2017 Reason Awards Music Edition Nomination Thread (vote closes in a week)
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5 nominees in each category. Since @TheGoat already started a album of the year thread we'll go with whichever albums make the top 5 from that thread.
Artist of The Year
Mixtape of The Year
Single of The Year
Best New Artist
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
Group/Crew of The Year
Underground Artist of The Year
Producer of The Year
Verse of The Year
Artist of The Year
Mixtape of The Year
Single of The Year
Best New Artist
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
Group/Crew of The Year
Underground Artist of The Year
Producer of The Year
Verse of The Year
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Artist of The Year
Cardi B
Mixtape of The Year
The Tonite Show with DJ Fresh & Rydah J. Klyde
Single of The Year
The Story Of OJ
Best New Artist
Tee Grizzley
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
Hustle Gang "Friends"
Group/Crew of The Year
Taylor Gang
Underground Artist of The Year
Shady Nate
Producer of The Year
The Mekanix
Verse of The Year
Jay-Z
You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit
You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it
Financial freedom my only hope
? livin' rich and dyin' broke
I bought some artwork for one million
Two years later, that ? worth two million
Few years later, that ? worth eight million
I can't wait to give this ? to my children
Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine
But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for nine ninety-nine
I turned that two to a four, four to an eight
I turned my life into a nice first week release date, mm
Y'all out here still takin' advances, huh?
Me and my ? takin' real chances, uh
Y'all on the 'gram holdin' money to your ear
There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here, yeah
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Artist of The Year
• JAY-Z
• Kendrick Lamar *
• Joey Bada$$
• Migos
• Big K. R. I. T.
Mixtape of The Year
I didn't listen to much tapes this year but DJ Quik & Problem's Rosecrans takes the crown...
Single of The Year
• Migos - 'Bad & Boujee' feat. Lil' Uzi Vert *
• JAY-Z - 'The Story Of O. J.
• Kendrick Lamar - 'HUMBLE.'
• Future - 'Mask Off'
• Big Shaq - 'Mans Not Hot'
Best New Artist
I'm too old for keeping my head to the ground these days..
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
• JAY-Z feat. Damian Marley - BAM *
• Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna - LOYALTY.
• Big Boi feat. Killer Mike, Young Jeezy & Sleepy Brown - ? Jill
• A$AP Ferg feat. Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, French Montana, Dave East , Rick Ross & A$AP Rocky - East Coast (Remix)
• Rick Ross feat. NaS - Powers That Be
Group/Crew of The Year
• Migos
• ATCQ
• A$AP Mob
• Camp Lo
• Wu-Tang Clan *
Underground Artist of The Year
• Sadat X
• Oh No & Tri-State
• Black Jesus
• Z-Ro
• Rapsody *
Producer of The Year
• Mike Will Made It
• Bink!
• No ID *
• Sounwave
• Big K. R. I. T.
Verse of The Year
• Meek Mill - Lamborghini Doors (from the album Rather You Than Me)
• Wale - Trap, Trap, Trap (from the album Rather You Than Me)
• Yo Gotti - Summer Seventeen (from the album Rather You Than Me)
• Skepta - Skepta Interlude (from the album More Life)
• Kendrick Lamar - FEAR. - (3rd verse/from the album DAMN.) *
I had to search extensively over the past year. Making this list wasn't easy. I'm a family man now but HipHop still runs in my blood...
The ones with an asterisk are my winners. Happy festive period to y'all... -
I swear if y'all nominate cardi b or tekashi69
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Busta Carmichael wrote: »I swear if y'all nominate cardi b or tekashi69
I nominated Cardi on the strength of the come up. As many female reality stars we see that claim to be artist, Cardi was nominated for a Grammy. No album dropped and she's in the race with the likes of Kendrick, Hov, Killer Mike, & Big Boi. I respect it. I want to see the little ? win. -
Turfaholic wrote: »Busta Carmichael wrote: »I swear if y'all nominate cardi b or tekashi69
I nominated Cardi on the strength of the come up. As many female reality stars we see that claim to be artist, Cardi was nominated for a Grammy. No album dropped and she's in the race with the likes of Kendrick, Hov, Killer Mike, & Big Boi. I respect it. I want to see the little ? win.
I respect your opinion. But if we're going by skills. Shes garbage. Remy is dope and actually dropped bars this year. -
Gonna do some listening and come back and edit but this is what I got so far.
Artist of The Year
Joey Bada$$
Big Krit
Jay Z
Kendrick Lamar
Talib Kweli
Mixtape of The Year
??
Single of The Year
Joey- Land of The Free
Wu- People Say
K.dot- DNA
Jay Z- Story of OJ
Jay Z- Bam
Best New Artist
A$AP Twelvvy I guess
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
Joey Badass & Chronixx- Babylon
Joey Badass & Schoolboy Q- Rockabye Baby
Talib Kweli & Styles P- Last Ones
Talib Kweli & Jay Electronica- All Of Us
Jay Z & Damian Marley - Bam
Group/Crew of The Year
Wu Tang Clan
A$AP Mob
Underground Artist of The Year
Big Krit?
Rapsody
Producer of The Year
Big Krit
No ID
Mathematics
Verse of The Year
Jay Electronica- All of Us
Inspectah Deck- People Say
Method Man- If Time is Money
Black Thought Sway freestyle -
How is there no Album of the Year Jamaica ? ?
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Busta Carmichael wrote: »Turfaholic wrote: »Busta Carmichael wrote: »I swear if y'all nominate cardi b or tekashi69
I nominated Cardi on the strength of the come up. As many female reality stars we see that claim to be artist, Cardi was nominated for a Grammy. No album dropped and she's in the race with the likes of Kendrick, Hov, Killer Mike, & Big Boi. I respect it. I want to see the little ? win.
I respect your opinion. But if we're going by skills. Shes garbage. Remy is dope and actually dropped bars this year.
I agree -
Busta Carmichael wrote: »
I wasn't gonna say nothing. -
How is there no Album of the Year Jamaica ? ?
? the reason is the OP. Ol start a test without reading the directions ass ? . I bet you write essays for multiple choice tests. Lol -
Honestly thought the site would be closed by now.
My AOTY thread was made before CyHi dropped
Dont know if he would get top 5 votes or not -
I think AOTY should still have been added in this thread. I didn't even know about the other thread or maybe I just bypassed it...
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Artist of The Year
Future
Big K.R.I.T.
Kendrick Lamar
Kodak Black
Joey Bada$$
(Honorable mention) Lil Uzi Vert
Mixtape of The Year
Peewee Longway - Blue M&M 3
G Perico - All Blue
Lil B - Black Ken
Moneybagg Yo - 3X Federal
Kodak Black - Project Baby 2
Single of The Year
Future - Mask Off
Kodak Black - Tunnel Vision
Playboi Carti - Magnolia
Cardi B - Bodak Yellow
Meek Mill - 1942 Flows
Best New Artist (I know some of these artists been around for a while but they really picked up steam in 2017)
Cardi B
Mozzy
Tee Grizzley
Moneybagg Yo
NBA Youngboy
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
Future/Young Thug - Relationship
Jay-Z/Damian Marley - Bam
Lil Uzi Vert/Pharrell - Neon Guts
Meek Mill/Yo Gotti/Rick Ross - Connect the Dots
Big K.R.I.T/Cee-Lo/Sleepy Brown - Get Up 2 Come Down
Group/Crew of The Year
Wu-Tang Clan
Migos
The Roots
A$AP Mob
The Pollyseeds
Underground Artist of The Year (no major deal I consider underground)
Peewee Longway
Young Dolph
Hoodrich Pablo Juan
Blac Youngsta
Fredo Santana
Producer of The Year
9th Wonder
Cardo
808 Mafia
No ID
Metro Boomin
Verse of The Year
Kendrick Lamar - "Fear" verse 1, 2 and 3
Kendrick Lamar - "Duckworth"
Black Thought "Sway in the Morning Freestyle" verse 1 -
I think AOTY should still have been added in this thread. I didn't even know about the other thread or maybe I just bypassed it...
That thread has like 4/5 pages with most of the reason posters contributing to it so I figured I'd use that as opposed to doing a whole new thing. -
5th Letter wrote: »
Just have people add their AOTY list if they missed that thread. -
5th Letter wrote: »
Just have people add their AOTY list if they missed that thread.
The 5 is already set though. -
5th Letter wrote: »5th Letter wrote: »
Just have people add their AOTY list if they missed that thread.
The 5 is already set though.
No worries. I'll just pop over to that thread -
LOL @buttuh_b funnily enough that G Perico tape on my playlist currently. I sympathise with Crips...
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LOL @buttuh_b funnily enough that G Perico tape on my playlist currently. I sympathise with Crips...
All my people on The Coast that bang are blue rag.. It's natural I got hella love.. but yo did you hear the Perico project with Jay Worthy and Cardo.. that ? so hard and production is crazy... the only reason I omitted it from my list is because it's only 22 minutes..
2 The Left drops next week. Perico gotta keep that momentum going. We'll see if he's able to eventually get to a YG level -
Honestly thought the site would be closed by now.
My AOTY thread was made before CyHi dropped
Dont know if he would get top 5 votes or not
This... -
Artist of The Year
Conway The Machine
WestSide Gunn
Benny The Butcher
Mach-Hommy
Jay-Z
Mixtape of The Year
Conway - More Steroids
WestSide Gunn - ? on Steroids
WestSide Gunn - ? Wears Hermes 5
Conway - Reject on Steroids
Benny - Butcher on Steroids
HM: Royce Da 5'9" - The Bar Exam 4, Domo Genesis - The Red Corolla
Single of The Year
Wu-Tang - People Say Ft. Redman
Rick Ross - Santorini Greece
Pardison Fontaine - In The Field
Your Old Droog - Bangladesh Ft. Heems
Jay-Z - Bam
Best New Artist
Nick Grant
Pardison Fontaine
J.I.D.
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
WestSide Gunn & Conway - RIP Bobby
Conway & Benny - Spurs 1/Spurs 2
WestSide DOOM - Gorilla Monsoon/2 Stings
Royce Da 5'9" - Gov Ball Ft. WestSide Gunn & Conway
Sean Price - The 3 Lyrical P's Ft. Prodigy & Styles P
Group/Crew of The Year
Griselda by Fashion Rebels #GxFR
Underground Artist of The Year
Mach-Hommy
Hus Kingpin
Oddisee
Tha ? Fahim
Planet Asia
Producer of The Year
Daringer
The Alchemist
Oddisee
No I.D.
Apollo Brown
Verse of The Year
Benny - Spurs 2
Conway - Barbarik
? - People Say
Royce Da 5'9" - Layers
Heems - Bangladesh -
Verse of The Year
Black Thought "Sway in the Morning Freestyle" verse 1
GOAT’d for this choice. Might have to add that -
Artist of The Year
Kendrick Lamar
Jay-Z
Rapsody
Big K.R.I.T.
Mixtape of The Year
Didn't follow
Single of The Year
Jay-Z - The Story of OJ
Kendrick Lamar - DNA
Kendrick Lamar - Loyalty (Feat. Rihanna)
Best New Artist
J.I.D.
EarthGang
Collaboration/Feature of the Year
Lil Uzi Vert - Neon Guts (Feat. Pharrell)
Ty $ - Stare (feat. Pharrell & Wiz Khalifa)
Big K.R.I.T. - Get Up 2 Come Down (feat. Sleepy Brown and Ceelo Green)
Tyler, The Creator - Who Dat Boy (feat. A$AP Rocky)
Big Boi - ? Jill (feat. Jeezy & Killer Mike)
Group/Crew of The Year
TDE
A$AP Mob
Spillage Village
Underground Artist of The Year
Didn't follow
Producer of The Year
NO I.D.
Sounwave
MikeWillMadeIt
Verse of The Year[Verse 3: JAY-Z]
I mastered my aesthetics
I know you often heard me wax poetic 'bout bein' back in the Lexus
But trust me, that was nothin' a ? up in
The hundreds of millions, I have no ceilings, ah, this that feelin'
I'm that boy
Anita Baker's "You Bring Me Joy" slappin' out of the toy
The separation is clear in my rear-view mirror
Objects is further than they appear
Oh yeah, I was born with a pair, playin' for high stakes
Norman's Cay, he looked up and out of the Lear
How ? can't relate?
? a slice of the apple pie, want my own cake
In charge of my own fate, respect Jimmy Iovine
But he gotta respect the Elohim as a whole new regime
And ? playin' for power, huh
So our music is ours, ? own their own houses
Ours was, "? you, pay me" now it's, "? payin' me, I pay you
Put the rest away for Blue"
That blood money I giggle at it, can't even support my miss' habit
Jewelry shoppin' in Pa- all ya jewelers should be embarrassed
Huh, lood diamonds drippin' with guilt, I still ain't trippin'
That's life, winners and losers
Drug dealers and abusers, America likes me ruthless
My therapist said I relapsed
I said, "Pre-haps I Freudian slipped in European whips"
? sent me to break the chain, I'm the true and livin'
? in the flesh, the rest of these ? is vain
A stain on the white suit, inferior IQ
? 'll rip your ? off TIDAL just to spite you
Ahhhh, what did I do? 'Cept try to free you
? 'll love you but hate you 'cause they can't be you
Dump 'em all in the bayou, uh
Everybody wave bye to the guy you thought you could lie to
This was meant to be a haiku, huh
But my story's too wide to fit inside the line or two
Oh, these that drugs, heron flow, I spaz on the stove
This is Hov, no flex zone, ? , who lied to you?
Look, you a pedestrian, don't ever question the security I provided you
Oh y'all thought I was washed? I'm at the cleaners
Launderin' ? money like the Teamsters, huh
Shout out to Hoffa back home, he in the church
When I heard you got booked, that ? hurt
Fear for you, bro, we know the system don't work
Take a young ? freedom over some dirt
Yet it's legal in Colorado, yeah, we deny
Black entrepreneurs, free enterprise
That's why it's a black market, that's why it's called the trap
That's why it's called the projects 'cause it's exactly that
All these people was gon' ? me, heh
'Cause the more I reveal me, the more they 'fraid of the real me
Welcome back Carter, smile
That ? killed that ? !!
I'll try to update later.
@Sion More Life was a studio LP. FOH with that "Playlist" bullshyt he used in attempt to condone it's trashness. -
Artist of The Year:
Jay Z (another classic album and had the whole hip hop culture ears on every word)
Mixtape of The Year:
IDK what is or isn't a mixtape no more is More Life a mixtape?? Is Freddy Vs Jason a mixtape??? I'll just leave that one alone
Single of The Year:
XO Tour Life
Bodak Yellow
Bad and Boujee
DNA
Humble
(Any one would do)
Best New Artist:
Cardi B (sorry but any time you can get the #1 song in the country of ANY genre as a new artist I gotta give you that title)
Collaboration/Feature of the Year:
Rick Ross/Raphael Saadiq "Apple of my Eye" (TOO slept on)
Group/Crew of The Year:
Migos (easily)
Underground Artist of The Year:
Mozzy (if he counts that's my choice)
Producer of The Year:
No ID (Perfect production)
Verse of The Year:
Jay Z "Smile" 3rd verse
"I mastered my aesthetics
I know you often heard me wax poetic
'Bout bein' back in the Lexus
But trust me, that was nothin'
A ? up in the hundreds of millions
I have no ceilings, ah, this that feelin', I'm that boy
Anita Baker's "You Bring Me Joy"
Slappin' out of the toy, the separation is clear
In my rear-view mirror, objects is further than they appear
Oh yeah, I was born with a pair
Playin' for high stakes
Norman Cake, he looked up and out of the Lear
How ? can't relate?
? a slice of the apple pie, want my own cake
Chargin' my own fate
Respect Jimmy Iovine
But he gotta respect the Elohim as a whole new regime
And ? playin' for power, huh
So our music is ours
? only own houses
Ours was, "? you, pay me"
Now it's, "? payin' me, I pay you
Put the rest away for Blue"
That blood money, I giggle at it
Can't even support my Mrs. habit
Jewelry shoppin' in Paris
All y'all jewelers should be embarrassed, huh
Blood diamonds drippin', we cute
I still ain't trippin', that's life, winners and losers
Drug dealers and abusers, America likes me ruthless
My therapist said I relapsed
I said, "Prehaps I Freudian slipped in European whips"
? sent me to break the chain
I'm the true and livin'
? in the flesh, the rest of these ? is vain
A stain on the white suit, inferior IQ
? 'll rip your ? off TIDAL just to spite you
Ahhhh, what did I do?
'Cept try to free you
? 'll love you but hate you 'cause they can't be you
Dump 'em all in the bayou, uh
Everybody wave bye to the guy you thought you could lie to
This was meant to be a haiku, huh
But my story's too wide to fit inside the line
And too old, these that drugs
Heroin flow, I spaz on the stove
This is Hov, no Flex zone, ? , who lied to you?
Look, you a pedestrian
Don't ever question the security I provided you
Oh y'all thought I was washed?
I'm at the cleaners
Launderin' ? money like the Teamsters, huh
Shout out to Hoffa back home, he in the church
When I heard you got booked, that ? hurt
Feared for you, bro, we know the system don't work
Take a young ? freedom over some dirt
Yet it's legal in Colorado
Yeah, we deny
Black entrepreneurs, free enterprise
That's why it's a black market, that's why it's called "the trap"
That's why it's called "the projects" 'cause it's exactly that!
All these people was gon' ? me, heh
'Cause the more I reveal me, the more they 'fraid of the real me
Welcome back Carter, smile"