Every relistenable on cantia

Ranked lists of records, kept by the members of cantia and updated in public. Open one and argue with it.

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Paid in Full

The records behind the room. Albums by the honorees, hosts, and legends of the Paid In Full Foundation's Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards (Bellagio, Las Vegas, October 24, 2026), where Kurtis Blow and The D.O.C. took their places as Grandmasters, Nile Rodgers received the Quincy Jones Achievement Award, and Ralph McDaniels received the Contributor Award.

by @ladidaix · 19 records · Updated Oct 28, 2026

Grown and sexy

Thirty-five years of grown folks' music. Silk shirts, hard lessons, and love that knows better now.

by @cantiafm · 23 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2020s: rap

Five years in, the new rap canon is already loud. Regional kings, critic darlings, and records that changed the temperature.

by @cantiafm · 8 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2020s so far

The decade is young and already arguing about its canon. Start here.

by @cantiafm · 12 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2010s: R&B

The decade R&B got strange and tender and ran the culture anyway. The slow records everybody lived inside.

by @cantiafm · 7 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2010s: rap

Blog era to streaming era, the rap records that moved the center. One decade, no skips.

by @cantiafm · 9 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2010s

From Pink Friday to Invasion of Privacy, the records this decade will be remembered by.

by @cantiafm · 12 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2000s: R&B

The voices that ran the decade. Slow jams, standards, and the records every singer since has studied.

by @cantiafm · 7 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2000s: rap

The decade rap took the whole building. Corner office classics and basement genius, side by side.

by @cantiafm · 9 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Best of the 2000s

The decade that raised the group chat. The records everybody's taste was built on.

by @cantiafm · 11 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Pop Christmas, all killer

New classics and shiny ones. The tree goes up, these go on.

by @cantiafm · 10 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Christmas, but make it soul

The holiday canon, sung by the voices that raised us.

by @cantiafm · 10 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Start your dislography here

New to keeping a record of your listening? These ten are the foundation. Log one, then tell us where you'd start instead.

by @cantiafm · 10 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Breakup albums that read like diaries

For the nights the group chat can't fix. Heartbreak, pressed to vinyl, in their own words.

by @cantiafm · 10 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Debuts that arrived fully formed

No warm-up, no apology. First albums that showed up already knowing exactly what they were.

by @cantiafm · 10 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Albums that feel like church

Live or studio, gospel or not. Records with the spirit all the way up, the ones that turn a listen into a testimony.

by @cantiafm · 10 records · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Faves

by @isadorenoir · 1 record · Updated Oct 12, 2026

2016
2016

need i say more?

by @ladidaix · 0 records · Updated Sep 30, 2026

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