Hip Hop 2005-2009

[thatkidnero]

There sure is a lot of bullshit in this thread.

[Philaflava]

congrats on the DPB upon your return

[The Frankest]

From 2005 on up until 2009, Prodigy revived, AZ had a couple of wonder years, Raekwon started the Cuban Linx 2 campaign, Royce came back a MONSTER after the DUI sentence, Jay-Z made American Gangster, Nas was warrin' on a couple of controversial theme albums and shook up the whole game, Freeway had a good album, Saigon was dropping tracks amidst the label drama, Crooked I got the HHW going, Kanye stayed on fire (including 808's), Lil Wayne was dropping those mixtapes, R. Kelly did some hilarious stuff, Andre 3000 dropped verses here and there, Slaughterhouse formed... and those were just off the top.... And then there were a few DJ Premier tracks that MERKD it, MURDID it and KILT the whole fucking game at the time: Terikyaki Boyz - You Know What Time Is It?!, Cormega - Dirty Game, Royce da 5'9 - Ding Ding, Kool G Rap - On The Rise Again, Agallah - New York Ryder Music, Termanology - Watch How It Go Down, Blaq Poet - Ain't Nuttin' Changed... Alright I'm drawing blanks, someone take over, GO GO GO....

[Employee]

[CheezPizza]

[ackbar]

[The Frankest]

"YOU LOST, BOBBY" ^^

[mud]

Fuck those years though and don't be afraid to extend it to 2999.

[mud]

From 2005 on up until 2009, Prodigy revived

Good call.

Return Of The Mac and HNIC II were quality.

"Young Veterans" >>>>>>>

[Employee]

Best Albums from 2005-2009?

[drizzle]

Best Albums from 2005-2009?

impulsively off the dome, in no particular order:

HHNF

Return of the Mac

Underground Kingz (edited down to about 17 best tracks)

Beaty and The Beat

Fishscale

EDIT: looking at this list, I stand by all the albums named and I enjoyed the shit out of them, but at the same time this feels like a list of death. Pimp C died, Clipse never made another good one, Edan didn't follow up, Ghostface plateaued into diminishing returns, Prodigy floundered and went to jail. And none of it reflects that the next wave good things was already starting to bubble up by the end of the specified time period.

[Employee]

Return of the Mac

Totally slipped my mind (nh @ "Totally slipped my").

BANGER.

[Req]

Be
Late Registration
Graduation
The Documentary
Game Theory
Food & Liquor
King
The Ecstatic
Troubador
OB4CLII

[mud]

Be
Late Registration
Graduation
The Documentary
Game Theory
Food & Liquor
King
The Ecstatic
Troubador
OB4CLII

[ackbar]

Tha Carter II
Hell Hath No Fury
Ronald Dregan (or The Genie of the Lamp)
The Jack Artist (or Devilz Rejectz or Mob Trial)
J Dilla - Donuts

[Req]

Be
Late Registration
Graduation
The Documentary
Game Theory
Food & Liquor
King
The Ecstatic
Troubador
OB4CLII

my favorite albums from 05-09

[Hair of the Dog]

Game Theory
Rising Down
The Preface
None Shall Pass
Below the Heavens
Razah's Ladder
Monkey Barz
Beauty and the Beat
A Piece of Strange
In the Ruff

[ackbar]

[Thun]

OMG all of these albums are equally good! Awesome thread.

[ardamus]

agree with some of those; especially I Self Divine's "Self Destruction". here's some i remembered.

[Versive]

Lodeck and Omega One - Postcards From The 3rd Rock

[unclebengi]

some of my favorites from '05-'09 in chronological order

billy woods- M.A.D.
Dangerdoom- The Mouse & The Mask
Quasimoto- The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
The Reavers- Terror Firma
Akir- Legacy
Clipse- Hell Hath No Fury
Cunninglynguists- A Piece Of Strange
Juggaknots- Use Your Confusion
MF Grimm- American Hunger
Panacea- Ink Is My Drink
Serengeti- Dennehy
Stones Throw Presents- Chrome Children
Aesop Rock- None Shall Pass
Hell Razah/BSBD- Razah's Ladder
Hell Razah- Renaissance Child
MarQ Spekt- Pretty Weapons
Super Chron Flight Bros- Emergency Powers
Super Chron Flight Bros- Indonesia
Invizzibl Men- The Unveiling
Q-Tip- The Renaissance
The Roots- Rising Down
Vordul Mega- Megagraphitti
Curren$y- This Ain't No Mixtape
Mos Def- The Ecstatic

[Employee]

OMG all of these albums are equally good! Awesome thread.

Form like Voltron with Sherman and collaborate on a doctoral thesis that not only addresses the core of your chagrin, but further elucidates your joint inferiority complexes; provoked in equal measure by Lyrics Born and imperialist heterosexuality.

[Cash Rulz]

autotune became a thing.

Totally forgot about auto-tune. T-Pain's rise and fall basically occurred during these five years.

T-pain never fell.

[Echo Leader]

Some real solid stuff posted in this thread. I'd definitely rank Restless and Tear Gas as two of my favorites.

[Larry2times]

Albums kinda fell off but who cares there was joints aplenty plus dude who made this thread used one of the top 3 dudes from that period to illustrate his point

dude







and thats just teh west

no ones even mentioned any tapes yet.

[Larry2times]

everything Jeezy did within that period

[Rhyme 4 Rhyme]

I'd agree with the TS that 08-09 were weaker, but 05-07 were strong years. Even from a commercial standpoint.

Kanye West - Late Registration
Jay-Z - American Gangster
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Scarface - Made
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor

I thought all of those albums were very strong, with Fishscale being a classic. These are some of my other favorites from 05-09. I'm probably forgetting a few. Just going off my I-pod right now.

Killah Priest - The Offering
Hell Razah - Renaissance Child
Brother Ali - The Undispute Truh
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Lix II
DJ Muggs & GZA - Grandmasters
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Ghostface Killah - More Fish
Ghostface - The Big Doe Rehab
Ill Bill - The Hour of Reprisal

Also, a bunch of albums listed in this thread that I've never heard before. Good looks for that.

[step one]

Black Milk 'Popular Demand' and 'Tronic'
Q Tip 'Renaissance'
AZ 'AWOL', 'The Format' and 'Undeniable'

[The Afronaut]

Im pleasantly surprised that Beauty And The Beat is getting so much love in this convo.