Artist: Fabolous
Album: There Is No Competition 2 (The Funeral Service) [Mixtape]
Release: 2010
Label: AMG
Tracklist:
1. The Wake
2. I'm Raw
3. Body Ya
4. Hard Feat. Kobe, Paul Cain & LA The Darkman
5. Oh Lets Do It
6. Suicide 2 Feat. Paul Cain & Freck Billionaire
7. Its Goin' Down Feat. Freck Billionaire
8. Roger That Feat. Freck Billionaire
9. Love Come Down
10. Popular Demand feat. Paul Cain
11. Mr. R.I.P
12. Body Bag Feat. Cam'ron & Vado
13. Beamer, Benz, or Bentley [Lloyd Banks Feat. Juelz Santana & Fabolous]
14. For The Money Feat. Nicki Minaj
15. Tonight feat. Red Cafe
16. All The Way Turnt Up feat. Trey Songz
17. Say Somethin' Nigga
18. Funeral Service Music Feat. Kobe, Paul Cain, Red Cafe & Willie The Kid
19. Bring Death To Em'
20. Exhibit F
Rappers don't make albums worth listening to anymore. There is a banger here and there, but there are too many ringtone and club bangers to ever have a solid album (except Only Built For Cuban Linx 2). As of the last... well, a really long time, mixtapes are where the real hip-hop has been going down.
Ever since New York fell off the map, there have been glimpses of potential from several MCs, but they just end up wasting it by following the herd. Juelz drops a gem every once in a while (see "Beamer, Benz or Bently"). Cam'ron has always been hilarious and occasionally flows well (See "Killa Cam"). Jae Millz's mixtapes are fantastic, but he has yet to drop a real album. Nicki Minaj has the potential to be the best female rapper ever just because there has only been one good female rap album ever (Lil Kim's Hardcore).
Now, Fabolous has always had a good verse here and there, he just gets caught up in making songs for the ladies too often. That's the great thing about mixtapes, there are almost never pop rap tracks made for the stereotypical woman. Fab goes hard for twenty straight tracks. His wordplay is on-point and he delivers a LOLable line at least once per song. The only problem that I could see anyone having with this mixtape is a common problem with all mixtapes, where the parodying of the chorus from the original song is lame. But really, if you listen to hip-hop for choruses then you have no business listening to anything that isn't on the radio. Fuck off.
Highlights are "Roger That", Lloyd Banks' "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley," where Juelz Santana shines, and "I'm Raw" which is the best song Fabolous has ever done (As a vegan, that video offends me). DJ Drama has probably the funniest ad lib to a song that he will ever probably.
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-Trey
Album: There Is No Competition 2 (The Funeral Service) [Mixtape]
Release: 2010
Label: AMG
Tracklist:
1. The Wake
2. I'm Raw
3. Body Ya
4. Hard Feat. Kobe, Paul Cain & LA The Darkman
5. Oh Lets Do It
6. Suicide 2 Feat. Paul Cain & Freck Billionaire
7. Its Goin' Down Feat. Freck Billionaire
8. Roger That Feat. Freck Billionaire
9. Love Come Down
10. Popular Demand feat. Paul Cain
11. Mr. R.I.P
12. Body Bag Feat. Cam'ron & Vado
13. Beamer, Benz, or Bentley [Lloyd Banks Feat. Juelz Santana & Fabolous]
14. For The Money Feat. Nicki Minaj
15. Tonight feat. Red Cafe
16. All The Way Turnt Up feat. Trey Songz
17. Say Somethin' Nigga
18. Funeral Service Music Feat. Kobe, Paul Cain, Red Cafe & Willie The Kid
19. Bring Death To Em'
20. Exhibit F
Rappers don't make albums worth listening to anymore. There is a banger here and there, but there are too many ringtone and club bangers to ever have a solid album (except Only Built For Cuban Linx 2). As of the last... well, a really long time, mixtapes are where the real hip-hop has been going down.
Ever since New York fell off the map, there have been glimpses of potential from several MCs, but they just end up wasting it by following the herd. Juelz drops a gem every once in a while (see "Beamer, Benz or Bently"). Cam'ron has always been hilarious and occasionally flows well (See "Killa Cam"). Jae Millz's mixtapes are fantastic, but he has yet to drop a real album. Nicki Minaj has the potential to be the best female rapper ever just because there has only been one good female rap album ever (Lil Kim's Hardcore).
Now, Fabolous has always had a good verse here and there, he just gets caught up in making songs for the ladies too often. That's the great thing about mixtapes, there are almost never pop rap tracks made for the stereotypical woman. Fab goes hard for twenty straight tracks. His wordplay is on-point and he delivers a LOLable line at least once per song. The only problem that I could see anyone having with this mixtape is a common problem with all mixtapes, where the parodying of the chorus from the original song is lame. But really, if you listen to hip-hop for choruses then you have no business listening to anything that isn't on the radio. Fuck off.
Highlights are "Roger That", Lloyd Banks' "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley," where Juelz Santana shines, and "I'm Raw" which is the best song Fabolous has ever done (As a vegan, that video offends me). DJ Drama has probably the funniest ad lib to a song that he will ever probably.
"No Barack Odrama for this one,
Call me Dram McCain...
Killing you niggas"
Call me Dram McCain...
Killing you niggas"
Sorry for the N word. It wouldn't have the same effect if I took it out.
-Trey
15 comments:
One good female rap album ever??? Absurd! Ever heard of the The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, or Lyte as a Rock, or even Supa Dupa Fly? I'm totally missing some too.
-Adam
I have heard of them. My claim stands. I don't call Lauryn Hill hip-hop.
Outlandish!
-Adam
I too am gonna get riled up about the "one good female rap album" comment. Spend some time digging around in the south, and you'll find plenty. To begin, here's Junie Bezel - That's How Mess Get Started:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1zmkkefymmm
Psh. Lil Gem "Shake Junt" blows all that crap out of the whatever fake ass shit they doing. Come on. Get real.
can you recommend any decent mixtape blogs? i had one for a while there but it got shut the fuck down...there's way too many bullshit hip hop blogs for me to even begin to sort through, so if anybody's got recommendations that'd be great. anyway, great blog guys!
I looked up lil gem and could only find that album by lil gin. I downloaded that album and it's just a young boy before his voice changed. Not bad though.
-Trey
Lil Gin? And Lil Gin is male and regularly brags about his dick?
hahahahaha
-Adam
dude you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about...
kill yourself
Woah! Only one good female rap album? You seem into your hip-hop, you're missing out so much! Try Rah Digga's Dirty Harriet, Bo$$'s Born Gangstaz and Nefertiti's L.I.F.E. for a start! Not to mention Jean Grae's Jeanius, Lady of Rage's Necessary Roughness, The Conscious Daughters' Ear To The Street, and that's just the first old school/underground stuff that comes to mind. Female rappers are better than male rappers, FOREVER!
Also, Lauryn Hill is hip hop, got to debate you there.
Gangsta Boo's album was pretty good
I think Cam'ron's Purple Haze deserves a bit more respect. Truly a perfect album in my eyes at least.
- Nick
Ugh.. this is shit is horrible. This is not hiphop.. nor is LiL Kim, nor Nicki Minaj. Jean Gae, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Badu, Psalm One, that's female hiphop. Your punk/hardcore/indie/shoegaze is all on point and I respect that, but this is far off. Fabolous sucks too. J Dilla, Doom, Madlib, Elzhi, Blu, Guilty Simpson, etc etc.. that's hip hop. Dig that.
You gotta balance your backpack with your mainstream! I can't speak for Trey, but this is the only good Fabolous thing I've ever heard.
-Adam
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