To a fan coming up in the era of Cardi or Tyler or Polo G or Playboi Carti, the golden age is now. One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that it evolves and expands faster than any other genre in music history. 2, retail therapy anthem Throw It In the Bag, and lyrical assault Breathe, while also becoming an R&B staple by lending warm. Fab’s sharp mixtape verses helped the imprint get major label distribution in time for his 2001 debut, Ghetto Fabolous. to Houston to Chicago, and beyond.Īs we dug and listened, we found ourselves a little less swayed by “golden age” mystique than we might’ve been had we done this list 10 or 15 years ago. The young rapper reps Brooklyn with undeniable flows. and Rakim and others, through the gangsta era, the rise of the South, the ascendance of larger-than-life aughts superstars like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and on and on into more recent moments like blog-rap, emo-rap, and drill, from New York to L.A. The result was a list that touches on every important moment in the genre’s evolution - from compilations that honor the music’s paleo old-school days, to its artistic flourishing in the late Eighties and early Nineties with Public Enemy, De La Soul, Eric B. When confronted with a choice between the third (or fourth or fifth) record by a classic artist (Outkast, for instance, or A Tribe Called Quest) and an album from an artist who would make the list more interesting (The Jacka or Saba or Camp Lo), we tended to go with the latter option. Relatedly, a list of hip-hop-adjacent albums from the worlds of dancehall or reggaeton or grime would be fun and fascinating, and something for us to revisit down the road. That’s one reason we limited our scope to English language hip-hop. Jacob Miller is perhaps not the most obvious choice for a list of the best reggae singers, not because this artist’s vocal prowess was ever in doubt, but because he. But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied, we were forced to make some painful choices - there are so many iconic artists with deep catalogs, so many constantly evolving sounds and regional scenes. Lyrics: They say I’m crazy but that’s the best thing going for me, You can’t Lynch Marshawn, and Tom Brady throwin’ to me 1.Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be. Lyric: Young Money Records, the Army, the Navy/ They ran me ten thousand, I threw it like Brady 2. Lyrics: I get it now dudes is mad at these 80 M’s/Twenty twelve I was balling like Tom Brady then 3. John David Jackson (born November 18, 1977), better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper. “Froze” – Meek Mill featuring Nicki Minaj and Lil Uzi Vert (2016) Lyrics: Ferrari, my 40th, blew the candles out Tom Brady’d you ni**as, I had to scramble out, They be ridin’ these waves, I pulled my sandals out, Jefe Latin my Grammy, I went the Spanish route 4. Lyrics: “Tom Brady, Tony Snow (mhm) I just backdoored your ho (mhm)/ Goin’ brazy at the jeweler (mhm) I just suicide my doors (mhm)” 5. Lyrics: “Nobody’s crazy as Shady in an eighty million mile radius/I’m what Tom Brady is to the Patriots/To rap I’m not a man, I’m a weapon who just happened” 6. Lyrics: “I’ma shake it on him, shake it all around like a hula hoop/And now he wanna take me to Hawaii/And you know I’ma go, go and get it/Tom Brady, I’ma throw it, throw it back” 7. Lyrics: “ Out of this 3rd Rock, n***a air it out I am on my Tom Brady, y’all n****s is Eric Crouch/ What the bloodclot?/Tommie Frazier, f**k yourself” 8. “Pandemonium” – Rick Ross, Meek Mill & Wale (2011) Lyrics: “I’m goin’ Tom Brady, ain’t made no bad call/Just bought a new crib, old one was mad small/ I triple my cup, I make it mad tall, mad tall” 9. “Champion”- NAV featuring Travis Scott (2018) Lyrics: “I always wanna be ‘da boss, neva’ wanna be the shooter/The bosses always had the money to broke ni**a was the shoot us/ I ain’t some Tom Brady and I ain’t Belichick/But I might have to buy another hand for all these rangs, bih” 10. Lyrics: “Rico, are you crazy? I don’t know, maybe (Woah)/ Take the air out you, Tom Brady/ I do this s**t on the daily, I don’t ask for shit, I demand it” 11. “Cheat Code” – Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats featuring Baauer (2019) Lyrics: “ I got a K for the cuz if he hit you/If I call Nappy Blue, he come and get you/ Call Dread, that’s the new Tom Brady/ ‘Cause he be sendin’ shots like it’s missile” 12.
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