Rolling Stone has named its 40 Best Rap Albums Of 2015. Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly lands at #1.
“We’re still trying to unpack his meditations on post-millennial blackness, Christian struggles with ‘Lucy,’ assertions of lyrical superiority in the new West Coast and communion with spiritual forefathers like Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, George Clinton and DJ Quik,” Rolling Stone writes of the project.
While not as heralded as Kendrick Lamar’s project, Fetty Wap’s eponymous album was #13 on Rolling Stone’s list.
“Fetty deals in gritty subject matter, candy-coated melodies and an exasperated, brink-of-ecstasy/brink-of-tears delivery that constantly crosses the line where his throat breaks and his voice cracks,” the publication says. “In a year where the melodic tics of Young Thug and Future started sinking even deeper into the framework of the way people rap in 2015, Fetty was all dessert, all the time.”
While Fetty Wap’s career is just beginning, Deeply Rooted, the latest album from Southern Rap pioneer Scarface, was #31 on the Rolling Stone list.
“Deeply Rooted, his 11th solo release, is not his best album, but in its focus on conveying the urgent lessons of hard-earned wisdom, his work suggests a singularity of purpose, something common only to artists whose work has outlasted thousands and will survive many more,” Rolling Stone says.
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Horrible list. Bad order, Deeply Rooted should be way higher, they put Barter 6, DWMTM, and DS2 over Documentary 2.5, Deeply Rooted and others, Black Market isn’t on here, I’ve never heard of Junglep***y, Wiki, Open Mike Eagle, Mozzy, etc, IYRTITL is way too high, so is Fetty Waps’ and Dejs’.
#Kendrication….big up..!!!!
Wtf there are 40 good rap albums in 2015??? I thought it was the year of the dog….shit
this list is bull
Where’s The incredible True Story?
@Umob J.Cole came out in 2014, he was on last year’s list. smh
u mean to tell me dr.dre is at 11, right behind a dude who sounds like doodle bob from spongebob…like what could that nigga possibly have done on the barter 6 that was any better than fucking COMPTON!
Going back and looking at the albums that came out this years. This list is disrespectful and total BS. There are quite a few that do deserve to be on there, but there are way more that don’t deserve to be anywhere near this list. They put some of the worst rappers of all time on this list while leaving off Ross, Jeezy, and Jadakiss. Those might not have been albums liked by everyone but mos def deserve a top 40 spot. Even arguably revenge of the dreamers 2 since they do have a soundtrack on here. This list actually makes me cringe. This is sad. #rollingstonemagdoesntknowhiphop
They seem to attempt to define skill set dynamics with the auto tune crooners. Lyrically and with proper production support its common talent. The melodies are mostly reworked slices of cadences. However the total package does come off like hip-hop dessert, especially with radio. At this point it’s barely hip-hop much closer to pop R&B. Basically taking up space from actual rap talent
I didn’t like the Kendrick album 🙁
No Paws Malone? Gwappy Gandhi? Shaftesbury Bro’s? Snake Technique? Prince Trappah? Brapp Brapp Thugz? Strik Medizin Cru? Platt-Num Boyz? King Drizzy? Shreek Arabia? My Name Is Pushta? This list is crap!
Young Thug is higher on this list than Lupe is…that should really tell you something about the credibility of this list lol
i read your comment and now i don’t plan on even checking it.
it’s either j.cole is better than k.dot or they are both on same level….. I believe cole is d most lyrical hiphop act right now kendrick could be a lil better in storytellin buh metaphors, simile , punchlines, dope bars mehn cole has it better dan kendrick
The list is crap.how can you put young thugs album ahead of doc2, Compton,before the money and testuo and youth.doc 2 and testuo and youth deserve to at least be in the top ten.
Yeah and Paws Malone, Trap Battah, Clive-Clive, Milkbrat, Saucy Monroe, Eff-da-tile, etc
Doesn’t Logics album deserve to be on that list?Logics album is better than some albums on that list
Deeply Rooted, Tetsuo & Youth Album underrated
I’m happy J.Cole wasn’t on that list cause he is too overrated and Drake album was trash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Forest_Hills_Drive
Thats why
Jcole is better than any new school rapper except kendrick.the only people i know that come close are big krit, logic or joey badass. Anyway,coles not meant to be on the list because he didn’t have any album this year.
WHERE TF IS MAC MILLER GOOD:AM ??
No Hail Mary Mallon or Yelawolf.
Cmon man.
not 100% sure but i believe hail mary mallon hasn’t had an album since late 2014, not 2015.
Fetty Wap Young Thung Future and Kendrick all higher than Scarface that is 100% Rolling Stone is Rolling Stones and smoking them. Scarface had the best albym of the year hand downs
Kendrick deserves the album of the year, but sure young thug,future and fetty wap should be below scarface. In general, the list was awful
can anyone direct me somewhere that will have a top rap album list that won’t include future or migos or rae sremmurd and will include MMG (not rick ross) and fashawn? like, real hip hop list.
Kendrick Yes. What about Skyzoo’s “Music for my Friends, Knowledge Albums????
I don’t care what the list say, at the end of the day it what you like. Not some magazines that washup. And I don’t listen to Fetty Wap, to lyrical. He’s so lyrical I don’t know what he saying.