Intro By Jesse H.

Being avid music followers, we all revel in our snobbery whether we admit it or not. We all love great music, but by the time Joey Nobody throws on “Lollipop” at a party, we can only shake our heads and mumble about how we predicted the songs meteoric rise six months prior. Because turning your nose up and handing out late passes doesn’t make you all that popular.

When faced with a late bloomer touting old songs as new, we can instead retreat to the sanctuary of our headphones where we can crank up the volume on releases that we know won’t face the risk of overexposure. It’s those selections that we proudly present to you as: Pillow Talk 2008 (Get it? Sleeper picks… sleepers sleep on pillows? Umm, moving on).

The Most Slept-On Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

Words By K1NG, MZ, LC Weber, Patrick M. & TC

AkrobatikAbsoluteValue

The Boston Hip-Hop scene may have lost some of it’s integrity since the Benzino Tea Party, but the gruff-voiced Akrobatik made a convincing attempt to return it back to the essence with Absolute Value. Holding his own over Illmind, J Dilla, and 9th Wonder undertones while kicking the truth to the young black youth on “Front Steps Pt. II (Tough Love)” gave the world living proof Ak had the “it” factor. Few albums of the year matched the level of cohesion the project embodied for Absolute Value was indeed a maximal achievement from a underrated lyricist. Read the rest of this entry »