Year in Music Review

Aight, so I was pretty broke this year, and there are plenty of albums that I did not have the opportunity to check out that I wanted to peep. But since its that time of the year here's my short lists for the year:

The lists are in no particular order

Top 5 LP's of 2005:
1. MIA - Arular (White hipsters will agree with me that this was one of the most amazing albums to come out this year.)
2. Juelz Santana - What the Games Been Missing! (Camron may be the Dipset frontman, but this was the year for Juelz. Coming hotter than cooked crack, the bandana crown wearing emcee blessed us with a raw follow up to his debut album, "From Me to U", as well as getting all my high school students whistling and yelling "Aye! Aye! Aye!".
3. Mistah FAB - Son of a PIMP (While the Nation of Thizzlam had numerous slappin' albums this year, it was the debut from Fabbie Davis that broke through and put him in the cream of the Bay Area crop this year, using a fine blend of thizz and hyphy aesthetics.
4. Kanye West - Late Registration (Haters can hate all they want. While there might be a few throw away tracks (*cough-Brandy track-cought), Kanyeezy surpassed any expectations I had of what he could create after the solid release of "College Dropout".)
5. Damien Marley - Welcome to Jamrock (Junior Gong showed American pop audiences how to acheive crossover reggae success without having to waterdown content.)

Top 5 singles "released in 2005":
1. Keak da Sneak - Super Hyphy
2. Juelz Santana - Mic Check
3. Damien Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
4. Common - The Corners
5. 3 Six Mafia - Stay Fly