What are your favorite hip hop albums of this millennium so far?

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The Ghost of RubangB said:
I don't feel that as art progresses through time it is constant improvement. There are classics that stand the test of time and there is a lot of shit that is hot for a year and then disappears. Erego, you can't compare the evolution of hip hop to the evolution of software. Technological advancement is improvement about 90% of the time, and artistic advancement is improvement about 5% of the time. I pulled those numbers out of my ass, but that's how I feel.

Good art doesn't go bad as it ages. Like for example... 80's hip hop. Beethoven. Wendy Carlos. The Beatles. The Stooges. Marcel Duchamp.

There's a reason that most critics agree the greatest films of all time are Citizen Kane (1941), 8 1/2 (1963), Battleship Potemkin (1925), Casablanca (1942), and occasionally The Godfather (1972). People who aren't serious critics are very nearsighted when looking back in time, and they say dumb shit like "MGS4 is the best game ever made" or "The Dark Knight is the best film ever made." I guarantee those won't last.

Notice that both hip hop and video games have periods referred to as "the golden age" and they're both long gone. It's not just nostalgia. They've both gotten so big and commercialized that the music/games are made by studios instead of artists (for the most part).

Today's games are only ground breaking in the technological sense, in that they're bigger, faster, stronger, whatever. But they're not more artistic than the magic coming out in the late 70's to early 90's. The art took over for a while, then it got too expensive so the studios took over and the art went underground.

There are still great games out there, but now they're the exception and not the rule. The same goes for hip hop, and that's why I'm on here asking for recommendations. I don't listen to the radio, and I'll try out anything once.

Also, I did not list 100% of my favorite artists.

I love Earth, Wind, and Fire and I love Kid Koala. I've seen him live with Handsome Boy Modeling School and he's the shit.


And I've never heard of Pandora. I'm on it. Thanks.

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