My 2010 Top Albums

For old time's sake, I'm going to repost this year's top albums list from my other blog here.



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)

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Ozzie's Video Showcase

Eminem, Mos Def, Black Thought & DJ Premier cypher, enough said


Cormega – Journey, off Mega Montana’s new album, Born & Raised, available now.


This used to be my jam last year, it is about time they relased its video.




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Video Showcase

Ozzie here A.K.A the music addict and I'm here to showcase a couple of Hip-Hop videos.

Starting with the latest Roots single 'How I Got Over', I am a massive Roots stan so this had to be done,the track is growing on me. Black Thought for president.


Secondly, it is the original video for Common's UMC, the album might have failed but this track still gets heavy play. Back to business, before that robotic video was done Com & co did this video but disliked it for some reason. Check it out though.


Finally, we have a superstar admiring another superstar, we need to see more of that shit in hip-hop instead of that so called 'beef rap'!


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O2 and Moose on tour....

Not literally, this is a post about the last two gigs we went to, since neither of us posted anything about them.

Lets start with the latest one, it was De La Soul, it was epic and we managed to score that sweet picture with Trugoy the Dove (Plug two). The night featured guest appearances from Mos Def who performed 'Casa Bey' and the classic 'Umi Says'. Next guest was Prince Paul who did some fuckery skit about cooking beats. The group itself were amazing performing tracks from their 20 years long career. Finally, to rap up an amazing show they brought out Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) to perform Feel Good Inc. and the crowd went wild, it was mind blowing!

The other gig was The Legendary Roots Crew from Philly, Black Thought, ?uestlove and Co. never disappoint, they are one of the best bands to watch live, don't take my word for it though, The Rolling Stone listed them on the best live act list. This show was no exception they rocked a packed Manchester Academy 1 venue and the whole place was shaking when they performed 'The Seed 2.0'. Below is a video of their swagger filled, playful entrance.



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It must be my birthday today...

From out of nowhere, brand NEW J-Dilla and Black Thought a track called Reality Check, this not all, read this quote from OkayPlayer:

"On June 2nd Nature Sounds will be releasing Jay Stay Paid. J$P is a 25 track collection of unreleased (some have leaked) Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. The project is mostly instrumental, but includes vocals from Black Thought, DOOM, Raekwon, Illa J, Blu, Havoc, M.O.P. and more. This isn’t some haphazardly put together album. Ms. Yancey AKA “Ma Dukes” serves as the executive producer to keep her sons vision in mind."

I won't wast more of your time, enjoy the track.

props to Shake.


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The Roots & Jimmy Fallon - Slow Jam the News

The debut of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon was last night, and with The Roots crew as the house band shit's dope, but is it worth quiting touring for this show? I guess we will find out soon. Attached is a clip from the debut:






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