Now that we can all breathe easy with the conviction that Fetty Wap is more than a one-hit wonder, we can all agree that the one hit that launched him from Paterson, N.J., local to hip-hop star is his best and brightest effort. Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ Challenges and Rewards: Album Review With one fist raised in the air, Kendrick Lamar soundtracked 2015’s biggest protests (including the Black Lives Matter movement and Million Man March) with the impactful To Pimp A Butterfly track “Alright.” With Pharrell and Sounwave manning the beat, the Compton MC spun hopelessness into a power record, rapping like a presidential candidate-to-be: “Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright.” While TPAB‘s lead single “King Kunta” was more mainstream-friendly, it would be criminal to overlook the social struggle that K.Dot captured from the frontlines with “Alright.” With a dressed-up hook and relentless energy, it’s one of the most influential hip-hop songs of 2015, a year when Future fully embodied the artist he always strove to be, for better and for worse. Few songs in his increasingly impressive catalog embody that more than “March Madness,” the Tarentino-produced 56 Nights banger that became an anthem to debauchery and an indictment of police violence in America. He tends to stand at the top of the Atlanta hip-hop food chain while conversing with the devil and celebrating and damning his achievements and what they’ve done to him. There is a duality in Future’s existence that is both blindly self-destructive and fully self-aware, a sense of glamour and despair, simultaneously victorious and ruinous. Drake’s self-reflection even landed punk and instrumental covers from Toronto rock group Dilly Dally and the Toronto Symphony, obviously by-products of hashtag winning. With braggadocious bars and CN Tower-sized confidence, Drake is never not working on excellence, especially as the man of his city, and perhaps, the whole rap game. Not only did the rapper born Aubrey Graham make “running through the 6 with my woes” a thing, the self-proclaimed 6 God played his own hypeman on the Boi-1da, Vinylz and Syk Sense-produced heat. On “Blessings,” Drizzy lent a hand to Big Sean, and the two went way-ay up, incorporating “blessings on blessings on blessings” into the hip-hop lexicon and taking the song into the top 10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart along the way.īig Sean, ‘Dark Sky Paradise’: Track-by-Track Review One of Drake’s continuous achievements is his effortless ability to coin new cultural catchphrases with almost every song he releases. rappers Skepta, Novelist and Stormzy) and delivered the dark, bouncy track “All Day.” The collaborators on this track may appear random on paper (Minnesota spitter Allan Kingdom, Theophilus London and Beatles icon Paul McCartney), but Yeezy manages to string it all together with a haunting hook, fire emojis and rap‘n’roll charisma to create a memorable, ball-so-hard anthem. La Flame’s sonic palette stays consistent on the follow-up to “3500” as he toasts his various vices - even rapping about kicking off a cameraman on-stage, which actually happened in real-life at HOT 97’s Summer Jam in June - on one of the year’s most notable hair-whipping party tracks.ĭuring the 2015 BRIT Awards, Kanye West led a mob of hooded men in all-black ensembles (which included U.K. Any civilian on their worst behavior got down to the pill-popping and blowing-money-fast record, which recently went platinum. Rap enigma Travi$ Scott couch-stomped his way into club rotations with the inescapable summer 2015 jam “Antidote,” the second single off his major label debut Rodeo.
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