Best of The Year

[Philaflava]

We still have some time left and I'm almost positive Marci Beaucoup will make the list, possibly win. But let's use this thread to nominate everything you think is worthy. The Year End Poll forum should be up later this month so your contributions mean a lot. Below are last years winners.
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Name

Album of The Year
Rapper of The Year
Producer of The Year
Song of The Year
Mixtape of The Year
Worst album of The Year


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Music Awards:
Rapper of The Year = Roc Marciano
Rap Album of The Year = (TIE)
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Best of The Rest (Rap) Album of The Year = Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation
Underwhelming Rap Album of The Year = Big Boi - Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors
Mainstream Rap Song of The Year = Schoolboy Q ft. A$AP Rocky - Hands On the Whee
Producer of The Year = (TIE) El-P/Alchemist
Best Mixtape of The Year = Joey Bada$$ - 1999
Best Indy Limited Label Of The Year = Chopped Herring
Best Archived Limited Record Of The Year = Natural Elements ‎– Lost Demos And Instrumentals EP (12’’) [Chopped Herring]
Non-Rap Album of The Year = Frank Ocean = Channel Orange

[Larry2times]

off the top of my head/quick browse of windows media player and a blog or two

Album Of The Year - Starlito -Cold Turkey, havent got round to SB2
Rapper Of The Year - ZMoney/Gunplay/Boldy James/Joe Blow/Lil Cali/Que the Truth/Peewee Longway/Chance The Rapper/Rich Homie Quan/Shy Glizzy/DB Tha General/Kevin Gates/
Song Of The Year
a lot of people- UOENO
Rich Homie Quan - Differences/
YG - My N***as ft. Rich Homie Quan & Young Jeezy
Migos - Versace
Johnny Cinco-Gave The Wrong Young N***a Money
Lil Wayne - Rich As Fuck ft. 2 Chainz
Grip Plyaz- Ray Lewis
Lil Durk - Dis Aint What U Want
Camron - Instagram ft Sen City
Producer Of The Year - MUSTARD, Tree, Cozmo, Mike Will Made It, Mouse On Tha Track, D.R.U.G.S.
Mixtape of The Year - Beat King - Twerk It 4 Vine, DJ Mustard - Ketchup

I assume we pick one each, just spitballin

[Balzac]

album: ghostface 12 reasons to die, drake, killah priest, prodigy alc, KA, shad "flying colors"
rapper of the year: homeboy sandman
producer: alchemist

[step one]

Album of The Year - Havent really checked for many albums in full. Usually just grab a few stand out tracks. I like the Black Milk album though. 12 Reasons to Die was cool but didnt hold much replay value for me. If Doe Or Die 2 comes out before the end of the year then that wins.

Rapper of The Year - AZ

Producer of The Year - Alchemist

Song of The Year in no order, its out of
Juvenile, Young Jeezy & Yo Gotti - Pay The Rent
AZ - We Movin
NORE & Large Pro - Built Pyramids
IAMSU! - Mobbin (think this was late 2012 but I only heard it in January and the video dropped this year)

Worst album of The Year - Eminem or Jay Z probably as far as the high profile releases go. Failing that, MC Rapping Backpack and Scratchmaster Hip Hop 'Represent The Realness' or whatever terrible indie release is top of Wicked's list this year (and we all know we're waiting for Wicked's list).

[Larry2times]

Forgot Alchemist and the AZ song, the Rae one hes ons not as good but is nice too.

Not even gonna lie I love Hold On Were Going Home but that and Started From The Bottom being decent arent gonna exonerate that much softbatchery

[ackbar]

Best Singles
A$AP Ferg - Work (Remix)
Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
E-40 - Ripped
Kanye West - New Slaves
Lil Ugly Mane - On Doing An Evil Deed Blues
Major Lazer - Bubble Butt (Remix)
Migos - Versace
Rich Homie Quan - Type of Way
Roach Gigz - Pu$$y Magnet
Ty Dolla $ign - Paranoid
Young Jeezy - RIP

Best Albums
Ampichino - Da Crazies 2
Danny Brown - Old
Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Joe Blow - Check A Real Nigga Out Tho
Kanye West - Yeezus

Non-Rap
Baths - Obsidian
Kelela - Cut 4 Me

[ackbar]

Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop VS. Rihanna - Pour It Up VS. Mike WiLL Made It - 23

[ackbar]

UOENO is obviously a glaring omission from that list of singles i posted

[Echo Leader]

Also spitballing here...but off top, all this stuff stood out to me:

Album of the Year
Prodigy & Alchemist - Albert Einstein
Danny Brown - Old
Joe Blow - Check a Real N***a Out Tho
HD - Federal Thoughts (Kidnapping, Extortion & Corruption)
Freddie Gibbs - #ESGN
Boldy James & Alchemist - My 1st Chemistry Set

Rapper of the Year
Danny Brown
Kevin Gates
HD

Tough for me to pick a single rapper. There was a lot of solid stuff dropped throughout the year, but the two Gates tapes and Old are really great efforts. HD has also improved tremendously within the past year.

Producer of the Year
Pretty much agree w/Larry on Mike Will, Mouse, DRUGS (check Ty Dolla Sign's Beach House 2 for evidence of this)...Metro Boomin & 808 Mafia come to mind for their work on 19 & Boomin and Gucci's WWIII: Gas tape, respectively.

Song of the Year
2 Chainz - "Mainstream Ratchet"
A$AP Rocky - "Goldie"
Kevin Gates - "4AM"
Big KRIT - "Meditate"
Freddie Gibbs - "Eastside Moonwalker"
Danny Brown - "25 Bucks"
Meek Mill - "Lil N***a Snupe"
Pusha T - "King Push"
Problem - "Like Whaaat" (feat. Bad Lucc)

The vast majority of my most-played tracks are random mixtape cuts, though.

Mixtape of The Year
Kevin Gates - The Luca Brasi Story & Stranger Than Fiction
Metro Boomin - 19 & Boomin
Big KRIT - King Remembered in Time
Iamsu! - KILTII
CJ Fly - Thee Way I See It
The Underachievers - Indigoism
Yellaman & Lil' Pooh - #SmokeSumthinBitch
Meek Mill - DC3

Worst Album of the Year
Lil' Wayne - IANAHB2. One of the most horrible albums in recent memory. There were some decent tunes ("Beat the Shit") but not enough to save this monstrosity. Time to hang it up, Wayne.

There were a also albums that dropped this year that I wouldn't call "worst," but were definite disappointments, or just plain weak:

Jay-Z - MCHC
2 Chainz - BOATS II: #MeTime
Big Sean - Hall of Fame
Ace Hood - Trials & Tribulations
French Montana - Excuse My French
A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord

Bronson's Saaab Stories and both Gunplay tapes (Cops & Robbers and Acquitted) were also really underwhelming.

[Balzac]

can't wait until drake is voted album of the year on

[The Ivy League Nigga]

Is it just me or is this a down year compared to last year? Maybe it's just 12 had a few of my favorite albums of recent memory...

Anyway... two albums I really liked this year...

Long. Live. ASAP.
Run the Jewels

[Blockhead]

Guess I'll be the first guy to rock the nerd votes...

Album of The Year
Tree: Sunday school 2
Spark master tape: The #SWOUP senengeti
Billy woods: Dour Candy (fuck yall!)
Run the jewels
KA

Rapper of The Year
Billy woods
Killer Mike
KA
Quelle chris

Producer of The Year
Alchemist
El-P
Whoever produced Spark master tapes shit

[DLG]

no love for the danny brown album, block?

[drizzle]

me and IDL in this thread holding candle light vigils for Alpoko Don songs that went over your heads

[Versive]

Withyall

[Gyangsta 4 Life]

No New Friends
Power Trip
Tapout
Bitches Love Me

..were huge and deserve some kind of recognition.

Beat Of The Year and Verse Of The Year would be kinda sweet too.

[Larry2times]

me and IDL in this thread holding candle light vigils for Alpoko Don songs that went over your heads

oh the real tape was this year wasnt it
album/tape of the year contender.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Songs:

YG w/ Rich Homie Quan & Young Jeezy - My N*ggas
Young Jeezy w/ 2 Chainz - R.I.P
AZ - We Movin'
Gunplay - Drop Da Tint
ZMoney - Regular
Rocko w/ Future & Rick Ross - U.E.O.N.O
The Lox - Summer's Too Hot
Kevin Gates - Neon Lights
Boldy James - Moochie
Johnny Cinco - They Gave The Wrong Young N*gga Money
Future - Sh!t
Cam'Ron w/ Sen City - Instagram (Catfish)
Lil' Snupe - Ketchup Intro
Meek Mill - Lil' N*gga Snupe
Lil' Wayne w/ 2 Chainz - Rich As Fuck
Ty$ & Joe Moses - Paranoid
Alpoko Don - Street Life
Troy Ave - Too Hot
Rich Homie Quan - Type Of Way
Lil' Durk - 52 Bars Part 2 or Dis Ain't What U Want
Z-Ro - Look Good
Chinx Drugz - How Can I Lose?
Migos - Hannah Montana
Giftz - Death Wish
DB Tha General - Turnt Out
Raekwon w/ AZ & Altrina Howard - '86 remix
Young Dro - FDB
Mouse On Tha Track w/ Kevin Gates - They Don't Make 'Em Like Me
Grip Plyaz - Ray Lewis
Danny Brown - Gremlins
$tarlito & Don Trip - Caesar & Brutus

[drizzle]

I feel like you guys are overhyping Instagram because of the novelty value of the underlying joke and possibly because of the vague parallels to Keef's Citgo. There were better songs on that tape. Ducking Onetime and Go Outside are easily superior imo.

[Echo Leader]

Boldy James - Moochie

Yes

[Rhyme 4 Rhyme]

Gonna have to think more later, but albums I listened to the most this year.

GFK - The Brown Tape
Ill Bill - Grimy Awards
Ka - Knights Gambit
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

I hate Citgo so that theory doesn't apply to me.

I like Instagram (Catfish) because it's Cam trying his hand at Waviness, the closest Sen City has come to rivaling Max's steez rather than aping it, and because the hook is catchier than Myjah's herpes cold sores.

That's it's also funny/relatable is just extra seasoning.

[Kace]

What happened to Schoolboy Q's album? The Roots album? Q-tip's album?

Anyway...

Best rapper this year (for three years in a row actually) : Roc Marciano.

Best album so far: Ka - The Night's Gambit.

Best producer: The Alchemist.

Best mixtape: Roc Marciano - Pimpire Strikes Back.

Most dissappointing album: Kanye West -Yeezus.

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

run the jooz

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

ghostface 12 reasons to die

even ghost admitted in an interview that this album is terrible

[step one]

ghostface 12 reasons to die

even ghost admitted in an interview that this album is terrible

Link? Reviews seemed pretty positive all round when it dropped.

[blastmaster]

I like Chance's album the best probably.

I think Que The Truth rapped the best.

I would say that Alchemist made the coolest beats.

[ian e]

run the jooz

this.

[Versive]

AOTY:
Killah Priest - Psychic World of Walter Reed
Armand Hammer - Race Music
Cult Favorite - For Madmen Only
billy woods - Dour Candy
MarQ Spekt & Gary Wilson - Broken Mazes
Ka - Night's Gambit
Alpoko Don - The Ol Soul EP
Ill Bill - The Grimy Awards
Sergengeti - Kenny Dennis LP
$amhill - The Preface


Mixtape of the Year:
Camp Lo & Pete Rock - 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s Pt. 2
Cam'ron - Ghetto Heaven Vol. 1
Roc Marciano - The Pimpire Strikes Back
Tree - Sunday School II
Armand Hammer - Half Measures
Gucci Mane - Diary of a Trap God
Hus Kingpin & Rozewood - Tokyo Tower Mixtape
The Underachievers - Indigoism
Denmark Vessey - Don't Drink the Kool Aid
Spark Master Tape - #SWOUP Serengeti

Producer of the Year:
blockhead

Song of the year:
Cam'ron - Think About It

[drizzle]

$amhill's album actually came out?