I’m sure there’s an additional 483 songs I’m forgetting, but screw it…Jeff already has the Best Songs of ’08 on lock, so I’m left tossing out the crumbs for the songs no one else is really giving shine to that I still bumped in the iPod, the iPhone, and the Rocc Mobile.
“Fried Chicken” Nas f/ Busta Rhymes
“Small Time” 2ew Gunn Ciz
“The Light ‘08” Common & Just Blaze
“Can We Hang Out Tonight?” Count Bass D
“How We Rock” Termanology f/ Bun B
“Squeeze” Dumhi f/ Reef the Lost Cauze
“Everything is Heltah Skeltah” Heltah Skeltah
“Guessing Game” Elzhi
“I’m Me Freestyle” Royce 5’9’’
“It’s Like That” The Lox
“Tokyo Raul” MAGr
“Gift Wrap” Che Grand
“Won’t Trade” Q-Tip
“Croskey Street” Nico the Beast
“Pain Language” DJ Muggs f/ Planet Asia
“How We Rock” Termanology f/ Bun B
“Living For the City” Statik Selektah f/ MOP, Jadakiss
“75 Bars” The Roots
“Hell Yeah” Black Milk f/ Fat Ray
“Up All Nite” Johnson & Johnson
“Lonely People” B.o.B.
“The Perfect Plan” Wale
“Street Lights” Kanye West
“More Towels” Peedi Crakk
“Cypher” Wale f/ Young Chris, Freeway, Beans
“Computer Love” Ghostface
“I’m Coming” Jake One f/ Black Milk, Nottz
“Maybach Music” Rick Ross f/ Jay-Z
“From Then Til Now” Jadakiss
“Put It On the Ritz” Triple Nickels
“My People” Mally from the 612
“Parking Lot” The Knux
“Bitches and Drugs” Jay Electronica
“Unsigned MC’s (Small Pro Remix)” Has Lo
“50/50” Mike Beatz
“Everybody” Fonzworth Bentley f/ Kanye West, Andre 3000
“Camel” Flying Lotus
“Outta Control” P Brothers f/ Roc Marciano
“Not That Easy” Reef the Lost Cauze f/ Ethel Cee
“Broken Heart” Pharoahe Monch
“Ghetto Red Hot” Hustle Simmons
“Three in the Chamber” DJ K.O. f/ Torae, Kaze, O.C.
“One More Drink” Ludacris f/ T-Pain
“everybody’s a baller/what the fuck is this, the playoffs?”
DM:
We should do our favorite couplets of 2008. That’s a great way to set it off
You left out:
Sledgehammer-Invinicble
Yessir-Kurupt
Snow-Roc Marciano
The Artistic Integrity-Wale
Woman Problems-Pacific Division
B.I.B.L.E-Ras Kass
Shake This-Royce Da 5’9″
Love Don’t-C.R.A.C. Knuckles
Switch-Torae
Chip-Vandalyzm
Crash-Che Grand
She Moved Outta Cincy-Tanya Morgan
Winds Of Change-Emc
Shoulda Known-Atmosphere
Legend-Mighty Joseph
Tale Of 32-Black Spade
Children Sing-Pace Won & Mr. Green
The Upgrade-J-Live f/Oddisee & Posdnous
This Is What It Sounds Like-Little Vic
God Less America-7L & Esoteric
Oceans 7-State Property
Half Man, Half Vicious-Illogic f/Ill Poetic
Duece/Ypsi-Invincible f/Buff1, Sun & PL
Goodness Music-Buff1
The Transitional Joint-Elzhi
Catapults-Now On
Strategies-Shawn Jackson f/Guilty Simpson
Timeless-Illa J
Trouble Is..-Common Market
Put Ya Stamp On It-Akrobatik f/Talib Kweli
No One Knows-J-Dilla
Yoko Ono-Danny! f/Che Grand
Nice Guys Finish Last-88 Keys
3 Kings-Chaundon f/Torae & Skyzoo
Insane-Heltah Skeltah
The Chosen-Termanology
Ronald-New Jack Hustle
Hustler-Kano
Commandments-Ghetto
Sidetracked-Joe Budden
Onslaught-Slaughterhouse
Society Is Brainwashed-Ill Bill
7 Pounds-GZA
Hagler-Jay Electronica
For Whom The Bell Tolls-Evidence f/Phonte, Blu & Will.i.am
School-DJ Revolution f/Planet Asia
Hashashins-DJ Muggs & Planet Asia ft. Turban & Chace Infinite
Don’t Sleep-Invincible f/Finale
That’s enough. Nice list…you’re lucky I can’t remember a lot of joints and my brothers on the G5 Tower or I’d keep going. LOL.
One.
See I tried to keep it at 1 track per artist. Some of those joints, like “Shake This,” “Yessir,” “Winds of Change,” “Timeless,” etc. have been written about or covered by guys much smarter than me (Brandon, Jeff, Dan Love, etc) so I attempted to communicate my love for the album cut or dope single that flew under the radar to the good people. But Dart your list is still chock full o’ hot shit!
And don’t forget about Reks! He’s got some very good songs and his album is in my top 10 of the year.
You like that One More Drink? Great concept… but I just can’t stand the guy anymore. (Although, he’s had his moments here and there on remixes this year.)