Critics Week: A Hip Hop List

Weekly Roundup | May 4, 2010

Jake Paine, editor in chief of the site HipHopDX, compiled these lists for his appearance on Soundcheck today. Is his exclusion of Lil' Wayne and Kanye West hip-hop hubris? What does it tell us about hip hop in 2008? In 2009?

Albums:
Killer Mike: I Pledge Allegiance To Grind Time II
T.I.: Paper Trail
Black Milk: Tronic
Q-Tip: The Renaissance
Johnson & Jonson: self-titled

Songs:
Joe Budden "Who (Killed Hip-Hop)?" (leaked on Internet in September)
T.I. "What's Up, What's Haapnin'"
Blu "Hold On John" (from Johnson & Jonson)
Nas "Sly Fox"
Young Jeezy f/ Kanye West "Put On"

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