
That’s why Lupe gets my #1 spot, and I’ll gladly review all three of those albums. Why release three CDs at once when you could stay in the game for three more years? But I think that all the questions will be answered at the end of this year when LupE.N.D. I don’t even think that’s been done in Hip-Hop (Eightball’s Lost doesn’t count)! Yeah, a lot of people have complained, wanting Lupe to stay in the game. I don’t know why, but Lupe’s next project facinates me: three CDs in one album is definitely ambitious to say the very least. So far, Eminem hasn’t released a dud track off this, so I’m gonna have to put him at #2. That right there is what makes a great album buzz and keeps the public wanting more before you hit them with the hot fire. “Crack a Bottle” is too hot, that freestyle he did was hot, and it just keeps me wanting more and more. He’s hungrier than ever and ready to take the game. That, along with all the extra songs he’s been doing ( “Go Hard (remix)”, “Brookyn Anthem”, “Brooklyn We Go Hard”, etc.), I feel like BP3 will be the album that Hov gets rid of the #45 jersey and puts the #23 back on.Įm has been out of the game for 5 years now. “Jockin Jay-Z” to me was just okay, but it was “History” that made me a believer that Jay was really gonna go hard this time. That’s why Drake gets the #4 spot.īeing a huge Jay-Z fan, you’d think that he’d be higher on this list, but I can’t lie, I’m excited about BP3. Anyone who’s heard Comeback Season knows what I’m talking about. Even though he still hasn’t made that first step to releasing a commercial album, Drake is already sounding like a veteran on some of the tracks that he’s put out. I know some of you out there already have, but come on, give Dre one more year!ĭrake, after grinding hard in the mixtape game and churning out 100’s of songs like another famous rapper, is now set to release his first studio album this year. I will say that if it doesn’t come out this year, I’m giving it up. While I’m almost 100% certain that this entire album will be a banger, I can’t be sure it’s coming out this year. Detox should be pretty much perfect by now, and I just can’t wait! But I know that it’s not a definite that Detox is coming out. Oh, and as a disclaimer, my top five albums is different from the other staff’s. But I’m sure y’all already knew about the hits coming out this year: it’s time for me to count down my top five anticipated albums of the year. No wonder he’s already trying to distract us by talking about his next one.Well, the awards are over, and it looks like 2009 should be great musically: you got Hov, Slim Shady, the return of Dre, 50, the Notorious soundtrack, Ludacris’ Theatre of the Mind 2, Kanye West, Drake, Common, Lupe Fiasco…I could go on and on.

Too bad he comes off as rap’s Fat Elvis on the rest of the album.

The only truly Hov-worthy track is grandiose NYC ode Empire State Of Mind, which almost makes us believe Jay-Z’s self-positioning as rap’s Frank Sinatra. Take the trudging radio single Run This Town, where Rihanna’s nasal hook saws painfully through the beat like a dentist’s drill, or any of Timbaland’s half-hearted contributions. This glaring inconsistency is the least of BP3’s missteps. On Hate, a few tracks earlier, Jay and Kanye trade some hot verses over a beat built on robot vocals. Hudson auto-croons Alphaville’s 80s hit Forever Young on mid-life-crisisesque Young Forever. A dozen tracks after D.O.A., bleach-headed Kanye protegé Mr.
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(Death Of Auto-Tune), the pitch-correction software is alive and well even on this record. Despite Jay-Z’s resolute declaration of Auto-Tune’s death on The Blueprint 3’s lead single, D.O.A.
