2000-2005 was probably the better half of the 2000s

i listed all those and still thinking of more that i didn't put on there. 2000s so stacked

Answer is 2000’s tbh

Not as good as TES imo but it has Stan which is also better than any rap song in the last 3, 4, 5, 6,7+ years? and literally created one of the most common words in rap culture. Top 15 rap song ever. There are no top 15 rap songs ever dropping this decade unless you count R&Bish tracks like Runaway imo so if that album is a negative then the 10s are really really trash lol

Matter of fact just google "best songs of the 2000s" and "best songs of the 2010s" lol the 2000s list is so superior its not even funny lol

Y’all gonna s*** on me for it but Dreams & Nightmares?

Drake and Kendrick carried 2010’s but ye em jay ti rick wayne nelly 50 jeezy

2000s was stacked doesn’t feel debatable

2000s had Fort Minor

Where’d you go goes hard

I feel that hook when I dip my Oreo cookie into milk and it breaks off and sinks to the bottom

Jeez I didnt even mention Luda, Clipse, Nelly, Terror Squad(LEAN BACK), Cam, 3 6, Cool Kids, DOOM, NERD, Lil Jon, Lil Scrappy, Chingy, Cassidy etc.. you had to actually rap to be considered good back then lol

It’s very easily 2000’s

A lot of posters I love saying 2010 though

Some of the biggest artists of the 2010s were better in the 2000s too.

for the first 6 years of the 2010s kanye was one of the biggest rappers but he was better in the 2000s. taylor ran pop but was lowkey better in the 2000s. People talked about Beyonce a lot too but i think she put out her most classic songs in the 2000s as well

My answer is only for rap

Taylor was better in 2010’s and so was pop

The 2000s had MUCH higher highs. But the lows is what makes the 2010s better. If we're doing like a top 20 hits/album, the 2000s. But if we're speaking in general, then the 2010s cuz everything was more consistent and it was pretty good actually

Honestly my initial thing about the 10s was when I thought it was just as a whole

Rap specific it’s definitely closer

Im still taking 05-15 over either though

not really, this was her pop decade and her best pop album was carried by Max Martin who if we looked at the songs was probably better in the 2000s too lol. as a whole package tho i think taylor did all the things she's good at better and more in the 2000s.

That’s a great timespan

I would try to cheat and bump it one year to have tlop included though

Lol it’s already cheating cause if you count 05 and 15 it’s 11

But shhhh

Jadakiss, Missy Elliot, Snoop was still dropping fire(Drop It Like Its Hot and Beautiful ) Ying Yang Twins even the party rap was better in the 2000s. And the 10s are basically a decade where rap has only produced party music, for the most part. Hell if you take away Kendrick and Cole the mainstream rap of the 10s is all party music lol

If we include R&B and pop, 2000s s***s on, flushes down the toilet, grabs it out the pipes, chokes, bodyslams, and then kicks the 2010s in its throat.

I'm not even tryna be funny, but what albums are touching TEOM? Diary of Alicia Keys? The Breakthrough? TP-2.com? Aaliyah? 8701? Songs in A Minor? CONFESSIONS?!

Then the very same people making those classics back to back in the 2000s dropped in quality in the 2010s tho

Speak now, Taylor swift, and fearless aren’t even close to Red, 1989 and Folklore

as the 2010s went on tho rap crushed every other genre more and more. the 2000s was more equal between highs from different genres imo

idk seems like she lost a lot of her personal style by that point

Yea the back half of the 2010s is fairly weak

2010-2015 my favorite stretch in music ever though