14. Listen to The Elephant Man’s Bones

Long Island’s own Roc Marciano has developed a reputation for lurid narrative raps and haunting psychedelic production, cultivated during his tenure in Busta Rhymes’s Flipmode Squad and his indie releases like 2018’s Behold a Dark Horse. The Elephant Man’s Bones pairs him with the Alchemist, the West Coast polymath who worked with Roc on 2011’s Greneberg. The forecast calls for muted drums and ghoulish one-liners.