Song: King Of New York
Year: 2015
Album: Thrive 2
Even though this album was displaced to #2 of the year by Czarface, this was the sample I wanted to use for the year end wrap up.
Here are my top 25 Hip Hop albums of 2015
25 - The Game - The Documentary 2
24 - The Game - The Documentary 2.5
23 - Maffew Ragazino - Eight Million Stories EP
22 - John Robinson & Chief - We The Prolific
21 - Large Professor - Re Living
20 - Sean Price - Songs In The Key Of Price
19 - Your Old Droog - The Nicest EP
18 - Papoose - You Can't Stop Destiny
17 - Sadat X - Never Left
16 - Edo. G - Afterwords
15 - Dr. Dre - Compton
14 - Paris - Pistol Politics
13 - Scarface - Deeply Rooted
12 - KRS ONE - Now Hear This
11 - The Shady Corps - The Shady Corps LP
And the top 10 Hop Hop albums of 2015
10 - L'Orange & And Kool Keith - Time? Astonishing!
9 - Denmark Vessey - Martin Lucid Dream
8 - Mello Music Group - Persona
7 - Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
6 - Skyzoo - Music For My Friends
5 - MED, Blu and Madlib - Bad Neighbor
4 - Rapper Big Pooh and Apollo Brown - Words Paint Pictures
3 - Ka & Preservation - Days With Dr. Yen Lo
2 - Big Twins - Thrive 2 (Deluxe Edition)
1 - Czarface - Every Hero Needs A Villain
Also, I want to share my top 25 Hip Hop songs of 2015
25 - Rick Ross - Drive a Nigga Crazy
24 - ChrisCo & Black Milk - Life
23 - Curren$y - Opening Credits
22 - The Doppelgangaz - Rox Wid Her
21 - Dom Pachino and Bronze Nazereth - Sin of Tera
20 - Thirstin Howl the 3rd - Nipple In My Mouth
19 - Masta Killa - The Return Of The Masta Kill
18 - Lord Hakim - The Beginning of the End
17 - Run The Jewels - Love Again (Akinyele Back) featuring Gangsta Boo
16 - The Doppelgangaz - Cloak a Ganga Out
15 - Mello Music Group featuring Red Pill and Oh No - The Run
14 - Maffew Ragazino - Summer Nine Five
13 - Freddie Gibbs - Fuckin' Up The Count
12 - Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
11 - Termanology - World Tour
And the top 10 Hip Hop songs of 2015
10 - Papoose - Obituary 2014
9 - Rapper Big Pooh - Candlelight
8 - Scarface - I Don't Know
7 - Raury featuring Big K.R.I.T. - Forbidden Knowledge
6 - Skyzoo - Things I Should've Told My Friends
5 - MED, Blu and Madlib - Knock Knock (featuring MF DOOM)
4 - Ka & Preservation - Day 13
3 - Big Twins - King of New York
2 - L'Orange & And Kool Keith - This New World (featuring Blu, Montage One and DJ Trackstar)
1 - Czarface - Junkyard Dogs (featuring Juju)
And some songs that I wish I could have fit into the top 25
Thirstin Howl the 3rd - Static In Melbourne
Your Old Droog - We Don't Know You
Statik Selektah - Another Level (featuring Rapsody)
Large Professor - Opulence
Rapper Big Pooh - Kings
Denmark Vessey - Nerd Niggas
Artist: The Lovelites
Song: Got To Be There
Year: 1999 Re-release of Old Recording
Album: The Lovelite Years
This is one of those songs that has been covered by many different artists. I always love samples from the lesser known versions of the song, like this one.
The Big Twins song expertly chops this beat using samples found at 0:00, 0:14, 0:51, 0:54 and 2:04.
