These are my favorite albums of 08.. in no particular order..

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The Mars Volta
The Bedlam In Goliath
I really dig this album.. the new drummer Thomas Pridgen is more than impressive.. he conducts beats w/n beats and beats w/n melodies.. it's unreal.. def a great add to the band… but the thing that always impresses me is how evolved their live performances are.. i could hear hints of Carlos Santana, King Crimson, to Phil Collins, to even Curtis Mayfield.. pretty dope shit.. plus their live shows can last around 2.5hrs to 3 hrs..

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these are the artist i've been listening to while i was away

Game Rebellion
the mars volta
remy ma
erykah badu
gnarls barkley
joe budden
joel ortitz
prodigy of mobb deep
guilty simpson
LMNO
Kev Brown
Pete Rock
Evidence
OMG Michelle
Jean Grae
Cadence Weapon
the eternals
Wu Tang

… and the list goes on.. most of which have had new albums that have come out recently..

.. i'll try to update as much as i can..

is that last.fm cheating if i update for a couple of months while i was away..

i dont really kno.. last.fm etiquette..

lol…

This is my list of favorite albums of 2007 in no particular order.. feel free to comment and share yours..

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Evidence The Weatherman LP
prolly the most solid hip-hop album of the year..

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Wu Tang 8 Diagrams
Wu is back!!

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The Eternals Heavy International
it took me a while to digest the music.. but once i did.. it's a great treat..

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Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
the hook of the year.. "when i say nigga, you say nothing!" and a ill ass cover of U2's bloody sunday

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El P I'll…

This past weekend, I had plans on going to the M.I.A. show as well as the Little Brother, Evidence, and Brother Ali show at the Highline Ballroom.

So here's what happens..

My partner buys tickets for M.I.A. before hand and we are in line about to go in… The thing is that we don't have a barcode on our tickets so we have to go to will call…

the will call dude informs us that we have tickets for the wrong night.. he's like "yo, your tickets are for thursday"… we where like "… fuck!!"

so yeah.. that's…

We All Live in Jena
National Call to Action
Monday, October 1st, 2007 at Noon, Central Time.
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Artist/ Activist Mos Def along with M-1, Talib Kweli, Common, the
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Sankofa Community Empowerment, Change
the Game, the National Hip Hop Political Convention, and student
leaders from 50 campuses call for a National Student Walk-Out to rally
and show support for the Jena 6, who are being denied their human
rights by the Louisiana criminal justice system.

Demands
Judge J.P. Mauffray and District Attorney Reed Walters have engaged in
a string of egregious actions, the…

Last Thursday September 20th, Saigon and Prodigy of Mobb Deep got into an altercation at Havoc's album release party at S.O.B's in NYC.

Word on the street is that there was bad blood between Sia and Prodigy due to the fact that Saigon is friends wit Tru Life who robbed them a couple years back..

I heard Prodigy got rocked twice… and Saigon ran out of the club wit 30 Mobb Deep niggas after him…

Mobb Deep's Version of What Happened
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-1m_C99to

Saigon's Version of What Happened
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRaQIfAsTww

But yeah.. i respect both they music but i think it's…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

79/100

The 79 related artists for my profile are !!!, 2Pac, A Perfect Circle, Aesop Rock, Aretha Franklin, At the Drive-In, Ataxia, Atmosphere, Big Noyd, Billie Holiday, Bob…

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el-p "i'll sleep when you're dead"
Rating: 8.7 out of 10

stand out tracks
1. Habeas Corpses (Draconian Love)
2. Poisenville Kids No Wins
3. Run The Numbers

So yeah.. this goes out to folks that like to be challenged by music…

el-producto's new highly anticipated lp "i'll sleep when you're dead" came out on March 20th.. and i've been playin it everyday for 9 days straight.. when you notice the musical guest ranging from peeps in his def-jux camp like aesop rock and cage, to having guest appearances from the mars volta, trent reznor (of Nine Inch Nails)…