2018 was garbage and the foreplay before the catastrophic nut known as 2020, was just a year filled with death. I lost 3 family members by June and then XXXtentacion and Mac died

I fw Swimming, Isolation, Negro Swan and BP soundtrack but they're not touching 2013 and 2015's best. Plus the overall vibes of those years, like 2020 has had some great music but I don't think we'll look back at this period too fondly because of everything going on

Depressing take

That carti tweet when he said die lit tn

Yo, I was in Spiderman PS4 thread on KTT when I found out Mac died How we both have Spiderman and KTT related stories finding out about Mac's death, life is a simulation fr

Swimming is a better album about d*** abuse

I forgot Veteran in my list, YES that s*** slapped and I still play it

Kenny Beats pwned 2018

I saw your posts on the last page about seeing an argument for KOD being AOTY over Scorpion and even tho I don't think KOD could be the best album of any year, it's refreshing to see someone with a Drake avi be objective

Respect.

It's just a picture that I thought was funny.

People are so weird on here lol.

There’s great releases every year, stop listening to them old washed boomers that complain every year cuz they want to go back to their glory years in 2012 lol

La di da di da slob on me knob
Pass me some syrup f*** me in the car
La di da di da mothafuck the law
Chitty chitty bang murder everything

Worst moment in music that year

In retrospect, in retrospect
I probably shoulda paid my debts (in retrospect)

I think you misspelled “greatest”

yep 2018 was great

TESTING

No that s*** was awful and almost ruined a great song

I think you misspelled “yes that s*** was amazing and almost singlehandedly made an iconic song”

That beat switch in the end ruined it for sure

I prefer Daytona but I can see where you're coming from

I prefer Daytona too.

That's why I asked can a 7 song album be AOTY?

Why not? Its an album so it fits the description

But 7 songs? It's kinda like cheating if you put that up against someone who had to fill 17-18 slots with quality.

Its easier to make a short project that flows from to back.

Gimme a good album.and I can trim.it down to a 7 song classic

Even if you didn’t like all the music mentioned in OP, you gotta acknowledge that Hip-Hop was consistently running pop culture the whole year. Not always in good ways, but still it dominated discussion.

Most of the rap giants dropped some sort of project (Wayne, Eminem, Jay Z, Kanye, Nas, Drake, Kendrick).

Notable beefs (Pusha vs Drake, Em vs MGK lol)

The deaths of X and Mac were also huge moments in pop culture, RIP to them both

The new school starting to turn out superstars (Post, Cardi, & Travis dropping huge albums).

The big 3 (Cole, Drake, Kendrick) dropped new music.

8 Hip-Hop #1 singles.

Kanye getting national media attention for supporting Trump, leading to the “thanks Kanye, very cool!” Tweet

Just to put it in perspective, cause idk another good way to measure this lol. On r/hiphopheads if you sort by the top upvoted of all time posts, 7 of the top 10 were from 2018’s various events. The year was definitely a defining year for rap.

Real

Great album but I honestly didnt feel it was in that class until he died.