Comments on: Top 10 Most Disappointing Albums: 2009

By: True

True — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:02:27 +0000

Wow, a lot of artists make bad hip hop music but Rakim is not one of the, wow wow wow. 7th Seal is a good album, who the hell listens to Rakim lps for beats. In 2020 you will be able to listen to 7th Seal and know what 2009 was like, it’s a good reflection of that year. I thought Satisfaction Guaranteed was one of the best displays of lyricism last year.

“Is he Moses or drugs? Either way it’s a profit (prophet)” And I loved the grown maturity on the lp but I can cee how it would sound foreign to some who need ear candy and to be entertained. Rakim isn’t one of the most serious hip hop artist ever though, he aint no joke, he doesn’t try to make hits, just hip hop and with his own label doesn’t need to be paying for producers that charge an arm leg leg arm head. The god doing his thang on some La Schmoove ish and my hat goes off to him.

yall buggin’, however I still think this site is doper than many hip hop sites I’ve come across.

By: Kid Captain Coolout

Kid Captain Coolout — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:43:00 +0000

When compared to the Diamond District album, which is as dope, as plain and as simple as it can get… there’s a huge amount of albums that fall short of expectations. I definitely think Rakim has been overrated for way too long. He’s the same lyricist he was when he first came out and his style has gone stale. I think BP3 was a pretty good album for Jigga to try pleasing everybody. And I liked 3 of the songs off The Clipse’s album so much, that i deleted all of the rest of them.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:23:55 +0000

Royce is “somewhat but not all the time” garbage.

i know alot of you are probably not very pleased with my comment, but its true. Royce has always KILLED features (Losing Out for example) but proven that his solo releases arent exactly amazing. He is at best Good, or OK. alot of people dont really take note to what the message is behind the lyrics. Now, to give a counterpoint – i DIDNT listen to the entire thing yet, because of school and whatnot…but from what i heard from Royce (besides Part Of Me….which is amazing) is as said before – OK at best. to add onto that, Yes, i will admit that he has given some good songs in the past, but for the most part….nah.

and on that note…Slaughterhouse is not really a good album either. but many thanks to Kev and the crew for putting the sample set together. It just seemed like the entire album was bragging about how good the crew is gonna be. which they really werent.

listen to the Show & A.G. Experience: Live Hard album, and compare it to what you heard on street hop. Live Hard is Hip Hop with an actual relevant message to the community. Street Hop and Slaughterhouse is not.

-Chris

By: Legitimate

Legitimate — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:42:07 +0000

Though “Chemical Warfare” had its weak moments, I’ve been bumpin “Therapy” and “Calmly Smoke” for a while. And for Slaughterhouse, individual songs? Hype. Coherent album? Nope.

By: FUHNAHTIK

FUHNAHTIK — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:09:49 +0000

I think we all agree on Rakim & Busta … Slaughterhouse to me is still a stretch (I read the above comments but really, it was a dope effort and the start of a movement), I think Jada’s album was a disappointment, and in all honesty I didn’t like the Clipse album either but I’m not a fan of them in general so take that as you will.

Royce album was disappointing at first but after listening a few more times I’m listing it as dope, too many great tracks. The skits are irritating because they’re stuck on the intros to songs.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:49:00 +0000

I think BP3 was a grower. Plus it helped that i had like no anticipation after the timbo joints got leaked. To me like half of it was dope and the other half was average to poor (forever young is supreme trash as are hate and off that). That said stuff like DOA, Thank You and Already Home were good. I dont think it deserves to be in best or worst of lists.

By: Jigsaw

Jigsaw — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:52:55 +0000

Oh an Em…

By: airyeezy

airyeezy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:52:29 +0000

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By: Jigsaw

Jigsaw — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:51:50 +0000

Wifey been getting at me about how much she likes it but BP3 was an ugly but strong second to Rakim’s 7th Seal as the most disappointing of ’09. The last time the god MC & HOVA dropped shit in the same year was ’96 and the fall off was as steep as the years were long.

Jada shit was hot & shouldn’t be on anybodies list however I’m still stuck on stupid; Rakim & Jay-Z put out garbage in the same year. “Holy Are You” & “Empire State of Mind (27 & counting)” are incredible singles that should be constant reminders to their respective camps that they owe us more!!!

By: GREATPAID

GREATPAID — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:39:26 +0000

YOUR STRAIGHT TRIPPING ON THIS LIST WOW

By: LEX

LEX — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:51:36 +0000

Back on my BS & Relapse were definitely my top 2.

By: David

David — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:12:07 +0000

also, Rakim was disappointing for sure, but anyone who remembers ‘The Master’ (a so-so record if you go back a listen), shouldn’t be overly shocked.

By: David

David — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:08:52 +0000

Save for a couple a couple obvious radio grabs, Royce definitely showed he has skills with the best of them, but he had way too many guests…and the guests were wack. It was disappointing for sure, but not for the reason I would’ve expected.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:45:20 +0000

Relapse is one of those hate or love albums….kinda like Nas’s joint last year. People either loved it or thought it was trash.

By: Psymun

Psymun — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:43:55 +0000

relapse is so dope! i’m confused!

By: midwizz

midwizz — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:31:19 +0000

all I can say is that Guru’s album made me cry, seriously.

By: Sir Nigel

Sir Nigel — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:05:31 +0000

i though the Delightful Bars was dope. production was bananas. and Pooh came right. but there were too many features.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:26:24 +0000

@Victor I think chemistry is a problem when they don’t know each other well enough to trust that fact that maybe Royce and Budden sound good over this type of track and not all four of them. IMO can’t just throw people together and think it will work right away. There are exceptions to every rule…not in this case IMO.

I thought the beats on SH album were a good fit for them. I didn’t have a problem with the beat selection. I do think Joey A&R the project because it sounded like a Joey album.

I didn’t mind Part of Me or Shake This on the album as they were dope songs. The album just didn’t flow smoothly all the way through. It had too many dope cuts for me to put on a disappointing list tho. I still supported and still rock it tho.

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:15:15 +0000

There was nothing wrong with the bars on the SH lp nor the chemistry imo. The main issue was the fact they always had all four of them on every track which made it plod a bit. Another issue was that for some reason minus the standout cuts (sound off, microphone, not tonight, the one) the beats felt hollow to me. I dunno how some of them made it on and a track like woodstock didnt make the cut.

I think Street Hop had toooo many dope cuts on it. I think the issue was we’d heard a fair number of them for a long time. Tracks like Shake This, Part of Me and Warriors are among the best of Royce’s career.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:00:12 +0000

Fat Joe’s joint was HORRIBLE. His last two album were decent. This album had one dope cut “Music.”

I agree with Justin that the SH album isn’t cohesive. It lacked a certain chemistry, however I expected that as the emcee’s just starting working with each other. I expect a more cohesive album next go around. With that said I think it is one of the better albums I heard this year off of the lyrics alone. All four did their thing. Joell mos def for me.