Joyner released his best tracks and hyped the rest of the album like something huge was coming, kept everyone waiting and then it dropped like a stinking jonny full of spunk.
Name the last album released by any hip hop artist that you could listen to front to back without a skip...
Pre-2005 I reckon I could name about 10-15 easy. After then I’d struggle to name 1. The genre has changed and it’s on its arse.
I think it goes beyond hip hop, when was the last album that was great from start to finish, I can only think of one in the last 5 years.Probs Kendrick Lamar. Good Kid BAAD city. Think that was 2015. But even that was a rare gem in a sea of banal ****.
A proper hip hop album with sick flows and a strong message just seems confined to the past now. Next big thing to blow up will probs come from the streets of Aleppo or Mogadishu.


