18)Usher-Confessions
One of the best pop albums ever made. Besides the huge single that Yeahh!! was, it incorporated a lot of what made R&B music great through the days into more mature songwriting. Jermaine Dupree might be the Quincy Jones of this decade.
One thing that facinated me was that "Yeah!" was so polar opposite of the album.
You get those albums that would put a lead single that was considered the "hit" but then when you purchase the album the balance would be garbage. But this wasn't the event here. It was as if Usher lure people into his album with a Unhealthy sugar donut song "Yeah!" but once entering the album you got fed a healthy chicken soup that leave you to need more.
17)Big Boi-Sir Luscious Left Foot: Son Of Chico Dusty
in the recent absence of Andre 3000 over the final few years, Big Boi has almost single-handily kept the Outkast movement going. This album, continues on with what the ATLiens have done since they came in the game.making next level music for us to get up too.
16)DJ Quik-Under The Influence
Quik is this generation's Coltrane. I suppose he got overshadowed by Dre, but musically was light years before of him. His good genius was on display throughout this one. He showcased his whole bag of tricks, expanding the G-Funk to new levels. From the inaugural course you knew he had it with this album.
DJ Quik worked hard. Ever Since 91 he has able to get production done. Just looking at his Production Credits
15)Erykah Badu Mamas Gun, New Ameryka pt 1&2, World Wide Underground
I guess she must be from another planet. In some kind or another she has been a component of a lot of great music to get out the final ten years. These four albums were just forward of the curve. Shoot it took me two days to snap up to World Wide myself. So it would be a complete deserve to put any of this above, or below each other.
14)The Roots-Phrenology, Game Theory, Rising Down, & How I Got Over
These four albums by themselves are large but together narrate the level of a ten of wonder, hope lost, and hope found. I don't love what four albums encompass what the 10 was about any better.
After the commercial success of The Tipping Point, The Roots went into a way that most groups/bands wouldn't have gone. They went black with their new direction. It was as if they spat on their newly success so that they wouldn't compromise their artist integrety. But what's great was that they were able to pull that around with "How I Got Over," a more positive album that still reflected the mode of thier previous 2 albums.
13)Nas-Gods Son, Stillmatic
All it took was a diss from Hov and Nas was awoken with a flame like never before. These two albums showcase that energy focused, and though he power of had one of the most lyrically aggressive rebuttals of all time with Ether, the trunk of employment was incredible for both. Made You Look was a new street album, Rewind was one of the most creative stories told on a wax, outcry for judge of Poison, or the Slick Rick styled Bridge Is Over, the man had it. One of the superlative of all time, being but that.
12)De La Soul Art Official Intelligence: Bionix, The Grind Date
Bionix was a life changer, Trying might be one of the best rap songs ever written, and The Plugs were finally having fun again while easing into adulthood. Bionix was broad on fun from the guys, and basically just picked up the formal right after Bionix left off, some of the illest rappers alive basically simply showcased why they were just that, and it was naught but business as usual to them.
10)Madonna-Music
All this Electro stuff coming back around isn`t anything new under the sun. Back in 2000, Madonna had already had an incorporated this go into her works, but it was hit and miss. This was all good. She was golden with this one, and yet though I am a straight (oh the clichs in the US) man, I had to give props were props were do. None of these new jacks have yet to meet this one.
9)Jay-Z - The Bluprint, Black Album, American Gangster
Jay-Z had but turned my mind again with a few tracks from The Dynasty Album but as a solid it had been a while since I had respected him as an artist. He had made so much Nelly type music that I was thought he was in that category. Well these two albums cemented his office in history. You put those three and Reasonable Doubt together, and it adds up well. He was finally saying something again, and affiliated with the souls of people everywhere.
I knew Jay-Z wasn't going to retire. Still I view the Black Album was the better way to give the game. It was such a cohesive album as it mixed in reflective personal thoughts, his biography, and some lasting words that to get you believe "man he is leaving." To top it all off he ends the album with "My 1st Song," rapping fast like how he exploited to in his other career.
8)Kanye West- The College Dropout,Late Registration, Graduation, Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye is the artist of the decade. His campaign in medicine has impressed us all; even his toughest critics take to accept this. The progress of his voice is what impresses me the most. Though he has worked with everyone from RZA, Jon Brian, to Kid Cudi in the process, his imagination still stays strong. The man is hardy in price of creativity and if it wasn`t for his outburst here and there, he would be the Michael Jackson of this generation.
What upset me about Kanye when Late Registration came out was that alot of his unreleased old material was recycled. I was and yet am a huge Kanye fan. So when I was collecting alot of his unrealeased music, I would notice alot of reused verses. I was starting to feel skepitcal of his power to get a great rapper. Yet Kanye was capable to crush that skepticism by rapping like a real MC on a roll of guest remixes all over the mixtape circuit and came out with the mixtape "Can't Tell Me Nothing" to encourage the Loss of "Graduation." My favorite 2 guest verses that I still feel are keen today are "Because of You" with Ne-Yo and E-40's "Tell Me When to Go."
7)Raphael Saddiq- Instant Vintage
crime of the hundred was how did this not win a Grammy?The man almost single handily reinvented soul this one. Yet, after being up for five nominations went home empty-handed? Don`t know what happened there, but this is and will ever be one of the great soul albums of all time.
6)Bjork - Vespertine
All voices, that's all this was. But it was done in such a way that hadn`t been tested in the mainstream. The process is not exactly unique though, it was good music. The way that voices became instruments and Bjork is only as large as they do when it comes down to it.
5)Scarface-The Fix
One of the better to always do it Scarface worked with up-in-coming mainstream talents such as The Neptunes, JustBlaze, and Kanye West to make one of the best albums of all time.
Scarface is one of the greatest for not merely his large wise storytelling, but with also the use of his narrative commanding voice that would be adequate to Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones. When you mind to him rap, you can see whats going on with the song.
4)Kirk Franklin- The Conversion of Kirk Franklin
the next of gospel music was this man. I don't experience a musician alive who doesn't appreciate this work. Incorporating hip-hop, r&b of yesterday, pop and more into a live recorded work of greatness. The arrangements were out of this this world .like possibly God himself might of reach in this.
3)Loretta Lynn-Van Lear Rose
I recollect reading about this album when it came out and thinking it would only be another over-hyped work from all the uppity music journalist. Boy was I wrong. This is one of the best country albums ever made. Though I incline to remain away from this music for the about part now days, I have ever appreciated the old stuff. Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and of that sort. This is more in tradition with that music. Not only some comeback album featuring a new jack where they try to accommodate them to the new sounds. This is frozen in blues-rock, and gospel. Just wish the songs of yesteryear, yet doesn`t sound dated.
2)Janelle Monae-The Archandroid
I have raved about this album all this year. Most creative body of form I have heard in a while. I don`t yet know how to class it. The affair is though that a great part of it is great. She is in a conference of her own with this one, and power have opened the doors for a lot more variety in medicine for the future generation.
1)D`Angelo Voodoo
The one album I would fill with me anywhere, anytime, anyplace. This was and leave be always one of the greatest works ever made. He was somehow able to withdraw from the person of old and embrace the sound of new and have something that sounded fresh. Devils Pie, Send It On, Left & Right, Africa, and so many other songs connect with each other beautifully at that point. This was the conversion of individual right here. Might be the press we get to a 70`s Marvin, Stevie, or Mayfield for a while.
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