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]

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.)