Last Ones Left, a collaborative mixtape between 42 Dugg and EST Gee, finds the two Midwest rappers operating in near lockstep.
What do you get when you put a high-wired rabble-rouser from Detroit in the same room with a no-nonsense shit-talker who hails from Louisville? A harmonious pairing, it turns out. Others, like Benny the Butcher and Roc Marciano, kept it low-key, while younger talents like Ken Carson and Bladee proudly did their own thing and couldn’t care less what others thought of it. As per usual with any given year of hip-hop, the best the genre had to offer covered a wide variety of styles, modes, and moods-and, most importantly, came from such a varied cast of pivotal personalities, whether it be TikTok sensation GloRilla, Megan Thee Station, Kendrick Lamar, or Bad Bunny. Those two and their massive catalogs aside, some other names on this list were able to achieve or maintain cultural pervasiveness in other ways. Yeat, the reptile-sounding rookie of the year, dropped an album in the first quarter, followed by an expanded “Geëk Pack” with nine new tracks, and then an EP that was about as long as most LPs.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again, rap’s MVP of 2022, released a 30-track studio album, four mixtapes, and two collaborative projects in under 365 days-and he still might drop another release before December is up.
The most prominent power players in hip-hop this year were largely defined by their musical omnipresence.
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