Well it's about that time everybody. Time to grit it out, end the speculation and come up with your final list for 2008. A year that was different than any year in recent memory for a lot of people in and out of music. So throw in the OFFICIAL List and let's see what all our great posters come up with... Feel free to copy and paste my format and fill in your blanks.

Artist Of The Year
Kanye West
Hate 808s or love 808s, Ye clearly got people buzzin and talking about his latest album. Using the vintage Roland TR-808 drum machine to create ear buzzing patterns and lacing his own auto tuned brand of music created a sound we never heard before. West for me is the clear choice for 2008. (Not to mention his insane shows he put on during the Glow In The Dark Tour of 08'.)

TO BE CONTINUED...

whats been released this year? was rising down this year? i liked that. i like tips **** too....

Off my head..

Rising Down- The Roots
Paper Trail- TI
808s and Heartbreaks- Kanye West
The Recession- Young Jeezy
Universal Mind Control- Common
The Death of Adam- 88-Keys
Da Realist- Plies
Definition of Real- Plies
Freedom- Akon
Three Ringz- T-Pain
The Rennisance- Q-Tip
The Odd Couple- Gnarls Barkley
Tha Carter III- Lil Wayne
Untitled- Nas
Trilla- Rick Ross
Murs For President- Murs

uhh a few more.

Nas Untitled.

close thread.

Best album - Q-Tip The Renaissance

Best singles (10)- "Hero" by Nas featuring Keri Hilson; "You Know What" by NERD; "This is Us" by Keisha Cole; "Old School New School" by LL Cool J; "2 In The Morning" by New Kids on the Block; "Undisputed" by Ludacris; "Run It" by EPMD featuring KRS-One; "Press Play" by Snoop Dogg featuring Kurupt; "Godflesh" by Jedi Mind Tricks; "I Won't Tell" by Fat Joe featuring J. Holiday

Well it's about that time everybody. Time to grit it out, end the speculation and come up with your final list for 2008. A year that was different than any year in recent memory for a lot of people in and out of music. So throw in the OFFICIAL List and let's see what all our great posters come up with... Feel free to copy and paste my format and fill in your blanks.

Artist Of The Year
Kanye West
Hate 808s or love 808s, Ye clearly got people buzzin and talking about his latest album. Using the vintage Roland TR-808 drum machine to create ear buzzing patterns and lacing his own auto tuned brand of music created a sound we never heard before. West for me is the clear choice for 2008. (Not to mention his insane shows he put on during the Glow In The Dark Tour of 08'.)

TO BE CONTINUED...
Honestly, all the hip hop fans I know wrote off the Kanye disc from the first listen. I'd say there's lots more positive hype about the TI and Rick Ross albums, which I didn't care for either one. From my list above, you can see my taste is a tad softer than that anymore...

i'm genuinely surprised that no one has mentioned Jake One in relation to this topic. White Van Music was easily one of this year's best, in my opinion. solid album from a solid producer. a few personal choice tracks from the album...

The Truth - Freeway & Brother Ali
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Oh Really - Posdnous & Slug
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Trap Door - MF Doom
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Scared - Blueprint
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Kissin The Curb - Bishop Lamont & Busta Rhymes
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check it out if you havn't!

only reason kayne has so much hype now is because his album was released in the latter half of the year... i think overall even though i dislike the guy, lil wayne wins artist of the year

i liked tronic and d.i.r.t

T.I is up for nomination for artist of the year as well as far as im concerned..
Im not even that big of a TI fan but that dude has been killin it

The Roots by far had the best album this year.

Best Songs of The Year
Broke it down by each of the albums I bumped that dropped in 08'.

Nas- Queens Get The Money
Gnarls Barkley- Going On
Young Jeezy- Circulate
Q-Tip- Won't Trade
Lil Wayne- Dr.Carter
Ludacris- MVP (with DJ Premier)
Rick Ross- Maybach Music (feat. Jay-Z)
Common- Announcement
Kanye West- Amazing (feat. Young Jeezy)
Wale- The Kramer and Nike Boots
Robin Thicke- Magic

A lot more I know but you can add em.

emc-the show
z-ro-crack

i liked the 88 keys **** :D

emc-the show
z-ro-crack

i liked the 88 keys **** :D

you should hear ABN's (Z-Ro & Trae) 'It Is What It Is', it's better than 'Crack' imo.

On topic, 808's isn't a hip-hop album.

There are alot of contenders for album of the year, there isn't one that stands out from the great releases this year....but i won't get into that again.

But before everybody gets their panties in a bunch, i do recognize that 'Nig.ger' is in the top 5.

Best Songs of The Year
Broke it down by each of the albums I bumped that dropped in 08'.

Nas- Queens Get The Money
Gnarls Barkley- Going On
Young Jeezy- Circulate
Q-Tip- Won't Trade
Lil Wayne- Dr.Carter
Ludacris- MVP (with DJ Premier)
Rick Ross- Maybach Music (feat. Jay-Z)
Common- Announcement
Kanye West- Amazing (feat. Young Jeezy)
Wale- The Kramer and Nike Boots
Robin Thicke- Magic

A lot more I know but you can add em.
I would include "The Sweetest Love" by Robin Thicke and Ashanti's "The Way That I Love You" on my singles list...don't know how far we go into R&B on this board though...

emc-the show
z-ro-crack

i liked the 88 keys **** :D

really?
i was soooo disappointed in The Show. my expectations were high because each of the MCs that make up the group are so individually strong but i thought that the collaborative album really fell short.

I gotta give my Hip Hop Album of the year to Young Jeezy- The Reccession, with Q-Tip close behind.

A lot of **** I don't even bother ****in with. Game and Nas provided what I needed. Kanye's album was a weed plate. Common's was ehhh. Jeezy didn't really give me anything to look out for his album. Rick Ross album was better than Wayne's. I'm hella late on Cube's album though.

Best CD = Untitled....not my favorite but I consider it the greatest

Most underrated CD of the year (on this site)

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I gotta also give my respect to Ice Cube, i dont see his cd gettin brought up enough. Cube dropped one of the better albums of the year.

Heres my favorites from this year

TOS, HNIC 2, Raw Footage, Halfway House



Some other **** I was feeling but not as much

Carter 3, Paper Trail, Ludas new cd, New Common, Gza-Pro Tools, New Q-tip, LAX

Ice Cube - Raw Footage

Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
It Takes a Nation

Top singles in 08

Lil' Wayne- A mili
The Game Feat. Lil' Wayne- My Life
Nas- Hero
Ice Cube- Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
Young Jeezy Feat. Kanye West- Put On
T.I.- Whatever You Like
Rick Ross- The Boss
John Legend Feat. Andre 3000- Green Light
Rihanna- Disturbia
Jazmine Sullivan- Need U Bad
Common- Universal Mind Control
Lil' Wayne- Lollipop
Snoop Dogg- Sexual Eruption
Kanye West- Heartless

Little Brother's And Justus For All was one of this year's best.

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