cocaine blunts top 50 rap singles of 2005

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1. Three Six Mafia f/ Young Buck, Eightball & MJG- Stay Fly
2. Keak The Sneak - Super Hyphy
3. Juelz Santana - Mic Check
4. Mac Dre & Mac Mall f/ E-40 - Dredio
5. Jay-Z - Dear Summer
6. Ghostface f/ Raekwon - Kilos
7. Geto Boys (Scarface) - G Code
8. Slim Thug - Diamonds
9. Z-Ro f/ Juvenile & Devin - The Mule
10. Paul Wall - Sittin' Sideways
11. Ying Yang Twins f/ Mike Jones - Badd
12. The Game - Hate It Or Love It
13. Beanie Sigel f/ Grand Puba & Sadat X- Bread & Butter
14. Z-Ro f/ Paul Wall & Lil Flip - From The South
15. Juelz - Whistle Song
16. Bubba Sparxx, Killer Mike & Cool Breeze - Claremont Lounge
17. Young Jeezy f/ Jay-Z - Go Crazy Remix
18. Mistah FAB f/ a gang of fools - Super Sic Wid It Remix
19. Purple Ribbon Allstars - Kryptonite
20. Kanye West - Crack Music
21. Kinsmoke f/ Federation & Rick Rock - On One
22. Juvenile - Get Your Hustle On
23. Z-Ro - Goin Platinum
24. DJ Shadow f/ Turf Talk & Keak - 3 Freaks
25. Young Jeezy - And Then What
26. 50 Cent - Ski Mask Way
27. Fat Joe - Safe 2 Say
28. Kanye West f/ Jay-Z - Diamonds Remix
29. Common - The Corner
30. Busdriver - Unemployed Black Astronaut
31. Lil' Wayne - Fireman
32. Geto Boys (Bushwick) - Dirty Bitch
33. Turf Talk f/ E-40 - Turf Talk Is Back
34. P.E.A.C.E. - Fuck Y'all
35. The Coup - My Favorite Mutiny
36. The Team f/ HAMMER and some other dudes - It's Gettin Hot Remix
37. Cage - Good Morning
38. Bun B featuring H-Town All Stars - Draped Up Remix
39. B-Legit & E-40 - Guess Who's Back
40. Hip Hop Kclan - Sounds Like
41. Federation - Only Wear My White Tee Once
42. Chamillionaire f/ Bun B - Picture Perfect
43. Messy Marv f/ everybody- Get On MY Hype Remix
44. Frayser Boy f/ Mike Jones & Paul Wall - Got Dat Drank
45. Busdriver f/ Ellay Khule - Map Your Psyche
46. Nump f/ Federation - Got Grapes
47. Geto Boys - Yes Yes Y'all
48. Witchdoctor - Best Year
49. Wise Intelligent - Still Black
50. Young Dro - Gangsta

man, i don't dig that list at all. what are "Dear Summer" and "Kilos" doing on there????

It sez it's mostly singles with a few album and mixtape cuts thrown in.

Having Cage and Busdriver on here and no AZ, Black Rob or "window shopper" is unacceptable but understandable since Noz is a nerd-rap loving backpacker at heart.

where's "laffy taffy"?

"Dear Summer" counts as a single, they played it all over. Too bad its ... not so good. I like this list because i don't know all the songs. "Laffy Taffy" is a weird omission but not critical.

it bears a striking resemblence to pitchfork's (except there's no freak-folk at number one)

C, Its on Beanie's album from this year. It's very good.

Yeah, that Beanie track is fantastic, as is Purple Rain. Deej, did you get the feeling that a lot of people slept on that album?

I don't think the Beanie was that slept on, I know a lot of people that liked it, it ended up on the year end lists of a couple different publications I write for, and it sold not a lot but better than any other Roc-A-Fella release this year besides Kanye.

The Beanie record is really really great!

I'm happy to see Stay Fly is number 1! That was my first thought before I clicked the thread...

I was surprised Gold digger by Kanye wasn't on there...

Bread and Butter isn't one of my favs off the Beanie though....I like that Feel it in the Air song that Heavy D produced better...I think that was the first single...

That list just confirms I really truly didn't listen to much rap at all this year, but read ILM too much cause the names are mostly familiar.

As far as critics Beanie isn't really that slept on, at least in the circle of blogger-crit that likes mainstream rap. I believe it was Beanie's best selling album too.

"I believe it was Beanie's best selling album too."

I doubt this is true David.

Sorry, best selling w/rt first week sales.

I thought "bread and butter" was a mess the first 5 time i heard then on the 6th listen it finally clicked.

'Puba still rules.

I could be wrong though. It went to number 3 on billboard and sold 130,000 or so its first week.

3 Freaks made my list!

Bay Area owns that list. Is Cocaine Blunts Bay-based?

There was a single I heard on the radio about a year ago...it really sounded like slowed down techstep drum&bass, with lyrics saying something about a club or something like "damn it's getting hot in here/don't stop til the cops get here"...really sick business. Any ideas?

cocaine blunts is based in the northeast but jocks the bay & houston like every other up-north rap blogger ever

I'm glad to see my sense of a lack of great '05 albums validated by someone who listened to way more hip-hop than me.