Best Year in Hip-Hop Tournament nominations

[Skinny]

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

OK guys, gonna allow people to start making their nominations now.

Remember, you are only nominating a year; you still have plenty of time to explore your choice, and I will message you for your album and single nominations later.

Some people have already made their nominations elsewhere, which I will attempt to honour, so please just shout if that's you. I think I caught them all, but I could have missed a couple. (My first three choices - 2000, 1996, 1998 - have already been taken, I believe. So, erm... good choices guys, I guess.)

Anyway, I'm nominating 1999.

Throw your hats into the ring, guys. If anybody who nominated before they fully understood the format wants to change to a different year, just say in here.

Also, please only nominate if your intentions are to participate fully in what will be a long tournament. Obviously if life gets in the way, nobody will blame you, but nominating on a whim is probably a bad idea.

I strongly suggest that once you have picked a year, you start exploring. It would be advisable to try to find around 10 albums and 10 singles from your year that you would be happy to use.

cestuneblague - 1993
baystateoftheart - 1994
Mercury - 1995
Streams - 1996
LedZep - 1997
RoundTheBend - 1998
Skinny - 1999
Repo - 2000
babyBlueSedan - 2002
kokkinos - 2004
PossiblyMichigan - 2005
Tha1ChiefRocka - 2006
eyezayzay - 2012
Purplepash - 2015
travelful - 2016
Hayden - 2017
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[Mercury]

Not gonna overthink this, I’ll take 1995.
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[Streams]

Shout out for honoring all the years everyone was throwing out along the way

[baystateoftheart]

Mercury, you beat me to the punch on 95. Not to mention all the great years snapped up before nominations were open. I'll take 1994.
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[Skinny]

[baystateoftheart]

[babyBlueSedan]

Damn, 1999 and 1994 were two of my top choices. Next two were 2002 and 2012 and after way too much thought I'll take...2002.
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[Hayden]

I'll go with 2017.

See what happens.

[travelful]

Wanted 1996 but ill take 2016
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[cestuneblague]

I definitely would've done 98, mainly for being the seminal year in French Hip Hop and would've been interesting to showcase that, but I guess I'll be boring and do 1993