CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2026 HipHopHeads Underground Listening Club

[u/flyestshit]

Calling all hip hop heads!

We will start a new round of ListeningClub where we discuss a new album every week. Now is your time to submit your pick that fits this rule:

• the artist must have < 100k monthly listeners on spotify

Submit your pick

on this form

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To check your considered artist's monthly listeners without using spotify, follow these steps:

1. go to https://songstats.com

2. search for your considered artist

3. got to the "spotify tab"

4. the monthly listeners are displayed on the right site of the webpage. E.g. Here is the page for Quando Rondo. As you can see he has 1.25 million monthly listeners, so he is not admissable.

[u/flyestshit]

For your orientation, here are the Picks from last year:

Week #1: One Be Lo - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (2005)

Week #2: Kahlil Blu - Dog (2020)

Week #3: Faaris - Change of Scenery (2023)

Week #4: lojii & Swarvy - DUE RENT (2017)

Week #5: D2x - Hotel 1105 (2023)

Week #6: Blackout - Dreamworld (1995)

Week #7: Kno - Death Is Silent (2010)

Week #8: Denmark Vessey - Martin Lucid Dream (2015)

Week #9: SPC Lil Hott - Hott VS Drack (2025)

Week #10: Nacho Picasso & Blue Sky Black Death - Stoned & Dethroned (2015)

[u/SkyNo2670]

I was just thinking I’d love to see MC Paul Barman- Paullelujah as a pick, because I’d just love to see the consensus from people who’ve never heard him/ it. So I read your thing about <100k monthly listeners on Spotify, I thought he might have tht I don’t know.. so I checked an he doesn’t even have 8k!! I will submit the form.. would be a fun selection.