Danny Brown, Frank Ocean, Slaughterhouse, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Kanye West, Tyler The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Drake, Public Enemy, Mellowhype, A$AP Ferg… the kist list of rappers who didn’t release much or any new material in 2014 is endless and relentless. It is easy to see who did.
The Slim Shady V was pretty good, Iggy Azalea and Azalea Banks were both real good… Run The Jewels 2 was best in class and what else? In 2014 the nominess for best rap album were:
Drake – Nothing Was the Same
Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Kanye West – Yeezus
Makclemore and Lewis – The Heist
in 2015?
Iggy Azalea – The New Classic
Common – Nobody’s Smiling
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Childish Gambino – Because the Internet
Wiz Khalifa – Blacc Hollywood
Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron
With all due respect, Schoolboy Q is to Danny Brown what, well, what Schooboy Q is to Danny Brown. Perhaps it is an anomalie. Perhaops the world of rap took the year off. I saw three very big rap shows, Drake, Lil Wayne, Jay Z, Beyonce -only Drake/Weezy were great but they were all big big big time stuff. Danny Brown was an absolute blast at Best Buy.
But there wasn’t anything close to a new Lamar, nothing really shook the world of rap at all, it was very lethargic, very underground rumblings of art and over head circling big records for 2014. A hugel disappointing year for rap.
