http://www.spin.com/gallery/40-best-albums-2010?page=3#main
Eminem spent his career's first phase as music's sharpest cultural critic; several years into a second act the rapper himself probably doubted he'd see, he's more interested in analyzing Eminem. Yet the commercially robust Recovery never succumbs to self-help squishiness, thanks to the steely pop-rap production of "Love the Way You Lie" and "Not Afraid" and to Em's refusal to go any easier on No. 1 than he did on Mariah, Moby, or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Cleaning out his closet, he leaves no corner unswept. MIKAEL WOOD
Kanye is at number 1.
