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Wu Tang Clan - Chamber Music


I've been listening to Michael man. Little else. When all the pretensions are removed and the bullshit vanishes, and we have this brief window between global mourning and an overstated spin cycle, well, Michael Jackson makes most music sound like shit. Especially Charles Hamilton.

Exploring the vast chasms of my iPod, however, recently came across the new B.o.B mixtape. Specifically the posse cut with Ash Roth and Charles Hamilton. That's some "fuck hip-hop" stuff. Fucking awful. Rapping about blogging and shit.

Anyway, we're at another Tuesday of new albums that no one will buy. The biggest name releasing music today is The Wu. But the most enticing pick of the week comes after the jump.

Z-Ro & Chill - The Rain

We're kicking off today's releases with some homefield advantage.

I'm counting this as his 13th LP since the late '90s, but it's fucking impossible to keep track. Perhaps the Houston rapper's most glaring tragedy is his inability to assemble. Z-Ro is an endless stream of verses, guest flows, Screw tapes, and mixtapes. In other words, good luck catching up with the rest of his best of.

Finding a comprehensive discography or even album art for an album that comes out today is harder than hunting down a Coldplay zip file that hasn't been deleted by label bosses.

I don't even know who Chill is.

We've somewhat shelved this weekly feature due to limited resources and an increasing distrust of the commercial release versus its mixtape cousin. We could not ignore today.

Hands down, the biggest single date of the year thus far. And, to the dismay of many obituaries penning the model's end, it is a good day for commercial hip-hop albums. I may even go to Best Buy myself and get some $9.99 LPs. Real talk.

Alas, we'll be properly breaking each down by week's end, but here's what you need to be checking for. Slate of shrink-wrapped freshness after the jump.

A weird, dancy, DJ-centered, juxtaperrific collection is this week's most worthwhile offering. Lots of capable albums across the board, however, so plug in and follow the jump.

The new queen of hip-hop celebrated the birth of her much-anticipated baby boy recently, and while she didn't provide you net nerds with play-by-play tweets a la Ms. Erykah, she did offer the following blog post on her MySpace. Given the circumstances, I'd say the Kanye caps are in order.

Another posthumous Dilla effort is this week's pick of the litter. But other standouts add to the year's first noteworthy batch of hip-hop releases...