I can see how some artists I enjoy can be seen as "hipster hop", and I don't really give a shit, but I don't get how Kanye gets thrown in the mix. He's always been a hugely popular and had a largely mainstream audience. I do understand how that could've died down a bit with the reception Yeezus got, but for the most part most of his fans are people who love him for what they heard on the radio and such.
Regardless of the size of his scope, he's always attracted the backpacker culture. The college theme of his first 2 albums along with him working with socially conscious rappers like Talib Kweli and Common Sense started it, then he pulled in more hipster cred sampling Daft Punk and bringing Bon Iver in the studio.
It doesn't matter that much to me though. I didn't even mean hipster hop as a negative term. It is what it is. What gets called hip hop now has almost nothing to do with the original form the same way modern heavy metal has little to do with Chuck Berry. The ethical core that kept hip hop relevant has been dead for 15 years now. What's left is kinda like the GMO version. As long as I accept that, it's a lot easier for me to swallow a lot of this new shit
My top 20. Honestly I don't know why I'm numbering them. I just get stoned and jam the fuck out to all of them. But here's my shot.
1 Hobo Rocket - Pond 2. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic - Foxygen 3. Evil Friends - Portugal. The Man 4. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk 5. Pure Heroine - Lorde 6. Acid Rap - Chance the Rapper 7. II - Unknown Mortal Orchestra 8. Pelagial - The Ocean 9. MGMT - MGMT 10. Corsicana Lemonade - White Denim 11. Comedown Machine - The Strokes 12. Silence Yourself - Savages 13. Hummingbird - Local Natives 14. Serpents Unleashed - Skeletonwitch 15. When It Was Now - Atlas Genius 16. The Hurry and The Harm - City and Colour 17. Settle - Dislcosure 18. Paracosm - Washed Out 19. A Color Map of the Sun - Pretty Lights 20. MMLP 2 - Eminem
I'm not sure if I ever posted my list. Here' amy final list. Only Top 10 are numbered. There's 3 sections to my list: Albums I thought were really good, albums I thought were great, then my Top 10. Sections not numbered are in alphabetical order.
1. SubRosa – More Constant Than The Gods 2. Deafhheaven – Sunbather 3. Light Bearer – Sliver Tongue 4. Children of God – We Set Fire To The Sky 5. My Bloody Valentine – m b v 6. Lycus – Tempest 7. Nails – Abandon All Life 8. Usnea – Usnea 9. Gorguts – Colored Sands 10. Fen – Dustwalker
Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows Castevet – Obsian Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap Dead In The Dirt – The Blind Hole Intronaut – Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones) Leer – SPRINGBREAKNOPARENTS Pray For Teeth – From The Dry Edge Of The Shore Protest The Hero – Volition This Town Needs Guns – 13.0.0.0.0 Vhol – Vhol Whirr – Around The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Whenever, If Ever ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Really Good Albums
Boris – Präparat Childish Gambino – Because The Internet Danny Brown – Old Earl Sweatshirt – Doris Grayceon – Pearl and The End Of Days In Solitude – Sister Kylesa – Ultraviolet Leucosis – Leucosis Lord Dying – Summon The Faithless Purson – The Circle and the Blue Door Raw Geronimo – Dream Fever Rin Tin Tiger – Splinter Remedies suicideyear – Japan Windhand – Soma Witherscape – The Inheritance Young Hunter – Embers at the Foot of Dark Mountain
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It doesn't matter that much to me though. I didn't even mean hipster hop as a negative term. It is what it is. What gets called hip hop now has almost nothing to do with the original form the same way modern heavy metal has little to do with Chuck Berry. The ethical core that kept hip hop relevant has been dead for 15 years now. What's left is kinda like the GMO version. As long as I accept that, it's a lot easier for me to swallow a lot of this new shit
1 Hobo Rocket - Pond
2. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic - Foxygen
3. Evil Friends - Portugal. The Man
4. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
5. Pure Heroine - Lorde
6. Acid Rap - Chance the Rapper
7. II - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
8. Pelagial - The Ocean
9. MGMT - MGMT
10. Corsicana Lemonade - White Denim
11. Comedown Machine - The Strokes
12. Silence Yourself - Savages
13. Hummingbird - Local Natives
14. Serpents Unleashed - Skeletonwitch
15. When It Was Now - Atlas Genius
16. The Hurry and The Harm - City and Colour
17. Settle - Dislcosure
18. Paracosm - Washed Out
19. A Color Map of the Sun - Pretty Lights
20. MMLP 2 - Eminem
1. SubRosa – More Constant Than The Gods
2. Deafhheaven – Sunbather
3. Light Bearer – Sliver Tongue
4. Children of God – We Set Fire To The Sky
5. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
6. Lycus – Tempest
7. Nails – Abandon All Life
8. Usnea – Usnea
9. Gorguts – Colored Sands
10. Fen – Dustwalker
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Great albums
Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Castevet – Obsian
Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
Dead In The Dirt – The Blind Hole
Intronaut – Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Leer – SPRINGBREAKNOPARENTS
Pray For Teeth – From The Dry Edge Of The Shore
Protest The Hero – Volition
This Town Needs Guns – 13.0.0.0.0
Vhol – Vhol
Whirr – Around
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Whenever, If Ever
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Really Good Albums
Boris – Präparat
Childish Gambino – Because The Internet
Danny Brown – Old
Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
Grayceon – Pearl and The End Of Days
In Solitude – Sister
Kylesa – Ultraviolet
Leucosis – Leucosis
Lord Dying – Summon The Faithless
Purson – The Circle and the Blue Door
Raw Geronimo – Dream Fever
Rin Tin Tiger – Splinter Remedies
suicideyear – Japan
Windhand – Soma
Witherscape – The Inheritance
Young Hunter – Embers at the Foot of Dark Mountain
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