YOU CANNOT LEAVE OUT SANTOGOLD!!! She KILLED the scene and got NO LOVE in '08. An Undisputed Talent

I'm working on being nicer in '09 so I'll ignore some of the fuggery below...this time.

Row 1 - Ill Mami (cause we gets down for Badu like that!)
Row 2-Harlem
Row 3 - Nova (Black Milk and Tip of course!)
Row 4-Ro
Row 5- Butta (wonders if the other Eric in her life is getting jealous at how hard she stanned for L&L)

Twas easy if ya'll have been listening!

Wait a minute... MINT CONDITION'S "E-LIFE" DOESN'T EVEN GET MENTIONED?!!?!?!??

SMH...

Yo that's weird men , no john legend !
he's is the man !
check out his new song @ www.musicpoint3.com
JOHN LEGEND FAN !!!

Excuse me but WHERE is John Legend's Evolver?! OK, i'm not objective, i love the man ;)
anyway, i have only five of these....but i ordered The Foreign Exchange: Leave It All Behind!
peace

Im surprised you don't have more real independent artists on this list. I kind of was hoping you would instead of a list of what I feel are d-list efforts by so and so styled artists. People are counting on you out here

I only have 8/20 of these albums. Im a failure. I have some more music to listen to. But I love love loooooooove the love yall are howing Phonte and Nicolay. Daykeeper is easily my favorite song of 2008, it blew it away from the first time I listened to it. Thanks so much for being my music guide, Soulbounce.

row 5 is butta, 4 is ro, 3 is nova...2 and 1 I'm not sure about between mami and harlem. but I'ma guess 1 for mami and 2 for harlem.

I have 13 out of the 20 listed ... some great picks!

If 2009 is half as good i'll be happy. Looking forward to: Tawiah, Laura Izibor, Chrisette Michele, Janelle Monae & Litttle Dragon!

Happy (belated) New Year

Let me start by saying that I have 10/20 of these CDs. The only gripe that I have is that Raheem DeVaughn's "Love Behind the Melody" was not included on this list! Granted the album was released almost a year ago, maybe that's the reason it was excluded. Overall some very good pics. Keep up the good work soulbounce!!

OK, i'll try to guess...

Row 1: Ro or ill mami
Row 2: Harlem
Row 3: nOva
Row 4: Ro or ill mami
Row 5: Butta

Great list! I'd like to show my love for Jean Grae's "Jeanius".
Thaks for all the good music you introduced me!....and Happy New Year for everyone!

Intriguing list. I was unimpressed with Estelle and Janelle, a shade to derivative for my tastes. I completely disagree about Foreign Exchange, that album sounded like really well crafted musack to me. And I love me some D-Brock and Yahzarah, but that album truly bored me to tears. But nice to see Jazmine, Erykah and Black Milk on the list. They made my list as well.

I put together lists as well:

Albums: http://tigger500.typepad.com/thoughts/2008/12/tiggers-best-albums-of-2008.html

Songs: http://tigger500.typepad.com/thoughts/2008/12/tiggers-best-songs-of-2008.html

Stuff I didn't like and Best Videos: http://tigger500.typepad.com/thoughts/2008/12/final-thoughts-on-black-music-in-2008.html

I'd love to match up the rows with the editors, but I would fail miserably. Dope list though. (And Little Dragon's album is from '07)

I like the list and I personally would have loved the long and drawn out. Yall, have excellent reviews!

Hey I just wanted to give a shout out for my personal favorite of 2008, Timeline by Nicolay and Kay.

Thanks for the list, I visit this site often to find reviews, so it's nice to have it all in one place! I will take a second look at all of these albums, cheers~

Great list! I've got 17/20 of these; better cop the other three soon.

Not a bad list...Oh yeah my bad Happy New Year to all my peoples. That said hopefully this year wont be like last yeah SoulBounce, I am tired of breaking up and making up with ya'll:) I better not see another Erykah Badu album listed as being one of the best much less any good on this site. Sides for that we gonna get alone like ham hocks and collard greens:)

@Hamato Maybe this is why the post is called "SoulBounce's Top 20 Albums of 2008" and not "Hamato's Top 20 Albums of 2008." This isn't hamato.com either.. Anyway, this is a great list. I own 7 of these album's and heard a few of the rest. Definitely some good music.

Lol at Butta's comment. I have found out about so many artists I didn't know about through Soulbounce this year. Thank you all for covering good music that's often overlooked by radio/mainstream. My favorites this year were Raheem Devaughn's LBTM, Q Tip's The Renaissance, Janelle Monae, and even though it came out Dec 07 Lupe Fiasco's The Cool.

@Hamato That's nice. Please inform us when you get your own blog so that we can tell you what you need on there.

I only agree with about 25% of the list. You need to add more international and underground artists, like Monday Michiru, Quasimode and Indigo Jam Unit!

Now I got 18 cds I need to check out!!

I actually own all of row 2 and at least 2 of each of the other rows. Thanks soulbounce for keeping me entertained, informed and educated this year. I appreciate it.