How was your year? Did you fall below the poverty line? Did you occupy something? Did you punch a Tea Partyer in the groin for ensuring the American Dream may forever languish behind your fading childhood memories? Maybe you lost your job because of real-life pressures or perhaps you stopped watching The X Factor and started recording your own shit. Whatever you did, here’s a few songs you might not have heard this year, because clearly you suck:

Bushido, “Gangster”:

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Only the best German rap song ever recorded, produced by Premier.

Blu, “Jesus”:

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This one you might have heard from Blu’s lovely little unmastered oeuvre. One of Madlib’s better offerings of late. You still suck though.

Black Milk & Danny Brown, “Zap”:

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Heat from one of the best hip-hop releases of the year. Detroit, stand up, but by all means sit down if your legs are tired (thanks @mitchhedbot, yes we still laugh once in awhile).

Burial, “Stolen Dog”:

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OK, 95% of URB’s readership has everything Burial’s ever recorded within arm’s length (rare tracks, unpolished bounces, clandestinely eavesdropped bowel movements). For the 5 Percenters who heard Street Halo but missed out on the other 2 tracks from the 3-song EP. Here’s one of them. Dick-riders.

Little Dragon, “Please Turn”:

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One of the best songs from arguably the best album of the year (that you pirated). Snark, snark.

That’s all you get at this time, you ungrateful lot. Let’s hope 2012 sucks less than 2011.

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