Best Comeback: Eminem – Em would have won this just for his guest verses on B.o.B's “Airplanes pt. 2” and the leaked “I Need A Doctor” with Dr. Dre.
Best Mix CD: Ditch Fridays by the Captains of Industry - Pretty much the perfect summery mix of hip-hop, downtempo dance and yacht rock.
Most Addictive: Bang Bang Bang by Mark Ronson and the Business International – Ronson gets a couple of great assists from MNDR and Q-Tip for a bouncy little dance tune with an oddly funny video.
Best Concert, Domestic: Doomtree, the Roxy, November 13 – Who the hell does a 2h30m hip-hop show anymore? Just Doomtree, apparently. And who starts a hip-hop show on time?
Best Concert, International: Broken Social Scene, Toronto Island Concert, June 20 – Homecoming shows are the best, especially when all the extended family (Feist! Emily Haines! Jimmy Shaw!) show up to play.
Best Hope For The Future: B.o.B – The first album might disappoint, but Bobby Ray brings a much needed levity back to hip-hop. If we can't get a new Andre 3000 album, we might as well get B.o.B.
Three Wishes For 2011: Pulp's reunion show becomes a reunion tour, Prince's NY tour becomes a national tour, and Lauryn Hill's return performances become a new album.
Most Polarizing: Twilight: Eclipse (soundtrack) – Metric recorded the title track for the oddly-sexless tween fantasy. (Head explodes.)
Special Achievement In The Field of Subtlety: Cee-Lo Green, “F You.”
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