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Friday, January 22, 2010

Jay-Z Tops the 2009 Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics Poll

Jay-Z,Pazz and Jop Critics Poll,Village Voice

The singles list, at least with nuevo New York anthem, "Empire of State of Mind." The albums list for those who care is HERE. But that's not why I posted this. The real reason is because I got selected to contribute to the poll this year. Here's my lists:

ALBUMS:
1. Ryan Leslie - Ryan Leslie
2. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night
3. Wale - Attention Deficit
4. UGK - UGK 4 Life
5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. II
7. Method Man & Redman - Blackout! 2
8. Masta Ace & Edo G - Arts & Entertainment
9. Torae & Marco Polo - Double Barrel
10. Ebony Bones - Bone of my Bones

SINGLES
1. Pill - Trap Goin' Ham
2. Lil Wayne feat. Young Money - Every Girl
3. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart
4. Funkdoobiest - The Heavyweight Funk
5. Chelley - I Took the Night
6. Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
7. Gucci Mane feat. Plies - Wasted
8. Mario feat. Gucci Mane & Sean Garrett - Break Up
9. Mariah Carey feat. Gucci Mane - Obsessed
10. Sade - Soldier of Love

And click HERE (then scroll down to the bottom of the page) to see me talking about Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne and Pill.

Now if I could only get my own f-cking home country to include me in their critics poll. Del, sort it out!

[At some point I'm gonna do some hip hop lists for 2009 and maybe the decade. That sh-t is just a lot of work though! I already did one version of the rap lists for my man, Rizoh's Hip Hop Critics' poll but I think I wanna do some edits to it.]

Labels: Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Pill, YEAR END WRAP-UP: Albums, YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

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Thursday, January 08, 2009

The 2008 HipHopCritic.com Year-End Poll

Check it out here. My list is here (and amended here). Props to Rizoh for spearheading the creation of this.

Curious as to readers' year-end picks for 2008 if anyone cares to comment.

Related:

The Kitchen gets sonned by Eskay in the first round of the 2008 Hip-Hop Blog World Cup organized by Fat Lace magazine. C'mon, is that even fair?

Labels: YEAR END WRAP-UP: Albums, YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Skillz - "2008 Rap Up"

Probably on every blog already but this is kind of mandatory to post:

Skillz - "2008 Rap Up" [MP3 download links: Yousendit | Zshare stream/download courtesy Tapemasters via Eskay]

Best line: "It's time for a change/So don't go trying to turn inauguration into an All-star game" but there's some other good stuff in there this year too.

Related:

Check out Skillz' Rap Up's from 2002-2007 here.

Labels: Skillz, YEAR END WRAP-UP: Albums, YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

2008 YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

My favorite singles of 2008 compiled, in rough order of how much I was diggin' 'em, in this handy convenient imeem media player for you check out for yourself. Agree with my picks? Did I miss any of your favorites? Holla....

Best Singles of 2008

Labels: YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Best Hip Hop Albums, Singles and Mixtapes of 2008

This is not my real year-end list but was done for my dude Rizoh:

Top 10 Rap Albums of 2008

1. Q-tip - The Renaissance
2. The Game - L.A.X.
3. 88 Keys - The Death of Adam
4. Pete Rock - NY's Finest
5. Cool Kids - The Bake Sale EP
6. Kardinal Offishall - Not 4 Sale
7. Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin
8. Young Jeezy - The Recession
9. Ice Cube - Raw Footage
10. Illa J - Yancey Boys
Bonus: Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Bonus: T.I. - Paper Trail
Bonus: Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Bonus: Black Milk presents Caltroit
Bonus: Nas - Untitled*

Top 10 Rap Songs of 2008

1. Lil Wayne - "A Milli"
2. Young Jeezy feat. Nas - "My President"
3. Big Boi feat. Andre 3000 & Raekwon - "Royal Flush"
4. Snoop Dogg feat. Too $hort & Mistah FAB - "Life Of Da Party"
5. David Banner feat. Yung Joc & Chris Brown - "Get Like Me"
6. Big Tuck feat. Fat-B - "Not a Stain On Me"
7. Play - "I'm from Cali"
8. T.I. feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Jay-Z - "Swagger Like Us" / Jay-z feat. Santogold -"Brooklyn Go Hard"
9. T.I. - "Live Your Life" feat. Rihanna
10. Yung Berg - "Do That There"
Bonus: Mickey Factz - "Incredible"
Bonus: Hot Stylz - "Lookin' Boy"
Bonus: The Roots feat. Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy) - "Birthday Girl"**
Bonus: Kid Cudi - "Day N Night (Crookers Remix)"**
Bonus: M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"**

Top 5 Mixtapes of 2008

1. Green Lantern & Russell Simmons present Yes We Can The Mixtape
2. Beatnick & K-Salaam present Common - S.T.O.R.Y. (Stories Told Over Remixed Years)
3. Q-Tip - Open The Mixtape: Abstract Innovations
4. Mickey Factz - The Leak Vol.1: The Understanding
5. DJ D-Nice - The Official Wackness Movie Soundtrack Mixtape
Bonus: Diplo x Santogold - Top Ranking mixtape

I KNOW some of you are mad at these picks. Did I miss any of your favorites? What did I sleep on this past year? And what am I buggin' on that I included here?

(* I forgot this one on my email to Rizoh but since I didn't rate it Top 10 anyway, it's kind of a moot issue. Untitled had some great songs but overall fell short of its goal of being a conceptual polemic on race isses IMHO | ** I forgot to include these singles too but the same issue applies although they do inspire me to write another list-based post that I've been thinking about doing for a minute now. Stay tuned for that soon-ish....)

Labels: YEAR END WRAP-UP: Albums, YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

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Friday, January 25, 2008

2007 YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

S'funny. I was looking at my favorite singles of 2006 list and got confused when I saw T.I.'s "What You Know" at #1. I thought I must have missed a year of doing this or something because it felt like that song had come out years ago now! Well I checked my King album and lo and behold, that was only a year ago after all. How time flies, huh? Anyway, like we always do around this time in these parts, not necessarily the best, best-selling or most-acclaimed songs, just a list my favorite singles from the past year:

- Seal - "Amazing"
- UGK feat. Outkast - "International Player's Anthem (I Chooose You)"
- Rihanna - "Umbrella"

- Kanye West - "Stronger"
- Kenna - "Say Goodbye to Love"
- Lil Mama - "Lip Gloss"
- Nu World Hustle - "Fresh"
- Crime Mob - "Rock Yo Hips" [I also really liked that "Circles" single too!]
- Mark Ronson feat. Daniel Merriweather - "Stop Me"

- Swizz Beats - "It's Me, Bitches"

- The Fixxers - "Can U Werk Wit Dat"
- Keyshia Cole feat. Missy Elliott & Lil' Kim - "Let It Go"
- DJ Khaled - "We Takin' Over"
- Camp Lo - "Black Hollywood"
- Kia Shine - "So Krispy"
- Fantasia feat. Big Boi -"Hood Boy"
- Tum Tum - "Caprice Muzik"
- Collie Budz - "Come Around"
- Plies feat. T.I. "In Love with my $" [I know "Shawty" was really the 'record' and I liked that too but I just really dug this buzz 'street single' a LOT - why wasn't this on the album??]
- Stephen Marley feat. Damien Jr. Gong Marley - "Traffic Jam"

No disrespect to "Crank Dat," "A Bay Bay," "Wipe Me Down," "I Got Money," "Party Like A Rock Star" and a bunch of other big singles from this year that I actually liked too for not putting them on the list, but the joints above are the ones that I really dug personally.

Previously on The Kitchen:

Click here for the 2006 YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles post (links to the 2003-2005 lists there too).

Labels: YEAR END WRAP-UP: Singles

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