album of the year?
- Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
- The Roots - How I Got Over
- Shad - TSOL
- Freeway & Jake One - The Stimulus Package
- Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T Wuz Here
- Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives
- Curren$y - Pilot Talk
- Guilty Simpson - OJ Simpson
- PackFM - I Fucking Hate Rappers
- Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute
- Eminem - Recovery
- Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx - The eXXecution
- Meth, Ghost and Rae - Wu-Massacre
- Beat Konducta - Madlib Medicine Show: No. 3 - Beat Konducta in Africa
- Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
- Damu the Fudgemunk - How It Should Sound Volume 1 & 2
- Oddisee - Traveling Man
- Eldo - Zapiski 1001 nocy
- B. Dolan - Fallen House, Sunken City
- Dark Time Sunshine - Vessel
- Brotha Lynch Hung - Dinner and a Movie
- Hocus Pocus - 16 pièces
- Onra - Long Distance
- Nomak - Dynamic Meditation Instrumental Limited
- Fun Lovin' Criminals - Classic Fantastic
- Take - Only Mountain
- Sage Francis - Li(f)e
- Blacastan - Blac Sabbath
- Mux Mool - Skulltaste
- O.S.T.R. - Tylko dla dorosłych
- E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift
- Panacea - 12 Step Program
- Murs & 9th Wonder - ForNever
- Diabolic - Liar & a Thief
- Vinnie Paz - Season of the Assassin
- G&D - Someothaship
- Die Antwoord - $O$
- Roc Marciano - Marcberg