While HHGA will always consider the use of autotune as a sign of weakness – a tool to hide the lack of skill – this guy gets away with it, he probably doesn’t even need it. Predisposed not to like artists with Lil in their name or with colored dreds, or with anything else really that looks like its just another generic construct out of the trap factory, it’s hard to go into a project like this with an open mind. Now let’s get into it, from meh to bad to worse to worst: The Worst Rap Albums Of 2020. It’s entirely possible we missed some lower-profile sucky rap albums that deserve to be here too – if so, let us know and maybe we’ll add them. If we have to misfortune to be confronted by more rap albums that need to be on this list, we will add them. It’s just because we actually listened to all these albums that we’ve decided to share our thoughts about them. Don’t attach TOO much meaning to the ratings and the comments. We stuck a rating to each album listed here. And 21 Savage and Metro Boomin dropped a solid album with Savage Mode II. Juice WRLD’s posthumous album was pretty good. Mind: not all music categorizable as trap sucks by definition. Sometimes sitting through two listening sessions was torturous, sometimes surprisingly bearable. Every album on this list got at least two full listens, one with a focus on the lyrics, one more casual. So we decided to have some fun and do this totally gratuitous list, with no other reason than to rant a little about what we consider a sad, sad corner of the rap universe. Inevitably we get to hear albums that get lumped into the Hip Hop category incorrectly. That means we listen to ALL new albums released in the Hip Hop genre. It so happens we like neo-soul and some R&B, but trap: not so much. (T)rap for us is a Hip Hop adjacent genre, like R&B and neo-soul are not Hip Hop, but Hip Hop adjacent. The albums listed here are rap albums or trap albums, or something – not Hip Hop albums as far as we are concerned. KRS One once said, “Rap is something you do, Hip Hop is something you live”. See what we did there in the title of this piece? It’s called The Worst RAP Albums Of 2020, as opposed to The Best HIP HOP Albums Of 2020.
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