[QUOTE=Wyko;16941805]UMC is really, really awful, and by far the worst hip hop album of 2008.[/QUOTE]

I agree.

actually i dont think you guys will ever hear of the worst hip hop album

vic

just put up my review for the new EPMD... decent stuff:

[url]http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review_28356[/url]

**** I forgot that came out - I'm going to try and interview Erick Sermon.

oh nice dude, in person or email/phone? id love to hear/ read what he has to say.

Probably over the phone - we'll see if I can pull it.

edit: see your digging the new scarface, i really like that track with lil wayne and bun b

ya man, i wrote the review that was featured on the reviews page recently. it's a really tight album. "High Powered" is a killer intro, especially followed up by that ft lil wayne track.

Do you listen to any of the stuff coming out of Georgia?

[url]http://www.myspace.com/cumgitslum[/url]
[url]http://www.myspace.com/hollyweerd[/url]

i initially veered away from southern hiphop, but im really diggin scarface, nappy roots, and cunninlynguists. definitely will check this out - i know nothing about southern underground stuff.

Cum Git Slum?

Is that rap or porn?

it's club hiphop. not diggin it dude... although holly weerd is better than the other.

Oh man I remember Nappy Roots. MTV Base used to hammer that one AW NAW HELL NAW track.

I just read an AWFUL review of the new Common of RapReviews. I mean, it's a concept review with a good concept, but it's just excruciating to read.

ya that track was way overplayed.. it was on the madden soundtrack i believe. they're really tight though.

ugh, that review is so laughably bad... that site rarely gives out scores lower than a 5 for anything; it's like they're on the US grading system or something.

The new Nappy Roots album is good.

They are touring but I'll be out of the country when they come play here :(

Glad you liked Holyweerd, you should download their free mixtape called Edible Phat:

[url]http://www.zshare.net/download/16309140e8f40b16/%5Dhollyweerd[/url]

Also like Proton from GA:

[url]http://www.myspace.com/proton2[/url]

Posted the Proton mixtape on the last page.

Also, make sure to check out the track Weerdo on the Holyweerd page. 9th Wonder did a sick remix of it.

ya that layout is pretty "classical-internet" era. i like that they split their ratings into beats and vocals, but the term vibes seems pretty outdated.

ATM, proton is pretty tight. is this industrial-oriented brand of hiphop really popular down there?

Not as far as I know. I'd give the mixtape a listen, though. Interesting stuff.

[url]http://www.mikeymcfly.com/2008/10/proton-red-purple-vol-1.html[/url]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3qMdkucM0&feature=channel[/url]

haha

lol that was one of the better music videos ive seen.

Scarface's [I]The Diary[/I] may just have made it into my top 10 favourite hip hop albums of all time, no matter how many times I listen to it, it's still gold.

You guys should give this a try:

[url]http://hiphopruckus.com/2008/11/download-the-808-experiment-volume-1.html[/url]

[i]From the outset of SMKA Productions‘ newly released compilation, The 808 Experiment Vol. 1, it’s clear that Atlanta has finally arrived.

Surely, you say, the hip-hop capital of the world is no newbie to rap’s all-encompassing map. And you’re right. But among Atlanta’s emerging rap underworld — filled with hipster-leaning hoppers, 2nd generation ATLiens, and otherwise unidentifiable but objectively fly MCs — that original, Dirty South sound had been all but bleached out and forsaken. Until now.

With The 808 Experiment, SMKA accomplishes the seemingly impossible: It bridges Atlanta’s slick, hipster-hop derivative with the indigenous, red clay swagger for which the A has always been known.

Beats simultaneously swim in bass-drunk, 808 kicks while dancing between melodic, pastel-colored keys. Even when SMKA dares to sample esoteric pop songs like Sting’s “Englishman in New York,” the resulting track ["Alien (When in Rome) feat. Jay West, Savage and Gilles] is certifiably stamped “ATL.”

Their secret weapon? SMKA producers Blake “808 Blake” German and Kyle “7King” King, along with in-house “hustler” Mike Walberg, are all Atlanta natives. Damn near unheard of in this day and age, right? Meanwhile, the compilation features plenty among the city’s rising crop of natives and transplants alike, including Gripplyaz, A. Leon Craft, and Young Trimm (”Caddy”), trio Supreeme (”I’m On Fire”), Wil May (”Sweet Confusion”), and o8o of T!Katz (”Fire in the Hole”). But some of the biggest surprises come from lesser known cats who turn in equally stellar performances, including Double R of Miami, Nuff Sed, J Beans, Dee Rail, Fat Tony, Niko Villamor, Jay West, Rome Fortune, J Young, Radcliff Hyphen, Crysis, Brandon Michael, Toussaint, Alexandria Lushington and Tom P of Decatur. El da Sensei of New Jersey-based Artifacts is also featured.

With only 48 hours since it’s release it’s impossible to say just yet, but here’s hoping The 808 Experiment represents a truly formative moment in what’s already proven to be a watershed year for Atlanta’s slightly off-the-radar hip-hop movement.

Needless to say, I had to talk to the guys behind SMKA to find out where the heck they’ve been hiding. Oh, and you’ll never guess what SMKA stands for?[/i]

i normally wouldn't trust off-the-radar **** like that but damn this is tight

ATL FOREVER

You can trust me, dude.

In ATM we trust.

Get the Proton one, too.

So I've been digging Cyne, Black Milk, Giant Panda and Ohmega Watts lately. ****ing awesome stuff.

Coincidentally, tronic's at the top of my best hiphop/soul of 08:

[url]http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=20159&memberid=239306[/url]

Tronic is too inconsistent. Some songs are just so boring (Bounce, Give the Drummer Sum, and Hell Yeah especially)

i love those tracks. :(