Good Music Takeover 2010: Hip-Hop

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by admin in Entertainment, Music

If there’s been a revitalisation of true R&B as of late then it’s fair to say that there has been a resurgence of Hip-Hop. MCs have dipped into more levels of their artistry from the real rawness or amazing compositon of chosen beats to their storytelling rhymes and multiple uses of word play. What we’ve seen remain constant is the energy and intelligence in alot of the rapper’s delivery.

2009 brought A-Game material from the veterans: Jadakiss (The Last Kiss) Raekwon (Only Built For Cuban Linx 2) Mos Def (The Ecstatic) Jay-Z (Blueprint 3) to the established: Fabolous (Loso’s Way) Rick Ross (Deeper Than Rap) 50 Cent (Before I Self Destruct) to the rookies: Wale (Attention Deficit) Kid Cudi (Man on the Moon: The End of Day)

2010 releases hope to build on that element with some highly anticipated album releases. This has to be one of the most exciting years in Hip-Hop for a long time.

Eminem
Relapse 2
Release Date: TBA

Eminem Says: “When I finished Relapse, I had a whole album of material that didn’t make it that I wasn’t ready to throw away, so that was going to be Relapse 2. But then I got with Dre in Hawaii and started recording more, and now the new material has knocked out all the old songs.

Making Relapse, I was still working the drugs out of my system, so there was a lot of… just jokey shit. It was a lot of punchline-y, funny, shock value — kind of going back to The Slim Shady LP. And that was cool, but I’ve kind of flipped the page. Now I’m going for songs instead of one-liners.”

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Drake
Thank Me Later
Release Date: Late Summer

Drake Says: “Nas was somebody that I used to listen to his raps and never understood how he did it. I always wanted to understand how he painted those pictures and his bar structure.

I went back and really studied Nas and Andre 3000 and then came back with this album….It’s gonna be bigger, it’s gonna sound happier, more victorious, ’cause that’s where I’m at in my life”

Also Listen To: Fear

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Lupe Fiasco
L.A.S.E.R.S
Release Date: Summer

Lupe Says: “I feel like because of my first two albums I have built a foundation to branch off to make music outside of who I normally make music for.

My true fans are down so now I can venture out and experiment with other types of music. Its my favourite album so far”

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Kanye West
Good Ass Job
Release Date: TBA

Drake Talks About Kanye Album: “We’re in Hawaii working on both his (Kanye) and mine’s albums, he’s getting more studio time though haha. Good Ass Job, is going to be a force to reckon with.

His album is going to be one of the best hip-hop albums in the last 10 years,”

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Reflection Eternal
Revolutions Per Minute
Release Date: April 8th

Hi-Tek Says: “We’ve probably got a decade of our best beats on this album. Ive got an albums worth of beats in m back pocket, ready to make it happen

Also Listen To: Just Begun

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Ty
Special Kind Of Fool
Release Date: May 2010

Ty Says: “It’s a really special album for me. I had to go through something with my record and my life in order to feel enthusiastic about making music. This album was built out of going through a set of emotions and feelings and being positive about music. Everything we go through as adults influenced this record.”

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Common
The Believer
Release Date: Summer

Common Says: “My album will consust Raw music and raw hip-hop. Its soulful; working with Kanye, Twighlight Tone and No I.D is like going home again.

Even though I will be focusing on the essence of hip-hop I’ll be bringing something new and fresh”

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Ludacris
Battle of the Sexes
Release Date: March 9th

Ludacris Says: “It features females from the past and present from Eve, Trina, Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj. Rceords talking about women, talking to women, women talking back to me…its great music.

I always try to reinevent myself, this is the 10 year anniversary of my first album so it represents a new change”

Also Listen To: How Low

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J.Cole
TBC
Release Date: Spring Summer

J.Cole Says: ” Feels like I’ve been working on it for years, but now I’m officially in the studio working on it, like hashing s*** out. I’m gonna make sure it’s classic, I’m not gonna put out anything half-assed”

Also Listen To: Knock On Wood Freestyle

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Jay Electronica
Act III
Release Date: TBA

Jay Elect Says: “Im in the process of working and connecting. I don’t really feel like a song or an album is the end-all, be-all to what we’re doing.” “Exhibit A” producer Just Blaze will produce 65% of his solo album” Exhibit C & Dear Moleskine wil be on the album”

Also Listen To: Exhibit C

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Dr Dre
Detox
Release Date: December 2010/January 2011?

Dr Dre Says: “You know what, I’m working hard on it man, I’m going and I’m stopping, I’m working with other artists in-between and what have you, but I’m working hard on it and the minute it’s done and I feel it right here [in my chest] and it feels right to me, that’s when it’ll come out. And you know, hopefully at the beginning of the year”

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Nas & Damian Marley
Distant Relatives
Release Date: April 20th 2010

Nas & Damiam Marley Says: Reggae and Hip Hop are cousins, Go back before the ’90s and think about the music that was playing on the ghetto blasters and you’ll hear it. This project is to come together and do music on behalf of africa, to bring awareness

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Big Boi
Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Release Date: TBC

Big Boi Says: “Every song that I put out sounds totally different from the previous songs I put out. I slow-cooked this album and, man, I’m just so happy it’s about to come out. I cannot wait to give it to the fans. There’s been a lot of stops and stars with this project.

I’ve just been trying to make sure we’ve got the right avenues and the right brains and mindsets together to get the marketing and promoting behind it. When you work on something for, like, two years and 11 months, it’s like your baby. You want to make sure that everybody has taken the project the way they’re supposed to be taking it and the set-up is right.”

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Other Hip Hop Artists To Release Albums This Year

Lil Wayne (The Carter IV), Jadakiss (Top 5, Dead or Alive) Trina (Amazin), Andre 3000, Big Sean, Blakroc (Blakroc 2), Busta Rhymes (The Chemo), Bun B (Trilla O.G), D.J Khaled (Victory), Fabolous (Loso’s Way 2) DMX (Walk With Me Now & Fly With Me Later), Rick Ross (Teflon Don), Nelly (Nelly) & Young Jeezy (Thug Motivation 103)

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WHICH ALBUM ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO?

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