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

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Albumwise, TI, Juvenile, and Bubba Sparxxx are all hot. The Lupe Fiasco album is good if you found Paul Barman a little too ghetto. You know "Stay Fly" already if I remember right... the Sway album is _good_ if not as great as his mixtapes (yeah, the modern rapper's curse), avoid his remix of "LDN" but most of his other beatjacks this year have been good to great. Tanya Morgan are great in a jazzy woozy not-really-hip-hop way. Album of the year is Boss Hog Barbarians' "Every Hog Has Its Day", but that ain't poptimism ("Fuck a 40 ounce, your crew'll be pouring out whole kegs of brew")

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Oh, and rap single of the year is still "Snook Svett Och Tårar", Swedish 93-era rapping over Northern Soul horns.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Bubba Sparxxx? Really? I was looking forward to it but the single was just...so meh.

I am aware that Lupe Fiasco is TOTALLY NERDY but I love his album and cannot help it. But I am a total sucker for that opulent sample-heavy Kanye-sound.

Oh yeah, Spank Rock, of course, though I have returned to the album less than I thought I would and probably prefer Amanda Blank.

UFFIE OF COURSE

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Which single, "Ms New Booty"? After "Deliverance" went triple-wood, he wanted a really bandwagon hopping chart-aimed track to lead off this album. S'not representative of the album at all, and it's one of only two bad tracks on it (the other's the one with Ray J talking about how ABORTION IS TEH BAD). Download "The Otherside" and "While The Rims Spin".

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah 'Ms New Booty'. I think I downloaded a version with Ying Yang Twins AND Sean Paul on it and it was still underwhelming. What are the beats like on the album?

(Perennial failing in listening to hip-hop - I only listen to the beats and the arrangements for like three months, and then the lyrics hook me in. Or not. But it doesn't ever seem to matter. I've never got into a hip-hop track lyrics-first.)