2007 albums, how did you rate them outta 5?

[7 Syns]

2007 in review, dow did you rate the material dropped?

2007 in review (thus far), albums you listened to and rated.

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the rating system
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0 = trash, absolute waste of time and cd.
1 = lowest mark, borderline garbage.
2 = eh. listened to it once, i'll pass.
3 = half decent, might cop it.
4 = nice, well rounded.
5 = it's tha shit man!

n/a = haven't listened to it.
1/2 = halves can be included if you aren't totally satisfied a full number is justified.

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the albums (if it's not listed and you listened to it, simply add it:thumb
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Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
Jay-Z - American Gangster
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
Redman - Red Gone Wild
Cilvaringz - I
Beanie Sigel - The Solution
Scarface - Made
Statik Selektah - Spell My Name Right
Jeru Da Damaja - Still Rising
Cassidy - B.A.R.S.
Young Buck - Buck The World
UGK - Underground Kingz
Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale
Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar
Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory
Little Brother - The Getback
Talib Kweli - Eardrum
50 Cent - Curtis
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Kanye West - Graduation
Common - Finding Forever
Styles P - Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman)
Cunninlynguists - Dirty Acres
Hell Razah - Renaissance Child
Freeway - Free At Last
KRS-One & Marley Marl - Hip-Hop Lives
Fabolous - From Nothin' to Somethin
T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P.
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Smif N Wessun - The Album
Army of the Pharoahs - Ritual of Battle
Prince Ali - Curb Side Service
Havoc - The Kush
Soulstice - Dead Letter Perfect
Twista - Adrenaline Rush 2007
Strong Arm Steady - Deep Hearted
Killah Priest - The Offering
Swizz Beatz - One Man Band Man
Boot Camp Clik - Casualties Of War
Sharkey & C-Rayz Walz Are... - Monster Maker
Keith Murray - Rapp-Murr-Phobia
Camp Lo - Black Hollywood
Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. 4: Back To The Future
Pastor Troy - Tool Musiq
Poison Pen - Pick Your Poison: The Mark Of The East
Canibus - For Whom The Beat Tolls
Mistah F.A.B. - The Baydestrian
DJ Jazzy Jeff - Return Of The Magnificent
Marco Polo - Port Authority
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
Zion I - Street Legends
The Dogg Pound - Dogg Chit
Evidence - The Weatherman
8Ball & MJG - Ridin' High
Black Milk - Popular Demand
Consequence - Don't Quit Your Day Job!
Apathy - Baptism By Fire
K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns For Disco
MC Eiht - Representin'
Ultramagnetic MC's - The Best Kept Secret
Molemen - Killing Fields
X Clan - Return From Mecca
Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation
Domingo - The Most Underrated
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Strength & Loyalty
Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance
A+ - My Last Good Deed
Big Shug - Street Champ

what an effort finding and remembering half of these.

peac3.

 

[linx]

My personal favorites are Pharoahe Monch's "Desire", Killah Priest
s "The Offering", Common's "Finding Forever", Evidence
s "The Weatherman", Little Brother's "Getback", Hell Razah's "Renaissance Child" and SoulStice's "Dead Letter Perfect".

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Jay-Z - American Gangster - 4/5
Redman - Red Gone Wild 3/5
Cilvaringz - I 3/5
Cassidy - B.A.R.S. 3/5
Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory 3/5
Talib Kweli - Eardrum 2/5
50 Cent - Curtis 2/5
Pharoahe Monch - Desire 3/5
Kanye West - Graduation 3/5
Fabolous - From Nothin' to Somethin 2/5
T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P. 3/5
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens 5/5
Canibus - For Whom The Beat Tolls 2/5
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth 5/5
Evidence - The Weatherman 2/5
Consequence - Don't Quit Your Day Job! 2/5
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Strength & Loyalty 3/5

 

[masta247]

Smif N Wessun's was my favorite I think but I'm too lazy to rate others.
I would give it like 3.5-4/5

 

[Casey]

my favorite hip-hop album of 2007 isn't on your list. for originality, melody, flow, catchiness, great production and vocals, will.i.am's "songs about girls" is my favorite release this year.

 

[Rahim]

nu mixx vol. 2 - 3/5 i guess?

 

[Preach]

my favorite hip-hop album of 2007 isn't on your list. for originality, melody, flow, catchiness, great production and vocals, will.i.am's "songs about girls" is my favorite release this year.

this could spawn a huge semantical debate so please please use your good side here, but arguably that album isn't as much hiphop as it is pop or even rock. lol. you get what i mean, nothing about that album makes me think graffiti, breakdancing and vinyls. i think about the dukes of hazzard, expensive wines and colorful painted pictures.

it's a cool album though

 

[Preach]

off top:

Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams 3/5
Jay-Z - American Gangster 2/5
Pharoahe Monch - Desire 3.5/5
Kanye West - Graduation 3/5
Common - Finding Forever 4/5
Hell Razah - Renaissance Child 3.5/5
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead 4/5
Army of the Pharoahs - Ritual of Battle 3/5
Killah Priest - The Offering 4/5
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth 2.5/5
The Dogg Pound - Dogg Chit 1/5

 

[masta247]

oh I forgot! J.Wells & Kurupt 4.9/5 this year

 

[Casey]

this could spawn a huge semantical debate so please please use your good side here, but arguably that album isn't as much hiphop as it is pop or even rock. lol. you get what i mean, nothing about that album makes me think graffiti, breakdancing and vinyls. i think about the dukes of hazzard, expensive wines and colorful painted pictures.

it's a cool album though

don't become a part of the militant traditionalist brigade.

hip-hop has always thrived on originality when the artists are twisting genres. the beastie boys and cypress hill are arguably more rock than hip-hop. afrika bambaata is arguably more dance and electro. The Chronic & Doggystyle are most certainly more funk than anything else. And what about 'Pac? All Eyez On Me is a pop record and there's no two ways about that. Does anything on AEOM make you think of graffiti, breakdancing and vinyl?????

Yes, "Songs About Girls" is a commercial record, and unashamedly so. It's a commercial hip-hop record.

It's also very original, incredibly well produced and stands out from any other (for lack of a better word) urban release this year, no matter how many underground heads want to slate it whilst listening to songs that are all between 80 and 90BPM with a 2-bar drum pattern on loop, 50-bar verses, no choruses or musical change-ups, and "clever" metaphors in every bar whilst actually saying nothing at all.

See, the difference between will and those traditionalist cats is that will can make traditional, boom-bap beats n rhymes hip-hop if he wants to. hell, check out his "must be 21" album that had cats like KRS, Supernatural, Phife Dawg, Planet Asia and Tash on it. or the one before that, "lost change".

other cats that stay making that traditionalist stuff could never make a record like "songs about girls". no way in hell.

 

[Preach]

before reading your entire post (only had time for the first paragraph right now) i just wanna say that i don't consider aeom traditional hiphop shit and i dont consider doggystyle traditional hiphop shit. chronic though, i do. i don't think that album's more funk than hiphop. the way the mixing sounds on that album, and the drums, is rugged to me. also the fact that he sampled shit on that album. for pac, only his pre-matw shit is real rugged hiphop shit like that.

we're getting into a corny discussion here but you get what i mean. elements of hiphop, emceeing, freestyling, battles, i don't connect the album to any of the things that i connect hiphop to. and the very same goes for, for example, aeom.

will read more and respond more thoroughly later.

 

[Bacho]

oh I forgot! J.Wells & Kurupt 4.9/5 this year

4.9 out of 5? Are you related to Jordan some how?

"99 percent change I won't come out of retirement"

 

[ARon]

I'm still digesting it all.

 

[hizzle?]

Jay-Z - American Gangster 2/5

Redman - Red Gone Wild 4/5

UGK - Underground Kingz 3/5

Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale 4/5

Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory 5/5

Talib Kweli - Eardrum 4.5/5

50 Cent - Curtis 0/5 worst piece of fucking shit ever

Kanye West - Graduation 4.5/5

Common - Finding Forever 4/5

Cunninlynguists - Dirty Acres 4/5

Fabolous - From Nothin' to Somethin 4/5

T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P. 3/5

Army of the Pharoahs - Ritual of Battle 3/5

Keith Murray - Rapp-Murr-Phobia 3.5/5

Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. 4: Back To The Future 3.5/5

Canibus - For Whom The Beat Tolls 3.5/5

The Dogg Pound - Dogg Chit 3/5

K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns For Disco 4/5

Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation 4/5

Bone Thugs N Harmony - Strength & Loyalty 3.5/5

 

[hizzle?]

oh I forgot! J.Wells & Kurupt 4.9/5 this year

Yeah that was a great album!!!!!!! It went fairly unnoticed though. Amazing. I give it 4.5/5 though.

Cham's album was the best by far this year.

 

[Confucius87]

Jay-Z - American Gangster - 4/4.5
Fabolous - From Nothin' To Somethin' - 3.5
T.I. - T.I. v.s. T.I.P. - 2.5/3
Cassidy - B.A.R.S. - 3/3.5

 

[7 Syns]

like this,

Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams = 3.5/5
Jay-Z - American Gangster = 4/5
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab = 4/5
Redman - Red Gone Wild = 4/5
Cilvaringz - I = 4.5/5
Beanie Sigel - The Solution = 3/5
Scarface - Made = 3.5/5
Statik Selektah - Spell My Name Right = 4/5
Jeru Da Damaja - Still Rising = 3.5/5
Cassidy - B.A.R.S. = 3.5/5
Young Buck - Buck The World = 3.5/5
UGK - Underground Kingz = 3.5/5
Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale = 3.5/5
Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar = 4.5/5
Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory = 3.5/5
Little Brother - The Getback = 4.5/5
Talib Kweli - Eardrum = 4.5/5
50 Cent - Curtis = 2.5/5
Pharoahe Monch - Desire = 5/5
Kanye West - Graduation = 3/5
Common - Finding Forever = 4/5
Styles P - Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) = 2.5/5
Cunninlynguists - Dirty Acres = 4.5/5
Hell Razah - Renaissance Child = 3.5/5
Freeway - Free At Last = 4/5
KRS-One & Marley Marl - Hip-Hop Lives = 3.5/5
Fabolous - From Nothin' to Somethin = 2.5/5
T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P. = 2.5./5
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead = 3.5/5
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens = 5/5
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass = 3/5
Smif N Wessun - The Album = 3.5/5
Army of the Pharoahs - Ritual of Battle = 3.5/5
Prince Ali - Curb Side Service = 4/5
Havoc - The Kush = 2.5/5
Soulstice - Dead Letter Perfect = 4/5
Twista - Adrenaline Rush 2007 = 3/5
Strong Arm Steady - Deep Hearted = 3/5
Killah Priest - The Offering = 4/5
Swizz Beatz - One Man Band Man = 2/5
Boot Camp Clik - Casualties Of War = 3.5/5
Sharkey & C-Rayz Walz Are... - Monster Maker = 3.5/5
Keith Murray - Rapp-Murr-Phobia = 3.5/5
Camp Lo - Black Hollywood = 3/5
Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. 4: Back To The Future = 4/5
Pastor Troy - Tool Musiq = 2/5
Poison Pen - Pick Your Poison: The Mark Of The East = 3/5
Canibus - For Whom The Beat Tolls = 3/5
Mistah F.A.B. - The Baydestrian = 2.5/5
DJ Jazzy Jeff - Return Of The Magnificent = 4/5
Marco Polo - Port Authority = 4/5
Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth = 4/5
Prodigy - Return Of The Mac = 2.5/5
Zion I - Street Legends = 3.5/5
The Dogg Pound - Dogg Chit = 2/5
Evidence - The Weatherman = 3.5/5
8Ball & MJG - Ridin' High = 3/5
Black Milk - Popular Demand = 4/5
Consequence - Don't Quit Your Day Job! = 4/5
Apathy - Baptism By Fire = 3/5
K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns For Disco = 4.5/5
MC Eiht - Representin' = 3/5
Ultramagnetic MC's - The Best Kept Secret = 3/5
Molemen - Killing Fields = 3.5/5
X Clan - Return From Mecca = 3.5/5
Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation = 3.5/5
Domingo - The Most Underrated = 3.5/5
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Strength & Loyalty = 3/5
Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance = 3.5/5
A+ - My Last Good Deed = 3/5
Big Shug - Street Champ = 2.5/5
Hi-Tek - Hi-Teknology 3 = 4/5

like that,

peac3.

 

[Euphanasia]

Killah Priest "The Offering" - 3.5/5
Talib Kweli "Ear Drum" - 3/5
Young Buck "Buck the World" - 4.5/5
Kanye West "Graduation" - 4.5/5
Jay Z "American Gangster" - 3.5/5
Fabolous "From Nothin' to Somethin'" - 2.5/5

 

[linx]

Desire + The Offering > Everything.

 

[_carmi]

Jay-Z - American Gangster 4/5
Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory 5/5
50 Cent - Curtis 1/5
Kanye West - Graduation 4/5
DJ Jazzy Jeff - Return Of The Magnificent 3/5
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Strength & Loyalty 5/5