Greatest Albums of the 2000s?
In the year 2000…
Hard to believe that it’s damn near ten years since folks were buggin’ out that a computer glitch would cause a global apocalypse. My parents had a stockpile of bottled water, along with three giant drums filled with water chillin’ in the backyard.
But this isn’t a reflection on cultural fears and anxiety. With the closing of the first decade of the twenty first century, it’s time to get our Rob Gordon on and to obsessively analyze our picks for the top music albums of the last decade.
Another month is still needed by me to digest, nitpick, evaluate my criteria, and solidify Ninoy Brown’s definitive list. I know I lagged on my 2008 year-end list, but I promise to provide this self-obsessive list for the readers (we still have some, I hope).
I’m sure blogs are going to be inundated with these lists in the coming weeks, so why not start one on this blog now?
Leave your nominations in the comments. By all means, provide your justifications.
-Ninoy Brown
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
The Foreign Exchange - Connected and Leave it All Behind
More to come later
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
just off the top of my head, in no particular order: be, the college dropout, the black album, give up-the postal service, a fever you can’t sweat out-panic! at the disco and although it was released in the fall of ‘99, dre’s 2001.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
i can’t even begin to think about makin a list for the past ten years my main man.
November 24th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Wanted to add: Kanye West - Late Registration
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens
Madvillain
John Mayer - Continnum
D’Angelo - Voodoo
Dilla - Donuts
and fuck it…Justin Timberlake - Justified. the neptunes blessed him
Song of the decade: the only one that matters: Young Jeezy - My President is Black. Just for this lyric alone: By my nephews and nieces, I will email Jesus, Tell him forward to Moses and CC Allah. CLASSIC
November 27th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Native Guns - Barrel Men (2006)
November 28th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Spoken word stylings of Theo Huxtable (2004):
http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Long-Mixtape-Malcolm-Jamal-Warners/dp/B000A6VG7A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1259449625&sr=8-1
If that’s not number 1 on your list, then I don’t know what kind of hip-hop blog you all are running…
November 29th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Jaymar: It was already on my list, brother.
dove16: Bambu asked me to not include any of his albums because they are too great and would be unfair to the rest of the selections.
December 6th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
common-Be
kanye west- college dropout
50 cent- get rich or die trying
the game-doctor’s advocate
talib kweli-eardrum
brother ali-the undisputed truth
the visionaries-pangea
murs-the 9th edition
immortal techninque- revolutionary vol.1
alicia keys-as i am
(naturally, anything by Blue Scholars and Native Guns would be atop of this list)
December 8th, 2009 at 6:52 am
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