When you look back at the 2010’s era of hip hop, what was great about it???

[Pure Water]

Great party music during a time where women was actually dancing in the club.

Great new artist on SoundCloud. SoundCloud had new artist that fit everyone’s taste back then.

A lot of artist were a lot more out there regarding interviews and blogs they would post on the internet. The videos that Odd Future would post on their YouTube were hilarious. Same as TDE.

 

[Lurk Angle]

Great party music during a time where women was actually dancing in the club.

Great new artist on SoundCloud. SoundCloud had new artist that fit everyone’s taste back then.

A lot of artist were a lot more out there regarding interviews and blogs they would post on the internet. The videos that Odd Future would post on their YouTube were hilarious. Same as TDE.

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Also the early 2010s was really better musically than later in the decade

U still had alternative rap poppin in the early 10s

Once drill took over it was a wrap though

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Nah ur issue is it don’t seem like u wasnt plugged into the independent scene. Add to the fact this was prime Kendrick, Cole, Drake years. Joey badass dropped with Pro Era, ASAP Rocky and his crew. Underground scene was refreshed with Marci and Spitta etc etc.

I've ALWAYS been on the indie circuit. I was doing shows and attending shows in that era from artists yall post here. I was still buying a ton of vinyl and cds in that era as well(I still do). I was buying the Cormega's, Royce (Pryme), Fashawn albums, etc. In the 2010s is when I finally started using serato and it made my life so much easier so I've never not been "informed" of independent hip hop music. Roc Marciano wasn't a new rapper. He'd been around since the 90s with Busta and early 2000s with Pete Rock. In 2004 he dropped UN or U Out with the UN and that's one of my top 10 personally favorite albums of all time. I've bought that shyt 3 times on original pressings and repressings vinyl/cd

 

[Overpss]

Kendrick dropping GKMC, TPAB, DAMN back to back, 3 of the best albums ever, was insane


And tpab being more than one of the best hip hop albums ever, probably the only rap album to ever transcend hip hop as one of the very best music albums period

 

[spliz]

The first half of the 2010s was one of the best creative peaks of the genre since the 90s. A lot of artists chasing new sounds but still focusing on lyricism and maintaining a clear cultural connection to earlier eras of hip-hop. The blog era gave exposure to a lot of dope underground artists and it was the first time hip-hop culture really became enmeshed with internet culture in a way that felt vital, before it became the fukkery it is now. Once drill took off after Chief Keef and Future started dominating in the second half of the decade it took a nosedive.

I wouldn’t blame it on Keef being that he blew up in 2012 and hip hop was still lit for a good 3 more years after that.

 

[Number21000]

Loved the 2010s, it gave us some of the best albums we've ever heard:

To Pimp A Butterfly
My Beautiful Dark Twisted
Blonde
AM
...

 

[spliz]

I've ALWAYS been on the indie circuit. I was doing shows and attending shows in that era from artists yall post here. I was still buying a ton of vinyl and cds in that era as well(I still do). I was buying the Cormega's, Royce (Pryme), Fashawn albums, etc. In the 2010s is when I finally started using serato and it made my life so much easier so I've never not been "informed" of independent hip hop music. Roc Marciano wasn't a new rapper. He'd been around since the 90s with Busta and early 2000s with Pete Rock. In 2004 he dropped UN or U Out with the UN and that's one of my top 10 personally favorite albums of all time. I've bought that shyt 3 times on original pressings and repressings vinyl/cd

Roc Marci wasn’t a new rapper the same way Curren$y wasn’t a new rapper. No one counts the shyt they did before 2009 and 2010 like that. That’s when they broke new ground. KA been around since forever too but he didn’t break ground until the early 2010s. Like I said. If u had a problem with the early 2010s that’s more of a u problem than a hip hop issue cause there was PLENTY of variety at that time and plenty dope and innovative artists to choose from.

 

[Duke Dixon]

I was listening to DS2 earlier this week and was like that was 10 years ago

Just earlier today I looked at all the albums that came out in 2015 and I was surprised how good the year was.

I'm going to make a series of threads and see if you guys think these albums are classics.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Gucci Mixtapes

Roc Marci

Future's run that started in 2014 with Monster

The initial Chicago Drill run in 2011 - 2013 was

GKMC, TBAB

ASAP's first mixtape

Prodigy - Albert Einstein

Alchemist's sound evolving + Fetti, Covert Coup, et al.

Griselda's efforts to restore the feeling with gutter east coast shyt that actually sounded East Coast and not some ATL shyt

SoundCloud had some dope ass artists

 

[JustCKing]

2010-2013, 2015

^^^ that's it.

 

[CrimsonTider]

2010-2013, 2015

^^^ that's it.

2016 is goated

Future
migos
Thug

soundcloud

alt rap

 

[Nuuko]

2017 gave us DAMN, the 2nd biggest rap album of the 21st century

 

[MisterMajesty]

Nah ur issue is it don’t seem like u wasnt plugged into the independent scene. Add to the fact this was prime Kendrick, Cole, Drake years. Joey badass dropped with Pro Era, ASAP Rocky and his crew. Underground scene was refreshed with Marci and Spitta etc etc.

Even legacy artists like Prodigy was dropping some great shyt

 

[MisterMajesty]

There was a lot to be excited about. The new west coast guys, blog era stuff, legacy artists seemed to kinda get it back (Fif had some dope mixtapes, Mobb Deep, Nas, even Wu etc). I'd say 2016 is when it started to get a bit "meh"

 

[semicko82]

The 2010s were a great time in hip hop after the lackluster late 2000s