NPR has released their list of the 50 Most Important Recordings of The Decade. Rap and R&B only accounted for about a dozen and included albums from the usual suspects, Jay-Z and Beyonce as well as the less expected, Little Brother. See the complete list after the jump.

The 50 Most Important Recordings Of The Decade

01. John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls
02. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
03. The Arcade Fire: Funeral
04. The Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas
05. Beyonce: Dangerously In Love
06. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
07. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
08. Burial: Untrue
09. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: S/T
10. Kelly Clarkson: Breakaway
11. Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
12. Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
13. Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism
14. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
15. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
16. The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
17. Osvaldo Golijov: La Pasión Segun San Marcos (Saint Mark’s Passion)
18. Green Day: American Idiot
19. Iron And Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
20. Jay-Z: The Blueprint
21. Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
22. Juanes: Fijate Bien
23. LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
24. Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter III
25. Little Brother: The Listening
26. M.I.A.: Kala
27. Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet
28. Mastodon: Black Stars
29. Jason Moran: Black Stars
30. OutKast: Stankonia
31. Brad Paisley: 5th Gear
32. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
33. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: The Rising
34. The Postal Service: Give Up
35. Radiohead: In Rainbows
36. Radiohead: Kid A
37. Shakira: Fijación Oral, Vol. 1
38. Sigur Ros: ( )
39. Britney Spears: In The Zone
40. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
41. The Strokes: Is This It
42. The Swell Season: Once Soundtrack
43. Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: In The Heart of the Moon
44. TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain
45. Various: Garden State Soundtrack
46. Various: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
47. Kanye West: The College Dropout
48. The White Stripes: White Blood Cells
49. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
50. Amy Winehouse: Back To Black

We think some notables are missing from the list, what do you think?

So there’s this rap band, The Five One, and they have too much time on their hands. Every week they will release a “Deuce Burger” or remix of sorts to a popular song with a Five One twist [FYI: they performed at our kick-off event we held last September with the D.C. chapter of the GRAMMY's].  They’re in week seven and surprisingly, they don’t suck. We’ll see if we’ve spoken too soon come week 47.

Catch up on their latest releases:

 Week 7: The Five One x Vampire Weekend – “District of Colossus” – Download Here

District of Colossus Video

District of Colossus from Deuce Day World on Vimeo.
 

Week 6: The Five One x Gorillaz – “Dirty Fame” – Download Here

Week 5: The Five One x Andre 3000 – “Love and War Remix ” Download Here

Week 4: The Five One x Kenna – “Face The Gun Remix” – Download Here

Week 3: The Five One S.L.U. Remix – “Colors Like Us” – Download Here

Week 2: The Five One x Lykke Li  – “Little Bit Remix” – Download Here

Week 1: The Five One x Kanye West – “Amazing” – Download Here

We think they’re pretty snazzy, what do you think?

Chris Brown makes a smooth transition into his newfound adulthood with his sophomore effort Exclusive. He takes familiar themes of young love, cheating and lust adds his own spin without over maturing his work. His lyrics are genuine and appealing while still maintaining his youthful swagger. This is especially obvious in the track “Hold Up” featuring Big Boi from Outkast; “Hold up/ Wait, wait a minute/ I’m genuine wit it/ I aint tryin’ to put no pimpin’ in it.” This album is filled with catchy yet addictive tracks that don’t seem overworked, like Take You Down, which inadvertently deals with the subject of sex, a topic most would consider farfetched for Chris. Even so, this R&B heartthrob comes off like a seasoned vet, and lets it be known that “It ain’t my first time/ but baby girl we can pretend;” a stretch from his innocent beginnings. While in the song “I Wanna Be” his vocals sound reminiscent of the coos of Omarion and “With You” seems a lot like a production flashback of Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable,” Chris manages to make the album all his own. The positives certainly outweigh the negatives and dispel the sophomore curse by showing his growth and potential.