2015 Appreciation Thread...

[murksiderock]

OP forgetting classics

Lupe - Tetsou&Youth
Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise
Wale - Album About Nothing

No doubt, I'm forgetting alota shyt...

Do you think '15 was the gold standard for this decade?

 

[murksiderock]

Is there any standout R&B from that year besides Kehlani and Weeknd?

 

[KravenMorehead™]

when this shyt dropped...

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[prophecypro]

I think I still liked 2011 and 2012 more and there was so much stuff that dropped last year it qualifies by having good stuff too

But 2015 had some moments too , sure

Kendrick, Joey Badass, Dre, Travis, The Game, Vince

 

[murksiderock]

when this shyt dropped...

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Future was on fire that year fa sho, I forgot 56 Nights and Beast Mode dropped that year!

I think I still liked 2011 and 2012 more and there was so much stuff that dropped last year it qualifies by having good stuff too

But 2015 had some moments too , sure

Kendrick, Joey Badass, Dre, Travis, The Game, Vince

'17 was good, but I'm further removed from current stuff now...

I'm having a hard time remembering '11 and '12 shyt, but off top of my head:

Rich Forever
God Forgives I Don't
Take Care
Dreamchasers
Dreamchasers 2
Dreams And Nightmares

(I was heavy into MMG back then lol)...

Tha Carter IV
Watch The Throne
Jesus Piece
Section.80
Good Kid Maad City
Sorry 4 The Wait

My memory is foggy but I don't recall those years being better, refresh me!

 

[Izanami]

No doubt, I'm forgetting alota shyt...

Do you think '15 was the gold standard for this decade?

I enjoyed ‘18 just as much, maybe more. Time will tell how those albums will hold up but Daytona and Drogas Wave are classics to me already.

 

[raoulduke187]

the album of the decade dropped in 2015

 

[prophecypro]

Future was on fire that year fa sho, I forgot 56 Nights and Beast Mode dropped that year!



'17 was good, but I'm further removed from current stuff now...

I'm having a hard time remembering '11 and '12 shyt, but off top of my head:

Rich Forever
God Forgives I Don't
Take Care
Dreamchasers
Dreamchasers 2
Dreams And Nightmares

(I was heavy into MMG back then lol)...

Tha Carter IV
Watch The Throne
Jesus Piece
Section.80
Good Kid Maad City
Sorry 4 The Wait

My memory is foggy but I don't recall those years being better, refresh me!

Also had Nas Life is Good, Cruel Summer, Joey Badass 1999, the rise of ASAP Mob, Odd Future, KRIT with another tape, 2 Chainz,proper debut tape and album

 

[str8up]

Tree had my favorite verse of the year on this joint

 

[ManBearPig]

That year was loaded with dope albums.

Dont forget GO:AM by Mac Miller

 

[murksiderock]

Also had Nas Life is Good, Cruel Summer, Joey Badass 1999, the rise of ASAP Mob, Odd Future, KRIT with another tape, 2 Chainz,proper debut tape and album

Okay I def forgot about Life Is Good and 1999, two excellent projects. That was back when everybody thought Joey had next, he had 3 good years or so and disappeared...

I also forgot about Tity 2 Chainzreally blowing. Didn't Action Bronson rev up his buzz in one of those years?

I always thought Cruel Summer was earlier, I keep fukking up...

That year was loaded with dope albums.

Dont forget GO:AM by Mac Miller

2015 to be is the high bar of the '10s, I'm gonna have to go listen to the Mac Miller joint, and a couple other joints I seen mentioned I wasn't on, but off memory I recall '15 being flooded with great hip-hop!

 

[MikeyC]

Was 2015 the greatest year in music this decade? Hip hop, I really think has a case. Granted, we still have to get thru 2019 to definitively say, but my early vote for greatest year of the 2010s (2010-2019) is 2015...

Here are some of the classics and near-classics released in 2015:

To Pimp A Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar)
If You're Reading This It's Too Late (Drake)
What A Time To Be Alive (Future/Drake)
Dirty Sprite 2 (Future)
You Should Be Here (Kehlani)
Beauty Behind The Madness (The Weeknd)
Documentary 2/2.5 (Game)
It's Better This Way (Big Krit)
Summertime Shootout (Fabolous)

These are just off the top I can remember banging all year, I know I'm forgetting some. Everybody feel free to post other classic/near-classic albums from '15, and if yall feel another year this decade was stronger than '15, let's chop it up!

I know for me, I was playing all this shyt into 2016, both years were hella fun and wild for me. I got good memories of the music that dropped that year, and honestly I'm a guy who listens more to music of my adolescence (2000s/2000-2009) more than to modern music or older shyt (I listen to about as much 90s shyt as I do today's shyt)...

Let's tall about it!

Nope. It was a good year, but it ain't seeing the year that gave us:

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

Quiet as it’s kept Future ran my summer that year

 

[Pete Wrigley]

2011, 2015, 2017 and 2018 were great years for hip hop

 

[mobbinfms]