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welcome to the New York Times pop cast your top line of music criticism and cultural listing. I'm your host Ben Ratcliffe. I treat the be like it's a reverend I tell the truth like father forgive me these are all my confessions man this wasn't luck it was destined

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today as we draw closer to the end of the year, 2015, we're going to talk about the greatest songs

of the last 12 months. Not albums, not concepts.

But the merest niblet of musical information.

But songs.

John Caramonica, let's start with you.

What was the top of your list?

I as a person lived the life I deserve so I picked blessings by Big

Sean Drake and Kine West. There was like a moment a few years ago.

This song deserved you? I definitely deserve this song.

Let's start with that.

There was a moment a few years ago when there was just a lot of these guys getting on each

other's records and this is sort of like the, I feel like the kind of like logical conclusion

of this. It's actually a very uplifting record.

It's Kanye rapping about the education of his daughter. There's just a lot of

beautiful things on this record and I feel like everybody really brought their a game even big Sean

I never thought I would see the day where the name big Sean was next to the number one on any maybe like number like 107 or like 143 but not

one on any list of mine but a blessings is just that good.

John Perilis, what was important on your list?

Doesn't have to be number one, but something that maybe

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