26/12/2008

My Top 10 Albums Of 2008

I’ve compiled a list of my 10 favourite albums of 2008 and decided to chose my top 3 favourite songs from each release.

01. The Roots - Rising Down
Rising Down
- Criminal (Featuring Dice Raw & Saigon)
- Rising Up (Featuring Wale’ & Chrisette Michele)
- 75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)

02. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold
When Life
- Dreamer
- In Her Music Box
- You

03. Elzhi - Euro Pass (An Exclusive Tour CD)
Euro Pass
- Audio Cinematic
- That’s The One
- Motown 25 (Featuring Royce Da 5’9)

04. Artofficial - Fist Fights and Foot Races
Fist Foots
- Big City, Bright Lights
- Clockwork
- Word Bending

05. Black Milk - Tronic
Tronic
- The Matrix (Featuring Pharoahe Monch & Sean Price)
- Give The Drummer Sum
- Losing Out (Featuring Royce Da 5’9)

06. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale
The Bake Sale
- 88
- Black Mags
- Mikey Rocks

07. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
The Renaissance
- Getting’ Up
- Official
- Dance On Glass

08. Inverse - So Far (The Collection)
So Far
- Look Around
- Til The End (C.A.L.I.) (Featuring Trek Life and Deacon The Villain)
- Sunnycalifornia

09. 88-Keys - Death Of Adam
Death Of Adam
- Morning Wood
- The Burning Bush (Featuring Redman)
- Ho' Is Short for Honey (Featuring Kid Cudi)

10. Nieve And Cook - Away With Words
Away With Words
- Chronic Intoxication
- Forever Changing
- Play On


Honourable Mentions
Substantial - Sacrifice
Elzhi - The Preface
Gza - Pro-Tools
T.I. - Paper Chase
Grip Grand - Brokelore
Nas - Untitled

It's been a good year.. Peace and have a good year in 2009.

P.S. Leave you thoughts/opinions in a comment; or drop a link to your blog with your top 10 so I can check out what others have included in their 2008 lists.

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