As 2011 comes to a close, team Decon is shaking up everyone’s year end lists!

Goapele’s sultry Break of Dawn made the PopMatters list for The Best Music of 2011 and got an honorable mention on the Associated Press’s Top 10 Best Albums of the Year for 2011!

Pusha T’s anthemic and feature-filled Fear of God II: Let Us Pray was named by Complex #16 Album of the Year and in a numerical coincidence Allhiphop named “Trouble on My Mind” the #16 Hottest Song of 2011. Allhiphop also named the video for that song (directed by our own Jason Goldwatch) #13 Dopest Video of 2011!

Rounding out the list of Decon listmakers was Greneberg, who clocked in as SPIN’s #29 Best Rap Album of 2011.