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@SuchFriends: regarding your pm, Killah Priest put out an excellent album, and it was in my hip hop top ten. But because hip hop dominated the year for me, I had to consider that I had a rap bias while compiling this list. As you can see, I staggered my top hop hop albums (Yeezus, 12 reasons, LONG.LIVE.A$AP, Indigoism, Killah Priest, Boldy James, Black Milk's No Poison No Paradise, and MNIMN) throughout the list, rather than filling the top 29 with them.
I also left off the straight mixtape shit (like Doley Bernays, and Tree) because they're not albums. And I also had to consider how much of the album I listened to straight through. One thing about Psychic World is that it sounds better to me on shuffle, and I rarely listen to the whole thing. And as good as it was, it didn't receive more play from me than the albums above it.
Still a goddamn genius album, with (you're right) some of the most insightful and poetic songs released by a street-bred emcee in eons. I wish there were more Wu guest spots, but perhaps they aren't as involved with the work of their meet "affiliates."
I need some new hip hop this year. So far, aside from the obvious MADLIB and Freddie Gibbs, Schoolboy Q, Mastermind, etc. but I really need to know what Underachievers are up to, and stay vigilant about newer shit.
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