rockatoxx

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The easy answer that i can come up with is Quadeca. I remember coming home from school in 2019 and checking Twitter every day to see if the tracklist for Voice Memos had dropped yet. I was super hyped when the tracklist actually dropped (February 2019 iirc). Watching him evolve from making knockoff-Playboi Carti music to having his own sound has been incredible.

The band is Animal Collective, and the album was 'Feels'.

The first album I listened to from Animal Collective was the debut, and I was not all that impressed. The noise hurt my ears, and the mixing was noticeably poor. I listened to other albums I did not like, like 'Danse Manatee' and surprisingly 'Sung Tongs', which was childish and uncomfortable, so much so that I won't be listening to it again anytime soon. It wasn't until 'Feels' that I started to truly appreciate the band. Add to that 'Strawberry Jam' and 'MPP', and all of the sudden, Animal Collective is now one of the best psychedelic pop bands of all time. It was a rocky road, but it was amazing to see this band grow (on me) over time.

Well, there's a few artists that come to mind, namely Little Simz and Denzel Curry (two of my personal favourite artists) but I'm gonna go with the buttermilk Jesus himself - JPEGMAFIA

He has slowly but surely evolved so much over the years, starting off with half-decent cloud-rap that wasn't anything special, to becoming one of the most notorious rappers/producers in the game right now. I first found him through 'SCARING THE HOES' as I've always wanted to listen to his music, and since everyone was creaming themselves over it, I decided to give it a listen, and it still remains one of my favourite albums of this year. I then went back from the very beginning and work my way up to his latest album before STH. I mainly did it to understand him and his discography more, and I really enjoyed doing it, and also because tomorrow (25th Sep) I'm going to see him live, so I wanted to listen to all of his stuff beforehand.

Homogenic. Unravel in particular just blew my mind, been a fan since

nostalgia for the now, thought that shit is WACKK on retrospect lol 😭😭

Quadeca, got into him because of Insecure and then later on Voice Memos

Hmmmm one of the first ones that comes to mind honestly is black midi. I got into them through Calvacade, and it really does feel like they are constantly changing and breaking the boundaries in some way, which I find to be really cool and I’m really excited for their future

Bjork 100%. I haven't heard the full discog yet, but from what I've heard, she has evolved into something special every single record. Every other record was somtehing different yet still awesome and forward-thinking

I instantly thought Tyler, the Creator. Dude's been super consistent as a rapper, and I love each of his albums. The very first album of his I listened to was "IGOR". I came across it after watching this one reaction video of these people who listened to the album on full. I saw these people's reactions and thought, "Hey, this must be pretty good!", and when I listened to it, I was floored. It was incredible, and when I grew up to listen to "Flower Boy" and "CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST", that's when I knew I was a fan. "IGOR" is still, to this day, my favorite album of all time. I've never experienced listening to an album like it before.

My first thought is Denzel Curry. Denzel was one of the first rappers ive ever heard because of the "ultimate" phenomeon with bottle flip challenge. I was listening to him since 32 zel and I think that in comparision to his past Denzel did a pretty big glow up. From doing an dark trap to making literal jazz rap. I think he has one of the most amazing evolutions from all the rappers that are making music rn. Every phase of his career to now was like an different world to each other.