
I start off virtually every post on hip-hop by explaining how I used to be into hip-hop, but then, for whatever reason, I stopped listening... I made a slow move to pop, rock, country, folk, roots, and virtually everything else. If you peruse through my best albums lists ( '05 (3/10) , '06 (1/15) , '07 (3/20) , '08 (6/28) ) there's some hip-hop, and certainly more as a percentage at the margins in '05 and '08, but after the run of rap albums I've heard lately, I feel like I'm back. I'm getting into [...]