’11 Best R&B Albums: #1 Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra
January 11, 2012 @ 6:33 PM EST
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It almost feels wrong that we didn’t pay for Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia, Ultra. Released for free at the top of the year, Frank turned the tables on traditional R&B and hipster cool. He clipped the Eagles’ wings on “American Wedding” and challenged the status quo on “We All Try”. “Swim Good” was excellent, but then there was “Novacane”. An easy bass and a melodic hook caught everyone’s attention and helped give Def Jam’s red-shirted rookie the push he needed. Ultra magnetic move.
Previously: #5 Marsha Ambrosius Late Nights & Early Mornings l #4 Beyoncé 4 l #3 The Weeknd House Of Balloons l #2 Terius Nash 1977
should of been Take care
@Awesome NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE
agreed
All 3 Weeknd tapes >>>>>>>> this
@Awesome
for real, though! lol
People sleeping on that Strawberry Swing song.
That was a damn good choice for an opening song considering I heard Novacane first. I was expecting a totally different mixtape just from hearing Novacane.
I have no problem with this being number 1. It was awesome.
“When we were kids, we hand painted Strawberries on a Swing.” Just from that opening line, I was like this is a different type dude here.
weeknd’s a fucking melodramatic drug addict.
Well deserved, It was a dope album. fav track was “We all Try”.
Agreed. RR got this list right even tho I havent heard that Dream album but this shit was FIRE and by FAR best PROJECT (not just album and mixtapes) I have heard all year.
@RC
I do like that Strawberry Swing. I fuck with Coldplay, and I liked how he flipped it
Sorry but once again your wrong don’t let the Hov approval fool you, The Weeknd had best R&B album I probably heard in 4 to 5 years… dude is untouchable.
@DC
Echos Of Silence was a step back in my humble opinion. But his BEST song to date was on that mixtape.
BOOOOO!! this shit sucked…C’mon RapRadar…REALLY?….Fuck that. The only thing you got right was L.A.S.E.R.S. sucked ass….Yall should stop doing this every year or do it right
New Yorkers gravitated towards this album heavy for some reason. Frank speak to that audience. The Weeknd speaks to the same audience knew The College Drop Out was a classic after 1 listen.
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r and b Album of the year by far..was completely blown away by it..the only reason i dl it in the first place was cause of his connection to OF and i thought the front cover was dope..happy as hell i did tho
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The Weeknd dropped 3 SOLID RnB mixtapes this year. All of them on par with, or better than, Nostalgia.
RR is just on Frank Oceans dick because he’s cosigned by Hov and Ye. Stop letting politics affect your judgement, B. dot.
Yall sleepin on my nigga Lokz
Not better than Marsha’s or Dream’s shit.
i agree this whole album was dope
What the fuck is this, since abel doesnt pay to promote his music on here its obvious he wont be number 1. Ask 10 niggas what the best r and b albums of 2011 were and all would say hob.
We All Try was dope except its about homos good song tho. Strawberry Swing is scary! but prolly my favorite and of course American Wedding is just sad.
This one y’all got right lol
This album was a masterpiece. Probably the best album of the year. Strawberry Swing was amazing.
dope album but not better then house of balloons. that body of work was something else. this was good but HOB just blew my mind from the production to the signing
how did drake not make number one…smh
um.. F.A.M.E.
Nostaligia Ultra is not an album!! its a mixtape. Its a few songs on this MXTAPE where he’s clearly singing over, Coldplay, MGMT, and Mr. Hudson tracks. Every song was not an original song.
Co-Sign^
The Weeknd actually had his own original songs, in all 3 of his mixtapes
Fuck this. Drake had the #1 R&B Album of 2011..
#CanadaDry
VERY WELL DESERVED FIRST PLACE. AMEN
I like Frank Ocean but any out of The Weeknd’s trilogy was better (in my opinion) but then again those were mixtapes as Im pretty sure this was so I agree with @Mike and @Semaj is the best rapper alive
Politics runs Rap Radar. Time to really find another website this one is getting lame. The Weeknd shitted on Frank Oceans Mixtape. Any of them should have been number 1
Shit that F.A.M.E. Wasn’t on the list, and House of balloons was easily better than this, these lists are corrupt anyways.
Weeknd HOB was better. Not even close…
Drake stans out in numbers on these post
Weeknd = suicide music
THE WEEKND IS WAY BETTER THAN FRANK OCEAN.
This ain’t your opinion.. Relax. If you want to the weekend as number 1, make your own damn list.
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HOB > nostalgiaultra anyday of the week. Fuck this list
really stoopid..the whole odd future click are bunch clowns…fuck frank ocean and his mangers
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cosign @beezy cosign @word everyone needs to stop biting the weekend,
autotune counts as singing these days lol
house of Baloons should be #1 then Dream then Frank Ocean quality list though
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Frank Oceans better then the Weeknd and I started listening to the Weeknd first but since I started listening to Frank its been hard to listen to the Weeknd tbh…well deserved…and to whoever said Take Care…lol.