Best Hip Hop Song of 2006?

[Lex Diamonds]

What's your opinions?

Obviously Black Republican is a contender, not just for the lyrics but the history behind it. The beat was OK but certainly not the best this year.

For me Vato is a possibility too. Just represents a return to form for Snoop Dogg, I was happy to hear him make something good after the huge amount of shit he's put out over the last few years.

Kingdom Come by Jay-Z, probably my favourite beat of the year. A good song to come back with as well, quite strong lyrically.

Clipse's album was probably my favourite LP of the year but for me there isn't really a standout song that could be a contender for this. It's like 4.5/5 all the way through but there's no 5 star tracks.

Not classics but some other honourable mentions for me (ie shit I've remembered): Make It Rain by Fat Joe, Let's Ride by The Game, Why We Thugs by Ice Cube.

But yeah it's probably out of the first 3 I mentioned for me. I dunno though, I can't make my mind up.

What are you people's favourites?

[Gareth]

what you know

[dave790]

Taskforce - Cyanide Sound

[Mr Films]

what you know

ftw

[The Notorious LOL]

Ridin

[roosta]

ghostface killah feat. wu-tang - 9 mili bros.

[kleptomaniac]

white 'n nerdy

[ggirlballa]

Kick Push, Kick Push and Kick and Push and Coast.......


i really liked that song, its so simple & thats prolly what i liked about it, reminded me of Q-Tip

[EN[i]GMA]

Trill

[Kid Presentable]

Most of those are terrible, Pad. Hello New World.

[Kid Presentable]

ghostface killah feat. wu-tang - 9 mili bros.
Oh yeah, certainly.

[adam_f]

Long Time- The Roots feat. Peedi Peedi

My favorite at least.

[Kid Presentable]

Long Time- The Roots feat. Peedi Peedi

My favorite at least.
Don't Feel Right and In the Music are great too. And the Dilla tribute. Two Can Win off Donuts has been my most played song of 2006 according to MediaSource.

[Mr Films]

Long Time- The Roots feat. Peedi Peedi

My favorite at least.

fuck yeah.

fucking hell Game Theory is good.

[Otis Driftwood]

I haven't heard a lot (consciously) from 2006, I like 'hip hop is dead' best so far...

[Drederick Tatum]

GMA']Trill

yeah.

[roosta]

what you know

this song didn't make a big impact this side of the atlantic, but i just checked it out...top class! definite contender.

[Planetary]

jim jones - ballbags

edit: ballin*

[Planetary]

probably why we thugs for me. or hustlers by nas. or black republican.

[Lex Diamonds]

Most of those are terrible, Pad. Hello New World.
That's your opinion. Hello New World is a good song but the production is too run-of-the-mill for it to be song of the year. It's not going to be widely remembered in 10 years. The ones I've mentioned for the most part have solid production, flow, and lyrical content. The kind of songs that everyone (except you apparently) agrees are good.

[Lex Diamonds]

this song didn't make a big impact this side of the atlantic, but i just checked it out...top class! definite contender.
I disagree. For some reason I thought T.I.'s album was greatly disappointing. The beats on it are mostly too cluttered sounding and you can't tell what's going on. Plus, Tip is starting to sound bored when he raps (like, more than he used to).

[roosta]

I disagree. For some reason I thought T.I.'s album was greatly disappointing. The beats on it are mostly too cluttered sounding and you can't tell what's going on. Plus, Tip is starting to sound bored when he raps (like, more than he used to).

i havnt heard the album to be honest, just like that choon.

[Kid Presentable]

That's your opinion. Hello New World is a good song but the production is too run-of-the-mill for it to be song of the year. It's not going to be widely remembered in 10 years. The ones I've mentioned for the most part have solid production, flow, and lyrical content. The kind of songs that everyone (except you apparently) agrees are good.

Black Republican-Two past-it greats, yanking each other off. OK beat.

Vato? Jesus.

Kingdom Come- Not the best of the year, but really fucking great.

The other 3 (especially Why We Thugs) are good, but so damn forgettable. I don't know how you think you can speculate about the next 10 years dude. I get that you are loving hip-hop at present, but your opinions are odd to me. Your criteria is just words, and sucks all the vibe out of the music. You sound like a post-match review sometimes. It's funny. No hating, though.

It's stupid that white kids sit on the internet and postulate and pontificate about how great some songs are. We sound like wankers when we come up with these opinions. Except people who've been in this for 20+ years, I guess. And the ones who keep it short.

Anyway, your opinions are your opinions, mine are mine. It's not worth having them for people to agree with, because then there'd be no discussion. (y)

[Kid Presentable]

The kind of songs that everyone (except you apparently) agrees are good.
I must say, nobody listed any of those songs, in agreeance or otherwise. The Roots and Clipse got most of the mentions. Just saying.

[Drederick Tatum]

I also quite liked Ty's The Idea.

[Lex Diamonds]

Black Republican-Two past-it greats, yanking each other off. OK beat.

Vato? Jesus.

Kingdom Come- Not the best of the year, but really fucking great.

The other 3 (especially Why We Thugs) are good, but so damn forgettable. I don't know how you think you can speculate about the next 10 years dude. I get that you are loving hip-hop at present, but your opinions are odd to me. Your criteria is just words, and sucks all the vibe out of the music. You sound like a post-match review sometimes. It's funny. No hating, though.

It's stupid that white kids sit on the internet and postulate and pontificate about how great some songs are. We sound like wankers when we come up with these opinions. Except people who've been in this for 20+ years, I guess. And the ones who keep it short.

Anyway, your opinions are your opinions, mine are mine. It's not worth having them for people to agree with, because then there'd be no discussion. (y)
Yeah it's stupid but it's a fact that hip-hop has morphed into a music which is largely listened to by white kids on the internet so that statement doesn't really mean much. And yeah I know you're including yourself in that statement. But if you think about it, it's the kids on the internet who have the most time for it and can download and hear more music than the "real street niggas" or whoever you think should be listening to hip-hop.

Obviously my criteria is words, what am I gonna draw an abstract painting inspired by the feelings I get from a song? If it sounds too clinical to you then that's because I try to be concise and figure out exactly what it is about a song that makes it good. It doesn't mean I think there isn't a vibe to it, it's just harder to describe that kinda shit.

You're being pretty condescending. "I get that you're loving hip-hop at present"? I've spent a large amount of my time/life building some knowledge of hip-hop all the way from the beginning up to now, I think my opinions are credible at this point. If you don't then that's cool but you can still talk to me like an adult.

And what's wrong with Vato? Are you one of those people that doesn't like anything Snoop Dogg makes any more because it's cool to call rappers who've been around for more than 5 years "past-it"?

[Lex Diamonds]

Are you one of those people that doesn't like anything Snoop Dogg makes any more because it's cool to call rappers who've been around for more than 5 years "past-it"?
?

[roosta]

Snoop Dogg hasn't done anything nearly as good as "Doggystyle" ever since

[Lex Diamonds]

Snoop Dogg hasn't done anything nearly as good as "Doggystyle" ever since
Of course not, but there were a few pretty duff songs on it which he has certainly bettered. For example, I think The One And Only is better than Bathtub.

[Lex Diamonds]

Ah you see that's another good topic for debate because in my opinion The Blueprint equals Reasonable Doubt.

[Lex Diamonds]

Illmatic or 36 Chambers or Blueprint or Ready To Die.

[roosta]

i would go as far to say that if celebrity was in any way linked to talent, snoop would be forgotten about. seriously, i think most of what he puts out is trash.

[GetYourWarOn]

i'm gonna go with either trill by clipse, kilo by ghostface, or love by j dilla w/ pharoroe monch

[Kid Presentable]

Padster, it's all good.

[Lex Diamonds]

ok, Illmatic is my #2....so your in the clear on musical taste. :)
I haven't really got a set list, what's your #1?

[Lex Diamonds]

Padster, it's all good.
OK, cool.

[Lex Diamonds]

Hmm, good choice although I disagree with nothing stepping to it.

[Lex Diamonds]

Off the top of my head 36 Chambers, Straight Outta Compton, Slim Shady LP, The Blueprint, Hell Hath No Fury are all albums I don't skip any songs on.

[Lex Diamonds]

Slim Shady? .....you've got to be kidding me. ;)
Name a bad song from that album then.

[Kid Presentable]

I even posted a video link to Vato a while back. I like it. Just not that much. For me, it's 9 milli, Two Can Win and Hello New World. But that's me.

[beastiedan]

keys open doors - clipse
what you know - TI

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[balohna]

I haven't really heard enough to decide. Only 06 hip hop albums I own are Hip Hop Is Dead and Game Theory and neither have tracks that totally blow me away. Maybe the title track off Nas' album, but then it's too much like Thief's Theme.

[roosta]

I haven't really heard enough to decide. Only 06 hip hop albums I own are Hip Hop Is Dead and Game Theory and neither have tracks that totally blow me away. Maybe the title track off Nas' album, but then it's too much like Thief's Theme.

nothing on Game Theory blew you away? :eek:

[Tzar]

i love 'ride around shinin' and 'trill'
9 milli bro's is, of course, spanking

hrmm... i spose my favourites, or the ones i see as the best have all already been named. don't wanna sound like an echo chamber.

[DIGI]

My butthole's like an echo chamber.

See what happens when you pop your collar!
:eek:

[balohna]

nothing on Game Theory blew you away? :eek:

The album itself did. It's not a song album, it's an album album, get it?

[Monsieur Decuts]

In this featuring MURS - Oh No.

fresh as a bag full of black jelly bellies