#17for17

1. Follow the circumstances with openness, sometimes those things that seem terrible at first will turn into blessings. Make sure that your attitude is ripe to make them so.

2. Let her go.

3. Let yourself feel all of it, the sadness, the misery, the intent, the happiness. They are all good friends.

4. Your life is amazing, always remember that.

5. Defend what you know to be real, even if others challenge you with knives.

6. She is love. She is potential. She is reckless. She is kind.

7. Shaving my head is the best decision I have ever made. It's a whole different world out here.

8. You are so much, you always have been.

9. Call your mom dude.

10. Be kind to your friends, they are working through it just like you are.

11. Smoke is 100 times better than alcohol.

12. May La Virgen de Guadalupe always remind you where you come from.

13. Believe in the strength of your work, your research, your presentation. Actively prepare as though every opportunity is the most important.

14. Oración

15. God damn it, I love LA!

16. Live to make your parents as proud of you, as you are of them.

17. Show Love -- Everything is Recorded, Sampha, Syd

16. Don't Choose -- DVSN

15. Doble Filo -- Romeo Santos

14. Shakedown -- Valerie June

13. POA -- Future

12. Gang Over Luv -- Brent Faiyaz

11. La Cátedra -- Residente

10. Sky Walker -- Miguel

9. Supermodel -- SZA

8. Don't Get Too High -- Bryson Tiller

7. Deathless -- Ibeyi, Kamasi Washington

6. Sometimes -- Snoh Aalegra, Logic

5. Thieves! (Screamed The Ghost) -- Run The Jewels

4. FEEL. -- Kendrick Lamar

3. Fruit -- ABRA

2. Lose You -- Drake

1. Plastic 100'C -- Sampha

5 Best Albums of 2017

5. FEELS -- Snoh Aalegra

4. Ash -- Ibeyi

3. Run The Jewels 3 - Run The Jewels

2. More Life -- Drake

1. Process -- Sampha

FEELS. is such an amazing performance, but a terribly underrated artist.

Ash is amazing, and always reminds me of my sister.

Run The Jewels 3 is such a radical album with insane production. Lyrically it's gifted and rivals TPAB in terms of social relevance.

More Life is perhaps the most relatable album I've ever heard. Every single line is incredible from the infamous 'my side girl got a 5s...' to the hardest poem that Lose you is.