The 25 best albums of 2010 so far

It’s the middle of the year, so Complex is looking back at The Best of 2010 (So Far) with a series of features that highlight our favorite stuff from the world of entertainment, fashion, art, and more.

Random Instrumentals

Just some weapons for all the upcoming rappers and R&B singers, some instrumentals of the top singles out right now. Enjoy!

Random Instrumentals – Hip Hop (Download Link)

Hip Hop

1. I’m Single – Lil Wayne

2. Bet I – B.o.B. feat T.I. & Playboy Tre

3. Ha Ha (Slow Down) – Fat Joe feat Young Jeezy

4. Over – Drake

5. I Don’t Like The Look Of It – Gudda Gudda feat Lil Wayne

6. Inkredible – Trae Tha Truth feat Rick Ross & Lil Wayne)

7. Airplanes – B.o.B. feat Hayley Williams

8. I’m Back – T.I.

9. Roger That – Young Money

10. Massive Attack – Nicki Minaj feat Sean Garrett

11. It Must Be Me – Game feat Pharrell

12. My Chick Bad – Ludacris feat Nicki Minaj

13. Home Run – Juelz Santana feat Lil Wayne

14. I Bought That – Yung Ralph feat Nicki Minaj

15. She Got It Made – Plies

16. Sex Room – Ludacris feat Trey Songz

17. Beat It Up – Gucci Mane feat Trey Songz

18. It’s Over – Styles P

19. WTF – Shawty Lo feat Lil Wayne

20. Always – Trina feat Monica

21. Midnight – Reflection Eternal feat Estelle

22. Bring It Back – 8Ball & MJG feat Young Dro

23. Tipsy – DJ Webstar feat Jadakiss & Serani

24. Look Like Money – Chalie Boy

25. On The Wall – Brisco feat Lil Wayne

26. I Get Doe – Glasses Malone

27. In Theis World – Reflection Eternal

28. I’m Gone – Bone Thugs N Harmony

29. Armada Latina – Cypress Hill

30. Put It In The Air – Papa Reu feat Rick Ross

31. Meet In The Middle – Timbaland feat Brandy

32. Funny How – Eternia Ross feat Joell Ortiz

33. Gone – Donnis


Random Instrumentals – R&B/Pop (Download Link)

R&B/Pop

1. Hello, Good Morning – Dirty Money feat T.I.

2. OMG – Usher feat Will.I.Am

3. Winner – Jamie Foxx feat Justin Timberlake & T.I.

4. Hey Daddy – Usher feat Plies

5. Ride – Ciara feat Ludacris

6. Un-Thinkable – Alicia Keys

7. There Goes My Baby – Usher

8. Sweat It Out – The Dream

9. It’s In The Morning – Robin Thicke feat Snoop Dogg

10. Bittersweet – Fantasia

11. Not Myself Tonight – Christina Aguilera

12. Reverse Cowgirl – T-Pain feat Young Jeezy

13. Window Seat – Erykah Badu

14. Hold You – Gyptian

15. Kiss Her – T-Pain

16. Last Night (Kinkos) – Omarion feat Snoop Dogg

17. Everything To Me – Monica

18. Fistful Of Tears – Maxwell

19. Worst Case Scenario – Joe

20. All I Want Is You – Miguel feat J. Cole

21. Acapella – Kelis

22. Baby – Justin Bieber feat Ludacris

23. Your Love Is My Drug – Ke$ha

24. Set Me Free – Lloyd feat Mystikal

25. Kickin & Screamin – Maques Houston

26. Push Push – Kat Deluna feat Akon

27. Swag Sex – Marques Houston feat Soulja Boy

28. Vote 4 Me – JC feat Yung Joc

29. Eenie Meenie – Sean Kingston feat Justin Bieber

30. Like Me – Cece Segarra

31. So I Hit – PA feat Jim Jones

32. Freak – Estelle feat Kardinal Offishall


Shout out to Splash!

Brain The Tool - My Zone

Ok I've been getting emails from peeps wanting to download Brain The Tool's "My Zone" track, if you didn't already find a way of downloading it from the previous stream, here it is :-).

Brain The Tool - My Zone.mp3

Hype Hop: Drake – Do It All (prod. Rob Holladay)

Define Hype: to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily.

I know I know its not Namibian music but thats why I called the post Hype Hop cos its for people that create such a huge interest in the Hip Hop genre, who's to deny Drake of that tag to his name right now? Everything he spits on turns to gold. No More Thank Yous, an unofficial mixtape dropped today and I'm sure you BORN FREES will love this. Just obtained the track entitled “Do It All.”. Will drop the rest of the mixtape in the coming days :-) keep coming back to dunemusic :-).

Gettin’ stupid paid, off of smart decisions/I’m the man now, I guess that part’s a given/Someone please tell me the problem with my competition/I ask wassup, and they just always say the cost of livin’….

Tell me what ya'll think. Listening session and download link below:
Listen:


Download: Drake - Do It All.mp3

props to KC

Foreign Aid: Soulnana - We Go Go

With the biggest craze to hit Africa since the slave ships, the World Cup proved to show the world exactly what Africa is capable of, starting with K’naan's offical WC theme song Wavin' flag. And we had Ghana doing us proud making it all the way to the quarter finals, so its just RIGHT that we show the country some respect by putting up their talented rapper called Soulnana doing a track called "We Go Go" featuring Brother J and Kobi Onyame in the spirit of his native country for making it that far in a world cup on African soil.

Listen:

Untamed Mic: Brain The Tool

New track from new kid on the Block, Brain The Tool, one word Brain_got_Lyrical_Tools. hit his track below called "My Zone" powered by Becoming Phill. Be kind to leave a comment below on your liking (oh hate, we know you out there)

Black-a-moor & H Park Boys - H Park (feat Snowflake)

Black-a-moor drops us with another track where he's featured wit his crew by the name of H Park Boys, hope this doesn't mean I cant drive through Kingfisher road no more. stream and download link below, drop a comment to let me know what you think of it.



Download: H Park Boys - H Park (feat Snowflake).mp3

Untamed Mic: Black-a-moor

This week's untamed Mic is non other than Black-a-moor, who hails from Windhoek but mastered his microphone lyricism while living in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany. I had the pleasure of meeting this dude while still in his prime back in 2002 and was highly impressed by his pen-to-pad approach and selection in beats.

With the works he did with renowned underground German hip hop Producer DudaBietz, his mic skills and lyrics have him boxing his way into the local hip hop scene. He's a force to look out for. check his myspace and a mainstream track called "Back 2 U" Featuring SimZ.

Foreign Aid: Wale – Workin’

dunemusic's Foreign Aid of the week works fast as he drops us with one of his new sigle that will not be featured on his upcoming mixtape, but here you go Nam Hoppers, as raw as conflict diamonds...

Foreign Aid: Wale

Foreign Aid you say? well we all know we got some dope ass rapper outside the Namibian boarders, so I have to pay them dudes some respect too and fill you in on some African dudes that be putting footprints on this Hip Hop Concrete. So I'm gonna go big with the Nigerian native who goes by the name of Wale, managed by ROC Nation(Rocafella without Damon Dash) and a sneak video peak to his upcoming mixtape called More About Nothing (soon to be on dunemusic).

If ya'll haven't listened to his previous mixtape, here it is, enjoy The Mixtape About Nothing

My 1st Blog: RUN N.A.M.S.

RUN N.A.M.S. mean exactly what their name states, they wanna run Namibian Music. Consisting of mixture of well know and upcoming talent, these guys mean business!

The roster is a follows: Becoming Phill aka Phill Banxx the production Mastermind,reminds me of RZA n how he Glued Wu tang together, PK aka Percy Jackson, I. Sparks (the Mic), Perculous Maximus, Cabinet Reshuffle, Miss Cassy, Brain The Tool, Mappz, Southwest, Youngstar, Contract Killaz, Meth.

These guys bring in different kind of Lyricism to the Group. Concious Rap, Punchline Rap, Constant rhyming, and Subliminal shots all in one basket. I'd say they are a force to watch out for on the Local Hip hop scene. So look out for that mixtape dropping soon, hopefully exclusively on dunemusic :-)

Check out their 1st mainstream single Hangover...