2010 GOON POLL results: The Top 30 Hip-Hop/Rap Albums of 2010

I like some low-key menace in my NYC rap, I do.

For those who are still curious, here's an alphabetized by artist list of all the albums/mixtapes discussed on this thread. Folks who want to know about hip hop in 2010 could do worse than start here.

AG - Everything's Berri
All Star - Starlito's Way 3
Backland - Block Work: None Better
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Big KRIT - KRIT Wuz Here
Black Milk - Album of the Year
Bun B - Trill OG
Celph Titled and Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
Curren$y - Pilot Talk
Curren$y - Pilot Talk II
Cutthroat - The Takeova
Cypress Hill - Rise Up
Danny Brown - The Hybrid
Das Racist - Sit Down Man
David Banner and Ninth Wonder - Death of a Pop Star
DaVinci - The Day the Turf Stood Still
De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - De Lachende Derde
Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
Devin the Dude - Suite #420
Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris
Dion Mase - SPFenomeen
Dirt Platoon - Deeper than Dirt
DJ Premier Presents Year Round Records - Get Used to Us
Drake - Thank Me Later
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift
Earl Sweatshirt - Earl
Eternia and MoSS - At Last
Fat Joe - The Darkside Vol 1
Freeway and Jake One - The Stimulus Package
French Montana - Coke Boyz
Gangrene - Gutter Water
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
Gucci Mane - Jewelry Selection
Gucci Mane - Mr. Zone 6
Husalah - The Furly Ghost 3
Ice Cube - I Am the West
J Stalin - Prenuptual Agreement
Jadakiss - The Champ is Here 3
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kno - Death is Silent
KRS-1 and True Master - Meta-Historical
Lady Leshurr - 01:21 Mixtape
LE$ - The Beautiful Struggle
Lil B - 6 Kiss
Lil B - Blue Flame
Lil B - Everything Based
Lil B - Red Flame
Lil Boosie - Incarcerated
Little Brother - LeftBack
Los - Shooter
Luca Brazi - Brainfood
Marco Polo and Ruste Juxx - The eXXecution
Meek Millz - Flamerz 3
Meek Millz - Mr. Philadelphia
MellowHype - BlackenedWhite
Methodman, Ghostface and Raekwon - Wu Massacre
Mickey Free - Last of the Tight Wiggers
Mr Pookie and Mr Lucci - 10th Anniversary: The Classicc
Murs and Ninth Wonder - Fornever
Nas and Damien Marley - Distant Relatives
Na'Tee - Guess Who's Coming 2 Dinner
NhT Boyz - Power Triangle Vol. 1
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
Nottz - You Need This Music
Pill - 1140 The Overdose
Raekwon - Cocainism Vol 2
Rah Digga - Classic
Rick Ross - Albert Anastacia
Rick Ross - Teflon Don
Roach Gigz - Roachy Balboa
Roc Marciano - Marcberg
Rome Cee - Tunnel Vision
Scarface - Dopeman Music
Shabazz Palaces - Shabazz Palaces/Palaces of Light
Skyzoo and !llmind - Live from the Tape Deck
Soulja Boy - Legendary
Soulja Boy - The DeAndre Way
Starlito - Renaissance Gangster
Statik Selektah and Termanology - 1982
Stone's Throw Podcast - Adventures with Paul White
Strong Arm Steady - In Search of Stoney Jackson
Styles P and Green Lantern - The Green Ghost Project
The Jacka and Larooo - Neva Be the Same (20 Bricks - Season 1)
The Left - Gas Mask
The Roots - How I Got Over
Travis Porter - Proud 2 Be a Problem
Tyler the Creator - Bastard
Vado - Slime Flu
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Wiz Khalifa - Kush and OJ
Wooh Da Kid - Black Out
Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik
Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik: 0-60
Yo Gotti - Cocaine Music 4.5
Yo Gotti and Zedzilla - Cocaine Music 4
Young Jeezy - The Last Laugh
Young Jeezy - Trap or Die II: By Any Means Necessary
Young Lyric aka Lyrikkal - 2 Lyrikkal
ZRo - Heroin
ZRo, JDawg and Lil C - I Ain't Takin No Loss 2

we should totally rank them to make it easier for people to know where to start

... um i think we just did that?

/tuomas

I Am the West is so terrible

Cube doesn't spit a hot verse on it, and runs lame choruses into thr ground. Regret that purchase

what big '10 releases didnt make that list?

b.o.b., the roots...

oh no wait the roots are there, under t not r

did em have an album last year?

Lil Wayne, Drake, lots more

drake, sadly, got a vote :(

ha, t.i. :(

drake, sadly, got a vote :(

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEA.

lol Drake. every time I see his name I think of that terrible "what's the square root of 69? 8 something?" rhyme and I'm just like arrrgh this fuckin guy

Am I giving Drake too much credit in thinking there's a pun in that line? "What's the square root of 69? 8/ATE something?"... doesn't really make any more sense, but I like to think that's what he meant.

well yea, but it's also a dirty dad joke that's been told since before I was born

really feelin that Styles P

Am I giving Drake too much credit in thinking there's a pun in that line? "What's the square root of 69? 8/ATE something?"... doesn't really make any more sense, but I like to think that's what he meant.

― rihanna rennavated my dick (rennavate), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the next line is 'im trynna work it out'

Yeah, as in, he's trying to go fulfill the joke/question by actually going down. Yes, I know I'm reaching.

not sure there's "lot's more", whiney was maybe thinking abt the poll results themselves than forks' list?

the j. armz mixtape of araabmuzik instros & the alley boy tape, by no means big releases, and uk dude tinie tempah is a rapper if not rap music, that's all i got

brotha lynch hung

^^^^^^^^ man forgot about that dude. used to spin Season of Da Siccness

going thru a folder picking out listenable stuff -- playboy tre - last call, droop e's sade tape, killa kyleon's natural born killa (kinda too full on for me, need a mixtape of his features), jay elect unofficial tape of old stuff victory, max b - wave called yes (old stuff)

i almost put victory on my list, kinda regret leaving it off

i put Young L p Young L.E.N. on my ballot how come hes not on that big list

i put Domo Genesis olling Paper pretty high up on my list

also Cam'ron and Vado BOAB 2.5

Lil B - Blue Flame
MellowHype - BlackenedWhite
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockavelli
Lil B - Red Flame
Lil B - Everything Based
Waka Flocka Flame - Lebron Flocka James 2
Domo Genesis - Rolling Papers
Tyler, the Creator - Bastard
J Stalin - Prenuptial Agreement
Curren$y - Pilot Talk II
Cam'Ron and Vado - Boss of All Bosses 2.5
E-40 - Revenue Retreivin'
Roach Gigz - Roachy Balboa
Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik 0-60
Young L - Young L-E-N

because u never posted your ballot in the thread

ah there u go xp

i totally forgot j stalin came out this year

playboy tre - last call

was this '09 or did it just drop off the face of the crit-earth already

nah was mid-2010 iirc

critics drop dudes like that so fast. i can already hear Pill fading

just missed my list:

Issue

Droop-E
Rick Ross
Alley Boy
Starlito
Fab
Wiz
Juicy J

by Juicy J i mean whichever one of the three projects i decided to put down...prob the Convicted Felons mixtape

when did 6 kiss come out?

J Stalin was like last January, right? I played "Red & Blue Lights" throughout the year.

how did i miss a killa kyleon dj drama tape? gotta hear that thanks zvookster

xxp late dec. 09

idk why i rationalized putting Bastard but not 6 kiss on my list. they just felt like from different calendar years

J Stalin was like last January, right? I played "Red & Blue Lights" throughout the year.

― President Keyes, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 7:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is still one of my favorite albums of the past few years. i fuckin love it. it should have been higher. my list was like impossible to decide on

fyi i finally finished my list of the best Baltimore mixtapes of '10 featuring all the random shit nobody's heard of that was on my ballot for this:

http://governmentnames.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-20-baltimore-hip-hop-releases-of.html

beat on d.p shit is d[-_-]b

im finally listening to that twista album, was that on your ballot? "darkness" is amazing

i never got around to hearing it, which is ridiculous because i've heard every other post-Kamikaze Twista album nobody repped for and this one actually seemed to have some positive buzz

woulda voted for j stalin but honestly had forgot it came out in 2010

al you'll def feel it -- some traxster beats

the whole thing is traxter just about

i wasn't really into the whole thing really though - first song is really great and i like "make a movie" but then there's "i do" and that ridiculous song about the mayans and 2012 and the album never really recovers after that

a twista stan should at least listen tho, it's not bad