Your most disappointing albums of 2010.

What really disappointed you this year. Here are a few of mine:

Little Brother "Leftback"-For this to be their last album it really was underwhelming. Probably my biggest disappointment of the year.

Bone Thugs "Uni5"-I know some of you say they just grew up, but i don't understand why that has to mean they can't do anything with a hardcore beat anymore.

Reflection Eternal "Rev's per minute"-Not worthy of the Reflection Eternal name.

I'm sure there are more but those are 3 that stick out in my mind.

cosign those and ill add:

Eminem - Recovery

also the E-40 double album was kind of a letdown but i didnt have that high of expectations

the Bone probly the biggest letdown of all

I cosign that bone and Reflection eternal... especially reflection eternal... not too dissapointing I guess given the delay, but the redman... the TI was probably the most dissapointing though out of all of them for me... expected much more. Bizzy Bone Greatest Rapper Alive was pretty dissapointing too.

I co-sign the Talib and TI picks....I like the Redman quite a bit now though after spinning it a few more times.

As for most disappointing, it's a toss up between....

Ice Cube- I Am The West
Ludacris- Battle Of The Sexes

mainstream wise this year was probably one of the wackest in history. Luckily the underground had some dope stuff

Redman (even though I haven't heard it)
Brother Lynch Hung (just didn't live up to the hype)
Roots
Oktober

The only hype the BLH had was on this forum...otherwise it was way under-rated.

The Bone album is dope, haters.

The Eminem album is equally awesome, ya'll need the wax beat off your eardrums.

HUGE co-sign on the the Oktober, though

My list:

Blacastan
KRS One/Tru Master (fucking awful)
Canibus, both albums (maybe take the better songs off of both and make one dope cd next time)
Distant Relatives (not bad, but not amazing)
Roots (C'mon, ?uest)
Reflection Eternal (like a Talib solo album entirely produced by Hi Tek)
Bun B (cool, but 5 mics? please)
TI
Redman
Big Boi (dope, but not the shit people were making it out to be)

Overall, yeah, mainstream-wise this year sucked.

I forgot Big Boi...I was really looking forward to that album.

Access Immortal dropped early this year, too, right? That shit was also a disappointment.

I thought the Acc was alright. Production could've been better, and a couple corny hooks...overall not terrible, though.

Yeah, same with the Blacastan and the Oktober. It wasn't like they were bad, but I was expecting better than 3.5 out of all of them.

Well to me that KRS CD is the worst CD I've heard since like 1980 but it wasn't the most dissapointing since I had little to expect from it to begin with.

Southern Rap Pro wrote:

Well to me that KRS CD is the worst CD I've heard since like 1980 but it wasn't the most dissapointing since I had little to expect from it to begin with.

I understand that, but I was expecting dope BEATS at the very least...when's the last time Tru Master produced a whole album?

Recovery

Talib- RPM
Wu Massacre- half stepped.
Cube- I Am The West
Redman- RN
Face- Dopeman Music- to many guest.
Luda- Battle Of The Sexes

I cosign Big Boi. Even though I like it I don't luv it like the singles I heard prior had me thinking I would.

Metahistorical was dope to me.

Wayne wrote:

Right now, my picks are Cube's I Am The West and the Wu-Massacre album.

+1 for having common sense on the Wu Massacre album.

That Reflection Eternal was pretty awful. Distant Relatives also didn't really do anything for me.

I didn't really have any high expectations for anything that was supposed to come out this year except for Armor of God...which didn't come out this year. I'll just list some forgettable/weak albums

Recovery
Adventures of Bobby Ray
Wu Massacre
Thank Me Later
Whatever that Diabolic album was called
Reflection Eternal
Li(f)e

I didn't go near the Cube or the Redman.


Clipse "Til The Casket Drops"..too many WTF songs, but I do need to revisit this
Luda "Battle Of The Sexes"
TI "No Mercy"
Eminem "Recovery"
Little Brother "Leftback"...2 remixes of songs that were on the previous album...not cool
Wu Massacre....Criminology 2 without Raekwon.....Seriously?

Highsmith wrote:

I didn't go near the Cube or the Redman.


Clipse "Til The Casket Drops"..too many WTF songs, but I do need to revisit this
Luda "Battle Of The Sexes"
TI "No Mercy"
Eminem "Recovery"
Little Brother "Leftback"...2 remixes of songs that were on the previous album...not cool
Wu Massacre....Criminology 2 without Raekwon.....Seriously?

Didn't the Clipse come out last year?

Clipse dropped in January Half.

Battle Of The Sexes

And 3 in particular don't have much replay value to me anymore

Uni 5
Recovery
Distant Relatives

Highsmith wrote:

Clipse dropped in January Half.

Really? Damn, I thought it came out this time last year.

The album did get pushed back a bunch of times but it came out then.

fuck dirty skanks

Clipse dropped in 2009

I meant to add Pimp C's horrid album to this list.

How the hell people like that album but are clowning the TI is beyond me.

Pimp C's album is better produced and better rapped than TI by MILES. RIP PIMP C!

Southern Rap Pro wrote:

Pimp C's album is better produced and better rapped than TI by MILES. RIP PIMP C!

Jeff wrote:

The only hype the BLH had was on this forum...otherwise it was way under-rated.

The Bone album is dope, haters.

The Eminem album is equally awesome, ya'll need the wax beat off your eardrums.

HUGE co-sign on the the Oktober, though

My list:

Blacastan
KRS One/Tru Master (fucking awful)
Canibus, both albums (maybe take the better songs off of both and make one dope cd next time)
Distant Relatives (not bad, but not amazing)
Roots (C'mon, ?uest)
Reflection Eternal (like a Talib solo album entirely produced by Hi Tek)
Bun B (cool, but 5 mics? please)
TI
Redman
Big Boi (dope, but not the shit people were making it out to be)

Overall, yeah, mainstream-wise this year sucked.

Nas/Marley, Big Boi, and Roots smash the shit outta Eminem and Bone's albums.

I'd take Redman's over BTNH's album as well.

Southern Rap Pro wrote:

Pimp C's album is better produced and better rapped than TI by MILES. RIP PIMP C!

I actually agree with this. Pimp C's album is no classic by any means, but T.I.'s is straight garbage.

I liked the Reflection Eternal. Anyone else?

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

Jeff wrote:

The only hype the BLH had was on this forum...otherwise it was way under-rated.

The Bone album is dope, haters.

The Eminem album is equally awesome, ya'll need the wax beat off your eardrums.

HUGE co-sign on the the Oktober, though

My list:

Blacastan
KRS One/Tru Master (fucking awful)
Canibus, both albums (maybe take the better songs off of both and make one dope cd next time)
Distant Relatives (not bad, but not amazing)
Roots (C'mon, ?uest)
Reflection Eternal (like a Talib solo album entirely produced by Hi Tek)
Bun B (cool, but 5 mics? please)
TI
Redman
Big Boi (dope, but not the shit people were making it out to be)

Overall, yeah, mainstream-wise this year sucked.

Nas/Marley, Big Boi, and Roots smash the shit outta Eminem and Bone's albums.

I'd take Redman's over BTNH's album as well.

Well damn. I haven't heard any dumb shit all day. Thought I would make it without hearing any. Oh well.

lmao

I think Reggie is better than some people think, but it ain't fucking with Bone IMO.

KRob TheRapGod wrote:

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

Jeff wrote:

The only hype the BLH had was on this forum...otherwise it was way under-rated.

The Bone album is dope, haters.

The Eminem album is equally awesome, ya'll need the wax beat off your eardrums.

HUGE co-sign on the the Oktober, though

My list:

Blacastan
KRS One/Tru Master (fucking awful)
Canibus, both albums (maybe take the better songs off of both and make one dope cd next time)
Distant Relatives (not bad, but not amazing)
Roots (C'mon, ?uest)
Reflection Eternal (like a Talib solo album entirely produced by Hi Tek)
Bun B (cool, but 5 mics? please)
TI
Redman
Big Boi (dope, but not the shit people were making it out to be)

Overall, yeah, mainstream-wise this year sucked.

Nas/Marley, Big Boi, and Roots smash the shit outta Eminem and Bone's albums.

I'd take Redman's over BTNH's album as well.

Well damn. I haven't heard any dumb shit all day. Thought I would make it without hearing any. Oh well.

Coming from the guy who thinks that Rakim is just an above average lyricist, and thinks that A Taste Of Chocolate is better than Long Live The Kane....GTFOH with that bullshit Kev.

SMH I forgot to add Reggie. Completely slipped my mind. That was the worst piece of shit I've heard in a while.

The Naked Soul Of Sweet Jones > No Mercy
and I have Reflection Eternal at 3.5 to 4 stars

Still haven't heard the Pimp C

Wayne wrote:

parker lewis wrote:

I liked the Reflection Eternal. Anyone else?

I like the album. 4 stars from me.

Co-Sign. The album is only a disappointment because Talib set the bar so high for himself and this didn't hit his usual mark. The only one in his catalog worse than this though is Beautiful Struggle.

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

Wayne wrote:

parker lewis wrote:

I liked the Reflection Eternal. Anyone else?

I like the album. 4 stars from me.

Co-Sign. The album is only a disappointment because Talib set the bar so high for himself and this didn't hit his usual mark. The only one in his catalog worse than this though is Beautiful Struggle.

Beautiful Struggle is better

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

Wayne wrote:

parker lewis wrote:

I liked the Reflection Eternal. Anyone else?

I like the album. 4 stars from me.

Co-Sign. The album is only a disappointment because Talib set the bar so high for himself and this didn't hit his usual mark. The only one in his catalog worse than this though is Beautiful Struggle.

I'd have to cosign as well. I also love the Big Boi album that so many people are apparently disappointed by.

Alan wrote:

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

Wayne wrote:

parker lewis wrote:

I liked the Reflection Eternal. Anyone else?

I like the album. 4 stars from me.

Co-Sign. The album is only a disappointment because Talib set the bar so high for himself and this didn't hit his usual mark. The only one in his catalog worse than this though is Beautiful Struggle.

I'd have to cosign as well. I also love the Big Boi album that so many people are apparently disappointed by.

Only Kev and Jeff seem to be disappointed by the Big Boi album. It's easily a Top 5 album of 2010 for me though.

RPM > Beautiful Struggle

I didn't really have a problem with Talib on the album. I mean he wasn't his best but it was the production that sucked.

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

Alan wrote:

Big Daddy Kool wrote:

Wayne wrote:

parker lewis wrote:

I liked the Reflection Eternal. Anyone else?

I like the album. 4 stars from me.

Co-Sign. The album is only a disappointment because Talib set the bar so high for himself and this didn't hit his usual mark. The only one in his catalog worse than this though is Beautiful Struggle.

I'd have to cosign as well. I also love the Big Boi album that so many people are apparently disappointed by.

Only Kev and Jeff seem to be disappointed by the Big Boi album. It's easily a Top 5 album of 2010 for me though.

I thought it was flat out terrible.

The Big Boi album is cool as fuck. Hasn't lost a bit of replay from me.