Critics Week: A Hip Hop List
Friday, December 12, 2008 - 05:07 PM
Jake Paine, editor in chief of the site HipHopDX, compiled these lists for his appearance on Soundcheck today. Is his exclusion of Lil' Wayne and Kanye West hip-hop hubris? What does it tell us about hip hop in 2008? In 2009?
Albums:
Killer Mike: I Pledge Allegiance To Grind Time II
T.I.: Paper Trail
Black Milk: Tronic
Q-Tip: The Renaissance
Johnson & Jonson: self-titled
Songs:
Joe Budden "Who (Killed Hip-Hop)?" (leaked on Internet in September)
T.I. "What's Up, What's Haapnin'"
Blu "Hold On John" (from Johnson & Jonson)
Nas "Sly Fox"
Young Jeezy f/ Kanye West "Put On"
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