No, I’m not done with 2009. It was that great for rap music.
I overlooked some albums in the rush to spit out some 2000-odd words and cut off a few more to keep it at a nice round number of 10 for the Best Albums posts. I should’ve also noted that I have not been able to keep up with too many releases from November and December. I’ve only barely scratched the surface on albums from the Clipse, Souls of Mischief, Z-Ro, Juvenile, and Ryan Leslie, so apologies to those projects. At any rate, here are some more projects that I enjoyed plenty this year, in no particular order and again, with download links for the artist-sanctioned free releases:
Obviously, I couldn’t put this on a Best Rap post, it not being rap and all. But if I had, it would’ve ranked pretty highly. Ryan Leslie is a great pop producer and just a real sweet dude, which is pretty cool. Except for my obsession with ignorant rap music, I’m pretty square. I mostly like my R&B to be less playerating and womanizing, more monogamously lovely but without sounding like it’s for old people. And that’s basically what Ryan Leslie’s music is. He actually released a second album this year but that fell in with the late-year batch that I didn’t get to.
