Music Spotlight

By: Jacoby Reed

The Spotify album cover for "WE DON'T TRUST YOU" Courtesy of Spotify

There has been all sorts of music released lately, from all sorts of creators and lots of albums have been released this year and this month alone. I will be going over some of the music and albums that have already been released, and are coming soon, and going over the most popular ones of each month,(mainly rap albums).


At the start of this year the first album released was “MUSIC” by Playboi Carti on January 5th. Followed by an album of the year candidate “American Dream” by 21 Savage, on January 12th. There were exactly 20 albums released in January alone. Let's move on to February, the most anticipated album since Utopia of last year, was Vultures 1 by Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign, releasing February 9th. In February there were 22 albums released multiple on the same day.


Going into March, there were 30 albums released, with “We Don’t Trust You” by Future and produced by Metro Boomin, being the most popular album of this month, also starting a conflict between Drake and many different rappers. Coming into this month, there have already been 20, with the outliers being “Might Delete Later” by J. Cole, and the second part of Metro Boomin’s album, “We Still Don’t Trust You”. This month also came with a single by Drake called “Push Ups” where he responds to the diss from Kendrick Lamar, and also mentions many other rappers and how he started their careers.


Just in these 4 months there have been lots of albums and songs released. When this year is over there will be so many albums it will be overwhelming.  In this coming month, Kanye West has said he will be releasing Vultures 2, which is a second part to his album at the start of February. There will be lots of more music to come in the year, hopefully all of the songs and albums are good and released when they are planned to and not delayed.