We had a whole lot of superstars on this stage here tonight. But this is… Papoose's house? We're all still reeling that the 20th anniversary of Hip-Hop's Super Bowl featured the Nacirema Dream as a headliner. Damn you Kendrick Lamar and your generous ways. Yeah it's hip-hop to bum rush the show but c'mon Pap you know you didn't deserve that look. And you gave even less fucks by performing a new song. C'mon fam. You've paid a lot of dues through the years but this was the big dawg time in the program. Don't disrespect the game in your pursuit for fame. Oh well, Brooklyn took it. 
Speaking of BK, Fab had a master plan of bringing Lil Kim and Foxy Brown back together again. But when it was time to make history, Fox Boogie was nowhere to be found. Where was you at? Wack.
TIME released their annual top album list today and rounding out the top 10 are Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot (#9), Drake’s Thank Me Later (#5), and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (#1). Read what they had to say about each below.
Kanye West can seem like an attention-hungry young child who constantly tugs on his mother’s pant leg, saying, “Watch this! Watch this!” But once Kanye got our attention, instead of a simple somersault, he delivered the musical equivalent of a one-handed back handspring. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy layers complex computerized instrumentation over Yeezy’s effortless flow, moving from the heavy hip-hop of “Power” and “Monster” all the way to the poppy Michael Jackson tribute “All of the Lights.” Beyoncé, Jay-Z and others guest on several tracks. They don’t drop by just to deliver a verse or chorus; they are as integral to the tracks as Kanye himself. This is most evident on “Lost in the World,” a collaboration with Justin Vernon of the indie group Bon Iver that fuses hip-hop with rock until they morph into something else entirely. And that something is probably going to be played at every bar and dance party for the next six months.
The central theme of Drake’s debut album is his newfound fame — which is an interesting choice, considering it’s his debut album. But instead of extolling the celebrity lifestyle, Drake spends much of Thank Me Later grappling with his unexpected stardom. And for good reason: the rapper (real name “Aubrey Drake Graham”) went from self-releasing his music on the Internet to signing a record deal with Lil Wayne faster than Lady Gaga can change meat costumes. He lives up to the hype; Thank Me Later contains more hit songs than you can shake a bottle of Cristal at. “Find Your Love” made TIME’s list of best songs of the year, and “Fancy” was a close runner-up. Drake’s screed against “superficial gold-digging bitches” and women who take hours to get ready is the catchiest thing this side of Kanye. Not bad for a Canadian former child actor who had never released a full album before.
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty doesn’t have a hit single. This was a problem for Jive Records, which refused to release it — and then, when Big Boi took the disc to Def Jam, argued with the new label over allowing Big Boi’s OutKast partner (and former Jive labelmate) André 3000 to appear on the tracks. But the very thing that dissatisfied Jive is what makes Sir Lucious Left Foot so original. It’s an amalgam of beats, chants and raps mixed together with exacting precision. Big Boi deftly jumps between musical styles — from the booty-shaking “Tangerine” to the rock-influenced “Follow Us” — and his raps come so fast, he seems to never pause for breath.
Recovery? Relapse?
Where the stans at
Recovery was pretty bad……Kid Cudi should have made this list though…
Damn, every human doesn’t have to like eminem
THANK ME LATER!? SHAME!
YOU CAN HATE ME NOW!
too many EM haterz for no reason at all!!!
Honestly in my opinion Kanye’s album was terrible too short and only a cpl ok songs.. Drake’s album was weak!! Big Boi’s album was average as well..
RECOVERY should be number 1 for 2010.
Hilarious that ‘TIME ‘gets it right more than MTV BET RR any internet fucking blog out there.. HAHA!.. Duh Big Boi’s album was the best album of the year.. beat out the gay fish and the white boy.. beat out lloyd banks rick ross gay-z(if he had one) he beat everybody.. man sir lucious was so dope and under appreciated.. fuck anyone who thinks diff
THIS ALBUM WAS SO GOOD ALL THE SKINNY JEANS FANS AND EVERYTHING SUCKA DICK THIS WAS TOPS FOR SURE
SO FUNNY that a magazine ran by mostly.. nah cant do it.. people get too sensitive when white people bring up the race card unless they say everyting right.. oh well.. good judgement by TIME magazine.. shame on all the supposed music judges and blog sites.
Yay drake ! Anywayz TEFLON DON is going gold next week people i cant wait.
U CAN DISLIKE EMINEM AS MUCH AS U PEOPLE LIKE BUT 1 THING I KNOW FOR SURE IS THAT HE DOES NOT SUCK!!!
NUMBERS DONT LIE!!!
EMINEM BOTH ALBUM SUCKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONT HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!!!!!!
@MAC DIESEL
PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY THEY SUCK ASS?
Drake isnt going anywhere haters…
Good picks em is nice..but creatively speakin kanye and big boi put out better albums
em doesnt suck…but we havent been getting his best effort. too much singalong shit coming from his corner.
You come to the comments section and all you read are a bunch of uneducated ignorant idiots talking
For Real Though!!! Kanye Wasnt Even That Dope Too Short And It Wasn’t Kanye In My Humble Opinion….Hip-Hop Commercialy Been Amazing This Year But T.I,Kanye,Drake And Em All Were Under Par…But Recovery Was Still Better Then All Those 3 LP’s And I Aint Even An Em Fan Well i Was In 1998-2004…Bun B Keep Doing Ya Thing!!!
And Shady Jus Sign Slaughterhouse Nigga
TIME !!!!!! who !!!
Big boi ,Drake,kanye ===>joke list big+drake+kanye= 400+400+100=900k
Eminem=750k +3.5 million right now
Recovery =pop/rap/rock
BIG BOI- DOPE ALBUM
KANYE WEST- DOPE ALBUM
….AND mac DIESEL WANNA THANK THE mac DIESEL IMPERSONATORS FOR PROMOTIN’ THE mac DIESEL NAME 24/7!!!! GOOD JOB BITCHES!!!! HA!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
wheres that flockaveli?
Ice Cube-I Am The West
Fat Joe The Darkside Vol. 1
Rick Ross-Teflon Don
The Roots-How I Got Over
Nas And Damien Marley-Distant Relitives
B.o.B-Adventure of Bobby Ray
Kid Cudi-Man On Moon 2
Joe Budden-Mood Muzik 4
Eminem-Recovery
Lloy Banks-H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger for More)
My Top 10 Albums This Year!!
thank me later makes it but MOTMII, Recovery, Teflon Don, and Pilot Talk didn’t….Can’t say I agree but whatever
@X and @fuck u
YOur posts are 100% accurate… really Recovery 3.5 million how could it not be on the top 10.
Makes no sense to me..
no recovery ? interesting lol
good job drake, kanye, big boi
kanye west should be drowned in acid
teflon don big boi and how i got over should all be over drake by a lot
Sir Lucious Left foot was one of the best albums this year I havent heard kid cudi’s album but the singles are great I doubt that Cudi would release any trash music like his mixtapes are literally like albums the crazy thing about it he has the hood on smash too That Maniac shit is heavy right now real heavy
like YN posted this the other day is there 1 terrible kid cudi hook like I dare a nigga to name 1 song that guy is on to where its like man this shit terrible
and to justify Soulja Boy-Speakers going Hammers is terrible right now
like niggas got that freestyle he did with asher roth on they mix cds and even the song where he rapped like too short the beats that nigga get is crazy and the ideas he does on those beats
Kid Cudi is some shit period! Kanye fell off, lyrically at least, drake’s album was half R&B, Sir luscious left foot was trash!, this list is horrid. makes me sick. what factors contributed to them getting these positions?? and how does the best selling album of the year not even make number 10? I smell bullshit!
finally, big boi getting some respect for the best album to drop this year. i was a huge reovery fan at first but it kind of wore off.
BOBBY RAY!?!? PILOT TALK?!?! DISTANT RELATIVES!?!? ENEMY OF THE STATE: A LOVE STORY!?!? KUSH SINGLE?!?!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THESE THREE MEDIOCRE ALBUMS!!!
I totally feel MBDTF is the most overrated album ever..,…the difference btn graduation n it is just the awesome beats but lyricaly it is a weak album i would pick no mercy instead of it…,yeezy used to tell stories with his raps but now he acts like hes some kind of nas…which he aint even half….big bois album is average and drake half of the album doesnt cut it for me
Are these muthasuckers scared of Kanye’s whinny azz or something?
cause clearly that was not the best album in 2010
but who cares 2010 music was whack anyways
Big Boi delivered album of the year, Kanye and The Roots were close too, then Em, B.o.B. and T.I…. I don’t think Drake’s was that good to be honest, he’s more R&B than rap.
i dont know why you have to be a stan if you like eminem. I just cant believe that people can sit there and say that kanye’s or big boi’s album was better than recovery? Half the words em used these guys dont even know what they mean lol. I am not a hater i liked kanye’s and big boi’s album but i dont understand how you can exclude recovery from the conversation. forget the fact that he sold more albums, the beats are dope and the lyrics and delivery are on point. I used to read a lot of these comments and write a few but the last 6 months i see this shit and it just makes me want to stop reading them. in 20, 30, 40 years lets see who’s name still gets brought up. i dont think you will hear of a lot of these rappers. it does not matter if eminem is white or black or chinese or mexican or whatever he is and will always be the best rapper dead or alive. That just my opinion and i would like to think a lot of people agree with me.
^ In 20, 30, 40 years, people will still remember Outkast and Kanye West, at least as much as Eminem
#justsayin
@ more hit songs than u can shake a cristal bottle at… Makes me believe that the writer has no fuckin clue what he is talking about.. Congrats to drake yeezy and big boi though..
The Grammys robbed Mos Def of hes Best Rap Album last year and gave it to Eminem, this year there gonna rob The Roots, and there probabbly gonna give it to, B.O.B, Drake, or Eminem! NIGGAS GETTING ROBBED
When will people learn quality over quantity , just because so rapper sold more albums does not mean aint bad
I think these are general albums and not jst hiphop.
MBDTF>_____ .CC!
That album is art.
And to the bafoon that claims Ye fell off(lyrically), haaave yoouu lost your mind! You heard Chain Heavy? Thats my bitch? And yeah mbdtf is short but g.o.o.d friday isnt done ,WTT next.
One question, wheres RECOVERY?lmao! Marshall? Stanleys?!
This line seems misleading… “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy layers complex computerized instrumentation”
Computerized???
funny.. when Em was doin shit like “criminal” and “kill you” niggas and media bitches hated bc they thought it was bad for society.. now a nigga do music that was more rounded on the last album and talked about his life in a more in depth “cleaner” way and they don’t want that.. they like where the old eminem.. stupid shit..
Ye’s album is way overrated.. “cuz they don’t understand you.. it don’t mean that you nice.. just means they don’t understand all the bullshit that you write.. “.. -jay-z
Drake.. straight R&B homie.
Big Boi- double edged sword… he looks mediocre because he always worked with 3000 whose on another level. BUT without 3000 no one would give a fuck about him now.. so he really cant win. I mean he is ok.. but never been lyrically outstanding.. his flow is somewhat unique with his voice too… but I don’t know.. I have a heard time cycling through a whole album of just that nigga.
Here’s the breakdown of what really happened in the review at times.
They jumped on the bandwagon with the Drake shit bc he was the new artist of the year and had a lot of R&B hits.. so they pandered to the youngsters in an attempt to look hip by placing him on the list.. THEN you have YE.. he is a BIG NAME.. and he had a lot of bad publicity and public missteps.. BUT now he has become the guy that everyone hates.. and if you like him… then you are a rebel.. goin against society.. gives you an edge.. makes you seem like you are about the fray.. WITH the BIG BOI joint.. shit didn’t sell.. is kind of out there in the universe by itself.. its cool to say you like it and listen to it.. OF COURSE NO BODY DID OR EVEN BOUGHT IT FOR THAT MATTER.. its like when niggas say.. “yall don’t know hip hop.. I listen to mc such and such.. lil’ pookie… gun clipz… underground king rey rey… ” niggas no one heard of.. cuz they think it makes them look like they are more into the music then the next nigga.
List are stupid anyways.. like who gave these niggas power to decide for us all?
peace.
Damn Kanye is winning, thats 3 honors
SPIN MAGAZINE, TIME, ROLLING STONE and a few others i think named his album their #1 album of 2010. And Myspace named it #2. Eminem made Itunes top selling album list, his album was the top selling album on Itunes this year. Both were good, well naw i take that back, Kanye’s was great, and Eminem’s was good. Kanye challenged HipHop’s sound and pushed the envelope more which is bigger in my opinion
Donn- your gynecologist called and said its time for your yearly exam..
You need a saddle the way you ride Kanye’s dick on these forums.
kanye is good producer but wack rapper
he can’t fuck with eminem and jay-z or royce
i put kanye in same liste with wayne
kanye-ross-wayne-drake=garbage
AND IT SAYS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
NOT HIPHOP ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
@Damn Homie
And u need one for the way you ridin’ mine
^change tampon now
@Everyone bringing up sales numbers for Em, it don’t matter. They’re not talking about numbers. They’re speaking of quality. 3.5 million or not, Em’s past two or three albums have been below par from what we’ve been introduced to. I don’t think Drake should be on the list and Big Boi made a solid, unique album. Kanye made a unique album, too. They deserve their spots in the Top 10 for the year.
Whoa, Drakes album should not have been on that list. PERIOD. I can name several better albums but CONGRATS anyway. Big Boi should be number one, Kanye maybe number 11. That album was greatly overrated. All i hear is production this and production that, what about the fuckin lyrics?! He wasnt saying nuffin groundbreaking in any song. College Dropout >>> MBDTF by faaar.
And Em got a lot of mixed reviews so i aint surprised he aint on here. Em, Ross, Nas, BoB…they all lost. Was Janelle Monae even on it? Damn how did Drake slip through the cracks? I swear his album wasn’t better than Ems, Ross’, Nas’, BoBs, or anyone elses. Dude put out a okay album but whatever.
@Donn?Cosign? Ha! Never thought i would type dat shit. You never can please everyone b/c their is to much competition. Em has 10 or 11 nomination! How can any of his fans be mad? Greedy ass stans will! If you think other artists should put all dat work into their album and be left dry? KILL YO MOFO SELF!!! Jay in my opinion had the best album of the year. Blue print was crazy good. So my conclusion is correct!
@Black Panther
Cosign. Thats real talk, there ARE other people who put out great albums. Em cant win ‘em all…it aint even fair.