Rolling 2006 Hip Hop Thread

yeah, it occurred to me that I would've been better off just quoting the post I originally responded to with a gif of the aforementioned "crunk ain't dead" chain. sometimes I forget that treating ILM like anything other than a quipping contest is a fool's game, so I'm glad you're around to remind me by holding up scorecards.

some horrorcore & other shit i mixed together 4 halloween

so...what's the difference again?

I don't see how telling Chuck he's got lame and/or dated taste for liking TVT pop-rap is not part of the "quipping contest." It is definitely a "fool's game," though.

First time I heard it I thought it was just an intro, and then I was like "oh, really?"

yes, tim! it's really good. way better than m.i.a.m.i. in every way.

my three hip hop albums of the year are T.I., Chingo Bling double mixtape, and Rhymefest, but David Rolas "Mi Mundo" might break in there, it's pretty good. I haven't heard a lot of stuff getting fought over on the thread.

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check that link if you like the best music ever produced even tho my drums dont hit kwite rite. check that shit out, hottest since that european hoe slim put on. thats word. yeah. yall critics quaint got shit cuz i'm the illest production artist except dani kartel. i'm clunk

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check that link if you like the best music ever produced even tho my drums dont hit kwite rite. check that shit out, hottest since that european hoe slim put on. thats word. yeah. yall critics quaint got shit cuz i'm the illest production artist except dani kartel. i'm crunk

The Game f; Jim Jones, Snoop Dogg, Nas, T.I., Fat Joe, Lil' Wayne, Nore, Jadakiss, Styles P, Fabolous, Juelz Santana, Rick Ross, Twista, Kurupt, Daz, WC, E-40, Bun B, Chamillionaire, Slim Thug, Young Dro, Clipse and Ja Rule

But I've been listening to nothing but Killer Mike all week.

For a double album there aren't that many tracks I'd drop

High hopes for that new Snoop. Claustrophobic, nasty, gully... Sounds like that R&G stuff is done.

http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=6122 - "Imagine" ft. Dr. Dre and D'Angelo

The rhymes sounds like "If I Had A Million Dollars" by Eminem (not the one by Barenaked Ladies thankfully)

It's been 10 years and I'm still not tired of Timbaland V. 1.0. Snoop isn't really rapping at the top of his game here, but all the space in the Timbo track makes him sound pretty assured. I love Damien Marley singing the hook that totally sounds like it was written for Nelly Furtado.

What's with all the e-40 hate? That album is noisier than most Def Jux stuff (not that I equate "good" with "noisy," but noise certainly reminds of why I liked hip-hop in the first place through records like Raising Hell and Licensed To Ill and Nation Of Millions which were essentially rock records). Especially that opener where he just raps over the skipping Digable Planets VOCAL sample and the voices totally fall on each other into this gross pile. Or the remake of "Fly Girl" which was pretty noisy and ugly to begin with 20 years ago (FUCK!) with the fork scraping "Let's Go All The Way" sample in there. And I actually thought Bun B's verse was the one verse about white girls and not coke until I listened to it again.

But the phrase "You got me... acting a donkey" sounds like clunky slang made up on the spot to fit the rhyme scheme. And not in a good E-40 type of way.

Sidenote: I am so happy to live in a hyphy-friendly city, even if it means people take Mac Dre seriously.

Another sidenote: People have been saying "acting a donkey" for years, and not just on the west coast, even.

WC
Twista
Bun B
Slim Thug
and surprisingly Ja Rule!

Nas was decent but most of the east coast dudes don't come off so well.

AZ album is about what I expected, which is to say good/occasionally great but not really a step beyond the last one or anything. I like it a lot - he's such a rapper's rapper.

9 Lives is really shitty though.