2016 Reason Awards Music Edition Nomination Thread

[BedStuy]

5 nominees in each category

Album of The Year

1. ATCQ "We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service"

2. Apollo Brown & Skyzoo "The Easy Truth"

3. Masts Ace "The Falling Season"

4. WestSideGunn "FlyGod"

5. Flatbush Zombies "3001: A Laced Odyssey"

Mixtape of The Year

1. Dave East - Kairi Chanel

2. Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 4

3. Conway - 50 Round Drum

4. Kay Slay - 50 Shades of Slay

Single of The Year

1. ATCQ - We the people

2. Smoke DZA - Limitless

3. Young Lito - From The Bottom

4. Your Old Droog - Forty Deuce

5. Torae - Get Down prod. Pete Rock

Best New Artist

1. Conway The Machine

2. Westside Gunn

3. Don Q

4. Young Lito

Group/Crew of The Year

WestSide Gunn & Conway The Machine

Underground Artist of The Year

1. WestSide Gunn

2. Conway The Machine

3. Smoke DZA

Producer of The Year

1. Daringer

2. Pete Rock

3. Apollo Brown

4. Harry Fraud

5. Alchemist

Verse of The Year

Man, any verse from Conway The Machine yo.

 

[_Goldie_]

You keeping this open till jan 1?

 

[5th Letter]

Biz suggested the 15th

 

[_Goldie_]

Man tell @iKingGodGivBiz to sit his ass down!!

 

[5th Letter]

It don't matter to me either way.

 

[TheGOAT]

David Banner up for biggest dissapointment for the pump fake on his album

 

[LcnsdbyROYALTY]

David Banner up for biggest dissapointment for the pump fake on his album

Right!!

 

[rip.dilla]

Pump fake?

I listened to it a couple days ago... not too bad. Not great either

Sounded more like a mixtape... with pro-Blackness

 

[TheGOAT]

Pump fake?

I listened to it a couple days ago... not too bad. Not great either

Sounded more like a mixtape... with pro-Blackness

That was his mixtape u listened to

His album was delayed last minute because he didnt have enough preorders.

Supposed to drop in Feb 2017 now

 

[_Goldie_]

Artist of The Year:

Future

Drake

Dave East

Royce

Childish Gambino

Album of The Year:

For Your Eyez Only

Awaken My Love

Rage & The Machine

Us or Else

Views

Mixtape of The Year:

Purple Reign

Kairi Chanel

DC4

Tabernacle

Single of The Year:

The Game - Pest Control

Meek Mill - On The Regular

Chance Ft. Wayne & 2 Chainz - No Problem

Future - Low Life

J.Cole - False Prophets

Feature of The Year:

Busta Rhymes - Mobius

Nas - Nas Album Done

J.Cole - Night Job

Andre 3000 - Decemba Remix

Andre 3000 - Solo

Verse of the Year:

Game - Pest Control

Dave East - Dont shoot

Andre 3000 - Decemba Remix

Finish the rest later

Edited

 

[Beta]

Ima vote for only one category

And I'm echoing sion with underground artist of year...Spitta!

 

[BobOblah]

Playing catch up this week. Bout to listen to Kudi, TI, LOX, Ab Soul, and De La Soul to see if Cole and Tribe have any competition.

 

[lazypakman]

thanks @Sion for the pre-made bullet points.And also well done for having Gambino in your top 5, your hate was/is so vitriol that this is a massive personal growth achievement , you should be proud of yourself my brother, it must have taken a lot.

I'll comment on what i can, admittedly have missed out on a lot this year.

Artist of The Year

• ScHoolBoy Q

• Anderon Pakk

• Childish Gambino

• Danny Brown

• Drake

Album/Project of The Year

• We Got It From Here

• Poison Pen

• The Healing Component

• Blank Face LP

• The Sun's Tirade

Collaboration/feature of The Year

• Danny Brown feat. Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar & Earl Sweatshirt - 'Really Doe'

• Mick Jenkins feat. BADBADNOTGOOD - 'Drowning'

• Isaiah Rashad feat Kendrick Lamar - 'Wat's Wrong'

• Pusha T feat Jay Z - 'Drug Dealers Anonymous'

• Schoolboy Q feat. Vince Staples - 'Ride Out' (although 'Groovy Tony' is equal to me)

Group/Crew of The Year

• Flatbush Zombies

• A Tribe Called Quest

• De La Soul

• Banks & Steelz

• Dreamville

Underground Artist of The Year

• Isaiah Rashad

• Mick Jenkins

• Dave East

• Lance Skiiiwalker

• Denzel Curry

Producer of The Year

• Kaytranada

• Q-Tip

• Digi-Phonics

• Ludvig Göransson

• Paul White

Verse of The Year

• Ab Soul - 'Threatening Nature'

• Andre 3000 - 'Solo (Reprise)'

• Jay Rock - 'Titty & Dolla's'

• Elzhi - Two 16's'

• Jay Electronica - 'How Great'

 

[trilladelic]

This year was pretty good in terms of quality but nothing really stuck to my ribs. Only shit that got multiple spins was purple reign n tlop..

I don't wanna take nothing away from the dope shit that was released this year. Maybe this shit don't impress me like it used to...

 

[_Goldie_]

Might aswell start the voting thread.

 

[5th Letter]

Artist of The Year

Drake

Dave East

Future

Desiigner (he's wack but you can't deny him this year)

Childish Gambino

Album of The Year

The Life of Pablo

4 Your Eyez Only

We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service

3001: A Laced Odyssey

Rage & The Machine

Mixtape of The Year

Kairi Chanel

Roland Collins

Summer Shootout 2

Yellow Tape

Single of The Year

Fat Joe & Remy Ma- All The Way Up

A Tribe Called Quest- We The People

DJ Khaled featuring Nas- Nas Album Done

J Cole- False Prophets

Desiigner- Panda

Best New Artist

Dave East

Young Ma

Desiigner

Collaboration/Feature of the Year

Kanye West featuring Kendrick Lamar- No More Parties In LA

Dave East featuring The Game- Bad Boy on Death Row

Andre 3000- Solo Reprise

Pusha T featuring Jay Z- Drug Dealer Anonymous

DJ Khaled featuring Nas- Nas Album Done

Group/Crew of The Year

A Tribe Called Quest

Flatbush Zombies

De La Soul

Run The Jewels

The Lox

Underground Artist of The Year

Big Krit

Isaiah Rashad

Tech N9ne

Oddisee

Run The Jewels

Producer of The Year

Q Tip

Pete Rock

40

MadLIB

Verse of The Year

Andre 3000- Solo Reprise

Game- Pest Control

Nas- Nas Album Done

 

[Stew]

This thing is tough to do with new dope albums dropping in the last month. My list would've been all kinds of jacked up had I posted when the thread was started lol

 

[achewon87]

Artist of The Year

Dave East

Westside Gunn

Future

Anderson .Paak

Childish Gambino

Album of The Year

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...

Westside Gunn - Flygod

Elzhi - Lead Poison

Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade

Lando Chill - For Mark, Your Son

Mixtape of The Year

Dave East - Kairi Channel

Oddisee - Alwasta

Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 4

Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book

Thecoolismac - Decatur

Single of The Year

A Tribe Called Quest - We The People

Fat Joe - All The Way Up (Remix)

Dave East - Type Of Time

DJ Khaled - Nas Album Done

Isaiah Rashad - 4r Da Squaw

Best New Artist

Westside Gunn

Lando Chill

Collaboration of The Year

A Tribe Called Quest Ft. Jack White - Ego

Pusha T Ft. Jay-Z - Drug Dealers Anonymous

Dave East Ft. The Game - Bad Boy On Death Row

DJ Khaled Ft. Big Sean & Kendrick Lamar - Holy Key

Westside Gunn Ft. Your Old Droog - Vivian At The Art Basel

Group/Crew of The Year

A Tribe Called Quest

TDE

D.I.T.C.

De La Soul

Flatbush Zombies

Underground Artist of The Year

Westside Gunn

Oddisee

Apollo Brown

Lando Chill

Elzhi

Producer of The Year

Q-Tip

Daringer

Apollo Brown

Oddisee

Alchemist

Verse of The Year

Phife Dawg - The Donald

Busta Rhymes - Mobius

Elzhi - Medicine Man

Chance The Rapper - Ultralight Beam

Danny Brown - Bodies on Fairfax

List updated to include everything and edit a few things...

If we were to do a Alt-Rap AOTY my list would be...

Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits

Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love

Anderson .Paak - Malibu

Kaytranada - 99.9%

 

[_Goldie_]

Gotta add Budden's "Freedom" verse to my list for verse of the year

 

[BobOblah]

This is a work in progress as long as yall leave this open. I still gotta listen to RTJ and some other projects

Artist of The Year

1.A Tribe Called Quest

2. J Cole

3. Kanye

Album of The Year

1.. A Tribe Called Quest We Got it From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service

2. J Cole- 4 Your Eyez Only

3. Life of Pablo

4. Common Black America Again

5.Ab Soul

Mixtape of The Year

1. Dave East Kairi Channel

2. Krit 12/12 freestyles

Single of The Year

1.A Tribe Called Quest- We The People

2. A Tribe Called Quest- Space Program

3. DJ Khaled featuring Nas- Nas Album Done

4. Common-Black America Again

5. J Cole - Everybody Gotta Die

6.

Best New Artist

Dave East

Collaboration/feature of The Year

1.Kenneth Whalum & Big Krit -Might Not Be OK

2. Anderson Paak & Talib Kweli- The Dreamer

3.ATCQ & Busta Rhymes- Mobius

4. Pusha T & Jay Z -Drug dealers anonymous

5. ATCQ & Talib Kweli- The Killing Season

Group/Crew of The Year

A Tribe Called Quest

Underground Artist of The Year

Skyzoo & Apollo Brown

Havoc & Alchemist The Silent Partner (not sure if they're "underground" but it wasn't mainstream)

Producer of The Year

1.Q Tip

2. Apollo Brown

3. Kanye

4. Havoc & Alchemist

Verse of The Year

1. Q Tip Black Spasmodic (Q Tip verse to himself as Phife Dawg from the afterlife. Too cold.)

2. J Cole, Verse 4 on 4 Your Eyez Only (Biggie level storytelling)

3. Big Krit -Might Not Be OK (intense delivery made it the best song about the police killings I've heard yet)

4. Andre 3000- Solo Reprise (3 stacks still better than everyone. Delivery is insane and he packed so much into 1 minute)

5. Busta Rhymes- Mobius (I swear to god this shit was recorded in '97)