The best /worst year for hip hop?

[dametri426]

people now of days are saying certain artist are ruining hip hop , or saying Kendrick lamar, j cole saving hip hop , hip hop is dead etc so what was the worst year in hip hop and the best and why

[Vocker]

Best: 2008. everybody, from Kanye, to Wayne, to Jay.....everybody was making dope music that year, it was just amazing

Worst: 2010. Eminem was all over, not a bad thing..but NF and LTWYL got too annoying and that's all I remember from that year. Wayne was on jail. Kanye was still getting blamed for his shit. Drakes album was the best thing that year and it wasn't all that tbh..

[tangerous]

I can't actually select a year so i got to go with '03-'08. Definitely a major breakthrough of hip-hop in mainstream music. Everywhere you go, every channel/magazine you see, you could see hip-hop "marks" so to speak. Everywhere was just Em, 50, 'Ye, Weezy, Hov, maybe add some T.I. and Game (rest of G-Unit also).. the list goes on..

Don't know about the worst year/period tho.

[IceMan]

Best: 2008. everybody, from Kanye, to Wayne, to Jay.....everybody was making dope music that year, it was just amazing

Worst: 2010. Eminem was all over, not a bad thing..but NF and LTWYL got too annoying and that's all I remember from that year. Wayne was on jail. Kanye was still getting blamed for his shit. Drakes album was the best thing that year and it wasn't all that tbh..

yooooo

2010 was fucking great man


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Teflon Don
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Pilot Talk & Pilot Talk II
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty

[ggggggg]

Hip Hop is ALIVE!

[YoungTunechie]

2008 was really a great year

[Lil wayne prezident]

since I been a Hiphop fan there has not really been a bad year.

you always get a few great albums to be released every year.

[back on my bullish*t]

2012 worst year
2013 best year

[Flame Beats]

whenever Lil Jon was relevant.

[YMCMB357]

2012 worst year
2013 best year

Take Care and Good Kid Maad City ?

[LilMeazy]

There's never really been a bad year for Hip Hop.

[ProBitaz.]

I agree for the most part with this dude here, '03 was a great year;

2003.

Hip-Hop was accepted with a diverse sound commercially, and this year was the embodiment of that on all ends. OutKast’s “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” made alternative Hip-Hop a true staple in Pop culture, certified Diamond as well. 50 Cent’s “Get Rich or Die Tryin” displayed that the thug persona is still as powerful as it once was in the 90s and was still marketable and acceptable. The 90s didn’t have the longevity that its made out to seem. Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” if it didn’t already put Hov on the number one platform, one of the few rappers to make it out of the industry’s death trap that many of the late greats fell victim to (Mind you, Jay-Z was allegedly going to quit rapping after this album.). Lastly, Little Brother’s “The Listening" was a classic in its own right.
The production on all of these albums was top tier and did not conform to a single sound as some of the prior years had, not to discredit them in any way. Featuring the likes of Kanye West, Andre 3000 himself, The Neptunes, 9th Wonder, Just Blaze, etc.
Main Albums discussed:
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Little Brother - The Listening

The worst year of hip-hop most be either 2009/10/11. Yes there was great things going on, but it seems like hip-hop really changed and was becoming more and more about beats and not lyrics. You know, every rapper started doing trap or bass-heavy records and lyrics kinda drowned in all that.