idk about cormega but i have listened to Labor Days and The Cold Vein both in intricate detail and while El-P's production is pretty much amazing on TCV, so is the production from Blockhead, Omega One, and Aesop Rock on LD. also, LD isn't graced with lines that are such gems as this:

"My mother said "you sucked my pussy when you came out"/" -Vast Aire - "A B-Boy's Alpha" LMFAO!!!!!

lyrically speaking, Labor Days is superior by leaps and bounds and the production is comparable. LD >>>> TCV

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erikboyd60@hotmail.com

"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"

-T.S. Eliot

battle record:

7-0-0

any more votes? there's only been 5

Loved De La's AOI: Bionix, played it like 50 times all way through, but I have to let J-Live get first place this time. Masta Ace released a solid too. 2pac's "Until the End of Time" was pretty good too, full of original verses which impressed me, but it could well have been a 1 disc album, if they cut off the wack and average songs, which is the reason I pulled it down from the top 5.
I haven't heard Eyedea's album all way through, but it seems really great. Same goes for Self Scientific. Not really able to put one over the other so I guess they're tied.

1. J-Live - "The Best Part"
2. De La Soul - "AOI: Bionix"
3. Masta Ace - "Disposable Arts"
4 & 5. Eyedea - "The Many Faces of Oliver Hart" & Self Scientific - "Self Science" (1,5 points each)

a lot of divided votes this year, everyone had a different number 1, a few had completely different top 5's altogether, the only album in most top 5's was Masta Ace Disposable Arts.

listening to those tracks El Matador i wish i had checked out Eyedea's album now those sound sick, anyway hers the list, idk what we're gonna do about all the ties lol i guess we'll have to have a tie break thread for this year during the elimination rounds

1. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts 13
2. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1 7
2. Aesop Rock - Labor Days 7
2. Cormega - The Realness 7
5. Eyedea - The Many Faces of Oliver Hart 6
6. CunninLynguists - Will Rap For Food 5
7. J-Live - The Best Part 5
8. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me 5
9. De La Soul - AOI: Bionix 4
10 Jay-Z - The Blueprint 4
11 Nas - Stillmatic 3
12 Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag 3
13 Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein 2
14 Sticky Fingaz - Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones 2
15 Self Scientific - Self Science 1
16 Nas - Stillmatic 1

i will say though, there are several albums from 2002 that i probably need to hear before passing judgment:

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists....start=0

1. Atmosphere - Godlovesugly
2. Mr. Lif - Emergency Rations (yes, i am putting an EP on the list. that's how bad 2002 was lol)
3. Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
4. Common - Electric Circus
5. Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers/People Under The Stairs - OST (2 albums of which i have only heard a handful of tracks, but they were the only other albums that sounded like they might be good).

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erikboyd60@hotmail.com

"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"

-T.S. Eliot

battle record:

7-0-0

how do you figure? i know it's premature, but what albums are your top 2? i can name several dope albums from 2005. it wasn't the greatest year but faaaaar better than 2001 and 2002: Edan - Beauty and the Beat, Cunninglynguists - A Piece of Strange, Tonedeff - Archetype, Self Scientific - Change, Common - Be, Cage - Hell's Winter, Little Brother - The Minstrel Show, Kanye West - Late Registration, Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas, Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having, DANGERDOOM - The Mouse and the Mask, Murs & Slug - Felt 2, Nujabes - Modal Soul, Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust, DJ Muggs vs. GZA - Grandmasters

also, how can you hate on the year that brought us a rap album from Tom Green????

when we talk about it being a good year we are comparing it to all other years. if the only albums that came out were by Soulja Boy for some reason, would you say "don't compare it to the 90's" or would you just say "yeah, that year sucked"? i would hope the latter. compare 2001 and 2002 to any other year in hip hop, before or after, and you will find that they are the worst.

and no, i haven't heard the albums you put in your top 5, but i've heard enough tracks off both of those Nas albums to say they are not at all top 5 worthy. i need to hear the rest on your list though. those 3 alone still can't make up for 2002 being a shitty year. it's ok though, with INI's album officially being released in 2003 as well as King Geedorah's "Take Me To Your Leader" and Immortal Technique's "Revolutionary Vol. 2", among others, it only gets much better from here

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erikboyd60@hotmail.com

"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"

-T.S. Eliot

battle record:

7-0-0

Chiens de paille - Mille et un fantômes
Jigmastas - Infectious
Ozomatli-Embrace the chaos
Mad Doctor X - Chillonometry
Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team (an ok album, nothing special)
Swollen Members - Bad Dreams
Fonky Family - Art de rue
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
All Natural - Second Nature (Nothing Special)
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Volume 1 (Nowhere near as good as V.2 but still pretty sick)
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (Never really got into this one, but everyone else loves it)
Kankick - From Arts Unknown
DJ Krush - Zen
Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star
Less du Neuf - Le temps d'une vie
Saïan Supa Crew - X Raisons
2Mex - B-Boy
Adam F - Kaos: The Anti-Acoustic Warfares in Occupied Mexico

Thats all ive got from 2001, although there's probly more I dont know were from this year

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My top 5 would be...

Jigmastas - Infectious
Swollen Members - Bad Dreams
Chiens de paille - Mille et un fantômes
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Volume 1
Kankick - From Arts Unknown

2006, dude, 2006.

To be honest, Edan can't write a decent rhyme for shit. I need to remind myself the album, I remember it was full of psychodelic-ass beats. Haven't heard that since 2005 tho'.

I didn't know it was released in 2005. Pervert used to be my theme song

I've never heard them

that shit sucks

number two on my list, Nujabes is my role model (as a producer and as a businessman).
His jazzy style and samples taken from Pat Metheny shit are my shit!

I don't think it was a good album, I was very disappointed with it, VERY VERY disappointed. Not only me tho'.

GTFOOH with that shit

1. Sleep - Christopher
2. Nujabes - Modal Soul

You propably never heard of Sleep (he's a member of legendary collective Oldominion) , so check it

(quality sucks super cock, too bad cos track is DOPE!)

lol garbage is garbage. What I'm saying is that we have to turn a blind eye on underground rappers. They don't have the same hunger and the same fire as rappers used to have in '90s but it does not mean they can't make some dope music.
It's just not the same anymore. Feel me?

I'll edit my post and put some tracks of those albums, check this shit out