Album of 2017

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Choose your top two.

Cyhi the Prynce – No Dope on Sundays
3
6%
Gucci Mane – Mr. Davis
0
No votes
Jay-Z – 4:44
6
11%
Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
6
11%
MC Eiht – Which Way Iz West
3
6%
Migos – Culture
7
13%
Offset, Metro Boomin', & 21 Savage – Without Warning
2
4%
Rapsody – Laila's Wisdom
1
2%
Roc Marciano – Rosebudd's Revenge
17
32%
Talib Kweli – Radio Silence
0
No votes
2 Chainz – Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
1
2%
Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy
1
2%
Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
1
2%
Wu-Tang – The Saga Continues
3
6%
Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls
2
4%
 
Total votes: 53

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Album of 2017

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Winners Over the Last Decade:

2007 – El-P – I'll Sleep When You're Dead
2008 – Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
2009 – Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
2010 – Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
2011 – The Roots – undun
2012 – Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city / Roc Marciano – Reloaded
2013 – Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels
2014 – Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata
2015 – Vince Staples – Summertime '06
2016 – A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service

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Underwhelming major releases this year IMO. Technically, Meyhem & Muggs could be on here if Roc Marciano is. If I had to pick, maybe Rosebudd or Which Way Iz West.

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Rosebud for me.

However, GOAT is right now slated to release this month, so could potentially overtake it.

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damn

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Lol who picked tribe last year? Fucking loser
1. Nas
2. Drake

that's pretty much it fam.

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@bigsleep without warning is an album but droptopwop isn't? You're bigly sleeping my man.
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Yo Fat Kev, your gimmick is old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droptopwop" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Droptopwop is a commercial mixtape by American rapper Gucci Mane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_W ... min_album)
Without Warning is a collaborative studio album by American rappers 21 Savage, Offset and record producer Metro Boomin.

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EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:Lol who picked tribe last year? Fucking loser
tribe was the only rap album i heard from last year but it was complete garbage....if it was even a top 10 album from a whole year then hip-hop is even worse than i imagined

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Roc for me, but, and I know i'll get slayed for this, 21 Savage's joint was very dope. Not a lyricist in the true sense of the word, but he actually rhymed thoroughly on this album with solid 2017 productions.

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EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:Lol who picked tribe last year? Fucking loser

I did. Faggots forgot that real music is relevant.

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Looking back, I think the Phila AOTY has actually been pretty on point. Only a few oversights, most of which can easily be chalked up to this being a hip-hop message board...

For me, from this list, it's Culture and Rosebudd's Revenge.

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Marci by default but that album's mastering is a big fat asterisk on its legacy. Otherwise there's not much on here that I actively follow. Not a slight to BigSleep's picks because they do reflect this year's crop fairly well*, but this feels like a list of underwhelming critical favorites and has-beens who need to hang it up, and bizarrely it's sometimes hard to tell which of those is which.

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:marci:

Rosebudd's Revenge might sound like it was recorded in a public bathroom, but I still keep going back to this again and again. Marci's lyricism went up a gear, imo.

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:wicked: wrote:
EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:Lol who picked tribe last year? Fucking loser

I did. Faggots forgot that real music is relevant.
1. Nas
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drizzle wrote:Marci by default but that album's mastering is a big fat asterisk on its legacy. Otherwise there's not much on here that I actively follow. Not a slight to BigSleep's picks because they do reflect this year's crop fairly well*, but this feels like a list of underwhelming critical favorites and has-beens who need to hang it up, and bizarrely it's sometimes hard to tell which of those is which.

*aside from soundcloud stuff, which is for the birds anyway
Spartan wrote::marci:

Rosebudd's Revenge might sound like it was recorded in a public bathroom, but I still keep going back to this again and again. Marci's lyricism went up a gear, imo.
Really my only knock on it. For whatever reason since Marci Beacoup, he's had this issue. Not as noticeable when listening in the car or headphones, but on normal speakers, complete shit, especially Gunsense.

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Culture and Roc the only ones that got a lot of front to back spins.

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Philaflava wrote:Underwhelming major releases this year IMO. Technically, Meyhem & Muggs could be on here if Roc Marciano is.
Agreed. And it totally could, I was just trying to see a rematch between Roc Marci and Kendrick from when they tied in 2012. And also between K.Dot and Vince Staples, since Summertime '06 beat To Pimp a Butterfly by a single vote a couple years back. A little surprised at how largely one-sided it has been so far this go 'round, if only because of the aforementioned mastering issues for Roc's LP.
Versive wrote:Looking back, I think the Phila AOTY has actually been pretty on point. Only a few oversights, most of which can easily be chalked up to this being a hip-hop message board...
Considering it's by consensus and how difficult it is to summarize the year with one release, I too think we've done a decent job of pointing to if not the, than at least a talked about / critically acclaimed project most of the time. Which is about as good as you can hope for here really.

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TheBigSleep wrote:
Versive wrote:Looking back, I think the Phila AOTY has actually been pretty on point. Only a few oversights, most of which can easily be chalked up to this being a hip-hop message board...
Considering it's by consensus and how difficult it is to summarize the year with one release, I too think we've done a decent job of pointing to if not the, than at least a talked about / critically acclaimed project most of the time. Which is about as good as you can hope for here really.
The Lil' Wayne vote in '08 is the only obvious misstep in my opinion, however, 2008 as a whole was extremely weak.

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