so the album of the year is...

[Chamillitary Click]

i like the love Relapse is getting but it just doesn't fit into the conversation.

i'm as big of an Em fan as anybody & i let shit slid just because he's that dude; but i can't lie to myself & say it was album of the year.

all i can say is that i enjoyed it & those bonus tracks open some light & hope for a better Relapse 2.

for the record though, Xzibit444 made this thread & said "so the album of the year is...Padded Room & Escape Route. just sayin'".

it was more of a statement than a question for the rest of you.

[Blood$]

Is this retail official or just some mix/street tape?

it was a mixtape for free download... dope as fuck though

[BakinSodaFree]

Topic: so the album of the year is...


...one of the CunninLynguists albums.

Both of them is,, but if i had to choose, i go whit vol.2

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

between:

La Coka Nostra - A Brand You Can Trust
Tech N9ne - K.O.D
Slaughterhouse - Slaughterhouse

lmfao.

this is the only forum that i frequent where people actually enjoy budddens music

It's not that unusual.. sohh forums are bigger than dubcc & there's more Budden fans.. but he's also one of the most hated artists...

this is true, but even though most of you guys hate Budden, he has the biggest online fanbase in all of music.

his shit is on another level.

delusional much? he isn't a super star and no one outside of the internet can name more than one budden song that isnt pump it up.

who has more online fans?

Tech N9ne.  thats the reason he is the #1 independent rapper.

[Chamillitary Click]

between:

La Coka Nostra - A Brand You Can Trust
Tech N9ne - K.O.D
Slaughterhouse - Slaughterhouse

lmfao.

this is the only forum that i frequent where people actually enjoy budddens music

It's not that unusual.. sohh forums are bigger than dubcc & there's more Budden fans.. but he's also one of the most hated artists...

this is true, but even though most of you guys hate Budden, he has the biggest online fanbase in all of music.

his shit is on another level.

delusional much? he isn't a super star and no one outside of the internet can name more than one budden song that isnt pump it up.

who has more online fans?

Tech N9ne.  thats the reason he is the #1 independent rapper.

i dig the Slaughterhouse nomination.

that doesn't mean he has online support, he just has die-heart fans; it's more of a colt with Tech lol.

it's a fact, he brags about it all the time; it's no secret. although anything on this board relating to Joe Budden is just denied, ignored or discarded lol.

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

^^ if anything budden fans are more cult like.  and i dont mean cult as in cult following, i mean budden is the leader and most of his fans are the followers.  budden can do no wrong or put out a wack song/album.  he is like god to some of you people. 

and of course tech has online fans.  if youre the #1 independent you pretty much have to have online fans.  the only difference is that tech is known outside of the internet through word of mouth and shit load of touring. 

[Chamillitary Click]

^^ if anything budden fans are more cult like.  and i dont mean cult as in cult following, i mean budden is the leader and most of his fans are the followers.  budden can do no wrong or put out a wack song/album.  he is like god to some of you people. 

and of course tech has online fans.  if youre the #1 independent you pretty much have to have online fans.  the only difference is that tech is known outside of the internet through word of mouth and shit load of touring. 

i'm not saying Tech has no online fans; just Budden has more.

think about rap today, what are all the wack songs put out that get hate? basically just mainstream, autotuned, sell-out shit.

if a rapper you like and anticiapated dropped an album, chances are you're naturally going to like it.

anyway, if you look through old posts of mine (not telling you to) i have at least 25-30 posts shitting on Joe Budden, just like the rest of you.

then i actually took the time out to bump his music & here i stand today.

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

so youre assuming that just because you talked shit about buddens before giving him a chance that everyone else does the same?

believe it or not i gave budden many chances.  he just doesnt appeal to me at all and i dont get the fascination around him. to me, his voice is annoying and i could care less about what he is rapping about.  sure, some verses annoy me less than others...but overall i still think he is straight ass (especially when rapping alongside the likes of joel ortiz, crooked i, and royce).   

[Bananas]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/TCmEsh_uvoA" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/TCmEsh_uvoA</a>

You know me from spendin the loot
Also put rims on the coupe
Remember Duke I spin to shoot
I ain't here to kid to you
Skip a loose, get an ounce, flip a deuce, hit the stoop
Remember stupid I'm here to tell you that I'm living proof
CRIME PAYS!
I'm glad you hate, nigga go masterbate
Took my cap and gown bitches but I ain't graduate
CRIME PAYS!
What a vision to see
O.G. glisten and glee, sit in the V
Did it in three, homeboy listen to me

Crime pays
99 ways, 9 gauge, AK-47 homey hit the highway
Crime pays
I got a record company, liquor and clothing line
Cause my weed was fresh, coke was white, dope was dime


BIRD CAGE! That's what it's gonna be
3rd grade Mr. Massey asked us what we wanna be
Jeff said a lifeguard, Bobby said a firefighter
Jeff gonna have a Porsche and Bobby said he'll have a Spyder
David said police, Wanda said she wished to dance
They gonna get married, have a big crib in France
I started actin up, wait a minute back it up
This ain't math class but this shit ain't adding up
Then Mr. Massey looked and that's when the teacher asked
"You got a problem Cam" Yeah, I should teach this class
Maybe I'll reach they ass,
Tell em they don't need to have degrees in math
Know your credit, debit, plus receipts for cash
A few geeks had laughed, I told the dude stop your wishin
You won't have a pot to piss in with that damn job you gettin
Call Cam a gift, they wasn't understanding this
Damn I'm rich, a drug dealer turned out philanthropist

[Chamillitary Click]

so youre assuming that just because you talked shit about buddens before giving him a chance that everyone else does the same?

believe it or not i gave budden many chances.  he just doesnt appeal to me at all and i dont get the fascination around him. to me, his voice is annoying and i could care less about what he is rapping about.  sure, some verses annoy me less than others...but overall i still think he is straight ass (especially when rapping alongside the likes of joel ortiz, crooked i, and royce).   

well besides you, after saying that, yes.

90% of people i know only know Pump It Up.

you can have your opinion on him & i never said you had to agree with mine.

i dig what he says & i don't find his voice annoying & i feel he raps with more emotion than 95% of the game.

given that's my perspective of his music, why is everyone so astonished when i say i think he dropped the best music this year? not in a biased sense, but just liking his music; you clearly don't like his music so i wouldn't expect you to say anything positive.

[D1G1T4L]

i liked joe budden but his albums are depressing and not really my cup of a tea... slaughterhouse was cool.. tech n9ne was really good.. raekwon as well

[the ghost]

Kid Cudi- The more I listen to the album the better it gets.  He's not the dopest lyricist or anything like that but the songs on the album really told a story.  I found it very refreshing with all the guns and rims raps getting played.  That said I have not heard the Clipse album yet!

[Action!]

As of today my top ten list is looking like,

1. Reks More Grey Hairs
2. Slaughterhouse Self-titled
3. P.O.S Never Better
4. Kid Cudi End of the Day: Man on the Moon
5. Ebony Bones Bone of My Bones
6. 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct
7. Joe Budden Escape Route
8. Charles Hamilton This Perfect Life
9. Stat Quo The Great Depression

Honorable Mentions (as in I enjoy these releases but for some reason they don't get too many spins):
Marco Polo and Torae Double Barrel
Skyzoo The Salvation
Brother Ali US
Cam'ron Crime Pays
Outlandish Sound of a Rebel
Blame One Days Chashing Days
Exile radio

Too early to place:
Clipse Till the Casket Drops
Bishop Lamont & Indef Team America
Rakim The Seventh Seal


Favourite R&B Album
Maxwell Blacksummer'snight

Edit:
I had to add these because I'm big on these cats and respect'em for giving me quality free shit!

Top free tapes (mixtape/street tapes)
Stat Quo Checks & Balances
Lloyd Banks Top 5 or Better: Part 4 (4-30-09)
Bobby Creekwater B.C Era Deuce & The Day It All Made $ense
Rain American Dreaming Part 2
J. Cole The Warm Up
Drake So Far Gone
Taje Hot Box 3 (Hold Ya Breath)

[QuietTruth]

Favourite R&B Album
Maxwell Blacksummer'snight

Yes, oh my God, that shit is pure fire. And the 'Pretty Wings' single is heavy. FUCKIN' PROPZ for name dropping that!!

[Action!]

Favourite R&B Album
Maxwell Blacksummer'snight

Yes, oh my God, that shit is pure fire. And the 'Pretty Wings' single is heavy. FUCKIN' PROPZ for name dropping that!!

Easily one of my favorite releases this year.  It makes my top ten list of music for 2009.