Hip Hop Album Release Dates: April ---

    

 

 

Updates/current week in red


Predictions:

*********** = wow
***** = must buy
**** = should be good
*** = questionable
** = probably junk
* = stay away



4/26/05
Lyrics Born - Same sh*t, Different Day ***
Z-Ro - Let the Truth Be Told ***

5/3/05
Big Shug - Never Say Die (Pre Album) ***
The Game - Who Got Game? **
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas ***

5/10/05
Canibus - Hip-Hop For Sale ***
Chamillionaire - Chamillitary: Vol. 1 ****
DJ Kay Slay - The Game of death ****
John Cena - You Can't See Me *
OG Ron C & DJ Kay Slay - Get On Ya Grind ****
Prince Paul - Itstruementals ***

5/17/05
The Away Team - National Anthem ***
C-Rayz Walz - Year of the Beast CD/DVD ***
[color=red]Joey Chavez - Music Minus One **[/red]
Juju Mob - Black Candles ***
Junior M.A.F.I.A. - Riot Muzik ***
L.E.G.A.C.Y. - Project Mayhem ***
Memphis Bleek - 534 ***

5/24/05
Gorillaz - Demon Days ***
The Chapter - US Vs. Them ***
Pitbull - Welcome To The 305 ***
Young Gunz - Brothers From Another ***

5/31/05
The High & Mighty - 12th Man **
Lost Boyz - Forever **
S1 and Illmind - The Art of OneMind **
Sean Price - Monkey Barz ****

6/14/05
Capone - Pain, Time & Glory ****
Fat Joe - All or Nothing ****

6/21/05

AZ - Final Call *****
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Son Unique ***

6/28/05
Bizarre - Hannicap Circus **

7/12/05
Crooked I - Boss Music ****

7/21/05
Canibus - Mind Control ****

7/26/05
Bun B - Trill ****


2005/2006:
2Mex - B-Boys in Occupied Mexico ***
9th Wonder - Dream Merchant 2.0 ****
Aasim - N/A ****
Ali Vegas - Who Needs A Pen *****
Apathy - Eastern Philosophy ****
Armageddon - The Journal **
Army of the Pharoahs - The Torture Papers ****
The A-Side of Counterflow ***
The Away Team - The Competition **
Baby aka Birdman - Fast Money **
Big Kipp and Ali - Kinfolk *
Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business *
Black Rob - The Rob Report ****
Blak Poet - The Best That Never Did It ****
Boyz N da Hood - Boyz N da Hood **
Brian Digby Jr. - BJ Rock *
Buckshot & 9th Wonder - Chemistry ****
Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang ****
Cage - Hell's Winter ****
Cannibal Ox - Cypher Unknown ****
Cassidy - I'm A Hustla ***
Casual - Smash Rockwell ***
Cee-Lo/Danger Mouse - Gnarls Barkley ****
Chali Tuna - Fish Out of Water ****
Chamillionaire aka King Koopa - The Mixtape Messiah 2 ***
Chamillionaire & Stat Quo - Big Business ***
Chamillionaire - The Sound of Revenge ****
Chief Kamachi - suicide bomber Mixtape **
Chino XL - Poison Pen *****
Circle of Tyrants - ****
Clinton Sparks - Get Familiar Vol. 1 ***
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury ***
CNN - New Religion ***
Common - BE ******************************
Consequence - Consequence Presents: A Tribe Called Quence ***
Cormega - Urban Legend ****
Cory Gunz - The Comminsment ***
Count Bass D / J Rawls - Ohio Players ****
Cuban Link - Chain Reaction ***
Dave Ghetto - N/A **
Daz Dillenger - So So Gangsta ***
Defari - Street Music **
Del the Funkee Homosapien The 11th Hour *****
Dirtbag - Eyes Above The Water **
DJ Clue - The Professional Pt. 3 ***
DJ Premier - Man of Few Words ****
DJ Z-Trip - N/A *
DMP - N/A **
Doktah Soose - Presents: Dead Rabbits Vol. 1 ***
Domination - God Giveth, God Taketh Away **
The Doors Remix Project ***
Dr. Dre - Detox *********************
Dynas - N/A ***
E-40 - My Ghetto Report Card ***
Elliot Ness & Babs - Bonnie & Clyde *
El-P - N/A ***
Elusive - Open Sessions *
Elzhi - N/A ***
Eve - N/A ***
Fakts One - Long Range ***
Fort Minor - Rising Tied ***
Foxy Brown - Black Rose ***
Freddie Foxxx - American Black Man ****
F.T. (Fuc That) - The F Word ***
General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners **
Grafh - Autografh ****
Green Lantern - Armaggedon ****
Guru - Guru, Version 7.0 ***
Guru Presents - Jazzmatazz Volume 4 **
Heatmakerz - Crack: Vol. 1 ***
Hot Boys - The Return ***
Ice Water Inc. - N/A **
Immortal Technique - The Middle Passage ****
Inspectah Deck and Muggs - N/A ****
Inspectah Deck - The Rebellion ***
Jae Millz - Back To Tha Future ****
Jean Grae and 9th Wonder - Jeanius ****
Jestoneart - Dark City **
J.Hood - Tales From the Hood ***
Joe Budden - The Growth ****
J Rawls and Coach D - Mad Men 2 ***
J Rawls - Essence of Soul **
J Rawls - Jazzy Sensation **
J.R. Writer - N/A ****
Juelz Santana - What The Game Been Missing ****
Jus Allah - All Fates Have Changed ****
Justus League - Chitlin Circuit 1.5 ****
Juvenile - Reality Checka ***
Kankick - Acid Massive Musical **
Kanye West - Late Registration ****
K.M.D. - Mental Illness ****
Kool Keith & H bomb - 7th Veil *
K-Otix - The Ethos Album ***
Kurupt - Against the Grain **
Lauryn Hill - Khulami Phase **
Lawless Element - Sound Vision: In Stereo **
L.E.G.A.C.Y. - Project Mayhem **
Tha Liks - Firewater ***
Lil Flip - Gotta Get Mines **
Lil' Sci & M.F. Doom - The John Robinson Project ***
Lil' Scrappy - Bred to Die ***
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show ****
Lloyd Banks - The Big Withdraw ****
Lone Catalyst - Good Music ***
Lord Finesse - The Funky Technician: The Remix Project ****
L.O.X. - Live, Suffer, Celebrate *****
Majik Most - Molesting Hip-Hop CD/DVD ***
Maker - Shooting the Breeze *
Maroons - N/A ***
Masta k*lla - The East Is In The House ***
Mathematics - Cold World **
MC Hush - Bulletproof **
Medaphor (M.E.D.) - Push Comes to Shove ***
Metal Fingers - Special Herbs & Spices 9 & 10 **
MF Doom - MM Leftovers ***
MF Doom and DJ Danger Mouse - Danger Doom *****
Mighty Joseph (Vast & Carnage) - Empire State **
Mighty Mi Presents - The Boi Wonder **
Miri Ben-Ari - The Hip-Hop Violinist ***
Mobb Deep - N/A ****
M.O.P. - Ghetto Warfare ****
M.O.P. - The Lost Generation ***
M.O.P. - St. Marxmen **
Mums the Word - Constant Evolution **
Nas - Lost Tapes 2 ***
Nas - NASDAQ Dow Jones *********************************
Necro - Violence (DVD/CD) ***
Necro and Ill Bill - Blood Brothers ****
Nucleus - The Chosen Few *
Non-Phixion - Nuclear Truth ************************
N.O.R.E. - One Fan a Day ***
Notorious B.I.G. - Duets **
Obie Trice - murder City ***
O.C. - The Professional ****
Oschino and Sparks - N/A **
Outkast - 10 The Hard Way *************************
Papoose - The Nacirema Dream ****
Parallel Thought - Drugs, Liquor, s*x and Cigarettes EP ***
Paul Wall - People's Champ ****
Percee P - N/A ***
Prodigy - H.N.I.C. II ***
Project Move - Love Gone Wrong/Butterfly Theory ***
Proof - Searching For Jerry Garcia **
P$C - 25 To Life **
Purple City - Born To Be Purple **
P.U.T.S. - Stepfather ***
Q-Tip - Move **
Raekwon - Cuban Linx 2: R.A.G.U. ****
Rakim - Oh My God ****
Redman - Red Gone Wild ****
Reef the Lost Cause - Feast or Famine **
Remy Martin - There's Something About Remi **
Rich Nice - N/A **
The Roots - The Game Theory *****
Royce Da 5'9 & Nottz - N/A ***
Ruff Ryders - Ryde or Die Vol. IV ****
S.A. Smash - Smash Burger ***
Saigon -The Greatest Story Never Told *********************
Secret Society - ****
Scarface - N/A *****
Sean Price - Passion of the Price Mixtape ***
Self Scientific - N/A **
Shellz - Welcome To Times Square **
Shyne - N/A **
Skillz - I Ain't Mad No More ***
Slim Thug - Already Platinum *****
Smif 'N Wessun - Reloaded
Smoothe da Hustler - Violenttimes Day ****
Speedknot Mobstaz - N/A **
Stat Quo - Statlanta ****
Styles P - Time is Money *****
Sunspot Jonz - Journey to the Sun **
Supastition - Chain Letters ****
Sway & King Tech - Back 2 Basics ***
Tash - N/A **
T.I. - Crown Me ****
Time Machine - TM Radio ***
Tony Yayo - The Tony Yayo Story *****
Tragedy Khadafi - Still Reporting II ****
Trillville - Trillville: Reloaded ***
Trunks - N/A ****
Twista - Stealing The First Quarter ***
Usher, Ludacris, Lil' Jon - A-Town Down **
Young Jeezy - Lets Get It ****
Yukmouth - Million Dollar Mouthpiece **