Alrighty...seeing as it's the last day of 2008, what better time to post a Best of 2008 list from each member of The Movement Fam and contributor to the blog than today?
Notion
Top 10 Albums of the Year
Raheem DeVaughn – Love Behind The Melody
Bliss n Eso – Flying Colours
Elzhi – The Preface
Black Milk - Tronic
Cee & Bekah - The Soul Movement Vol. 2 (Mixtape)
The Game - LAX
Pez – In My Own Mind
Nas - Untitled
Lil Wayne - The Carter 3
Drake – The Comeback Season (Mixtape)
**Special Mentions:
Rick Ross - Trilla
Top 10 Songs of the Year
Elzhi ft. Royce Da 5'9" - Motown 25
Black Milk - Long Story Short
The Game feat Lil Wayne - My Life
Little Brother - Sirens
The Roots – Rising Down ft. Mos Def & Styles P
Drake – Barry Bonds Freestyle (Comeback Season Mixtape)
Nas - Make The World Go Round ft. Chris Brown & The Game
9th Wonder & Buckshot – Man Listen (Cause Ummm)
Emilio Rojas – Young Fresh & Fly
Bliss n Eso - Zion Bash
**Special Mentions:
Robyn Thicke ft. Lil' Wayne - Tie My Hands
Busta Rhymes – Arab Money
Worst Album of the Year
C.R.A.C. Knuckles – The Piece Talks
Worst Song of the Year
T.I. – Whatever You Like
Hottest Broad of the Year
K. D. Aubert
Stupidest Thing of the Year
McCain running against Obama… No chance.. BOOM!
Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.kevinnottingham.com of course!
**Special Mentions: www.theaudacityofdope.com
Dopest Artist of the Year
Drake
Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Lil' Wayne
Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Kanye West & his 808’s & Heartbreak
Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Drake
Dopest Beat of 2008
Long Story Short (produced by Black Milk)
Producer of the Year
Black Milk
Bekah
Top 10 Albums of the Year
The Game - LAX
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Robin Thicke - Something Else
Nas - Untitled
Lil' Wayne - The Carter 3
Colbie Caillat - Coco
Kardinal - Not For Sale
The Presets - Apocalypso
Top 10 Songs of the Year
The Game feat Lil' Wayne - My Life
T.I. feat Rihanna - Live Your Life
Black Milk - Long Story Short
Drake - Brand New
Robin Thicke - Magic/Dreamworld
Kanye West - Welcome To Heartbreak/Heartless
Janelle Monae - Many Moons
Butterfly - Jason Mraz
Colbie Caillat - Oxygen/The Little Things
Kardinal - Due Me A Favour
*Special mentions:
Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Neyo – Closer
Worst Song of the Year
That's Not My Name - Ting Tings
Hottest Dude of the Year
Sakis Rouvas
Stupidest Thing of the Year
George Bush getting shoes thrown at him in Iraq - LOL
Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.kevinnottingham.com
Dopest Artist of the Year
Kanye
Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Lil' Wayne - LOVE him
Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Umm Hello - Cee and Bekah :)
Dopest Beat of 2008
Long Story Short (produced by Black Milk)
Producer of the Year
Kanye West - Great Album!
Infinite Archetype
Top 10 Albums of the Year
Blue Sky Black Death - Late Night Cinema
Elzhi - The Preface
Black Milk - Tronic
EMC - The Show
Murs - Murs for President
Buckshot & 9th Wonder - The Formula
Buff1 - There's Only One
Danny! - And I Love H.E.R.
DL Incognito - A Moment Captured in Time
Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto
Top 10 Songs of the Year
Black Milk - Long Story Short
EMC - EMC "What It Stand For"
Elzhi - Motown 25 (feat. Royce Da 5'9")
Buckshot and 9th Wonder - No Future
88 Keys - Handcuff 'Em
Common - Make My Day (feat. Cee-Lo)
Q-Tip - Official
Josh Martinez - Underground Pop (feat. Moka Only & Scratch Bastid)
Jedi Mind Tricks - Death Messiah
Blue Sky Black Death - The Era When We Sang
Worst Album of the Year
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreaks (I'm sure there's worse out there this year, but if there is, I haven't heard it. Sorry Cee, we still cool right?! hah)
Worst Song of the Year
I'm not exposed to much outside of what I choose to listen to. My radio is never on and I don't watch TV. So its gotta be:
Kanye West - Welcome To Heartbreak/Heartless
Hottest Broad of the Year
Jessica Alba (and it will be next year too)
Stupidest Thing of the Year
The McCain camps pick of Sarah Palin. Dumbest move for them. But good for the Democrats.
Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
I second http://www.kevinnottingham.com cos I don't ever go on blogs and I got some free music from there. I like free music.
Dopest Artist of the Year
Elzhi (Coz no-one, and I mean no-one, can mess with his flow. Dude has it sussed.)
Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Murs (I would go on to say Most consistent Artist of the Decade. Highly Underrated.)
Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Kanye. Sorry. And this is coming from a long-time Kanye Fanboy.
Dopest Beat of 2008
Blue Sky Black Death - The Era When We Sang. Beautiful. Just Beautiful. There isn't one better.
Producer of the Year
Blue Sky Black Death (But there's two dudes. So guess it's producers?)
Marc
Top 10 Albums of the Year
Nas - Untitled
Elzhi - The Preface
Cyne - Pretty Dark Things & Starship Utopia (technically 2 albums but released in the same year...should have been a double album!)
EMC - The Show
Devin The Dude - Landing Gear
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Immortal Technique - The Third World
Black Milk - Tronic
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part 1
Top 10 Songs of the Year
Just one!
Elzhi - Talking in My Sleep
Conceptual Dopeness!
Worst Album of the Year
Common - Universal Mind Control
Worst Song of the Year
Common - Sex 4 Suga
Hottest Broad of the Year
Emmanuelle Chriqui (From 'Entourage' and 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan')
Stupidest Thing of the Year
Eastlink
Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://speakerb0x.blogspot.com/
Dopest Artist of the Year
Elzhi
Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Black Milk
Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Common.....Please leave the rap game, and your acting is shithouse!
Artist to look out for in 2009
Torae
Producer of the Year
Black Milk
Dopest Beat of 2008
All of Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Cee
Top 10 Albums of the Year
The Game - LAX
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Freddy - Mes Couleurs
Black Milk - Tronic
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Robin Thicke - Something Else
Nas - Untitled
Lil' Wayne - The Carter 3
Colbie Caillat - CoCo
Special Mentions:
Immortal Technique - The 3rd World
The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Adele - 19
Top 10 Songs of the Year
The Game feat Lil' Wayne - My Life (hook of the year for sure!)
Jazmine Sullivan - One Night Stand
Jazmine Sullivan - Lions, Tigers & Bears
Black Milk - Long Story Short
Drake - Brand New
Robin Thicke - Magic
Robin Thicke - Dreamworld
Kanye West - Welcome To Heartbreak/Heartless
Janelle Monae - Many Moons
Butterfly - Jason Mraz
Worst Album of the Year
C.R.A.C. Knuckles - The Piece Talks
Worst Song of the Year
That's Not My Name - Ting Tings
Hottest Broad of the Year
Kim Kardashian
Stupidest Thing of the Year
George Bush getting shoes thrown at him in Iraq - classic!
Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.kevinnottingham.com of course!
Special mention: http://www.wydublog.com
Dopest Artist of the Year
Drake - only released a few mixtapes in '08 but they had major rotation with me.
Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Lil' Wayne
Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Q-Tip - album was meh, was expecting a lot more
Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Janelle Monae and Emilio Rojas
Dopest Beat of 2008
Long Story Short (produced by Black Milk)
Producer of the Year
Black Milk
Clint
Top 10 Albums of the Year
Nas - Untitled
Lil' Wayne - The Carter 3
Drake – The Comeback Season (Mixtape)
The Roots – Rising Down
The Game – LAX
Notion – World Domi-NoTiOn (Mixtape)
Cee & Bekah – The Soul Movement Volume 2 (Mixtape)
Guns & Roses – Chinese Democracy
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Xavier Rudd – Darker Shade of Blue
Top 10 Songs of the Year
Flight of the Concords – Business Time
The Game feat Chrisette Michelle – Let Us Live
Lil’ Wayne – A Milli
Nas – You Can’t Stop Us Now
Nas – Black President
MGMT – Electric Feel
Lil’ Wayne feat Robin Thicke – Tie My Hands
Lil’ Wayne – Dr. Carter
Notion – White Australian (Mixtape)
Dizzee Rascal – Dance With Me
Worst Album of the Year
Kid Rock – Rock N Roll Jesus
Worst Song of the Year
Kid Rock – All Summer Long
Hottest Broad of the Year
Alicia Keys
Stupidest Thing of the Year
Sarah Palin winking at the camera and Tina Fey getting more publicity for parodying Sarah Palin
Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.davidgorcey.com/
Dopest Artist of the Year
Lil’ Wayne
Most Consistent Artist of the Year
T.I.
Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
The Ting Tings
Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Lupe Fiasco
Dopest Beat of 2008
A Milli (produced by Mr Bangladesh)
Producer of the Year
Timbaland
Tommy Gunnz
Alright yo, here goes. First of all I'll start out by saying I didn't listen to anywhere NEAR as much music this year as I have in the past. Kinda stepped out of the critic game, but I think I was less than inspired by a lot of the music I did hear this year. A lot of the albums in my top ten probably wouldn't get near it another year.
Top 10 Albums of the Year
The Roots - Rising Down
Nas - Untitled
Pez - A Mind of My Own (probably my favourite album of the year, and probably my favourite Aussie Hip Hop release ever)
The Game - LAX (a guilty pleasure, everyone needs their junkfood music)
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
360 - What You See Is What You Get
John Legend - Evolver (not as good as I hoped, but still good enough)
Inverse - So Far: The Collection
...that's all I can think of.
Top 10 Songs of the Year
Kanye West - Heartless
Royce Da 5'9" - Shake This
Elzhi feat. Royce Da 5'9" - Motown 25
Pez - Keep On
Pez - The Way It Should Be
360 - A Subtle Way of Suicide
The Roots - Rising Down
Lil' Wayne feat. Robin Thicke - Tie My Hands
Nas - America
The Game - LAX Files (best hook of the year)
Worst Album of the Year
Can't do this one. I'm sure there was plenty of worse stuff out there than the stuff I didn't like.
Worst Song of the Year
Same again. Although I really don't like Kanye West - Robocop.
Hottest Broad of the Year
Of the year? Not sure how that works, but I'll say Jessica Alba.
Stupidest Thing of the Year
Fashion in Melbourne. Why can't I buy a decent t-shirt for less than $90? In fact, why can't I buy a decent t-shirt?
Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
www.spankwire.com/you'rewelcome
Dopest Artist of the Year/Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Pez: with the exception of "I Wanna Go" which kinda seemed like a poorer version of 60's "My Old School" he brought the heat pretty much every track, including cameos.
Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Jay-Z: dude didn't drop an album this year, so he needs to hurry the F up. Oh, and I heard Common's record was disappointing but I haven't heard it yet.
Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Saigon
Dopest Beat of 2008
Motown 25 (produced by Black Milk)
Producer of the Year
Matik
DJ Grain
Top 10 Albums of the Year
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Ludacris - Theatre of the Mind
T.I. - Paper Trail
Johnson & Johnson - Blu+Mainframe
Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreak
Common – Universal Mind Control
Lil’ Wayne - The Carter 3
Kay and Nicolay - Time:Line
Murs - Murs for President
Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II
Top 10 Songs of the Year
Bartender - T-Pain Ft.Akon
Swagger Like Us – T.I. ft. Lill Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye West
A Milli – Lil’ Wayne
Whatever You Like – T.I.
Easy - Ilwil ft. Jermiside
Overdose of Life - Drake ft. Mickey Factz and Travis of Gym Class Heroes
Lollipop – Lil’ Wayne
One More Drink - Ludacris ft. T-Pain
Fly Guys With Glasses - Donwill ft. Kay
Otherwordly - Ilyas
Worst Album of the Year
V.I.C. - Beast
Worst Song of the Year
V.I.C.- Get Silly
On a lyrical level, it’s garbage, but it’s club banger that will get folks dancing
Hottest Broad of the Year
Meagan Good
Stupidest Thing of Year
AIG executives going on retreat to an expensive resort less than a week after getting a $85 billion bailout from the government. Not to mention the $440,000 tab that they racked up, while at the same time they were laying off hundreds of people.
Sickest Blog/Website
http://www.kevinnottingham.com
Dopest Artist of Year
Kay
Most Consistent Artist
T.I.
Most Disappointing Artist
Q-Tip
Artist to Look Out for in 2009
Drake
Dopest Beat of 2008
Swagger Like Us (Produced by Kanye West)
Producer of Year
Kanye West
Honorable Mention: Nicolay
