What are your favourite Rap/Hip Hop Albums for this year 2009?
by Chris Devers
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We have come to the end of the decade and yes the final year for selecting your favourite albums.
First to sum up the results from 2008(A bit of a lean year for votes)
=1 Then What Happened-J Live (6 Votes)
=1 Tobacco Road-Common Market
=2 Pro Tools-Gza (5 Votes)
=2 Rising Down-The Roots
=3 The Renaissance-Q-Tip (4 Votes)
=3 The Ugly Truth-Prolyphic & Reanimator
=4 Absolute Value-Akrobatik (3 Votes)
=4 Hip Hop in the Soul-Cymarshall Law & Mr Joker
=4 NY’s Finest-Pete Rock
=5 A History of Violence-Jedi Mind Tricks (2 Votes)
=5 Clin d’Oeil-Jazz Liberators
=5 Freedom-Everliven Sound
=5 Grey Hairs-Reks
=5 Rare Play Vol.1-DJ Premier
=5 Shapeshifters-Invincible
=5 The Preface-Elzhi
=5 The Show-eMC
=5 Tronic-Black Milk
=5 Untitled-Nas
=5 When Life Gives You Lemons…-Atmosphere
=5 White Van Music-Jake One
Below is the list of Albums I tracked down from this year ’09. You can pick as many as you like and feel free to nominate any others I missed I’m sure there are many so that others can vote for them as well.
**Please star this so that people not online can find it and answer as well**
(The next list will be all the albums that got two votes or more to hopefully determine the Top 100 or so albums this decade…as voted by You(Haha Lolz)
The List:
A Brand You Can Trust-La Coka Nostra
A Pipe Dream and a Promise-Finale
Abundance-Platinum Pied Pipers
Acid Tab Vocab-Tame One & Parallel Thought
All in a Days Work-Saigon & Statik Selektah
All Killa No Filla-DJ Honda & Problemz
Are You In?-De La Soul
Arts and Entertainment-Masta Ace & Edo.G
Asleep in the Bread Aisle-Asher Roth
Attention Deficit-Wale
Back on my B.S.-Busta Rhymes
Before I Self Destruct-50 Cent
Black Noise LP-Black Noise
Blackout! 2-Method Man & Redman
Blakroc-Blakroc
BlaQKout-DJ Quik & Kurupt
Born Legendary-Hussein Fatal
Born Like This-MF Doom
Boss of all Bosses-Slim Thug
Boy Meets World-Fashawn
Brains all over the Streets-T-K.A.S.H.
Brand New Bein-Sadat X
Breez Deez Treez-Breez Evahflowin
Brooklynati-Tanya Morgan
Carried Away-People Under the Stairs
Category F5-Twista
Chamber Music-Wu Tang Clan
Champs vs. The League-Quite Nyce & Raydar Ellis
Channel 10-Capone n Noreaga
Chemical Warfare-The Alchemist
City Lights Vol.2 Shibuya-Nicolay
Cloud Nineteen-Braille & SymbolYC
Cocaine-Z-Ro
Cocky & Confident-Juvenile
Covers the Classics Mixtape-Joell Ortiz
Crime Pays-Cam’Ron
Days Chasing Days-Blame One
Decalogue-Stoupe
Deeper than Rap-Rick Ross
Diobolical Fun-Illogic
Don’t Feed da Animals-Gorilla Zoe
Dopium-U God
Dorrough Music-Dorrough
Double Barrel-Torae & Marco Polo
Dr. No’s Ethiopium-Oh No
Early Believers-Kero One
Escape 2 Mars-Gift of Gab
Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian-Prefuse 73
Exile Radio-Exile
Fast Life-Paul Wall
Felt 3 : A Tribute to Rosie Perez-MURS and Slug
Finally Famous : Born a Thug Die a Thug-Trick Daddy
Flight 360: The Takeoff-Playaz Circle
Foundation-M.O.P.
Funk Man (The Stimulus Package)-Del
Futurestreet/Drugsounds-Dom Kennedy
Gangsta Grillz : The Album Vol.2-DJ Drama
Genius-Krizz Kaliko
Ghostdini : The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City-Ghostface Killa
Ground Original 2 : No Sell Out-DJ JS-1
Guilt-Mims
Guru 8.0 Lost and Found-Guru
Half Woman Half Amazin’-Tiye Phoenix
Her Favorite Color-Blu
Hidden Scriptures-Krumbsnatcha
Hidden Stash 420-Kottonmouth Kings
Hunger Pains-Bekay
I Heard it Today-Mr Lif
If Tomorrow Comes…-Maino
II-Kurious
In the Ruff-Diamond District
Intermission-Soul Assassins
Invisible Man-Superstar Quamallah
It’s Still Real-Kenn Starr
J.O.S.E. 2-Fat Joe
Jay Stay Paid-J Dilla
Jhelli Beam-Busdriver
J-Ro Rare Earth B-Boy Funk Vol.2-J-Ro
K.O.D.-Tech N9ne
Kamaal The Abstract-Q Tip
Ketchup-Ti-Ron
LaserDisc-Low Budget
Legendary-AZ
Legendary Classics Vol.1-R.A. The Rugged Man
Life on D-Block-Sheek Louch
Loso’s Way-Fabolous
Mainstream Outlaw-X-Clan
Malice in Wonderland-Snoop Dogg
Man on the Moon : The End of the Day-Kid Cudi
Mental Liberation-Oddisee
Montezuma’s Revenge-Souls of Mischief
More Grey Hairs-Reks
Murder was the Case-Gucci Mane
Muziq & Foto-Nomak
Never Better-P.O.S.
New Jack City II-Bow Wow
New Money-Trek Life & Oddisee
No Security-D-Block
Notorious-Various Artists
Nowalayz-14 Kt.
Nuclear Evolution – The Age of Love-Sa-Ra Creative Partners
Oasis-O.C. & A.G.
Only Built for Cuban Linx 2-Raekwon
Oof! EP-Blue Scholars
Padded Room-Joe Budden
Philadelphia Freeway Vol.2-Freeway
Pray IV Reign-Jim Jones
Priceless-Birdman
Pulse of the People-Dead Prez & DJ Green Lantern
R.O.O.T.S.-Flo-Rida
Ready for War-Pastor Troy
Real Recognize Real-Project Pat
Rebelution-Pitbull
Relapse-Eminem
Retroactive-Grand Puba
Ruthless-Ace Hood
S.O.R.E.-N.O.R.E.
Saving Seamus Rya
Saving Seamus Ryan-Esoteric
Say G and E!-Grouch & Eligh
Self Explanatory-Classified
Serious as Can Be-Big Mike
Shock Value 2-Timbaland
Sickology 101-Tech N9ne
Sign Language-Blueprint
Skinny Jeans and a Mic-New Boys
Skull Gang-Skull Gang
Slaughtahouse-Slaughtahouse
Smoke n Mirrors-B Real
So Far Gone-Drake
Soft White-Mack 10
Solitary Confinement-K Rino
Special Reserve-Obie Trice & MoSS
Spitshine-Urthboy
Splitting Image-Kam Moye
State of the Art-Hilltop Hoods
Status Symbol-Muneshine
Stone & Rob : Caught on Tape-Camp Lo
Strange Journey Volume 1-Cunninlynguists
Strange Journey Volume 2-Cunninlynguists
Street Hop-Royce da 5’9″
Street Sweeper Social Club-Street Sweeper Social Club
Superbad : The Return of Boosie Bad Azz-Lil Boosie
Survival Skillz-KRS ONE & Buckshot
The Art of Broken Glass-Mr J Medeiros
The Blaqprint-Blaq Poet
The Blueprint 3-Jay Z
The Connect-Willy Northpole
The Day After Forever-Crown City Rockers
The Delightful Bars-Big Pooh
The Ecstatic-Mos Def
The G Files-Warren G
The Great Divide-Gully Platoon
The Last Kiss-Jadakiss
The Lonely Ones-Aceyalone
The Natural II-Haystak
The Other Side of the Trap-OJ da Juiceman
The Re Route-Panacea
The Salvation-Skyzoo
The Second Story-Delta
The Seventh Seal-Rakim
The Shining-Violent J
The Spirit of Apollo-N.A.S.A.
The State vs Radric Davis-Gucci Mane
The Takeover-Zion I
The Voice-Mike Jones
The West Coast Don-Yukmouth
The Winter’s End EP-Common Market
Theatre of Pain-Holocaust & American Poets
Til the Casket Drops-The Clipse
Too Hood to be Hollywood-B.G.
Troubador-K’Naan
Truth is Here-Brother Ali
UGK for Life-UGK
Underground Atlanta-Killer Mike
United Colours of Beggatron-Foreign Beggars
Unleashed-Hurricane Chris
US-Brother Ali
Wanna Snuggle?-Apathy
We Are Young Money-Young Money Entertainment
Welcome to Bucktown-Steele
Wh the **** are You-C-Rayz Walz
When Machines Exceed Human Intellect-Harmonic313
Writing on the Wall-Gucci Mane
Yes-K-Os
I’m going on a little Kangaroo Island adventure tomorrow so have a safe and Happy New Year and Hip Hop on into the 20 . 10’s Peace!
Wh@ up Big Things Ain’t seen you on here in a while!
Best answer:
Answer by Whut!?
A Pipe Dream and a Promise, although I have only listened to like 8 of these…
What do you think? Answer below!