Cocaine Blunts Best Rap 2010
1. Rick Ross f/ Styles P – “BMF” (Def Jam)2. Kanye West f/ Nicki Minaj & Others – “Monster” (Def Jam)3. Young Dro – “Freeze Me” (Grand Hustle)4. Lil B – “Wonton Soup” (Internet)5. Waka Flocka Flame f/ Roscoe Dash & Wale – “No Hands” (Brick Squad/Asylum)6. Killa Kyleon f/ Z-Ro – “Swang Real Wide” (AMG)7. Soulja Boy f/ Gucci Mane – “Pretty Boy Swag (Remix)” (SODMG/Interscope)8. Lil Wayne – “Single” (Cash Money/Universal)9. E-40 f/ Too Short – “Bitch” (Sick Wid It)10. Tyler, The Creator f/ Hodgy Beats- “French” (OFWGKTA)11. Young L – “Young L-E-N” (Legendary)12. Curren$y – “King Kong” (Blu Roc)13. Starlito – “Alright” (Blu)14. Travis Porter – “Make It Rain” (Porter House)15. Cam’Ron f/ Vado & Kid Cudi – “Ur Killin Me” (Diplomats)16. Earl Sweatshirt – “Earl” (OFWGKTA)17. Wiz Khalifa – “Mezmorized” (Rostrum)18. Z-Ro – “Blast Myself” (Rap-A-Lot)19. French Montana f/ Curren$y – “So High” (Mixtape)20. Roc Marciano – “Thug’s Prayer” (Fat Beats)21. Alley Boy f/ Young Dro – “Tall” (Mixtape)22. Gucci Mane – “Long Money” (Mixtape)23. Yelawolf – “Pop The Trunk” (Interscope)24. Big Boi – “Shutterbug” (Def Jam)25. Plies – “Bruh Bruh” (Slip N Slide/Atlantic)26. Roach Gigz – “Respect It” (Thizz City)27. BOB f/ Playboy Tre & TI – “Bet I Bust” (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)28. Wooh Da Kid f/ Waka Flocka Flame – “Body Bag” (Brick Squad)29. Jay Electronica – “The Announcement” (Roc Nation)30. J. Stalin f/ Messy Marv – “HNIC” (SMC)31. YG – “Toot It And Boot It” (Def Jam)32. Lloyd Banks f/ Juelz Santana – “Beamer Benz Or Bentley” (G-Unit)33. Main Attrakionz – “Legion Of Doom” (Internet)34. Danny Brown – “Greatest Rapper Ever” (Rappers I Know)35. AG – “Infected” (Fat Beats)36. Kendrick Lamar – “Michael Jordan” (Top Dawg)37. Fat Trel f/ Wale – “E St. Flow” (Mixtape)38. Lil Boosie – “Top To The Bottom” (Trill Ent.)39. Lil Blood f/ J. Stalin – “Sell My Coke” (Livewire)40. Kingpen Slim f/ Jim Jones – “My Life Is a Movie” (Beam Up)41. Lupe Fiasco – “I’m Beamin” (Atlantic)42. Vado – “Large On The Streets” (Howie McDuffie)43. Domo Genesis f/ Tyler The Creator – “Rolling Papers” (OFWGKTA)44. Big Krit – “Country Shit” (Def Jam)45. Oschino f/ Meek Mill – “Laughin At Em” (Mixtape)46. Webbie – “My People” (Trill Ent.)47. Nocando – “Hurry Up & Wait” (Alpha Pup)48. Sean Price – “Figure Four” (Duck Down)49. Black Hippy – “Zip That, Chop That” (Internet)50. Nicki Minaj f/ Eminem – “Roman’s Revenge” (Cash Money/Universal)
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I am still not feeling that Lupe track, although I don't hate it as much as I did on first listen.
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
okay need to check out black hippy...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
okay now i'm a fan of that black hippy song. that didn't take long.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, I told all you goons Nocando was what's up
― patti ayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Popmatters' Best Country Albums
10. Alan Jackson- Freight Train9. Randy Houser- They Call Me Cadillac8. Merle Haggard- I Am What I Am7. Laura Bell Bundy- Achin' & Shakin'6. Johnny Cash- American VI: Ain't No Grave5. Taylor Swift- Speak Now4. Elizabeth Cook- Welder3. Easton Corbin- s/t2. Willie Nelson- Country Music1. Jamie Johnson- The Guitar Song
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
cbrap list is the second i've gone ok i NEED to check that out
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Billboard:
10. Big Boi, "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty" 9. Rick Ross, "Teflon Don"8. MGMT, "Congratulations"7. Drake, "Thank Me Later"6. LCD Soundsystem, "This Is Happening"5. Beach House, "Teen Dream"4. Mumford & Sons, "Sigh No More"3. Robyn, "Body Talk"2. Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs"1. Kanye West, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at token shit uk pub folk (or whatever mumford is)
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I am getting Beach House's acclaim less and less. I know it's just because I fucking hate them, but still.
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, actually, all I'd heard before last night was "Zebra" and I was kinda like, "OK, this is nice, but..." and then I heard the two songs on Pitchfork's list and thought "Hey maybe I should check out the album."
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Resident Advisor: Top 20 Albums of 2010http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1264
20. Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas19. The Black Dog - Music for Real Airports18. Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool17. Peter Van Hoesen - Entropic City16. ASC - Nothing Is Certain15. Darkstar - North14. Bonobo - Black Sands13. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal12. Virgo - Virgo11. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening10. Matthew Dear - Black City09. Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers08. Scuba - Triangulation07. Four Tet - There Is Love In You06. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise05. John Roberts - Glass Eights04. Actress - Splazsh03. Shed - The Traveller02.Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma01. Caribou - Swim
― Moka, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm happy to see Beach House on tracks lists but less so on album lists. They should just take up an official slogan like, "great songs, boring albums".
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
first four songs on the Beach House album are great, starts to fade together after that
though considering that's exactly what I said about the Soft Pack and the Chap albums yesterday, maybe it's a listening problem on my part
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
some remotely o_O picks on noz' list (no hands in top 5, ronan's revenge, monster #2) but i appreciate that he resists the urge to be a total contrarian snob all the time. he could definitely have made a more poised & cool list but he didn't
also interesting to see gucci at 22 when last year his number 1 was just a short list of gucci youtubes. i still don't think he really fell off (although he didn't produce nearly as much & the album was disappointing) but interesting to see how he's been so quickly put aside for new favourites. it's been a good year for noz discovering fledgling rap music though, cant blame him for getting all caught up in it
― flopson, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
how is everyone even stealing that Robyn record, like every time i try to google for it i get like 9 different EPs
― patti ayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
his spurning of gucci felt ott to me, i think the buzz is still there its just diminished / returned more underground & less poised towards mainstream -- but he still released 3 albums this year!
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
its funny his lists are seeming MORE personal & less trying to be zeitgeist-y than ever before i think
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
2. Kanye West f/ Nicki Minaj & Others – “Monster” (Def Jam)
Probably the best way to credit the features on this track, really.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Nicki Minaj + sundries - Monster
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I just downloaded the three EPs and then made a playlist of the full-length.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 6:27 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
could be, i can't remember anything too specific abt previous year's list. more i just think it kind of conflicts with certain arguments he's made over about like, going hard, rapping well, ppl overrating certain records
i find usually the top ~10 range of lists both personal & collective contain the worst music though, and i think almost everything is awesome past that point here too
― flopson, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
*over the past year
deej how is noz overstating the argument of gucci falling off in any different way than you
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
also a best songs list doesnt really play to gucci's strengths in 2010. not to mention that he shows up at number 7 for his verse on pretty boy swag
― /\/K/\/\, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Billboard:2. Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs"1. Kanye West, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"
2. Arcade Fire, "The Suburbs"1. Kanye West, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"
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― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
resident advisor list is predictably great (emphasis on both "predictable" and "great" btw)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The Resident Advisor list is great. We've got Virgo quite high in our reissues chart.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Kerrang!'s is surprisingly good as well.
slightly surprised caribou are #1 (thought it'd be actress or flying lotus) but yeah very good list as per usual
― prolego, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"no hands" is waka's biggest single but noz does seem like the first critic anywhere who's picked it as his favorite.
― some dude, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
in no way is it better than "hard in da paint" obv but i think if you like "no hands" a lot & are putting together a list like this, i think "i like 'b.m.f.' better & i thought 'hard in da paint' felt repetitive" is a good enough argument to justify listing "no hands"
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
by which i mean not that "hard in da paint" felt repetitive artistically (seeing as it came out first), but that it would feel repetitive to list one after the other
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:54 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ha fair pt i guess its just a matter of degree
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
from what i've heard, "no hands" was a pretty big club hit in the south - i completely disagree with giving "bmf" props over "hard in da paint" but it's pretty good to see "no hands" getting recognition
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i.e. my top 40 will still have 4-5 gucci tracks (everybody lookin / what its gonna be / trap talk / its alive / long money)
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
no hands is a pretty big hit all over -- its more the pop crossover single than hard n da paint is
&, imo, its success sorta justifies its presence on the album (although i liked it prior anyway, it feels *better* as a result of being popular somehow)
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's really one of the bigger rap hits of the year, period
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:35 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark
i mean i think this is true objectively -- like it's easier to put up w/ crossover tracks when they're actually successful -- by nature their presence is then justified, obv
take gucci's album for instance & you have all these r&b features that weren't even hits and it feels completely pointless -- "no hands" doesn't have the same problem
also i agree about it seeming "better"
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm surprised that "long money" is the gucci track that's cropping in lists. my gucci 5 of the year would be atlanta zoo/electricity/soldier/vampires/tired of you
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
mine would be normal/first song back/it's alive/what's it gonna be/long money (w/ "pretty boy swag" & "i just wanna party" in there as classic features)
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
there was another early year feature that i cant remember that i would include
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
sad about lack of love for 'trap talk' -- sell u a sack of leaves
gucci jack-off sesh is thataway, guys
― patti ayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, fam
― *plop*timist (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
<3
― patti ayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Every track seemed to have a lot of different versions, so there's actually going to be a digital-only version of the album soon which will have some of those on there. I can't tell you how many versions of "Keep It Up" and "Baby Can't Stop" there are. It was really hard sometimes to pick which one to put on the album. -- Lindstrom
cant wait for this
― FLEETWOOD MAC OS THE XX FILES (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Is anyone here a big Actress fan? I love a couple of tracks in the middle but don't understand the album-of-the-year love.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
it's one of those albums that sound nice when you're doing something else as far as i can tell - never got into it beyond that. though at the protests last week i was assured that repeated listens would reveal its true wonder. that person used the word "deleuzian" in all seriousness two minutes later, fyi.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link