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The top 15 songs of 2024 (+15 honorable mentions)
The countdown is over.
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#2 - LAZER DIM 700 - "TAKE U OUT" / "SPEED RACIN" (both prod. KRXXK)
These are easily the hardest beats LAZER has ever rapped over.
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#3 - Charli xcx - BRAT but it’s an EOY blurb, or something
I tried pitching this story to a dozen places, but nobody wanted it.
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#4 - Bassvictim - "Air on a G String"
Bach was GOATed but his G strings don’t have shit on Bassvictim.
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#5 - Syzy - "Take my energy!" / "Can you keep up?"
The first music genre I seriously got into as a tween was gloriously gaudy EDM trap. YouTube Minecraft PVP montages put me on to Flosstradamus, RL…
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#6 - xaviersobased - "Need Me"
So much of the most electrifying new rap music feels like it lives in a liminal realm between teenage bedrooms and Discord channels.
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#7 - EQ - "Boytoy"
Yes yes believe me I’m sick too of the endless tedious indie sleaze discourse — but forgive me this final paragraph on the subject.
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#8 - Jane Remover - "Flash in the Pan"
Jane’s catalog is an exquisite corpse, emphasis on exquisite. Her witches brew of sounds is almost always intoxicating, from dariacore to digital…
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#9 - Cash Cobain - "Rump Punch"
There was a whole lot of sexy drill this year that’s sweet, sensual, seductive—stuff you’d sing in the shower thinking about your crush or blast out of…
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#10 - Tinashe - "Nasty"
I’ve been a nasty girl, I whisper to my therapist as I join our weekly video call.
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#11 - Fine - "Coasting"
Everything is too fast nowadays, too stimuli-fucked sludge-content nightcore hysteria MrBeast retention-roided corecore psychoscrolling.
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#12 - anarchy - "superbowl" prod. dj ess
Bass so fat it’s like your mind is in a microwave, like a 50-pound bowling ball’s been dropped on your face, like you’re kissing the sun, like your…
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