Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2006 Hustler’s P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment) Jim Jones ★ 29 Hip-Hop “We Fly High” is an iconic 2000s hip-hop song, but the strength of a single can’t always save an entire album, and on 2006’s Hustler’s P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment), Jim Jones falls into many of theContinue reading “Hustler’s P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment) – Jim Jones”
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Kingdom Come – Jay-Z
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2006 Kingdom Come Jay-Z ★★½ 51 Hip-Hop After a three-year “retirement,” Jay Z returned in 2006 with Kingdom Come, a record that sounds exactly of its time in both good and bad ways. The production across Kingdom Come relies heavily on catchy, cleaned up samples of live instruments likeContinue reading “Kingdom Come – Jay-Z”
Hip-Hop Is Dead – Nas
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2006 Hip Hop Is Dead Nas ★★ 47 Hip-Hop Man, I held Hip-Hop Is Dead in pretty high regard in my mind for years because I really dug it when I was back in high school listening to it for the first time. But revisiting it now in fullContinue reading “Hip-Hop Is Dead – Nas”
Brother, Sister – mewithoutYou ★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2006 Brother, Sister mewithoutYou ★★★ 65 Rock Alternative Rock Indie Rock mewithoutYou brings together a nice mix of mid-2000s indie rock styles on Brother, Sister — garage rock, punk, post punk, art rock, some folk, some emo. I tended to enjoy the punk end of the spectrum here —Continue reading “Brother, Sister – mewithoutYou ★★★”
Fresh Out The Deli 