It contained the smash hit Magnolia, which rocketed both Carti and producer Pierre Bourne to the height of the rap game.

See where Playboi Carti and Magnolia ranked on our lists of the best albums and songs of 2017.

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Heres an overview of the studio masters that have ruled the hip-hop world for thirty years.

With a mixtape and above all his track Magnolia, he proved his early fans right, inventing a completely minimalist style by associating with a visionary and atypical producer, Pierre Bourne.

For this first studio album, released unexpectedly, Playboi Carti and Pierre Bourne state on 19 tracks all the ideas suggested in Magnolia.

A science of texture and sound research is combined to perfect placement, sometimes repeated on loop for entire measures.

By stripping down rap to its purest form, the duo engraves their creation as almost concrete electronic music, disorienting the audience in the middle of a maze of syllables and small synthetic sounds.

Sometimes surrealist or just from daily life, Playboi Cartis sentences seem to float in time and space, offering in the course of the tracks a permanent dizziness, a unique experience in current rap.

Even the guests like Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj or Chief Keef are broken down in this molecular cuisine in which each atom is multiplied to get the essence of it.

It is thus an invitation to extreme dance, an almost sensory trip, a new way of thinking for rap music in 2018.

Jenks, ComposerLyricist - Pierre Bourne, Producer - S Murdock, ComposerLyricist.

ADENUGA, ComposerLyricist - Indigo Child, Producer - Jordan Carter, ComposerLyricist - Playboi Carti, MainArtist - R.

Woods, ComposerLyricist - Jordan Carter, ComposerLyricist - Lil Uzi Vert, FeaturedArtist - Maaly Raw, Producer - Playboi Carti, MainArtist.

Jenks, ComposerLyricist - Pierre Bourne, Producer - C Roddick, ComposerLyricist.

Cozart, ComposerLyricist - Jordan Carter, ComposerLyricist - Playboi Carti, MainArtist - J.

With their chloroformed rhythms and heavy ambience, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Morcheeba and several other outfits invented a kind of dark, futuristic and often cinematic soul music.

Heres a spotlight on 10 albums from a genre with blurred sonic borders but a definitive musical influence.

Its the perfect opportunity to revisit the history of Britains best-respected independent label.

From the pioneer Marley Marl, who laid the foundations for modern production by showing what could be done with the first samples, to the shooting star J Dilla who, before his death at the age of 32, managed to leave a lasting mark on the genre, not to forget Bomb Squads sonic revolution and Dr Dres undisputed dominance on the West Coast.

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