acid rap - chance (freshman year)
because the internet - childish gambino (sophmore year)
if you're reading this it's too late - drake (junior year)
the life of pablo - kanye (senior year)
Faces - Mac Miller (2014)
Supreme Blientele - Westside Gunn (2018)
Justified - Justin Timberlake (2000) this captures the essence of my coming of age very well
freshman year was hot off the coat tails of my emo/scene years. somehow transitioned from that to mostly bachata and reggaeton. lots of joey bada$$ / pro era new york rap as well. and i loved lana del rey. sophomore year was a blur i couldn’t tell you. probably the same with a bit more rap. loved me some lorde tho. i think i also stumbled upon genesis by grimes around this time. junior year i discovered fka twigs and it changed me. it was a lot of her and childish gambino. anime soundtracks and j-rock too. lots of nujabes bc i had just watched samurai champloo. ultraviolence came out that year. it was crazy. senior year was a lot. i got back into kpop + k r&b for a bit (had a brief stint in middle school). i was really into mac demarco and loved kali uchis down. i also discovered kilo kish this year. i graduated in the infancy of the flower boy peach sunflower era so that should inform you on what my tastes were morphing into. i also have awful memory in general but looking back makes me realize i truly tell time through music. that’s the bulk of what i can remember from my teen years.
odd future, interpol, beach house, wavves, my bloody valentine, flying lotus, jay-z (lol), i loved kanye west (💔), best coast, radiohead... that was all earlier years. by senior year it was kirblagoop, yung lean, ruben slikk, bones, blues/gold/\/, vaporwave stuff... man i miss 2012-2015
