Good, bad and both ugly(not in a good way)
So i was ready to straight laugh at Big R's anticipation of officer ricky, specially after i saw that video of him walking round with his shirt open with his lol ferrari tits. but i gotta admit after the horror of listenin to Jada's album Ricky shit is actually quite dope, at least his record has a focused sound and some interesting beats and some actual thoughts in there now and again. Havin heard 2 Jada albums already i was expecting the cliche beats, but the blandness of rhymes came as a nasty suprise. I mean this guy talks like he is in the corleone family but sounds more like his album is written by a committee like the one who came up with 'Poochie' in that one episode of the simpsons when i used to still watch it. Every song needs a mention of coogi, aston vanguish, blah blah, plus the thought of this ugly fat old dude 2-steppin with a model makes me wanna wretch. some rappers can do pop (jigga, T.i) some cant (nas, jada), i only wish someone would tell them.
 
Who cares how long it took?
Saigon is still the shit. I remember seeing the review of 'Say yes' in the source and waiting the 3 days while my dial up chugged away until i downloaded it. I'm still sure he is the antidote to all the wack shit around now. That said, i dont really see the point in marketing an album by saying it was made in 24 hours, or like when pac made an album in 7 days, its like, yeah so what? Can you imagine if you went to buy a car and the salesman said 'yeah this is one the boys knocked out in a couple of hours plus they was drinking so towards the end some of the switches got put on upside down and shit'? 
 
Asher Roth
Not that i wanna give this Em rip-off any more publicity but hearing his shit makes me ask where the fuck is apathy? I remember me and the Big D having an email discussion about who was doper, Apathy or Al-shid. He went for Apathy and looking back he was right and i look kinda ridiculous but at the time it looked like both would be dropping classic shit and both kinda fell off the radar. I mean Ap was at atlantic (who also fucked up saigon's career- can we get a a deranged gunman up in their offices please?) and did fuck all, fuck knows what Shid is doing probably washing windows or is in investment banking or something. anways why is Asher roth out and they aint?
 

THIS IS AN EMAIL FROM DAVE I GOT ON 17th June 2003.  
 
Shit, this summer shit's been hectic. Pissing me off, trying so hard to make lots of money, go to class (oh yeah, and also get drunk a lot) that I've been drastically neglecting the site. Shame on a nigga. Anyway, I'm feeling you on Gang Starr and J-Zone being my two sure shots for the summer. Just on beats alone I'm having a hard time believing either record will dissapoint. In fact Gang Starr drops in just one week. So souped. Haven't copped the Weathermen or Freddie Foxxx albums yet, but my boy says they're both tight. Listening to this new instrumental shit (similar to DJ Shadow, but less trip hop...so I guess more like Rjd2 solo shit) called Science Fiction. Shit's mad chill, he's got some album called "Walls Don't Exist", don't sleep on it.

While I do like Al-Shid, I dunno if he's nicer than Apathy. He does have a more creative style and overall sound than Apathy, but Ap's got so many lines that make you have to pause the track and hit rewind. I'm a sucker for crazy punchlines. Besides that, as dope as J-Zone's production is, Celph Titled is pretty much just as nice./

Common still has some hip hop in him, but neo-soul is draining the credibility out of him. Homeboy needs to release a hip hop EP just for the heads. Get one Premier track, tracks from No ID and Dug Infinite (who he used to work with a lot), some shit with Molemen and Memo from Chicago's dope ass All Natural camp, and maybe a Soulquarians remix of another hot track off "Electric Circus" like "Soul Power". That would satisfy me, despite Erykah Badu's evil, evil headwrap.
Time for wrestling. I'm out.

David Ellis