Best Rap 2016
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SS3
TLOP
untitled unmastered
I know this can't be it. Help me out /mu/. Need some recs.
>>63916782
tlop was trash
>tfw haven't listened to a single rap song in all of 2016
denzel curry is in the mix this year imo
>>63916910
that nyck caution tape is underrated too
production on it is crazy
![1433439584-michael_garn+%25281%2529[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/puHgBRq.jpg "1433439584-michael_garn+%25281%2529[1].jpg")
>>63916859
>mfw I still haven't listened to to pimp a butterfly
>>63916937
thanks guys. tried to get into that denzel curry album but it wasnt my thing.
any other southern rap would be great though. is lil yachty worth checking out?
>>63917023
i actually enjoy untitled.mastered quite a bit. way less hamfisted and compromised than TPAB. the concept doesn't get in the way is what i mean i guess.
>>63917060
>is lil yachty worth checking out?
fuck no lol
I really liked Bothic.
I think ZelooperZ has potential to be the next big thing, but everyone I show him too can't get past his voice.
>>63917140
should've known from his name alone
>>63917177
high as shit rn and this album is pretty wild
>>63917099
I live in Missouri and there are people who straight don't talk to me anymore bc I said the We gon be alright video was over the top
>>63917453
Where at in MO
>>63917060
Lil Yachty is pure garbage.
>>63916937
ayy this tape is fire. some real nice NYC rap
>>63917453
over the top is an understatement. you need new friends bro. aint hard to find.
>>63916782
Imperial, EVOL, come to mind ur just gonna have to wait for more to come (VFT6, schoolboy q's new album, fergs new album, etc)
only good trap rap this year
>>63917453
doin donuts in a car and throwing money out the window. edgy stuff.
>>63916782
Elzhi - Lead Poison is my AOTY as for now
collegrove was alright
>>63917060
I mean, if you want some trashy, ignorant shit, Yo Gotti's got what you need.
>>63916782
The Koreatown Oddity
Especially with Ras G
If you like Del, it's like that piped through a cassette tape.
>>63917177
I like Bothic no I think it's underrated, but in my opinion HELP was a much better tape, although some songs like Scale and Bothic Bout It are some of the best he's ever made. They have a more define style than any song on HELP, but idk.
>>63917747
EVOL is settin the bar pretty low. you make a good point about those other albums though. definitely checking for OVO sound tomorrow.
what's up with that bullshit ferg leak going around?
>>63917854
*And I think it's underrated
>>63917747
I think ferg 's album gonna be trash
I liked Genesis a lot
>>63917805
about to check for this right now. yo gotti is solid. i first heard about this dude in a TN jail 10 years ago from a white guy with a platinum grill.
>>63917060
look up some big k.r.i.t. tapes
acid rap tape by chance the rapper
b4.da.$$ by joey badass
control system by ab-soul
cilvia demo by isaiah rashad
overly dedicated by kendrick
faces by mac miller
and throwing a personal favorite in here, the Float album by Aesop Rock
>>63917849
big fan of ras g. thanks for this one.
>AOTY thread
>no one mentions the actual AOTY
Y'll niggas disgusting, Denzel Curry is were the shit is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QHHXwaNuA
>>63917990
my bad i didn't even realize this was 2016
krit put out a tape this year but i can't think of the name right now
when chance 3 comes out it will be one of the best this year
uhh T R A P S O U L is pretty solid by bryson tiller
GO:OD AM by mac is OK
too high to riot is an underrated release this year (by bas)
>>63917922
last album was spotty but i can almost guarantee it'll be better than these fuckin rocky albums.
>>63918060
>bryson tiller
damn this board is full of basic bitches
>>63918051
nigga this shit got mentioned twice already
>>63918079
most of the album is trash, but 502 come up has such a legit vibe to it. he is NOT a lyricist on any level, but it makes for good summer night drive music desu
>>63918086
how about you lick my ass with your tongue so I can taste my own shit when we kiss
>>63918079
the bar is low right now i'm telling you. why i posted this.
>>63918125
kek this is why i come here. fuck reddit
Anyone check out Krizz' new album? It's not really rap but RnB, still pretty good though.
>>63918098
i'm 502 and not feeling this bro. sounds like budget drake.
>>63918224
all good man, i definitely get the drake sound biting though, if you aren't super unique right now, you've gotta emulate what is popular. it is certainly not a standout album if you want substance
TLOP and SS3 both suck.
UU. was dope tho'
>>63918253
you make a good point. that's probably how he got a deal in the first place. rca wanted their own drake.
>>63918051
6/10 tops. Beats are cool, rapping is samey but passable, worst hooks in rap history.
Yeah, anyway here's my top 10 so far. Ridiculously weak music year:
1. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
2. Elzhi - Lead Poison
3. Oddisee - Alwasta EP
4. Kanye West - TLOP
5. Bas - Too High to Riot
6. Future - Purple Reign
7. Young Thug - Slime Season 3
8. Lil Yachty - Lil Boat the Mixtape
9. Denzel Curry - Imperial
10. Future - EVOL
That said, this list begins with a 7.5/10 and ends with a 6. Again, unbelievably weak year.
>>63918377
"every song sounds like drake ft. drake"
>>63918409
Lil Boat better than Imperial? I don't think Imperial is an amazing album but its easily better than Lil Yachty's album, which literally sounds like a joke.
SS3 is AOTYSF, probably AOTY if it weren't for Hi-Tunes which is likely gonna be better.
I'm Up was underrated and was AOTYSF until SS3 came out.
Barter 6>Slime Season 3>Slime Season>Slime Season 2>1017 Thug>I'm Up>I Came From Nothing
EVOL was alright, Purple Reign was a bit underrated but on the same boat as EVOL. I like Future, but he's gotta do something new. New year, new Future.
Denzel Curry's album was good, almost as good as N64
TLOP is alright, Highlights is the only song I really feel tho desu
Montana of 300's got an album coming soon, his Land of the Dark single is pretty good.
I'm not too excited about Ferg's new album, but New Level was pretty good.
I don't know if Flockaveli 2 is coming out this year, but y'all niggas best be watching out for Flocka. He's the most underrated rapper on /hhg/. Y'all don't talk about him enough. If Flockaveli 2 is anything like what he's been doing lately (like his killer 1.5 mixtape and dope singles like One Eyed Shooters and Ask Charlamagne) it's gonna be a dope album
For singles,
Panda is fucking hot. Desiigner is probably gonna be a one hit wonder though.
Trap Anthem with Migos and Ferg is pretty tight
Trap House with Durk, Thugga, and Dolph was good
Back Home with Gibbs on the track was surprisingly amazing. Probably my fav single this year behind Panda.
2016 is aight, but probs wont be better than 2015.
Also, I like Meek Mill and everything, but I'm glad he was left off of SS3 Digits
>>63918409
thanks for the list. check out that open mike eagle/paul white if you havent heard it
>>63918438
nice one. i'll be stealing that joke now friendo
>>63918518
also, I'm not a big fan of all the 90's golden age kiddies, but DOOMSTARKS is something to be hyped about
New Zelooperz is like a cross between Danny Brown and Young Thug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ye0KQt6S4
>>63918449
They're about exactly as good as each other in my opinion. Deciding difference is Denzel takes his corny ass shit way too seriously, while Yachty fully understands his ridiculous music
is there something I just dont get about Young Thug? I cant bring myself to like his music.
>>63918518
this is what i needed bro. didn't even know about the gibbs track. i got this shit blasting right now.
>>63917760
BITCH U KNOW ITS LIL BOAT
>>63918698
new thugga fans need to listen to certain songs in order to really understand him
Listen to his verse on T.I.'s About the Money, Check, Best Friend, Old English, and I Know There's Gonna Be Good Times. After that listen to Lifestyle and other Rich Gang shit then you'll get him. Or just listen to Barter 6, the greatest rap album of the decade.
>>63918877
>>63918698
I'd go straight for Danny Glover and Constantly Hating. Not a huge Thugger fan but he has his moments. It's tough to sift through all the shit he's put out and a lot of it sounds the same.
>>63916782
Anderson.Paak - Malibu very very underrated album of 2016 top 1
>>63918877
>the greatest rap album of decade
i like thugger but lets not go that far
>>63919292
This desu
>>63916782
Recommended if you like underground/backpacker/indie/experimental hip-hop.
>>63918877
>Or just listen to Barter 6, the greatest rap album of the decade.
thug is a melodic genius but na son.
if we're really playing that game it's either this one or 'days with dr. yen lo'.
>>63919292
This desu
>>63919402
Close but pic related is the best of the decade so far
>>63919402
>>63919508
2016 you cuckk
>>63919508
agreed
>>63919508
it's pretty close to impossible for a 7.5/10 album to be HHAOTD.
It's between >>63919402, TPAB, Black Up, or pic related.
>>63919633
Good thing XXX is better than a 7.5 I guess
>>63916782
All those albums/mixtapes/whatever are bretty good. You're a fag
Lil Uzi Vert
Playboy Carti
Those hip hop txl mixtapes on datpiff are good for following hot singles and shit
>>63918739
ALL OF THEM NIGGAS THEY KNOW
ALL OF THEM NIGGAS THEY KNOW US
>>63918591
that is from his track 5am in toronto
>untitled unmastered
>TLOP
>anything else
>>63918518
panda
panda
panda
>>63921403
I GOT BROADS IN ATLANTA
>>63918051
Hip hop album of the year for me. Pic related is 2nd.
>>63919402
Best hip hop album of the decade
This makes me proud to be British
>>63919402
>>63919508
Thank god people just bring up the same shit all the time. I'm scared of new thoughts or original ideas
>>63922141
When talking about whats the best album of the decade so far it's kinda gonna be shit thats been talked about to death.
>>63916782
>listening to talking niggers
holy shit, really?
>>63916782
3001: A Laced Odyssey
I liked this one at least. Not their best work though.
>>63917760
wrong
see >>63922141
>>63916782
SS3 was the same shit in a new package thug better fucking learn some new rhymes fast
TLOP was fucking trash
untitled unmastered was meh
2016 has been garbage
>>63922435
Listen to Drippin senpai. Perfect song that negates what u said
https://m.soundcloud.com/youngthugworld/digits-ft-meek-mill
so /hhg/, did Meek Mill make Digits better, or is SS3 Digits better off as is?
>>63918409
TLOP and Purple Reign were both trash imho
was also quite disappointed with Slime Season 3
checking out some of these others though
>>63918409
Decent list
1. Slime Season 3
2. I'm Up
3. Imperial
4. EVOL
5. Disguise the Limit
6. Lil Boat
7. The Life of Pablo
8. Purple Reign
9. Collegrove
10. Untitled Unmastered
Untitled Unmastered is extremely overrated.
Shabazz Palaces are supposedly finishing up their third album this year so that has potential to be dope.
Aesop Rock drops this year too.
Royce Da 5'9 will deliver another awful album with incredible rapping.
That is all on the backpack front.
>>63919633
>XXX is a 7.5
listen to it again
>>63919675
>>63924038
>XXX is better than a 7.5/10
listen to it again. I'm serious, I used to think it was a 9+ but I recently returned to it after a year's hiatus and it's not great
>>63916782
how is no one talking about Dej Loaf
>>63920704
i could load every gun with bullets that fire backwards, prolly wouldn't lose a single rapper
94 posts later OP, it seems that is it.
https://youtu.be/3zyqORjWMa8
https://youtu.be/Wmjpp0_6kb0 almost 2016
https://youtu.be/O_7XCTY07Hs
https://youtu.be/NblGP-01thw
>muh Pablo
Fuck off
>>63917060
lil yachty is like young thug meets katy perry. take that as you will
>>63922141
og maco is based
>>63927258
>unironically posting Futuristic
fuck off
#stop supporting corny artists 2016
>>63928211
You like pretty nerd dick. Lick my cock corn
god this board has gotten bad
since you didnt say best album just best rap im gonna go with riff raff - carlos slim shit bangs
Kano - Made in the Manor
black thought/ styles P just made a monster track together. Making a murderer its called
http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2016/04/black-thoughts-new-song-with-styles-p-9th-wonder-is-absolute-lyrical-destruction-audio/
>>63919232
not convinced thats hip hop. mad respect to that guy tho hes talented.
>All these memerap albums
Conway 'The Machine" - Reject 2
>>63917060
Listen to Lil Yachty. Don't expect to be blown away by anything new or innovative, but plan on having fun and hearing an interesting tape.
>>63917760
C O L D L I K E M I N N E S O T A
>>63931214
link? not on wcd atm
>>63927021
i'm so hyped for this, gonna be weird without oktopus but the cover is cool which gives me hope
anyone give a shit about RTJ anymore? theyre releasing RTJ3 this year. i hope it's not as bad as their last two.
>>63919540
learn to read you fucking redditor. the post >>63919402 was responding to explicitly says >the greatest rap album of the decade
which is pic realted btw
>>63918877
the actual best hiphop album ever right here
>>63932173
https://youtu.be/LSrs0vW_mCg
http://www.9clacks.com/conway-reject-2/
3001 a laced odyssey, favorite album of the year desu senpai
>>63932477
are you serious? RTJ 2 was fucking fire
>>63934272
RTJ1 was better.
>>63934318
*tips contrarian hat*
>>63934272
run the jewels is shit in general, but yes like the other anon said 1 > 2
>>63917854
agree with this 100%. Also ffs Zelooperz you can't make people wait 3 years in between projects. Man lost a lot of steam in between especially since Danny is doing the same thing
>>63932975
actually kind of agree with this. I can't finger just one GOAT album for any genre cause I think it's redundant but this would definitely be up there
>>63928211
word
>>63921403
>>63921438
oh shit, im hyped
WHITE 6X LOOK LIKE A PANDA
>>63935923
*X6
>>63923870
I love future
absolutely love him, he's one of my favorite artists but are you really placing evol above tlop?
Evol is good and all but it's basically dirty sprite 2.5
From what I see TLOP is extremely subjective, with some seem to preach it and say it's the best of this decade while other seem to utterly hate it and even go out of their way to show how much they hate it with a passion.
in my opinion it's [tlop] above par, but even then it's 2 different hip hop styles, one is Atlanta Trap and the other is, well Kanye. Not easy to compare.
You're comparing two different languages, two different minds, two different geniuses. They're not compatible but they're the best of their kind in a way.
>>63931571
all I know about lil yachty is that he sounds like fucking meatwad from boondocks
i haven't listened to it yet, but why are people saying that imperial is such a divisive album? i've only seen people say it's garbage or AOTY, no inbetween. what's so special or different about it?
>>63937966
this picture hurts
I find that with Denzel Curry in general, people love him or hate him. The album itself isn't anything incredible, but it's one of the best hip hop projects this year since it has been a pretty weak year so far. It shows natural artistic proggression from Curry, but is pretty much all "bangers".
>>63918656
ah yes, the "self awareness excuses shittiness" argument. terrible
Best overall album of 2016 so far.
Why the fuck isn't /mu/ talking about this more?
>>63927021
Best hip hop album of the year so far. I love it so much!
>>63939648
Because /mu/ is all about being contrarian hipster fucks that value obscurity over talent most of the time. When it's a mainstream artist regarded as top of the genre they'll quickly point out that money>everything else though because they'd kill for a chance to buy a pair of hand me down yeezys.
>>63941080
>Because /mu/ is all about being contrarian hipster fucks that value obscurity over talent most of the time. When it's a mainstream artist regarded as top of the genre they'll quickly point out that money>everything else though because they'd kill for a chance to buy a pair of hand me down yeezys.
he says, as kanye west and radiohead have been /mu/core for years
>>63939648
5.75/10. Anything more than that and I don't know what the fuck you're listening to.
>>63916782
>SS3
>untitled unmastered
too short to be an especially strong contender for aoty but yeah still way up there
>TLOP
Is this technically even out yet? Is this technically even finished? I'm not ranking it yet although it didnt seem particularly strong anyways. spotty as fuck which is reflected in his own reaction of retooling it.
hhaotysf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR0VsbyZxWg
>>63917060
minnesota remix took me a few listens to like but it's such a fun song
>>63916782
My favorite album just moved from GKMC to this.
Recommend more rap I'd like
>>63937029
I think TLOP is the kind of album that needs multiple listens to actually form a complete opinion on it. I thought it was Kanye's worst at first listen, but the more I listen to it the more its growing on me.
Ultralight Beam is quickly becoming my favorite song from Kanye, its just so fucking good.
>>63946863
go listen to madlib's other shit while fucking off
>>63917060
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR0VsbyZxWg&nohtml5=False
hhaotysf
>>63946952
i've listened to it multiple times
it's still shit
Lushlife - Ritualize
Babyfather - BBF
Kanye West - TLOP (with altered track list)
that's it
upcoming albums with potential:
Spark Master Tape - Silhoutte of a Sunkken City
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Danny Brown's new album
Shabazz Palace's new album
Drake - Views from the 6
Pusha T - King Push
M.I.A. - Matahdatah
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
>>63946997
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/overrated/2016/
>backlashing this hard
thats how you know its good
>>63917140
>>63917620
>>63928093
>b-but antony fantana said they were good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Oax_6PllU&nohtml5=False
and this aint even top 5 songs
albums solid as fuck recognize
This one is the best rap of 2016
>>63946863
madvillainy if you haven't listened to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZ6ErKarSM
HOL' UP BITCH
/mu has horrible taste in hip hop
>>63946997
dam. i been fucking wit kevin for a while. thanks bo
>>63948833
did you intentionally leave off q's new album
Y'all niggas keep sleepin, this is amazing. Egocentric is SOTYSF
>>63931214
Nice. I first heard him the other week on that WestsideGunn album and thought he was pretty amazing. I was hoping he had some solo material out. Will download, thanks.
any solid hardcore or sad emo rap come out lately? I'm in the mood for either or.
>>63952815
>sad emo rap
might not be what you're looking for but
>>63917060
>Lil yachty
No hook is a good song. I bet he'll make some really cool stuff
>>63917509
Florissant
