i like that one of nas’s hobbies is watching women wrestle in KY jelly. i should look into that.

Why KY I wonder? I mean as opposed to mud, crisco, jello, etc.

cause it warms on contact, obv.

Nas is a freak. Dude raps about groupies eating his excrement and then supposedly rejects Beyonce for having bad breath!?

in other news, half of my favorite rap albums this year are Roots/Lupe/Rhymefest/Hi-Tek = when did I go backpacker?

haha did you hear “audition” by POS? that’s a good backpacker one, too

my new favorite hobby:

looking up old 80s rappers on myspace! it’s so wierd...i was just on spinderella, yo-yo, milk dee, sha-rock, monie lovie, etc etc...it’s so cool you can see pix of them like taking their kids to the zoo and going to b-day parties for their friends and shit, they were all like superheroes to me.

i don’t actually listen to any real backpacker underground stuff, just the quasi-underground middle-tier mainstream stuff, so no, didn’t hear POS.

it seemed like everybody already dropped an album this year, so let’s use this opportunity to try and hash out what’s coming out in ’07. off the top of my head:

UGK just got pushed back to Feb

Lil Wayne—Carter 3

Kanye in the 4th quarter

Raekwon on Aftermath w/ Cuban Linx sequel

Eve

new Swizz Beatz solo album might be cool

I guess Cassidy is dropping too

50 dropping a double album in 2nd quarter followed by the usual G-Unit barrage (Young Buck, LL Cool J, Freeway?, Yayo, Ma$e, MOP?, Young Fresh New Lil Hot Rod, Spider Joke, who the fuck nows what they’ll inflict on us)

I guess Eminem too

will anyone give a fuck when the Houston major label class of ’05 drop their follow-ups?

is Fab still dropping in late Dec as part of Def Jam’s no-promotion tax writeoff contingency plan? (see also: More Fish, Game Theory, 4:21...The Day After)

are we still pretending Styles P. is dropping this year?

Anyone wanna go to the mat for the shitty new Ghostface album/mixtape/piece of shit?

Or what about the new Jeez?

Listenable, sure, but could it be any more like Thug Motivation?

(xpost) what else, what else:

new B.G. exec-produced by T.I.

and T.I. Vs. T.I.P. in 07 too, I guess

Pitbull all-Spanish album

is Trick Daddy still coming out in December or pushed back to 07?

AHH rumors just said that Peedi is going to leak his own album since Def Jam will never put it out (w/ a decent promotional budget at least), so that might be good

Papoose’s major label album, who gives a fuck

teenpop nu-Timbaland dropping a new solo album

Busta Rhymes saying he’s doing another album in 07

i’m kinda excited for papoose, but i like mid-level NYC punchline rapperz now and forever.

on the same tip, i’m hoping saigon is actually coming out this year, but the stuff off the yardfather mixtape i’ve heard on xxlmag.com isn’t all that.

i am getting excited for Nas...

is Stat Quo actually ever going to come out?

Saigon’s finally got a video so he might actually be dropping sometime soon. I was ready to add Stat Quo to the never-ever-coming-out file (which Joe Budden has now assumed control of in the Clipse’s absence) since it’s been like 2 years since they released his ‘first single,’ but he’s all over the new Shady compilation so maybe he’ll drop soon too.

there’s a couple new saigon tracks that leaked, sounding a lot like kanye!?!?!

i’d say that freeway’s “free at last” should be added to that never-coming-out file...

his recent freestyle over primo’s “format” beat used on the AZ album is crazy

anyone like the new project pat?

im definitely feelin some of it, more than i expected.

Is the Hi-Tek album decent? Hi-Tek beats make me feel kinda fuzzy and nostalgic.

hi-tek’s beats make me think of brown and tan colors. he’s an earth-tone producer.

definitely

the hip-hop rap music sucks

i see that CRUNCHY BLACK has a solo album out

Killer Mike, hopefully. If it can live up to “Get ’em Shawty” I will be a happy, happy man.

Anyone wanna go to the mat for the shitty new Ghostface album/mixtape/piece of shit?

Has this leaked? All I’ve heard is the track over the “Know The Ledge” beat, which is pretty hot.

new Prodigy track mentioned on the Busta thread—maybe the best song I’ve heard all year

http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=6287

The Prodigy track is great. Seek the video.

new ying yang is boring. or maybe i was just in a bad mood.

it is so freaking silly to ask, all huffily, “could [thug motivation 102: the inspiration] be any more like thug motivation?” Jeezy sounds like fucking Jeezy. That is how he sounds. His verses on the Hustlin’ and Cannon remixes sound like... Jeezy. I really really like the way he sounds. I tired quickly of Mike Jones going “Mike Jones” over and over again, but every time i hear Jeezy drawl “daaammmmmmmmmnnnn,” “ayyye” and “yeahhhhhhh” and triumphantly go “ha-ha” it is like the first time and it is amazing & beautiful.

to describe “more fish” as both “shitty” and “a piece of shit,” and further be confused as to the difference between a “mixtape” and an “album,” betrays: a dislike of Ghostface; some ignorance about hip hop more generally.

I find it interesting that the big consensus rap albums this year (namely Ghost, TI, Clipse) are not “safe” in the typical Kanye, De La, Fugees, etc mold. I suppose there’s also the Roots & Lupe Fiasco, but their albums are, respectively, technically accomplished, but boring, and blatantly horrible. Neither seems to be getting quite the blanket praise that the other three I named are. Is this some sort of big turn for the hivemind?

i really like the lupe fiasco album!!!

i like the TI as well, and chamillionaire in the same way that i like the pussycat dolls, and i will FINALLY get around to clipse today.

i want another trina album.

I think I’m starting to hate Young Jeezy, where I was just so-so on him before. Part of it is that he only rhymes at the end of each line, but in really sloppy patterns (no A-A-B-B or even A-B-A-B, just random shit that doesn’t match up in even some weird clever way), part of it’s just because of how unabashedly lazy “I Luv It” is (“What You Know” beat + “Trap Star” chorus). Anytime Jeezy makes a record that sounds like a T.I. record, it just reminds me that dude got in Tip’s lane at almost the exact same level of success with a lot less talent.

new ying yang is boring. or maybe i was just in a bad mood.

Yeah, the words “executive produced by Wyclef” scared me off, and it seems like they barely promoted it. Mr. Collipark was always the best part of their records, and apparently he disagreed with the direction on the new album so much that he just announced he’s not working w/ Ying Yang anymore.

I think I’m starting to hate Young Jeezy, where I was just so-so on him before.

same here. and i’ve grown to love the mike jones album

i kinda like that jeezy/timbaland but the one with tip & kanye feels like its bout 20 minutes of jeezy & 5 choruses before the other dudes get to rap

dont really see how critics overrating clipse & ghost is a break from the general mold of de la/kanye/fugees—same dudes gave alot of ink to more deserving wu shit back in the day for the same weirdo reasons & clipse is just updated mid 90s biggie/mobb/snoop shows us the nihilistic-yet-thrilling horrors of the ghetto bullshit with a dash of post-backpacker wordplay

most unnecessary album of the year: pac’s life

original version of the pacs life single that samples prince is good—you can get it on one of those 90s makaveli bootlegs

its crazy that established artists are doing like 50k at best this year while another posthumous 2pac album goes 200k first week

http://thunder_1st.tripod.com/Keep_It_REAL/Bootlegs.htm

I figured it was time for me to speak on all the shark ass bitches making money off of my nigga Pac.

im actually sort of liking the inspiration more that tm 101, esp. the timbaland and “hypnotize,” which makes me imagine jeezy selling coke on the new MOON BASE or somethiing.

also i like that he says “hypmatize”

i’m listening to (what i think is) an advance of Jeezy & Juelz’s “I Can’t Feel My Face”. ain’t so bad cept juelz does some really stupid rhying the exact same word for way too long

I find the Common Cap commercial quite charming for some reason. I probably should hate it, but I like it.

Is it just me or was T.I.‘s “Why You Wanna” criminally overlooked?

xpost to myself, i mean weezy and juelz. jeezy weezy whatevs

dave chappipple!

i’m listening to (what i think is) an advance of Jeezy & Juelz’s “I Can’t Feel My Face”. ain’t so bad cept juelz does some really stupid rhying the exact same word for way too long

— jaxon (gnarls.in.charg...), December 7th, 2006.

i think the deal with that, IIRC, is that Juelz and Wayne spent months and months hyping up their collab mixtape and delaying it and talking about maybe making it an official album, that a mixtape DJ finally just took some of the leaked tracks and other random stuff they’ve done and cobbled it together as “the prequel” to the actual mixtape which has yet to be released.

also yeah SHOCKER juelz can’t rap. it’s amazing that jim jones routinely gets the “worst rapper in dipset” tag considering that santana exists.

Oh

Kay

Ay

Yep

Dipset

(I forgot)

Dipset

Dipset

Dip

Set

it was a bad idea to even start discussing dipset at all, wasn’t it.

So... the second disc of this Tyrese album...

I am totally ready for this thread to be all about the “Black Ty” CD. Please, proceed.

The new Ying Yang Twins album is unbelievably bad.

Charted really poorly too (which I say while knowing that I risk spawning another 300-post thread about whether it’s okay to hate on rap albums for “bricking”), debuted at #40 when their last album debuted at #2, i think even that mini-album/EP thing from a year ago sold better. What’s bad about it, though, compared to their old stuff? (I don’t disbelieve you, I’m sure it’s terrible, but I’m mordibly curious as to what the factors are, aside from Wyclef.)

Black Ty sez:

As soon as I walked in the club
I started looking for a girl who sucked dick like she made it up
I know you’re out there somewhere
Baby don’t keep it to yourself, share
To all the freaks, let me see
Drop it like it’s hot and make me a believer
I know there’s a whole lot of freaks in the dirty dirty
Motherfuckers gettin’ high feelin’ flirty
Dem down south boys they’re the craziest
Them west coast boys be scandalous
Dem midwest n*gg*s be dangerous

The end of each line is pronounced either “uhh” or “ehh”

xpost

Lol @ the idea of a “prequel” to a mixtape!

spoiler alert: Wayne’s hot rappin’ skills are the result of mitoclorians!!!

Collipark intros the album saying that the first part of the album is for the old school fans and that on the second half Wyclef and some Tony Wonder or whoever is gonna take them into exciting new musical worlds. The first half is just really tired, even for a group known for repeating hooks and catchphrases into the ground. Wyclef’s half goes for a little novelty but “Dangerous” and “Leave” (about how if you don’t like your wife’s career as a stripper you should just leave and let her breathe) are the only ones with any musical spark, but the sung hooks are painful (Wyclef bellowing the hook from “Maneater”). Then Collipark comes back to say he has to outro the album himself cuz the Twins are missing, only this is followed by a song about how they’re gonna bust it open, and another about how they’re still here.

There HAS to be label/producer drama behind something this uninspired so soon after U.S.A., which was half great.

Cheri Oteri is totally giggling at Black Ty’s ineptitude at dispelling gay rumors by rapping lines like “Motherfuckers gettin’ high feelin’ flirty/ Dem down south boys they’re the craziest” (xpost)

If I have any shame about overrating Yet More Ghostface and a more backpackish Mobb Deep, its not because I’ve heard rap that’s more worthy of commendation this year.

yo hip-hop heads head-ups for

My Old Kentucky Blog: The Best Rap/Hip-Hop of 2006

http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-raphip-hop-of-2006.html

i remember the first time I heard “Dangerous” it was just the very end when the beat changes up for a few measures and it sounded really unexpected and awesome, hearing the actual whole song was pretty disappointing. i’m amazed they actually tried to launch an album with that as the single, i don’t think anybody liked it.

hell, even heard ABOUT rap that sounds more worthy.

x-post, not that that list changed anything.

i remember the first time I heard “Dangerous” it was just the very end when the beat changes up for a few measures and it sounded really unexpected and awesome, hearing the actual whole song was pretty disappointing.

yeah, the jump into “Black Betty” is the kind of whim that the album really needs more of.

And I ain’t laughin’ holmes
When Black Ty come on it’s like a danger zone

i keep forgetting to listen to that rhymefest album again...i liked it alright, i should give it another go...i liked it more than the lupe album, which didn’t age well for me.

im telling you, if you can still get into mid-90s nyc rap, the AZ album is fucking golden. “the format” is my rap single of the year.

yeah the Rhymefest album was pretty high on my year-end list when I first heard it, but I think I lost my copy and it wasn’t so great that I’m going to bother to get another copy or keep it on any lists on the basis of a handful of listens from months ago. but I just got the Lupe album pretty recently so it’s still sounding fresh to my ears.

thx max,

i keep forgetting abt that AZ album! i gotta get that.

i know no one will care since i was like the only person that liked Mos Def’s last album, but apparently he’s up for a grammy?! and he’s been working on an album that’s supposed to come out in january called Tru3 Magic.

I discovered g-funk via the Menace II Society soundtrack and I can’t get enough of it.

welcome to 1992

(not in like a mean way, in like, im still here too, so welcome)

to be fair the whole “Urban/Alternative” category is tailor made for bullshit noone likes like the last Mos Def album

welcome to 1992

i recently got the first bone thugs album. in highschool i was “above” listening to commercial/gangster rap, but that shit is so good. kicking myself now.

i heard that new mos def song...yuck.

xpost jaxon i was just bumping creepin’ on a come up! that fucking EP rules...i forgot how wierd those dudes were “will i die of muuuuurdah? of bloody muuuuuuurdah?”

Mos Def’s out 12.19, isn’t it?

“answering the musical question: what would it sound like if HR from Bad Brains got hella stoned, then mumbled a bunch of garbage over the Liquid Swords beat?”

bone thugz are fucking great, STILL. krazie’s verse on “ridin dirty” MADE that fuckin song. and NOTORIOUS THUGS is still one of biggie’s greatest tracks.

Fuck a Hot97 for not having show playlists on their site. Was anyone listening to Funkmaster Flex last night? There was something he played I really liked—it was right before he played the two Justin Timberlake singles back to back? I can’t say much else about it except that it sounded like a Southern rapper over a beat that didn’t sound Southern.

do you remember any words? the hook?

It was something I only heard the last minute of as I was getting in the car but the beat was fantastic.

just got a leak of the new nas.

wow. i can’t wait to hear what y’all think about “Who Killed It?”

nas is crazy as fuck.

mostly though, so far, this is great!

so far, this might be my fav nas since “it was written”

or “lost tapes” if that “counts”

I just listened to Rhymefest today and it’s great!

by great I mean fun and accomplished and diverse, it’s not like he’s T.I. or Chingo Bling or anything

i just DLed the new Nas too, but i’ve never really cared about him since Illmatic (which i bought on it’s first day in highschool—geez, hype has been strong even then)

and Snoop’s new one is kinda meh. decent but nothing amazing.

really what i’ve been listening to a lot is a slsk 12 cd comp of Jay Dee produced tracks called “Soulful Genius (Library of a Legend)”. there’s a Slum Village track called “Who We Are” that’s absolutely bonkers. i guess it’s on their “Prequel to a Classic” release which i have no idea what it is.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/43ppl6

listening to Thug Motivation 101 one last time before i delete it. this guy is laughably terrible

you mean 102?

The Lil Weezyana mixtape is one of my favourite things of the year. Best gay rapper alive!

Lil Wayne: gay rapper?

...or the gayest rapper?

no i mean 101. i like the first track, and go crazy, my hood, get ya mind right, trap or die. the rest is total crap. not even gonna bother with 102

yeah, i feel you, i didn’t really like the stuff on 101 either.

Hip Hop Is Dead is pretty good so far, but WTF is up with “Who Killed It”!? I have no idea what kind of voice Nas is trying to there but it’s more embarrassing than all the tracks with ‘Scarlett’ on Street’s Disciple put together.

similiarly, “the whirlwind of beef, I inhale it” makes me want to vomit more than any of the gross sex rhymes on the last album.

also Nas WHY OH WHY do we have to hear your wifey’s horrible horrible speaking voice on your albums? that shit is more nails-on-a-chalkboard than, well, her singing voice.

“Honey spreaded that asshole like a wide-mouth bass.”

so this’ll be his “retirement” album

im liking “hip hop is dead”; i had forgotten how good nas can be when he wants to. theres a lot less self-indulgence on this album it seems like. the track with jay is almost as good as i could have hoped.

Lil Crappy rhymes like a dude with his nipples pierced. Money in the bank is the best song on the album and it is lukewarm at best. This guy is a candidate to be the all time best wal mart greeter in the history of Wal mart.

no retards the mozart deathbed tragedy dunk is obvzly the best nike commercial evr— god

1111 11111111111111

remember on mick boogie (wayne & currency) dirty work 14 (the color of money) the spittin interludes where wayne speaks raps acapell & its real moving emotnlly. highly recommended. also theres that goofy inspector gadget beat under wayne frantic & sad recollecting with a spitter 16— therez a lot of gr8 “omg whut whoa” wayne verse on that record w/ mixed qual. non-spitter feat’rz.

111111111111111 1111

also—

bitch i’m so fuckin hot / i feel radiated // hoe i’m so fuckin fly / my eyes r aviators / i’m stuck at the top floor in the elevator / cuz i’m hah // dumb high // nigga i cld look into the suns eye

The rapping is a lot moving to me. Many hit the songs from Rakim have excited it and the dance has rendered me. I cannot imagine living without to play these impressive tracks of dry blow of the same stimulant in cold mine jeep.

J-Kwon has rendered it a lot tipsy with its cold song. Deej from ILX says to me approximately a lot, better tracks from the dirty south. Black people will play this music and this is the music that I will always play in order.

why is everyone so crazy about this plodding Juelz/Blaze bullshit?

I’d kill to have Juelz NOT on it with his “SO GLORIOUS...(uh)...VICTORIOUS” bullshit, but I’ll roll with Just Blaze as long he’s on the bombastic triumphalism thing.

CAUSE WE BORN WARRIORS, AL

new black sheep (really just dres) = best shit i heard so far this year

Ooh I wanna hear that, then. I used to love Black Sheep.

i’ve been saying that black sheep is good!

o-dub clowned me when i told him

i tried to search for where i mentioned it before but apparently some indie band released an album called ‘black sheep’ last year making it impossible to find anything :-/

any chi-ali cameos?

what, like c-murder jailhouse phone style??

or old acapellas from early 90s

high voicemail inspired memory/reading/freestyle blend how tech facility wrx when your flows are stacked or however youd put it, speed timeshifting with feeling yourself’s feelings, you cld almost take it as poetry or spoken word without any of the corny baggage. wayne’s on point never out of his element on fire & i spoze i understand why he half-feels jim jones & how he can pull that off w his resigned appreciation of whatever’s clever, working w fat joe crack & not giving a fuck about haters— tho i don’t rilly know much abt the region it seems like more thoughtful motherfuckers like bg aren’t so upset with him anymore even tho he got out of the hood w/baby before it got too hard (i remember that 2003 bg album with that heroin shootem up song and that “fuck you”-sample song, bg knowing already he’s out of the real jam)(it seems like wayne wasn’t as exposed to the harshness of those that akshully fell out with CM, eg lil turk/even juve, the unsure groundwork of his career back then despite his real maturity & already developed resigned sense of girl-loving social irony that he’s famous for (then utp partytime, now rodeo, getting more angst when he was on the slim track slow motion)& then the masses of folkz i don’t really know abt who are probably broke (even tho i don’t really know about any of that history. like i’ve never heard kilo-g or soulja rags, that dude from chicago only in 03 and, embarrassingly in 2004 i almost bought a pair of birdmans *:^/)

the dres track on the Handsome Boy M.S. album was probably the best thing on it (that or Jack Johnson!).

or maybe the Dating Game skit

what happened to mista lawnge

I saw BS at the Ottobar in like 2002 and it was both Dres and Mista Lawnge, pure nostalgia set but they ripped it. Dres sounded good on the “Where Are They Now” remix, not surprised that the new album is good but i dunno if i’ll get around to checking it out.

lol when i was at billboard awards summer 05 i ended up getting trashed on free drinks watching this weirdo reality tv group named fatty koo murdering like 3 songs & me and this crotchety old dude are sitting up at the bar bitching about all this wack bullshit nowadays & laughing at these fruity dorks up on stage & then the tribe called quest tribute starts and dude has to go up & give out an award and i realize its dres from black sheep

at the after-party that night lil mo asked me wasnt dancing & pulled me onto the dancefloor (nobody ever believes me on this one but im pretty she was e’d up or something)

no I always believed that story

lol @ the name fatty koo, btw

I saw BS at the Ottobar in like 2002

i missed that and the slick rick show goddamit

do u remember when m.o.p. played there lol

actually it was m.o.p. & cormega. apparently club “security” was shitting their pants that night

and now the rap shows are at sonar. the end.

yeah the Black Sheep show wasn’t too crowded or hectic but I’ve never seen the Ottobar staff more freaked out than at the big local rap showcase in ’05 where the Bossman/Mullyman beef jumped off. I guess when most of your clientele is 90 lb. indie rockers your security detail is easily shook.

is there where i admit i go to those free scion shows??? big daddy kane next week!!!

haha yeah there’ve been a few of those that I’ve been tempted to check out but haven’t — don’t you have to sign up for a mailing list or some other shady shit to get in?

why does every other city get big daddy kane and chicago gets talib kweli

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i saw both the raekwon and big daddy kane ones and they were great. crowd was proper fun non-indie rock/undie rap (read what you want into that) for the most part and sonar has the killer sound system anyway. they say you have sign up on the site to get on the list to get in but it turns out its not required. you just write your name and email at the door.

so i just wrote ned’s name and email

i signed up for the emails but the only emails i get are about upcoming free scion shows!!

lol @ herbs paradise

they also gave me a free stones throw comp mixed by jazzy jeff last time

where’s deej’s homey serg to warn us about the evils of ‘scion hop’?

busy posting to the sage francis personal ads forum?

see i didn’t even bother with a sage francis reference because I knew you’d take it there.

i just figured it was cuz you just sent him a beat cd

ts: evil “scion hop” show for free vs. c-rayz ballz/uggly duckling/mc paul barman for $20

I can’t tell you how disappointed I am that the weird animated banner ad of Sage Francis yelling that was on Pitchfork last week doesn’t seem to be there anymore.

scion shows, like most underground shows in atlanta, just seem to be full of 30-something dudes who moved down here from nyc in the mid 90s and miss the native tongues era

Al where is your scion wristband

lol @ herbs paradise

I don’t live in brooklyn

wtf does that even mean?? is anybody posting to this thread from bklyn?? i see bmore (realness) atl (realness) chi (lol)

ts: evil “scion hop” show for free vs. c-rayz ballz/uggly duckling/mc paul barman for $20

i’m sure scion has approached/sponsored at least 2 of those dudes before

xp who said i was trying to diss any of you? what else do you know about chicago

i like do or die & the dilla joint with common off the shining

isn’t twista from chicago

3. Love Jones

6. So Far to Go featuring Common and D’Angelo

10. Dime Piece featuring Dwele (Remix)

12. Won’t Do

^^^Favorite tracks on the shining

10. Dime Piece featuring Dwele (Remix)

^^^ this is smooth yeah

judging from who he dickrides twista is honorary southern

just like kanye represents ‘new york rap’

classic east coast jamz like B R right

classic southern shit like “Gotta Have It”

lol @ city w/o a sound

haha is this where the kids from baltimore get quiet

speaking of cities having a sound what do you think of black milk

www.myspace.com/blackmk

is that dude from br gunna? if so, fuck yeah

“kids”

ok i just looked dabryre guilty simpson rmx is :-0

seriously!

btw he was born in ’83

love when it drops into that nautilus loop

or fake nautilus loop? chopped nautilus loop?

i like that black milk stuff.

and what,

did you listen to the termanology/royce song up on xxlmag.com?

haha I found a gray hair in my beard last week but took no umbrage at being called a “kid”

i had written ‘dudes’ but decided to switch it up

Does anyone hate the Game as much as me? Every song is either just name-dropping over beats or an angsty love letter to Dr. Dre.

yeah I totally don’t buy the narrative that being a self-contradictory studio gangsta who can’t keep his story straight for two interviews in a row suddenly makes him a complex, fascinating character in spite of his subpar rapping.

the game needs a hug.

i like his single and everything.

i think he’s okay, based on what i’ve heard. i kept meaning to dl dr. advocate.

The “complex, fascinating contradictory character” argument makes his album seem way more boring than it actually is.

i like that song about turning the street into a strip club.

i like it because its basically a Dr. Dre tribute album, and I mean that in terms of the sound of the music, not the weak actual-tribute to Dr. Dre where the Game cries.

Its like a less-good Chronic 2001

but im still not sick of that fucking storch beat on “let’s ride”

I should listen to more than the singles I’ve heard. It’s just hard to get past every other word being some other rapper’s names and his pathetic whining about people who aren’t his friends anymore.

HEY CAPTAIN SAVE-A-SCIONS

http://www.scion.com/mix/dj_ayres.html

Bishop Lamont (middle)

Background information

Birth name Philip Martin

Origin Carson, California

Genre(s) West Coast hip hop

Gangsta rap

Occupation(s) Rapper

Years active 2004-present

Label(s) Aftermath/Interscope

Associated

acts Glasses Malone, G.A.G.E.

Website bishoplamont.com

The Reformation?? who is this . . .

dreams wz cool bt game’s real cool joints were on the shoulders of 50’s lyrical strength

bronxrap.com has a link to a sendspace of the new termanology mixtape, kinda exited!

deej otm, re: Game

I hate the Game like Nas hated Jay-Z

more hate than LL took from Kool Moe Dee

http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/the_game/advocate/why_hate.gme.txt

‘Pac is watchin’ B.I.G. is listenin’
While Pun talkin’ to us Jam Jay still spinnin’

Some time when I’m bored I need to tally Game refs and see which rapper’s dick he truly rides the most.

I’m still shocked the game doesn’t have a blog

allhiphop.com or some other site like that tallied all the references on The Documentary, I think it was posted on ILM at the time, but yeah it’d be interesting if someone updated it to include the new album and maybe his mixtapes.

(Big xp here but for a do or die fan you should really know twista’s style is all chicago. He even dissed bone thugs about it back in the days of silly midwest beef)

Anybody check out that OhWord ’50 incredible tracks’ shit? Some of those songs are pretty great and I’m glad to hear some of the shit I had missed, but some of the selections are weird and random and some seem really obvious next to the others. Like “Brownsville,” really? Thats like the opening track off MOP’s biggest album! And what rap nerds don’t know “Just a Friendly Game of Baseball” or “Reign of the Tec”? Its also really NY centric for the most part, with a few important exceptions courtesy Noz. On the whole its worth it if for the discovery of Mac Mall’s “My Opinion” alone

Thats my discovery of “My Opinion” obviously

also picked one of the most-blogged keak songs ever! Should have used some 3x Krazy or something

man this jeru song sucks (“Seinfeld”)

I’d never heard “2 Glock Nines” before, more proof that Biggie lines = best hooks ever

oh never mind re: brownsville, i thought it was the one from Warriorz

haha this Mack 10 song is kind of dope

http://www.ohword.com/blog/631/50-incredible-rap-songs-41-50

btw

Hmmm. Apparently a rumor went around this weekend that E-40 died.

Byron Hurt documentary for PBS, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” airing tonight Tuesday (at least in the DC area and maybe elsewhere) on “Independent Lens.” Yer usual folks offering comments in the doc: Michael Dyson, Kevin Powell and Chuck D. Maybe it will be worth checking out.

Anybody check out that OhWord ’50 incredible tracks’ shit?

just DLd this...pretty cool...got one of my fav tracks...“Kick the Ball” by Krown Rulers, an old school Philly crew...I have it on this weird philly old school comp that’s just fantastic, i posted a thread abt it on old ILM but didn’t get much notice.

new Black Sheep? wtf

that black sheep single from last year (“whodat”? i forget the name) was terrific.

xxxpost

It’s on late here (austin) but might check it out.

whatsup dudez— i engineered & recorded this trk a while ago— my partner Bee Dogg hollered the other day & i’m thinking of dropping joints 4 him when he gets out of jail (i didn’t produce this track— mine r generally more glossy and whatnot). he’s on some 2008 midwest delivery usually righter than this but it was just dropped in like 10 minutes or whatever and way undertuned but i lost the masters and all— herez Bee Dogg-AK’s We Spray . . . r u digging this? the chorus drags on a little but the childrenz & som dudez in nyc were . . . lyrically i think he’z fucking pretty good

herez an alternate link if my http daemon is a failure: bee dogg - akz we spray (higher bitrate, not normalized tho)