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Nos. 20-16

20. White Rune. Iceage. New Brigade

Bleak as a cold Nordic night, “White Rune” rides a bassline that wobbles forward unsteadily while somehow remaining unbearably rigid. Channeling Joy Division around the era they released a track that shares the same name as the band, Iceage kill it by sounding like a bunch of unhinged, post-punk wannabes, executing the sound they’re going for with an amateurish that’s near-perfect in its wanton disregard for composure of any sort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHgZLtJnZHE

19. John (If I Die). Lil Wayne. Tha Carter IV

BIG BLACK NIGGA, Rick Ross bellows in his second verse entrance to this jam, one of the few redeemable tracks off Weezy’s Tha Carter IV, essentially encapsulating everything awesome about the track in a single hilarious phrase. Weezy continues his resurgence with some of his best lines since Da Drought III (“The guns are drawn and I ain’t talkin’ bout a sketch!”). …