2011 was (another) odd year for music. It felt like the average quality of albums was raised a bit, but nothing really stood out as a life-changing album or single of the year. Still, there was a lot of great music to be heard. Here’s fifty of my favorite tracks from the year, ranging from [...]

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It’s nothing to get too excited over (unless you’re Jim), but it’s very cool to see Lil Wayne incorporating a composition by Jim Guthrie into one of his songs. Check out the Wayne/Guthrie comparison at Hip Hop Is Read

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When asked who I was most excited for at Bonnaroo, I often included Lil Wayne and Eminem in my answers. Why? Because when else am I going to see these two guys? I enjoy both of them — though I wouldn’t really call myself a fan — but a place like Bonnaroo is pretty much [...]

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I get a lot of mileage out of what is a relatively boring photo. I passed on the Travis Barker album even though it features contributions from pretty much every rapper from the past 10 years. Thank goodness Diplo was there to scoop this track out of my mental “ignore” pile, spruce it up and [...]

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Apparently Inception was the first movie Lil Wayne saw when he got out of prison. Here’s the studio version/official video of the track Lil Wayne played on Saturday Night Live. It sounds great. It’s probably the first song of Wayne’s that I liked the production — which is odd because I bet it annoys a [...]

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