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Dec 13, 2021 · The 38 Best Rap Songs of 2021. From Megan Thee Stallion to Tyler, the Creator; Playboi Carti to Cardi B; NoCap to Noname. By Pitchfork. December 13, 2021. Graphic by Callum Abbott.
Dec 10, 2021 · This year's best hip-hop — including Westside Gunn, Mach-Hommy and Moor Mother — comes from death and defiance, erotic power and provocation, Black joy and pain — and that's just the shortlist.
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- Roddy Ricch, “The Box” Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” rose from a TikTok behemoth to conquer the Hot 100 for 11 weeks from January to March, owning 2020 just as the year had gotten started.
- Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion, “WAP” What many considered to be one of the most controversial songs of 2020 for its sexually explicit nature also became one of its most viral celebrations of female empowerment, from two household names of hip-hop.
- DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch, “Rockstar” Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion all had No. 1 singles competing for the Song of the Summer crown this year — and yet none of them could compete with “Rockstar,” which spent seven weeks atop the Hot 100.
- Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyoncé, “Savage” (Remix) Houston bred both Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé, and the dynamic duo fed its beloved hometown with a robust anthem — and more literally, with tons of food, as part of the song’s COVID-19 charitable component.
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- J. Cole, ‘The Off-Season’ With its abundance of sports metaphors, The Off-Season represents J. Cole possibly at his sharpest. As its name suggests, the album finds Cole in a less-competitive stance, where his catalog up to now has found him battling through playoff match after playoff match, The Off-Season is in large part a more relaxed project.
- Polo G, ‘Hall of Fame’ There’s simply no stopping Polo G. The Chicago-born rapper ended 2020 with a tweet professing his plans to reach new heights, and only a few months into this year, he proved exactly what he meant.
- Little Simz, ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ The British-Nigerian rapper’s fourth album seamlessly incorporates grime, hip-hop/soul, and old-school R&B (the Smokey Robinson sample in “Two Worlds Apart” goes down just as smoothly as the “Jodeci and cherry wine” she mentions in the lyrics).
- Mike, ‘Disco!’ New York rapper Mike has one of the most quietly prolific catalogs in hip-hop right now. Known to drop a project every year — in addition to a number of releases under different monikers — Mike has the kind of mythos once reserved for artists like MF Doom, whom he’s often compared to.
Dec 12, 2022 · The 43 Best Rap Songs of 2022. From Atlanta to Memphis to Detroit; from lightspeed Jersey club rap to diamond-hard New York drill; rap overflowed with energy again this year. By Pitchfork....
