Ordered alphabetically ‘cos honestly I couldn’t really discern where to rank every track on this list but be clear “Adorn” by Miguel was pretty much my favorite song of the year and Jean Grae and Scrufizzer: you both blew my mind with your tracks.
So what does this list say about The Kitchen and music in 2012? I wouldn’t want to speak definitively to those questions (others, feel free to weigh in with your own thoughts in the comments section though) but I would say the list, I think, does a pretty decent job of reflecting all the varied sounds that The Kitchen has always supported over our entire history and of course, in particular this past year.
We’ve never been a pure hip-hop blog (hence our name and goal of striving to be ‘different’) but rep the culture to the fullest, everything from the most ig’nant of-the-moment club bangers to super-lyrical or left-of-center underground joints by indie, unsigned or foreign artists. We won’t claim to outdo the EDM blogs out there but we were listening to those sounds (or their precursors) before many of the kids who run the ‘tastemaker’ blogs in that space were old enough to even know what house music was and feel like our tastes sometimes unearth sounds and talent that don’t fit within the blinkers of their preconceived but approved ‘trendy’ sounds. And tell me how many of the rap bloggers out there feel comfortable enough to post straight-up pop stuff that doesn’t have some cred-grabbing featured rapper on it or some cool punk or indie rock with no ‘urban’ connection to it at all?
Happily enough, I feel like the momentum seems to be towards more and more people with that sensibility with each passing year and you know what? I think that’s a great sign for music and where it’s going or could go moving forward. Growth and evolution, always. Music will never die if artists keep adhering to that ethos and I think they are and have been. Music’s not dead…
2012 FAVORITE SONGS:
2 Chainz feat. Kanye West – Birthday Song
Alley Boy feat. Pusha T – Your Favorite Rapper
Azealia Banks – 1991
CashOut – Cashin’ Out
French Montana – Pop That feat. Rick Ross, Drake & Lil Wayne
Jean Grae – Kill Screen
Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running (The Knocks Remix)
Hint – Aliens Enter feat. T Fly
ivanunknown – So Close So Far
Killer Mike – Big Beast feat. Bun B, T.I. and Trouble
Meek Mill – Amen feat. Drake and Jeremih
Miguel – A D O R N
Mocky – Little Bird
Nas – The Don (Produced by Salaam Remi, Da Internz & Heavy D)
NotestoSelf – All of the Above
Redman – White People Are Rioting
Scrufizzer – #RapRave
Skrillex & Damian Marley – Make It Bun Dem
Spek Won – Pulp Fiktion feat. Keisha.Leisha
Tasha the Amazon – Scallywags feat. Cola of Wifetaker
T.I. – Like That
WatchTheDuck – Poppin’ Off
Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T, 2 Chainz – Mercy
Yung Nate – Work
Xzibit feat. King Tee & Tha Alkaholiks – Louis XIII (prod. Dr. Dre)
Check out the soundcloud player with a playlist set of all these tracks within (an abbreviated version of this playlist is also available on RDIO, some of the non-commercial or unsigned track were not available on there…):
Previously on The Kitchen:
– The Best Of The Kitchen 2011 – Singles
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