Although this may be quite a bit late, as the title suggests, it's never too late. I wanted to do a "2008 favs" posting back in the beginning of January but as anyone who actually follows this blog knows, I've been on the other side of the world.
So, as to not waste anymore time than the paragraph above just did (and of course, as always, in no particular order)...
- Elzhi - The Preface
- Black Milk - Tronic
- Pacewon & Mr. Green - The Only Color That Matters Is Green
- Estelle - Shine
- Keane - Perfect Symmetry
- MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
- Jake One - White Van Music
- Kardinal Offishall - Not 4 Sale
- Buff1 - There's Only One
- Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Other notables (these are all posted somewhere here):
- Common Market - Tobacco Road
- Duffy - Rockferry
- eMC - The Show
- Jazz Liberatorz - Clin d'oeil
- Now On - Tomorrow Already
- Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
- DJ K.O. - Picture This...
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eMC should have been ranked higher
ReplyDeleteA fair argument. In response: if I were to do that list 3 different times, it's more than likely that I would come up with 3 different results. Music is all about feeling and it's human nature for feeling to vary.
ReplyDeleteDon't give up on us...
ReplyDeleteQ-Tip - The Renaissance (nothing crazy lyrical, but just good good hip hop sounds for the ear drum)
ReplyDeleteRZA - Digi Snacks (has grown on me - dope beats and RZA can't be slept on ever)
Charles Hamilton - It's Charles Hamilton (one of MANY mixtapes with varying results - notable tracks include Star Chasers, Conversations with God, Lacy Duvalle, Wrong Side of the Bed)
Reks - Grey Hairs (Straight up NY hip hop the way it should be with dope production including Large Professer and Primo)
And I haven't stopped playing any and everything by Drizzy Drake Rogers, who is undoubtedly my favourite MC/Artist at current.