Quote Originally Posted by amat View Post
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.