Hip-hop 2002 - Search and Destroy

I'm guessing Nelly will be at least partially relegated to the "that was so three months ago" file when the new Jay-Z comes out. But a double CD? Uhoh.

Anything Edan-creative as f*** big daddy kane era beats
Trick daddy single-in da wind
j-zone
the two new gang starr joints-skillz & the natural are good
el-p fan dam
missy elliot -work it
look for the new roots when it drops

depends what you like
the underground is pretty stale
too many fans copying styles putting out middle school bitch poetry
the pop shit is blowing away the underground in terms of pushing
and innovation
but i would rather tell you why i don't like alot of the releases
but to each his/her own i respect that

Party!

However, I would not touch Nelly with a twelve inch bargepole covered in wee, so no worries there.

+ Clipse and Missy singles

also got DJ Shadow's 'superchunk' mix from back in the Summer in which he does his typical classy stuff, at the end blending APC's 'Ghost Lawns' with Radiohead's 'Idioteque' and then into Boards Of Canada's '1969' - niiiice

my brother is going to start buying hip hop albums (he's 16) and he's gonna buy Nelly first. I'll try to stop him.

I bought that Scarface yesterday. Worth it for the packaging alone. Download "Guess Who's Back" (THAT BASSLINE!!), "Someday" (obligatory Neptunes joint) and "My Block" (if you haven't heard it).

what are the other 2 like? i'm off to paris in a couple of weeks so i need to get ahold of this stuff.

i've got high hopes for mr flash's "signal to noise" LP

check out da new flava from the man in black mr will "fffffffreshhhhh prince" smith rocking up all the joints dis side of tha thames

you get me

hey who ya dissin/you dunno what ya missin'/hear that coughin splutterin' and a kissin'?/that's count cobbing and crazy lips gysin

bang bang

I assume it's La Rumeur and Rohff you don't know? The former is dark and moody, the latter is a synth-pop wonder (at least for the first half, turns into yr bog-standard hiphop/R&B in the second)

i try to sit him down to it. he won't listen i'm afraid.

Destroy: Murder fucking Inc, with their bloody sugary girly chorus followed by Ja Rule's Barney Gumble impression in the verses.

also on the UK front - there's new Lewis Parker on the way - sounds awright, and Free Association 'Dont Rhyme No More' is definitely worthy

otherwise what else is there. themselves, busdriver-temporary forever, mcenroe - druidry instrumentals, nore, third sight- golden shower hour reissue, d-styles just got released, mf grimm -iblyis...

ah u live in belgium i see now.

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tracklisting:

1 ruin it ruin them ruin yourself then ruin me dalek rmix
2 revenge of the circuit burners rmix
3 rirtrytrm original
4 vague recollection
5 now i'm completely ruined rmx
6 satans hard drive

Personally I'm looking forward to Kweli's album next month, most of the stuff I got in 2002 was catch up from the last couple of years.

The Planets LP was surprisingly good, and I do like the new Lewis Parker thing a lot, though he goes for that understated feel which means his stuff needs more listens than most casual listeners will give it.

Top drawer UK hip hop LPs still a rarity, but lots of great singles. New things from Taskforce & Out Da Ville just now, which I'm hoping to lay my hands on this weekend.

Peanut Butter Wolf - The Forty Five Series
DJ Shadow - Private Press
J-Live - All of the Above
Freestyle Fellowhip - Shockadom
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Quasimoto - Astronaut
RJD2 - Deadringer
Cormega – The True Meaning
People Under the Stairs - O.S.T.
Mr. Lif - Emergency Rations/ I Phantom
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Dalek - From the Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (not for all taste, but has it’s moments)
Soul Position
Nas – the Lost Tapes (mixed, but some nice spots)
Clipse – Grindin’
J-Zone – I’m spacing on the name of this one
Large Professor – 1st Class
Edan – Fast Rap mixtape
Busdriver - temporary forever

I'm sure I'm missing a lot.

(NOTE: I am joking)
(NOTE #2: Is the J-Zone album you're thinking of "Pimps Don't Pay Taxes"? That one's getting slept on.)

Yeah, "Pimps Don't Pay Taxes" is pretty incredible. The production is off the hidges. It wasn't made this year, but Fat Beats rereleased it this year. And that single with Jehst was great. I heard J-Zone has a new 12" out called Ho Kung Fu. I haven't copped it yet. BTW, totally off topic (sorry), but amusing nonetheless:

Chicago Sun Times
Cryptic letter tied to violent rap lyrics
October 25, 2002
A letter left by the snipers behind a Virginia Ponderosa restaurant, the site of one of the non-fatal shootings, contained mysterious markings and what were described as Jamaican colloquialisms. One of the suspects in the sniper killings is from Jamaica. Drawn on the page were five stars, which some investigators thought was a reference to a Jamaican band. But there does not appear to be any Jamaican band named Five Star. The letter also contained the phrase "word is bond." An Internet search links the phrase to a black militant rap group, Killarmy, a band discovered by Wu-Tang Clan, a favorite in Jamaica. One of their songs, "Five Stars," speaks of "bullets penetrating. Deep like the assassination that almost killed Reagan." The song also mentions snipers. The phrase "word is bond" appears in the group's song "Wake Up." Killarmy has come under fire from critics who have chastised the group's violent message. In many songs, they speak of a racial war and their support for "racial Armageddon." Band members have roles such as "Marksman Assassin of Killarmy" and "Street Specialist Trained in Urban Warfare."

hahaha...i'm laughing with you, really...and i'm glad you can still remember the allusions i made in my themselves review.

Nas - Made You Look, Drunk By Myself
Eve - Double R What, Eve-olution
Clipse - Grindin, When the Last Time
E-40 ft. Fabolous - Automatic
Slick Rick - Women Lose Weight (Alchemist Remix)
Missy Elliot - Work it, Funky Fresh (ft. Ms Jade)
Ms. Jade - Dream
Erick Sermon ft. Redman - React
Xzibit - Multiply (Just Blaze Remix ft. Busta Rhymes), Break Yourself, Symphony in X Major
Swizz Beats ft. Lil Kim - Gone Delirious
Styles - And I Came To (Ft. Eve), I'm a Ruff Ryder (ft. Jadakiss)
The Beatnuts - Originate (ft. Large Professor)
Common ft. Mary J. Blige - Come to Me
Mos Def ft. Diverse - Wylin' Out (RJD2 Remix)
Edan ft. Mr. Lif - Rapperfection
Atmosphere - Fuck You Lucy
7L and Esoteric - Terrorists Cell, Word Association
DJ Shadow - Giving Up the Ghost, Six Days
DJ Krush - The Blackhole, Trihedron
DJ Food - Aerosolilique Pts. 1-3
Dalek - Classical Homicide, Spiritual Healing
J-zone - SLAP

I can't be bothered right now to parse through the Def Jux releases but yea there's some stuff there too.

Right on.

I'll second that Clipse recomendation. Check out "Ego", if you've heard both the singles.

Token Hip-Hop Album:
2000 - Stankonia
2001 - The Blueprint
2002 - ??

I bought that Scarface yesterday.

You just answered your own question.

so there's more singing than rapping; so what? it's the best hip-hop album this year.

julio don't sweat it. it could be SO much worse no?