Playboi Carti's "Magnolia" was a breakout moment for rapper and producer alike. Rap singles have always been this popular and important, but this year, it felt like they got a little more recognition. This, of course, has a lot to do with the transition to legitimate streaming and the role of playlists in discovery; Rap Caviar still the most popular of them all. Scroll through to see what made the list. You can also peep our Spotify playlist with all of the songs you see below minus Jay-Z's music, which is still locked away on Tidal , so you can take 's hottest tracks with you wherever you go. DJ Khaled ft.

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Counting down the year in Rap and R&B songs.
Below are the best songs of as chosen by the Noisey staff. Listen to them on Apple Music and Spotify. See also: The Best Albums of In American culture, we get drunk off of it—even when most of us have long passed that period in life. And from the fury with which he raps, you can tell his means every word of it. Tiffany paid tribute on this EP cut to the eye-glazing mundanity of dancefloor small-talk. How are you? Go ahead, treat yourself, you deserve it.
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Follow Billboard. All rights reserved. If albums had something of a soft landing on the pop landscape in , then songs more than picked up the headline-grabbing slack. The Man and Sam Hunt did so domestically. And even with all this, it was still a year where the very best singles might not have been the very biggest. Lady Gaga, "The Cure". Following her rootsy, personal Joanne LP, "The Cure" comes across like Gaga's concession to radio's now waning love affair with trop-pop.
Skip navigation! Story from Music. Is anything better than plugging in your headphones, firing up your music app of choice , and jamming out to that brand-new song you're obsessed with?