2006
JUST WASN'T YOUR YEAR |
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1.
G-Unit: It’s no doubt that G-Unit just wasn’t on it
this year. Mobb Deep looked promising till their sales fell off. Banks couldn’t
find a single that worked for him. Young Hot Rod got pushed into the spotlight
too quickly. Young Buck just didn’t drop and dropped a deejay in the
club. Oh yeah and 50 was virtually silent this year besides going back and
forth with his enemies on mix tapes. With a few blips of hope coming from
unions with Lil Scrappy and LL Cool J that evenetually faded out. Nothing
was cutting it and the big budgets put behind what they did this year were
spent in vein. Let’s hope 50 can bring his crew up to par in 2007.
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2.
Cam’Ron: Cam just couldn’t get a break this year…
First production and distribution of
his film (which looked like they shot it in one day) held up his Killa Season
album. A trumped up beef with Jay-Z over old Roc-A-Fella issues that eventually
escaladed in to a press conference. Where at said conference Cam can be
seen wearing Rocawear boxers as his pants sagged off his ass (So much for
“Cocka" wear, ay Cam?). Let’s not forget the lackluster
response and critical bashing of his movie Killa Season. Oh and of course!
Jimmy done took the spot light off Cam without him even knowing. That’s
crazy… From hype man to the man with all the hype. It just wasn’t
Killa’s season in 2006. |
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3.
DMX: Problems with the law, defecting from the label that made
his career and coming out again, but not changing it up for anyone to take
notice were just some of DMX’s list of issues for ’06. This
year marked the first time ever X didn’t debut at number one on the
charts with a release. It looks like it might be time for him to hang it
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4.
Ron Artest: This is one baller who needs to limit his “raps”
to “wrap” around passes on the court. One thing we don’t
like in entertainment is when people with a semi-talented muscle in their
body think they can just put out something because they got the money to
do it. If your going to do it… Do it right and take the time to build
a fan base. Just don’t expect us to buy your shit cause you’re
famous already. People aren’t stupid! That’s why your shit album
only sold one copy in the first week. STEP YOUR GAME UP! OR JUST KEEP IT
ON THE B-BALL COURT! |
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5.
Juvenile: After Hurricane Katrina hit it looks like it swept Juvi’s
career out to sea with the rest of the city. What happened? He dropped an
album called Reality Check this year… We think it went gold, but it
seemed like he didn’t put out anything at all. With his relationship
with Cash Money basically over and not having that stable of talent to really
feed off of in 2006 made it a tough year for Juvenile. Let’s hope
he can reinvent himself in 2007. |
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Foxy Brown: Foxy lost her hearing… Then got it back. Sounds
good right? Well after all that she turned right back into “Super
Bitch” and word is she’s not in good graces with the new S.
Carter Faculty at the Roc. Is she on punishment? Who knows… All we
know is that Foxy didn’t make a very good impression on a lot of people
behind the scenes in 2006. |
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Chingy: He got mad radio spins off of “Pulling Me Back”
with Tyrese, but he sold like close to wood on his album Hoodstar. Why?
Blame the market or bad marketing or the fact that DTP isn’t around
anymore.What ever way you look at it, Chingy turned out to be one dimensional
on this album yet again. |
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8.
Lupe Fiasco:
Some may say he did his thing this year. We say it was all hype. Lupe
blames the internet
for messing his album up (Like the internet doesn’t mess everyone’s
album up?). Food & Liquor subsequently leaked two times a few weeks
before each said release date and Lupe changed up the material in hopes
he can beat the “bootleggers.” Well… a few scrapes from
falling off his skateboard and a weak album later… Oh excuse us TWO
weak albums later and Lupe is no more than another gimmicky artist that
mainstream rappers fell behind. The whole skateboard and space age backpacker
routine was cute, but guess what? That fan base downloaded your album and
didn’t regret it, while all the other skater kids listened to nickelback
or whatever fuck skater kids listen to. |
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Cassidy: Karma is a bitch… Beats a murder rap and then gets
out and is critically injured in a car accident. Not to mention his last
album didn’t quit do it’s numbers while he was locked up. Cassidy’s
name still holds weight, but he’s going to need to recoup and come
back hard in 2007. |
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10.
Dame Dash: Well Cam & Jimmy helped put Dame in the shitter
this year along with losing his stake in Rocawear and some other investments
he had with Jay-Z. Dame was a causality of circumstance and we hate to see
him down, but 2006 was a year were Dame just sat back and reflected on his
loses since 2005 and we hope in 2007 he will get back on it. Can he create
another Hov? Shit… Dame can probably make something better than Jay.
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