If you ask me, I think it was a hit and miss year. We got some great albums Nas's Street Disciple, Kanye's College Drop Out, The Alchemist's 1st Infantry, Twista's Overnight Celebrity, and Talib's Beautiful Struggle along with a few other ones. Then we got straight ass albums like Eminem's Encore, which while bad still had some good tracks on it (Yellow Brick Road, Toy Soldiers, etc) and some more dissapointing albums like you mentioned Jada's album. I really didn't see anything great come out of the underground, with a few exceptions like Apathy's Where's Your Album? and that Jedi Mind Tricks album. Hopefull 2005 will be good with releases from Lil E (son of Eazy E) and Dr. Dre's Dextox. Unfortunately we're all going to have to go through the releases of the new 50 Cent and Game.