Jeff's Best of 2025 - #7: STL GLD - Good Music for Bad Kids

So Ken and I have been doing these lists for well over a decade now, and one thing we established early was that we were not going to share our lists ahead of time, and be surprised by it. I think this is the first time in years that we've had overlap period, and the first time ever we both ranked the same album in the same slot.

Not to belabor the overall point, but STL GLD is miles ahead of most rap collectives period, never mind in New England. They do not get their proper due, which is truly and completely ridiculous, and Good Music is the sort of record that should be on everyone's list, never mind the two of us. The beats are grimy and dirty and addictive (I catch myself humming the bassline from "80s Babies" regularly), and I don't even want to deduct style points for the Karen Read reference.

Listen, we can only extoll their virtues so much, and you've already read one take on it today. Just listen to it already.

Songs of note: "80s Babies," "The Get Up Kids," "24KT," "Ayo Edebiri," "The Get Up Kids"