1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West
2. Sir Luscious Leftfoot – Big Boi
3. Recovery – Eminem
4. Man On the Moon II – Kid Cudi
5. How I got Over – The Roots –
6. Battle Of The Sexes – Ludacris
7. Tril O.G. – Bun B
8. Pink Friday – Nicki Minaj
9. The naked Soul Of Sweet Jone – Pimple C
10. Trunk Missle 0 – 60 – Yelawolf
Comment: I know 4 of these albums very well, 2 pretty well, 2 a song off and 2 not at all and my claim is that it wasn’t much of a year for hip hop.