Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly has been named the #1 in Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2015 list.
“Musically, lyrically and emotionally, Kendrick Lamar‘s third album is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece,” Rolling Stone says of the Compton, California rapper’s 2015 release, “a sprawling epic that’s both the year’s most bumptious party music and its most gripping therapy session.”
Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late, lands at #3 on Rolling Stone’s list. “No pop hooks, no romance, just a tightly sequenced set of rap cuts where he plays directly to his base by venting his anger and paranoia,” the publication writes. “He disses his own record label and kvetches about groupies as only he can.”
Releasing “some of the year’s most thought-provoking hip-hop” with his debut album earned Vince Staples #35 on Rolling Stone’s list for his Summertime ’06.
“The stripped-down tracks — built on rhythms that could be banged out on a lunch table — recall the hollow boom of criminal-minded Eighties hip hop, with Staples spinning tales of youth, the pull of thug life, and the consequences therein,” Rolling Stone writes of the Long Beach, California rapper’s project.
Another emerging act earned a spot on Rolling Stone’s list. Rae Sremmurd’s SremmLife is named as the forty-fourth-best album of 2015.
“Rae Sremmurd released an ebullient debut that sounded like it complimented their hits with nine more singles,” Rolling Stone writes. It also refers to the project as, “Easily the most fun hip-hop album of the year.”
To read the full 50 Best Albums of 2015 list, visit Rolling Stone.
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Bullshyt. Keep sleepin on Scarface album. Lotta good albums dropped this year..KDot was maybe top 10
K Dot was like numero uno puto!
Drake’s album should be #1.
Give me your keys! You’re drunk
Shit was garbage
YES, IT’S THE GAYEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
I didn’t even know 50 rap albums came out in 2015…they were reaching to find albums for this one if vince staples is on there.
It’s not the 50 best ‘rap’ albums. It’s the 50 best albums of 2015. Read closer.
Vince Staples SUCKS
Ur not me
Check out King Shampz & Azzan on Datpiff, The mix-tape is “All Hail The King”. Brutal!!!
Tha 6god came out 3rd and that shit was only a mixtape,man what more u niggas want? drizzy steady killing all ur favourite rappers,i mean look at meek bruh shit is sad,anyway watch out for views frm the six,that said#Drake is Real#Drake Is dope#
Lol, All you Drake fans are sobbing in a corner that his album isn’t #1.. TPAB murders anything Drake put out this year..
Joey badass released the best hip hop album of the year with out doubt.
How the hell are they going to have Rae Smurd whatever and Tetsuo & Youth didn’t make the cut??? That’s the only rap album that didn’t cater to bi$tches & hoes and bling bling “im so pretty” music that ACTUALLY had substance next to Kendrick. Damn, how lists have fallen off…
Lupe got robbed big time. T&Y is in the Top 3 of the year.
That’s why no one ever talked about it , huh?
Maybe no one talked about it in your circle, but elsewhere, it was heavily acclaimed.
No game??? Doc 2 & 2.5 best rap album 2015 period great production and lyrics smfh. Rae sremmurds on this list not valid.
Quentin Miller’s album was straight though. Number 3 is a good spot for him.
WHERE IS THE DOCUMENTARY 2&2.5 ?? What a list.
Fuck Doc 2 and 2.532934376 !
TPAB ALL DAY!!!!
How is Dr. Dre – Compton not on this list but hot garbage like Future is? It blows my mind.
“Another emerging act earned a spot on Rolling Stone’s list. Rae Sremmurd’s SremmLife is named as the forty-fourth-best album of 2015.”
rolling stone is a joke
No Tetsuo & Youth…….?
Scarface Deeply Rooted
DR Dre Compton Soundtrack
K Rino Makin’ Enemies
3 best albums of the yr these albums are like 50 times better than anything listed by Rolling Stone for like 10 yrs now you can not take them serious S M H
Why is everyone hating on the Rolling Stone? This is the same publication that left Tupac off their Top 10 rappers of all time list. Their opinion is obviously not valid and no real hip hop fan gives those lames any credence. I just skimmed the list but I wouldn’t be surprised if trash like Tyga and Barter 6 were in the top 10. Props to those that saw the genius of T&Y, TPAB, even IYRTITL among others. 2015 has been a great year in hip hop
It was Billboard you fuckface not Rolling Stone. Pussybrains!
Check out King Shampz & Azzan on Datpiff Real Boom Bap Shit!!! Mix-tape is “All Hail The King” they THE MONSTERS OF THE EAST COAST!!!!
Deeply Rooted was too real for these fags
Pistol Politics was too real for RS
Do people from kanyetothe write for rolling stone now? Rae smurrdar? lol.
Drake runs hiphop. Haters gone hate but Drake a dope album that was far from pop. how can these purists still front?
How can Aubrey run hip-hop when he doesn’t even make hip-hop music? That terrible album is full of pop shit.
Again, it shows that what was ‘ours’ can be taken away, Billboard had a crap list: They put Em’s name up there which has become the politically correct thing to do but no 2pac, no Krs-One, no BDK, no Puba, no G Rap, no Treach (the one Em ‘borrowed’ his style from). Moreover, non-suburban hip hop heads should understand, they will put someone up there whom you cannot related to, granted said someone has skills but subject matter you cannot relate to. What makes Kendrick , Cole great-er than the current shit on your radio is the fact that they are surrounded by garbage: Young Thug, Tyga, et al.. record execs are marketing this garbage called ‘rap’ nowadays using a two-headed prong: one, to the ones who are living the urban experience vicariously and two, to the black youths who are heavily influenced by said garbage, promoting effeminate behavior and homo-thug shit and you get into the industrial prison complex ads…let’s stop here.
KING KENDRICK earned that #1 album…..other great albums
90059
TETSUO & YOUTH
YOU CAN’T STOP DESTINY
DSP
DEEPLY ROOTED