Hip-Hop Album of the Year

[Employee]

J. Cole is one of the worst mainstream rappers living and recording music in 2014. His success is a tribute to all that is wrong in the world.

[Employee]

People hate on J Cole because he looks like a guy who constantly calls fouls on the bball court.

I think they hate on him because he always looks like he is on the precipice of a good cry.

[siLLy KiD]

It's not that bad...it's actually pretty good. fuifudisagre

[c.h.]

a-wax

[Employee]

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2. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron: A tour de force by any conceivable calculation; running the gamut from gallivanting in his glory on the proud, pumping paean "Hell of A Night" to barrel's and bottle's bottom in his Goliath, grinding confessional "Prescription/Oxymoron." A Swami Sweating Swag, ScHoolboy Q carves a colossal crease into California's fabled conurbation of Los Angeles. Not only does he bang out his bona fides, but he burnishes it by basking in a basket of boiling, bilious beats and luring one of Kurupt's superlative studio shots from the Living West Coast Legend. Oxymoron's mosaic is menacing and momumental; Q's pedigree is potent and placed alongside the day's prosaic Pop penchant, it is a rebuke of Ronnie Gardocki-screaming-at-Vic Mackey proportions. Instead of embracing the emblematic, lethargic, lithium-disguised-as-lightning-in-a-bottle major label boilerplate ScHoolboy Q oxygenated an opus that is sympathetic, psychotic, SWAG'd-The-Fuck-Out, and insanely ingenuous.

5. clipping. - CLPPNG: This tornado-of-a-ternion turned in what is surely the starkest, most startling scorcher in Hip Hop this year. Daveed Diggs dances inside of dutifully designed vignettes; vivisecting visages of vapid verses and replacing them with automatic-fire, nail-biting novellas. Each discordant yarn unraveling frantically like they were each isotopes from the future. Diggs' pulverizing plinth on his quantum quests consists of William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes; production panthers bearing a crushingly conjectural credo. "CLPPNG" continues in the West Coast's ambitious arc of unleashing alien and influential Hip Hop that doesn't bother bending the continuum; it patently shatters it so that the shards shred all suckers and sycophants.

[ackbar]

cool alliteration bro

[seagrams hotsauce]

it's like Dr Seuss' rejected Pitchfork writing samples

[axel foley]

waxfase.

[907]

it's like Dr Seuss' rejected Pitchfork writing samples

Is that shit supposed to be a joke?

Some of the worst writing I've ever seen online pertaining to rap, and that's saying quite a bit.

[Rachel Hobozal]

it's like Dr Seuss' rejected Pitchfork writing samples

Is that shit supposed to be a joke?

Some of the worst writing I've ever seen online pertaining to rap, and that's saying quite a bit.

Knowing Emp on here for over a decade, I'm gonna have to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was joking. Nobody in their right mind could type that garbage without a tongue planted firmly in their cheek (and a finger in a random dude's anus).

[siLLy KiD]

I found them both actually pretty good, well written, on point, and enjoyable reads.

[Employee]

My critics and detractors (all the greats have them) should really start their own thread to discuss my expositions; don't derail a Year End thread to project your own weird envies and insecurities.

Actual Thread Title: "Hip-Hop Album of the Year."

[GUCCI CONDOMS]

My critics and detractors (all the greats have them) should really start their own thread to discuss my expositions; don't derail a Year End thread to project your own weird envies and insecurities.

Actual Thread Title: "Hip-Hop Album of the Year."

Did your message board posting style or your writing fall off first?

[Rachel Hobozal]

I found them both actually pretty good, well written, on point, and enjoyable reads.

u wOulD

[siLLy KiD]

Grizzly Adams did have a beard

[GhostDog]

Voted for a Big K.R.I.T. I would have loved to to have seen Logic's "Under Pressure" on this list. Dude is a beast on the mic, and the production is impeccable. I have it on constant repeat.

[ChaMerZ]

it's like Dr Seuss' rejected Pitchfork writing samples

[Neuro]

blueprint respect the architect

atmosphere southsiders

run the jewels 2

sage francis copper gone

step brothers

[ChaMerZ]

I have only listened to two of the albums: RTJ 2 & Oxymoron. Right now I am trying to get into the Freddie Gibbs & Madlib collab album, but it's just not working out. The production is somewhat repetitive and dull & I have never been a Freddie Gibbs fan. But I had similar reservations when I was trying to get into RTJ so I will wait until it sinks in before giving out my opinion.