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don't ever call me fortunate, you don't know what it cost me
so anybody complaining about they circumstances lost me
9. Dr. Dre - Compton
OK yes and now the controversial pick for the actual best rap album of 2015 (well, depending on how you define what rap is)! I understand not everyone was feeling this album too much more than a week after it came out, but in my eyes it brought together so many of the great things going on in hip hop TODAY but also really all throughout its past, for a super entertaining end result. Obviously Detox was always going to be ****ing horrible, just look at I Need a Doctor for proof of that, but thankfully someone in charge was able to recognize this and shift things back to where they needed to go. And this change in plans was way more than switching the name around and slapping a release date on that sucker to coincide with the Straight Outta Compton film. The focus now is on this complicated relationship between the man and his city, the way they've both shaped each other immensely over the last 30 years or so, and all the extrapolations you can get from that. It's introspective in a way that Dre has never been, and you can't help but thinking he's learned a trick or too in the opening-up department from some of the little-leaguers he's helped get on the come up in recent years. The music itself too is coming from a different approach now; it's not so much that he's going for A sound, but rather ALL the sounds. in the world. jumbled up into 1. It's gigantic, and as has been pointed out, you'd be better off searching for comparisons in the world of film scores instead of other rap albums. But he hasn't lost his gift for melody, and those guys are all over the place here, big and small, hidden and in plain sight. He hasn't lost his gift for anything really. When Nas's Life Is Good came out in 2012 I commented how we had a new benchmark for albums by rappers in their 40s, one I didn't expect anyone to come and take from him anytime soon. Well I guess it's not exactly the same record, but 6 months after Dr. Dre turned 50 this year, his present to us was a new benchmark.
lol not putting your album on spotify OR youtube, hello Taylor
it's not much of a -standouts- record, but I mean can't go wrong with Genocide, It's All On Me, Just Another Day or Animals
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Screaming!! Why is Compton so high? The movie was really good but really the rest was so blah to me, I think I liked All in a Day's Work though.
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eye can only assume it's better than rebel heart
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Ooh great Vince Staples! Definitely think he differentiated himself from others with that album, and he did a good job of it.
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Dr. Dre has some good songs, need to check out his album in full 
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she says, like literally, music is the air she breathes
and the malaprops make me want to ****in' scream
i wonder if she even knows what that word means
well, it's literally not that
8. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Hurr we go! This is THE cynical heterosexual white male POV album, but he deserves his credit for injecting a totally new class of personality into this STALE mix. The patriarchy can have thqis one, sorry his brand of sarcasm and pretentiousness was so endearing to me and many others. The whole catch here is that FJM is the king of irony and satire and double-meanings, yet he's gone and done the most cliche thing that anyone can do aka fall in love with his now-wife. The album is basically him trying to making sense of this, and within all the ground it covers we get a couple sweet heartfelt revelations, and couple sharp insights into the way that we as a ~society like to deal with these big ideas, but above everything else a ton of hilarious and quotable jabs at everyone in sight including himself, delivered with the absolute most deadpan sincerity ever. I guess you could classify the music as "folk," but there's richness and drama and some more exploration to it that you just wouldn't go in expecting from say Sufjan Stevens, and it comes out sounding straight beautiful. Tears
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Summertime '06 was quality. Pretty sure that was my favorite rap album released this year.
Compton was alright also. Probably my second favorite to come out of SoCal after Summertime.
I Love You, Honeybear was weirdly kind of slept on this year. Fantastic, and at times downright hilarious album 
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if it’s a miracle, to be alive and well
if we fell, we feel we’d be okay
7. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf
dat. Brass. There are moments that are low-key enough to fool you, but taken as a whole this was kinda the burst of gleaming positivity that 2015 needed. It is definitely not what I expected from Chance the Rapper's second main full length project, but as much as he's a star on his own he's showed us he can work just as well as part of a much, much bigger group. The ensemble kind of vibe is a #goodlook; it's like showing up to your inner city neighborhood block party, where it's a lil frosty out, but you've got your mittens on and like Busta Rhymes and Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe are right there standing next to the fire. Aand it means that everyone only has to take on the things they're great at and want to do, so between Donnie T's little minimal trumpet exercises, the giant sound explosions with everyone invited and the rap bits, there's a lot of variety. It's not a world that tries to do away with all the ****** things or pretend they don't exist -- there are enough verses popping up with their share of ****boy posturing/acknowledgements to reality for that to be the case – but I bet it's still one that can induce that feeling in that listener for a good 50 mins.
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i just want the simple things
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I
JUST
WANT
YOUUUUU
6. Miguel - Wildheart
It doesn't even seem like it, but evidently Miguel has shifted his style a bit from where we saw him back in 2012 and made another one of those albums whose coolness comes in large part from the maker's occasional lack-there-of. In this case though I don't really know if that was intentional. There are moments on Wildheart where he lets his guard down almost entirely, like the growin-up identity crisis on 'what's normal anyway' or 'Coffee''s morning-after vulnerability, but then you have **** like that album cover OR THAT ALBUM TITLE where I knoww he thinks he's being the coolest, boldest man alive but it's like, nah bro you just corny! But either way the confidence + charisma he brings to the table has let him bypass the idea of being cool altogether, and just be. Kinda like how he's also bypassed the concept of R&B entirely and made maybe the best psych-rock album of 2015. Don't recall exactly where I read it but the line "Black Messiah fighting Voodoo's battle" is really a great comparison, and one he's earned 100%. He pulls from influences all across the board with the same brashness + creativity that he uses to write about ****ing, and it's ****ing amazing and I wish I could put it at #1 here.
Wonder if this had anything to do with mR. oshin his yr of quiet quiet 
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unf Miguel got me thinking I ****ed the order up. why your album so good?
unnnfjfd whatevURR
I know I should've finished by now but I think I'll do awl the top 5 in one go tomorrow as to preserve the suspense and excitement. 
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Originally posted by Kang.
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How could I forget DEAL?
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I like Miguel's music most of the time, let me check out that album!
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Yeah that cover is... not cool  But it works?
Great albums again, love them both. Both were just FUN but still accomplished a lot.
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dupe post
edit: Wrong account lol
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N I love Miguel's album cover it's so over the top.
And yeees @ everything you said about FJM. Perfect lyric quote that song is the best.
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LUV Honeybear.
I figured Miguel would end up in my top 10 once but idk, I just don't use that album much anymore. Surf was good, I def need to listen to it more.
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Well I didn't just come here to post ...
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they say people never change, but that's bullshit
they do
5. Tame Impala - Currents
How to release your first two albums as a guitar band (well, band*) and drop the guitars from album #3 altogether and have it feel like nothing's changed. It helps that Kevin Parker can still write a bassline to ground things in like nobody'th bidneth, but I think the synthesizers and dance music influences do a fantastic job of driving in the <oh! gawn' with the flow> message that the lyrics and the cover art introduce pretty early on. Just like all it takes are a couple subdued hints of aggression (The Less I Know the Better, New Person/Same Old Mistakes) to capture that "decisions are approaching" feel among the calm, floating warbles that are the rest of the songs. It's kind of amazing when you go and stack Currents up to Lonerism and Innerspeaker just how clear the actual sound is -- obviously a good thing, but kind of interesting how on the first time he starts to address this kind of subject matter the aimless, wandering feel that's been there in the past is gone. Not that I don't miss the guitars at all, but now we know that as long as your rock band is good enough, those are more of an accessory.
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