Honey EP (Nettwerk)
  • Slow Hollows — Bullhead (Danger Collective)
  • The Stylistics — Love Is Back In Style (Marathon Records)
  • Taj Mahal — Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa (Lightning Rod Records)
  • Too Close To Touch — For Keeps (Epitaph Records)

Friday, March 15

  • Beans — Boots N Cats (Fuzz Club)
  • The Black Crowes — Happiness Bastards (Silver Arrow)
  • bob junior — friends vol. 1 (777 Music)
  • BRAT — Social Grace (Prosthetic Records)
  • Charles Lloyd — The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  • Chuck Strangers — A Forsaken Lover’s Plea (Lex Records)
  • Cory Wells — Harboring the Hurt I’ve Caused (Pure Noise Records)
  • Dan Boeckner — Boeckner! (Sub Pop)
  • The Dandy Warhols — Rockmaker (Rhino)
  • Devon Welsh — Come With Me If You Want To Live (American Dreams)
  • DragonForce — Warp Speed Warriors (Napalm Records)
  • Four Tet — Three (Text Records)
  • The Fourth Wall — Return Forever (Devilduck Records)
  • Heavee — Unleash (Hyperdub)
  • Holly Humberstone — Work in Progress EP (Darkroom/Geffen/Polydor Records)
  • Grieving — Everything Goes Right, All At Once (By The Time It Gets Dark)
  • John Lurie — Painting With John (Strange & Beautiful)
  • Jahari Massamba Unit — YHWH is LOVE (Law of Rhythm)
  • Justin Timberlake — Everything I Thought I Was (RCA Records)
  • Lenny Kravitz — Blue Electric Light (BMG)
  • Luke Dick — Lockeland (Virgin Music)
  • The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis — The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse! Records)
  • Nemzzz — Do Not Disturb (self-released)
  • Potato Beach — Dip In (SILUH)
  • Scott Stapp — Higher Power (Napalm Records)
  • Tierra Whack — World Wide Whack (Interscope)
  • WILDES — Subsidence EP (Apollo)

Friday, March 22

  • A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Failure — Cinquanta (Puscifer Entertainment)
  • Adrianne Lenker — Bright Future (4AD)
  • AKTHESAVIOR and sagun — u r not alone (Platoon)
  • Alena Spanger — Fire Escape (Ruination Record Co.)
  • Barely Civil — I’d Say I’m Not Fine (Take This To Heart Records)
  • Cakes da Killa — Black Sheep (Young Art Records)
  • Carpool — My Life in Subtitles (SideOneDummy)
  • Cassie Kinoshi’s seed. — gratitude (International Anthem)
  • Chris Young — Young Love & Saturday Nights (RCA Nashville)
  • Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer — But Who’s Gonna Play The Melody? (Mack Avenue)
  • Claire Dickinson — The Beholder (New Amsterdam Records)
  • Cody Jinks — Change the Game (Late August Records)
  • Early Day Miners — Outside Lies Magic (Solid Brass Records)
  • Elbow — Audio Vertigo (Polydor/Geffen Records)
  • Empress Of — For Your Consideration (Major Arcana)
  • Fletcher — In Search of the Antidote (Capitol)
  • Gary Clark Jr. — JPEG RAW (Warner Records)
  • Glass Beams — Mahal EP (Ninja Tune)
  • Gossip — Real Power (Columbia)
  • Great Good Fine Ok — Exist EP (Nettwerk)
  • Haleluya Hailu — eternally, yours EP (604 Records)
  • Hello Maud — Celebrate (Heavenly Recordings)
  • Illiterate Light — Slow Down Time EP (Red Books Records)
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain — Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
  • Jlin — Akoma (Planet Mu)
  • Julia Holter — Something in the Room She Moves (by Domino)
  • The K’s — I Wonder if the World Knows (Lab Records)
  • Kaleah Lee — Birdwatcher EP (Bingo Records)
  • Kaleida — In Arms (Embassy One)
  • Lauran Hibberd — Girlfriend Material (Virgin Music)
  • Logic1000 — Mother (Because Music)
  • Magic Tuber String Band — Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)
  • MIZU — Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
  • Nourished By Time — Catching Chickens EP (XL Recordings)
  • Odetta Hartman — Swansongs (Transgressive)
  • Operator Music Band — Four Singles EP (Deep Break Records)
  • Pan American & Kramer — Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road (Shimmy-Disc)
  • Prefuse 73 — Modern Crime Vol. 1 (Lex Records)
  • Rosali — Bite Down (Merge)
  • Rosie Tucker — Utopia Now! (Sentimental Records)
  • Ruston Kelly — Weakness, Etc. EP (Rounder Records)
  • SAICOBAB — NRTYA (Thrill Jockey)
  • Saint Saviour — Sunseeker (VLF Records)
  • Sam Evian — Plunge (Thirty Tigers)
  • Sam Morrow — On the Ride Here (Copaco Records)
  • Shakira — Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Sony Music Latin)
  • Sierra Ferrell — Trail of Flowers (Rounder)
  • SIIGHTS — Through Thick and Thin EP (Insanity Records)
  • SiR — Heavy (Top Dawg Entertainment)
  • Sly5thAve — Liberation (Tru Thoughts)
  • Son of the Velvet Rat — Ghost Ranch (Fluff & Gravy/Missing Piece Records)
  • The Staves — All Now (Nonesuch)
  • Tatyana — It’s Over (Sinderlyn)
  • USA Nails — Feel Worse (One Little Independent)
  • Van Houten — The Tallest Room (Clue Records/EMI)
  • The Veronicas — Gothic Summer (Big Noise Music Group)
  • Villagerrr — Tear Your Heart Out (Darling Recordings)
  • VR Sex — Hard Copy (Dais Records)
  • Wahid — feast, by ravens EP (Innovative Leisure)
  • Waxahatchee — Tigers Blood (Anti)
  • Wye Oak — Shriek: Variations (Merge Records)

Friday, March 29

  • Beyoncé — Act II (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records)
  • Blu DeTiger — All I Ever Want Is Everything (Capitol Records)
  • Candi Carpenter — Demonology (A-Frame Records/House of 42)
  • Chastity Belt — Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  • Chicano Batman — Notebook Fantasy (ATO Records)
  • CNTS — Thoughts & Prayers (Ipecac Recordings)
  • Dent May — What’s For Breakfast? (Carpark Records)
  • Fanclubwallet — Our Bodies Paint Traffic Lines EP (Cool Online)
  • Flyana Boss — This Ain’t the Album EP (Atlantic Records)
  • Gesaffelstein — GAMMA (Sony)
  • gglum — The Garden Dream (Secretly Canadian)
  • Halo Maud — Celebrate (Heavenly)
  • High Llamas — Hey Panda (Drag City)
  • Holiday Ghosts — Coat of Arms (FatCat Records)
  • J-Hope — HOPE ON THE STREET VOL. 1 (BigHit Music)
  • Jake Sheppard — Midwest Marlin (Desserted City)
  • Jeremiah Fraites — Piano Piano 2 (Mercury KX)
  • Jim White — All Hits: Memories (Drag City)
  • Kelly Moran — Moves in the Field (Warp)
  • Kenny Chesney — Born (Warner Nashville)
  • Lindsey Lomis — Handle With Care EP (Warner)
  • Majesty Crush — Butterflies Don’t Go Away (The Numero Group)
  • Omar Souleyman — Erbil (Mad Decent)
  • Peel — Acid Star (Innovative Leisure)
  • Real Bad Man and Lukah — Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace. (Real Bad Man Records)
  • Reyna Tropical — Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  • Ride — Interplay (Wichita Recordings/PIAS)
  • The Rocky Valentines — Erase (Fair Vaux)
  • Sarah Shook & the Disarmers — Revelations (Thirty Tigers)
  • The Secret Sisters — Mind, Man, Medicine (New West Records)
  • Shabazz Palaces — Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
  • Sheryl Crow — Evolution (Big Machine)
  • Sum 41 — Heaven :x: Hell (Rise Records)
  • Sunglaciers — Regular Nature (Mothland)
  • Teens in Trouble — What’s Mine (Asian Man Records)
  • Texas & Spooner Oldham — The Muscle Shoals Sessions ([PIAS])
  • Yot Club — Rufus (Amuse)

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.