Joey Bada$$ Declares 2025 As The Best Year For Rap This Decade

In every decade for hip-hop there have been some transcendent initiatives which might be/will go down as all-time greats. The 90s could be the 10-year run in plenty of hip-hop heads’ eyes with MCs like 2Pac, Biggie, DMX, Eminem, JAY-Z, Nas, and others delivering timeless data.

There are actually compelling arguments to be made for every decade, although. Whereas it could be too early to make one for the 2020s, its definitely gotten off to a powerful begin. Trendy-day stars like JID, Freddie Gibbs, Pusha T, billy woods, Westside Gunn, and Kendrick Lamar have all contributed significantly.

However out of the entire years accomplished throughout this stretch, Joey Bada$$ believes that 2025 is already the strongest. General, it is an attention-grabbing take, particularly contemplating that we nonetheless have three months to go. He shared his ideas on Brian B.Dot’s podcast Cowl Traces, itemizing off the entire high quality we have acquired to again up his stance.

“We bought two Westside Gunn joints. We bought JID, Clipse doing the reunion joint, Larry June & 2 Chainz, Probability the Rapper… Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist…” All of those artists’ tapes this 12 months have been sturdy, so it isn’t too far-fetched for Joey to really feel this fashion.

Clipse’s Let God Type Em Out, is definitely a contender for finest album this decade.

That is fairly the feat contemplating they went 15 years with out releasing an album. Furthermore, it acquired nice assist from the group, debuting inside the prime 10 on the Sizzling 200. It did so promoting over 110,000 items as nicely.

Now, Joey Bada$$ may very well be slightly biased as his file, Lonely At The High, additionally launched in 2025. However he did not point out his album as soon as on this clip.

However instantly, its laborious to definitively say which 12 months within the 2020s has been the very best with out doing a correct deep dive and full evaluation.

Lonely At The High might sway some followers’ views on 2025 when it is all stated accomplished, although. The critiques from followers had been largely constructive regardless of some inconsistent suggestions from critics. Nonetheless, in the identical breath, it additionally did not chart on the Sizzling 200, promoting lower than 9,000 copies.

Gross sales do not imply every thing, however they do replicate on the style’s endurance and dominance over the music market.