This Past Week In Rap CD Releases...

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

Ja Rule - R.U.L.E

Eminem - Encore

Fabolous - Real Talk

Snoop Dogg - Rhythm & Gangsta: The Masterpiece

Im really getting annoyed by albums getting leaked, how do you guys feel about it?

P.S. - Ja's album is getting the most praise, followed by Snoop. Eminem's & Fabolous' cd's have been getting some bad remarks, on other boards.

[tristy]

Yellowbrick Road off of Encore has really good production on it. Eminem is good at producing, apparently.

[paidelr]

Really? I've heard Ja's getting bad reviews while Eminem is getting the hot ones.

I can say that I have downloaded Eminem and it is some pretty hot shit. Definitely a buy for me on November 16th.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

where u getting these remarks from? iv been to raptism.com's forums, tupacboard & mp3board.net...and i have heard bad stuff about EM's, even tho they said "Toy Soldierz" is tight. But i have heard Ja's "Life Goes On" "Gun Talk" "Last Of the Mohicans" & "New York" and those tracks definalty stand out, with tracks like "Caught Up" & "The Passion" being solid.

Ill end up buying both of them.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Any idea where I can listen to any of these leaked tunes? Preferably Snoop's new stuff.

[Guest Mr McFarlane]

Any idea where I can listen to any of these leaked tunes? Preferably Snoop's new stuff.

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[Corizzle]

Try your P2P program of choice...

I'm going to get Eminem's album sometime, and maybe Snoop because Snoop is awesome

[Lowerdeck]

Try your P2P program of choice...

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Read the post right before yours and then proceed to lunge your head straight into your computer desk. Repeat.

I'm really uninterested in Eminem's album. Fabolous - eh. Breathe will be alright for a couple more weeks, and what else is there?

Can Ja Rule actually be hardcore? Apparently so, so this shouldn't be so bad. I may look into the album here.

Snoop Dogg - uh. Pass.

Edited November 4, 2004 by Lowerdeck

[Cactus Drags]

I can't stand Ja Rule. I really, really can't. Eminem's not too bad, but his last album wasn't quite up to scratch. I'd be most interested in his from that list though. Maybe Snoop too, though I've not heard a great deal of his work.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

Ja's not extremely "hard" on this album, he's got a few street bangers like "New York" "Gun Talk" but he also has deep songs like "Life Goes On" then he just has club bangers, so its a good mix. solid CD id say, best since VVV.....well that isnt saying much.

[kaya]

Any idea where I can listen to any of these leaked tunes? Preferably Snoop's new stuff.

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Good luck with getting an answer on a messageboard with strict warez policies.

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[paidelr]

I believe

http://www.shadyrecords.net has his new ones

And those sites are hotsed on THAT site so they'll get in trouble. We'll be fine. Edit it if you must.

[existence02]

Ja's not extremely "hard" on this album, he's got a few street bangers like "New York" "Gun Talk" but he also has deep songs like "Life Goes On" then he just has club bangers, so its a good mix. solid CD id say, best since VVV.....well that isnt saying much.

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[thatshortguy]

Is that even the case anymore? I thought there had been a laxing of the policy?

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Considering this thread has been untouched since its inception yesterday, I suppose it is a bit more lax concerning said rule.

That being saiid, I may not be the one to speak, having only jumped back into the swing of things two days ago.

[Lord Nibbler]

Eminem's album is just plain bad. I'm not entirely suprised, but I was holding out hope that he'd reverted back to his older style. It's worse than Eminem Show, it's easily his worst album overall.

Like Toy Soldiers is the only genuinely good track, and even that gets annoying because of the beat. Big Weenie, Mosh and Encore are bearable. The production on the whole is better than Eminem Show, but Em actually ruins the beats with his childish jokes and annoying choruses. For the most part, I'd rather listen to the songs instrumental.

If this is his last album, it's not a good way to go out.

[K]

As the coolest admin, I don't give a shit what you do. Until you start pirating stuff I like, then it's go time >_X

[Guest Mr McFarlane]

There go my hopes of starting a Star Trek pirate ring on EWB.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

I would link some of these up...but then again i didnt just say that...because it may still be disallowed

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

I would link some of these up...but then again i didnt just say that...because it may still be disallowed

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[Psicosis]

Heard a couple of tracks on the radio today. Like Toy Soldiers has the second worst beat i've ever heard (the first would go to Talib Kweli's Lonely People beat). Mosh I like, Rain Man has a pretty good beat and funny lyrics, Encore is alright.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

now.......Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz - Crunk Juice, has been leaked.

[Lowerdeck]

Everything gets leaked. It sucks, but it's life.

Record industry needs to find better ways to keep this shit protected.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

johnny, which ones?

Friday, November 5, 2004

Eminem’s new album Encore has been leaked on to the internet.

The Real Slim Shady star’s hotly-anticipated fourth album was stolen nearly two weeks before its release date. The theft has sparked panic at his record label Interscope who have brought forward the worldwide release date.

An illegal website called RNS put the entire album on the net two days ago. Thousands of fans instantly downloaded it and could pass it on to countless others.

It could lose the 32-year-old rapper milliions of dollars in royalties from CD sales. Interscope bosses were locked in meetings all day yesterday. They decided to bring forward Encore’s release date by three days to next Friday November 12. Unveiling the album on a Friday rather than a Monday is virtually unprecedented — and a sign of how panicked bosses are.

An insider at the label said: “This is catastrophic news. Security has been so tight on this album nobody can figure out how the album has got out there. We now think thousands of people around the world are downloading. This is a very, very serious issue for us.”

Encore features 20 tracks with titles including Mosh, Puke and Big Weenie. Eighties star Martika features on Like Toy Soldiers.

Despite the theft, experts still predict Encore — the follow up to The Eminem Show — will be the biggest selling album in the world this year.

[Lord Nibbler]

The ripping groups always find a way to get it.

There were some far-fetched rumours that the leak was a decoy, but that was more hope than anything else. However, especially now, I could see them maybe changing the tracklisting a bit.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

johnny, which ones?

Friday, November 5, 2004

Eminem’s new album Encore has been leaked on to the internet.

The Real Slim Shady star’s hotly-anticipated fourth album was stolen nearly two weeks before its release date. The theft has sparked panic at his record label Interscope who have brought forward the worldwide release date.

An illegal website called RNS put the entire album on the net two days ago. Thousands of fans instantly downloaded it and could pass it on to countless others.

It could lose the 32-year-old rapper milliions of dollars in royalties from CD sales. Interscope bosses were locked in meetings all day yesterday. They decided to bring forward Encore’s release date by three days to next Friday November 12. Unveiling the album on a Friday rather than a Monday is virtually unprecedented — and a sign of how panicked bosses are.

An insider at the label said: “This is catastrophic news. Security has been so tight on this album nobody can figure out how the album has got out there. We now think thousands of people around the world are downloading. This is a very, very serious issue for us.”

Encore features 20 tracks with titles including Mosh, Puke and Big Weenie. Eighties star Martika features on Like Toy Soldiers.

Despite the theft, experts still predict Encore — the follow up to The Eminem Show — will be the biggest selling album in the world this year.

-credit: streethop.com

definalty sounds like an inside job....in related news RNS has always been on top, and always will be.

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