Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - “TOP 10 HIP-HOP TRACKS OF 2022”

Episode Date: February 10, 2023

“TOP 10 HIP-HOP TRACKS OF 2022” OF THE NOTORIOUS MASS EFFECT EPISODE 114 // "2022 BEST HIP-HOP YEAR-END WRAP UP"But before that make sure to click my Linktree in my bio to access my social media and follow, to keep up with my latest activities, if you want to support the show financially click my cash app link located towards the top of my linktree as it helps the show overall, also make sure to share this podcast rating the show 5 stars as this helps the show reach more people so we can grow together and affect the masses! (MAKE SURE TO CLICK THAT BELL ICON FOR POST NOTIFICATIONS) Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Now when it comes to putting out music, these are the best tracks when it comes to hip hop in 2020. Like, there's a lot of music that gets put out a lot in hip hop, but there's only one that stands out above the fray. And pretty, it's pretty ahead of everything else. Like, at first I was going to put it at number two, because of course, you know, my favorite album of the year, if you've watched my other segments. But if not, we're going to keep the suspense up, so I'm not going to say it. but for the most part it was going to be a song off that album but this track alone is just too heavy as far as quality to not put it number one and as you get into it you'll probably see what i'm saying in a second so uh let me see okay yeah so basically as you can see for the people over

at youtube and twitch we have this tier list which helps me or helps you guys visualize where we're at in the list okay for the people listening live you know you just have to follow along audially but you know audioly is that even a word audially that's funny um you're my fault all right so now jr see the well have i went over the criteria okay so all the other segments i went over to criteria but basically i have three different things when it comes to my criteria one is lyrics two is repeatability and three is different moods aka vibes now the third one always gets people confused because they don't know what I'm talking about. Basically, right? Different moods, aka vibes, is like if you slow down a track, if you speed up the tempo of a track,

if you have R&B, if you have a hip hop type track, it's like a good variety, a good palette of music instead of just one tempo talking about the same subject over and over and over and over. because if that was my criteria, then all of these little babies of the world and little dirks of the world will always have the best album for me. And that's just not for me. Like, I need lyrical content.

That's why the number one will be, if you know, if you know rap, you probably know what track's going to be number one for me based off me enjoying lyrical content. So anyways, let's go into number 10 because this is going to surprise a lot of people, okay? Let me make sure. This is going to surprise a lot of people.

people. So you're not going to be, you're not going to be able to see the criteria anymore, but you will see what I just placed at number 10, which is, oh, hold on, move my socials, which is NBA Young Boy Colors. And what track am I talking about? I'm talking about, I got this by NBA Young Boy, because if you listen to the track, you understand that this man gave us so many qualables on the track that was just out of this world. really made me think that young boy had a ghost rider until I saw him on live with another fellow rapper, Blueface, and it was talking, and he was talking just like he rapped. I was like, oh, this man really writes his own raps or else it seems like it. I mean, usually, I feel like it's easier to tell, like a little baby definitely doesn't write his own raps.

I mean, if you've seen him in an interview, he may be a little, you know what I mean? He may not be all there. But, you know, hey, he's one of the top selling rappers in the game, so you got to respect him. But anyways, as far as young boy, he talks like he wraps, which is a good and a bad thing. If you know what he'd be saying sometimes. But anyways, so I got this, right? This is one of the things that set out to me on colors. Because as far as all the different 20 million different albums he put out, it didn't really capture me.

But this is what captured me right here, right? So as you can see on the screen, this man said on this track, I got this from colors, right? he said I gotta do it the right way you know what I mean I can't cheat the system so if you turn to I got this by NBA Youngboy and then if you turn with me to

verse three what artists do you know that's putting another verse on on an album no not another verse okay there's a bunch of them but I'm talking about what artists do you know out here putting

three to four verses on one track right so young boy, this is one of the most toxic, toxic quotes I've ever heard in my life. I'm not even joking. Future, J. Z. Kendrick, Drake, I've never heard them say nothing as toxic as this. I mean, future got close, okay? Future did say one time, I cheat on you, you cheat on me, you ain't loyal. And that's kind of what young boy is still saying, but he says it in a much more intricate and more versatile and just overall, more impactful way. Okay. This man said,

this is this is wild i ain't know like this this is wild let me see if i can find this i know it's on this chart reading this on genius is so hard and also hearing this dog bark it's just like insane oh yeah here we go all right all right i found it i found it i found it oh man this is wild i've never heard no toxicity like this ever in my life for my hip-hop musician young boy said i be keeping god inside my head while the devil holding my feet now first off that's a bar second off let's keep going like exped of because i'm not trying to get canceled you cheat on me you will never get forgiveness from me now i need y'all to write this down i ain't a lot to you i've never said this about none of these mumbled rappers but you got write this down

from young boy because this is some of the most poetry poetic words I've seen placed at another word as dramatic as I can be about one lyric this is as dramatic as I will get about any of these tracks this man said

NBA young boy you will never get forgiveness from me because I be knowing that I'm wrong but you know you who I need now let me repeat that you will never get forgiveness from me because i'd be knowing that i'm wrong

and you know you who i need now that ain't the most toxic bar i've ever heard in my life like basically it's saying that you'd be knowing that i mess up but you know that you're the only person that can help me not mess up like what type of toxicity are we talking about this man just took the cake with that so yeah that's why this is number of track this is why this is number 10 on my top 10 tracks of 2022 obviously it's not solely because of that basically this track is like what like like like 30 minutes long like this track is this track is very long um this track is very long um but for the most part um yeah young boy it just went ballistic on that track i think it's like four minutes and 13 i don't know it's long it's long track like six minutes maybe

i don't know anyways all right let's get to number nine so for number nine on my top 10 tracks of 22 of course i got the boy because i'm i'm gonna keep putting not the boy okay my bad he he don't he don't deserve that nickname but he is even my boy that's that's like a pause uh let's just say the homie let's do the homie oh whoa hold up chill hey yo now just playing let me chill all right basically quare day is next of my list because chronicles is one of the best tracks from a type of style. And what I mean by that is, you literally have the best of all worlds.

And there's a reason why I didn't say the best of both worlds. You have, was it Cizzo? I think it was her. No, let me not disrespect her. It was her. And then he had a little dirk on a track. And then you have Corday. So you have the lyrical content from Corday.

You have the hood street aspect from Little Dirk, which is still rapping. Then you have the R&B side with her, which to me culminates to one of the best tracks of 2022. So that's all I got. That's why it's on this list.

I mean, that's just one of the best combinations of artists I've ever seen. If a Corday to pull that off, it gives me the inclination that this man could be a hip-hop manager one day because that was a tough collab he pulled off because that combination of melodies and vocals. vocals which is a one so anyways uh for number eight let me see for number eight

who did i have a number eight i have a list that's what i keep going to oh oh yeah that boy yeah you all right know got to put respect on him name hold on um got to put respect on his name because because young boy young boy may be better but guess who else you better going to lie to you yak better. Now, I know that, I know that didn't stick because even when Kodak said it, it didn't stick. But there's a reason for that because Kodak has been around for so long that he's really, he's the embodiment of his own impact. Like, he just impacts hip hop in a way that, um, I've never seen another artist impacted. Like, as far as, as, as far as 21 Savage being the best, no, no, no, no, was a little baby in his class? No, no, okay, I think 21 was.

people would say Denzel Curry is the best rapper at that class but I would say Kodak Black has the best impact and is one of the top rappers of that class with him 21, Uzi, all of them

like Kodak is one the most influential artists from his class I think in my opinion because I feel like Uzi no disrespect Uzi I feel like he's more of a rendition

of Playboy Cardi I don't know which one came first so maybe that's disrespectful I'm pretty sure Playboy Cardi came first I don't know but anyways I feel like Kendrick is one of more

Kendrick. I feel like Kodak is one of the more influential artists of his time, which is why Kendrick used him for like most of his album, because we're not used them in the bad way, but just, you know, had him assist his project because he knew Kodak Black's creative vision is unlike any other. So that's why Kodak Black's Let Me Know is on here. So this album that put up here is back for everything. And the track Let Me Know, which I believe is the first track off the album. And the reason why I have that is because one of the things he said on the track was when they talk about he should have had a Grammy for that best new artist when they gave it to Khalid. But then he talks about how he's not, you know, he's not really

tripping over it because if Cardi B wins, then he wins too. I do it for the real ones and that makes them feel like they won two, stuff like that. Like he went on a, he went on like a run on that track. it was really fired and that whole album is fired like the album was going to end up on my list but the lyrical content for me and the repeatability just wasn't on part of some of the other albums on the list but yeah let me know about codec black is definitely one of the better tracks of off of the album okay so for number seven we have okay yeah this is this is the easy one right here this is the easy one i'm not going to this is wild all right so basically um yeah i know that conier west is one of his little tirade right so i thought about taking this out like i really contemplated taking

this off but this track is just so reminiscent of the original um new york state of mine that i had to put this on here so the track city of gods by conya west fabio four and alicia keys it's just so great as a body of work not a body of work it's so complete as a track that I just had to put this on here. So that's all I'm going to say, because I know, you know, Kanye's supposed to be canceled and all that other stuff. So anyways, let's keep going.

All right. For number six, we have, I keep messing up the transitions. My fault for people at YouTube and Twitch. Basically, Rod Wave put out this album that was completely full of poetic gems

and poetic justice. And alone is what I think is the best track off of Rodway, beautiful mine. some other people may disagree, but for me, the album was so fire. That's why I was on my top three albums list of 2022, that you could replace any track right here, and I believe it would be cemented in my list.

Like, this is just the beautiful mind album as a whole. Any track from that album, I feel like it was just top tier in the top ten in top ten list. So you could replace that with any track off that album. But for me, for me, I'm picking a loan. by rod wave so that's my number six off my list all right and now for number five we're getting into the top five we're about to wrap it up so basically i know what y'all probably thinking we're about to get into some crazy takes aren't we nah not really we're getting to more of the same you know

kind of staying on the rod wave tip pause the weekend featuring 21 savage with creeping now the whole remixing of an iconic track could go two-way it could go either really, really bad or it can go really bad because for the most part, when you're singing over an iconic sample, it's not going to be taken well because you've seen what happened with Fetty Whop and Yams

and you saw how that impacted society. People's like, bro, no, you got to lead that to others. But for the most part, if you use it as a sample, like if you speed it up or slow it down and then sing a whole different song over it, then that's fine. but if you just BPM, same BPM, same tone, everything, and just try to sing better than the person, usually it doesn't go in your favor.

But for this one, it was a slight single exception because for the most part, The Weekend is one of the best vocalists I've ever seen with the mic. So, Creeping by the Weekend, Tony was Savage, made my list. And also, one of my other criteria is that two, well, the same artist can't be on the list twice. So that means no journey.

and 21 Savage for this list. So I'm sorry to inform you all that Drake did make my list because of course, how could I leave the boy off of my list? All I had to do is just take 21 Savage off and that wasn't hard because he did it himself with middle of the ocean. He was like 21 Savage, get out the way, full ISO on me. I'm dropping 40 every time I come down to court, which I know it's not possible, but for the boy, anything's possible, literally.

So anyways, middle of the ocean. he reminded everybody while they're broke and not on his level for a whole i don't know how long it was but it was like four minutes and 52 seconds something like that something crazy he went for a while on the on the track in middle of the ocean is one of the best tracks of 22 20 22 by far and just one of the best displays of lyrical exercise in um on a track so for number three i'm getting through these now I have individual reviews for these. If you want to hear my individual reviews of these albums, make sure to go to my Amazon Music,

go to podcast and then type in Notorious Mass Effect and whatever album you want to hear and then review. And then it should pop up. So on Amazon Music and then go to podcast. So that's basically where I keep all my old catalog now. All right. For number three, we have, for number three, am I tripping?

One, two, three, four, five. six seven eight nine ten did i have 11 i think i had 11 on here one two three four five six not this is 10 all right some needs to get cut some definitely didn't make this ah future got to cut that's tough future did get to cut well i mean i did have him as one of the best albums of 2022 so i guess that made up for but as far as a whole i feel like some of these tracks are just better overall um so let's see okay let's do this so so for the most part Kendrick was supposed to be here Ketrick is supposed to be here at number three I was gonna put Savior so a savior right here I don't know if I can find an image and

crop it out and I don't know if that that whole thing works that doesn't work like that but basically Kendrick's gonna be in number three savior is is one of the best tracks one of the best hip hop hip hop solo no no it is it is is the best hip-hop solo track of 2022. So that should give you a hint on how the rest of the list is going to go. But for the most part, Kudrick Lamar with Savior is the best solo hip-hop track of 2022. Okay.

Now for number two. For number two, I went back and forth from one and two, but I had to stick to Breezy with Forbidden. Now, y'all probably wondering, because this is the most out-of-left-field pick I'm a half throughout this whole, no, I probably, Corday was probably up there, but I think this is the most out of left field pick that I'm probably going to have. Because Corday is a rapper, you know what I mean, people, like, understand, but forbidden by

Chris Brown, they don't even know what I'm talking about. Like, you've got to listen to that track and then come back and just tell me you're sorry, you know what I mean, just be like, I didn't know you knew music like that. I ain't know you had taste like that. Like, that was just, that was just fire. From start to finish, Chris Brown is putting on his best, I mean, his best. Michael Jackson impersonation and forbidden

It's just one of the tracks that makes you think about Things, the heights that Chris Brown could have took his career to If he didn't have certain stuff outside of music That he did eat like That he did to himself basically So forbidden is one of those type of tracks that made you realize Chris Brown could have been way bigger than what he is now But hey, you know what I mean couldn't get out of his

own way. So anyways, forbidden is number two on my list because of just the sole embodiment of Michael Jackson throughout the whole track which is uncanny and I've never seen it before from an artist. And I will keep repeating that Chris Brown is the best artist I've ever seen in life, like the most talented artists I've ever seen in life. All right. Number one. Let's get to number one. And number one, the best track of hip hop. 22 by my criteria you should already know who I'm a pick they call them H to the Izzo and they also call them hove but what they really renowned and hold to the highest regard is that man Sean Carter aka AJ Z so basically God did is about to clean up at the

Grammys like you've never seen before this should definitely come out way before the Grammys happened so I'm just predicting it right now God did is going to cleanup i mean i think maybe every category it may win like literally you would never ever ever i'm saying ever get a track with drake j cole and kendrick you'll never get a track like that ever not like this j z little wayne and rick ross while he while rick ross is not in that top 10 echelon he's still up there as one of the best rappers and they are both rapping over a slowdown beat where bars is just highlighted and they both put

up like LeBron Kyrie type game when they both went off for 41 points against the Warriors but basically with this one you know Jay-Z left a little bit of more loop on the beat so you can get some more bars off but I still feel like Lil Wayne held his own

but because of how long Jay Z rap I mean you just know that this by far was just the best display of lyrical exercise we've seen in a long time when it comes to hip-hop. And that's why God did, produced by DJ Khalid,

featuring Rick Ross, Little Wayne, John Legend, Friday, and Jay-Z is one of the best tracks, literally one of the best hip-hop tracks of all time. And it will clean up at the Grammys. I'm confident predicting it will clean up at the Grammys. So this is my top 10 hip-hop tracks list of 2022. At the end of the day,

of course, all these lists are subjective. And I'm just giving my personal opinion. I'm pretty passionate about hip hop, as you can probably tell. I could have went longer, but you know, boy, got places to be, I guess. Not just funny. I do have place to be. But so that's my wrap-up. Getting into the overview of the pod, we had the top five hip-hop albums of 2022.

For number one, we had Breezy by Chris Brown, Mr. Morrilla and the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar, Beautiful Mind, by Rod Wave. liked you by future, her loss by Drake and 21 Savage. So basically, Breezy by Chris Brown was my favorite hip-hop album of 2022. Then we got to the top five rappers of 2022, and we had Corday and number five, had Pushatia at number four, Jay Cole at number three, Drake, the goat at number two, and Kendrick Lamar at number one. And I know what you're saying.

How can you say Drake's the goat when you have them at number two? Was because lyrically, which is what rapping's all about, I feel like Kendrick just surpasses his peers by just a huge gap. But artistically, I feel like Drake is better than Kendrick. So that's why I call him the goat and saleswise. But you know, hey, we ain't getting to that right now. But then we got into a highlight, spotlight type of segment with Best Hip Hop Album and Rapper of 2022. So I got more in depth on Chris Brown and Kendrick Lamar and how they impacted my 2022.

Then I finished with the top 10 hip hop tracks of 2022 with God. DJ produced by DJ Calut featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne. And the singers of the track was John Legend and Friday. And then of course, the last lyrical feature was Jay-Z who went ballistic on that track. Like literally, a Hall of Fame type performance. Number two, we have Forbidden by Chris Brown. Number three, we have Savior by Kendrick Lamar. Number four, we had Middle of the Ocean by Drake. Number five, we had Creepin by The Weekend and 21 Savage. Number six, we had a loan by Broadwave. Number seven, we had City of Gods by Kanye West, Fabio, Four, and Alicia Keys. Number eight, we have Let Me Know by Codec Black. Number nine, we have Chronicles with Corday, Her, and Little Dirk. And number 10, we have, I Got This by NBA Young Boy.