Blog: The Smoking Section

Generally, the bickering and babbling that coincides with ranking the year's best LPs tend to blur the focus on the overall picture. While some albums directly catered to personal preferences more immensely than others, all the selections emerged amongst the year's best in regards to quality, visibility and of course, durability. Behold fifteen albums deserving of all the accolades and praises heaped upon them throughout the course of 2008. And their value will only solidify going in to 2009. No order. No bias. Just noteworthy Hip-Hop. [...]