Philaflava wrote:i need a new roc album before this year expires.

doesn't look like it's happening, but agreed. Been way too long. Especially considering how disappointing that last project was (the collab album).

The album he did with Burn One is still the best shit he did. There are some cuts from that I still listen to from time to time.

Paraphernalia I think.

Philaflava wrote:write in vote for Creed.

Yup.

I barely listened to any of these, and the ones I did hear weren't that much worse than I expected (Can Ox was probably the only one of these I was excited about, but still Vast has been so bad for so long I didn't have much riding on it). I'd actually say the Future and Drake mixtape was the dud of...

Days with Yen Lo is certainly a deserving album, and Today, I Wrote Nothing is actually pretty dope too. Right now I'm really riding with Bad Neighbor so I had to go with that. I didn't know what to expect given that Blu has been a bit of a letdown and historically I'm not the biggest MED fan, but ...

OME because I'm not voting for Drake.

To Pimp A Butterfly. It's a tough album to really sit with, but it's really good. Sometimes I think it's important for music to take us places we aren't entirely comfortable going. Also there's a few on this list I haven't given a full listen yet, so I need to do that. Ultimately though, I think it'...

Cuban Linx II was really the end of the run, right? I mean does anybody really think any of their albums (solo or group wise) is worthwhile after that? Sure there might be individual cuts here and there, but you can't really say you "check for the Wu" anymore can you? I still check Ghost's albums wh...

That's dope. Lif has been hit and miss to me historically, but he's got an awesome rap voice, and he's an excellent live performer. I recently had been kind of wondering if he'd just called it quits, but Mello is definitely a natural home for him. Look forward to hearing his new stuff.

yeah the Big Grams project is dope front to back.

Went with the Kendrick album. Tough call for me between that, Compton, & Scarface from the ones listed. Drake is up there too. None of those is particularly earthshattering, but Kendrick's album is the best in my opinion. These would be included in any year end list for me though (I realize you said...

tonight we're gonna argue like it's nineteen, ninety, nine.


In answer to the thread's question. Yes, Blueprint is definitely a classic. The shit came out of 9/11 for Chrissakes. The world was changing and this was a motherfucking soundtrack. Case closed.

dope.

I got super sick of Zone around the time it seems like he got sick of his own work, but I have to say I enjoy everything he's done since he's come back and he's super underrated as a producer and musician honestly.

I had marginal expectations (but higher hopes) for Deeply Rooted, but honestly I think it's a pretty dope album. Up there with some of my favorite releases this year and a solid addition to his catalog.

Bipolar for sure. Takes one to know one. Pretty sure he publicly acknowledged this before, or something was written about it, or some such. Also I think heavy extacy use through the 90s had a part in it. yeah, it's been documented. I remember it from a Source article in the late nineties referencin...

I have to say having done interviews on these guys when they're on a media blitz, so much of it has to do with the repetition of the process. If they get asked the same stupid questions over and over all day, or if they have to do an interview way outside of their comfort zone that they're not reall...

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Thank you

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Didn't he just come off tour with the Geto Boys? LOL Honestly though, he's right about a lot of this stuff. Geto Boys songs are definitely better than their albums on the whole. And I like their albums, but in terms of his career with and without the Geto Boys you can always tell there are times whe...

Employee wrote:Banger.

also... is this just one song? Feels like three.

track 2 should not be on the album, and MOST DEF not start the album, GENOCIDE should have started it.period. MAYBE track 2 should have ended it actualllly, or just not be on the album. I agree. Genocide should have lead it off. Track 2 has grown on me, but shouldn't have been batting lead off. I a...

saw this, this weekend. I can't say I followed the dude post Pac, but RIP nonetheless.

Ol Dirty Bastard for me. The two albums he dropped before he died are both classics to me, and if he hadn't died I'm sure it would've improved the quality of the subsequent Wu albums substantively (and The W wasn't that bad to begin with).

I was a fan, but really haven't enjoyed anything since the Bricks In My Backpack mixtapes. I just don't feel like he really makes music anymore.

Haven't heard a couple of these, but of those I have, definitely Days with Dr. Yen Lo

Philaflava wrote:i'd like a mega/marci collabo more than a ka.

Mega's album this year was actually pretty good. I mean you gotta be comfortable that it's kind of grumpy old man boom bap, but in that vein of music making it's about as good as it gets.

yeah I think it is. Although Mega's rap formula is almost parody on that verse.

Roc kills it though. He seems like he's in a zone right now.

thanks - I always meant to give these guys more of a listen than I did.

That lines up pretty well with the progress reports Ka had been providing in interviews over the past few years. I trust it'll be released. I'm not so sure it'll be released, but yes the description by the friend Drizzle mentions is basically what Ka told me back in 2012 as well. Something along th...