1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
2. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Piñata
3. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
4. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
5. Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo
6. YG - My Krazy Life
7. Future - Honest
8. Common - Nobody's Smiling
9. Black Milk - If There's a Hell Below
10. Ratking - So It Goes

Did your fave make the list?

Where's J. Cole?

What's this?

I don't really get it. For example:

Exclaim gave Piñata, #2 on the list, a score of 70. They gave both TPP and J Cole's new album a score of 80. Where's their logic?

Future's album is really good tho. I wouldn't put him that high but yeah.

Schoolboy is too high. YG and Isaiah a lil too low. Wasn't feeling Common at all, and Ratking shouldn't be in anybody's top 10.

Where is Jeezy, Ross, and Big KRIT

List is okay .!

The logic is that one reviewer =/= the whole mag or blog.

BWET

Or that maybe they decided which albums were going on the list before J. Cole's and Nicki's dropped within the past two weeks?

It was posted today, i bet they waited for them.

Yep!

Actually this was in the Print issue a week ago

http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/alvv...year-end_issue

J Cole and Nicki Minaj didn't make it because they weren't in contention. The print issue was out earlier this month

exactly

Run the Jewels

They must didn't include Iggy cuz they didn't know to put The New Classic or Reclassified.

Azealia

Tell me about it. That Azaelia Banks album isnt good at all, compared to the rest of hip hop that dropped this year.

And Future Vandross is the GOAT, But Honest was ass. Pluto is a classic album though. Neva end, Same Damn Time, Turn On the Lights, Tony Montana >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Jeezy and YG dropped the best 2 mainstream wise. RTJ2 and Pinata was dope, Isaiah Rashad sounds like a 2008 Kendrick Lamar, And Common's album I never got through because I turned it off after Big Sean came on and ruined the vibe
Oxymoron is okay.
Mastermind deserves a mention though.

Another good list.

Honest is def not as great as Pluto but it's still good & deserved its placement on the list imo. And Azealia's album was dope, different from the other hip hop albums released this year but it's top notch.

And you weren't missing anything with that Common album tbh