The Best Shit, 2022
All my favorite stuff from the year
Best Albums
10 Beyonce - Renaissance
9 FKA Twigs - CAPRISONGS
8 Earl Sweatshirt - Sick!
7 Alvvays - Blue Rev
6 Syd - Broken Hearts Club
5 Cash Cobain & Chow Lee - 2 Slizzy 2 Sexy
4 Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
3 Babyface Ray - FACE
2 Tony Shhnow - Reflexions
1 Rema - Rave & Roses
Best TV
10 The Dropout
9 Abbott Elementary
8 The White Lotus
7 The Bear
6 Atlanta
5 Barry
4 Industry
3 We Own This City
2 Better Call Saul
1 The Rehearsal
Best Songs
Playboi Carti & A$AP Rocky - “Our Destiny”
Veeze - “Let It Fly”
Glorilla & Hitkiid - “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)”
Steve Lacy - “Bad Habit”
Alvvays - “Belinda Says”
Tony Shhnow - “Park My Car”
Lil Yachty - “Poland”
Ari Lennox - “Pressure”
Ice Spice - “Munch (Feelin U)”
Beyoncé - “MOVE”
Rema - “Addicted”
Drake & 21 Savage - “Jimmy Cooks”
Burna Boy - “Last Last”
Brent Faiyaz - “Jackie Brown”
Ethel Cain - “American Teenager”
Future - “LOVE YOU BETTER”
Babyface Ray - “Tunnel Vision”
The 1975 - “Oh Caroline”
Bad Bunny - “Titi Me Preguntó”
Wizkid & Ayra Starr - “2 Sugar”
Alex G - “Runner”
Pi’erre Bourne - “Kingdom Hall”
NAV, Lil Baby, Travis Scott - “Never Sleep”
Kendrick Lamar - “Count Me Out”
Vince Staples - “WHEN SPARKS FLY”
Best Movies
10 Jackass Forever (Dir. by Jeff Tremaine)/ Top Gun: Maverick (Dir. by Joseph Kosinski)
9 Nanny (Dir. by Nikyatu Jusu)
8 Nope (Dir. by Jordan Peele)
7 Aftersun (Dir. by Charlotte Wells)
6 RRR (Dr. by S. S. Rajamouli)
5 Crimes of The Future (Dir. by David Cronenberg)
4 The Banshees of Inisherin (Dir. by Martin McDonagh)
3 TAR (Dir. by Todd Field)
2 Decision to Leave (Dir. by Park Chan-Wook)
1 Stars at Noon (Dir. by Claire Denis)
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