What are YOUR top 5 albums from 2012?

[Kid Coli]

for me it's:

WESTCOAST
Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions

Dude is more of a gangster than a rapper but he has an innate musical ability to make dope music. To me he's like a 2012 Eazy E and this album is amazingly listenable.

SOUTHERN
2 Chainz - Based On A True Story

I avoided all of 2 Chainz mixtapes and features prior to this album as they didn't interest me. This album was a freaking banger though. Catchy and entertaining music and it's finest.

EAST COAST
Smoke DZA - Rugby Thompson

DZA and Harry Fraud is a perfect match and this album stays in regular rotation as a result.

RNB / SOUL
The Weekend - Trilogy

Sexy, futuristic RnB and 3 albums of it at that?

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Alchemist - Rappers Best Friend Volume 2

This shyt was banging. The instrumentals were blended expertly and the various sound bites kept it interesting. I will never get bored of this album.


FUKK POPULAR OPINION. What were your personal top 5 albums of 2012?

 

[mc_brew]

 

[Yoda]

Blu and Exile - Give me my flowers
Killer Mike - RAP Music
Kendrick - good kid
Death Grips - No Love
Good Music - Sad Summer or whatever its called. grew to love it.

 

[mc_brew]

^^^ dec 20, 2011, but close enough...

 

[mvp_status]

In no order

Life Is Good
Food & Liquor 2
Good Kid MAAd City
Control System
Habits & Contradictions

 

[N*E*R*D]

1. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, Madd City
2. Big Krit - 4eva and a Day
3.Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
4. Ab-soul - # Control System
5.Killer Mike - Rap Music

 

[shazam]

With Lil B

1. Lil B - Glassface
2. Lil B - Based Jam
3. Lil B - Illusions of Grandeur 2
4. Lil B - God's Father
5. Lil B - Basedprint 2

But that would be unfair on all the other great albums to come out this year. So without the Based God:

Killer Mike - RAP Music
Death Grips - No Love Deep Web
Odd Future - OF Tape Vol. 2
Nas - Life Is Good
Kendrick - Good Kid

It was difficult cutting it down to even that because there have been so many great albums/mixtapes to come out this year though.

Honorable mentions:
Schoolboy Q - Habits and Contradictions
Ab-Soul - Control System
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Azealia Banks - Neptune/1991
Wu-Block - Wu-Block
Big Sean - Detroit
Domo Genesis x Alchemist - No Idols
Action Bronson x Alchemist - Rare Chandeliers
Mellowhype - Numbers

I'm sure I'm missing a lot, and I'm not even mentioning R&B because there are at least 10 albums I could throw on that came out this year.

 

[albdc]

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Nas - Life Is Good
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions

Mixtapes
38 Spesh - Time Served
Boldy James - Consignement

 

[NYK Loyalist]

1) nas- LIG
2) Kendrick - GKMC
3) blu & exile - give me flowers
4) skyzoo - a dream deferred
5) sean price- mic Tyson

 

[Yecht]

Care Package
GFID
The Trilogy
Cruel Summer
Trouble Man

 

[HendriX]

LIG
Good Kid
Trouble Man
Live from The Underground
Jesus Piece

 

[10:31]

God Forgives, I Don't
Good Kid Madd City
Life Is Good

w/o these three albums i could give a fukk about hip hop this year

honorable mention: Game Jesus Piece

 

[Ill-Mind]

Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Trouble Man
Baby Face Killa
The Stoned Immaculate
The Yellow Album

 

[The Piff Gawd]

my 5 favs

Dom Kennedy - Yellow Album
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, mAAd City
Sir Michael Rocks - Lap of Lux

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Blu and Exile - Give me my flowers
Killer Mike - RAP Music
Kendrick - good kid
Death Grips - No Love
Good Music - Sad Summer or whatever its called. grew to love it.

Low Key, Cruel Summer wasnt bad at all. Ppl just have high expectations for something with Kanye's name attatched.

Those G.O.O.D. Friday songs set the bar