2010 Magazine's Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion

Rev: you cot damn rite I like the Das Racist stuff; they are funny and good at freestyling and they dropped a reference to my favorite Mexican crime novelist so I fell in love with them immediately. Plus, their albums were free; I would have gotten into lots of cooler hip-hop like all you guys around here but I don't download commercial albums w/out paying, and for some reason Waka Flocka Flame never got down to $9.99 at Target, which is unfortunately the basis for a lot of my musical buying decisions.

Most good hiphop isn't commercially released these days and is only available for free download so not a good excuse imo.

Okay you got me. Good job dude you win.

You been told.

Yeah but like usual I probably ain't gonna listen.

gotta stand up for those major labels

RJG: There were a lot of factors behind me having to amp down my music internet coverage this year, including death of laptop. Also, feeling about hip-hop these days like it sounds like you're feeling about R&B.

death of laptop affected me this year too :/

what's up with the cave btw?

Had to shut down the Cave, due to job stuff and life stuff and the fact that we were about the only people who read the damn thing. Damn shame, too, it was fun. But c'est le guerre.

:(

Also, feeling about hip-hop these days like it sounds like you're feeling about R&B.

― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Saturday, December 25, 2010 5:44 PM Bookmark

I've been way happier with rap this year than I have been in a few tbh.

matt cib did u check the youtube playlist i made
i would think youd dig some of it

deej i am very interested in your youtube playlist, when I get a new laptop and some actual time I will watch all these things.

for some reason Waka Flocka Flame never got down to $9.99 at Target, which is unfortunately the basis for a lot of my musical buying decisions.

shit's been $9.99 on amazon since release day (+ no tax in many states)

you make a valid point, but if you knew how much i spent on music this year you would be like 0_0. in general though i don't buy music on amazon unless it's obscure brazilian shit i can't find anywhere else. i'm actually more embarrassed about the lack of south american and african and mexican music on my list than the lack of u.s. hip-hop.

Serious question: Is there anything approaching a general-consensus hip-hop critics' poll?

http://blog.afropop.org/2010/12/top-10-african-compilations.html

Afropop Worldwide's top 10 African compilations for the year. That 18 cd "Africa:50 Years of Music" one is number one.

xp not that i know of, and if so i prob wouldn't wanna read it

passion of the weiss did a decade poll a year or so ago

yeah, and his jury was clearly made up of indie-rock cornballz

right

Matt, you know I love you but this:

they dropped a reference to my favorite Mexican crime novelist so I fell in love with them immediately

is like something that falls from the mouths of indie-dilletante strawmen that guys like me and deej construct on the daily

might as well post the passion of the weiss's top 50 hip-hop songs of 2010 list:

50. Celph Titled & Buckwild - “Fuckmaster Sex”
49. 5 0′ Clock Shadowboxers - “No Resolution” ft. Has Lo, Nico the Beast, Elucid
48. L.E.P. Bogus Boys-”Going in for the Kill”
47. B.O.B. - “Bet I Bust” ft. T.I. & Playboy Tre
46. Dru Down ft. The Jacka - “Hellooo”
45. Gangrene – Chain Swinging
44. Fat Joe f/ Young Jeezy “Ha Ha (Slow Down)”
43. Blu ft. U-God - “Keep It Going”
42. Black Hippy - Zip That, Chop That
41. Intuition - “Al Bundy”
40. Ludacris - “How Low”
39. Smoke DZA ft. Curren$y & Big K.R.I.T. - “Etc Etc”
38. Co$$ - “Fake Kings” [
37. Shad - “Rose Garden”
36. Mistah F.A.B. - “Ungrateful”
35. Killer Mike - “Swimming”
34. Method Man + Raekwon + Ghostface - “Pimpin Chipp”
33. Earl Sweatshirt - “Earl”
32. Homeboy Sandman - “The Carpenter”
31. The Roots – “How I Got Over”
30. Lloyd Banks ft. Juelz Santana - “Beamer, Benz, or Bentley”
29. DJ Quik & Suga Free - “Nobody”
28. Open Mike Eagle ft. Nocando - “Unapologetic”
27. The Funk League ft. Large Professor - “Through Good & Bad”
26. Twista – “The Heat ft Raekwon”
25. Grimace Federation “Bosico (Aesop Rock Remix)”
24. Big K.R.I.T. - “Hometown Hero”
23. E-40 ft. Too Short & 50 Cent - “Bitch”
22. Freeway & Jake One - “African Drums”
21. Shabazz Palaces “32 Leaves Dipped in Blackness Making Clouds Forming Altered Carbon”
20. Vado - “Large in the Streets”
19. J Cole - “Who Dat”
18. Soulja Boy - “Speakers Going Hammer”
17. Nocando - “Hurry Up and Wait”
16. The Knux - “Medusa (Let’s Get Stoned)”
15. G-Side ft. 6 Tre & Codie G - “Feel The”
14. 13. Tyler, the Creator - “Bastard”
12. Black Milk ft. Danny Brown - “Black & Brown”
11. Waka Flaka Flame - “Hard in the Paint”
10. Rick Ross ft Styles P – B.M.F
09. Das Racist ft. El-P - “Sit Down, Man”
08. Jay Electronica - “Shiny Suit Theory ft. Jay-Z”
07. Danny Brown - “Nowhere 2 Go”
06. Freddie Gibbs - “The Ghetto”
05. Roc Marciano - “Scarface N**ga”
04. Curren$y – “King Kong”
03. Big Boi - “Shutterbugg”
02. Kanye West ft. John Legend - “Blame Game”
01. Yelawolf - “Looking for Alien Love”

http://passionweiss.com/2010/12/16/the-50-best-hip-hop-songs-of-2010-50-26/

that is one random ass yelawolf song

that's a solid list

that's my favorite krit song too!

props on "bitch" too

Bitch is hands down the worst song on that entire album

not at all. ban

the list is pretty decent & totally in line w/ potw writers, but the writing is hella lazy

also this re: "who dat" is hilarious

Probably the most straightforwardly lyrical single to drop on major label since “A Milli.”

Though the abysmal first-week showing of Soulja Boy’s third album, The DeAndre Way, probably dooms him (it didn’t crack the top 50), it’s really quite good, not a “Yah Trick Yah” in the bunch

talk about missing the point

rae song bangs, hadn't heard it before

"bitch" is definitely not the worst but it's also far from the best, why do people keep singling it out?

great chorus?

oh that's passion of the weiss? when i interviewed ikonika she was bitching heavily about "some shitty little blog that called me the m.i.a. of dubstep", which we both lol'ed at for a while - turned out it was that

this yelawolf song is kinda "..." but "blame game" at #2 i kinda dig

like the writeup on "hometown hero"

I can def tell that Weiss is more attuned to my own listening habits of looking for gems in full albums and more-critical-mass mixtapes than the more noz/deej/j0rdan "in my world of YouTube."

except for where he names the #1 song of the year a song not even on either yelawolf release

that's just old-fashioned challops, read yr ILX

i mean, it's basically a list of tracks from the the 40-or-so biggest rap goon-approved releases and a few wild cards. My list would be like all the same names in a different order

Not that I'm complaining. It's obviously a great list, but it says more about rap-in-2010 than Weiss (and not that I'm complaining about that either)

can you clear the air about whether or not you're complaining

i dont think thats really an accurate characterization whiney
of me/noz/jordan's approach, or weiss'

s

i mean voting dru down 'hello' is a total youtube (the album JUST leaked)
me voting for an instrumental from a ski beatz comp is a 'goon approved album track'

XXXXXXXP: Whiney you know I love you too but you must know how little I care which strawmen I resemble. I have been on this board for a minute or two and if I haven't earned a couple doubt-benefits by now then it's just more proof that you all need me and my AWESOME PERSPECTIVE.

(Plus if some bearded hipster listens to Das Racist and says "Oh man I wanna be cool like those guys so I better go read some Paco Ignacio Taibo II novels" — like I did with all the references Public Enemy dropped in 1988 — then that's all bonus.) (yes i know that sounds ridic)

What's the deal with Shabazz Palaces albums/tracks showing up on 2010 lists? Weren't they 2009 releases?

no one outside of Seattle knew about them iirc? Same thing with Tyler, The Creator

and Horseback

it happens.