Hip-Hop Thread Genre • Page 772

This past decade has produced very few albums that could be considered classics. That are nearly universally praised by nearly all hip hop fans. TPAB is genuinely the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

 

And that Kanye album with the red cover. That was in the 2010s, right?

 

Piñata maybe? A little too early to say Bandana, but they’re both albums that, whilst not blowing up commercially like TPAB or MBDTF, have garnered a lot of respect from most hip hop fans. But does a classic need commercial visibility to be an actual classic?

 

No, but I think it needs it to be a hip hop album that cracks the top 20 “best albums ever”, even if the rock albums don’t

 

Some potential big (more mainstream) ones, and if not, just groundbreaking recent albums:

Blank Face
Acid Rap
We Got It From Here...
Summertime 06
Big Fish Theory
(Not really rap but) Awaken My Love
Barter 6
Whack World
Telefone (or Room 25)
XXX

 

shout out Vince

 

daytona, don’t @ me

 

This says more about teenagers than anything else, but idk if any of my current sophomores could name who made those albums outside of Thug and Chance, haha

Thug might honestly be a stretch and Chance isn’t cool anymore. What is popular still confuses me. Most kids are super into Lil Durk

 

Yeah 2010 I think

 

Lil Baby seems to be one of the big ones too

 

This is probably the boomer in me speaking, but most of the popular rappers right now like Lil Baby, Gunna, NBA YoungBoy, etc. do absolutely nothing for me. But I’m also a year away from turning 30 so I’m probably not the target audience anyway

 

fellow old head here agreeing with you

 

IMO people don’t really settle into their music tastes until their 20s. When I was a teen, I listened to a lot of good stuff but a hell of a lot of trash. I was still learning.

 

I'm also a year from 30 and feel like I know less and less about who's popular. Nothing I actively hate, just can't connect with in the same way. Also its been harder for me to get really invested in new music of any genre. Getting old sucks.

 

Overall I am still able to find a ton of new music to connect to, but I find it much tougher in hip-hop and anything rock-related to sift through the stuff I don't like as much. It's out there, but it takes more work these days.

 

Just piping in to say I still think the new Amine album is great. Disagree about it being middle of the road. There are some fantastic production choices, and his flow is so good through out. He’s always switching it up.

 

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Can't believe I scrolled through pages of y'all talking about the best 2010s rappers and no one mentions Rapsody. This is why we don't need to bring twitter convos here. The premise of Lupe vs Kendrick just continues the same hip hop discourse Twitter has been having for years and its exclusionary nature compounded by the subjectivity of the topic makes it such a pointless discussion to have. Plus, hip hip discourse has been giving Kendrick his flowers for years and it's honestly way past time to shift the focus. He hasn't put out a groundbreaking album in five years imo and I feel deeply that the same people who keep raving about him are also J Cole fans.

Whatever I guess all that is to say

Vince Staples > Meg > Tyler > Flo Milli, and y'all can argue wit yo mama.

 

this is the best post because I love all 4 of those

 

But...we weren’t talking about the best 2010 rappers? The lists were for the most popular. And I’ve only really stuck up for TPAB. I called Damn pretentious

 

Anyway the most monumental hip hop tape of the last decade is Some Rap Songs

 

I would’ve said Heavy Hearted in Doldrums.....but

 

This + Atrocity Exhibition and Big Fish Theory imo

 

I'm way older than everyone and I love Lil Baby