-Lil. Wayne-

[amat]

Hov straight up doesn't have a weak album. He doesn't, you can call Vol. 1 not a real sequel to Reasonable Doubt, that's fair and true but it's still a pretty great album. Kingdom Come same thing, OK even I wasn't that hot on it after the first listen but he was trying something a little different with minority report and beach chair and both of those songs grew on me and I now consider them favorites. Not typical Jay Z but I love both especially Minority Report.

Blueprint 3 was fucking sick. I don't agree that those are the only guys with hot albums, in fact I really wasn't so hot on Relapse at all and Lupe is too fuckn weird sometimes.

Jadakiss seriously went under the radar but The Last Kiss is second to only BP3 imo.

Saigon is NUTS, Saigon had hands down, no doubt the best BARS of 2009 so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjusecl97cY

'Rip open your chest and rhyme to your heartbeat'

[JazMerkin]

Hov straight up doesn't have a weak album. He doesn't, you can call Vol. 1 not a real sequel to Reasonable Doubt, that's fair and true but it's still a pretty great album. Kingdom Come same thing, OK even I wasn't that hot on it after the first listen but he was trying something a little different with minority report and beach chair and both of those songs grew on me and I now consider them favorites. Not typical Jay Z but I love both especially Minority Report.

Blueprint 3 was fucking sick. I don't agree that those are the only guys with hot albums, in fact I really wasn't so hot on Relapse at all and Lupe is too fuckn weird sometimes.

Jadakiss seriously went under the radar but The Last Kiss is second to only BP3 imo.

Saigon is NUTS, Saigon had hands down, no doubt the best BARS of 2009 so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjusecl97cY

'Rip open your chest and rhyme to your heartbeat'

I thought Blueprint 3 was a slightly above average album at best. Had a few good songs, I thought it was alright, but I preferred both Kingdom Come & American Gangster. I do think he has one weak album, I always thought Vol. 2 was just a really poor album, had maybe 1 or 2 good tunes.

I definitely rate Relapse higher, I think Beautiful is the best song of the year so far & Lupe's last album was the best body of the work by any artist in the past few years for me. He's lyrically going to places that no-one other than Nas would. Kanye was doing a bit till he went all weird on his last album.

Yeah, forgot about Jada, although I prefer Styles P, I think he goes way harder. I actually think Wale is alright still & Kid Cudi's album was impressive as an entire album, purely from a storytelling pov. Don't think Saigon has the hardest bars of the year though, I think Em on the Drake - Forever remix is for me right now.

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There's also Raekwon who just released a great album Only Built For Cuban Linx II which stayed very true to the original. I do think Saigon is spitting the hardest right now and I just have never liked Em's subject matter and IDK, his last was very meh. I really could shoot myself next time I hear a song about his mom or daughter. I used to be a huge Joe Budden fan but after a while it's like you rap about your depression so much I think I have it now. I still like Budden but yeah. Kind of the same reason I got soured on Little Brother, too much complaining please don't link a cause to every song on my playlist, thanks. Maybe that's ignorant.

Kid Cudi I didn't listen to.

BPIII was fire, every single song is top notch on that one quotable after quotable. American Gangster there's an argument that's the best rap album of all time imo, Kingdom Come I definitely didn't prefer to Blueprint III.

Vol. 2 was sick! I like both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 because he tried new sounds and gave different sounds. The diversity on both of those albums is great and really from a number of different perspectives that was a great album (Vol. 2.) A Week Ago, Hard Knock Life, Coming of Age 2 are all pretty much undisputable classics but also on that album Nigga What, Who is TERRIBLY underrated. You can go through Jigga's ENTIRE catalog and there isn't another song where he raps quite like that. Over the past few years the only thing I had bad to say about Jay Z is that he really doesn't change up his delivery anymore, this track was a classic example of how changing up deliveries prevent an album from going stale. This was a single, waaay overlooked much better imo then the Blueprint singles or lots of others for that matter.

Same thing with Resovoir Dogs which being a big LOX fan and a bigger Jay Z fan, this track was nice. Again it's overlooked because it doesn't have a hook, beat is a little stripped down but I still love this one, everyone goes hard on it biggest surprise Sauce actually rips it the best imo. Sauce is the highlight of the song. Another very underrated track. Money Aint A Thang - This could be added to the classics imo.

I think what soured people to this album was the same thing that used to take away from the Scarface albums, too many people on features. Even though none of the guys he got as features are really bad, it just makes it hard to call it Jay Z's best album when it's not all his. Still, there is definietly more then 1 or 2 tracks to listen to there, even if your not just listening for Hova.