10 Best Hip-Hop Songs Of 2017 (So Far)

10. Bones - "TakingOutTheTrash"

Refreshing, witty, and completely devoid of any mainstream symbolism, Bones' armory of versatile genre-dips have been well archived in over 30 mixtapes and albums released frenetically over the past five years.

"TakingOutTheTrash" is a perfect example of his iron-grip on the cloudrap scene, balancing a tightrope act somewhere between decadent vaporwave and haunting trap music.

In classic fashion, Bones takes a walk into the heavier end of the low-fi bass and blasting the listener with an ominously distorted synth that shuffles the beat with banging blasts of percussion.

He also makes a point to that take aim at those that escape the struggles of life by way of drug use, and even compares his work to that of author J.K. Rowling in terms of using idiosyncratic means to achieve his underdog success.

Brashly refusing to accept the norms of rap culture, this song is a representation of an unrepresented aspect of the genre and captures that energy like lightning in a bottle.