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2014 in Review: Our Favorite Albums

blame it on Shake January 7, 2015
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Now that we’ve shown you the EPs and MIXTAPES, it’s time for us to unveil our favorite ALBUMS of 2014. No order, just picks…

SHAKE’S TOP 10 ALBUMS

Cozz - Cozz & Effect
Locksmith - A Thousand Cuts
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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
YG - My Krazy Life
ScHoolboy Q - OXYMORON
J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Royce Da 5'9" & DJ Premier - PRhyme
Logic - Under Pressure
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HONORABLE MENTIONS: Jeezy’s ’s Seen It All, Marion Write’s Black Gold, CunninLynguists’ Strange Journey 3, Thelonious Martin’s Wunderkid, Wara From The NBHD’s Kidnapped, Step Brothers’ Lord Steppington, Ab-Soul’s These Days…, Bambu’s Party Worker, Skyzoo & Torae’s Barrel Brothers, YP’s Backwood Jones, Black Milk’s If There’s A Hell Below, Dilated Peoples’ Directors Of Photography, Apollo Brown & Ras Kass’ Blasphemy, Asher Roth’s RetroHash, Open Mike Eagle’s Dark Comedy, Mally’s The Colors Of Black, Atmosphere’s Southsiders, Pharoahe Monch’s PTSD, Ghostface Killah’s 36 Seasons, Jared Evan & Statik Selektah’s Still Blue, thestand4rd’s thestand4rd, Reks’ Eyes Watching God, Starlito’s Black Sheep Don’t Grin, 7evenThirty & Gensu Dean’s The Problem, RATKING’s So It Goes,

MEKA’S TOP 10 ALBUMS

YG - My Krazy Life
ScHoolboy Q - OXYMORON
J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Royce Da 5'9" & DJ Premier - PRhyme
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
The Infamous... Mobb Deep
The Roots - ... Shoot Your Cousin
Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
Jesse Boykins III - Love Apparatus
Dag Savage - E&J

HONORABLE MENTIONS: PARTYNEXTDOOR’S PNDTWO, King I Divine & ScienZe’s Divine ScienZe 2, and Willie the Kid & Bronze Nazareth’s The Living Daylights.

SHAKE’S TOP 5 (NON RAP) ALBUMS

Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
FKA Twigs - LP1
FlyLo - You're Dead

Phantogram - Voices

Well there you have it. Hate it or love it, these are our picks and were sticking to them! We welcome your opinions in the c-section though – feel free to drop your respective lists as well.

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