The year is almost over and of course MS will also post a Top ___ of 08 (how cliché...)!
I just realised how f*cking good this year was for (jazzy) Hip Hop: we posted ±440 albums from 2008 on the blog and I don't wanna brag or something, but mainly all albums are great!
I think it will be hard to create a list, and I am personally not a big fan of lists (because my opinion on albums always changes), but we'll make one.
BUT we need your help for it. Our list has to be representative for all of us and not only for the writers of MS, so I'd like to ask you to 'nominate' an album or several albums by leaving a comment below this post.
Just post your favourite albums of 08 so we can see how you think about all releases. Also feel free to post your personal top 5, top 10, top 20 or whatever!
Thanks,
MS Crew
Note: please post it in a comment and don't post it in the cbox, so we keep all opinions organized!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
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Afta-1 - Aftathoughts
Roddy Rod - Cuba After Market
Son of Ran - Incoming Message
Surreal - pardon my dust
1.Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
2.G Frequency - Let's Begin
3Q-Tip - Rennesaince
Common Market - Tobacco Road
Deepspace 5 - Bake Sale (was that a real release?)
Mighty Joseph - Empire State
Elzhi - The Prefece
My favorite of this year has probably been Incise - Nobody's Story
Also if you could find an efficient way to make this into a poll, it may get some more attention, but I dunno how that would happen with 440+ albums =|
@ Leekumkee: yeah we're planning to do a poll, but first I wanna do it like this and as soon as we limited everything to 10 albums or so, we can create a poll!
eMC - The Show
Black Milk - Tronic
Ugly Duckling - Audacity
Freddie Joachim - In with time
Elzhi - The Preface
Without any order;
Braille - The IV Edition
G. Frequency - Let's Begin
Little Vic. - Each Dawn I Die
Grip Grand - Brokelore
common market's tobacco road is my favorite of the year by a good margin...
no one's even mentioned jean grae&bsbd - evil jeanius...
other favorites for top 10 include:
murs for president
emc "the show"
jake one white van music
elzhi the preface
panacea - mind on a ship through time
dela - changes of atmosphere
jazz liberatorz..
Here's my personal top ten, Surreal just jumped Common Market who was holding the one spot for a while. I've listened to most albums of the year except for the Son of Ran one.
1) Surreal- Pardon my Dust
2) Common Market- Tobacco Road
3) Cyne- Pretty Dark Things
4) People Under The Stairs- Fun DMC
5) Panacea- A Mind On a Ship Through Time
6) Artofficial- Fist Fights and Foot Races
7) Qwel- The New Wine
8) G Frequency- Let's Begin
9) Blueprint- Blueprint vs Funkadelic
10) Reef The Lost Cause- A Vicious Cycle
in no order I will drop my favorites...
Elzhi - The Preface
Promise - More Than Music
Royce Da 5'9" - Bar Exam II
Kam Moye - Self Centered EP
Grip Grand - Brokelore
Evidence - The Layover EP
Reks - Grey Hairs
Black Milk - Tronic
Nas - Untitled
Common Market - Tobacco Road
sheesh I probably can add like ten more albums woooooooo
Dj Zedvantz - TURNTABLE JAZZ!
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You..
Oh and my favorite instrumental album of the year is Metaform- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. What a classic cd that is...
Common Market-Tobacco Rd.
Collective Efforts-Time For Hope
DJ Sly / Love Theme From Spartacus (Original Version)
Dragon Fli Empire - Intermission ep
Johnson & Jonson - ST
Q Tip - Renaissance
Flying Lotus - LA
Sweatshop Union - Water Street
And my top non hip hop album...
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Giovanca - Subway Silence
I've fallen in love with neo-soul lately
i think dela's changes of atmosphere was dopeeeee
Atmosphere - When Life gives you Lemons
Think Twice - Rock to this Beat
Kid Cudi - A KiD named CuDi
Flying Lotus -Los Angeles
Prolyphic and reanimator-The ugly truth
Thanks 2008 !
1. People under the stairs : Fun DMC
2. Q Tip : The rennaissance
3. Ugly Duckling - Audacity
4. Panacea - A mind On a Ship through time
5. SP - Movin ALong
6. Now On : Tomorrow ALready
7. Surreal : Pardon my dust
8. Presto - State of the art
9. Statik Selektah - Stick 2 Script
10. Giant Panda - Electric Laser
I'm sure I forget a lot of dope stuff!
Uyama Hiroto - A Son of the Sun
Nero-Fall From Grace
Have a lot of others, just not sure if you ever posted them or not, but I'm almost positive you would have put this joint up...
1. To Serve With Love - Black Spade
2. The Renaissance - Q-Tip
3. Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants - Metaform
4. No Longer At Ease - Nneka
5. I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II - Killer Mike
6. The Preface - Elzhi
7. Evil Jeanius - Blue Sky, Black Death & Jean Grae
8. The Set Up - Black Milk/Fat Ray
9. Louder - Ayatollah
10. Rising Deep - The Roots
i honestly think the Q-Tip - Rennesaince takes the title for me. i gotta admit though, good year for new hiphop. next year is going to be insane.
other notible mentions:
Replife - The Unclosed Mind
Johnson & Jonson
Jazz Liberatorz - Clin D'oeil
Count Bass D - L7
Dela - Changes of atmosphere
People Under the Stairs - Fun DMC
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Dagha - The Divorce
my top 10
1.Jazz Liberaterz
2.Nicolay & Kay - Time Line
3.eMC - The Show
4.Torae - Daily Conversation
5.The Roots - Rising Down
6.Buff1 - The Only One
7.Common Market- Tobacco Road
8.Atmosphere - WLGYLYPTSG
9.Michita - One (instrumental)
10.Inherit - Up The River
my top 10
1.Jazz Liberaterz
2.Nicolay & Kay - Time Line
3.eMC - The Show
4.Torae - Daily Conversation
5.The Roots - Rising Down
6.Buff1 - The Only One
7.Common Market- Tobacco Road
8.Atmosphere - WLGYLYPTSG
9.Michita - One (instrumental)
10.Inherit - Up The River
my top 10
1.Jazz Liberaterz
2.Nicolay & Kay - Time Line
3.eMC - The Show
4.Torae - Daily Conversation
5.The Roots - Rising Down
6.Buff1 - The Only One
7.Common Market- Tobacco Road
8.Atmosphere - WLGYLYPTSG
9.Michita - One (instrumental)
10.Inherit - Up The River
Evidence - The Layover
PUTS - Fun DMC
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
ok then for me top ten as follows:
People Under The Stairs - Fun DMC
Ugly Duckling - Audacity
Incise - Nobodys Story
Common Market - Tobacco Road
Grip Grand - Brokelore
Surreal - Pardon My Dust
Afta 1 - Aftathoughts
G Frequency - Lets Begin
EMC - The Show
Freddie Joachim - In With Time
very difficult to decide as so much quality this year, Props to Musical Schizophrenia for being my one stop shop for new s@*t as I get so busy with work Id have missed a lot of this with out somewhere to check. nice one dudes
My top 10 (no compilations or mix) only Hip-Hop Jazzy :
1/ Pat_D-Take_A_Little_Time
2/ Drum Brothers
3/ Shingo_Suzuki-The_Abstract_Truth
4/ Jazz Liberatorz
5/ Surreal - Pardon My Dus
6/ Dela-Changes_Of_Atmosphere
7/ nomak - recalm
8/ G Frequency
9/ Incise-Nobodys_Story
10/ Saint-About_Time
Discover of the year Pat D
NAS : I Am the Jazzy Remixes byGMJ
Jazz Liberatorz : Clin d'oeil
NAS : I Am The Jazzy Remixes by GMJ
Jazz Liberatorz : Clin d'Oeil
Pat D - Take a little Time!!!
top 10: in no special order
Elzhi - The Preface
Reks - Grey Hairs
Nas - Untitled
Jazz Liberatorz - Clin d'oeil
Dela - Changes of Atmosphere
9th Wonder & Spectac - Corner of Spec & 9th
Black Milk - Tronic
EMC - The Show
Nneka - No Longer At Ease
Son of Ran & Messangers - Incoming Message
damn, this year has been a good year. i could go on and on with my list of dope albums ;)
Nice to see some love for Nneka. Her album had the kind of anger, emotion and honesty you don't get enough of today. Exceptionally well produced as well.
Not enough Black Spade and Metaform mentions though!
I see a lot of nice albums! Nevertheless, didn't see one of my favorites yet...
Grieves - Irreversible
flying lotus - los angeles
q tip - renaissance
Anything by Nujabes... although that could be from last year :)
Leave It All Behind
DJ Okawari - 2008 - Diorama
Tsunenori - 2008 - Landscape
All I have to say is Wow! These 2 albums are so wonderfully put together. Very relaxing Jazzy Japanese Hip-Hop. Both are my favorites for 2008!
Thanks MS for a great year, looking forward too many more!
Cheers,
Abe
top 20:
1. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suit
2. Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip
3. Cyne: Pretty dark things
4. Jazz Liberatorz - Clin d'oeil
5. Ayatollah - Louder
6. Belleruche - The express
7. Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna
8. Elzhi - The preface
9. Ohmega Watts - Watts happening
10. Jean Grea & Blue Sky Black Death - Evil Jeanius
11. eMC - The show
12. Cook Classics - Good things come
13. Yarah Bravo - Good girls rarely make history
14. Roots Manuva - Slime & reason
15. Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz Vol. 6.
16. Black Milk - Tronic
17. Simon Kawamura - Translations
18. Sadistik - The balancing act
19. Grip Grand - Brokelore
20. Giant Panda - Electric laser
In Ya mellow Tone 2
E Reece & Core Elements - L.I.S.N 2 This Live.In.Studio
Think Twice - Rock to this beat
1. Jazz Liberatorz "Clin d´Oeil"
2. Atmosphere "When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold"
3. The Grouch "Show You The World"
4. Foreign Exchange "Leave It All Behind"
5. Cyne "Pretty Dark Things"
6. Johnson & Jonson (Blu & Mainframe) Johnson & Jonson
7. Q-Tip "The Renaissance"
8. Jake One "White Van Music"
9. Josh Martinez "World Famous Sex Buffet"
10. J. Rawls & Middle "Rawls & Middle"
P.s.: Best wishes to all MS-users and espcially to the MS-Crew- Thank you so much (!) for all this great music!!!
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
EPMD - We Mean Bussines
Sadat X - Generation X
Pete Rock - NY's Finest
Devin The Dude - Landing Gear
DJ Wich - The Golden Touch
Elzhi - The Preface
Reks - Gray Hairs
The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind
Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin'
DJ Babu - Duck Season vol. 3
plus (i forgot about this very good productions):
El Da Sensei & Returners - Global Takeover
Looptroop Rockers - Good Things
i would to add five (six) more albums to my chartlist and it will be "golden list of 2008 music", so:
Ivan Ives & Fresh - Juice To Get Loose
Shawn Jackson - First of All
9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Formula
9th Wonder & Jean Grae - Jeanius
Jake One - White Van Music
DJ Revolution - King Of The Decks
ok. it's all, greetings for all and Merry Musical Christmas:)
Wow just finished listening to Son Of Ran and Messengers, that has got to be in the top five, wow.
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