Back in 2010 we started a tournament to find the Top 5 Hip Hop Albums for Every Year starting from 1984 to 2010, to see the results from that check HERE.

We did it by asking people on the RHHF FB page and on the forum to chose their top 5's from a different year each week.

One of my intentions was to show that there were dope albums from every year. But going along the years, it was interesting to see the changes in Hip Hop and how the amount of quality albums being released varied. Most people would say the golden age of hip hop was during the late 80's and early 90's but surprisingly most people who took part in this, found that 1995 had the most amount of dope albums. Raekwon's Only Built For Cuban Linx, Big L, GZA, 2Pac, ODB, Mobb Deep's The Infamous, AZ, The Pharcyde and more released classic albums that year, but after that there was a big fall off.

Many sites and groups have done tournaments to vote for the best Emcee or Producer, but I hadn't seen it done with albums before so I wanted to try something different. So after putting together the Top 5 albums for each year from 1984 - 2010 (which you can see Here), we put the albums in tournament style brackets, matching the albums up against each other to see which ones would come out on top and which would win overall.

Another reason to do this, was to show that there were classic Hip Hop albums from the 2000's not just the 80's or 90's, so I thought it would be interesting to see what would happen when classics from the 2000's were matched up against classics from the 90's. Which brings us to the latest round in this tournament:

2004's Madvillainy by Madvillain goes up against 1998's "Moment of Truth" by Gang Starr. We'd appreciate your vote's for which one you want to go through in the comments.

Madvillainy or Moment of Truth 

To see the list of The 5 Best Hip Hop Albums For Each Year and the Tournament Brackets check Here: http://realhiphop4ever.ucoz.com/forum/4-4486-1#107632

(The last round we did had Deltron 3030 against Masta Ace's Disposable Arts, Deltron 3030 progressed through)

While at their 16th annual NYC Halloween show (make-up date due to Hurricane Sandy) Cypress Hill discussed the following with Duck Down Visuals:
-Smoking session with Bruce Willis, Oliver Stone & Woody Harrelson.

-Co-signing Kendrick Lamar.
-Why Slick Rick got boo'd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

-The Catch 22 of marijuana being legalized in Colorado.

Interview by Shane Gill | Video by Guy Blelloch

MHz Legacy consists of members Copywrite, RJD2, Jakki Da Motamouth, and Tage Future. The group originally went by the name Megahertz, shortened to MHz, but after influential member Camu Tao passed away in 2008, the group decided to add Legacy to their name in his honor. Further honoring the group's fallen member, MHz Legacy is excited to announce that a number of never-before-heard Camu Tao verses will be featured on the album.

Track List:

1. Accidentally On Purpose (Prod. By Rob Stern)
2. Hindsight (1998) Ft. Playdough (Prod. By RJD2)
3. Four Player Mode (Prod. By RJD2)
4. Out Of Room (Prod. By RJD2)
5. Spaceship Ft. Danny Brown (Prod. By Harry Fraud)
6. Soul Train (Of Thought) Ft. Oh No The Disrupt (Of Gangrene) (Prod. By !llmind)
7. Addictionary Ft. ILL BILL & Slaine (Of La Coka Nostra) (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
8. Gone! (Prod. By Surock)
9. Obituaries (Prod. By Marco Polo)
10. Columbus Diss Patch Ft. Dom (Prod. By J Rawls)
11. Mass Temple Ft. Steve From Middle Distance Runner (Prod. By Jason Rose)
12. Y'all Don't Know (Prod. By D1)
13. Yellow & Blue Ft. Blu (Prod. By Surock)
14. Satisfaction Ft. Slug (Of Atmosphere) (Prod. By RJD2)
15. Tero Smith Ft. Aaron Livingston (Of Icebird) (Prod. By RJD2)
16. Somewhere (2099) (Prod. By RJD2)
17. Mechanical Me (Prod. By Jason Rose)

Hip-hop Mashup of Noam Chomsky's "Government in the Future" (1970) and The Roots "Concerto of the Desparado".
If you dig this, then share it and join the new visionary organization Noam Chomsky is working with, The International Organization for a Participatory Society, at: www.iopsociety.org

Ice Cube speaks with Duck Down Records on the 'Last Friday' movie and his new album in the works saying it will be hardcore and political hip hop, sounds like he wants to redeem himself from his last album I Am The West which sounded very poppy, hopefully he'll follow through.

Both taking rise around the same time, Murs and DJ Quik reminisce about their days as two hip hop artists trying to make it in the game. Before all that, Quik remembers sitting in class at Compton Unified School District learning the craft to listen and molding him to be the artist he is now. Quik recently released The Book Of David featuring Suga Free, Kurupt and more.