Your favorite Hip Hop of 2010

Rjd2

Indeed.

This year out of all the hip hop I listened to Dessa, Big Boi, Kanye, The Roots and Shad were head and shoulders above everyone.

Nad and Damien Marley were the best of the best.

Not sure what order yet, I will have to give it a think.

So then what was the best albums of 2010 for ye folks?

surball

In no particular order:
Curren$y
The Roots
Homeboy Sandman
EL-P weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3

HATCHET IRL

the roots easily best album of the year 4 me, so far..

Makaveli

Right now Kanye, Big Boi, The Roots. I'll have to go back through the releases this year though.

Jimmy Iovine

Big Boi for me was pretty incredible

I know it's not technically an album but J Cole's latest mixtape was unbelievable. Haven't stopped listening to it since I got it, to the extent I had to seriously rush an essay last week due to many hours lost from just day dreaming listening to it. Haven't felt this way about an upcoming album since the Chili Peppers' album back in '06 (because it was my first Chili's album release to be around for so to speak).

I'm ashamed to say I've still to hear The Roots' album and also Kanye's new one but I will as soon as possible

HATCHET IRL

maybe we should give it another month??

MrKingsley

Not that ive listened to a huge amount stuff released this year now. So im not sure how qualified i am for this but the two that ive been very impressed with were the Roots and Kno' albums. Quality stuff

evil_seed

Without a doubt its got to be Big Boi and The Roots. Nothing else comes close

HalloweenJack

Big Boi was the only hip-hop album I bought this year and it's amazing.

Orizio

TiRon, Curren$y, The Roots and Kno are top. Been a great year though.

Ardennes1944

does recovery count here?

Orizio

Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »

does recovery count here?

Of course.

Ardennes1944

then Recovery.

Ardennes1944

i admire the roots so much though. they musical talent goes beyond anything ive ever heard anyway. whats can anyone give me a list of their albums released to date so i can get em please. thanks

Makaveli

A list of The Roots albums?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roots_discography

Seaneh

I think J. Cole's "friday night lights" mixtape is really slept on.
Amazing quality for a free mixtape.


Also.


Hiphop surprise of the year?
As in, "wow... I thought that would be crap, but I really like it..."


Diggy Simmons "Air Bourne", I can't believe a 15 year old made something THAT good.

MD1990

Recovery - Eminem
MOTM II - CuDi
AOBobby Ray - B.o.B
MBDTF - Kanye
No Mercy - T.I

weemcd

Friday night lights, Twisted Fantasy for me, but from what I hear big boi and the roots are up next for me

LuckyGent88

MOTM II - KID CUDI
The Roots
AOBobby Ray - B.O.B
Recovery - EMINEM

mufcboy1999

i think 2010 has been a good year for hip hop to be honest.

my standouts were

j.cole : countless top quailty material and mixtapes need i say anymore, hugely talented both as an mc and producer.

knaan : blew up this year to an extent with the offical world cup anthem "wave your flag", this man is a proper talent there's not many around with his sound infact iv never heard anyone tell a story in his raps like him since 2pac. look foward to his next album.

lloyd banks : released so much top notch free material all year round, he's the one who started all the free music with blue fridays, kanye and swiss soon followed, banks dropped a very good album too in hfm2 aswell as countless mixtapes. a very talented lryicist.

b.o.b : really like this chap, his sound is just different and he stands out from the crowd, his album was class and he just dropped "no genre" last week a mixtape that is up there with j.cole's effort as the best mixtape of the year.

as far as albums it was a great year, big boi released a solid banger of an album, so did eminem who pretty much confirmed himself as the no 1 mc my a longshot, kanye released a very good album also late on and so did t.i with no mercy which is pretty good.

but my standout album of the year was distant relatives by nas and damien marley, the pair are a great combination a kind of hip hop meets reggae sound going on there, cant belive it wasnt mentioned already.

biggest letdown of the year for me was ice cube's "i am the west" was expecting so much more but he just didnt deliver hopefully he'l come good with his next effort as im a big fan of his.

from a most entertaining standpoint it had to be that porn star muppet brian pumper he was hilarious.

Boom_Bap

There's been a few great albums this year. Props to Orizio for putting me on to TiRONs album. Homeboy Sandman, Dessa, Paper Tiger, Celph Titled, Soul Khan, Cee-Lo, Atmosphere, B.Dolan, Sage, CyMarshall Law and The Beatniks, Drake, E-40, Eternia & Moss, El Da Sensai & The Returners, Freeway & Jake One, Guilty Simpson, Grieves, Little Brother, Wu Massacre, Trek Life, Ski Beats, Ras Kas, The Roots.....jesus, we've been spoiled in 2010.

Shapey Fiend

Main ones that come to mind are Curren$y - Pilot Talk 1/2, Earl Sweatshirt - EARL, Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot, Freeway - Stimulus Package, Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik.

Haven't listened to as much as I should this year. There's a lot of stuff I've missed.

Seaneh wrote: »

I can't believe a 15 year old made something THAT good.

Ditto for EARL. His mixtapes so good whatever age he is is irrelvant.

Rjd2

Boom_Bap wrote: »

...jesus, we've been spoiled in 2010.

Haven't you heard ?

Hip Hip is dead these days because Pac is no longer alive...:rolleyes::pac:

Boom_Bap

I just listened to Trek Life's album called Everything Changed Nothing again today.
This is pushing for album of the year for me. Highly recommended.

Rjd2

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I just listened to Trek Life's album called Everything Changed Nothing again today.
This is pushing for album of the year for me. Highly recommended.

Have you listened to much good instrumental hip hop this year?

Looking for stuff for my bandwidth:P

Boom_Bap

Rjd2 wrote: »

Have you listened to much good instrumental hip hop this year?

Looking for stuff for my bandwidth:P

The only things that come to mind are El-P's mega mix and stuff from Oddisee. Oddisee actually produces the Trek Life album i mentioned earlier. He has a bandcamp page with loads of free EPs on it.

I think Blockhead had something this year as well that was quite good.

EDIT: Paper Tiger's album Made Like This is an excellent instrumental record.

DeVore

Professor Elementals creation of Chap Hop and his The Indifference Engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRTB-FTMdk

DeV.

Makaveli

I've been going back through some of albums released this year over the past week and I've settled on my top 5.

01. Kanye - MBDTF
02. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
03. The Roots - How I Got Over
04. Curren$y - Pilot Talk
05. Kno - Death Is Silent

J. Cole - Friday Night Light, Pilot Talk II, Prof Green - Alive Til I'm Dead would all be knocking about the Top 10. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach too if you consider it Hip-Hop which it kind of is. Recovery would possibly round out the top 10 or maybe Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx.

Let downs would be MOTM 2 and Distant Relatives. I'd have loved for Mic Tyson to have been released this year.

Rjd2

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The only things that come to mind are El-P's mega mix and stuff from Oddisee. Oddisee actually produces the Trek Life album i mentioned earlier. He has a bandcamp page with loads of free EPs on it.

I think Blockhead had something this year as well that was quite good.

EDIT: Paper Tiger's album Made Like This is an excellent instrumental record.

Paper Tiger was solid enough although compared to stuff like Flying Lotus it was a bit underwhelming sadly.
I must check out Kno, heard nothing but good things.

30txsbzmcu2k9w

In no particular order top 5

Roc Marciano - Marcberg
Earl - Earl
Big Boi - SLLF
Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
Kanye - MBDTF

good year for hiphop

Shapey Fiend

Just started listening to that other Oddfuture album from Tyler The Creator. It's pretty much just as good as the Earl Sweatshirt one. Production is just amazing. They've got really interesting writing styles too. Kind of post-Doom newschool ****. Nobody else sounds like that crew do.

30txsbzmcu2k9w

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Just started listening to that other Oddfuture album from Tyler The Creator. It's pretty much just as good as the Earl Sweatshirt one. Production is just amazing. They've got really interesting writing styles too. Kind of post-Doom newschool ****. Nobody else sounds like that crew do.

Def my best discovery of 2010 though I think that Tyler album came out last year. Check out the Mellowhype stuff too it's top notch.
Had a thread about Odd Future a while back here and got zero replies glad someone else here is diggin their stuff!

Stab*City

I defo rate the Gas Mask album from The Left and the Ev (from digable planets) beatles album is nice too i think and obviously the roots album.. also ski beats, gangrene, muggs vs ill bill, statik selectah & termanology. to name a few..

Boom_Bap

Stab*City wrote: »

I defo rate the Gas Mask album from The Left and the Ev (from digable planets) beatles album is nice too i think and obviously the roots album.. also ski beats, gangrene, muggs vs ill bill, statik selectah & termanology. to name a few..

ehem, Dialated Peoples

I still have to listen to Gas Mask and the Evidence EP along with alot of other stuff from last year. I've heard that Gas Mask is excellent.

Stab*City

Boom_Bap wrote: »

ehem, Dialated Peoples

I still have to listen to Gas Mask and the Evidence EP along with alot of other stuff from last year. I've heard that Gas Mask is excellent.

:D:D:D

Sorry i meant DP!!

Still have Gas Mask in the cd changer..

Stab*City

I must say im listening to that death is silent album by Kno and it is somethin else.

Boom_Bap

Been going over a few albums i've missed or didnt get around to listeing to.

Phillip Morris - The Truth Campaign is dope
Evidence's Beatles Ep is dope.
AG and Dilla - Dunkin Donuts is dope, nice free mixtape
i started listenening to The Left - Gas Mask and it sounds like the best thing i've heard in a long time.....then the battery on my iPad died I'll be getting back to this album later.

I also checked out B.O.B. but wasnt that impressed by it.

CiaranMT

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Just started listening to that other Oddfuture album from Tyler The Creator. It's pretty much just as good as the Earl Sweatshirt one. Production is just amazing. They've got really interesting writing styles too. Kind of post-Doom newschool ****. Nobody else sounds like that crew do.

Took a chance on this and have been heartily rewarded :cool:

Nolanger

Devlin - Bud sweat and beers.

Camac Hibs

Two albums from Detroit from 2010 ive been playing constantly, The Left - Gas Mask and Apollo Brown - The Reset. That city has been producing a lot of quality stuff over the past few years.

Boom_Bap

The Left - Gas Mask is a brilliant album. Excellent production and the MC is very good.

Ghostface - Apollo Kids........finally listened to it and it's one of my favorite Wu releases in a long while. No interludes, 12 tracks, only 2 songs that go over the 4 minute mark, excellent guest spots, top notch production, no filler.

MCnoFlow

Distant relatives
Big Boi
Mac Miller - Kids
Reflections eternal - Rpm
J Cole - Fnl
Kanye
The Roots

In no particular order.

AhSureTisGrand

Definitely My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. One of the best albums I've ever heard in any genre, and I've listened to a lot

master-t

My Top 5 of 2010:

Kanye - MBDTF
Kno - DIS
Eminem - Recovery
Big Boi - SLLF
Styles P & Green Lantern - TGGP (Production is immense)

(No Order)

jigga95

Has anyone heard big k.r.i.t's mixtape? I would recommend shad... His album is serious. Search shad, Rose garden on YouTube

Boom_Bap

jigga95 wrote: »

Has anyone heard big k.r.i.t's mixtape? I would recommend shad... His album is serious. Search shad, Rose garden on YouTube

+1 on Shad and Rose Garden.

I wasnt too impressed with Big KRIT given that it got a lot of hype.

HATCHET IRL

7l and esoterics album is worth a listen. if i was to make a top ten of 2010 i would have shad in there defo. i would love to make a top ten bit theres still too much i have to listn to, too much hiphop not enough time:(

Boom_Bap

HATCHET IRL wrote: »

7l and esoterics album is worth a listen. if i was to make a top ten of 2010 i would have shad in there defo. i would love to make a top ten bit theres still too much i have to listn to, too much hiphop not enough time:(

Completely forgot that they released an album, i remember hearing 1 or 2 songs and they where great. Must get my grubby hands on the album.