Best of 2004 (A bit late, but so what)

[Eddick]

Courtesy of Hip Hop Lists -- also available here:
http://www.hiphoplists.com/index.php?page=lists&sort=2004%20Review&sorter=true

Top 20 Albums:
Kanye West - College Dropout
Devin Tha Dude - 2 Tha Xtreme
Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer
De La Soul - The Grind Date
Slum Village - Detroit Deli
Nas - Streets Disciple
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine
The Roots - Tipping Point
Murs - 3:16
Masta Killa - No Said Date
Foreign Exchange - Connected
Royce Da 5"9 - Death is Certain
Young Gunz - Tough Luv
MOP - Marxmen Cinema
213 - The Hard Way
Lil Wayne - The Carter
Brother Ali - Champion EP
Supastition - The Deadline
Jean Grae - This Week
Madvillian - Madvilliany

Awards:
Best Mixtape: Saigon Warning Shots
Best Compilation CD: Pete Rock - Soul Survivor 2
Best Best Of CD: Wu-Tang Clan - The Lost Anthology
Biggest Dissapointment: Eminem - Encore

Best Solo Artist: Kanye West
Best Group: De La Soul
Best Female Artist: Jean Grae
Breakthrough Artist: Kanye West
Best International Artist: Dizee Rascal
Best Producer: Kanye West
Hardest Working Artist: Kanye West
Feature MC: Twista
Welcome Back MC: Mase
Finally Dropped: RA The Rugged Man

Best Collaboration: Cormega ft. MOP - Let It Go
Best Rap/R&B Collabo: Twista ft. Kanye West, Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz
Surprise Collaboration: Ghostface Killah ft. El-P - HYA
Best Remix: NERD ft. Native Tongues - She Wants to Move

Best Singles:
+ Dilated Peoples ft. Kanye West - This Way
+ Fabolous - Breathe
+ Jadakiss ft. Mariah Carrey - U Make Me Wanna
+ Lil Wayne - Go DJ
+ Lloyd Banks - On Fire
+ Method Man ft. Busta Rhymes - Whats Happening
+ Mobb Deep - Got It Twisted
+ Terror Squad - Lean Back
+ Twista ft. Kanye West, Jamie Foxx - Slow Jamz
+ Westside Connection - Gangsta Nation

Best Skit: Alchemist - Industry Rule 4080
Most Disturbing Skit: RA The Rugged Man - Pick Up My Gun

Best Video: Kanye West - Through the Wire
Best Acting by a Rapper: DMX in "Never Die Alone"
Best TV Show: Chapelle Show
Worst TV Show: Method & Red
Saying: "I'm Rick James Bitch"
Beef: Eminem vs The Source
Trend: Picture T-Shirts
RIP: Old Dirty Bastard, Mac Dre, DJ Spinz

10 R&B Albums Worth Checking:
Angie Stone - Stone Love
Amp Fiddler - Waltz of a Ghetto Fly
Ashanti - Concrete Rose
Ciara - Goodies
Destinys Child - Destiny Fulfilled
Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds
John Legend - Get Lifted
Prince - Musicology
Usher - Confessions
Van Hunt - Van Hunt

100 Other Hip Hop Releases:
2Pac - Loyal to the Game
7L & Esoteric - Bars of Death
8Ball & MJG - Living Legends
Alchemist - 1st Infantry
Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs
Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
Bone Thugs n Harmony - Greatest Hits
Blueprint - Printmatic: Vitamins & Minerals EP
Camron - Purple Haze
Capital D - Insomnia
Chingy - Powerballin
Chops - Virtuosity
C-Rayz Walz - We Live: Black Samurais
CMA - All Over
Cormega - Legal Hustle Vol. 1
Dead Prez - RBG
Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity II
Dilated Peoples - Neighbourhood Watch
Dizee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
D12 - D12 World
Ed O.G. - My Own Worst Enemy
Encore - The Layover
Eminem - Encore
Erick Sermon - Chilltown New York
Eyedea & Abilities - E&A
Fabolous - Real Talk
Ghostface Killah - Pretty Toney
Gift of Gab - Fourth Dimensional Rocketships Going Up
Goretex - Art of Dying
Haiku d'Etat - Coup De Theatre
Handsome Boy Modelling School - White People
Hell Razah - Freedom of Speech
Hieroglyphics - The Building
Insight - Blast Radius
Ill Bill - Whats Wrong with Bill
Illogic - Celestial Clockwork
J-Zone - A Job Aint Nuthin But Work
Ja Rule - RULE
Jadakiss - Kiss of Death
Jay-Z & R Kelly - Unfinished Business
Jay-Z & Linkin Park - Collision Course
Jedi Mind Tricks - Legacy of Blood
Jim Jones - On My Way to Church
Kaze - Spirit of 94
K-Os - Joyful Rebellion
Krumbsnatcha - Let the Truth be Told
Lateef & Chief - Maroons: Ambush
Leak Bros - Waterworld
Lil Flip - The Takeover
Lil Jon & East Side Boyz - Crunk Juice
Lloyd Banks - Hunger for More
Louis Logic - Blame it on the Hooch
Ludacris - Red Light District
Mannie Fresh - Mind of Mannie Fresh
Mase - Welcome Back
Methodman - The Prequel
MF Doom - MM Food
Mobb Deep - Amerikaz Nightmare
Mos Def - The New Danger
Necro - Prefix for Death
Nelly - Sweat/Suit
Pete Rock - Soul Survivor 2
Phil Da Agony - Aromatic
Prince Po - The Slickness
Oh No - The Disrupt
Okayplayer - True Notes Vol.1
Opio - Masterpiece Theatre
Q-Unique - Vengeance is Mine
RA the Rugged Man - Die Rugged Man Die
RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke
Royce Da 5'9" - Make it Count
Sabac Red - Sabacalypse
Saigon - Warning Shots
Snoop Dogg - R&G
Sound Providers - Evening with the Sound Providers
Tajai - Power Movement
Talib Kweli - Beautiful Struggle
Terror Squad - True Story
Theodre Unit - 718
TI - Urban Legend
Time Machine - Slow Your Roll
Trick Daddy - Thug Matriomony
Typical Cats - Civil Service
Twista - Kamikaze
Vast Aire - Look Ma, No Hands
Viktor Vaughn (MF Doom) - Venemous Villian
Vordul - Revolution of Yung Havocs
Westside Connection - Terrorist Threats
Wordsworth - Mirror Music
Wu Tang - Legend of the WuTang Clan: Greatest Hits
Xzibit - Weapons of Mass Destruction
Ying Yang Twins - My Brother & Me
Yung Wun - Dirtiest Thirstiest
Young Buck - Straight Outta Cashville

[-Euthanasia-]

this list adds nothing to anything

[The King]

I'd put Crunk Juice and the 2 G-Unit records on my top 20. Their wasn't a whole lot of good music last year.

[white Boy]

this is deffinately for outbound

[Eddick]

I also forgot Upcoming in 2005:
http://www.hiphoplists.com/index.php?page=releases

02/22/05
+ Cormega - The Testament
+ All Natural - Vintage
+ Self Scientific - Gods & Gangstas
+ Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, FIre, and Knives
+ Bone Brothers - Bone Brothers

03/08/05
+ Cuban Link - Chain Reaction
+ 50 Cent - The Massacre
+ DJ Revolution - ABC's of High Fidelity
+ Living Legends - Classic
+ RZA & Keb Darge - Kings of Funk
+ Kokane - Mr Kane 2
+ MF Doom - Live From Outer Space!

03/22/05
+ Tame One - OG Bobby Johnson
+ C Murder - Truest Shit I Ever Said
+ Tweet - It's Me Again
+ DJ Clinton Sparks - Get Familiar Vol.1
+ Kurupt - Against the Grain

12/31/05
+ ++ The following CDs are slated for release in 2005 at unknown dates:
+ 9th Wonder - "The Dream" Merchant
+ Apathy – "Eastern Philosophy" Apathy – "Eastern Philosophy"
+ AZ – "Final Call"
+ Big Noyd – "Still Grinding"
+ Big Pooh – "Sleepers"
+ Black Eyed Peas – "Monkey Business"
+ Beanie Sigel – "The B. Coming"
+ Buckshot & 9th Wonder – "Chemistry"
+ Busta Rhymes – "Untitled Aftermath LP"
+ Common – "B.E."
+ Cage – "Hell's Winter"
+ Clipse – "Hell Hath No Fury"
+ Copywrite – "Cruise Control Vol. One"
+ Dr. Dre – "Detox"
+ DJ Green Lantern – "Untitled Shady Records LP"
+ Del – "The 11th Hour"
+ Edan – "Beauty And The Beat"
+ Elzhi - Solo LP
+ Eve "Untitled Aftermath LP"
+ El-P – "Untitled Def Jux LP"
+ Fat Joe – "Things Of That Nature"
+ Guru – "Guru 7.0"
+ Immortal Technique – "Revolutionary Vol. 3"
+ Jean Grae & 9th Wonder – "Jeanius"
+ Joe Budden – "The Growth"
+ JUICE – "All Bets Off"
+ K.M.D. – "Mental Illness"
+ Little Brother - "The Minstrel Show"
+ Metal Fingers – "Special Herbs 9 & 10"
+ Miri Ben-Ari – "The Hip-Hop Violinist"
+ MF Doom & DJ Danger Mouse – "Danger Doom"
+ Notorious B.I.G. – "Duets"
+ O.D.B. – Roc-A-Fella Debut
+ O.C. – "The Professional"
+ Pete Rock – "Surviving Elements"
+ Q-Tip – "Move"
+ Royce 5'9 & Nottz – "Untitled"
+ Stat Quo – "Untitled Shady Records LP"
+ Styles P – "Time Is Money"
+ Saigon – "The Greatest Story Never Told"
+ The Game – "The Documentary"
+ Vast Aire & DJ Mighty Mi – "The Best Damn Rap Show"

[white Boy]

a lot of nice albums gonna drop this year...

[-Euthanasia-]

cant wait for that Game - Documentary. should be tite

[The King]

+ Kurupt - Against the Grain

ah shit! Can't wait for that.