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The Plug One 2010: Top 20 Albums
When I worked on my ill-fated project compiling the top 100 hip-hop albums of the 2000s, I learned a valuable lesson: Contemporary history is difficult to quantify. We often make judgments on what we think will have lasting value, but … Continue reading
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Enter: The Plug One 2000s
This is an introduction to a failed project that will, over the next few months, provide a measure of redemption. The Plug One 2000s was originally conceived to document some of the changes that took place in hip hop culture … Continue reading
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The Plug One 50 2009: Top 30 Tracks
While the Plug One 50’s top 20 albums list is designed to be authoritative (or at least highly opinionated), the top 30 tracks list tends to be a mishmash of random favorites. These are a few songs that caught my … Continue reading
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Tagged Aceyalone, Antipop Consortium, Asher Roth, Buckshot, Busdriver, Cage, Cam'ron, Clipse, Del the Funky Homosapien, Dorian Concept, Drake, Eminem, Filastine, Hudson Mohawke, J Dilla, Kero One, KRS-One, MF Doom, Mos Def, Pill, Raekwon, Sa-Ra, Tanya Morgan, The Clonius, The Roots, Themselves, Theophilus London
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The Plug One 50 2009: Top 20 Albums
This year’s crop of hip hop albums was an improvement over last year. But it didn’t come from the artists expected to dominate. Around this time in 2008, everyone was buzzing about the “new school” of blog-hyped rappers. They injected … Continue reading
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Tagged Aceyalone, Antipop Consortium, Brother Ali, Busdriver, Dorian Concept, Finale, Jneiro Jarel, Khujo Goodie, Madlib, MF Doom, Mike Slott, Mos Def, Mr. Lif, Nosaj Thing, P.O.S., Polyphonic, Raekwon, Sa-Ra, Serengeti, Shafiq Husayn, Tanya Morgan, Willie Isz, Zion-I
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The Plug One 50 2008: Top 30 Singles
Here are my picks for the top 30 singles of 2008. This list doesn’t have as much sturm und drang as my top 20 albums. However, I arbitrarily created some rules to make it interesting. I tried to make a … Continue reading
The Plug One 50 2008: Top 20 Albums
For the first two years of Plug One’s existence, I offered a somewhat exhaustive list of all the great hip-hop albums that had been released. In 2006, I made a list of the 40 best albums, and in 2007 I … Continue reading
2008: Producers still in the spotlight
By Max Herman In the past decade, producers have become much less of an enigma in hip-hop. Gone are the days when beatsmiths comfortably lamped in the shadows and the only thing fans knew about them was maybe their discography. … Continue reading
The Plug One 50 2007
PlugOneMag.com concludes 2007 with the Plug One 50, its second annual list of the year’s best albums. Continue reading
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40 Noteworthy Albums of 2006
Hip-hop is dead? Naw. Plug One’s inaugural summation of the year’s best proves that New York’s gift to the world is alive and well. 40 albums, 40 reasons to celebrate. Continue reading
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