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Prob missing some obvious ones because i'm using my itunes and i think j. Rap wasn't particularly album-oriented for the first half of this decade, and lots of canonical artists, like gucci and thug, had some of their best work spread across several mixtapes, but here's an idea of what albums might turn out to be "canonical," regardless of my opinion on them. I'm not mentioning the UK here on the assumption you aren't especially interested but the last decade has been a sustained commercial and creative boom for black British music and not just grime and its various offshoots. Most of the time I fail to see the appeal with Odd Future-linked stuff but people seem into it.Īlso Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Rico Nasty for sheer force of personality. Either going wibblier and into Young Thug or Soundcloud rap or into harder trap or drill stuff like Chief Keef or Migos from there.Īlso there is considerably less stigma around backpackerish/conscious/nerd stuff then there used to be - Chance The Rapper's 'Acid Rap', the Run The Jewels albums (also Killer Mike's 'R.A.P Music') and yes Tyler The Creator/Vince Staples/Earl Sweatshirt if you really must. More generally YG's My Krazy Life and one of the Mozzy albums (Bladadah or 1 Up Top Ahk) as far as rap-qua-rap that would've been recognised as such a decade ago.Īutotune weirdo stuff - start with Future's 'Pluto' and work forward from there, maybe skip 'Honest' but if you can get into 'DS2' or the 2015 mixtapes then most other 10s rap will at least make a degree of sense from there.
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I mean if you're asking about Illmatic/Ready To Die then the one totally unambiguously canonised rapper in that mode is obviously Kendrick. ie don't start with Young Thug or Lil Peep because if you've missed the linking material it might not make much sense (also there's nothing wrong with not liking or engaging with any of this stuff).įor the love of god don't start with Danny Brown in any context. Are you saying you've missed literally everything in the past decade? Because - and I'm trying to be constructive here - 10s rap is completely unlike the rap music of every previous decade and starting in the wrong place is going to leave you all at sea.