Go stand on the busiest street corner in your neighborhood, and I can almost guarantee you'll hear "Know Yourself," "Energy," or "Use Me" blasting out of a passing vehicle before you get bored of trying. If You're Reading This It's Too Lateisn't quite a Drake album (it lacks his traditionally shiny singles) and it isn't quite a mixtape (it costs money on iTunes), but no one's getting caught up in the taxonomy. The next day, he dropped an entire collection of new music, making a world of excitedValentines collectively swoon. Junglefeatured snippets of a few new songs and- for 24 hours - fans relished the opportunity to preview, ponder, and anticipate. On February 12, Drake uploaded an unannounced short film to YouTube. A numberof the album's trackshad been circulating online for months, but the full length provedSwae Lee and Slim Jimmy (brothersKhalif Brown and Aaquil Brown) were more than surprisingly young and talented artists with unmistakable voices - it proved they were here to stay. With all hullabalooabout Sir Kanye and Paul, it was easy to miss SremmLife, the debut long player by Rae Sremmurd that came out the first week of thisyear. Yeezus' new album, So Help Me God,should be here before summer, and we've already had another two collaborations with Macca- one featuring lots of fire, and the other pure denim. The love letter to West's daughter was pure sentiment, devoid of a beat, and relied mostly on what sounded like a Fender Rhodes played by some guy named Paul McCartney. As if acknowledging the disappointment of the preceding 365 days, Kanye West introduced "Only One" to the world the second we popped champagne. If it weren't for Run the Jewels 2, the entire year would have been a write-off.įrom the ball drop, 2015 promised to be different. By all measures, 2014 was an unremarkable year for hip-hop, which Kurt Andersen (friend of sideshow) recently called"the last genuinely new and consequential invention of American pop culture." Hip-hop delivered fewthrilling singles, fewernoteworthy collaborations, and nary amajor release by its freshest, mostpopular practitioners.Never the best judgeof these things, the Grammys seemed to think Eminem had the most important rap album of 2014- his competition ranged form an admittedly fancy Australianto a realty TV show hostto a guy who used a Wu-Tang name generatorto come up with his pseudonym.
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