2006 was the worst year in Hip-Hop history!

[Heavy_Handz]

Up to that point!!! I’m sure you can argue that there have been worse years AFTER. But at the time 2006 was fukking terrible!!! Not a single certified classic album dropped that year! NONE! Up until 2006 I don’t think you could have said that about any single year! The radio was TRASH! There was a huge shift in the mainstream at that point it almost felt like Hip-Hop was nearing extinction with the quality of music being so abysmal.

Let’s list some of the albums that dropped on 06…

Birdman & Lil Wayne - Like Father, Like Son. With singles like Stuntin Like My Daddy

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury - Clear drop off from their debut album. Overrated album.

Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor. I’m sure some backpackers will call this a classic album but it’s not

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale. Good album. In most other years this album is forgotten.

AZ - The Format. Good album. Solid. OK.

Outkast - Idlewild

J Dilla - Donuts. An instrumental album released by a dead guy might be 2006 album of the year

Nas - Hip-Hop is Dead. Terrible album. Aptly titled album.

T.I. - King. Solid. Maybe.

Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang. Touch It was hot in the clubs

The Game - The Doctors Advocate.
Album wasn’t even close to living up to The Documentary.


What else? Jeezy? Snoop? Rick Ross? Just a bunch of forgettable noise. Erase the whole year

 

[Mastamimd]

A Peice of Strange came out that year so idgaf what you talmbout

 

[letti cook]

just looked at a list of what dropped that year and yeah...I can remember being underwhelmed with damn near everything I bought that year...

juvenile, ti, game, jayz, hi-tek, jeezy, busta, ross, clipse,luda....just real real okay albums...good for a few joints but never for a full revisit

pharell and banks albums hurt my heart

 

[JustCKing]

2006 was solid IMO. 2014 is the worst year in music easily.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Like Father, Like Son was fire fukk what you talking about

 

[Unknown Poster]

2006 literally felt like the dark ages of rap. Fitting Nas dropped Hip-Hop Is Dead that year. I remember it vividly. Didn't help that Viacom bought BET from Bob Johnson and MTV stopped playing music videos either by then so it just felt like the culture was shifting for the worse. The content in mainstream rap was shifting. It started to become all ringtone snap musik and songs with dances.

That's when NYC was losing its grip on the Rap game and Southern dominance was continuing.

I was going back to listening to 90s Hip-Hop by then shyt was so bad.

 

[Grand_Verbalizer]

Looking for some albums to dump here but I'll leave one for now, Might add some later

 

[Low End Derrick]

Us backpackers ate in '06.

 

[The Connoisseurs]

Gucci mane the Eskimo brrr Ya bytch!


Naw this was the start of wops run so it can’t be

2006 was solid IMO. 2014 is the worst year in music easily.

Naw Future Monster, Travis Days Before the Rodeo, Rich Gang the tour Vol 1 and Migos No Label 2 …. Nipsey Mailbox money etc… Naw you tripping.

 

[JustCKing]

Gucci mane the Eskimo brrr Ya bytch!


Naw this was the start of wops run so it can’t be



Naw Future Monster, Travis Days Before the Rodeo, Rich Gang the tour Vol 1 and Migos No Label 2 …. Nipsey Mailbox money etc… Naw you tripping.

I'm confident that more people would consistently agree that 2014 is the worst year in music over any other year in recorded music history. Just looking at the decline from 2013 to 2014, it isn't even an argument. Those handful of releases you listed changes nothing. Literally went from a stacked year in 2013 to literally people not buying albums in 2014. That's when the industry went scrambling and substituting streams for actual album sales because the numbers were flabby across the board. Were there a few good albums in 2014, yes, but I'm willing to bet most of those were mixtapes moreso than retail albums.

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Food and Liquor is considered a classic by both fans and rappers alike

Food and Liquor and J Dillas album alone made 2006 a solid year for hip hop

What You Know by T.I. is a classic single

Shoulder Lean and I Luv It were dope. They were all over the radio too

2006 objectively was not the worst year in hip hop since the 2000s. Not even the worst year of that decade. 2008 was a dark time

But even after that, we had the Blog Era. One of the greatest eras in the history of hip hop

 

[The Connoisseurs]

I'm confident that more people would consistently agree that 2014 is the worst year in music over any other year in recorded music history. Just looking at the decline from 2013 to 2014, it isn't even an argument. Those handful of releases you listed changes nothing. Literally went from a stacked year in 2013 to literally people not buying albums in 2014. That's when the industry went scrambling and substituting streams for actual album sales because the numbers were flabby across the board. Were there a few good albums in 2014, yes, but I'm willing to bet most of those were mixtapes moreso than retail albums.

Who cares about corporate label albums trying to appeal to middle of america.

This tapes i listed birthed a whole new wave from a game that was getting stale especially after wop went to jail.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Not only a trash year, but pretty much the entry point into an entire trash period that rap took nearly a decade to emerge from.

 

[tuckgod]

Like Father, Like Son was fire fukk what you talking about

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

Us backpackers ate in '06.