Never one to be outdone, the now-hyphenless Jay Z also made a waves of his own with his #NewRules campaign. It’s interesting to note that the instrumental for his “Black Skinhead” ended up in a commercial for the Moto X even after he brazenly said “Fuck you and your corporations!” Go figure. Most either loved it or hated it, but no matter what everyone felt something and that’s really all Kanye wants in the end.
Yeezy Season hit full stride during the summer’s early months when Kanye West dropped one of the internet’s most buzzed about albums in recent years. It’s not a very long running collection of songs, but it’s not brief to the point where the funk can’t get into your bones and make you get your boogie on to a song or two.
With this “7 Days of Funk,” he’s just having fun. Cole and so forth but here goes nothing.Īs I said in my review of this project, Snoop Dogg just transcends genres and mediums. I never got around to checking out the projects from Tyler, Earl Sweatshirt, Danny Brown, J. With so much to choose from, it’s almost impossible to compile a comprehensive list of the year’s best releases, but I did manage to come up with a list of ten of my favorites from the year. Speaking of which, several older vets were also out to prove that they still have what it takes to be relevant. Lots of strides were made creatively and there were plenty of emerging stars that staked their claims as leaders of the new school.
2013 was a great year for hip-hop overall.