There’s a lot going on on the latest from Open Mike Eagle, a longtime habitue of the Los Angeles smart-kid underground. For the past four years, their work as Run The Jewels has elevated both of them to absurd heights; festival darlings, voices of the voiceless if you will. These Rap & Hip Hop albums deserve special recognition for being a cut above the rest and made the list as the best hip hop albums of 2019. In following it, Staples didn’t try to outdo it. Over an hour’s worth of darkly-layered, chilly sonic backdrops, Stormzy goes off, bringing a fresh viewpoint and a self-assured braggadocios swagger. Music Reviews: DAMN. 2017 was the year that rap once again reaffirmed its stranglehold on the collective imagination of America’s youth. “Confetti” stretches as a gothic, chest-thumping hymn while “Keep The Devil Off” masters the electric revival OutKast set out on “B.O.B.” KRIT came back better than ever on his double album. And I made the decision, this year, to leave off any artists who have been accused of assaulting women or of sexual predation. Here are 50 of the Best Hip-Hop Projects of 2017… The Best Albums of 2017 By Damien Scott , Rebecca Speiser , Brandon Jenkins , Shawn Setaro , Edwin Ortiz , Frazier Tharpe , khal , Brendan Klinkenberg , shante cosme , Angel Diaz Dec 06, 2017 The cohesiveness in vision, the brevity, the chilliness, the danger; there’s kind of an irony to the sense that DropTopWop feels more like a real statement than Mr. Davis. From the outset, with the Big Sean-featured “On The Come Up,” Mike Will’s labyrinthic drum programming and futuristic EQing serve as the perfect canvas for some of today’s biggest stars to talk their shit. For most of the past few decades, Washington, DC’s primary black-music exports have been soul and go-go, the riotously percussive tribal funk that never really took hold elsewhere. But lately, with the building sense of discontent and insecurity growing in the national zeitgeist, all the trappings of fame and wealth seem to be vacuous and empty, without meaning. December 19, 2017. The following is a list of albums released in 2017. After striking gold last year on Savage Mode with Metro Boomin, 21 spent most of the year gearing up for a proper follow-up, which eventually came to fruition in the form of Issa Album. To fully hear an album like this, you have to immerse yourself in it and zone out. As the leading face of the long-running Detroit street-rap crew Doughboyz Cashout, Payroll Giovanni has been doing dark, heavy, cold-blooded street-talk for years, and he still seems to get better at it all the time. One of rap's greatest duos, Mobb Deep brought QB dun talk to hip-hop audiences in the '90s. Once again, the 25-year-old leaned on her decidedly retro sound and meshed the with her decidedly modern deliveries to craft a unique synthesis of old and new. Published Dec 05, 2017. Big Sean, since 2007, at least has concerned himself with being witty and relatable. (Quality Control/300 Entertainment/Atlantic). Our top 20 list for best Hip Hop albums of the year. When his previous mixtape, Lil Boat, pushed Yachty to this position thanks to singles like “1 Night,” “Minnesota,” and a guest spot on D.R.A.M’s “Broccoli,” many expected his musicianship to improve around album time. First: This is my personal list, which means it’s got some inconsistencies with Stereogum’s list of the year’s best albums. [CDATA[ Thank you for watching. That sounds messy and ambitious, and it’s both of those things. The Number Ones: Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus”, The Number Ones: Prince & The Revolution’s “Kiss”, Elvis Costello Says Steve Albini “Might Be The Second-Worst Producer Of A Great Record After Jimmy Iovine”, Nick Cave Is Mad About BBC Radio Playing The Censored Version Of The Pogues’ “Fairytale Of New York”. Lush creations like album closer “Amphetamine” split up Smino’s thoughts into two patterns. Jidenna’s wild ride through his childhood in Nigeria, facing down kidnappers and potential assassins with the aid of paid, AK-47-bearing bodyguards is harder than anything contemporary hip-hop has been able to muster in the preceding 12 months. But then the damn thing dropped and wouldn’t you know, the forgotten member of GOOD Music, the one most of us had written off ages ago, turned out to have the dopest (pun definitely intended) project of any Kanye West-affiliated artist this year. If anything, Big Sean’s got a calling as a motivational speaker when his rap career is over. Growth can be a funny thing for an artist. The Worst Rap Albums by Great Rappers. Whenever you hear endless debates about the greatest rap albums of all time, ... MF DOOM and Pete Rock have helped this album stand the test of time. / I hurt when you hurt, we was Siamese.” The other is where he’s soaked up all of the game passed onto him and seems ready for the new world: “Grandaddy spittin, ain’t nothing new bout the system / ‘Cause how they do me they did him.”. 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While I’d hesitate to call 2017 the “Year Grime Broke” in the U.S., Stormzy easily puts the biggest crack in the dam yet with the release of his stellar album Gang Signs & Prayer. Maybe it was the issues she had trying to release new music, maybe it was something else going on in her life but there’s more bite to Yaya this time around. Whether or not Mike’s superb raps ever make it to that level of commercial success, it’s exactly his independence that allows him to deliver project after project of simmering, shimmering hip-hop mind-warps that construct whole universes unto themselves. Perico doesn’t flinch in admitting his goal in life: getting “everything he got coming.” “I got business to handle,” he states on “Right Now.” For 35 minutes, he drops enough futuristic West Coast inspired rap that it could become not only a daily mantra, but superhero music.–B.C. That was a mistake. Hip-hop heads, let's rank the best rap albums of 2018, which may also include the best rap songs of 2018.These are only studio albums, but we do have a list of 2018 rap mixtapes if you're interested in that. If you’d told me a year ago that CyHi The Prynce’s long (long, long, long)-awaited debut album No Dope On Sundays would be one of the standout releases of 2017, I’d have thought you were smoking dope and on a lot more days than just Sunday. My Moment, Tee Grizzley’s first mixtape, is spotty and uneven, but at its best, it shows more of that same rigorous fire. Most of all, Krizzle’s hunger, the one that seemed a bit absent on those Def Jam releases, is on full display here. Kendrick is a weird, intense, strenuous rapper, and he’s also one of the biggest pop stars in the world. I Decided opted for a sharper, personal effort from Sean Anderson. And Milo is talented and observant and thoughtful enough to make it worth the effort. And the album includes “Mask Off,” a staggering, flute-laced opiate binge that immediately became Future’s biggest-ever hit, and one of his best. But even for rap, some albums made the cut for their impact on the that sphere without cracking the best of list. The Best Rap Albums of 2018. On the first track of 1992 Deluxe, an expanded version of a 2016 mixtape, Princess Nokia is already talking about her eczema. Today, we’re looking at the best rap... Lil B, Black Ken. by Kendrick Lamar released in 2017 via Top Dawg Aftermath Interscope. Editor’s note: The point of more extensive genre lists is to help give shine to albums that wouldn’t make it into the overall best albums list. Now that DC rap is coming up in the world, GoldLink has done his best to take his city’s entire black-music history, from its soul and go-go past to its secret underground-rap tributaries to the street-rap it’s currently producing. (TDE/Interscope). All of your phobics were trotted out and questioned, from those who hate the fat, gay, or anything in between. Welcome to the first of two album-based end of year lists, this one focusing on the 10 Best Rap Albums of 2018. ADVERTISEMENT. It’s more than that. One of rap's greatest duos, Mobb Deep brought QB dun talk to hip-hop audiences in the '90s.East Coast hip-hop was a competitive space in the '90s, and Mobb's first album, "Juvenile Hell," flew under the radar. In other years, KRIT may have made concessions, songs of appeasement where the radio was the main goal. In 1995, Havoc and Prodigy made huge creative leaps with "The Infamous." After all, he melodically laments lost love on the massive “Bambi,” cheerfully promotes his Nigerian roots on the Afropop banger “A Little Bit More,” and professes his adoration for exotic dancers with “Trampoline,” any of which could easily classify the album as one of the best R&B albums of 2017. Update: Dive into the best new hip hop with our list of 2020's top rap songs. A hardened, street act with the most laid back flow this side of “Wait (The Whisper Song)” has no place in the era of energy and rambunctious rap acts with face tats and rock star ambitions, but here we are. But as a black American Muslim staring at a fucked-up new America, Oddisee has a whole lot to say here: “What is there to fear? Photo by Manny Carabel/Getty Music Lists Best Albums… With huge collabs from The Weeknd(!) This year, The Outfit, TX linked up with local LA label POW Recordings for the release, helping them earn an audience of outside of their native Texas.–C.W. Loyle Carner, the 23-year-old creator of Yesterday’s Gone, instead hails from the Lamberth section of South London, yet his bars will hold up against even the most cerebral New York spitters most elaborate rhyme schemes, both by the nature of their density and their intense relatability. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream is, at least in part, a concept album about the demolition of the Robert Taylor Homes, a Chicago housing project with a long history. Nocando, real name James McCall, has been a fixture in the LA underground rap scene for over a decade, spotlighting other rappers with his longtime label Hellfyre Club, and getting little thanks in return for the pains of running an independent business in an industry that actively seeks to squash upstarts. 10. 1 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. Save FB Tweet. Upvote +7 Downvote. If the artist grows faster than the fanbase, that growth can be rejected and seen as a misstep in a promising career. Kamaiyah sounds really cool when she talks shit: “400, who y’all don’t wanna fonk with / Fuck around with the gang, you get stomped in.” The Before I Wake mixtape comes after months of false starts and album-release delays, and Kamaiyah presented it as something that could simply tide audiences over. Youth Choir’s “The Lord Will Make a Way,” illustrates the inspirational flip side of that equation, while “No CD” remains one of the illest odes of the year to hip-hop and its powerful effect on the youth — no matter which side of the pond they call home.–Aaron Williams. Immediately upon his release, he recorded “First Day Out,” a bracing and emotional piece of post-Meek Mill street-rap fundamentalism. Rapsody spends almost every second of Laila’s Wisdom offering lessons, many of them passed down from her... A.I. Calisthenic Scribble Jam battle-rap morphed into art-rock around the time Themselves first started putting out records, but it may have found its purest art-rock expression in the latest from this Maine rapper. It’s everything a Drake album needs to be. Zaytoven, Southside, Jake One, DJ Mustard, Wheezy, and, of course, Metro all help craft the thumping sonic thumbprint of the album, and 21 takes it from there, ripping through 14 tracks without one guest appearance. For decades now, Ishmael Butler, aka Palaceer Lazaro, has been narrating the intersection between sci-fi and hip-hop with a measured insouciance, first within the legendary late ‘80s group Digable Planets, and most recently as part of Shabazz Palaces, a Seattle-based duo who keep intellectual priorities as close to the surface as possible. Nov 15, 2017. It would’ve been so easy for this Portland newcomer to turn into a one-hit wonder; his exuberantly horny viral smash “Caroline” was, after all, a hard act to follow. 2/12/2017. 2. The evidence that Smino comes from a musical family can be found in his delivery. Buoyed by production from Wheezy, London On Da Track, Young Chop, Ben Billions and more, Thug took unique approaches to each and every record. The Outfit, TX don’t need an introduction if you’ve been paying attention — unfortunately, a lot of you haven’t been. For years this Dallas-based group has been simmering in the Texas underground, melting old school crunk down for parts, and recasting it as a vehicle for their own superb bars. Open Mike Eagle is quietly becoming a legend — proof that heroes don’t need to spit fire and slam dunk in order to be a champion. On his true debut album, 21 found a comfort zone, carefully sliding his lazy flow on top of crevices of the thunderous production that has become his forte. 1. It may not come as a surprise that hip-hop’s greatest live band released hip-hop’s greatest live album, a … Share This Story. Comment if you want me to defend any of my opinions. Top albums of 2017. Instead, he makes playful passes at late-’90s pop icons on “Spice Girl,” goofily praises the benefits of essential vitamins and minerals on “Veggies,” and pays homage to soulful dad music with Uncle Charlie Wilson on “Dakota,” all with a breezily cavalier attitude and cheerily upbeat charisma that sets him apart from his contemporaries. December 21, 2017 at 09:00 AM EST Advertisement. Published on: Dec 29, 2017, 3:30 PM by DX Staff. It is often loose, fast-paced, and built around a rhythm. What Chainz provides throughout is a colorful and exciting approach, unfurling line after line after line about his wardrobe as well as his exquisite taste in everything from food to liquor to women. On Culture, we hear the pure joy of three truly gifted rappers bouncing words and cadences and ideas off of one another, each one vying to sound the flyest, all of them somehow winning. His sophomore album hit a brick, the mixtape after it in Detroit got him back on track. Last year hip hop the grand old age of 45. Baton Rouge teenager YoungBoy Never Broke Again found new power in freedom … At the tail end of last year, a video went viral: A huge crowd in Lagos going absolutely bugshit to “Bad & Boujee,” the curiously downbeat Migos banger that would go on to fire people up everywhere else as well. 71. Rap-Up’s Best Albums of 2017: 11-20. If you need even more good rap music, you can hop over to our rankings of greatest rap albums … 2015’s Summertime ‘06, Vince Staples full-length debut, is an absolute classic of headslap rap music, a hard and minimal and uncompromising double album that shows equal amounts swagger and pathos. With a signature combination of slick wordplay, no-nonsense, cinderblock-hard tough talk, and wise-beyond-his-32-years insights, Problem captures your attention. Some of the best hip-hop albums of the year include SZA's "CTRL" and Kendrick Lamar's "DAMN." His mastery of melody throughout makes up for whatever actual singing chops he may lack, and his diverse palette of both cadences and content make it so there’s never a dull moment. Custom charts. Produced mostly in-house, All Blue shimmers at times and others, feels like an ice-grill trek through the underbelly of Los Angeles. Migos brought some co-pilots on for the Culture ride, like Gucci Mane, who skates on the mesmerizing “Slippery,” and Travis Scott, who gets as close to a vocal solo as possible at the end of “Kelly Price.” In today’s hip-hop, there’s something to be said for running your race. Here, though, he’s mastered the formula, mixing his melodic twist on auto-tune with syrupy production from the likes of Metro Boomin’, DJ Mustard, Southside, Detail, and Wheezy. With songs like “T-shirt” and “Brown Paper Bag,” the group sets themselves apart from the lot of trap acts with Quavo’s melodic gifts and a collective mastery of a forceful triplet flow that’s oft-imitated but rarely duplicated — even by Snoop Dogg. 2. Most of the early appeal about Yachty was his aimless charm, a song constructor who got from point A to point C, ignoring what point B was all about. Migos have gotten where they are with consistency and beholdence to a recipe that keeps them — and their growing core — well fed. ... On her first two EPs, the New York City-based producer flirts with hip-hop cadences and pounding club … Such records like “The Light” — which brings on Jeremih to rap along a sample of Eddie Kendricks’ “Intimate Friends” — and “Halfway Off The Balcony” make platitudes about fame and success relative to Sean’s upbringing. 2017 was the year that rap … Aminé, Good For You Rapsody - Eve. The year-end best. Future no longer comes off like the man who lives at the heart of rap’s angry, lean-addled darkness. “A Bull’s Tale,” the album’s autobiographical lead-off track, is the coup de grace, as Jidenna spits one of the most engrossing, vivid storytelling track of 2017’s many, many rap releases. The most important stories and least important memes, every Friday. Whatever its strengths, in the current climate, it’s impossible to judge an album like Kodak Black’s Painting Pictures without considering the fucked-up stories about the person who made it. But while his sensibility is pure mid-’90s, he makes perfect sense in the current moment, as he rides smooth and streamlined beats and cranks out three albums’ worth of music in just over a year. Thug harmonically waxed poetic about fatherhood, smoking weed with Snoop Dogg, bounced through a bubbly pop tune, sang a ballad with Quavo and strummed out some country music all in the span of an hour and never once did a single note feel out of place. They can look no further than Culture, a perfectly-titled exhibition of their simple formula for success: Gruff, hyperbolic rhymes about drug culture and material excess over sinister 808 production that will have you involuntarily grooving and dabbing. Take a … He always had something to say. 's debut with polished layers that underlined his versatility.. 9 The former Kids These Days frontman saw his debut album experience delays, breakdowns, and left turns that nearly derailed its production for three years as his friend and Savemoney crew cohort Chance The Rapper exploded into mainstream prominence. The better of the two albums that the group released thus far this year, Saturation II is messy and slapdash and all-over-the-place, and it’s also an explosion of energy and ideas and charisma. Within these jagged, funky, and hyper-aware songs that often border on academic, Palaceer and multi-instrumentalist/drummer Tendai “Baba” Maraire had released two albums up through 2014. Whether it was label strife or creative issues, clearly Yaya hit some sort of a rut, and after a lukewarm single release, it was worthing wondering if she’d even get the chance to drop a new mixtape anytime soon. For more recent music, check out the best rap mixtapes of 2019 and the best hip hop albums of 2018. Kendrick Lamar moved away from the funky, jazzy experimentation of his most recent album to an old-school collection of straight-up bangers that nevertheless peeled back the layers of insecurities, doubts, fears, and faith that make him such a fascinating study of an artist’s psyche. Upvote +7 Downvote. The best of them is All Blue, Perico’s official debut. Years after their initial union, the bond between KIller Mike and El-P is stronger than ever. It’s astonishing to think that Selfish is the Compton native Problem’s first official retail album. Since he released it, he’s only gotten better. 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