Music is everything. Music is the only thing that keeps us as a society sane. It creates a world to seep through and escape from the constant bores that life entails. It prevents us from spiraling into a downward delirium by offering a pill that eases the mind, eases our thoughts, eases our anxiety, eases our morbid thoughts. The days go by like clockwork, the tiny arrow pointed line never ceasing to spin around like rapid fire, causing days to intertwine and feel like the same endless day with nothing changing except the clothes we wear and the few weather turbulence’s that change day, after day, after day, after day.
For some, music is the only reason we get through a period of our lives, a period where everything all around us is nothing but dark, all we hear is pure nothingness and vapid; we wake up go to a job or school and come home and do it all over again. Breakfasts become nothing more than mere chores, appetites falter all the way into lunch, then before you know it dinner comes by and you realize that you haven’t eaten anything except half a stale strawberry pop tart or a 50 cent cake from the gas station.
It becomes harder to listen to teachers, harder to look up, and harder to pay attention to the people around you because really the only thing you can do is disassociate into the void that is our minds. And that is never a luxury vacation, it’s a ever-growing tug-o-war battle that keeps on extending till the leaves fall down and crumble 10 ft. beneath the ground.
Honestly, I don’t know what I’d do if I had to go through a day without the sweet, precious voices of the god-given angels that comprise drain gang or the smooth, groggy “woah aye’s” of Lucki. The artists and songs help shape the person I am, they help shape my days, my views and my moods. It’s the one thing on this earth that can make the worst day of my life into the most joyful and one to be excited about.
All the artists that come and go, some blow up, some stay in the underground, it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, the only thing that’s left is the art, the music itself. We’ve seen so many eras come and go, so many trends fly by and fall into long-forgotten fads from the legendary Tumblr rap era to the now fading Soundcloud Era, it’s felt like we’ve seen centuries fly by over the course of the decade.
Heaps of new artists emerge on the scene every year, creating beautiful new sounds that help elevate our moods and put a smile on our faces. It’s been a long decade, one that’ll never be forgotten, so in honor of that, we here at Fresh Fruit have decided to put together a list of our favorite songs of the 2010s:
Bladee – Dumpster Baby
Ecco2k & Bladee – Plastic Surgery
Unotheactivist & Thouxanbanfauni – Amazing
Sky Ferriera – Everything Is Embarassing
Speaker Knockerz – Erica Kane
Ripsquad – Alone
Bootychaain & Carti – Milkshake
Yung Lean – Yoshi City
A$AP Rocky & ScHoolboy Q – Hands on the Wheel
Robb Banks – Countin
$uicideboy$ – Kill Yourself (Part 3)
Denzel Curry – Dark & Violent ft. JK The Reaper & Nell
Lil Ugly Mane – Throw Dem Gunz
Spaceghostpurpp – Blackland Radio 66.6 (I can’t choose a single favorite Purpp track so yea this tape in its entirety by default)
Grimes – Vanessa
MARINA – Teen Idle
Lil Tracy – Wait Hollup
Lil Peep & Lil Tracy – White Wine
Abra – Pull Up
Charli Xcx – Roll With Me
Chromatics – Back From The Grave
Nolanberollin – Pharmacist
XXXTENTACION, Ski Mask the Slump God & Yung Bans – LOVEITWHENTHEYRUN
Toro y Moi – So Many Details
Bankroll Fresh – Behind the Fence
Lana Del Rey – Video Games
Kali Uchis – Lonely
Gleesh – Trappin Benny
Thouxanbanfauni – Stand For Sum
Playboi Carti – Broke Boi
Young Thug & Metro Boomin – The Blanguage
Travis Scott & Thugger – Skyfall
Lil Uzi Vert – Team Rocket
Earl Sweatshirt – Grief
Yung Bans & Carti – 4tspoon
6 dogs – Faygo Dreams
Night Lovell – Contraband
Linkin Park – Victimized
Frank Ocean – Unity
Ballout – Wat U Got w/ Gleesh & Capo
Vince Staples – Norf Norf
Wintertime – Thru It All
Lil Yachty – Fucked Over
21 Savage – Dip Dip
Bones – Calcium
Xavier Wulf – Wulf Titan
Chris Travis – Crunch Time
Ecco2k – Don’t Ask
Trippie Redd & Juice Wrld – 1400/999 Freestyle
ICYTWAT – Outta State Pussy
Spooky Black – Without U
Joey Bada$$ – Waves
Lucki – Everything Out$ide
