| 3.5 great |
| 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct |
I'm surprised. Great production, great lyrics (especially considering it's 50) and not as many terrible pop
songs that dominated Curtis. 50's lyrics are a lot more aggressive now and you can tell from the first track
that 50 is back and he's pretty damn pissed. For example "Your daddy fucked your mama then fucked your
sister/then climbed in your bed playing with your sugar/go ahead, take your belt off and hang
yourself/matter of fact, grab your strap and bang yourself" and "This ain't Tha Carter, nigga this is
Sparta/It's harder/I'll die and be a martyr/respect me like your father". He also he keeps the guests to a bare
minimum, with Eminem being the only other rapper on the album making an appearance on "Psycho", which
sounds like a leftover track from Relapse (in a good way). Tracks 1-9 are all great and actually some of 50's
best, but after that he sort of goes back to generic songs bouncing back and forth between getting girls
and being a gangster. The second half of it is alright, but nothing 50 hasn't done before. But the first half of
the album is definitely worth a listen. Best tracks - Death to My Enemies, So Disrespectful, Psycho and
Stretch.
Also, it is actually quite pathetic that 50 managed to make a better album than Rakim this year. |
| AZ Doe or Die |
| AZ A.W.O.L. |
| B.o.B No Genre |
| Big Daddy Kane It's A Big Daddy Thing |
| Big L The Big Picture |
| Bun B Trill |
| Busta Rhymes The Coming |
| Ayo! Which motherfucker stole my flow?! Enee, menee, minee... MO! |
| Busta Rhymes Back On My B.S. |
| I may be the only one who thinks this is better than The Big Bang. |
| Cam'ron Come Home With Me |
| Canibus For Whom The Beat Tolls |
| Canibus 2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus) |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
| Common Finding Forever |
| D12 Devil's Night |
| DMX Grand Champ |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot |
| DMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood |
| DMX ...And Then There Was X |
| DMX The Great Depression |
| Eminem Infinite |
| EPMD Business as Usual |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep |
| Ice Cube Laugh Now, Cry Later |
| Ice Cube Lethal Injection |
| Immortal Technique The 3rd World |
| Jadakiss Kiss of Death |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell |
| Jeezy Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 |
| Jeezy Trap Or Die 2: Reloaded |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter |
| Lloyd Banks H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger for More 2) |
| Ludacris Theater of the Mind |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers |
| Nas I Am... |
| Obie Trice Second Round's On Me |
| Obie Trice Cheers |
| Pimp C Pimpalation |
| Rakim The 18th Letter |
| Redman Muddy Waters |
| Redman Dare Iz A Darkside |
| Rhymefest Blue Collar |
| Rhymefest El Che |
| Unlike most inconsistent albums, which usually have one half of quality material and one half of trash, this album jumps back and forth between great, personal tracks and absolute trash ones about hoes and money. It really is a shame he does that because this could've been an excellent album. |
| Rick Ross Deeper Than Rap |
| Slick Rick The Ruler's Back |
| Snoop Dogg Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Blue Carpet Treatment |
| Talib Kweli The Beautiful Struggle |
| Talib Kweli Eardrum |
| Tech N9ne The Calm Before The Storm |
| Tech N9ne Anghellic |
| Tech N9ne Vintage Tech |
| Tech N9ne The Lost Scripts of K.O.D. |
| Tech N9ne Seepage |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! |
| UGK Too Hard To Swallow |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| Xzibit Restless |
| 2.0 poor |
| 50 Cent The Massacre |
| 50 Cent Guess Who's Back |
| Birdman 5 Star Stunna |
| Birdman Pricele$$ |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E 1999 Eternal |
| Cam'ron S.D.E. |
| Common Universal Mind Control |
| Dizzee Rascal Showtime |
| Dizzee Rascal Maths and English |
| Dizzee Rascal Tongue N' Cheek |
| Drake Thank Me Later |
Terrible... Some of the lines are just so dumb i want to kill myself. "Wu-Tang niggas want that cream".. wow
doesnt even make sense. "All my friends out partying while i make the music they party to, so party on
party on". What was he thinking? Every song is about how terrible his poor, famous life is. Drake, I mean
this in the best way possible. Shut the fuck up. Your life is just fine so stop complaining about it. When i
hear 16 year old boys listening to this it makes me sick. Even girls shouldn't listen to him. This idiot barely
qualifies as a rapper.
Alright, i gave it a slightly higher rating due to some good production, a few good guests, and some pretty
good songs like "Up all Night, "Light Up" and "Miss Me". However it's still boring, generic and overrated and,
like Public Enemy said in 1988, "don't believe the hype". |
| Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa |
| Eminem Recovery |
| G-Unit Beg For Mercy |
| Gucci Mane Trap House |
| Gucci Mane Burrrprint 2 (HD) |
| Ice Cube I Am the West |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse |
| Jay-Z The Hits Collection Vol. 1 |
| Not a single track from Reasonable Doubt? Instead, make way for half of the tracks from The Blueprint 3. |
| Jim Jones Hustler's P.O.M.E. Standard Edition |
| Jim Jones Pray IV Reign |
| Kesha Cannibal |
I thought hip hop was dying. But it looks like music in general is dying. Every song is about partying,
getting drunk and having sex. This is just a disgrace. She can't sing, she can't make any meaningful songs
and the beats are AWFUL. |
| Lil Wayne The Dedication |
| Ludacris Release Therapy |
| Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones? |
| Mos Def The New Danger |
| Nelly Nellyville |
| Pimp C The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones |
| Rick Ross Trilla |
| Rick Ross Teflon Don |
In all seriousness, this album is trash. Everything was better on "Deeper than Rap". Bad beats, bad guests,
bad lyrics and bad lies.
Edit: That guy just copied my comments on his page and put them in his soundoff? |
| Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad |
| Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded |
| Rihanna Rated R |
| RZA RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Last Meal |
| T.I. T.I. vs. T.I.P. |
| T.I. No Mercy |
| Talib Kweli Liberation |
| Talib Kweli and Madlib Liberation |
| Tony Yayo Thoughts Of A Predicate Felon |
| Xzibit Full Circle |
