Honestly - Lumidee

Alrighty, so I picked my songs for the year, BUT my list is different from others. You've heard me say it and you've seen me post on it; there is a bunch of music I just became familiar with this year, like loads. So what instead of posting a logical list of the top 2009 rap songs, below you'll find 15 songs that are my favorites I have heard this year. For a song to be my favorite, it has to do one thing—make me sad when it's over. That may sound dumb to some people, but I know music fans know what I'm talking about. It's hard to explain the influence music has had on me in relations to me being a writer, but just know that it did. Note that not all of the songs were released this year. I didn't do it intentionally but most of the songs on the list are Detroit Hip-Hop songs. (Hey, I'm addicted). Peep my favorite songs of 2009:

• Boomerang Slang - eLZhi
• Everybody's Nobody - XV
• Not Tonight - Slaughterhouse
• Glow - eLZhi
• Stop - J. Dilla
• Climax (Girl Sh*t) - Slum Village
• Letyourselfgo - Evidence
• Tell Me Why - iLLite
• Get Live - Slum Village
• I Know the Secret - Buff 1
• Detroit Riots - Fat Ray, One Be Lo, Ro Spit, Marv Won, T3, Phatboy Chef, Fatt Father, & Buff 1
• She's the One - Royce Da 5'9 feat. Eminem
• Pipe Down - Nametag
• Brother's Keeper - Finale
• Auditorium - Mos Def feat. Slick Rick
  

So there you have it, 15 songs that kind of taught me the most this year. Granted some (like the "Detroit Riots" joint) are fairly new, but trust, the amount of playage (my blog, my made up word) it's getting is something terrible [well good not terrible]. I haven't neglected songs released in 2009, basically everything that was on my Summer 2009 playlist is still getting played...heavily. Hopefully this makes up for the interesting choices I made yesterday for the Top 25 albums (I'm still sticking by my claims).

If you want to download my list, you can HERE.

Top of My Class - JFin

Not only is 2009 almost over, but the first decade of the (not-so) new millennium is almost over as well. I've been thinking about the top albums of the decade, and if you follow me on Twitter (which 7 out of 10 who visit this page do) then you might have seen some of my claims. Well, instead of saying them in 140 characters or less, I decided to just do a blog post of my 25 albums of the decade. These are in no particular order and solely my opinion.

*I'm only talking rap/hip-hop albums as well, if I threw in every music category some of these may not have made the cut.

1. College Dropout - Kanye West
2. The Blueprint - Jay-Z
3. Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
4. Stillmatic - Nas
   
5. Speakerboxx/Love Below - Outkast
   
6. Lord Willin' - The Clipse
7. Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco
8. Trinity (Past, Present, Future) - Slum Village
   
9. Miss E...So Addictive - Missy Elliott
   
10. The Carter - Lil' Wayne
11. Fishscale - Ghostface Killah
    
12. In My Mind - Pharrell
    
13. The Naked Truth - Lil' Kim
14. Be - Common
15. Genesis - Busta Rhymes
16. Let There Be Eve - Eve
17. Word of Mouf - Ludacris
18. Thug Motivation 101 - Young Jeezy
19. Beware of Dog - Bow Wow
20. Country Grammar - Nelly
21. Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
22. Let's Get Ready - Mystikal
23. King - T.I.
    
24. The Black Album - Jay-Z
25. The Eminem Show - Eminem

If you saw my first list, I had to remove Dr. Dre's Chronic 2001, because it dropped in 1999 and not 2000 like I thought.

Some are obvious choices, others may seem somewhat strange to you. Have any questions just leave me a comment, tweet me, send me a kite, smoke signal, something.