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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

2006 YEAR END WRAP-UP: Albums

I know nobody gives a f*ck about this in friggin' May but I never posted a list of my favorite albums at the end of last year even though I pretty much had it mapped out then so here it is now. What held me up was that I was gonna try and write some commentary but I never really had the time or desire.

The only thing I will say for now though is that my album of the year Doctor's Advocate by The Game, like his debut The Documentary before it, is a hip hop classic to me and not just by today's standards. F*ck what the haters or the so-called hip hop critics say or think: five, ten years from now, people will pull out this album and realize how great it is. Even if you aren't convinced just on the strength of the music, the fact that even after a (then red-hot) G-Unit kicked him out of the crew and his mentor Dr. Dre turned his back on him, he was still able to make a amazing sounding album while the Unit has since crashed and burned is an incredible story in itself to me. To use hip hop blog nerd parlance: Game won.

Big up's to Dogg Pound and Snoop Dogg too for making really good albums: never mind the South, is the West (coming) back? Anyway, here's the list for whatever it's worth:

1. The Game - Doctor's Advocate
2. Dogg Pound - Cali Iz Active
3. DJ Spooky - In Fine Style
4. Rhymefest - Blue Collar
5. DJ Green Lantern - Alive on Arrival (mixtape album)
6. Robin Thicke - The Evolution of....
7. Various Artists - Jamaica to Toronto...
8. Beck - The Information
9. Ghostface & Mick Boogie - The Broiled Salmon mixtape
10. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds