As per usual, choosing was not easy, and a dozen other albums nearly made it, peep them after the jump.
Here are some of the other projects I also enjoyed this year:
- Black Milk - Album of the Year
- Crookram - Through Windows
- Ski Beatz - 24 Hour Karate School
- The Black Keys - Brothers
- Danny Brown - The Hybrid
- Skyzoo & !llmind - Live from the Tape Deck
- Nas/Damian Marley - Distant Relatives
- Nottz - You Need This Music
- Joell Ortiz - Free Agent
- DJ Premier - Get Used To Us
- Curren$y - Pilot Talk
- Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
- Meth/Ghost/Rae - Wu Massacre
- Hell Razah - Heaven Razah
- Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh
- Rah Digga - Classic
- Shad - TSOL
- Eminem - Recovery
Drake - Thank Me…(lol jk, I’m straight)