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Hip-hop has officially become the most dominant genre in popular music. Kanye West alone has been involved with a half dozen projects this summer while remaining the most infamous man in music. Future has released two mixtapes, one of which was with Juice WRLD, who had only released his debut album five months prior. When he died shortly after the release of Part One, he had just defined himself as much more than a Soundcloud oddity. The kids were listening. Lil Peep connected with audiences for his open and honest discussion of his own anxieties and self-destructive addictions.
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Not only did we catch ourselves chest-bumping strangers because of Sheck Wes' raging ode to an NBA rookie, but we were also left entranced by the spellbinding ride of Travis Scott and Drake's three-part chart-topper. Don't sleep on the ladies either, because they were spinning off bangers while on the clock, too. Miami's City Girls kept the ladies engaged with twerk-worthy anthems, while Noname peppered a fistful of empowering gems to help women trek their way through Everyone made a splash, but only 20 songs truly had our hearts during this ultra-competitive year. See which ones made the cut below. Migos had already mastered beats fit for the grimiest trap house in the Nawf, so it was a little surprising when they linked up with Pharrell to grab a decade-old beat that sounds straight out of Soul Train. No other producer-rapper pairing has chemistry quite like this right now, allowing both the freedom and comfort to be their best weirdo selves. With only two albums under their Gucci belts, City Girls have already mastered how to make epic twerk paeans. Originally crafted as a single for the Kendrick Lamar-curated Black Panther: The Album , Jay Rock also included this super-teaming as the centerpiece to his album Redemption.
