Beanie Sigel's The B. Coming

I'm kinda of mad at how much they fumbled the release (coulda been out months ago maybe before he got locked up, and they put out too many singles without any concentrated effort on any one of them), and it's pretty short at 13 tracks (with 2 super old bonus tracks that I never want to hear at the end of the disc). but it's a good album anyway.

It's probably because of the fumbled release that so few people have been talking about it. The Roc has a bad track record for promoting anything other than Jay-Z. Even College Dropout...Kanye worked relentlessly promoting that thing himself.

yeah, the whole Def Jam/Roc and Roc 4 Life thing is a mess. but Beanie managed to debut at #3 on the charts anyway.

It's still all about 'bread and butter' for me.

That, 'talk of new york' and the remix of Saigon's 'the letter p' with Kool G. Rap are my picks for best hip hop tracks of the year thus far.

Part of why this album is good is that it's only 13 tracks as oppossed to the 20 tracks (8-11 of which are hot) + 7 skits that make up the average modern rap album.

Best album to drop on The Roc since the first Diplomats double cd.