It was only a matter of time before this blog became tangential. (I am, after all, an 80’s baby and don’t all 80’s babies have ADD in some form or another?). So let me slam the brakes on 206 hip-hop for three quick paragraphs, open the passenger side door, and let some other music ride shotgun for just a minute.

It’s a Tuesday night and, if you ain’t got nothin’ better to do, I suggest you carry your laptop to the couch, plug in your headphones, and zone out to Pitchfork‘s magnum opus of a feature: p2K The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s. It’s like the best radio playlist in…well, the 2000s. And the hip-hop they include is respectably on-point, especially for an outlet like Pitchfork, the Home of Indie Rock Criticism. I mean, they don’t go deep underground like true heads would, but go put all their rap sh*t on a playlist and you’ll have one hell of a mixtape.

(Unless you don’t have to get up for work in the morning, I suggest skipping straight to the top 200 before you actually start listening, otherwise you ain’t sleepin’ tonight.)

Have fun, kids!