ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

didn't even know araabmuzik was considered hip hop personally

i don't even know what the other rap posters even loved this year - it seems they spent much more time talking about stuff they didn't like but was being hyped. didn't feel there was much rallying around anything or enthusiasm à la WAKA, apart from like dj quik and e-40

my fav hip-hop came from unexpected directions in 2011, quik apart i don't think i'd heard of any of the rappers who made my favourite rap albums at the start of the year

Danny Brown has good standing amongst the goons.

just piggybacking on lex's comment from tracks thread how lol it is that you take the time to chinstroke abt this but not to vote

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:48 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didnt know the poll was happening, as i explained already

i ignored it because i thought i didn't care, but it turns out that i do. i care.

dunno if there's less goon cru stuff per se

2010: gucci mane, curren$y, big krit, tyler the creator, rick ross, earl sweatshirt, e-40, waka flocka flame, diddy dirty money, yelawolf, kanye west, big boi (12)
2011: jay-z & kanye west, big krit, drake, danny brown, kendrick lamar, clams casino, death grips, araabmuzik, e-40, shabazz palaces (and at least dj quik to come) (11)

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:50 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah lamp is OTM & even the ones this year (quik. krit. e-40) that goon cru do like are ones that we had already championed in years past

part of it at least from my perspective is that for the most part my 'champion-ing' moved off-board & onto my blog & paid writing. I am a bit disappointed no one jumped onto boldy james, which i even made a thread for on the sandbox & thought would appeal as much to younger goons like brainwasher as old heads like m@tt

deej no offence but dont you say that every year you forget?

i ignored it because i thought i didn't care, but it turns out that i do. i care.

― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:06 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never said i didnt care! was unaware

deej no offence but dont you say that every year you forget?

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:07 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont remember why i didnt vote in years past when i didnt; i'm sure sometimes i didn't notice, sometimes i didnt have time, sometimes i didnt want to. i still think i can post itt sorry guys

yeah, that Cut Copy album still isn't very good though

\oO/ completely disagree

i think they do much better pop songwriting than most of the groups championed around here. i heard that wu lyf shit yall listen to in the lana del rey thread smh

"Better than Wu Lyf" is pretty fucked up in terms of faint praise

As an outsider my possibly way-off-base sense of goon crew heavy hitters last year was basically Meek Mill, Don Trip & Starlito, maybe Schoolboy Q, maybe 2 Chainz, and Kendrick to the extent that he counts?

It didn't seem like there was much consensus past Meek though?

But I don't read the thread closely enough to say for sure.

judging by the trax poll i'd guess we can also anticipate destroyer, ema, m83, gang gang dance, tune-yards, cass mccombs (whose album i've now heard after "county line" placed and i really like it!)

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:14 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

glad you liked the album! did you listen to just wit's end or humor risk too?

i don't even know what the other rap posters even loved this year

i only follow the thread intermittently but my sense was stuff like meek mill, the step brothers tape, killer mike maybe freddie gibbs in addition to the stuff everyone else liked.

glad you liked the album! did you listen to just wit's end or humor risk too?

just wit's end so far - "knock upon the door" was probably the one i liked best after "county line". he uses space really well.

i should've voted for meek mill but i didn't think the tape was quite consistent enough to make my ballot.

"Alisa" is my fave track on cut copy. killer chorus imo.

\oO/ completely disagree

― #YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40)

Yeah i know, you were one of the few enthusiastic people on its thread. That's why i'm surprised it placed as high as it did

i thought more than a few ppl were into king louie but apparently not

I like him quite a bit. Not sure what you'd expect to place in an albums poll though

deej what did you think of young bleed & cousin fik? thought you were into the former

I was into King Louie! But I don't know it's status amongst the goon crew generally.

really thought max b would have a bigger year

Bloody HELL, this Nguzunguzu mix! Love!

deej what did you think of young bleed & cousin fik? thought you were into the former

― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:32 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i liked both! & grady might be joking but i agree w/ that too

I was into King Louie! But I don't know it's status amongst the goon crew generally.

― Tim F, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:34 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i've started to wonder -- not so much here but w/ popularity more generally -- if my timing on the piece was a little weird, b/c a lot of early adapters like to be a part of the story, but right after i raised awareness he almost stopped releasing new stuff, so people were waiting to hear new shit before cosigning & then nothing new came out

i dunno trying to figure out the 'logic' of artists going viral is probably a mugs game

whatever happened to "Dope & Shrimp" anyway?

cutesy youtubes are how rappers 'cross over' to ilm types iirc

lol

xp dope & shrimp is dropping this month

grady might be joking but i agree w/ that too

wasnt joking! iirc there was lots of goon debate on dude tho

anyway i think mainly if there had been a goon poll like last year then the results would be more goon friendly, but o well

& fwiw im not complaining about the results, just describing them as not particularly goon-ish

nothing to stop there being an ilm rap poll. If metal crew can do it why not others

wouldn't be a bad idea at all.

anyway i think mainly if there had been a goon poll like last year then the results would be more goon friendly, but o well

― #YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 2:51 PM (7 minutes ago)

i agree

Top 20 predictions:

PJ Harvey
Katy B
Beyonce
Destroyer
Tim Hecker
Uncle Acid
Gang Gang Dance
Pistol Annies
Peaking Lights
Kate Bush
Tuneyards
Tropical 2
Rustie
DJ Quik
YOB
Bill Callahan
Julianna Barwick
EMA
Yuck
...maaaaaybe Corrupted

loutallica

nothing to stop there being an ilm rap poll. If metal crew can do it why not others

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7:56 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there will NEVER be any rap poll w/ even half of the turnout of the metal polls though

what the heck is Uncle Acid?

Uncle Acid had better place if King Creosote isn't

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - a really impressive rock album released in mysterious circumstances, has garnered a pretty big following in a fairly short amount of time.

psychedelic rock . think john lennon hears 13th floor elevators and black sabbath and decides he's gonna have a bit of that. Hard to imagine it being top 20 though.

I see. Nicolas Jaar will be in there somewhere anyway. Everyone hated James Blake in the end right?

there will NEVER be any rap poll w/ even half of the turnout of the metal polls though

― lana del rey: everythang's workin' (some dude), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 3:03 PM (17 seconds ago)

lol not if you keep it invite-only there wont

don't say "you" to me like i approved of that dumb idea! but seriously the ALL TIME hip hop poll got literally less than half the ballots of the 2011 metal poll.

the all time hip hop poll was just too much for me tbrr

yeah i know that's not a totally fair comparison because some people get intimidated by that kind of thing, but i'm just saying. goons don't vote like metalheads.

too busy fighting the power iirc

well there also just arent that many ppl who regularly contribute to rolling rap are there? other than deej most of the rap thread regs voted in the traxx poll at least but my impression is that its a more... exclusionary culture than rolling metal