09 Jan RATE ANNOUNCEMENT – Snapback-core Rate (Early 2010s Rap Hits Grab Bag, featuring Drake, A$AP Rocky, Future, Lil Wayne, French Montana and more)
Hi this is darj and sean and welcome to the popheads rate takeover of hiphopheads!
Hello to the former snapback kids of 2010,
Your hosts ( u/seanderlust and u/darjeelingdarkroast ) decided to give it one last go with rates on hiphopheads. As experienced popheads and indieheads rate hosts, we figured that the best kind of rate format was one full of nostalgia; and what better nostalgia for hiphopheads than early 2010s rap. Welcome to the Snapback-core Rate.
Rate due February 7th
WHAT IS SNAPBACK–CORE?
Picture it: the year is 2011. You’re trying to get through your high school computer lab’s firewall to check out the latest news from Pigeons & Planes. You finally got a hold of some Nike Lebron 7s your parents got on resale. You put on your Apple earpods to check out the new XXL Freshman class. Who knows if anyone here, from Diggy Simmons to Yelawolf to that guy from Black Hippy are gonna make it big. Only time will tell! Hey, it even happened to that kid from Degrassi a few years earlier, right?
As this article describes (which as a sidebar, the hosts recommend reading through it – it’s pretty good) hip-hop has gone through different iterations of itself as the years have gone on. Often with the gift of hindsight we can look back and identify definitive eras: the Golden Age, the East Coast-West Coast feud era, ringtone rap. There’s a similar era in the tail end of the 2000s and early 2010s where blogs such as WorldStarHipHop and HNHH had gained a degree of clout and had become influential in the hip-hop world. In the same way that mediocre pop stars can JV cheer-dance their way to stardom on TikTok, the success of albums and even careers could be made from a prominent feature in the hip hop blogosphere in the early days of the decade.
From this rose snapback-core, a moment in hip-hop that was as much about the culture around it as it was the music itself. The music traded lyrical depth for a raucous party atmosphere and was often associated with slick streetwear fits and brands such as Supreme. The genres varied from pop rap to trap to ~~whatever Machine Gun Kelly was trying to do~~ many more!
Early 2010s rap hits. Blog rap. Snapback-core? This rate truly has it all. Grab bag rates like this aren’t focused around albums but a collection of songs with a theme. You score your ballot according to the playlist we provided. We thought it would be a fun, low-stakes rate full of nostalgia and bangers. Credit to pophead u/TragicKingdom1 for the rate idea, name, and most of the songs selected here!
WHAT ARE RATES?
Rates are a subreddit game in which a user scores a group of songs on a scale from 1-10, with each individual also given a single 11 and a single 0 to be used exactly once per rate. They will then message their ballot to the rate host, who will tally up all the points and then reveal the final results over a weekend, eliminating songs one by one until the last track remaining wins the rate and bragging rights forever.
For more info here, r/popheads put together a helpful video; while some of the info applies specifically to the way popheads do their rates, the overall format is similar. With that out of the way, here’s some more things to know:
You must listen to and score every song in the rate. Ballots with missing scores will not be accepted. Your scores must be on a scale from 1 to 10 and can include one decimal place but no more. So 7.3 is fine but 7.31 is not. You may give one song in the whole rate a score of 11 and one other a score of 0 so, if you want to award these scores, save them for your favorite and least favorite songs in the rate. We’d encourage you to leave comments of your general thoughts or reasoning behind your scores on any songs you wish (or just shitpost – whatever’s clever). If you choose to do so however, they must be in this format, simply leaving one space after your score:
Chief Keef – Love Sosa: 7 me discussing my favorite Chicago Cubs players
Any other format such as:
Mac Miller – Donald Trump: This song aged like milk huh (5)
A$AP Rocky – Fuckin’ Problems: 1: Check your spam folder for some great products that can help you with that
will get your ballot rejected.
Your ballot must be formatted exactly like the template in the message link so make sure you use it or the template in the backup pastebin for your scores to be accepted. Your scores will not be confidential and will be revealed, along with any comments, with your username attached. DO NOT SABOTAGE the rate by giving outrageously low/high scores for the sole purpose of skewing the results, we reserve the right to exclude any ballot we suspect of this. If you’re worried your scores could be mistakenly perceived as such, all you need to do is leave comments explaining the reasoning behind them. If you want to change any of your scores or comments after you’ve already submitted your ballot, feel free to message me before the deadline either here on reddit, or our Discord usernames darjeelingdark#4047 and seanderlust#5763
In case you missed it
DEADLINE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7th
LINK TO SUBMIT SCORES
Spotify Playlist| Apple Music Playlist | Tidal Playlist | Youtube Playlist | Backup Pastebin of ballot
Reveal weekend of Feb 17
THE SONGS
A$AP Rocky – Wild For The Night
Big Sean – I Don’t Fuck With You
French Montana – Ain’t Worried About Nothin
Juicy J – Bandz A Make Her Dance
Lupe Fiasco – The Show Goes On
Meek Mill – Dreams & Nightmares
Rick Ross – Aston Martin Music
Trinidad James – All Gold Everything
Waka Flocka Flame – Hard In Da Paint
Wiz Khalifa – Black And Yellow
Wiz Khalifa – Work Hard, Play Hard
Questions:
What do you predict will be Top 5 of the rate? What do you think will be the first song out, so the worst song? Which song do you think is most overrated here? Most over-hated?
We’re excited to see your ballots and hot takes!
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