Comments on: Sphere of Hip-Hop podcast episode 50 – Top albums of decade

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:37:37 +0000

Alright… voting is closed. We’ve added everything up. Look for the episode and feature soon.

By: Simon Martin

Simon Martin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:05:59 +0000

2000 – 4th Avenue: No Plan B
2001 – Tunnel Rats: Tunnel Vision
2002 – Gospel Gangstaz: Exodus
2003 – Pigeon John: Pigeon’s Dating Your Sister
2004 – Grits – Dichotomy A
2005 – Ohmega Watts: The Find
2006 – LightHeaded: Wrong Way
2007 – Theory Hazit: Extra Credit
2008 – Theory Hazit: Lord Fire
2009 – Theory Hazit: Modern Marvels

By: Defender of the Art aka BigSto

Defender of the Art aka BigSto — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:54:52 +0000

2001- The Night We Called It A Day- DeepSpace5
2003: Lightheaded- Pure Thoughts
2004- Shades of Grey- Braille
2005: Ohmega Watts The Find
2007: Sev Statik and Dust- Back to Dust
2008- Theory Hazit Lord Fire
2009- Braille- Cloud 19

By: David Thomas

David Thomas — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:21:05 +0000

2000- Human Emergency (Cross Movement)- What Do You See?; Creature
Double Feature; Live Agua/>
2001- The Last Street Preacha (T-Bone)- Conversion; Last Street
Preacha; Street Life My Dream
2002- The Exodus (Gospel Gangstaz)- /Caught Up; Heaven Awaits Us; >
Scream; Bad Company
GospelAlphaMegaFunkyBoogieDiscoMusic(T-Bone)
GospelAlphaMegaFunkyBoogieDiscoMusic [feat. KRS-One]
Collaborations (KJ-52)- The Choice is Yours; Dear Slim; 47Emcees
[Interlude]
The Art of Translation (Grits)-Tennesse Bwoys; Love Child2003-
Holy Culture (Cross Movement)- /When I Flow (It’s Gospel); Cry
No More; Driven
It’s Pronounced “Five-Two” (KJ-52)- Dear Slim Pt. 2; Cartoon
Network; 47 Pop Stars; #1 Fan(Feat. Jubilee)
The End Is Now (LA Symphony)- /End is Now; Here To Party; One of
a Kind; Ghana Homage
The Ringleader: Mixtape Vol. 3 (DJ Maj-Various Artists)- Never
Heard Before [feat. LA Symphony]; God Music [feat. John Reuben
and Pigeon John]
City of Pain (Mark J)- City of Pain; National Anthem; Root of
Evil
2004- Moment of Truth (Da Truth)- This is For You; Scent; South
Street; Satisfied
FLAME (FLAME)- Videos; From the Mid to the East Cypha [feat.
various CMR artists]
Higher Definiton (The Cross Movement)- /Redifined; Big Words;
My Life Cypha /and/ The Bridge [hidden tracks]
The Movement (Sharlock Poems)- /Release; The Movement
2005- Behind The Musik (KJ-52)- /Behind the Musik; Jesus; Video
Games; Plain White Rapper
The Incredible Walk (Phanatik)- /The AmazinGrace
The Thesis (Ambassador)- Thesis Pieces; Get You Open; Crown Him
Real Talk (Lecrae)- Crossover; The Line [feat. Tedashii]
Bone-A-Fide (T-Bone)- A Few Good Men [feat. Mack 10]; It’s OK
Disappear Here (LA Symphony)- Universal; Funky Music
2006- The Flood (Gospel Gangstaz)- /What it Do; Raise Up
Kingdom People (Tedashii)- Born Again; No More [feat. Lecrae]
If They Only Knew (Trip Lee)- Who You Rollin’ Wit [feat. Flame
and Json]; Call Us Crazy [feat. Tedashii]
SOULutions (Mark J)- Worldwide; National Anthem (Remix)
[feat. various artists]
Redemption (Grits)- /We Workin’; You Said
2007- Everyday Process: The Process of Illumination and Elimination
(Everyday Process)- Holla at Me [feat. Trip Lee]
Our World: Fallen (FLAME)- /Shinin’ [feat. Tedashii]; Goodness To Repentance; Bad Ain’t Good; Heart Stops;
Open Book (Da Truth)- Man Up; Star Struck; Why I Do
2008- Our World: Redeemed (FLAME)- Go Buck; Joyful Noise [feat.
Lecrae and John Reilly]
20/20 (Trip Lee)- Superstar (Eyes off Me); Real Vision [feat.
Tedashii]
Circus World Event… the Ring Leader (Cy)- /The Ringleader;
The Flip Side Trapeze(Last First Event)
2009- ???

Know the list is a little extensive; just wanted to really voice my opinion. Tried to keep it “Year-Album-Artist-Song,” but I am doing this at multiple times at the computer [copied and pasted from original email to site]. Anyway, some of these albums aren’t necessarily favorites,but they had a song or two that I liked/loved (Phanatik’s The AmazinGrace off of “Incredible Walk”), while others I don’t have (ie Tedashii’s “Kingdom People”). I don’t have anything from 2009. Also, there are still a couple songs that I like, but left them off either b/c I wasn’t sure of the year, or they were part of a compilation. Here they are:

Christology (Ambassador)- /Hold Your Ground [feat. Phanatik]; Hands In the Air [feat. Enoch and Phanatik]; Honor & Glory [feat. Tonic]
[I have 1999 for this one in my library, but iTunes and Amazon list it > as 2000].
Name Droppin’ by T-Bone ft. Eric Dawkins (part of “Bone-Appeit”)
Let It Go by Eckspress off of Holy Hip-Hop: Vol. 3.

By: CGHearn

CGHearn — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:37:15 +0000

2001 Mars Ill – Raw Material
2004 Corey Red & Precise – Resistance Iz Futile
2005 Deepspace5 – Unique, Just Like Everyone Else
2006 Braille – Box Of Rhymes
2008 Theory Hazit – Lord Fire
2009 Move Merchants

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:23:40 +0000

DJP

Sup the chemist.
eargasmic arangements
and
dust

pigeon john is clueless
and

pigeon john is dating your sister

deepspace 5 – unique

DERT cmyk

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:23:16 +0000

Jason McGee

2000—man so many ground breaking albums droped this year (on some senior year of highschool junk-lots of good memories!) but on sheer relevance for compolation/concept and exposure, ima go with “Fashion Expo- round 1 TRU HIP HOP” from the sackcloth camp!
2001—grrr another hard one sorry but gotta go with “DeepSpace5- night we called it a day” too many dope emcees…
2002—def def DEF “Sharlok Poems-Left” biggest drop that year..album is still hot!
2003—lots of great albums this year for sure….but when you go against my guy SUP aka soup the Chemist!!! COMON- “Eargasmic Arangements” in my eyes one of the most classic and foreboding records in hip hop HISTORY! it made you want to start rapping/producing…..or just stop and give up…..all on the same day!
2004—didn’t like alot this year, but “Flynn Adam-In Like Flynn” was a nice experimental push and put some rain to the drought.
2005—on pure gut/soul and UNIQNESS………………………………………………………..”Ohmega Watts-The Find”. There. I said it.
2006—Pro-Pain and PJ the summer time pool party are bangin this one out!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhg…..PJ won. gots to give it to the pool party
2007—this was a real hard year to judge as well but uh, “Theroy Hazit-Extra Credit” has it.
2008—Kaboose is the hommie…Theory Hazit w/Vintage was hot—-ill give it to “Kaboose-excuse me” just cux Theory all ready got love on the countdown.
2009—Way to end the decade out—”Cas Metah- the guest room” bringing the hotness!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:27:08 +0000

2000: KJ-52: “7th Avenue”
2001: Tie-DeepSpace5-”The Night we Called It A Day” & Mars Ill “Raw Materials”
2002: PlayDough- “Lonely Superstar”
2003: Tie- Mars Ill “Backbreakanomics” and DJ Maj “The Ringleader”
2004: Sintax.the.Terrific- “Simple Moves”
2005: Deepspace 5 “Unique Like Everybody Else”
2006: Mars Ill- “Propain”
2007: Sev Statik and Dust “Back to Dust”
2008: The Breax “Restocked”

I know…I’m biased! Deepspace5 forever…

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:48:46 +0000

From J.W.

2000-THE CROSS MOVEMENT -HUMAN EMERGENCY
2001-DEEPSPACE 5-THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY
2002-SEV STATIK -SPEAK LIFE
2003-JURY BIG-BIGGEST OF THEM ALL/UNDERGROUND RISE-SUNRISE,SUNSET
2004-SEV STATIK-SLOW BURN
2005 -MACHO(OF NEW BREED-FREEDOM(7 SERIES EP)
2006-ROB HODGE-BORN KING
2007-SEV STATIK AND DJ DUST-BACK TO DUST
2008-THEORY HAZIT-LORD FIRE
2009-THEORY HAZIT AND TONI SHIFT-MODERN MARVELS/SAREEM POEMS-BLACK AND READ ALL OVER

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:20:41 +0000

More email submissions from fans

2000 – Human Emergency – There Video was on BET and they had like 16 bars of “What Do You See” in the Source!
2001 – No Plan B – “Back In The Day Part 2″ (The album says 2000 but whatever! This album was a Godsend for me and I listened to it non-stop in 01. I didn’t even know Ahmad was the same dude until I got the album!)
2002 – Baloney – Listen all of J-Beats verses (I think it’s him) – “I’m on the scene lookin clean, with the sick tone jeans as I lean upon the beat kinda like James Dean…” & “Ways parallel to the count of Monte Cristo…” (You know the guy!)
2003 – CIWYW was released online for like a month (January I think). I got one and I still listen to it and my kids love it now!
2004 – HipRockSoul – The appearances from J5, Will.i.am, and Dilated put this one over the top. (Also this year was the first time you could buy Respect and the No Plan B Interscope version.)
2005 – Disappear Here – “Rise”
2006 – Propain – The album was done long before 06 and when it finally hit the shelves and it probably didn’t sell well. The collabs are great but the best one is probably “Effortless”.
2007 – Alive At The Assembly Live – Saw him at Warped Tour 08 – “Cycle”
2008 – The IV – NBA LIVE! “Ain’t been nothin’ good like that since Sanford and Son!”