Yes, it’s finally time, the end of year list that everyone always agrees with. Of
course, I’m talking about the 10 Worst Hit Rap Songs Of the year list, this one of course
focusing on 2018, because that’s the year, that’s what year it is. It was a pretty
great year for hip hop but some bad songs still managed to make their way into the charts,
and those are the songs we’ll be looking at. Keep in mind that for songs to be eligible,
they have to have charted somewhere on the billboard Hot 100. So with that being said,
this is CDTVProductions, and let’s take a look at the 10 Worst Hit Rap Songs Of 2018.
10 - 6IX9INE - STOOPID (feat. Bobby Shmurda)
Look, even though tracks like Gotti or Fefe are technically bad songs, I found 6IX9INE’s
experimentation with different sounds to be pretty enjoyable in some ways. Whether it
was laughing at his autotuned vocals on Gotti, or reluctantly singing along to the verses
of Fefe, which are catchy no matter how lazy they are, they at least had an appeal to me
in some way. And then 6IX9INE would just come back after those songs to his typical shout
rap style tracks about killing people with STOOPID. It just felt like the same thing
we’ve already heard from 6IX9INE numerous times, but with a beat that isn’t as hard
as the previous ones he’s used. The best quality of this track was the short verse
from Bobby Shmurda, which we didn’t even get to hear in all its glory because it was
recorded through a prison phone. Kind of prophetic hearing that on a 6IX9INE track honestly.
He’s definitely a bit more self aware on here than his older singles which is nice,
but as a whole I just don’t enjoy this one.
9 - Migos “Supastars”
This is a pretty weak track and I dislike it even more for what it represents. This
was the first single the Migos released in 2018, and it really was foreshadowing for
how the year would turn out for their music. The song really doesn’t need to be near
5 minutes long, just like we didn’t need a 24 track album along with solo albums from
Takeoff and Quavo this year, and it’s so repetitive and drawn out, much like the Culture
2 album it comes from and Quavo’s album. This basically marked the real starting point
of the Migos oversaturation that fully kicked in this year, and that’s a shame because
they have a lot of music I love, but I’m getting bored of their sound fast because
it’s too much. It also doesn’t help that the first 2 minutes of this track is Quavo
delivering his autotuned vocals in a way that barely changes up for the whole time he raps.
The Offset verse is probably the best thing on this track, but it’s a struggle to not
lose interest by the time he appears. Just a pretty unnecessary song and not a great
choice for a single.
8 - Lil Pump “ESSKEETIT”
Lil Pump dropped quite a few entertaining songs in 2018, but this wasn’t one of them.
The beat is kinda similar to the ones found in his songs Crazy and Boss, but the main
melody on the beat just sounds almost untuned and very cheap on here. As for Lil Pump, for
some reason I just feel like this track lacks the dumb fun factor that songs like Drug Addicts
have, and we didn’t get that energetic sound from him either on here. Also I probably shouldn’t
let this impact my enjoyment, but the fact the second verse got recycled by Pump for
his XXL Freestyle annoyed me so much that I actually like the verse less within the
song now. I was hoping we would get something a little more interesting for a single based
around Pump’s most popular catchphrase, instead we got his weakest single of 2018.
7 - Nicki Minaj “Barbie Tingz”
Now Nicki Minaj has a tendency to switch between various eccentric voices numerous times in
her tracks, and that is something I can respect because you can tell that she’s actually
putting effort in with her vocals. But, a few times this can result in some very irritating
sounds, and there’s a couple parts like that on here. Kinda makes it a little harder
to listen to. It’s also not ideal that this track instantly kicks off with a pretty weak
line, one that I would consider to be overused at this point. On top of that it seems like
the typical Nicki Minaj topics recycled over a new beat, a beat which has such an awkwardly
claustrophobic drum pattern. She’s better than every other female at everything, other
female rappers try and copy her style, name dropping her young money label mates, y’know,
the same stuff she’s been saying on a lot of her big singles for literal years. I’ll
give her props for Chun Li which she released alongside this track cause that song is hard,
but Barbie Tingz is the significantly weaker one of the two.
6 - Cardi B “She Bad” (feat. YG)
Hearing YG intimately rap into my ear about designer bags and *** in the most repetitive
way possible isn’t really that high on my wishlist, so this one was doomed from the
start. Repetition isn’t always an issue for me but just LOOK at that hook, my god.
What’s the bets on how long it took him to craft this Shakespearean poem? Now, I came
out of 2018 liking Cardi’s music way more than when we went into it, there’s a lot
of tracks I really like on her new album, but this is one of her weaker performances,
pretty much just elaborating slightly on the very original topics YG mentions on his hook,
dropping in some basic similes, and talking about how she’s apparently evolved because
she licks b**** now. Ok. Fairly lacklustre verses from Cardi and a hook that quite frankly
makes me feel uncomfortable from YG is not the best of combinations.
5 - Quavo “W O R K I N M E”
Ok so this was one of the first singles Quavo dropped to promote his then upcoming solo
album, so I’m sure he wanted to use this track to show us what was different about
his solo music from a typical Migos track. ...alright Quavo is a very rich guy so I guess
it’s cool if he mentions it a lot, it doesn’t matter as long as the rest of the song sounds
new. ok, selling drugs and having sex, I guess I could’ve expected that. ..... Alright,
I’m lost, why does this need to exist? This is just a typical Migos song... without the
2 most interesting elements of a Migos song. Also, this track, or at least the hook, is
about a girl seducing Quavo, so when he says this is he referring to her h******* being
so aggressive that it actually causes him physical pain? Either Quavo changed the subject
to him or this girl whipping drugs up, therefore strong wrists, with no context or reason to
change the subject, or he needs to tell her to slow down because that doesn’t sound
desirable at all. All this track really did for me was enforce all the reasons why I didn’t
want a Quavo solo album to exist.
4 - Lil Yachty “Get Dripped” (feat. Playboi Carti)
Now I definitely wouldn’t say I’m biased against Playboi Carti, it’s just I heavily
dislike 90% of what he’s put out. So, as you can imagine, him handling most of this
song is a bit of an issue for me. Especially when it sounds so similar to almost every
other verse he’s dropped, with half rapped bars and excessive ad libs. It’s his style
sure, but it’s a style I’m not fond of in the slightest. The beat on this one was
interesting at first, I love that synth that sounds like it’s zipping back and forth,
but it doesn’t really go anywhere too notable, it just stays the same across the whole track
for the most part. Then Yachty comes in with a very mild verse that doesn’t help improve
the track much at all. I thought the Nuthin 2 Prove album was quite nice, but this one
certainly wasn’t one of its highlights.
3 - Drake “I’m Upset”
Drake just naturally has a pretty monotone voice, one that can be very boring to listen
to at times, so why the hell he made the decision to rap over a beat that sounds so dead and
vacant is beyond me. I mean, that’s pretty much most of the Scorpion album, but this
is the worst example of it. I don’t think I can find one exciting element on this song,
not even one. Drake’s flow, it barely changes, Drake’s delivery, stays monotone for the
entire thing, the beat is barren and bland, nothing about it is attention grabbing. Its
just also unfortunately ironic that Drake drops a track talking about not wanting to
get married so he won’t lose money to the woman if she divorces him, with him also mentioning
child support at one point in the song, then literally a few days later Pusha T drop The
Story Of Adidon, the diss track which revealed Drake’s secret child with a p***star. Like
I said, unfortunate timing. Easily one of the most boring Drake tracks I’ve heard
in a while, and possibly one of the most dry sounding songs he has ever dropped.
2 - Eminem “Nice Guy” (feat. Jessie Reyez)
I really wish Eminem coulda avoided this list, cause Kamikaze was a pretty solid return to
form for him and I’m really glad I enjoyed it as much as I did, but it started to trail
off towards the end. And with this track, it pretty much slingshotted itself way out
of bounds, with one of the ugliest sounding tracks Em has dropped... maybe ever? And look,
ugly sounding tracks can work, I feel like Tyler the Creator in particular has a knack
for making tracks with loads of unpleasant elements sound appealing, but this, this one
doesn’t do that. One of the most unappealing parts of this song is Jessie Reyez, I am not
familiar with her music, but my god her voice is not easy to listen to on this one at all.
She produces such an ear piercing sound, and surprisingly that isn’t the most fun thing
to listen to. And I don’t really know if this description makes sense, but the beat
on this track sounds like it’s dying, the way the 808s kinda stretch out and slow down
makes it sound like they’re fading away on life support. Eminem is whatever, his second
verse kinda picks up towards the end before it abruptly cuts off, but we still have really
awkward sounding parts on his first verse and that thing he does where he really over-accentuates
some decent wordplay which makes the line sound more cringey than it should. I get that
it having this ugly sound is probably intentional to reflect this dysfunctional relationship
story, but the intention doesn’t make it any better in this case.
1 - Iggy Azalea “Kream” (feat. Tyga)
I have to commend Tyga & Iggy Azalea for clawing their way out of the rap career graveyard
this year, Tyga much more so, but unfortunately I don’t feel like it made for a very good
song when they joined forces. Who would’ve guessed? I have to say, this is the most horrendous
use of a Wu-Tang Clan sample I’ve ever heard in my life. The message of the song C.R.E.A.M
by Wu Tang is essentially that money is a powerful thing, and the root of all evil.
This song which keep in mind uses that as a sample, is a song glorifying excessive *** and
being rich. Look, don’t try and take that classic rap song to the hip hop graveyard
with you, it’s fine being remembered as a classic, let us keep it please. Then there’s
the hook on this thing which is just brutally awful. It’s such a nothing hook, like Iggy
really just gave up on rapping a few generic sentences, and instead just randomly fires
out single words that sum up the tracks themes while Tyga repeats the same stuff constantly.
They even somehow managed to pull one of the most lifeless and boring beats out of Ronny
J, who is usually a very solid producer and gave us some of the best rap beats this year.
It just felt like no one cared with this. I would be so happy if I never had to hear
this again, I swear I’m gonna get someone else to edit this video for me so I don’t
need to hear it again. If this comes on in a club, I’m walking out. There’s nothing
redeemable here, and that, that is why Kream by Iggy Azalea featuring Tyga is my pick for
the worst Hit rap song
of 2018.
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