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01.04.05 12:15 AM
Da Big(uh) List of 2004
This is not in order, nor by any means is it finished - it's a work in progress - in a week or two i'll have it down to my top 5 (in order) or so - then i'll be the hotness like jason, ej, KB, Rex Sorgatz, Sasha Frere Jones, and countless others who really put these lists down with deep contemplation.
Again - this is a work in progress and in no particular order
Amp Fiddler - Waltz of A Ghetto Fly (Pias America)
John Legend - Get Lifted (Sony)
Kanye West - The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
Usher - Confessions (La Face)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
Prince - Musicology (Sony)
TI - Urban Legend (Atlantic)
Mos Def - The New Danger (Geffen)
Vybz Kartel - Up 2 Di Time (Greensleeves)
Gwen Stefani - Love, Angel, Music, Baby (Interscope)
Nas - Street's Disciple (Sony)
Jean Grae - This Week (Babygrande)
DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Album
Jay-Z/Linkin Park - MTV Ultimate Mash Ups Presents Collision Course
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime (XL)
Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle (Geffen)
Greyboy - Soul Mosaic (Ubiquity)
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch And Go Records)
Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album (Def Jam)
Chops - Virtuosity (Vocab Records)
DJ Ayers, DJ Eleven, Cosmo Baker, et. al - The Rub: It's The Motherfucking Remix (itstherub.com)
Grand Hustle Presents Gangsta Grillz - DJ Drama & The P$C - Down With The King
Check back for updated list, in order, with descriptions - CDs will most likely be excluded and others added
Check back for top singles list
Check back for top videos list
Check back for top mixtape list
Edit: This list will forever be a work in progress, because I don't really remember thinking that any album was great this past year. Like nothing I bumped the entire year. Or nothing that I constantly wanted to listen to each track over and over again. I loved a lot of singles though.
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Comments
don't sleep on the "foreign exchange" album, or mf doom and madlib's collabo "madvillain". and comeback of the year might be masta ace's "a long hot summer".
posted by hardCore | January 4, 2005 12:52 AM #
a lot of people say that Prince just missed their top 10, myself included. doesn't mean it wasn't good, but there was so much other stuff out there that couldn't be ignored.
cosigned on what hardCore said about foreign exchange. get it, ma, if u don't already have it. it's the hotness.
glad you gave talib props too. i really liked that album. and damnit, i had to have pretty toney purchased for me for christmas cause i missed out on it. i'm such a slacker. ;-)
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| January 4, 2005 6:06 AM #
Another big-ups for Foreign Exchange. It's refreshing to hear something in hip hop and not immediately think Pharrell, Timmy, or Dre. It's just a shame it took a Dutchman to do it. Definitely worth the spin.
posted by KB | January 4, 2005 10:11 AM #
I digged that Linkin Park/Jay-Z collabo. Man. Looking that this list, there's a lot of stuff i didn't really check for. Stefani, Greyboy, Prince, AND I FORGOT MY GIRL, JEAN GRAE!!!
Dope list!!!
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| January 4, 2005 3:55 PM #