The 2010 HipHopDX Year End Awards Emcee Of The Year: Eminem

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Emcee Of The Year:
Eminem

With the evolution of Hip Hop, what we look for in emcees also evolves. An ability to further the craft of rhyming words, telling stories and commanding the track and the stage has held true since the days of the Cold Crush. A great emcee captures the times in their rhymes and presents the present in a way high above others.

For the last decade, Marshall Mathers has ascended from an 8 Mile Road battle champion to a conceptual master at songwriting to a pillar of inspiration. With the best-selling album of 2010 in Recovery, Eminem truly opened up his guarded world with a light in his life that inspired others. Multi-syllablic rhyme-schemes, real-life subject matter and an open-mind to Rap's new landscape gave last year's runner-up the award. One of the greatest rappers of all-time is no longer a spectacle, he's just spectacular.

Runners Up: Big Boi, Nicki Minaj



The Trend We'd Like To See Die:
Weekly Song Releases

For a culture that prides itself on originality, the Hip Hop industry loves a good trend. So much so, that what works for one usually gets taken to a new extreme and ruins the party for the rest of us. Each year, we put a fork in something we're tired of – as Rap fans, in hopes that the Hip Hop Gods listen and keep the culture evolving.

G.O.O.D. Friday was one of 2010's most appreciated gifts. Kanye West and his "Grammy family" kept the Internet moving on the week-ends, and hinted at an album that belongs on every Rap fan's CD shelves. However, as Lloyd Banks, Swizz Beatz, Timbaland, Joe Budden and even lesser emcees "mr. me too'd" with days of their own, audio calendars were too crowded and only one endured, having all of us say T.G.I.F. every week.

Runners Up: Kat Stacks, Self-Shot Videos


Slept-On Album Of The Year:
Cleph Titled & Buckwild's "Nineteen Ninety Now"

For all the talk about sales and mainstream rankings, most Rap albums fall short of reaching chain stores and the charts. Great albums are made yearly that don't get the distribution, the promotion or the word of mouth that they deserve, and often times, if skills sold, truth be told, they'd probably be, commercially, Black Eyed Peas.

Golden-era purists bemoan the 1990s greatness that's gone missing in today's Rap marketplace. A veteran Florida emcee Celph Titled teamed with Bronx beat-master Buckwild for an album of hard-nosed rhymes overtop unused beats from the Word…Life and Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous era. Diggin' In The Crates and Army of The Pharaohs collided to give us a star-studded album that celebrated addicts for sneakers, 20s of Buddah, and bitches with beepers.

Runners Up: Homeboy Sandman – The Good Sun, Roc Marciano – Marcberg

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[Devil'sAdvocate]

finalllllllllllyyyyyyyyyy somebody chose Em over kanye.

[ShadyNarkoticz]

Hell yeah. Em getting the respect he deserves. And big respect for choosing Celph Titled. Great album.

I think most people are just saying MBDTF is perfect just because. Like they don't know the difference between a great album and a perfect album so they just label it perfect.

[slimsoxshady]

:worship:

finalllllllllllyyyyyyyyyy somebody chose Em over kanye.

kanye mad as shit right now

[mcZu]

Kanye didn't start the weekly release shit, Crooked I started that shit. Bunch of cocksucking, ignorant, haters. Everybody jocking Crook's trend and giving credit to people who don't deserve it. And what's with putting ''even lesser emcees'' after naming Joe Budden? Like he's not good enough. Bullshit article. Get the fuck outa here.

[Brood]

The Trend We'd Like To See Die:
Weekly Song Releases

So...less hip-hop?

[Master Chief]

@ Eminem winning over Kanye

@ the article for saying Kanye started that weekly shit. Crooked I fucking started it

[mecuryball]

Eminem #1,that's d shit,
hiphopdx proved that there're still some sane people out there.
Not all those fools sucking on kanyes dick.

[WakeUpShow]

The Trend We'd Like To See Die:
Weekly Song Releases

So...less hip-hop?

yeah, if it's not quality. The only weekly releases I, as well as others, paid attention to was G.O.O.D. Friday & Hip-Hop Weekly Reloaded.

[VivancoFTW]

ITT: Stans mad that not everybody thinks Em is the greatest

Not sure why everybody hates on Kanye here, but eh. Eminem winning is good though.

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Finally Em gets credit where credit is due

[Berry]

C'MON MANNNNN, Freakin' Eminem ain't kool. He rap about all that depressing shit.


Kanye west make that GOOD music. The kind of music you just wanna hear again & again & again.

[flyingmonkey10]

:y: @ Eminem winning over Kanye

@ the article for saying Kanye started that weekly shit. Crooked I fucking started it

[momentisgolden]

Wow, that site is as real as it gets. From the awards (of Eminem winning), to the Kat Stacks thing, to the Drake Minaj wedding, to the Wacka Flocka Flame shit, to the history of Em and Royce to the Nas VS Label beef.... wow. Gotta say, this should be the best Hip-hop website on the net!