Independent Albums of the Year, 2010. What's YOUR top 5?

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  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    rip.dilla wrote: »
    My first post has ONLY indie releases.

    Correctos Mi Amigo.

    Check Eligh's album Dilla :tu
  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    RuffDraft wrote: »
    Correctos Mi Amigo.

    Check Eligh's album Dilla :tu

    Will.

    Spinna dropped summin' too this year. Dope Mix.
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    rip.dilla wrote: »
    Will.

    Spinna dropped summin' too this year. Dope Mix.

    Underground Forever? I'll check it out :tu
  • rip.dilla
    rip.dilla Members Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    RuffDraft wrote: »
    Underground Forever? I'll check it out :tu

    Yep .
  • ninjasenses
    ninjasenses Members Posts: 157
    edited December 2010
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    ughh man so much good ? dropped this year...I think 2010 was a good year for the ug. I cant remember all the albums off the top of my head but from what I do:

    1. Pigeon john - Dragon Slayer
    2. Kno - Death is silent
    3. Foreign Exchange - Authenticity
    4. Eligh - Grey Crow(still havent given this enough play to move up but definately see potential)
    5. 7l & esoteric - 1212

    EDIT: ? forgot the roots...ehh they go at #4
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    ughh man so much good ? dropped this year...I think 2010 was a good year for the ug. I cant remember all the albums off the top of my head but from what I do:

    1. Pigeon john - Dragon Slayer
    2. Kno - Death is silent
    3. Foreign Exchange - Authenticity
    4. Eligh - Grey Crow(still havent given this enough play to move up but definately see potential)
    5. 7l & esoteric - 1212

    EDIT: ? forgot the roots...ehh they go at #4

    I need to listen to Pigeon John's more, I couldn't stop listening to Summertime Pool Party and kept going back to that upon hearing his new one..
  • elijahcraig
    elijahcraig Members Posts: 24
    edited December 2010
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    No order

    Kno - Death is Silent
    Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
    Deacon The Villain & Sheisty Khrist - ? With Latitude
    Yu - Before Taxes
    Freddie Gibbs - Str8 Killa
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    No order

    Kno - Death is Silent
    Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
    Deacon The Villain & Sheisty Khrist - ? With Latitude
    Yu - Before Taxes
    Freddie Gibbs - Str8 Killa

    Dope list, I checked for Freddie Gibbs a little, but he didn't impress me as he has many others... you should make a thread about him too :tu

    By the way, do you know how to do mediafire.com uploads? You should post your three favourite tracks of this year (Independent and underground only) in a mediafire link to The Essence Playlist of the Year 2010 thread, it's the last day you can do it :tu
  • kobe42085
    kobe42085 Members Posts: 61
    edited December 2010
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    Freddie Gibbs - Str8 Killa. Dude is the truth. Best flow in the game. And already did make a thread about him. People need to know about him.
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    kobe42085 wrote: »
    Freddie Gibbs - Str8 Killa. Dude is the truth. Best flow in the game. And already did make a thread about him. People need to know about him.

    Top 5 albums kobe, what's your other 4? Take a listen to some in the thread because Freddie Gibbs wasn't the only emcee to come out of 2-10 with a great album.
  • sshami88
    sshami88 Members Posts: 11
    edited December 2010
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    This is hard..mmmmmm

    1. Nas and Damian Marley-Distant Relatives
    2. The Roots- How I Got Over
    3. Kno-Death Is Silent
    4. The Left- Gas Mask/ Dessa, 'A Badly Broken Code'
    5. NWL / Big Boi-Sir Luciuos.......am not sure with this one......I lean towards more subject matter thats why NWL has the edge, and i only played 3 times lol.........
  • nostradamus
    nostradamus Members Posts: 1
    edited December 2010
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    1.Kanye West -MDTF
    2.Janelle Monae-ArchAndroid
    3.Curren$y-Pilot Talk I
    4.Madlib-Medicine Show No. 8 Advanced Jazz
    5.Erykah Badu-New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    sshami88 wrote: »
    This is hard..mmmmmm

    1. Nas and Damian Marley-Distant Relatives
    2. The Roots- How I Got Over
    3. Kno-Death Is Silent
    4. The Left- Gas Mask/ Dessa, 'A Badly Broken Code'
    5. NWL / Big Boi-Sir Luciuos.......am not sure with this one......I lean towards more subject matter thats why NWL has the edge, and i only played 3 times lol.........

    Nice list, have you checked out Eligh's Grey Crow though?
  • erav31
    erav31 Members Posts: 3
    edited December 2010
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    SKyzoo & Illmind Live From The Tapedeck
    The Left Gas Mask
    Celph and Buckwild Nineteen Ninety Now
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    erav31 wrote: »
    SKyzoo & Illmind Live From The Tapedeck
    The Left Gas Mask
    Celph and Buckwild Nineteen Ninety Now

    Nice picks :tu That Celph Titled and Buckwild has been really popular.
  • sshami88
    sshami88 Members Posts: 11
    edited December 2010
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    RuffDraft wrote: »
    Nice list, have you checked out Eligh's Grey Crow though?

    yes i have its really good but not good enough to ? my top 5 jajajajaja but def top 10...
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2010
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    sshami88 wrote: »
    yes i have its really good but not good enough to ? my top 5 jajajajaja but def top 10...

    Can't believe that's not in your top 5, props on listening to it though, I thought it was near perfection.
  • MastaAceTheGOAT
    MastaAceTheGOAT Members Posts: 724
    edited January 2011
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    criminal how underated skyzoo is. dear whoever is one of the decades best songs
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
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    criminal how underated skyzoo is. dear whoever is one of the decades best songs

    He has his mentions here and there, but underrated along with a tonne of other artists, true.

    I have The Salvation, it's a nice album, it's the only music that I have from him though, apart from when he's appeared with DJ. K.O. and others.
  • MastaAceTheGOAT
    MastaAceTheGOAT Members Posts: 724
    edited January 2011
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    RuffDraft wrote: »
    He has his mentions here and there, but underrated along with a tonne of other artists, true.

    I have The Salvation, it's a nice album, it's the only music that I have from him though, apart from when he's appeared with DJ. K.O. and others.

    I have live from the tape deck. It's dope but it's not as good as the salvation
  • RuffDraft
    RuffDraft Members, Writer Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
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    I have live from the tape deck. It's dope but it's not as good as the salvation

    You know if he's dropping an album in 2011?
  • SoFreshMusic
    SoFreshMusic Members Posts: 1
    edited January 2011
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    1. Sol ' Dear Friends

    2. SonReal 'Light Year MixTape'

    3. J.Cole 'Friday Night Lights'

    4. Tassnata 'Between Planets'

    5. Atmosphere 'To all my Friends'

    Not in order.
  • WildcatOffense
    WildcatOffense Members Posts: 961
    edited January 2011
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    1. Sol ' Dear Friends

    2. SonReal 'Light Year MixTape'

    3. J.Cole 'Friday Night Lights'

    4. Tassnata 'Between Planets'

    5. Atmosphere 'To all my Friends'

    Not in order.
    lol that is a mixtape
  • stoneface
    stoneface Members Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
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    Kanye? Drake? Eminem? Rick Ross? on a top five independent album thread? what the ? .
  • dwade206
    dwade206 Members Posts: 11,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
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    stoneface wrote: »
    Kanye? Drake? Eminem? Rick Ross? on a top five independent album thread? what the ? .

    don't even bother

    smh