The Planet, along with Chicago’s own Square-One of B-Side Radio, have joined forces to bring you the week in review in Hip-Hop and current events, along with the occasional special guest and some music to keep you moving through your day.
This week’s Ill Side Radio we talk about the top Hip-Hop albums of 2010. What made them special, where do they stand in the grand scheme of popular music overall? We talk about whether albums should actually be ranked and what are the determining factors in ranking.
We salute Raekwon for the role he played in many albums from 2010 and the overall return to the grimy this year as well. We take the blogger/music media to task for focusing on all the negatives and the bad albums instead of focusing on the good albums that were released and fresh new artists that are being overlooked.
We also shout out Vado and his evolution over the course of 2010. We go through some of the year’s best mixtapes as well as those that disappointed.
We discuss the Patriot’s world class ass whupping of the Chicago Bears. While they recovered to put an end to Brett Favre, I had to get on the Chicago homie.
Albums of the Year
Rick Ross– Teflon Don
Capone N Noreaga– War Report 2
Fat Joe– Welcome to the Darkside Volume 1
Rah Digga– Classic
Freeway– The Stimulus Package
Curren$y– Pilot Talk
Cypress Hill– Rise Up
Reflection Eternal– Revolutions Per Minute
The Roots– How I Got Over
Eminem– The Recovery
General Steele–Amerikkka’s Nightmare Part 2: Children of War
Skyzoo & !llmind– Live From The Tape Deck
Nas/Damien Marley– Distant Relatives
Kanye West– My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Big Boi-Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty
Honorable Mentions
yU– Before Taxes
Ski Beatz–24 Hour Karate School
Fashawn– Ode to Illmatic
B.o.B.– The May 25th mixtape
B.o.B– No Genre
Homeboy Sandman– The Good Sun
Disappointments
Redman-Reggie
Sheek Louch-Donnie G: Don Gorilla
Linkin Park– A Thousand Suns
Rhymefest– El Che
Little Brother– Left Back
Method Man Ghostface Raekwon– Wu Massacre
So sit back, relax and take a ride on the Ill Side.
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