IDK says he didn’t predict that Black pop music would storm the dance floor with the force it did this year, but he personally wanted to juxtapose somber stories of a Washington, D.C., project he grew up near with production that would make you more likely to move your body than rack your brain.
Shape-shifting rapper IDK and in-demand electronic producer Kaytranada began working on IDK’s EP Simple. Nas, whose been particularly prolific in recent years, joins the consistently hard-working lyricist Pusha T as the two rap elder statesmen who released some of their best work this year. Still, even amid rap’s shifting dynamics, some things stay true.
And global superstars like Stormzy and Central Cee are beginning to gain traction stateside. Women like Megan Thee Stallion, Little Simz, Flo Milli, and Latto continue to reshape rap’s gender dynamics. A new generation of artists - like JID, Smino, and Mavi - is entering new heights in their careers, dropping some of the year’s most compelling releases.Įlsewhere, underground stalwarts like Roc Marciano and billy woods continue to build confidently on the expansive creative vision that’s kept rap’s independent heart pumping into the age of social media. But rap is built on movement, and 2022 proved that the well of talent in the hip-hop world is as fresh and exciting as ever. In Ye’s case, one of the genre’s brightest stars fell shamefully into a stance of bigotry and confoundingly bad choices, all as the music deteriorated. At the top of the year, megastars Drake, Kanye West, and Kendrick Lamar delivered landmark albums that fell shy of possibly outsize expectations. In 2022, the hip-hop world experienced a real reshuffling of the decks.
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