What are your favorite albums so far this year?

[ThatA]

Follow Me Home and Section 80 by far. If I can throw a tape or two in there I'd like to add Zero Heroes and Verde Terrace. Bangers in their own ways.

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

Evidence album is sick as hell. I like it a bit more than Phonte's album.

I guess I gotta check for Follow Me home, Section 80 and Random Axe.

 

[soul rattler]

Section.80
Returnof4eva
Watch The Throne
RED Album
Cole World

 

[OGClarenceBoddicker]

Only albums I listened to this year was wtt and c4, i gotta give it to wtt, i dont listen to old rappers new music, and the new rappers i listen to is feedin they families off of mixtapes, droppin singles off dem bitches, doin shows, fuck an album.

 

[BDBIID]

Section.80

Returnof4eva

Watch The Throne

RED Album

Cole World

damn I forgot all about Returnof4eva yeah that was definitely one of the best this year.

 

[ThatA]

I'm tempted to put Returnof4Eva on there too, but I usually have to be in a certain mood to listen.

that goes for all KRIT music.

 

[blackstarr]

Phonte - Charity starts at home
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
J. Cole - Sideline Story
Outlawz - Perfect Timing
Game - Red Album

 

[Already Home_17]

greatest story never told
watch the throne
cole world
section.80

 

[Fly_King]

section.80
weekend@bernies

i enjoyed
red, finallyfamous, ii westside, rollingstoned, and c4 but they werent my fav

 

[dat_bk_nicca]

self made, cole world, red album, i gotta check out section 80

 

[soul rattler]

I find it hilarious that everybody forgot that Lasers dropped this year.

 

[MusicSince83]

Saigon - GSNT

Evidence - Cats and Dogs

Game - RED album

Cole - cole world

Random Axe

Raekwon - Shaolin vs Wu

Pharoahe Monch - WAR

Skyzoo - Great Debater

Cam Vado - Gunz Butta

Kendrick Section 80

These r some of my faves. No classics here but these held me down this yr

 

[stupot0607]

Kendrick Lamar - Section 80 (Album of the year so far)

Evidence - Cats & Dogs

Co$$ - Before i Awoke

Elzhi - Elmatic

Atmosphere - The Family Sign

WTT gotta be up there.

Cole World

Red Album was a decent listen, but i never got into it. Besides The City, Ricky & The Good, The Bad the Ugly

 

[DMTxTHC]

greatest story never told

cole world

..........

 

[Melanin_Enriched]

is killer mike's pledge good?

 

[jek]

DUB C .......RETURN OF THE BARACUDA - I don't know why it seem like I'm the only person that knows this shit is sick, very underated

ROYCE THE 5"9........SUCCESS IS CERTAIN - my only knock on it is its seem kinda short almost like an EP.

K. DOT .........SECTION 80 - if you've heard it then its self explanatory

Game .........RED ALBUM - I like how each of his beats have a different personality and he made different songs for different moods for different occasions. I hate when every song on niggas albums sound the same over similar beats. He has a good variety of joints

I'm finna try to cop Styles P and give him a listen and I'm waiting for Common, Nas, and Slaughterhouse now that they'll have Eminiem overseeing the project. To me its been an alright year in hip hop. Idk why everybody saying it sucked, I've checked out more albums this year than I have the past 3 or 4 years. It's just that a few albums that did get a Buzz turned out to be a little underwelming but you just had to know where to look for the decent shit. Every region seem like since Soulja boy and 50 cent dunt finally took a break, they slowly tryna get back to droppin some ok stuff atleast. Westcoast had 3 decent solid joints without Detox, Snoop or a Cube album dropping so that's a real good sign and I haven't even checked out Evidence's album that might be 4. Ima see what happens this 4th quarter of hip hop

 

[infamous114]

Self Made, Watch The Throne, Section 80, Cole World: The Sideline Story

 

[sapp08_2001]

Curren$y's Weekend @ Bernies, Covert Coup, and Verde Terrace
Young Jeezy Trap or Die 2
Droop-E BLVCK
E-40 Revenue Retrievin Overnight and Graveyard shifts

 

[TrueGodHS]

True God- Soul Revival 11.3.11 on itunes and Amazon.

Probably the only album that actually exceeds the hype beat wise, lyrically, cohesively, etc. I know niggas be sleeping heavy but shit....[video=youtube;68ayejUExmw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ayejUExmw&feature=channel_video_title[/video]

 

[Like Water]

Someone will be hard pressed to knock Kendrick outta that #1 spot for me. Krit's Return, Phonte's Charity, Cole World, Wale's 11.1.11, Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce, Elzhi's Elmatic, Game's Red, WTT, Rae's Shaolin, XV's Zero Heroes, CyHi's Royal Flush, Pac Div's Mania, Curren$y's Covert Coup, Stalley's Lincoln Way, Maybach's Self Made have all stayed in heavy rotation.

Hopefully Take Care and Ambition are added to that list. All in all I feel like 2011's first three quarters have been pretty solid for hip-hop. Not so much commercially, but as far as the entire genre is concerned.