Comments | golden_buddha: Hip-Hop Albums to pick up.

golden_buddha

Hip-Hop Albums to pick up.

Dec 14, 2005 01:05

Slum Village (self-titled album).
Theodore Unit - 718
Saigon - Best Story Never Told
Jin - The Emcee's Properganda

Elhzi from Slum Village is arguably the best rapper I have ever heard. Seriously.

Uh... man. I hate updates like this but this is all I am willing to speak about at the moment.

I'm not looking forward to going to the doctor's office

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marumake December 14 2005, 15:15:52 UTC

Saigon gets my respect for 2 reasons. 1 is pretty obvious and the other is because he was on Entourage.

Jin... eh.

Slum Village... what the fuck.

I don't think I know anything by Theodore Unit.

golden_buddha December 14 2005, 17:33:29 UTC

Don't sleep on Slum Village! Their new album is really good, seriously.

Jin's new album is OK. He's done away with his gimmick, but he's become one of those dudes that make a lot of songs "whining" about how hip hop is dying and all that bullshit. But he's got some nice songs on there. It's worth it.

Theodore Unit got slept on in 2004. Ghostface's group and stuff.

marumake December 14 2005, 18:33:52 UTC

"but he's become one of those dudes that make a lot of songs "whining" about how hip hop is dying and all that bullshit." <-- yep, why I don't like Jin all that much. Instead of whining, do something about it.

doctor_claw December 15 2005, 13:58:15 UTC

The fatal flaw of "underground" MCs -- it's one thing to call the current mainstream music wack (which it IS -- when ish like "Laffy Taffy" gets spins outside of goofy/party settings, and 50mania/Interscope has taken overexposure to new heights)...and it's another to say the music is dying all together. While it's been completely generalized in the mainstream by the industry and all you get to see for the most part is studio gangstas and booty music (compared to 15 years back where you had "clean" rap, gangstas, booty music, political/conscious rap, battle raps all in the spotlight, and people were more apt to pick and choose -- this is mostly because record labels didn't know what to do with "scary" rap artists)...it's far from being dead. You may have to look away from MTV and BET to see that though ( ... )

doctor_claw December 14 2005, 16:48:58 UTC

Elzhi is great. He and J Dilla should just unite for an entire album.

His piece on Little Brother's The Minstrel Show is not to be missed.

Theodore Unit was cool, too -- though, some of those Ghost songs SHOULD have been on The Pretty Toney album.

golden_buddha December 14 2005, 17:33:42 UTC

Definitely agree with you there.

rubedo December 15 2005, 21:08:08 UTC

Off topic, but dude. Sup. I've been having connection issues and stuff.

rubedo December 15 2005, 21:08:43 UTC

Basically just wanted to say \\m//

illbehaved December 15 2005, 21:18:06 UTC

ilu hideeoh. <3