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BET: Top 20 Albums of 2011
20. Goblin, Tyler, the Creator
19. Ambition, Wale
18. Finally Famous, Big Sean
17. The Dreamer, The Believer, Common
16. Talk That Talk, Rihanna
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Rihanna, pop music's most chameleon-like chanteuse, finally seems to find her true calling on Talk That Talk: urban dance music with a hypersexual dark side, equally at home in Ibiza super-clubs, Brooklyn dance halls or a candle-lit bedroom.
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15. Hell: The Sequel
14. TM103: Hustlerz Ambition, Young Jeezy
13. Rolling Papers, Wiz Khalifa
12. The R.E.D. Album, Game
11. Lasers, Lupe Fiasco
10. Self Made Vol. 1, Various Artists
09. Undun, The Roots
08. My Life II...The Journey Continues: Act I, Mary J. Blige
07. F.A.M.E., Chris Brown
06. Tha Carter IV, Lil Wayne
05. 4, Beyoncé
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Beyoncé continues her unassailable world-domination tour on 4, ensuring she keeps her throne well-beyond reach during her inevitable post-partum hiatus. She checks in with her patented Southern-bounce-meets-world-music party anthems on "Countdown" and "Run the World (Girls)," and also shows a surprising knack for charismatic, family-reunion-ready crowd-pleasers heavily influenced by 1980s R&B on "Love on Top" and "Party."
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04. Cole World: The Sideline Story
03. 21, Adele
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The old cliché says that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but it forgot to mention that she can also make a hell of an album. Or at least if she's Adele, who used a tough breakup to fuel one of the year's most stirring releases, led by the stormy soul throwback "Rolling in the Deep."
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02. Take Care, Drake
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Drake boldly expands his futuristic R&B/rap/ambient hybrid into newer, deeper, weirder places on Take Care. An unflinching meditation on fame and relationships over feathery, barely-there productions helmed by his partner 40, this is hip-hop at its most deeply personal.
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01. Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West
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Should we really have expected anything less? Two of hip-hop's undisputed GOATs, Jay and 'Ye had already collaborated on several classics in the past, from "Encore" to "Monster," and they matched their track record with this triumphant album. At its heart a celebration of Black excellence and opulence in the face of hardship, Watch the Throne is a delightfully pompous extension—and justification—of its authors' outsized egos. The album's release provided one of the few recent moments in this digital era of hip-hop fragmentation and sub-genres where all eyes and ears were in one place, and it delivered.
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