Everyone talks about 2015 and 2016 being the best recent years for Rap but they always seem to skip over 2017....

February 2017: Future drops FUTURE then a weak later, he drops HNDRXX

HNDRXX possibly the best album to drop in 2017

Thugga released BTG with that weird ass cover but still it's a 10/10 album

Although I dont listen to Uzi anymore, when he dropped LIR2, he had every house party jumping from North to South

And while you guys might not like it, but Jaden Smith revolutionised Rap Music with the release of SYRE

Pls pls pls tell me who has dropped something like B L U E
That nigga was really ahead of his time

"SYRE, The story of a boy who chased the sunset until it chased him"

I don't even have to talk to you guys about the production on that f***ing tape Imma just tell you to listen to Ninety, and then Lost Boy on that album cos omds i'm about to BUST.

Even though this album didn't drop during the summer of '17, Drake cemented that summer as one of the greatest in recent times with More Life That album (compilation ) featured the likes of Passionfruit, Madiba Riddim, Blem, 4422, Gyalcester, Portland, Teenage Fever and the almighty Do Not Disturb

Y'all will come to realise that album is a classic in due time

The late Jahseh Onfroy (X) coming off the back of Look At Me released his album '17' but not before coming for Drake and his mother after Drake used his likeness on "KMT"

This caused hype around the release of 17 and lemme tell you it lived up to it

And there are so many more reasons why 2017 is a GOATED year
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Jaden Smith revolutionised Rap Music with the release of SYRE

No way I forgot DAMN and 4:44 (after the Jay Z cheating scandal)

Literally almost every artist on this list dropped better projects in 2015 than the ones you listed from 2017

how you talk about and not mentioned sat trilogy better then anything you listed

also

big krit
vince staples
tyler, the creator

dropped classics

• the growth of sLums movement

• plus bedwetter

• plus super underrated N*E*R*D project came out also

good year for hip hop

OP really celebrating Thug and Future ending their legendary runs with mainstream mid

But he's bigging up Jaden Smith. So mid must be his bag.

plus legendary hits like GUMMO, magnolia and the race

IMO the 2010s was a pretty weak decade for hip hop. But 2017 was a pretty good year for the decade

Not a bad year

HNDRXX def ain't mid nor is it mainstream

2018 tho..

2018 was just as good as 17 imo

The quality is debatable (despite everybody agreeing his mixtape run prior is superior).

The mainstream tag is not. FUTURE and HNDRXX both went #1 in successive weeks and had like 8 singles between them.

Thread flopped

Big Fish Theory
4Eva is a mighty long time
DAMN.
4:44
AABA
The Never Story
First Night Out
Blkswn

Solid year, 15, 16, 18 were all better years for rap tho.

Nigga said xxtentacion, jaden smith and uzi

2017 was literally the worst year in rap in the last 5 years

more life is a classic

Every year Kendrick drops is a good year to me. Rest just a bonus