HipHopDX Album Reviews
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Alchemist - The Chemistry Files Vol.1
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
Alchemist has blessed some of rap's elite with beats that are still imprinted in many brains like fingerprints in a cop shop.
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Pastor Troy - Stay Tru
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
Pastor Troy brings the streets a new album titled Stay Tru. Kind of crazy as he titles it the way he's been delivering bars for years.
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Cam'ron - Killa Season
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
Cam'ron recently survived an attempt on his life, and is fresh-off a media frenzy surrounding his release of a diss track aimed at Jay-Z.
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Ugly Duckling - Bang for the Buck
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
Ugly ducklings are synonymous with an image of a loner, a weakling, the prototypical ugly and unwanted duckling who may become a swan.
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Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
Cee Lo and Danger Mouse aren't the first artists to defy genres but Without question, they have done it in their own manor, and done it really, really fucking well.
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Mobb Deep - Blood Money
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
Mobb Deep never really got the career they deserved, and now they may be getting the career they no longer deserve.
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The Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
You have to admit, there is something compelling about a politically aware rapper with a sense of humor. Boots Riley of The Coup provides plenty of both in the group's latest work, Pick a Bigger Weapon.
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LL Cool J - Todd Smith
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
James Todd Smith has only slightly reinvented his persona over the two-plus decades that he's been under the watchful eye of Hip Hop. Hell, he's been an establishment unto himself for the duration of Hip Hop's mainstream history.
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Capone - Menace II Society
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
All in all, although it certainly struggles out the gate, "Menace II Society" is not bad. But then again it certainly isn't very good. It is, however, New York to the core... whatever that means nowadays.
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Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 1 & 2: Movie Scenes
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
From the looped From the tribal sounds of "Gold Jungle (Tribe)," to the nostalgic re-vamp of Afrika Bambaata's "Planet Rock on Open (Space)," Madlib shows us exactly what makes him one of Hip Hop's most sought after producers.
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Army of the Pharoahs - The Torture Papers
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
The Torture Papers didn't re-write the book on Hip Hop by any means, but it is a rock solid album that should get repeat spins for most of the year.
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Da Backwoodz - Wood Work Album
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
With so much Southern Hip Hop flooding the market today, it would certainly be easy to brush off Dirty South acts as simply another drop in the bucket, but it would be unjust to do that here.
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Big Boi Presents... - Got Purp Vol.2
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
What do you after your ground breaking rap duo sells 11 million copies in a calendar year? You branch out and give back - that's what.
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And 1 Streetball - The Videogame Soundtrack
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
Just because the music is good enough for you to crossover, fake left and shoot the J to, that doesn't mean you should drop the ten spot to get it.
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Soul Position - Things Go Better With Rj and Al
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
To be brief, Things Go Better With Rj and Al is the best album I've heard in 2006. No limits, no gimmicks.
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Clinton Sparks & Kanye West - Touch The Sky
Album Reviewsposted 6 years ago
All in all, the tape satiates the appetite for a product that is well crafted, with hot production and quality acts. I just wish more tapes exemplified this.
