Review: 4 out of 5
Best Song: Hip Hop Saved My Life
Yes, I know this review is seven months late but let me explain. The Cool came out sometime in December and when I first heard it I had no clue what the hell was going on for the majority of the songs, so I said I would let it sink in. Fastforward seven month’s later, after listening to the album for the last few months, I still pretty much have no clue what’s going on. But I do like how it sounds. Now check the breakdown. Read more
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0oy2RNZZbU] Yall already know YoRapper named Lupe Fiasco’s Hip Hop Saved My Life the Best song of 2007. This is exactly how I envisioned the video, though you can tell it was done on a budget.
Based on inside sources, Fat Joe is likely to do around 60,000 units for his album Elephant in the Room this week. This is actually damn good for an independent artist and I think proves the beef with 50 Cent and Papoose only helped to increase sales. Also I’ve been told, Rick Ross is going […]
I never thought rappers I looked up to would ever become disgruntled like the broke ass old school rappers of yesteryear. I guess when your album’s trash, your street cred annihilated by Jay-Z, and you happen to be 4 feet tall, life sucks. Rapper Prodigy from the oh so infamous Mobb Deep, decides to post another blog today in the hopes of stirring up more controversy on the internetz and sucking every last drop of fame he once had from the masses. Here’s an excerpt from Webster’s diary (note the caps lock held down),
I haven’t done an album review in a hot minute, simply because all the albums that have come out have not been worth writing about and I hate to do forced reviews. I tried to review the Wu album, but only got half way through before I deleted the album. I also got half way through the UGK album, but that only means I made it passed disc 1. But what has their been? Read more
If you haven’t noticed thug rappers have been on the decline since 2003 since 50 Cent saturated the gangster rap genre, ultimately turning off many rap fans. This change in public opinion, if you will, opened the flood gates for a new genre of rap, we’ll call suburban rap. This new genre, spear headed of course by Kanye West, Pharrell, and later Lupe Fiasco, catered directly to suburban kids. Now before we go any further let’s take a second to categorize the typical suburban kid in 2008, which is radically different from the “suburban white kid” hip hop was so against in the 80s and 90s. Read more
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What you don’t see in these clips is that Tavis Smiley introduced Lupe as a Latino rapper. WTF.
2007 was a pretty sick year for hip hop, aside from record sales. We got a Common album, a Kanye album, Lupe album, Jay-Z album, Joe Budden mixtape, Talib album, Styles album…So it was a nice year for the music artistically. Though we also got a Soulja Boy album, maybe that balances everything out. The […]
