outkast

[Annabelle 0]

really quite a fabulous album. this will totally alienate rap fans. but for fans of music, this is really an experimental jam. big boi still does his thing, but andre 3000 has gone beyond his prince fascination. now its all funkadelic complete with his own maggot brain jam (a bad note). in accordance with the movie, they superficially explore many different styles one would deduce is from the 30's, ect. while a tad offputting, it allows for a fresh & adventurous reinvigoration for the group. andre's tracks are filled with slight guitar riffs that underscore their more gentle rhymes. no hard beats in this; conversly its a truly lightweight & mature outing from the boys. noteworthy tracks include the train, hollywood divorce, and the aforementioned a bad note.

 

of course i am usually totally off base when it comes to experimental rap albums. electric cirus (which i loved) was panned, while phrenology was lauded. i don't get how it works.

 

notice how rap has supplied most of the year's best albums? ah huh.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

This year has been one of the worst years for Hip Hop, as far as albums have gone in my opinion.

 

Haven't heard the full CD of Idlewood yet, but most reviews I've read have been dissapointing.

[Annabelle 0]

This year has been one of the worst years for Hip Hop, as far as albums have done in my opinion.

 

Haven't heard the full CD of Idlewood yet, but most reviews I've read have been dissapointing.

 

please retire from posting in this thread.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

This year has been one of the worst years for Hip Hop, as far as albums have done in my opinion.

 

Haven't heard the full CD of Idlewood yet, but most reviews I've read have been dissapointing.

 

please retire from posting in this thread.

 

Or else what? Are you going to tell your mommy on me?

[Jorge Gorgeous 0]

This year has been one of the worst years for Hip Hop, as far as albums have done in my opinion.

 

Haven't heard the full CD of Idlewood yet, but most reviews I've read have been dissapointing.

 

please retire from posting in this thread.

 

I gotta agree on this being sort of a down year. I usually like radio rap, and I give it a listen every once in a while to see if theres anything worth listening to... this year has been fucking awful for radio rap. As far as indie hip hop goes, I've been getting sort of bored with it... jazz infusion can only go so far. I would love to be proven wrong on this, by the way, please reccomend some good hip hop thats come out this year. (Stuff I've already checked out - Mobb Deep, T.I. , E-40, Ghostface) <- this isn't really what I meant by the bad rap... I enjoyed all that stuff, I've just already checked it out.

 

Also, the three tracks I've heard off Idlewild (Morris Brown, Hollywood Divorce, Idlewild Blues) have been kinda lackluster... I didn't dig on them and I love Outkast.

[Black Lushus 0]

I'm not a huge fan of the experimenting Outkast has been doing since and during Stankonia...they need to get back to the Aquemini days.

[Ripper 0]

I have become a bigger fan since they started experimenting with music. I loved the love below and speaker box, stankonia and I will probably love this album.

[Black Lushus 0]

I tried with Speakerboxxx/Love Below, I just couldn't handle it...Big Boi isn't impressive enough to go it alone, not without Dre complimenting him...and that weirdness on Love Below, I dunno, it's just not anything that interests me.

[CheesalaIsGood 0]

Andre needs to dump Big Boi asap. Then he can just let his weirdness flow.

[Annabelle 0]

noteworthy rap albums this year?

 

i guess i need to support my argument

 

e40 - my ghetto report card

t.i. - king

ghostface - fishscale

rick ross - port of miami

rhymefest - blue collar

outkast - idlewild

cam'rom - killa season

j dilla - donuts (not really rap, i guess) ->the shining wasn't too bad, either

spankrock - yoyoyoyoyo

lupe fiasco - food & liquor

 

all of these have been noteworthy to me. some on different levels. and its not as much me saying this has been a booming year from rap, just saying that there have been several albums that have surpassed anything rock, pop, ect have produced this year.

[Special K 0]

Rock this year has been terrible.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

noteworthy rap albums this year?

 

i guess i need to support my argument

 

e40 - my ghetto report card

t.i. - king

rick ross - port of miami

cam'rom - killa season

 

Your opinion is irrelevent.

[Annabelle 0]

Rock this year has been terrible.

 

i know. so my statement lies just in much that music this year hasn't been all that great as rap has had a few gems. by no means is it 1996.

[FroGG_NeaL 0]

noteworthy rap albums this year?

 

i guess i need to support my argument

 

e40 - my ghetto report card

t.i. - king

ghostface - fishscale

rick ross - port of miami

rhymefest - blue collar

outkast - idlewild

cam'rom - killa season

j dilla - donuts (not really rap, i guess) ->the shining wasn't too bad, either

spankrock - yoyoyoyoyo

lupe fiasco - food & liquor

 

all of these have been noteworthy to me. some on different levels. and its not as much me saying this has been a booming year from rap, just saying that there have been several albums that have surpassed anything rock, pop, ect have produced this year.

 

 

Those in bold I will agree with, and throw Obie Trice - Second Rounds On Me in there, for sure.

[Annabelle 0]

did you even hear the spankrock & e40 albums?

[FroGG_NeaL 0]

I've heard the E-40 album, and I liked it. I wouldn't put it on a best of the year so far list, though.

 

I honestly haven't heard the Spankrock album.

 

I'm downloading it right now to check out.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

Here's what I think the best albums this year has been...

 

Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange

Ice Cube - Laugh Now, Cry Later

Bronze Nazareth - The Great Migration

Zion I - Break A Dawn

The Roots - Game Theory

Vakill - Worst Fears Confirmed

Ghostface - Fishscales

Rhymefest - Blue Collar

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Obie Trice - 2nd Rounds on Me

Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liqour(advance)

Juvenile - Reality Check

Chino XL - Poison Pen

 

Although I said it has been a bad year for Hip Hop, alot of good CD's have come out. I should've re-worded it to mainstream hip hop has sucked this year.

 

I'm suppose to be getting a copy of the new Method CD, and all the tracks I heard from it before have been fire. It should make my list.

[Guest Felonies!]

If your name is "The Cunninlynguists," you're not the best at anything.

 

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

This album is only a figment of an autistic boy's imagination, so it doesn't count

[Gary Floyd 0]

Czech: Quit posting in hip hop threads. You just make them worse. We get it, you hate hip hop. Now stop it. It's not like I rip on Arcade Fire all the time.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

If your name is "The Cunninlynguists," you're not the best at anything.

 

Cunninlynguists >>>> Rock and Roll

[Annabelle 0]

If your name is "The Cunninlynguists," you're not the best at anything.

 

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

This album is only a figment of an autistic boy's imagination, so it doesn't count

 

seriously. stop. you come across as such a dunce.

[Jorge Gorgeous 0]

If your name is "The Cunninlynguists," you're not the best at anything.

 

Cunninlynguists >>>> Rock and Roll

 

I love the CunninLynguists but I thought A Piece of Strange was subpar. I liked the production on Will Rap 4 Food much, much more.

[Guest Felonies!]

If your name is "The Cunninlynguists," you're not the best at anything.

 

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

This album is only a figment of an autistic boy's imagination, so it doesn't count

 

seriously. stop. you come across as such a dunce.

Good thing I didn't point out what a dumb name "Gnarls Barkley" is

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

If your name is "The Cunninlynguists," you're not the best at anything.

 

Cunninlynguists >>>> Rock and Roll

 

I love the CunninLynguists but I thought A Piece of Strange was subpar. I liked the production on Will Rap 4 Food much, much more.

 

I thought it wasn't as good as Will Rap 4 Food, but it was still one of the best CD's I heard this year. Certainly better then crap from T.I. and Rick Ross.

[snuffbox 0]

The Roots - Game Theory...could be the cd of the year.

[Gary Floyd 0]

I'm going with Ghostface Killah's "Fishscale"

[Ripper 0]

It august...You name 13 hip hop albums from this year that you think were great.....and we are in month 8.

 

How exactly has it been a bad year for hip hop?

[Special K 0]

St. Elsewhere is great.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

It august...You name 13 hip hop albums from this year that you think were great.....and we are in month 8.

 

How exactly has it been a bad year for hip hop?

 

I later rebuttal my opinion and said the it's been good for underground hip hop, but a bad year for mainstream hip hop.

[Annabelle 0]

rap is rap. stop with your little genres. jeez.