Tubby Blog Awards 2025 — ScarfaceTubby

FAVORITE RAP ALBUMS OF 2025

Dedicated to Cadalee Biarritz - Big K.R.I.T
The Coldest Profession - Roc Marciano/DJ Premier
Infinite - Mobb Deep
Light-Years - Nas/DJ Premier
Trainspotting - Rome Streetz/Conductor Williams
Let God Sort Em Out - Clipse
Thy Kingdom Come - $uicideBoy$
Alfredo 2 - Freddie Gibbs/Alchemist
Karma 4 - Dave East
Can't Get Right - Lefty Gunplay

FAVORITE R&B ALBUMS OF 2025

Hurry Up Tomorrow - The Weeknd
Hearts Sold Seperately - Mariah The Scientist
Swag - Justin Beiber
Finally Over It - Summer Walker
Peterson - Tory Lanez
Folded (Homage Pack) - Kehlani & Various Artists
Still Shinin - 4batz
Slider 2 - Karri
Why Not More? - Coco Jones
Everybody Got Somebody - Fridayy

FAVORITE RAPPERS LIST 2025

Nas
Clipse
Westside Gunn
Roc Marciano
Big K.R.I.T
Freddie Gibbs
Rome Streetz
Stove God Cooks
Dave East
Ransom

FAVORITE SANGERS OF 2025

Weeknd
Mariah The Scientist
Summer Walker
DVSN
Khalid
Kehlani
Karri
Beebur
Tory Lanez
Fridayy

FAVORITE RAP RECORDS 2025
Obviously, I could have wrote out a list of 100 rap songs I thoroughly enjoyed this year but to save all of us some time, here’s 10 of my favorites.

My Era by Mobb Deep
Clairvoyance by Ransom
10 Toes by Rome Streetz feat. Jay Worthy
Count Your Blessings by $uicideBoy$
Armani Section by Roc Marciano
Can't Get Right by Lefty
P.O.V - Clipse/Tyler
I Still Love H.E.R - Freddie
Havana by Dave East
Elevated by Big K.R.I.T

THE 2025 PANTY DROPPER LIST (FAVORITE R&B SONGS AKA BONER JAMZ 2025)

Folded (all the versions) - Kehlani
Delulu - Muni Long
Excited/Love On You - DVSN
Cry For Me - The Weeknd
Sacrifice - Mariah The Scientist
Way It Is - Justin Beebz/Gunna
Slauson Ave - Karri
Last Forever - Fridayy
Open Hearts - The Weeknd
Heart of a Woman - Summer

CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS LIST (FAVORITE PRODUCERS)

DJ Premier
Alchemist
Conductor Williams
Pharrell
HitBoy
Jason Martin/Mike & Keys
Mike Dean
Havoc
Jermaine Dupri
Metro Boomin

FAVORITE VERSES OF 2025

Ransom verse on Clairvoyance
Roc Marci verse on Good to Go
Freddie's verses on I Still Love Her
Tyler's verse on P.O.V
Scrim's verse on Count Your Blessings
Westside Gunn's verse on Egypt
Rome Streetz verse on Connie's Revenge
Malice's verse on F.I.C.O
Prodigy's verse on Pour the Henny
Paul Wall's verse on Celebrate the Line

FAVORITE BEATS OF 2025

Imma Shoot by Kodak (Produced by Dyryk, RBP, Ben Heet & others)
10 Toes by Rome (Produced by Conductor Williams)
Armani Section by Roc Marciano (Produced by DJ Premier)
Ensalada by Freddie (Produced by Alchemist)
Chains & Whips by Clipse (Produced by Pharrell)
ADAM PAGE by Westside Gunn (Produced by Denny LaFlare)
The Lightning Above the Adriatic Sea by Conway (Prod by Justice League)
Gangsters Get Scared by Lefty Gunplay (Produced by JasonMartin)
Madman by Nas (Produced by DJ Premier)
GORO by Westside Gunn (Produced by Harry Fraud)

FAVORITE POSSE CUTS OF 2025

Celebrate The Line (Big K.R.I.T, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Z-Ro, Propain, Lil Keke & Killa Kyleon)
Clear Black Nights (Mobb Deep & Ghost/Rae)
Wild Corsicans (Raekwon, Conway, Westside Gunn & Benny the Butcher)
Look At Me (Mobb Deep + Clipse)
Yours (De La Soul, Common & Slick Rick)

2025 BEST BACK 2 BACK TRACKS (FAVORITE 2 SONG SEQUENCING)

Elevated/The Everliving Sub Knocker - Big K.R.I.T
Baptized in Fear/Open Hearts - The Weeknd
Bottega Trunks/Havana - Dave East
Don't Tap That Glass/Tweakin - Tyler
Goro/Davey Boy Smith - Westside Gunn

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Bruiser Wolf
Honorable Mention: Gorlock The Destroyer

FAVORITE ALBUM ARTWORK 2025

Let God Sort Em Out
Just Getting Started
The Uncomfortable Truth
Thy Kingdom Come
Alfredo 2
Victory
Can't Get Right
Life Is Beautiful
Don't Tap the Glass
Karma 4

GUILTY PLEASURE AWARD 2025

$uicideBoy$ (I woulda never guessed it either, dawg. Trust me, I’m just as shocked as you are. That TKC album is really good.)
KPop Demon Hunters Soundtrack (a hit’s a hit and that album got a shit load of em’, If you got kids, you know I’m not lyin.)
Houses Way in Katy by Riff Raff

2025 SHIT LIST (FORMERLY REFERRED TO AS THE ANNUAL DEATH WISH LIST)

Nicki
Blueface
Young Thug
T.I's ugly ass son
Megan
Bobbi Althoff
Benzino
Bruiser Wolf
Fat Joe
Khaled

2025 BIGGEST LOSERS LIST

Young Thug
Diddy
Dame
Nicki
Drake

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS IN RAP MUSIC 2025

No Stove God album + Swizz Beatz producing his latest single
Snoop Dogg & Daz beefing over publishing
Me actually becoming a $uicideBoy$ Fan
Watching Dame Dash lose his teeth and all self-dignity
Seeing Mariah The Scientist go back to Young Thug like a jackass smfh

WHERE'S THE PARENTS!? (AKA WHO DA FUCK R THESE KIDS!?)

OsamaSon
Glokk40Spaz
Nettspend
Gelo
EBK Jayybo

ITS NOT CLOCKIN TO ME
Artists that everyone seems to love except me. I’ve tried with these goobers. I just don’t get it, son.

Bruiser Wolf
Jorjiana
NBA Youngboy
Yeat

FAVORITE PERSONALITIES IN 2025 HIP HOP MEDIA

Joe Budden
Cam/Mase
50Cent
Sheek Louch of The LOX (2J2BD)
Nardwuar
Karlous Miller
DJ Akademiks
Charleston White
N.O.R.E
Gillie & Wallo
Honorable Mention: Kai Cenat

FAVORITE LOCAL RAPPERS 2025 LIST
As always, this list is strictly based off activity/output in 2025 as well as musical content/quality and overall artist presentation. Any personal feelings and relationships have been completed put to the side while coming up with this list. These are simply my 10 favorite Alaskan rap acts not named Scarface Tubby…

OBG Tradgety
LoveSongDesmond
Rob Lucci
Duckman
Harland Griffin
Cody Banks
Fairview Ish
Saint Deon
Draz Got Em’
Brother Buffalo

Honorable Mention: BXLIN & Goodloe (2025 Alaskan Rap Rookies of the Year - tied)