This week, Pitchfork shared lists featuring the best albums and tracks of the decade so far. We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share a favorite song and album that didn't make the list, along with a music highlight and their personal Top 10s or 20s. Check back for more installments of My Decade in Music So Far.
Soulja Boy: The DeAndre Way [SOD/Interscope]
Maybe by 2020, the world will be ready to acknowledge the influence of Soulja Boy’s magnum opus, an exquisite corpse of the most delightful qualities of late-2000s radio rap. It remains a blueprint for the concept of swag as we know it.
Kanye West: "Bound 2" [Def Jam]
Not Kanye’s best song of the decade so far; not even his best song on Yeezus. But it’s the song that made me believe that love is sustainable on this bullshit Earth: love as a stupid, petty, tainted miracle.
Musical Highlight of the Last Five Years: Alone and bawling at the Yeezus tour, as “Coldest Winter” led into “Hold My Liquor,” drunk off a $24 double shot of Jim Beam, the stranger next me wrapped an arm around my shoulder: “Girl, I know.” We all knew.
Honorable mention goes to the word “fanute.”
Favorite Albums of 2010-2014:
- Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Rustie: Glass Swords
- Drake: Take Care
- Kanye West: Yeezus
- Jeremih: Late Nights With Jeremih
- Future: Pluto
- Beyoncé: 4
- Chief Keef: Finally Rich
- DJ Rashad: Double Cup
- Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Favorite Tracks of 2010-2014:
- Kanye West: "Runaway"
- Carly Rae Jepsen: "Call Me Maybe"
- Drake: "Marvin's Room"
- Chief Keef: "I Don't Like" [ft. Lil Reese]
- Soulja Boy: "Zan With That Lean]
- Kanye West: "Blood on the Leaves"
- Frank Ocean: "Pyramids"
- Four Tet: "Love Cry"
- Future: "Turn on the Lights"
- Jeremih: "773 Love"