Know Y? It was 40 years ago this year that I first properly heard Rap music in 1985 via Big Rap Singles™ like Run-D.M.C's King Of Rock, Doug E. Fresh & MC Ricky D's The Show and Whistle's (Nothing Serious) Just Buggin'. All 3 songs were U.K top 40 chart hits which made their way into the orbit of lil' old me at the tender age of 9 and 10 years old. No lie, there were zero Big Rap Singles™ of that quality this year, and 2025 might be the worst year for Big Rap Singles™ in the genre's history. Imagine being a 9 or 10 year old kid in 2025 and your first exposure to Rap music is some Godawful recent Big Rap Singles™ by Drake, Travis Scott and Gunna. My condolences to the poor lil' bastard.
Obviously there were great Rap singles in 2025, it's just that they didn't blossom into Big Rap Singles™ because the industry is useless, the DJs are clueless and the audience are hopeless... especially in the U.K nowadays lol. I'm not talkin' about Fugazi's catalogue when I say this is a margin walker era for Rap connoisseurs. It beez that way sometimes, papi. The only time I heard new American Rap songs I like played outside in 2025 was when I put a handful of choonz on the pub playlist.
I'm huntin', we out chea on a choon chase, and everything on my blog will be my database. So, here's a list of my favourite 2025 Rap songs, the vast majority of which are singles. No hierarchy of preference because rating and ranking songs is for the birds. There's a handful of 2024 songs here which I'm considering 2025 songs for a variety of respective reasons. I talk sense condensed into the form of a post, full of no dudz from my dome to the top my toes.
Juvenile ft. Mannie Fresh - Party
Ezale - Hang Wit Them or Can U Blame Me
Lil' M.U. - Top Of Cars
Murs - Silverlake Rec League
Papo2oo4 & Subjxct 5 - Chopper City Pap
Young Bleed ft. Cold187um - Welcome 2 Da Trap
MelloBuckzz ft. Monaleo - Move Pt 2
Monaleo - We On Dat
Seiji Oda ft. Iamsu - HUU!
OnlyHeaven - Text
LARussell ft. Wiz Khalifa - I Might Be
Wiz Khalifa & DJ Fresh - What's Hannin' (On The Radar performance)
BunnaB - Mad Again
YG ft. Buddy & The Gang - 2004
Slick Rick ft. Giggs - Stress
De La Soul - Don't Push Me
Mobb Deep - Against The World
Pookie F'n Rude ft. E-40 - Da N***a (video mix)
Myaap ft. Vae Vanilla & 3200 Tre - Feeling Dis
Jim Jones - Jomo
JD ft. J Money, Sean Paul, BunnaB & Bankroll NI - Magic City Money
X-Raided - Queen of Hearts
Luh Tyler - Florida Boy
Kurious - When The Coffee Kicks In
TREE & Parallel Thought - Hang Out
504icygrl - Work
Aesop Rock - Send Help
WNC Whop Bezzy & 70th Street Carlos - GZ & Souljas
Duke Deuce - Run Up A Check
Bruiser Wolf & Harry Fraud - Boss Up
Sturdyyoungin - Respectfully
Lord Sko ft. Grand Puba - Girbaud Talk
Supahbadd - I Am
Aone ft. The Jacka & Buss Da Husalah - Mobb Right Now
41 - Lisp
Young Devi D - First Day Out
Newcleus - Disco Kryptonite
TM88 ft. Sosojuicy & Strap Da Fool - I Want That
Nine & Dex - Power Ranger
Pete & Bas - Whirlybird
SL ft. Knucks & Sainte - Summertime
Ceebo - Jook
Jordy ft. Ceebo - Rainy Day
Real Lies - Let The Lips Fall Where They May
PinkPantheress - Illegal
Jenevieve - Head Over Heels
Olivia Dean - Man I Need
The Guy - Blaze Or Die
Turnstile - Birds
Related: the 2025 late pass awards.
19 comments:
So how unexcited are you for Nas X Premo? Lol
Cheers to another great year blogging. Put me on some good shit again.
Not sure how I missed that YG song this year. Interesting how YG is at his best at both ends of ignorance/introspective spectrum. I remember listening to 'Who Shot Me?' for the first time and thinking 'okay this is new' after listening to My Krazy Life on repeat for most of 2014.
Went to see Turnstile live in november, they went crazy hard. Hearing 'Birds' live was great and made me appreciate the song a lot more than without having it heard live. 'Never Enough' is easily the album I listened to most this year.
I probably won't listen to it.
BUT my m8 just posted a snippet on IG of the track with the Fly Like An Eagle sample and it sounded good tbf.
I wanted to post that YG song but I didn't know what to say about it.
Thanks for shining a light on all the new choons, Marty. 🍻
On the flip, thanx for inspiring me to watch Creep, The Descent, The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case, Hollywood Boulevard etc 🍻
Songs zipped up https://www.mediafire.com/file/9y8naw92rjvyhl8/TM-2025.zip/file
Bloody hell. Good work 🙏
New Max B & French Montana song is decent, let’s see what they come up with next.
Nas X Primo is equal part boring and cringe, my mate sent me that one song where he goes on about cryptocurrency and I was almost crying in shame.
fosse, thank you for your service 🫡
The Max & French song is an abomination to me. Wtf is going on with Max's voice and flow? Who thought it was a good idea to rap over a generic trap beat and let French use Auto-Tune? Top 10 worst rap song of 2025 IMHO.
Glad to see you're still in the game long after the rest have faded away. All the best in 2026!
Cheers 🍻
Not been into much new music this year IN GENERAL. Not sure if it's my age, general streaming-infused fatigue, or music is going through a shit patch.
Will have to check out this list though, sure there's some great stuff on it.
(Best non-rap stuff I heard was probably the Jade album, e.g. 'Lip Service' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRZjuaGugiQ&list=RDXRZjuaGugiQ&start_radio=1)
Happy christmas/new year to the GOAT rap blogger in my eyes
Corpsee
🧑🎄
Thanx for the hyperlink tip off.
Was hoping you would have a Jim Legxacy song in here.
Too many of his vocal inflections remind me of That Canadian Nonce™. Tried his music multiple times but I can't get past that 🤷♂️
I don't suppose some kind Samaritan can re-up the zip? maybe sans the Ceebo jawn as it what seemed to get the link blitzed.
Of all the songs to get it nuked, it was an obscure British one? 😆
Appreciated, General. Big props!
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