Top 20 Albums and Top 30 Songs of 2010!

What's up everybody?  It's that time again where I name my top 20 albums and top 30 songs of the previous year (in this case 2010).  I know I'm a little late, but there was some very worthy music released in the last couple of weeks of the year and I had to take my time to evaluate those and where they fit in with the rest of the music released earlier in the year.  All in all, 2010 was definitely a decent year for music.  A lot of this stuff isn't exact but these are basically lists of the albums and songs that I listened to the most this past year in some kind of reasonable order.  Also, I won't include but will mention Killah Priest-The Three Day Theory and/or Empuls-The Very Best of Empuls on my list just because they are projects that I was personally connected to in a way and I don't want to show favoritism here.  Still they are very deserving and go check those out if you haven't already.  Now, with no further ado, here are my top 20 albums and top 30 songs of 2010:

My Top 20 Albums of 2010 (In Order):

20) Guilty Simpson & Madlib-OJ Simpson
19) Vinnie Paz-Season Of The Assassin
18) Skyzoo & Illmind-Live From The Tape Deck
17) Gangrene-Gutter Water
16) Black Milk-Album Of The Year
15) Roc Marciano-Marcberg
14) Murs & 9th Wonder-Fornever
13) Copywrite-The Life & Times of Peter Nelson
12) Method Man, Ghostface Killah & Raekwon-Wu-Massacre
11) Cee-Lo Green-The Lady Killer
10) DJ Premier Presents....Year Round Records-Get Used To Us
9) Reflection Eternal-Revolutions Per Minute
8) Ghostface Killah-Apollo Kids
7) Madlib-Madlib Medicine Show #5: History Of The Loop Digga
6) Statik Selektah & Termanology-1982
5) The Roots-How I Got Over
4) KRS-ONE & True Master-Meta-Historical
3) Strong Arm Steady & Madlib-In Search of Stoney Jackson...
2) Nas & Damian Marley-Distant Relatives
1) Celph Titled & Buckwild-Nineteen Ninety Now

Honorable Mentions: Nottz-You Need This Music, David Banner & 9th Wonder-Death Of A Pop Star, Marco Polo & Rustee Juxx-The Exxecution, Eternia & Moss-At Last, Rah Digga-Classic, Hell Razah-Heaven Razah

My Top 30 Songs of 2010 (In Order):

30) Kanye West featuring Jay-Z & Charlie Wilson-The Joy (Produced by Pete Rock)
29) Reflection Eternal featuring Bilal-Ends (Produced by Hi-Tek)
28) Skyzoo & Illmind featuring Heltah Skeltah-The Burn Notice (Produced by Illmind)
27) Mayer Hawthorne-I Need You (Produced by Nottz)
26) Ghostface Killah featuring Raekwon, Redman & Method Man-Troublemakers (Produced by Jake One)
25) Roc Marciano-Pop (Produced by Roc Marciano)
24) Celph Titled & Buckwild featuring Apathy & Chino XL-Styles Ain't Raw (Produced by Buckwild)
23) Murs & 9th Wonder featuring Suga Free-Let Me Talk (Produced by 9th Wonder)
22) Reflection Eternal-Ballad Of The Black Gold (Produced by Hi-Tek)
21) Nas & Damian Marley-As We Enter (Produced by Damian & Stephen Marley)
20) Wu-Massacre-Our Dreams (Produced by RZA)
19) Vinnie Paz-Aristotle's Dilemma (Produced by Madlib)
18) Wu-Massacre-Miranda (Produced by Mathematics)
17) Reflection Eternal-In This World (Produced by Hi-Tek)
16) David Banner & 9th Wonder-Something's Wrong (Produced by 9th Wonder)
15) Black Milk featuring Mr. Porter-Closed Chapter (Produced by Black Milk)
14) Celph Titled & Buckwild-Step Correctly (Produced by Buckwild)
13) The Roots-Dear God 2.0 (Produced by The Roots)
12) Raekwon featuring Inspectah Deck & Gza-Rockstars (Produced by RZA)
11) KRS-ONE featuring Grand Puba-5% (Produced by DJ Premier)
10) Ghostface Killah featuring Gza & Killah Priest-Purified Thoughts (Produced by Frank Dukes)
9) Celph Titled & Buckwild featuring Rise-Nothing To Say (Produced by Buckwild)
8) Strong Arm Steady & Madlib featuring Chace Infinite-New Love (Produced by Madlib)
7) Bun B-Let Em' Know (Produced by DJ Premier)
6) 1982-Still Waiting (Produced by Statik Selektah)
5) Cee-Lo Green featuring Phillip Bailey-Fool For You (Produced by Jack Splash)
4) The Roots featuring John Legend-The Fire (Produced by The Roots)
3) KRS-ONE & True Master-Meta-Historical (Produced by True Master)
2) Nas & Damian Marley-Patience (Produced by Damian & Stephen Marley)
1) Black Milk featuring Royce Da 5'9" & Elzhi-Deadly Medley (Produced by Black Milk)

Happy 2011 everybody.  Peace.