Two-thousand and RATE

Was 2008 a good year for tunage? Not particularly but we got by.
Here, we stack our personal music gr8s and h8s of the past year.



Stephanie's GR8s:
1. Cool Kids - Black Mags
The official '08 Summertime anthem.

2. Ice Cube - Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It
Honorable mention: "Do Ya Thang".

3. Sheek Louch - Good Love
Koch Entertainment sponsored the 10 Deep skateboarding tour this summer and hooked us up with a bundle of CD's for the ride, Sheek Louch's Silverback Gorilla got plenty of play.
Incidentally this track ended up the music to the 10 Deep "Canuck If You Buck" summer promo video.

4. Q-Tip - Gettin Up
I'll still be listening to this song 10 years from now.

5. Nas - Make The World Go Round.

6. Young Jeezy - Put On

7. Kid Sister - Pro Nails

8. T.I. - Whatever You Like
"Brain so good coulda swore you went to college"
Messing around, I sang these cheesy lyrics to Diego so many times I ended up liking them.
"No Matter What" was actually solid though.

9. Lil Scrappy - Money In The Bank
I put Toronto's "Point Blank" in some new Alife sneakers for a show they opened on Lil Scrappy in July. Despite a huge guest list and plenty of notice I ended up missing the act.

10. Crime Mob - Stilettos
Mansa Chintoh and I put together a little monthly hip hop night all year called "No Haps" this song became a grimy 751 sacrament.

2008 Albums to tip your hat to:
Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind II
Bun B - II Trill
Jake One - White Van Music
Little Wayne - Carter III

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Jillian's GR8s:
10. 0% Finance - GZA
genius lyrics

9. Turtle Island - Beach House
i always sleep to the album "Devotion". not to say it's boring, more comforting.

8. Black Albino Bones - Fucked Up

7. Creeps Collage - Woods Family Creeps

6. Teen Creeps - No Age

5. Wavves - Wavves
i've never really wanted to surf before listening to Wavves. now, i guess i do.

4. Black Rice - Women

3. You Mean Nothing to Me - Jay Reatard
Matador Singles 08 was a killer album.

2. Agoraphobia - Deerhunter

1. Bruleé - Ratatat / Sitting - White Denim
these two are tied. i just love them both.

Honorable mention:
Kim & Jessie - M83
First Communion - Gang Gang Dance
Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes
Blaring Speeches - Blank Dogs
Heavy Water - Grouper

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H8s
- What happened to you, Wu?!
- Kanye's autotune (made him sound like Cher).
- Akon and T-Pain hogging all mics everywhere.
- Kings of Leon fell off, btw.
- Paper Planes remixes
- Electro hit the suburbs. They can have it.
- Punk's still dead.