Canonical Hip Hop Albums of 2005

this is why 2005 can't have nice things.

Beanie Sigel - The B.Coming
DJ Quik - Trauma

cant decide

definitely forgot a few things but whatever...listening to Thug Motivation right now and thinking, this is "canonical"

man thats a rough list tho

man i feel like that mike jones album was released in '03 or something

Three 6
Slim Thug
Little Brother
Twista
Black Rob

didn't make the cut

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II

followed by jeezy, common and kanye then probably sigel and bun b

yeah i was gonna ask about that slim thug- best tracks on that could stack up with a lot of the best stuff off of any of these

oh and Tony Yayo lol and whoever else came out on Gunit that year

black rob, slim thug and three 6 >>>>>>>>the cookbook. paul wall.

Pimp C - The Sweet James Jones Story

^how is this?

I like Already Platinum a lot but it definitely feels like a misstep now...Neptunes was just kind of an odd choice and there's no doubt that the album would have been much stronger if he had just kept it Houston/"Southern" sounding...maybe should have put it in though

AMAZING xpost

the number of times i've downloaded what i thought was II trill: 5
the number of times it was the same .rar of snippets: 5

I like Already Platinum a lot but it definitely feels like a misstep now...Neptunes was just kind of an odd choice and there's no doubt that the album would have been much stronger if he had just kept it Houston/"Southern" sounding...maybe should have put it in though

-- Preview of the Matrix 12, Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:57 AM (Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:57 AM) Bookmark Link

Yeah, about half that album is great. About half that album is just totally whatever, tho.

Rap albums from '05 I still listen to: Common, Jeezy, 36M. I would have picked Common at the time and I'm not going to second guess myself now.

Paul Wall with Beanie close behind

WARES WE GOT IT 4 CHEAp 2 LAWLZ COKE

Actually, to be fair, I didn't pick up the 36M album until late-06 during the Tower meltdown.

TI, AZ, boyz n da hood

i thought whiney would be all pro-Edan

dom would vote john cena

ethan votes grandmasters

dk votes cormega

xhuxk votes ying yang twinz

no one votes will smith lol

TI didn't put out an album that year, if I'm not mistaken. Urban Legend = '04; King = '06. I suppose there's the P$C abum (is it worth hearing?)

odub doesnt vote for but makes 30 blog posts about jin

my bad yeah urban legend was '04

Paul Wall with Beanie close behind

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Peedi Crakk with Beanie close behind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gcpR8yZdn8

Oh, fuck! That Ying Yang Twins album is great. I might have voted for that.

Shit!!! WG4C 2 came out in 05

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/407/598750vz6.jpg

also I left out a five mic album from Lil Kim

Al votes for Cassidy

Webbie's savage life was '05

geto boys foundation was 05

royce da 5'9 had a good album in '05

I suppose there's the P$C abum (is it worth hearing?)

-- The Reverend, Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:08 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

FUC YEAH

like a movie is all-time classic material

wheres boyz n da hood?

I probably like Late Registration most but I'm voting for Tha Carter II since I still like it more than any of the overrated Weezy mixtapes since then.

the Lil Kim album was not worth 5 mics but still not bad, might be my fav that hasn't been mentioned yet. Cassidy's album that year was good, too. (lol deej xpost)

b.g. had 'heart of tha streetz'

If Most Knowns didnt Foundation shouldnt have made it... this isn't every single album released in 05 with a rapper on it

man stfu preview of the newjack 12 you dont know dick about rap and think that jeezy >> 3-6 and geto boys

xxxxpost Alright Ethan, I'll check that out.

Don't really care about that Kim album, but "Shut Up Bitch" was an awesome single.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000B66PIY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

this whole thread is a BIG AUDIO MISTAKE dog

xp: ^^^Currently in my car stereo. I have no idea why I didn't think of it.

more so-so album honorable mentions: Fat Joe, Sheek Louch, Ludacris Presents...Disturbing Tha Peace (<<< still think this is pretty dope for a label comp), YoungBloodZ, Biggie Duets, and I'll get the Ebony Eyez shout-out in before Ethan drops his usual lazy zing

http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=229

pretty lol

got purp is good

that juelz album has like 3-4 tracks

the 5 rap city "freestyles" on dailymotion/youtube> most anything he's recorded

I HAVE A JUELZ SANTANA QUOTE AS MY SCREEN NAME ON ILM

NOW THAT'S POWERFUL

AY

j0rdan you're all over the place, get it together man

he's terry cloth

?????

to deej

lolling at cam rape joeks, talking about 5 diff juelz youtubes, etc

opinions4u are what these threads thrive on but these are like. shrug?

man im just saying that i rarely like cam's flow on songs and that juelz is better spitting a verse at a time than doing a whole song and that i like his "freestyles" over famous beats better than a lot of shit he has recorded

not like i've heard dip immunity 2 or from me to u, just saying

here's a video of me singing along to my favorite rappers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T6ivsoBsRdg

i.e. juelz + cam over "damn"- i posted this on couplets thread

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/juelz%2Bsantana%2Brap%2Bcity/video/x4a0tl_bet-rap-city-freestyles-juelz-santa_music

in a highly surprising move, i'm voting for beanie : )

no one's scarfhood game is touching his either stop swagger jacking

http://traffickingmedia.com/index.php?id=372

Be just might be the best hip-hop album of the 2000s.

in a highly surprising move, i'm voting for beanie : )

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha i had you pegged for royce

i didn't see him on the poll though! but i would have probably if he were on it.

but you know, quasi-east coast style semi popular kinda thuggy but kinda lyrical dudes are my siren song.

i haven't heard grandmasters or cormega i bet i would love those too.

Oh and the studio version of "The Food" is like 100000X better than the live version. It sounds better, isn't censored, and has an extra verse.

ysi?

It sounds less raw, who cares, and has an extra zzzzzzzz verse.

And has less energy.

The Gza/Muggs album is kind of flat in a way I won't attempt to describe without listening to it again.

"Love is" is prob the best track on Be, but "The Corner" is still my (totally obv) favorite.

The Gza/Muggs album is kind of flat in a way I won't attempt to describe without listening to it again.

-- The Reverend, Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:31 PM

whaat

started to make a poll out of all the rap albums mentioned in this thread from 05, then got lazy

DANGER DOOM

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

lol rly?? xp

Tough call - who knew Canonical put out so many albums in '05?

wont be tough to vote for worst jokes of 08!

One tries :\

http://ohsnap.ytmnd.com/

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeahh

Can a brother get an Uncelsior?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

sheesh

4s >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 7s

evidence of 77 entering the collective subconscious

Ha!

i never voted cuz I couldn't decide between Jeezy and Kanye

i think these results are fair

i wanna listen to all these albums now

in retrospect the answer is Jeezy

The risks to ethan's health/sanity notwithstanding, I wouldn't mind seeing a few more polls like this one.

Well this is chuck dawg
Will you ever love another bitch?
Fuck naw
What's your position on a snitch homie?
Fuck law
They say the Beatles was the biggest
Nigga fuck Paul, and the rest of y'all

let's pick another year in this thread and put together the nominations list here, so that when the next thread starts people don't have to use most of it bitching about what wasn't included. 2004? 2006? some 90s year?

i'd still like to see yall do this w/ singles (obv pairing down would be harder, maybe use the egotrip lists if you're doing like way back). also 90s plz.

I think nominations for the 00s polls will be more interesting and open to debate - ego trip's got the 90s more or less covered..

for singles the rub's 'history of hip hop' mixes might help as a starting point
http://www.itstherub.com/radio.htm

a little ny parochial, esp. in the early 90s, but what are ya gonna do