SoundsPurple: The 17 Best Rap Albums of 2017 (So Far)

Started by DKC, Jul 28, 2017, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Do D
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    Jul 28, 2017
    can only think of 7 or 8 good album released this year so far and like 4 of them aren't even on here so nah
     
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  2. Cyreides
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    1. Flowerboy


    2. d---

    3. Culture
    4. Big Fish Theory
    5. HNDRXX




    6/7/8 The Autobiography, Good For You, Future
    ????

    idk
     
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  3. Mike Tyson
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    Jul 28, 2017
    dude furious that neither eminem or schoolboy q haven't dropped anything this year
     
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  4. Mike Tyson
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    who is this fa----
     
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  5. Cyreides
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    Name starts with Cy and ends with
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  6. DKC
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    Jul 28, 2017
    I'm a fan of flowerboy but this list was written before it dropped. Haven't listened to Good For You yet but I was a fan of the singles. Couldn't make it through Vic's album.
     
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  7. Groovy Tony
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    Jul 28, 2017
    False. Yall stan Thug so hard lol Im a fan of his but BTG isnt the best rap album of the year let alone better than You Only Live 2wice
     
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  8. DKC
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    What albums do you think it's missing?
     
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  9. Mike Tyson
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    not to mention it's pretty much the same list as yours with one album swapped for another and the order shuffled just slightly lmao
     
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  10. Do D
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    Flower Boy, Oddisee's The Iceberg and Stromzy's g--- Signs and Prayers
     
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    I figured it had to be, otherwise that was some serious shade
    I think it's pretty decent, albeit just like..... idk... it's fun I guess.

    Annoyed REDMERCEDES wasn't on it though, now I gotta download that separately and throw it on my copy as a bonus (I can see why it wasn't on there though, doesn't seem to fit the vibe)
    I liked it cause I thoroughly enjoyed The Manuscript EP once I actually remembered to listen to it, but for whatever reason most people on here don't fk w/ Vic at all. So I'm not surprised you don't like that one.

    Initially my complaint about it was it seemed a bit overlong, and forgetful, so I was disappointed. But I gave it a chance and I enjoy it all quite a bit now after throwing it on in the background a few times.
     
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  12. 1999
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    Jul 28, 2017
    d--- OP this website looks nice
     
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  13. Cyreides
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    it's not though?

    like, that's a pretty big reach. there's obviously a couple shared listings, but lol past that
     
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  14. Mike Tyson
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    Jul 28, 2017
    buddy you can't even make a list of 17 albums :laff:

    you're furious that a genre muddied concisely executed concept album by young thug is ranked higher than a safe and brief album by gibbs.

    the gibbs album is good, the thug album is great. the list reflects that pretty well imo
     
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    rich homie quan?
     
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    Admittedly never listened to Oddisee's new album. Stormzy I haven't been able to get into, and this list was written before flower boy dropped, otherwise it woulda been on there.
     
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  17. 1999
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    Jul 28, 2017
    Isn't EBTG a mixtape, I agree its top 3 of the year project wise but why does he keep selling these mixtapes instead of just putting out an album
     
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  18. Groovy Tony
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    Jul 28, 2017
    Im not furious yall just giving thugs album too much credit. Putting it ahead of 4:44 and d--- is blasphemous as h---
     
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  19. Mike Tyson
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    no, as i said earlier in this thread, it's a choice of preference, but all 3 of those albums are in the same stratosphere to anyone with less than pretentious ears
     
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  20. 1999
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    Jul 28, 2017
    Why is everyone mad about OP's rankings :lmaooo:

    Flower Boy was alright but this was written before it came out, get out your feelings nobody wants to listen to your UK rappers in 2017, we want thug and kung fu kenny
     
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