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]

Actually, Tom, although it's 2005, I'd bet heavily that you'd like "The Mind of Mannie Fresh", it's an amazing album full of that kinda late 90s Cash Money fetishizing with the best album-running set of skits I've ever heard (Mannie Fresh is trying to do an album for the laydeez, every time he leaves the room Lil Wayne gets on the mic and starts rapping about stabbing prostitutes in the eye).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

How good is Lil Wayne generally? I like what I've heard, I love a solo track called 'Earthquake' I think, I love the track he did with Trina (her album might count actually! only released in the UK this year; it's no Diamond Princess but what is; 'I Gotta' and 'Don't Trip' and 'Da Club' are all ace).

Lil Kim released 'Whoa' as a single this year too, and it's INC-RED-I-BLE.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Remy Ma ft Lil Wayne, Trina, Papoose, and Jae Millz- "Conceited". If you don't like that I'll be shook.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOHHH. I love her own 'Conceited', got an mp3 of this rmx?

Remy Ma's album is not so great though. Still, "who's that lookin' in my window? NOBODY COS I LIVE IN A PENTHOUSE" is one of the best lines this year.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I might have to get this - I've got 'Real Big' and it's one of the best things I've heard this year...