I hear you about the sound, it gets getting used to. I generally I try all new stuff (most songs I post in this thread tend to be new music I just heard, like the above two guys, released within last week or so), even the ok-so-so stuff really, but regarding albums, you missing on ALOT if you think those are the last good albums. Vinnie Paz being quite dissapointing for me for a while (even his concert I saw few months ago, R.A Ruggedman, his opening act, was alot better), and I'm rarely dissappointed by underground hiphop, you allways know what you get with them. But in general I would say the same to you as I did with Zozo, there's more then plenty of good rap music to be find, wethers its in mixtapes, underground, or studio album releases, it wont be all in mainstream (it can be, like Kendricks classic debute album), but its there.
And true, Vinnie Paz has gone downhill majorly after God of the Serengeti (just realised that that was 2003 as well )
On a different note:
It's one of my favourite Kanye West song, and the remix ain't bad either.
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