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Dec 29, 2014.. Hip Hop Is Read Top 200 Hip Hop Songs of 2014 (1-70). •••. 9.54K 25. Audiomack. 00:00. 00:00. Loading the player.. 01. Big Sean - I Don't ..
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This week's most popular R&B/Hip-Hop songs, based on radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time.
Dec 19, 2014.. Nicki Minaj, Bobby Shmurda, Dej Loaf and Big Sean are just some of the names on our list of the 10 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2014.
The first half of 2014 was a mixed but mostly stale bag of music. However, Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’ and Wiz Khalifa’s ‘We Dem Boyz’ were surefire staples throughout the year — just look at our initial 20 Best Hip-Hop Songs list. Thankfully, since then, more songs have dropped and things are picking up before heading into 2015. Many of the hits were surprises and sleepers. Big Sean messed around and gave us a four-track EP with some of his best work, including a track that immediately stuck as soon as it hit Soundcloud. Out of his hometown came a diminutive newcomer with an ear for beats and a penchant for violence. Baking soda, one of the most slept-on food additives of all-time, is also having a moment. Make no mistake, though. The highlights did come in the earlier months. See where rise of the booty and one day of the week falls in the 10 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2014. Drake was on top this year without dropping an album as ‘0 to 100’ ran clubs and his small beef with Jay Z became the center of blog gossip. This might just be one of the important years of his career, too; 2014 is OVO Sound’s breakout year. PARTYNEXTDOOR has amassed a following and has been quoted on countless tweets. ILoveMakonnen is more ubiquitous thanks to ‘Tuesday’ -- a joint that’s great in its novelty and execution. The song has even earned a Grammy nomination. Over a warbly, instantly recognizable riff (Metro Boomin and Sonny Digital with yet another success), Makonnen rises to make the rare club hit that’s both exciting and acutely aware of the journey to the bar. He’s genuinely sympathetic if you listen closely enough: “I've been workin' graveyard shifts every other weekend / Ain't got no f--- time to party on the weekend.” So tonight, on a Tuesday, we dance. It’s very clear that capriciousness lies at the center of the minimal keys and constant bass heard on ‘Bitch U Guessed It.' That’s nothing new -- see Young Thug -- but there’s a precision with which OG Maco navigates his bipolar presence that truly makes this song stick. The raucous “I’m still with my n----“ comes within seconds before he slyly muses that he’s “Still in that place and I'm flexin’.” There’s a charisma that connects the two points; we’re rioting and flexin’ for no reason other than the fact that he’s OG Maco. Sometimes you just know when you got one. Even though the lyrics to ‘CoCo’ come off like a drug dealer's all caps text demand, O.T. Genasis knew. “It’s a feeling,” he said in an interview with Complex. “You know it when you feel it. ‘Baking sawda, I got baking sawda.’ I felt that, you know what I’m saying. That’s why I said it.” In other words, there’s a legal high in ‘CoCo.’ It works in the same way you feel in the excitement of ‘Scarface’’s final scene instead of explaining to yourself that doing a shootout while incredibly high on cocaine isn’t a smart choice. It’s a thrill that makes grown-ass men like Busta Rhymes do head-first dives off stages. Mike WiLL Made-It’s slight fall from being the game’s top producer has a lot to do with its characteristically short attention span. Some of it is on him, though. In his quest to switch up his style to maintain his uniqueness, he’s ended up sounding similar to other producers who’ve switched up their style to maintain uniqueness. His work and his ambition never quite met up, resulting in washed out instrumentals. ‘Buy the World’ should’ve been a hit. His union with club wunderkinds Rae Sremmurd somehow inspired him to return to the basics: trunk-rattling, but melodic bass combined with woozy, metallic synths. Mike WiLL has been so focused on establishing his legacy that he’d forgotten the carpe diem philosophy that put him in position to do so. Rae Sremmurd symbolizes it: “I’m just living life / And let my momma tell it n---- I ain't living right.” Here’s to more highs like these. There’s this famous scene from ‘The Wire’ where Detectives Jimmy McNulty and Bunk Moreland are investigating a murder scene, and they manage to give paragraphs-worth of dialogue by simply using different intonations of ‘f---.’ Big Sean’s hook is like that sans the morbid nature. In “I don’t. F--- with. You,” he’s transferring sudden realization into middle finger-waving rage. In “Idon’tgiveaf---,“ it’s reactionary defiance. In “Don’t give a f--- about you or anything that you,” transfixes ‘Return of the Mack’ in one line. Sean has captured the audience on a wide level before -- multiple times, in fact -- but he’s never been able to hit so many readily available emotions with this level of concision. It turns out DJ Mustard’s five-keys-or-less productions are a good influence.