It's holiday season, and that means it's time to start rolling out the year-end lists. There was almost too much good music to handle, as notable releases week after week meant that only the hottest tracks were able to attain a shelf-life of longer than a couple of months. There were a few obvious trends that helped make sense of the past 12 months. Out West, L. That other guy from across the border had another huge year -- with a platinum mixtape that had to be called an album after every one of its songs hit the charts. He was also lucky to have an Internet-breaking conspiracy fall right into his hands. As was the case last year, Atlanta, led by a young team of adventurous trap producers, was the most productive city on the map.

Presenting HNHH's Hottest 50 Songs of 2015.
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Now lets get something straight right away, these songs are in no particular order. There was a lot of great hip hop music released in and I did my best pick 25 tracks that I felt truly made their mark for the genre. I'm sure I left out some of your favorites sorry Young Thug fans and I know I could have probably listed 5 drake songs, but I think this rounds things up nicely as we get ready for a new year of great music. Drake - "Hotline Bling" I'm still waiting for Adele to jump on the remix. Still can't believe this won't win a grammy.
The 15 Best Hip Hop Tracks Of 2018
Jay-Z and Eminem, two of the greatest rappers of all time, perform together. Matt Sayles. Troy L. Smith, cleveland. For a while there was just East Coast and West Coast rap with Southern hip-hop creeping into the mainstream. After the start of the new millennium, everything exploded. An endless number of hits came from various genres, producing some of the most creative and polarizing music in hip-hop history. Here we count down the greatest hip-hop songs released since , starting with one of the best selling artists of that time:.
The past year has been an incredible 12 months for hip-hop. The entire year has been bursting with quality tracks, mixtapes and albums. There's been quality from the mainstream and the underground, from trap rap to more experimental sounds. Many critics proclaimed to be one of the best years for rap music in years, and some have even went as far as saying it's been one of the best years ever. With everything that has been released in , it's hard to narrow the year down to a list of individual songs. After careful deliberation, we managed to come up with 20 different songs that we believe sum up the year in hip-hop music. Songs were chosen for a variety of reasons. Some of them were put here because of their huge amount of commercial success. Others didn't chart as high or maybe not at all , but their pure quality made it so people were still talking about them throughout the year. We also limited it to one appearance per main artist.