Hip-Hop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Like a hedgehog shaking itself awake after the long winter, the part of my brain marked "Liking Hip-Hop" awoke from dormancy over the weekend, and now I want to know what I've been missing out on. Anyone want to fill me in on the best tracks of '06 so far?

ALSO - Now 65 is out in a week or two, so today's Jop poll may be a NOW poll (or may not exist, dependent on how much work I have). We've polled all the songs on it before, obviously.

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Conceited seconded

Some of these are old, but Rick Ross 'Hustlin', Young Jeezy 'Trap Star', 334 Mobb 'Chevy 4 door', Juvenile 'Get Your Hustle On'.

The Jedi Mind Tricks album is great, nostalgic horror-core in a gravediggaz stylee; Lupe Fiasco album is a bit dull and worthy sounding but 'Mean & Vicious' and some other bits of the 'revenge of the nerds' mixtape are awesome; some of the E-40 album is good; the Ghostface album is hugely overrated.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Yeah both the big TI singles are HUGE: 'what you know', 'why you wanna'

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I can't stand that Lupe Fiasco song that has Jill Scott burbling away over the SAME BETA BAND/I MONSTER SAMPLE that has been used a grillion times over.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That one is pretty boring yes, but 'Kick Push' and 'The Instrumental' and 'Cool' and 'He Say She Say' and 'American Terrorist' are all very very good indeed!