Five days to work, an extended Jubilee bank holiday weekend to play, c'mon everybody drop those unpopular opinions today :
There isn't a more abominable Rap album than
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, and the only Fugees song future generations will remember with any fondness is
It Doesn't Matter by Wyclef Jean & The Rock, mainly for The Rock's contributions.
Dilla really did change our lives when he managed to ruin three of the great eccentric groups of the early nineties in the space of a year with his pedestrian clip-cloppy production for De La, Tribe and The Pharcyde.
Nothing good has ever emerged from El-P worming his way into black ppl Rappers' affections or studios, and, yes, that includes
R.A.P Music.
A-Mafia's belly laugh after he proudly proclaims "I ain't never had a job in my life, man" on the intro of
Crime Pays is precisely 10000 times more entertaining than anything Cam'Ron dropped in his unreleased-song-a-day campaign last month.
If the internet has revealed anything about our Rap-writer forefathers, it's that a toadying blowhard like Elliot Wilson simply can't have been responsible for any of the good bits in Ego Trip.
Since Nas is now the Rapping version of the weed-addled twit he's always appeared to be in his interviews, the only chance his new
Life Is Good album has of being worth a listen is if we're treated to the return of Nas the gloriously offkey R&B singer who blazed shit like a young Luther on the hooks of
Gimme Yours and
Street Dreams.
Kirko Bangz's Autotuned ode to sexual harassment
What Yo Name Iz makes Future's critically acclaimed
Pluto album sound like the creepy ramblings of a PUA-inspired Canadian friend of Mindbender Futurama.
Busy Bee may have lost the famed battle against Kool Moe Dee, but he eventually won the war by managing to make a good song on Sugar Hill Records with
Making Cash Money when the Treacherous Three proved themselves to be utterly useless as recording artists after they left Enjoy Records, and then went on to rub salt in the wounds by dropping a golden-era classic in
Suicide as Moe Dee was getting his ass handed to him by LL Cool J and responding by recording dis tracks over the mediocre Teddy Riley beats Spoonie Gee rejected.
Hairy Asshole by UGK with Webbie & Boosie is the only true feminist anthem of the last five years since it rejects the pornized ideal that women have to wax every follicle of hair from their bodies to appear attractive to the opposite sex.
It seems unfair to level accusations that American Rap criticism is an all boys club when Rapper groupies are employed by major media outlets, and The Fader's female editor insists two of the more charismatic bloggers pen bland missives which read like they've been writen by a Rap Radar intern.
