I honestly just don’t have the mental capacity or stamina to post a comprehensive best songs of the decade list with 50-100 choices like many of you took on the heroic undertaking of doing, so this certainly isn’t an all-encompassing compendium of the decade but on the last day of the 2010s as I’m sitting here watching the decade wind down I wanted to at least just post a bunch of favorite songs off the top of my head from the past 10 years. I started with just a few and I’ve been hunkered down for a couple of hours taking a trip down memory lane as more and more old favorites came back to me.
Some of these most of you will probably know, but a lot of them are probably lesser-known ones that for whatever reason I loved at the time (or still love) and hope that by posting them here some people will get to hear them for the first time and that they won’t disappear into a memory. Some of them are just freestyles over other people’s beats but for whatever reason they spoke to me at the time and I felt like including them. It was hard to figure out how to rank songs from this year/last year versus ones that have stood the test of time for ten years but I gave it a shot. So anyway here were my favorite songs of the decade, with Keef topping the chart for song of the decade (which is almost an impossible decision to make) and a whole bunch of others, and a few more appearances by Lil Rue and Jackie Chain than I had expected; looking back, both those dudes had some fucking fire at the beginning of the decade. And how about Lil Debbie, Edai, and maybe even Berner? Happy New Years to all.
Chief Keef – Citgo (2013)
Yung Skreww ft. Philty Rich, J. Stalin, TD, Yung Getta Dro – If I Wasn’t (2016) (Thank you to Crimedawgbylaw!)
1WayFrank ft. Kodak Black – Make it Happen (2014)
Chief Keef – Macaroni Time (2013)
Chief Keef – Save that Shit (2013)
Mozzy – Bladadah (2015)
Bloody Jay – Get it in Blood (2013)
Rick Ross ft. T-Pain, Kodak Black – Florida Boy (2018)
Dark Lo – 2Pac Music (2014)
Gunplay – Feel it in the Air freestyle (2015)
Big Fenc ft. Rio da Yung OG, Dink, Sid Dawg (2019)
Key Loom – Succa Free (2016)
Adrian Marcel ft. Sage the Gemini – 2AM (2014)
OMB Shawniebo – 4 Minutes All Me (2017)
Berner & Young Dolph, Ampichino – Win Big (2017)
Rowdy Rebel – Fetty’s Song (It Was All a Dream (2016)
Albee Al – Realest in the Room (2015)
O.T. Genasis – Too Blessed (2018)
Shy Glizzy – Funeral (2014)
Kodak Black – Ran up a Check (2015)
Max B – Hold Yuh remix (2011)
Philthy Rich ft. Rexx Life Raj, ALLBLACK – Dope Boy (2018)
ALLBLACK ft. Kossisko – 304 (2019)
Tree – The King (2013)
CML – U Kno That (2019)
YNW Melly ft. Fredo Bang – Ingredients (2019)
Creek Boyz – With My Team (2017)
Waka Flocka Flame – Real Friends (2016)
Lil Rue – Push It (2010)
King Louie – Time (2013)
Jackie Chain – Hustlin’ International interlude (2011)
Cut ft. King Louie, Sasha Go Hard, I.L. Will, Asa, Mikey Dollaz, Money Millz – Gusto (2014)
Gone in Alabama ft. Jackie Chain, Clova – Swag on Full (2011)
Rich Homie Quan ft. $jr – Can’t Help It (2013)
King Louie – Pack So Loud (2012)
Chief Keef, Fredo Santana, Sasha Go Hard, Lil Reese – On Top (2011)
Rich the Factor – 1000 (2017)
FMB DZ – Fast Money (2018)
CML – Speak My Mind (What Else) (2017)
Rio da Yung OG x RMC Mike – Let it Breethe (2019)
Fetty Wap ft. Lil Herb, Albee Al – RGF Island remix (2015?)
Ricky Rackzz ft. Glory Shorty – Shining (2013)
Chief Keef – Valley (2014)
Hus Mozzy, Mozzy ft. G-Val – Red Mob (2016)
Kodak Black – Free Cool (2015)
Diplomats – Dipset Forever (2018)
Ray Mula ft. Dave East, Don Q – Wassup with the Wassup remix (2018)
Max B ft. Al Pac – Get out of Jail (2010)
Lil Rue – Self Made (2010)
Berner & The Jacka ft. Mozzy, Liqz, Lil Rue – Gone (2015)
Don Q ft. Desiigner – Trap Phone (2017)
Peezy – New Car Smell (2019)
Ty Dolla $ign ft. E-40 – Saved (2015)
Aoc Obama ft. YM – Everyday (2016)
Shy Glizzy – Take Me Away (2017)
Sada Baby – Free 80s (2017)
R.O.D. ft. Edai – We Bangin (2013)
Edai ft. La’Capone, S. Dot, Rondo#9 (2013)
DoughBoyz CashOut – Ballin’ Like My Brother (2013)
Lil Debbie ft. Dolla Bill Gates – 2 Cups (2012)
HG Locks, Fetty Wap, Velli – My Niggas (2014)
Broadway x Castro – Rich Folks (2014)
Dark Lo, AR-Ab – Blow Pt. 3 (2014)
Cam’ron – Wanna Get (2010)
AR-Ab – If They Kill Me (2013) (Most intimidating music video of all time?? Lol)
Fetty Wap – Post to Be remix (2015)
Jackie Chain ft. Mike Posner, Big Sean – Smoke and Ride (2011) (Maybe weirdest combination of artists of all time? lol)
Cam’ron ft. TI Yo Gotti – Jungle (this one in this link has a different (and IMO better) Cam’ron verse than some of the other ones floating around online) (2012)
Sicko Mobb – Range Rover (2014)
ZMoney – Let You Know (2013)
Smylez ft. P Rico, Dez, Tony Blancka, King Dre – 069 (2012)
ALLBLACK ft. 03 Greedo, Prada Mack – Florida Gator (2018)
Cam’ron – Lala (2014)
Ripp Flamez – Church in the ProjectsRipp Flamez – Church in the Projects (2017)
SelfMade Espy ft. Cook LaFlare – SkyWalker (2016)
Cash Click Boog ft. Yatta – Gang in Here (2018)
ALLBLACK – Canadian Goose (2018)
Lil Chicken – No Grease (2016)
Rack Boyz – Stay Scheming remix (2012)
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