While we wait for major releases from Rick Ross, Young Jeezy and Common, what do you think the best album has been so far? If you read the.LIFE Files these covers should need no introduction – but we have Eminem and Royce Da 5’9′s Hell: The Sequel, Big Sean’s debut Finally Famous, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne, Wale’s Ambition, J. Cole’s debut Cole World, Lil Wayne’s The Carter IV and finally Drake’s Take Care which was released today.
Make your pick or tell us who left out in the comments section.
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so ya gon leave WALE OUT? wait until I show him this on twitter he gon spazz on ya real shit my nigga
Word!
Forget WALE, ya’ll left Game out? His album is on some classic shit
1. RED ALBUM
2. COLE WORLD
3. WTT
true story, but I was expecting more from RED although it is crazy
I would give his mixtape mroe shine:
1. Purp & Patron
2. Section 80
3. Red Album
4. Cole world
and I aint even from the west
sideline story
Top 3
1- WTT
2- Ambition
3-TC IV
Definately between WTT and Sideline
jay cole and wtt
WTT
Finally Famous
Take Care
I think people slept on BIG
WATCH THE THRONE!!!!!!!
Big Sean dropped a banger too.
watch the throne or j cole, but eminem was finally on fire again on that collab album
Cole World and WTT easily
Carter IV shouldn’t even be up there. That’s subpar for Wayne.
Ditto…
Ambition
WTT
Finally Famous
Sideline Story
Need to hear Take Care but I think it’s already on my top 5 of the year
COLE WORLD ALL DAY
SECTION 80? Kendrick Lamar!!! Ya’ll need to start to listen to the music NOT the hype. Curren$y’s Pilot Talks were Great.
Preach!!
Pilot Talk I & II dropped in 2010… Overly Dedicated is better than Section.80.
And yes, the Pilot Talk series was the shit!
Watch the throne
Watch the throne #1 hands down …
Hell: The Sequel
Cold World & Finally Famous
Ambition
The Carter IV SUCKED !!!!!!!!!!
Take Care is good just good
What album will I be listening to even after this years over?
Watch The Throne!!
You r now watching the throne, games album was my shit too
THE RED ALBUM!
LISTEN TO THAT SHIT – GOES HARDER THAN ANYTHING ON THIS LIST
Red album went hard but Section 80 FTW!!!!
Co sign
1. SECTION 80
2. RED ALBUM
3. the rest…
J. Cole is a beast. He’s had the best album of the year by far despite a few filler tracks. Lyrically, nobody is better than the 5’9 but I didn’t like the production on the album. The Jay and Ye’ record is my #2, but it feels rushed. Weezy and Drake have okay albums. The Carter 4 is growing on me, but I like the Drake better. Big Sean and Wale have good joints, but next month I will be feeling something else. I like mixtape Wale better. Don’t forget about the Roots on Dec. 6. UNDUN already sounds like a classic.
this is what kills me……The GAME had one of the best albums this year but he didn’t make the list. It’s obvious someone from the lifefiles just decided to put up anything that came to mind.
and its obvious that this is just your opinion … they said say whoever u feel is missing smh
Ambition shouldnt even be up there for album of the year LOL
And if Nas drops we might have to wrap up the winter real quick!!
R.E.D.
Bad&Evil
Pl3dge
wtt
PurpPatron
FearofGod
MajorPain1.5
Watch the Throne
The rest def had a brights spots, but WTT was a complete album
WTT
RED
Ambition
嫌う人なんてクソくらえ、私のお尻にキス！
I knew that you were Japanese, nigga!
Go put that in google translate…..stupid Nigger….
I did. That’s how I knew that it was Japanese… now re-read my name.
Sound it out, bitch!
Quite clever!
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
How you not mention Black Rob’s new album, Game Tested, Streets Approved. It’s another classic album!!! Real Talk….Give it a listen and see for yourself.
1. WTT
2. Evidence Cats & Dogs
3. 9th Wonder The Wonder Years
* . Kendrick Lamar and Curren$y have put in mad work this year and should at least get honorable mention if not a spot at the top before Wale, or Game…. IMO
no ALBUMS.. only mixtapes
mixtapes??… what are you talking about, his top 3 were all albums and his honorable mentions had studio albums as well… do your homework
…I thought that I made it clear that KDot and Spitta were honorable mentions although I do believe Section 80 as well as Covert Coup were both gems, either way love is love
WTT
cole world
carter 4 was drink coaster material
Watch the Throne
Section 80
Take Care
HIP HOP SUCKS
WTT > TC > REST
rawse gonna bring some heat probably
1. Watch The Throne
2. Tha Carter IV
3. Take Care
4. Ambition
5. Cole World
*Section.80 does get an honorable mention, because, it does get play as well. It just wasn’t on the list of options that TLF chose.*
This is my opinion, based on each albums replay value. This is what’s currently getting play in my crib and in my ride… in that order.
RED ALBUM & Cole World are hiphop… the rest should be in another category..
Before it dropped I was hoping to say Cole World, but it turns out J.Cole drops mixtapes that sound like albums and an album that sounds like a mixtape.
My pick is Watch The Throne, not just because of the hype but because it is a complete album (although, I like to pretend Lift Off doesn’t exist). Also, they created memorable songs whose impact will go beyond this year (Otis? N***as in Paris?).
Also, let’s face it, Take Care is R&B. (Absolutely, no shade; it just seemed like he was singing more than half the time).
So Tru
That’s very true, tell me an album that has two songs the caliber of “Otis” or “Niggas in Paris”?
Ricky – Red Album
Martian Vs. Goblins – Red Album
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
RED>>WTT
thats that shit I just bump in the Gym and go innnn.. rawwww as hell.
WTT is Kanye sequel to dtf
co-sign this – those two tracks go harder than any track on watch the throne
GAME’s album shits on everyone.. too bad white kids dont buy his music no more..
Watch The Throne!!! Niccas hate winners so they align themselves with the underdogs by saying some of this shit on this list could even be considered the best hip hop album of the year so far…LMFAO! Drake got some bangers on his album but I don’t know what genre you put that shit in…some tracks are hip hop, other are flat out R&B and some are pop. But one things for sure, Over My Dead Body, Lord Knows F/Rick Ross and Crew Love F/The Weeknd bangs!
I cant even believe ya’ll put up Drake’s whack sh*t. with that being said…
It’s a Cole World ladies and gents!!
take care, sideline story, section 80
I cant even believe ya’ll put up Drake’s whack sh*t. with that being said…
It’s a Cole World ladies and gents!!
RED ALBUM
GAME is hiphop..
If Nas comes out with an album call me
Watch the Throne
watch the throne and f.a.m.e. from another hand
WHEN PUSH! COMES TO SHOVE is better than all this commercial trash…
When is the media gonna realize that Black people really don’t care about Eminem? I mean thelifefiles puts “Bad meets evil” up there and no RED album? Eminem is cool, but he doesn’t bang in the hood like that, so he can never be the “KING” of hip hop like Rolling Stone crowned him.
Yeah RED album is #1
WTT of course Carter IV the RED ALBUM but Take care is going to creep up this list real fast watch that boy Drake!!
Self Made Vol. 1
RED ALBUM
RICKYYYYYYYYYYYY – LISTEN TO THAT SHIT WITH SOME DRE BEATS ON
blood of a slave, heart of a giant, had to leave aftermath dre said I was to defiant..
yezzir
Best ALBUM (not mixtape) of the Year 2011:
1- Watch The Throne (Kanye West & Jay-Z)
2- Take Care (Drake)
3- Cole World: The Sideline Story (J. Cole)
4- Hell: The Sequel (Bad Meets Evil)
5- Finally Famous (Big Sean)
6- Tha Carter IV (Lil Wayne)
7- Lasers (Lupe Fiasco)
8- God Forgive, I Don’t (Rick Ross)
9- Thug Motivation 103 (Young Jeezy)
10- The R.E.D. Album (The Game)
11- Fear Of God: Let Us Pray (Pusha T)
12- Shaolin Vs. Wu-Thang (Raekwon)
13- Ambition (Wale)
14- Rolling Paper (Wiz Khalifa)
15- CAMP (Childish Gambino)
16- Radioactive (Yelawolf)
17- Careless World: Rise of the Last King (Tyga)
18- We The Best Forever (DJ Khaled)
19- Self Made Vol. 1 (MMG)
20- Welcome To Strangeland (Tech N9ne)
21- Greastest Story Never Told (Saigon)
22- Gutter Rainbow (Talib Kweli)
23- Undun (The Roots)
24- Success Is Certain (Royce Da 5’9″)
25- Master Of Ceremonies (Styles P)
26- Follow Me Home (Jay Rock)
27- The Doggumentary (Snoop Dogg)
28- Blue Slide Park (Mac Miller)
29- Blood Sweat And Tears (Ace Hood)
30- Third Power (DJ Drama)
2011 was a good year for Hip-Hop!!!
Switch Take Care with the Red album, then switch that with the carter IV and I agree with this
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DAMN, I forgot… The Dreamer, The Believer (Common)
Top 10 for sure..