Not coincidentally, Pray for Haiti has been the most acclaimed-and most widely received-album of his career, adding to his legend in the process. Throughout Pray for Haiti, the rapper effortlessly unspools punch lines and references to old Jigga while paying homage to his Haitian roots and pulling down the face mask just a slight bit. (Its cover is a nod to a Basquiat painting, though it also recalls Virgil Abloh’s repurposing of Caravaggio’s David With the Head of Goliath for Westside Gunn’s Pray for Paris.) The latter arrived just this past weekend, while the former-which came in May and was executive produced by Griselda’s Westside Gunn-may be the most ambitious of his career, as he bends Griselda’s high-art-via-street-hustle aesthetics to his will. But 2021 has been different for Mach no longer content to simply be a ghost spoken about in revered tones on Rap Twitter, he unleashed two stellar full-lengths immediately available to all upon release: Pray for Haiti and Balens Cho. That goes for both his identity-the Newark MC is never photographed without a bandanna or Haitian flag over his face, even when he’s getting a cosign from Jay-Z-and the way he’s protected his music: Mach-Hommy and his frequent collaborator Your Old Droog once successfully fought to have their lyrics removed from Genius, and Mach-Hommy’s albums have been hard to come by on DSPs, as Mach has long favored making them available for purchase exclusively on his website, typically for more than the cost of a car payment. So much of the mythology of Mach-Hommy revolves around secrecy. Yes, I agree, the samples are a bit too obvious and heavy-handed, but COME ON: How many breakout singers this year were making better music than “Break It Off,” “Last Valentines,” and “Passion”? PinkPantheress has cornered an immortal dance tempo and, dare I say, saved Britain. So let’s call a truce, shall we? Let’s dance to the year’s strongest debut project, the short and strident To Hell With It. But then PinkPantheress came along and, at the tender age of 20, launched an nth-wave garage revival with her lighter-than-air singing. Gradually-due to some excessive patriotism on my part, I admit-I expanded the blacklist to include U.K. rappers from my imagination in response to them often playing dumb about the obvious influence of U.S. I’d spent the past decade blacklisting U.K. And they may even make a few marquee names in their own right. These may not mark the biggest releases of 2021, but they’re the ones that hypnotized or thrilled us and gave us a glimpse of where music is headed. In their place, you’ll find a handful of interesting entries: heralded indie-rap projects, a left-field post-punk LP, a 20-year-old reviving garage and two-step for the TikTok generation. There’s no Billie, no Drake, no Lil Nas X-their albums that dominated the charts and captured the zeitgeist, but for one reason or another, couldn’t match those artists’ previous highs. You’ll notice that only a few of the names above appear on this countdown. Below, you’ll find the Ringer staff’s list of the 10 best albums of 2021. Perhaps the better question is whether these albums delivered on their promise. If you were looking for big-ticket releases, there was no shortage of them. (And that’s all before acknowledging two rerecorded Taylor Swift albums.) This year also saw a number of names jump into the upper crest of stardom: Doja Cat and Lil Nas X went from pop curiosities to certifiable A-listers, while Olivia Rodrigo catapulted to the very top of the industry almost the second her first single dropped.
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A year into the pandemic, the industry unleashed a torrent of high-profile releases, with Billie Eilish, Adele, Drake, Kanye, Lana Del Rey (twice), Kacey Musgraves, and Lorde all returning. Was 2021 a good year for music? Strictly from a marquee-name perspective, it certainly was.
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