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My Gut Reaction: Eminem - Revival (December 15, 2017)

My Gut Reaction: Canibus - Mind Control (June 21, 2005)

My Gut Reaction: LL Cool J - Authentic (April 30, 2013)

Something Different: Beyonce - Dangerously In Love (June 23, 2003)

Group Home - A Tear For The Ghetto (June 1, 1999)

Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves (February 23, 1999)

What follows is a write-up for Prince Paul’s A Prince Among Thieves that I wrote over three years ago. I know this because I had to edit one of the sentences within the body of the post itself that dared to make a reference to time. I had been waiting for the opportunity to run this one, and I had big plans which I won't reveal here just in case I end

ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP (July 8, 2016)

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (April 14, 2017)

The Brothers Thornton: Pusha T - King Push - Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude (December 18, 2015) + My Gut Reaction: No Malice - Let The Dead Bury The Dead (August 18, 2017)

Timbaland & Magoo - Under Construction Part II (November 18, 2003)

Missy Elliott - Under Construction (November 12, 2002)

My Gut Reaction: Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt (March 23, 2015)

De La Soul - Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (August 8, 2000)

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (November 11, 2016)

Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (February 14, 2016)

My Gut Reaction: Busta Rhymes - It Ain't Safe No More... (November 26, 2002)

J-Zone and Celph Titled are... The Bo$$ Hog Barbarian$ - Every Hog Has Its Day (March 14, 2006)

Salt 'N Pepa - A Salt With A Deadly Pepa (July 26, 1988)

The Beatnuts - Milk Me (August 31, 2004)

The Beatnuts are a team that have released six albums and two EPs commercially. There are a handful of other projects, but it isn’t very easy to find their instrumental contribution to the Hydra series, so for the sake of this paragraph we’ll stick with the above. Somehow, the duo of Psycho Les and Juju have inspired three greatest hits projects. Three.

Erick Sermon - Def Squad Presents Erick Onasis (June 27, 2000)

My Gut Reaction: Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 (December 24, 2016)

Run The Jewels, the side project-turned-main gig for rapper-slash-producer El-P and rapper-slash-Grammy winner Killer Mike, has been a narrative thread

Jay-Z - 4:44 (June 30, 2017)

My Gut Reaction: Fat Joe - The Elephant In The Room (March 11, 2008)

My Gut Reaction: Havoc - 13 Reloaded (November 18, 2014)

13 Reloaded is the fourth solo album from rapper-slash-producer Kejuan “Havoc” Muchita, an artist who will always be identified by his membership in the duo Mobb Deep alongside the late Prodigy. While the description I just wrote, “rapper-slash-producer”, is accurate, it’s not how most people think of Hav: he’s far better known for his musical output

My Gut Reaction: Jean Grae - This Week (September 21, 2004)

My Gut Reaction: Royce da 5'9" - Success Is Certain (August 9, 2011)

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My Gut Reaction; Redman - Mudface (November 13, 2015)

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Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late (February 13, 2015)

I've been reviewing my post history in order to gauge how realistic it will be for me to complete my mission on this blog within my lifetime. (The "finish what I started" of it all.) It isn't looking good, folks. But one artist that passed me by to a pretty significant degree is Aubrey Drake Graham, known professionally as Drake, because the world isn't ready for a rapper-slash-singer names