Why 2018 Was So Special (For Rap) 

What's your favorite 2018 album?

Damn, you never really know how good/special a year is until years later you’re reminiscing. Thank you for this. I miss that 2017-2018/19 era dearly compared to now. Things were so much simpler.

i would pay anything to go back to 2018

Never considered the true value of 2018 but this video truly gave me goosebumps on multiple occasions just thinking back abt that period of time in music and entertainment. Awesome video

I just saw lil skies Thursday and seeing him perform his old songs brought me right back to 2018

fortnite was so good in 2018 they are still trying to recreate it today

2018 was a crazy year for music man there was goodbye and good riddance ? astroworld kids see ghosts those are still my go too albums

I’ve been waiting on the video for a while, 2016-2018 were absolutely unbelievable years not only for music but just to be alive man. I still reminisce about those days all the time and would do anything to relive them!!

Plug walk, zeze, lucid dreams, mo bamba, plug walk shit so many memories

My freshman year of college.. good times fr

Damn i miss 2018 i remember just blasting lil uzi money longer song in study hall with my friends

This Era of Rap Music should've kept going 2014 - 2019

been waiting on this vid for months since u teased it in the 2017 vid lmfaao ty

2018, an iconic year in HipHop, and music in General . So many great albums .

Also, imo 2018 was probably my personal favorite of hip hop, mostly because I was in it since the start of the year, unlike 2016 and 2017. 2018 is probably a year we will never see again as how rap has changed a lot since. Not to mention other mediums apart from rap. I want to one day make a video on hip hop of the 2010s in total

Juice WRLD popped perc after perc and nobody said anything to his face until it was too late. They all hyped him up and told him all his music was great. But mentally he was struggling the whole time and now Juice is gone for good.

Thank you for this....The NOSTALGIA

Damn I didn’t even think about it deeply how different that era of music was just because of how genuine and organic it was. SoundCloud peaked in 2018 but trust me it had been the gateway to the underground since at leasstttt 2013. This was prolly the only time in music you could find someone and a song completely unknown and 2 weeks later there big just off pure tan support. Before it was labels and cds and now it’s paying for streams/views and promotions. Shit is crazy asf to think about. Like bro I remember listening to Khalid’s “location” when it had fuckin like 20k TOTAL plays and showing my friends. A month later he’s global. The equivalent to back when rockers use to go small venue to small venue hoping to maybe get heard or seen. One week in some raggedy bar next week at the garden! Great time for music and didn’t even realize it till I see how corny and forced it is now. It’s just so hard to find good music when absolute shit is payed to be put in front of your face. Money rules it all, and paying for social media promotions and flooding people feeds is the bread and butter

The SoundCloud era is one of the best for music period… I think 2017 was the most iconic year tho in my opinion

Love what you're doing

I miss 2016 - 2019 i wish rappers continued in this lane.

damn I was so happy watching this vid until 5:27 hit me hard 😢 I miss x man

Bro why tf do i feel so damn depressed watching this??

Old Skies had consistent heat 🔥🔥

lil baby saying "more than friends" gets me everytime bruh 💀

Damn this video hit me

Music,video games,movies,memes, man 2017-2018/19 had it all man, I will for sure always miss those simpler days back when the internet was simpler and fun

Bro I fucking forgot about wide neck holy shit

Yall remember this mf Lil pump?💀 damn i almost forgot this dude

RIP X

i love these vids about rap years, cant wait for 2019, pop smoke and nle choppa

It always be the quick songs that pop

last good year honestly

I wrote a short paper for college back in 2021 about music and its influence on society and talked a bit about the SoundCloud era if anyone wants to read it. 😄 Amazing videos dude, I just watched the 2017 one before this, so much nostalgia packed in!! 2017 and 2018 were my favorite years ever so far.

Back when no jumper was mostly about underground rap lol

Miss the SoundCloud era

I been relistening to all this music since og fortnite back

I want this year back

Laurel

2018 era was great..

Lil Mosey Northbest album had no misses 😭

I really think ski mask can be the one to bring back SoundCloud rap attention

Rap needs to be great again same with other genres

facts

The best time to do so with OG Fortnite You have to do 2020 next even though we would skip 2019, it will be 4 years since 2020 and that year was too crazy and had so many events in every field apart from rap

Kids See Ghosts made a good project. The rise of 6ix9ine and Blueface was also interesting

Great year

fire video but no mention of 6ix9ine at all!??? Thats crazy 😂

W Vid

Ooh bands bands bands that's that check talkin

Hey 11 could u please make a video covering the story of PnB Rock

7:20 😭😭😭😭 lmfao this aged poorly

I’m knowing I’m made for this ever since a Youngin

Skies ran 2017-18

2018 was the last good year for independent artists

id give 2020 the legendary title as well. Lockdown music stuff came, fortnite was in a good shape as well.

what time to be alive

lowkey suprised that 6ix9ine was not mentioned much in the video

RIP JUICE WRLD

LLJW😢

Lil peep and x drop in 2018 on of the most streamed rap album of all time

2018 was just 1998 on steroids litty as hell

Skies Carried 2018

I Bought A LOT of Albums in 2018

do 2019 next

Wait so are you cuf boys or related lmao I heard you mention jim

7:44 mahbed champagnepapi's son

9:28 what is this song I forget and its not in desc

Disclaimer 2016 was the best year ! Then 2018 at #2

Music was good in 2018

92... hu Ja klair before he hard to reach vros

make 2020,2019,2021,2015,and 2014 k

so you not gonna mention 6ix9nine? lol

X died 😭

don't care 2016 better

2018 was NOT Real

It's funny to watch this video as someone who didn't care about soundcloud era at all back in 2018. Because this era left zero impact on me, it only leaves me with a lot of questions and misunderstandings. I will never be able to understand why X and Juice were so significant and why are all these clowns calling them legends now... Both were just 2 average emo kids

I wish lil skies kept his huge numbers. I still listen to him since 2017

i always considered 2018 the best year of my life so far and i was only 13-14😭

You make the best rap content here bro, I'm very happy whenever you post videos! I would really love to see a video from you just about Kanye or Travis, pls

I've been waiting for this for 6 months! Great video. R.I.P. Juice btw. Him and Kanye my goats

been waiting for this video

OH MY GOD FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG!

Watched this while high, I was smiling the whole time 💯 thanks for making this video, I really appreciate it

rip X:(

With the exception of 2016, 2018 was a really memorable time, till this day I still bump juice, skies, ect. The rap nowadays just doesn’t hit anymore, and 2018 also has a lot of good memories that I still cherish till this day

juice xxx travis drake & eminem carried the year

Man how I miss the Juice, Lil Mosey, Lil Tecca, Lil Skies and NAV type of melodic rap

the shi started in 2016 and ended in 2018

def was my fav year in music

2018, an iconic year in HipHop, and music in General . So many great albums .

Goated year man 😢

2017-2019 was preak

Life was odd in 2018 i hada lotta change that year

This was one of my biggest years in my music career too, although I never reached the heights of many mentioned artists - I sold out a show for Mike Jones & a few other major artists at this time so it was pretty dope for me.

I am so glad they made a video on 2018 rap

Amazing year amazing video

Will there be a 2019 video? These vids got me crying on god

Was waiting on this one 🥹

my chemistry teacher played lucid dreams every day couldnt get away from that shit