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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...
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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 13, 2021 · Our picks for the best rap songs of the year are listed alphabetically and include several tracks that also appear in our Best Songs of 2021 list. Listen to selections from this list on our...
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- Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. British-Nigerian emcee Little Simz had one of our favorite albums released in 2019 with the punchy GREY AREA – her third LP and international breakthrough project.
- Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Haram. Armand Hammer is a duo consisting of experimental Hip Hop titans billy woods and ELUCID. billy woods is one of the most consistent artists in contemporary Hip Hop.
- Ka - A Martyr's Reward. A Martyr’s Reward is Brownsville, NYC emcee/producer Ka’s 8th studio album (the 6th as Ka), following on the heels of 2020’s Descendants Of Cain.
- Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson. Following their underrated debut collaboration My 1st Chemistry Set (2013), Detroit emcee Boldy James and top-tier producer The Alchemist teamed up again in 2020 for the long-awaited The Price Of Tea In China, one of the best Hip Hop albums of the year.
- EST Gee, 'Bigger Than Life Or Death' EST Gee’s eventful 2021 may be best remembered by his breakout sixteen on Lil Baby’s “Real As It Gets,” but his Bigger Than Life Or Death mixtape, released last July, stands as a complete display of the Louisville rapper’s abilities as an emerging artist.
- Aminé, 'TWOPOINTFIVE' Switching gears from his introspective sophomore album Limbo, Aminé’s TWOPOINTFIVE sees the Portland rapper reverting to his cheery self as he experimented with faster, bouncier tempos.
- Wale, 'Folarin II' In 2012, Wale released his acclaimed Folarin mixtape; nearly 10 years later, the D.C. pun-slinger returned with the project’s second installment.
- Lil Baby & Lil Durk, 'The Voice of the Heroes' Through the 18 tracks that comprise The Voice of the Heroes, Atlanta’s Lil Baby and Chicago’s Lil Durk put forth a balanced blend of boastful bars and introspective insights about their rising status as hip-hop artists – and all the complications that come with it.
Dec 15, 2023 · Here are the Top 10 hip-hop artists of 2021 on Genius. 1.Kanye West 2. Drake 3. Oxxxymiron 4. Big Baby Tape and kizaru 5. Tyler, The Creator 6. J. Cole 7. Polo G 8. Lil Nas X 9. OG Buda 10....
Nov 14. 95. user score. (790) NEXT ». 2021 Hip Hop album releases. A list of all music releases for 2021. Find the best music on Album of the Year.
