Passion of the Weiss Muxtapes #3 and #4: The Best Hip-Hop Songs of the Year Thus Far

In case you missed it, Sach O of Oh Word touched down briefly last week, taking a break from trying to find Manuel Noriega in the Philippines (He has a mansion?) to bless the blogosphere with one of his hilariously entertaining rants. If you’re too lazy to click over, the gist revolves around the assertion that Portishead and Erykah Badu have pretty much bodied all hip-hop made in 2008. Dart Adams of Poisonous Paragraphs fired back in the comments section with his claim that there have been 50 worthwhile rap records released this year and then wrote this post where he pointed out that “hip hop is far from dead, but the way we used to hear it and become exposed to it may be dead forever. If you’re not scouring the internet or the bloggerverse for that new shit then chances are you have no idea what (if any) new Hip Hop albums dropped last Tuesday.”

Personally, I’m somewhere between the two. Yeah, Badu and Portishead dropped two monster records this year that pretty much sonned nearly every hip-hop full-length. But Bun B, El-P, EMC, Elzhi, Metaform, Why? and The Kidz In the Hall have all made albums that I would’ve happily purchased had the Internet not turned the music world into a cheap all-you-can-eat buffet. Moreover, the year has produced a bonanza (yes, a bonanza) of great singles, many of which are on albums still forthcoming (in theory).

So if you’ve glossed over most of what I’ve posted this year in hopes of the rare chance that I’ll make fun of the Iron Sheik or something, the muxtapes are below. I purposely omitted songs that were on my first tape, so “Royal Flush” didn’t make it despite being easily one of the year’s best songs. Next time, I’ll do best non-hip hop stuff for the four of you into that sort of thing. In the meantime, peep the tapes below to find 24 of the finest rap songs made by rappers that contain rapping, sometimes in rhythm, occasionally on-beat, often high. In the words of William Mulholland, “There it is. Take it.”

The Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #3: The Best Hip-Hop Songs of the Year Part 1

The Passion of the Weiss Muxtape#4: The Best Hip-Hop Songs of the Year Part II

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The Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #1-Science and Metaphors Will Slow Up the Dough

I’ve resisted the Muxtape meme that’s been spreading across the blogosphere over the past month, but when Goathair of the very excellent Blowtorch blog, asked me why I hadn’t made one to entertain him at work, I didn’t really have much of an answer other than mumbling a few asides about the site being lamely named. After laboring in a light-less laboratory for the last week, I now can unveil the first Passion of the Weiss muxtape. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll hear Ghost declare that “Tony went raw on plenty.” And yes, I even included a Lil Wayne song for the kiddies. Everyone wins. I’m hoping to make muxtapes a regular feature on the Passion, so please let me know what you think of this first hip-hop themed installment. It might not top the Catbird Seat’s tape, which clearly wins the Montgomery Burns Award for Excellence in the Field of Excellence, but hey, one can always try.

The Passion of the Weiss Muxtape

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