Theoretically, this vacuum at the top should lead to some new voices emerging, and that did happen, after a fashion. But I’m not going to rework this whole damn list so that I can find room for them.) ![]() The new Kevin Gates mixtape is great, too. ( EDIT: I’ve now heard and written about The Pinkprint, and it’s good. Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint is finally about to come out, but as I’m writing this, I still haven’t heard it. Rick Ross actually released two albums, but they were probably the two most bloated and boring things he’s ever done, and nobody would blame you for not noticing. Kendrick Lamar never finished his Good Kid, m.A.A.d. Lil Wayne’s label issues kept him from releasing his long-delayed Tha Carter V. Jay Z went on tour with his wife but gave us no new songs. Drake threw a bunch of great songs up on Soundcloud rather than compiling those songs into an LP. ![]() Kanye West never got around to releasing that populist masterwork he’s been promising. In 2014, rap’s biggest names more or less sat the year out.
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