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My Favorite Albums of 2016

Gabby Hernandez
Nov 29, 2016
Mount Holyoke College
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My Favorite Albums of 2016


A Seat at the Table-Solange

Favorite songs: Cranes in the Sky, Mad, F.U.B.U, Don’t Wish Me Well, Scales, honestly the whole album

This album was needed. I grew tired of hearing countless stories of police brutality and just overall ignorance in this country; I knew it happened but to consistently hear it took an emotional toll on me, and I didn’t even realize it. Hearing my feelings be validated through her music and words (especially in Mad) just made and continues to make me feel better. Also, you have to listen to the whole album in order. It’s art.

1992-Princess Nokia

Favorite songs: Kitana, Saggy Denim, Green Line

This is a mixtape but it still counts. Princess Nokia is a Afro-Boricua rapper from NYC and I honestly love everything about her. She’s released songs under different names/personas, like Wavy Spice and Destiny (her birth name) but this mixtape is just raw. I already gravitate towards women of color musicians, so when I first heard the first single from this mixtape, Tomboy, I was already in love. I just love everything about her, her fashion, her rhymes, her attitude, and her feminism (watch her interviews too).

Lemonade-Beyonce

Favorite Songs: Pray You Catch Me, Don’t Hurt Yourself, Sorry, Freedom

Come on, I had to put this here. Remember when Beyonce had everyone thinking that Jay-Z cheated on her? I couldn’t even relate to the lyrics, but I felt her pain. Not to be extra, but I still remember where I was when she dropped the album (unannounced, because that’s what Beyonce does). I can’t even analyze this album because I’m still shaken up over it.

Anti-Rihanna

Favorite Songs: Kiss It Better, Same Ol’ Mistakes, Work, Consideration (feat. SZA)

If you know me in real life, you know I spent a good amount of fall semester of 2015 and spring semester of 2016 asking when Rihanna was going to drop the album, because she was doing that cryptic thing with Samsung and the rooms. I only got Tidal so I could listen to the album. Work is already a classic. I know Same Ol’ Mistakes is only a cover but it changed me as a person.

Telefone-Noname

Favorite Songs: Freedom Interlude, All I Need, Reality Check, Forever

Another mixtape. Noname was first featured on Lost by Chance the Rapper and I’ve loved her ever since. Her rapping sounds like poetry (according to Wikipedia she’s a poet, which makes sense). I think her voice is kind of monotone but it definitely works, because she just flows.

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