Dec 5, 2018

@Sav Stanfield

"Em decided to double down on what made 2010’s Recovery so awful; hoarse and off-beat screaming about farts and r--- over instrumentals that sound ripped straight out of a Disney movie, with a handful of completely incompatible pop singers thrown in for good measure."

Such a perfect summary of what's wrong with Recovery Eminem and really just Eminem in general since relapse

This album is overproduced sellout garbage with no taste in approach to musicality or really any aspect of enjoyment

3/10 worst album of his career, only reason it's not a 1 or 2 is because Arose castle and believe

Just trash, embarassing trash


EDIT: btw arose is overrated to f--- on here and really Castle is too, these are not some god tier songs omggg atleazt Em delivered 2 GOAT trackz! No they're just good and better than this other s---. These are songs a good artist should have like 7-8 of on a regular size record

 

Dec 5, 2018

Revival is one of the worst albums i've ever heard in my life, this is the album that made me lose respect for eminem. Never have i heard an album i felt ashamed to listen to by myself.

People praise believe even tho the flow is so trash its not enjoyable to listen to, chloreseptic is obnoxiously bad. The bad songs are worse than the bad songs on encore, this album is really a joke and it makes me mad even thinking about it.

Album is a piece of s--- from the album cover, to eminem losing his personality and being a parody of himself, bad hooks, terrible beats, bad flow and voice.

3/10

 

Nov 30, 2018

Best Nelly album ever. So many dope songs on this, actually I'm glad you picked this album and reminded me how dope it was. I'm gonna listen to it tomorrow. Aside from very popular singles like Hot in Here and Dilemma, I always loved Nellyville, Oh Nelly, Air Force Ones and specially Rock The Mic (Remix) a lot. Before 2003 or 04 I was listenin' to the singles and popular rap hits only. In 2002, my dad bought both Nellyville and The Eminem Show. I was so in love with TES that I kinda slept on this album for sometime but after a year or 2 this album was one of the albums that helped me realize rap is actually my fav genre. Even though, it may seem like I kinda underrate it, I think this is a classic album. 8/10

 

Nov 28, 2018

8/10

I've grown to love TLOP more with time enough tho I don't even know which versions of songs are which, nevertheless there is something so chaotic about this project that was endearing to me. The rollout was a blast to follow with the messy live-streaming and Ye's shape shifting title changes, it clearly reflected that TLOP was an amalgamation of ideas--both good and downright awful--that makes this so unlike his other projects.

Kanye's work has always been bringing in other creative talents into his own imagination and all these features were fantastic, it had Chance's most iconic feature and it even churned out a #1 hit out of Desiigner. What's so weird about this d--- album was how much Ye's writing peaked and plummeted so many times, more or less signified the enigmatic personality Kanye has become in recent times. That's what I love about his career, it's like a yearbook with each album marking a period of his extraordinary mindset and the soundscape of rap music.

 

Nov 28, 2018

lol two years later and this site still hasn't come around on this masterpiece smfh

 

Nov 27, 2018

If you think Ether is better than Takeover I don't trust anything else you have to say about hip-hop.

 

Nov 26, 2018

10/10

I'd rate this higher if I could, honestly everyone's blurbs nailed it (@Buddha @Winter bodied them phew). But to echo what's already been said, it's Jay displaying the versatility and charisma that made him the generational great that was leading up to his crowning moment on The Blueprint. Very few albums have ever made the industry do an entire 180 degree turn sonically nor have they resurrected a career (Nas) while simultaneously end another (Mobb Deep).

Besides this virtuoso performance from Jay, it's Kanye & Just Blaze (shoutout Bink! as well) that contribute to the other half of why this album is so legendary. I'm a sucker for soulful beats and this album still sounds so timeless to me, another big reason why is Guru's incredible mixing on it--you can play this on any poverty sound system and it'll still b---. Altogether this is my favorite rap album from one of my all time favorite rappers.

 

Nov 25, 2018

ASTROWORLD gets a 7/10 from 10 ratings

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RATING 6: Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Release Date: 11 September 2001
Label: Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella



Tracklist:

01. The Ruler's Back
02. Takeover
03. Izzo (H.O.V.A)
04. Girls, Girls, Girls
05. Jigga That n-----
06. U Don't Know
07. Hola Hovita
08. Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)
09. Never Change
10. Song Cry
11. All I Need
12. Renegade ft. Eminem
13. Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)
14. Breath Easy (Lyrical Exercise) (Bonus)
15. Girls, Girls, Girls, Pt. 2 (Bonus)

When I was about 11 or 12 years old a friend made a CD for me with a bunch of rap songs on it. I still remember the first two songs on it, which were Ether and Takeover. A while later, Blueprint and Stillmatic became the first rap albums I ever owned. While the allure of Stillmatic has faded a little over the years (still a brilliant album), The Blueprint has only gotten better with time, especially given how it pretty much revolutionised the entire sound of rap. And Hov himself? In my humble opinion, at the absolute peak of his game. I think he came close on The Black Album (obviously RD is also up there), but never managed to top The Blueprint. And with good reason: its pretty much flawless. I give it a perfect 10/10.

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Nov 18, 2018

Black Panther: The Album gets a 6.7/10 based off 9 ratings

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RATING 3: The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Release Date: 25 March 1997
Label: Bad Boy/Arista



Tracklist:

Disc 1:
01. Life After Death (Intro)
02. Somebody’s Gotta Die
03. Hypnotize
04. Kick in the Door
05. f--- You Tonight ft. R. Kelly
06. Last Day ft. The Lox
07. I Love the Dough ft. Jay-Z & Angela Winbush
08. What’s Beef?
09. B.I.G. (Interlude)
10. Mo Money Mo Problems ft. Mase & Puff Daddy
11. n----s Bleed
12. I Got A Story To Tell

Disc 2:
01. Notorious Thugs ft. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
02. Miss U ft. 112
03. Another ft. Lil Kim
04. Going Back to Cali
05. Ten Crack Commandments
06. Playa Hater
07. Nasty Boy
08. Sky’s the Limit ft. 112
09. The World Is Filled… ft. Too Short, Puff Daddy & Carl Thomas
10. My Downfall ft. DMC
11. Long Kiss Goodnight
12. You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)

Arguably the best double rap album and without a doubt the best posthumous rap album ever released. I think the cover art gives a perfect glimpse into the music; dark, morose, ghostly. But there’s so much more once you start digging into these 24 tracks. Undeniable, all-time classic. 10/10.

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Nov 16, 2018

Get Rich or Die Tryin’ gets an 8.8/10 based off 20 ratings

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RATING 2: Kendrick Lamar & TDE - Black Panther: The Album
Release Date: 9 February 2018
Label: Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope



Tracklist:

01. Black Panther - Kendrick Lamar
02. All The Stars - Kendrick Lamar & SZA
03. X - Schoolboy Q, 2 Chainz & Saudi
04. The Ways - Khalid & Swae Lee
05. Opps - Vince Staples & Yungen Blakrok
06. I Am - Jorja Smith
07. Paramedic! - SOB X RBE
08. Bloody Waters - Ab-Soul, Anderson .Paak & James Blake
09. King’s Dead - Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar & Future
10. Redemption (Interlude)
11. Redemption - Zacari & Babes Wodumo
12. Seasons - Mozzy, Sjava & Reason
13. Big Shot - Kendrick Lamar & Travis Scott
14. Pray for Me - The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar

This remains one of my personal favorite releases of the year. Most soundtracks tend to come off as disjointed or just over-the-top (ahem, Creed 2), but this is actually a really good, well thought-out collection of songs. I like how Kendrick threads himself through the whole project, it gives the album a sense of continuity and brings all the diverse sounds together. Plus, there’s a bunch of South Africans on here and its amazing for me to hear them keeping up with all these big names. There’s a few songs that don’t work but overall one of the best soundtracks in recent memory tbh.

7.5/10

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Nov 14, 2018

8/10

50 was at the peak of his powers and Dre and the rest of the producers gave him exactly the platform he needed to show them off. Runs a bit too long, but holds up really well considering how of it’s time it was.

 

Jan 18, 2020

lol thanks m8s, I'm always worried about making a horrible grammar mistake or something. I can express some simple things obviously but I love speaking and writing in my langage about music, films and politics so much that it's always painful for me to... dumb things down, to extremely simplify what I'd like to say. Thanks again though (and keep these reviews going, it's a cool thread)

 

Jan 18, 2020

yeah hello my english is too bad to write in lengths about this but this is clearly a classic, 10/10 album, and nobody could have predicted it before it dropped

 

Jan 16, 2020

We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service: 10/10

I’m not sure how much more I can add on after my brudda brudda @Winter, in usual fashion, dropped a scintillating summary of ATCQ’s glorious return. With Phife’s tragic passing, there’s additional emotional weight & value to what was happening throughout this special album. I mean, considering those circumstances and the fact we even got a Tribe album after so many years, it makes this project feel so monumental. It’s one of those pieces of music that exceeded expectations in light of whatever innermost thoughts of doubt we as a collective group of fans had—how many times have we seen it happen with other long-awaited releases? Q-Tip behind the boards is ageless, this sounds exactly how a Tribe album would sound in the 21st century, all credit to him for bringing in together all these components to create one of the best music experiences of my lifetime.

 

Jan 16, 2020

Arguably the greatest comeback in rap history. 16 years since their last album, and even longer since they were on good terms, Tribe reunited like absolutely nothing had happened and dropped one of the best albums in their already near perfect discography. Q-Tip has never really aged and performs exactly as well as you’d expect him to, and Jarobi, who finally got to rap on a Tribe album, spits like he was there the whole time. But the real star of the album is Phife, who sounds absolutely ecstatic to be back rapping with his old group again and turns in one of the absolute best performances of his career. His death obviously hangs over the album from beginning to end, turning what was conceived as a triumphant return into a bittersweet farewell, and leads to some of the most powerful moments I’ve ever encountered on a rap album (Tip channeling Phife on Black Spasmodic, the entirety of Lost Somebody and The Donald), but in spite of the loss that underlined the album, it always feels like the same Tribe that made People’s Instinctive Travels. Everything comes together, Busta and Cons both rap like they haven’t in a while, it’s 1994 again. I’ve been trying to avoid giving decimal scores up to this point, but a 9 is too low. 9.5/10

 

Jan 11, 2020

Cilvia Demo: 8.5/10

Some albums perfectly encapsulate a certain mood. Some of them make you remember a particular atmosphere, perhaps a snapshot of what was happening around you. Cilvia Demo, is basically that long drive to some place distant in the winter, your windows are foggy as s--- and your demeanor is as nippy as the conditions outside.

Isaiah is unique as a rapper within TDE, his flows are unconventional while bringing a southern perspective that doesn't sounds so out of place with Black Hippy's entire aesthetic. Once you peel back the layers of this album, you're left with a brutal honesty that internally resonates with you, after all we as humans battle with depression/anxiety on a daily basis. Cilvia Demo however, gives those cold feelings a color to that aura.

 

Jan 11, 2020

oh s--- almost forgot @RateThisAlbum

 

Jan 8, 2020

It's more fun to see divided opinions, more interesting discussion comes out like in this case. Of course when it gets out of hand, that's where we do have to draw the line, which is where I'm curious if you guys pick an Em album next (please do!)