one thing I've never seen anyone talk about trap

is that, whether it's a legacy inherited from cloud rap, which seems unlikely, or its co-evolution with alternative r&b, but some of the recent shit is absolutely gorgeous, and I'd wager that this decade is the first one in hip hop history where mainstream rap, or much of any rap, can be made with a conscious attempt at creating traditional aesthetic beauty without resulting in nauseous treacly smooth jazz/adult contemporary pablum (like every damn time 2Pac got serious.) The second Rae Sremmurd album was utterly gorgeous, and there's a number of particularly lovely tracks on Culture II (which is possibly the most underrated album in RYM history as of right now?)  

that one white guy from Brockhampton (you know the one) looks like a twenty-yo ftm Millie Bobby Brown? sort of

Ameer Vann looks like the black Peter Dinklage

so basically charli xcx creates the music that exists at the halfway point between an E-MO-TION without any of the charisma and a PC Music without any of the strangeness - and lyrics that are exhausting in their almost-Swiftesque/Lordian millenialness? I can think of no better example of music that I recognize how much I should like it and yet don't really like in the least.

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Lil Dicky - Earth
Why Don't We + Macklemore - I Don't Belong In This Club
Ava Max - So Am I
Martin Jensen, James Arthur - Nobody
Zak Flewids, Mick Jenkins - Steps
(sandy) alex g - gretel
IAMX - Nightlife

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.5
 Alvvays - In Undertow
Death Grips - Beware
Kendrick Lamar - ADHD
the Roots - You Got Me
Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome
Blackstar - Respiration
Massive Attack - Risingson
Death Grips - Hustle Bones
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
2Pac - Dear Mama
Run DMC - Rock Box
the Roots - What They Do
Eminem - Infinite (F.B.T. Remix)
Common - the Sixth Sense
Nas- One Love
El-P - Stepfather Factory
DJ Honda - Travellin' Man
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
2Pac - Life Goes On  
Frank Ocean - Biking
The Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes
Suicide - Surrender
Fleetwood Mac - G****
Televisor - Alliance
Peter Richard - Talk About Me
Massimo Vita - Jenny
Ecstasy Passion & Pain - Touch & Go
Raxstar - Jaaneman
Raxstar, JunitMusic - Sun Raha
Anik Khan - Kites
Deep Jandu, Gangis Khan - My Girl
Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
Devin Townsend - Genesis
Bazzi - Paradise
Aviicii - SOS
BTS, Halsey - Boy With Luv
Alessia Cara - Out of Love
Denzel Curry - Bulls on Parade (triple j Like a Version)
Marshmello, Tyga & Chris Brown - Light It Up
P!nk - Walk Me Home 
Billie Eilish - tough guy 
Kygo - Carry On 
Panic! at the Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It 
Lauv - Drugs & the Internet 
Alan Walker, Sabrina Carpenter - On My Way
SZA, the Weeknd, Travis Scott - Power is Power
MEDUZA, Goodboys - Piece of Your Heart
Lil Uzi Vert - Sanguine Paradise
Marshmello, CHVRCHES - Here With Me
P!nk, Khalid - Hurts 2B Human
Kina, SNOW - Get You the Moon 
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, 6ix9ine - Swervin'  
the Chainsmokers, 5 Seconds of Summer - Who Do You Love?
ScHoolboy Q, Travis Scott - CHopstix
Daya - Insomnia
Jonas Brothers - Cool
Lauv, Troye Sivan - i'm so tired...
Maren Morris - The Bones
Jonas Blue, Theresa Rex - What I Like About You
Billie Eilish - All the Good Girls Go to Hell
Twenty One Pilots - Chlorine 
Chong the Nomad - Two Colors 
Paul McCartney - Get Enough
Avenade - Closed Fists and Battle Antics
Haywyre - Contagious
Lione - Kids 
Red Gurd - Mama's Boy
Holding Absence - Monochrome 
Ramin Djawadi - The Night King 
chrms,sabu - mind 
Lana Del Rey - Fuck It I Love You & The Greatest
Big Thief - Not
Perfune Genius - Describe
Sufjan Stevens - My Rajneesh

Squid - Narrator

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1
Ariel Pink - Feels Like Heaven
Kendrick Lamar - Rigamortis
Craig Mack -  Flava in Ya Ear (Remix)
Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon)
Death Grips - Come Up and Get Me
Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want
Lil B - the Age of Information
Tyler, the Creator - Who Dat Boy
Snoop Dogg - What's My Name?
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rain
2Pac - Pain
Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think
Gang Starr - You Know My Steez 
Kendrick Lamar - ELEMENT.
Life Without Buildings - The Leanover (B>>>>>A)
Clara Chocolat - La danse de Clara
Roy Orbison - Running Scared
Pollyester - German love letter
Aretha - I Say a Little Prayer
Superwoman, Humble the Poet - #Leh
Haji Springer, Bohemian -  Meri Bandook
Bangg 3 - Slide Remix
Julia Holter - Horns Surrounding Me
Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
Tim Hecker - That World
Kacey Musgraves - Rainbow
Taylor Swift - ME!
Dominic Fike - 3 Nights 
Ellie Goulding - Sixteen
Khalid, John Mayer - Outta My Head 
Mabel - Don't Call Me Up 
Sia, Diplo, Labrinth - No New Friends 
Gaullin - Moonlight 
Ave Sangria - Dia a dia 
Jacob Collier - Make Me Cry
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Keen for Kick Ons?
Weval - Are You Even Real
Phillipi & Rodrigo - Retrogrado
FKA twigs - Cellophane 
Kero Kero Bonito - Swimming / The Open Road
Holly Herndon - Eternal  
om - reezons 
black country, new road - athen's, france
black country, new road - sunglasses
Angel Olsen - Lark
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Perfume Genius - Eye in the Wall
Chambala - rueda
Aes Dana - Manifold
Mac Miller - Good News 
Jessie Ware - Spotlight
The Weeknd - After Hours
Yves Tumor - Kerosene!
Charli XCX - Forever



 
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1.5
Frank Ocean - Chanel
De La Soul - Me, Myself & I
MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes
the Roots - In the Music
Kanye West - Heard 'Em Say
Brockhampton - Zipper
Makaveli - Hail Mary
Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Vince Staples - Big Fish
Niko - Night of Fire
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Black Uhuru - Plastic Smile
Rosebud - Have a Cigar
UDM - To Please You
The Dynamic Superiors - Nowhere to Run
Bohemia, Haji Springer - I.D.G.A.F. 
Premz - Jalsa
Raxstar, Amar Sandhu - Rewind 
Cuban Doll - Bankrupt
Radiohead - Ill Wind
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch 
Khalid - Talk 
Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly
Beyonce - Before I Let Go
Ekcle - Florentine 
Durand Jones and the Indications - Morning in America
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Saul Williams - Ancestral Recall
Fat White Family - When I Leave
Codeine Grandma - ANOTHER LIFE
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Crime Pays
Flying Lotus - Black Balloons Reprise
Ezu - Divas
JPEGMAFIA - Beta Male Strategies
chambala - mujeres
liro shaq - hay problema
JPEGMAFIA - Bald!
Yves Tumor - Gospel for a New Century
bladee & Ecco2K - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Atmosphere - God's Bathroom Floor


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Future - Mask Off
Tyler, the Creator - Boredom
Tyler, the Creator - 911/Mister Lonely
Travis Scott - 90210
Slick Rick - Children's Story
Mos Def - Umi Says
Hole - Violet
Tom and Jerry - Scooby's Dreaming
Philly U.S.A - Speak Well
Electric Mind - Let Me Love Tonight
Anik Khan, Burna Boy, Sango - Oh My
Premz - Meri Jaan
Molly Brazy - Trust None
Molly Brazy - Play For Keeps
Cuban Doll - Playa
Bangg 3 - Checkington
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Flat Tummy Tea
Kero Kero Bonito - Swimming/The Open Road
D'Angelo - Unshaken 
Ellende - Du wärst eine schöne Leiche
Little Simz - Selfish
Quelle Chris Straight Shot
Injury Reserve - Jailbreak the Tesla
F1rstman - Soniyere
Happy Singh - Nakhra
the F16s - WKND FRNDS
ankur tewari - dil beparvah
ritviz - jeet 2.0
ritviz - Udd Gaye (Bacardi House Party Sessions)
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Remix)
Zero12Finest - Baby Are You Coming?
Brockhampton - Dearly Departed
Big Sean - One Man Can Change The World
Protomartyr - Processed By The Boys
charli xcx - claws

Weyes Blood - Titanic Risen

Kero Kero Bonito - The Princess and the Clock

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2.5
Call Super - I Look Like I Look in a Tinfoil Mirror
Tyler, the Creator - See You Again
Tyler, the Creator - I Ain't Got Time!
The Roots - How I Got Over
the Voyagers - Distant Planet
Chiemi Manabe - ねらわれた少女
Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat
The Carter Family - Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone
Sylvia St. James - Better Things
The Trammps - Can We Come Together
Keralanka - Tangents
Noyz, B. Magic - Investigative Reports
English Evenings - Tear You Down
Julia Holter - In the Green Wild
Julia Holter - Les jeux to You
Weyes Blood - Andromeda
Xiu Xiu - Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy
Jessie Ware - Adore You
Ariana Grande, Victoria Monet - MONOPOLY 
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - the Bird Song 
Jai Paul - Do You Love Her Now / He
Hatchie - Stay With Me 
Abeer Arora, Vee - Killer
Raghav - Maayera
major lazer ft. J Balvin and el Alfa - que calor
yomei del meloso ft. musicologo the libro and kiko el crazy - pasate (remix)
Rina Sawayama - XS
Jessie Ware - Spotlight
Silk Sonic - Leave The Door Open

Porter Robinson - Musician

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3
Brockhampton - Boogie
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 4
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
姫御前 (HIMEGOZEN)
Peshay - Piano Tune 
DJ Crystl - Meditation
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Andre Holland - City Of Fear
Richard T Bear - Sunshine Hotel (Just Walk On In)
Aurra - Such a Feeling
Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You
En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love)
the PropheC, Fateh, Jus Reign - Rumors
Riz MC - Englistan
Horsepowar - Bold Woman
Raxstar, Arjun - Lost Our Way
Snowprah - Soft Drink
Avey Tare - Saturdays (Again)
Lizzo - Truth Hurts
BLACKPINK - Kill This Love
ROSALIA, J. Balvin, El Guincho  - Con Altura
Maluma - HP
Zach Knight - Gotta Go
Wavez - My Ting
DJ Giggs Superstar - Muzik
TNS, Fey - Uzongilinga
Da Capo, Tshepo King - Afrika (Edit)
JPEGMAFIA - Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot
Wynne - Ego Check Ft. J.I.D
wish key - last summer
Negative Gemini - Body Work
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Shuntaro Okino - Cloud Age Symphony


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3.5
Kane West - Definitely Come Together (Original Mix)
Bong-Ra - Gwaan
Migos - Slippery (ft. Gucci Mane)
Young Thug - Safe
Jook - Juice/Behind Schedule
Alemayehu Eshete - Alteleyeshegnem
Brockhampton - Junky
Denzel Curry - Gook
Jeru tha Damaja - You Can't Stop the Prophet
the Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
Quay Dash - Queen of This Shit
The Ink Spots - If I Didn't Care
the Carpenters - Superstar
Artemis - Elysian Fields
Keralanka - Cold Culture
Seti X - Vendetta
Lazarus - Fantasy
Lioness - Everyting Mad
Weyes Blood - Everyday
21 Savage - A Lot
Jonas Brothers - Sucker
Daddy Yankee, Katy Perry - Con Calma
The Novembers - Everything
Denzel Curry - Ricky  
Ezu - Hor Labna 
Jay Kaydn - Killer
DJ Harpz, Amar Sandhu - Patakay
Zack Knight - Thumka 
Prateek Kuhad -  Tum Jab Paas
Prateek Kuhad - cold/mess
Dwson - Ethyl
Sculptured Music - Sad to Think
KayGee DaKing, Bizizi, Killer Kau - Kokota
nts, indlovukazi - my dali
Shimza - Dancefloor Keeper
LINGUA IGNOTA - Butcher of the World
squid - houseplants
Danny Brown - Dirty Laundry
Brockhampton - No Halo
Crazy Design ft. kiko el crazy - dejen su loquera
el mayor classico - cuando yo era chiquito
dixson waz - toco toco to
One System - Life is very short
Primadonna - Flashing on the floor
Kai Tracid - Trance & Acid
Porter Robinson - Something Comforting 

YURiKA - 鏡面の波 (Kyoumen no nami)

Round Table feat Nino - Puzzle

noname - Rainforest

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J Hus - Did You See
Shawn Wasabi - OTTER POP (ft. Hollis)
Chief Keef - Can You Be My Friend
SPACEGHOSTPURP - Asthma sex Asthma Dingaling
Vince Staples - Norf Norf 
Nujabes ft. Shing02 - luv(sic) pt.3
Jeru tha Damaja - Come Clean
Brockhampton -  Swamp
Aesop Rock - Daylight
O.C. - Time's Up
Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word to Her Son
The Electronic Circus - Direct Lines
富田美憂 [Miyu Tomita] & 伊瀬茉莉也 [Mariya Ise] - Deep in Abyss
រស់សេរីសុទ្ធា [Ros Sereysothea] / ស៊ីនស៊ីសាមុត [Sinn Sisamouth] - Jum 10 kae thiet / Prokun mles
梅干茶漬け [Umeboshi Chazuke] - Panic! Pop'n! Picnic!
Arthur Miles - Lonely Cowboy Parts 1 & 2
SOPHIE - Jump ft. Lady Lashurr
Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do for Love
Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
The Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)
Ian van Dahl - Castles in the Sky
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Washington Phillips - I Had A Good Father And Mother
Mike Mareen - Dancin' in the Dark
Brass Construction - Get Up
Marva Hicks - Looking Over My Shoulder
Soft Machine - Soft Space
Abhi the Nomad - RUN
Anik Khan - Big Fax
Sama Blake - Peng
Humble the Poet, Sickick & Yucifer - Can't Go Back
Gangis Khan - Kuch Nahi Theek Hay
Lioness - DBT (Dead Black Ting) Remix ft Queenie, Stush, Shystie, Lady Leshurr & Little Simz
Quay Dash - No Drama
Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
Whodat & Viola Klein - WORKSHOP 26
Seireki13ya - おやすみ未来と恋乙女
Quelle Chris - Obamacare
King Monada - Motho Kadi Bag
Lemon & Herb, LJ Pepper - edge 
Caltonic SA - Like Vigro Deep
Young Nudy - Pissy Pamper (Kid Cudi)
Danny Brown - Best Life 

Jessie Ware - Soul Control  

Jessie Ware - Save a Kiss

Squid - Paddling

BROCKHAMPTON - BUZZCUT FEAT. DANNY BROWN
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4.5
GFOTY - Tongue
Brockhampton - Gummy
Bobby Shmurda - Hot N*****
Brockhampton - Sweet
Random Axe - Random Call
 酒井司優子 [Syuko Sakai] / 坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto] - コンピューターおばあちゃん / フォト・ムジーク (A is 5)
the Pogues - Sally MacLennane
Ilona Mitrecey - Un monde parfait
Patsy Cline -- I Fall To Pieces
Breaux Freres - Ma Blonde Est Partie
Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble
Family Tree - Family Tree
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Horsepowar - Powar
D&D (Aya & Chika) - Kiss in the Sun
burnin' beat & olive nasinga - it's hot
Quay Dash - Decline Him
Carly Rae Jepsen -  Now That I Found You / No Drug Like Me
Aldous Harding - The Barrel
Prince Kaybee, Indlovukazi, Supta, Afro Brothers - Gugulethu
DJ Sumbody ft. Cassper Nyovest, Thebe & Vettis - Monate Mpolaye
LINGUA IGNOTA - DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR
el alfa ft. chael produciendo and kiko el  crazy - mueve la cadera

Anarchy 99 - s/t

Jessie Ware - Ooh La La

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? 

Napalm Death - To Go Off and Things
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Lil B - I'm God
Isako Saneyoshi - マルコじいさん
SINNERMAN MUST BE 5 STARS!
Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure (1998 Sunship Mixes)
Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
Lizzo  - Juice
Astaroth - Aullido sepulcral / Guerra de Metal
Prince Kaybee - Fetch Your Life
Algiers - Can the Sub_Bass Speak?

Baby Zionov - Excerpt from Truth