“SMUCKERS” bridges the gap between the past and the future, with Tyler serving as the young novice who will carry the torch. Really, it's about paying homage to these influencers that shaped the sound of new rappers we see today. “SMUCKERS” isn’t about stunting that you have two of the biggest rappers on your song.
When Late Registration and Tha Carter II dropped in 2005, Tyler was only 14 years old. It’s ‘Ye and Weezy in '05/'06 mode when they were so refreshing, innovative and at the top of their game. Tyler, the Creator admits he appreciates certain era of creativity from Kanye West and Lil Wayne. It’s a history lesson for anyone who feels conflicted about showing love to a culture they’re born in, while being frustrated with how it has evolved over time. Like the album itself, the song has been examined thoroughly and sparked intrigue, peeling the meanings of Kendrick’s claim he’s the biggest hypocrite in 2015. Dot’s politically charged track is an important one this year, transcending our expectations of “just another rap single” and becoming part of an ongoing conversation on racial tension in America and the Black Lives Matter movement. Dot’s first single “i” was generally hated on by critics and fans, “The Blacker the Berry” was a more conventional hip-hop record with complexities about being black in America. To Pimp a Butterfly is topping a lot of Best Album lists, and it’s easy to see why based on “The Blacker the Berry.” Whereas K. Producer: Boi-1da, Terrace Martin, KOZ, Katalyst He's only released three songs so far, but when you hear all of them together, you realize that a promising career is sitting right in front of him. The enigmatic dvsn longs for someone to trust and eventually gives into his feelings on the track. The production, vocals, lyrics-everything about "The Line" is really a moving experience. In part because there's nothing tongue in cheek about it. Much like a lot of the long R&B songs of the '70s, stuff like "I Miss You" and "Cause I Love You," this is swinging for the fences, both in terms of sheer length and in other arrangement decisions, like the multi-tracked vocals. I respect it because you open yourself up to so much potential corniness attempting something like this, but dvsn and nineteen85 pull it off. What makes "The Line" great is the ambition and grandeur. Ross and Zach really, really love this song. So much so that they each had to write part of this blurb. Listen to our Best Songs of 2015 playlist on Spotify and Apple Music right now.
We are though, allegedly, writers, so here are our picks for the best songs of 2015 and the reasons why we chose them. It is not an exact science, but we are not scientists, nor are we mathematicians (please never make us do percentages again). Other times, you have to consider a track because you've been spouting its lyrics at coworkers all year or because it made a handful of editors remain in a dark conference room long after the official meeting had ended just so they could listen again. Sometimes songs make it on there because of statistics. Just as it did with our best albums of 2015 list, our best songs list required many conversations, drafts and redrafts, raised hands and written co-signs, followed by lots of last-minute decisions about rankings. Next, you write all of those titles on slips of paper, throw them in the air, and the 50 that touch the ground first make our year-end list. Then you retrieve the lost two-tenths of that one song, which brings the count to 119. Of these roughly 220 songs, let's say about 75 percent of them are from 2015, 72 percent of those fall into pop, rap, R&B, dance, and other genres that Complex covers, so that brings us to 118.8 songs. At any given moment, there are about 90 songs on the Apple Music Hot Tracks list, 30 on your Discover Weekly collection on Spotify, and 100 songs on, go figure, the Billboard Hot 100.
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