Another month has passed and that means another YoRapper poll completed. Last month we asked all of you lovely haters, which rapper is probably gay? And the winner with a whopping 29% of the vote goes to Lil Wayne. Unsuprisingly, Kanye West was runner up with 24% of the vote.

In our January poll, we asked YoRapper readers the age old question which rap personality would you pimp slap? The top 3 rappers that would get smacked up are as follows;

#1 Soulja Boy with 24% of the vote
#2 Lil Wayne with 21% of the vote
#3 Jay-Z with 11% of the vote

Wow. Three of the biggest names in rap and yall would Rick James pimp slap them? Yalls ruthless.

The people have spoken and in our month long poll asking who is the greatest weed carrier, we had Young Dro take it. Wow, I seriously thought Memphis Bleek should have taken it, but I guess Bleek had more “hits” than Dro.

2007 was a pretty sick year for hip hop, aside from record sales. We got a Common album, a Kanye album, Lupe album, Jay-Z album, Joe Budden mixtape, Talib album, Styles album…So it was a nice year for the music artistically. Though we also got a Soulja Boy album, maybe that balances everything out.

The Best of 2007 is broken down into the following categories; Best Rap Album, Best Mixtape, Best Singles, and Best Rapper. Let me know if I missed anything.

Top 5 Mixtapes:

Weezy put like 1000 mixtapes this year. I couldn’t fit them all into the top 5.

Killa came back with a vengeance (not really). But at least he made his presence felt with this mixtape.

I never knew it was possible to make your mixtape better than your album Hell Reezy proved me wrong this year by dropping Eat A Box of Bullets which completely smashed his debut album For the Hell of It.

This mixtape will go down in history as the mixtape that got the East coast interested in Weezy. Songs like “I feel like dying” and backed by East coast sounding production helped make this mixtape a must have for everyone.

You already know I fell about this mixtape.

Top 10 Singles:

T-Pain’s been on every one’s single this year. Most of them, I can’t stand, this one stands out. Honorable mention to Kanye’s Good Life. Oh yeah and little Chris Brown destroyed the MTV Awards showing he got next.

This is the Bobby Valentino song of ‘07. We’ll have a new thug R&B’er next year.

I didn’t care about this song at first. But after I paid attention to the lyrics I was blown away. Alicia sounds like she’s madly in love on this joint.

Even this video was mad boring. This song is the theme music when you quit your day job (like I did).

I hated on the video for the green screen video (sidebar: So did Jay-Z). But this goes hard.

Who? I know this is not even urban, some white chick from Canada singing muffled folk tunes. I have no clue how I got into listening to her. But I’m feeling this song, her album is good too if you have an open ear.

Even though The Dream is T-Pain repackaged. This song shut down the R&B gangsters.

When I first heard this on Hot 97, cause they were playing this every minute of the day, I was totally blown away. I thought this song alone would sell like 10 times platinum (boy I was I wrong).

Even though Common is one of the most boring rappers, the Kanye production on this is sick. Not sure if it should be #2 song of the year, but what was as good as this? That gay anthem Stronger?

This has to be the best song of 2007. I don’t care what none of you say. This is my joint for 07, even though it came out like two weeks ago. Lupe’s storytelling in ability in this one gives Young Nas a run for his I Gave You Power money.

Top 5 Rap Albums:

Another boring album that I rate. Maybe I’m getting boring.

I know you will agree with this statement: The production on Finding Forever is better than Graduation. Here’s to Common for taking all Kanye’s good beats.

Every year we can accept Hov to make another comeback album, this year was no different. The old man proves he still got it, well still has something.

Even though I’m still listening to this album because I’m not really sure what the hell is going on during most of the tracks. The stuff I do I get is mind blowing. Lupe has taken rap to the starship enterprise on this one.

And the best album of ‘07 goes too…Obviously Kanye’s album takes it after destroying Fifty’s artistic credibility and even beating him on sales in the US. Kanye brought backpack rap to Euro trash.

Best Rapper: Joe Budden
I have ears, I know Weezy killed shit this year. Lil Wayne earned his spot this year featuring on everyone’s song and dropping thousands of mixtapes. However, how many half ass verses did he have? Way too many. Weezy took the most shots and made some great ones, but missed a lot too. So I can’t say he is the best mc of 07, that title goes to none other than Joe Budden.

Joe Budden was quiet for much of ‘07, but was quietly building up one of the greatest street albums ever made (no wonder they call him mouse). Joe Budden’s is the comeback story of ‘07, having left Def Jam and being left for dead, every single verse I’ve heard him spit has been front to back focused. I have no clue how this man is this inspired. Even over sub-par beats, this man still has something to say. If you are not a fan of the new Joe Budden, I suggest you listen to Mood Muzik 2 and than part 3. Still don’t believe listen to this.

What’s Your Top Five?

The debate of who is the greatest rapper of all time circles around the hip hop community every single minute of every single day. While a worthwhile endeavor, I believe the better debate is who is the greatest weed carrier? Think about it, you became a millionaire by carrying the stash around for your friend who just happens to be a multi-platinum selling rapper. All yall dudes out there wishing to become a rap star need to reevaluate, yall should actually be-friending a rapper better than you and carry his weed around as the definitive road to riches. Which hip hop personality has made such a wise choice? YoRapper’s first poll and your input hopes to answer such a deeply thought provoking question.

Jay-Z likes to think he’s the GOAT (Greatest of All Time). But what about Hov’s less than Godly moments on the mic. Check the breakdown of the worst Jay-Z songs of all time. Feel free to add your own. Someone should make a mixtape of this.

12. Girl’s Best Friend [Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter(1999)]

Jay had a good metaphor going, but the Swizzy’s beat is all over the place and hook is annoying. Plus the video hurts my eyes.

11. Sunshine [In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997)]

Everyone knows this as Jay’s worst song, but compared to the following songs this ain’t that bad, though this video has to be the gayest video of all time, I mean Jay’s wearing a lime green suit dancing inside a rubik’s cube.

10. Hollywood [Kingdom Come]

This is like the Hollywood version of 03 Bonnie & Clyde only less Hollywood.

9. Do U Wanna Ride [Kingdom Come]

The most forgettable Jigga song ever. You get John Legend on a hook and the best thing you can think of him to sing is “do you wanna ride…with me”? Brilliant.

8. Minority Report [Kingdom Come]

The most blatant attempt at seeming like Jay’s got a heart. Also his flow on this has to be the gayest flow of all time. Beat was good and hook is there, just Jay didn’t deliver.

7. Dig a Hole [Kingdom Come]

Raps ok, but beat is garbage.

6. Trouble [Kingdom Come]

Again raps ok, but this beat is trash and to think Dre produced this? WTF.

5.What They Gonna Do [The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse]

Timbaland on the beat and Sean Paul on the hook. Sounds good on paper. In reality, it produced one of the most “please play me in the club” songs ever.

4. 03 Bonnie & Clyde [The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse]

We don’t want to hear Jay-Z in love. And we don’t want to hear it over a classic Tupac riff.

3. Anything [Kingdom Come]

This is the “Anything” featuring Usher and Pharrell, not the other “Anything” that was on Beanie’s album for no reason, that one was good, this is garbageman music. A blatant attempt on Jay to get play in the strip club.

2. Justify My Thug [The Black Album]

This song is by far the gayest beat Jay has ever spit too, WTF were you thinking dog? You could have had a classic with The Black Album. And that whole one “o’clock two o’clock” rah rah sounds like Ralphie.

1. I Know What Girls Like [In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997)]

This is perhaps the worst song of all time, not just in Jay’s stash. I so can picture Puffy (that’s what he was called back then) saying “this is gonna be the hot shit, take that, take that”.

These albums are albums that you must listen to in order for you to have a conversation with me. Honorable mention to T.I.’s Urban Legend and Hov’s Blueprint. Ladies get your listen on.

10. Noreaga -N.O.R.E.

This was just a fun album that had some of the best production of the new era ever. It also helped propel The Neptunes into the cool nerds they are today.

9. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin

An album that culminates everything before it with the simple phrase “GO GO GO SHAWTY..”

8. Capone-N-Noreaga - The War Report

This is the last classic album from New York from the Golden Era, CNN was on some IRAQ shit back then. I doubt they would be as pro-Islamic as they once were today.

7. Outkast - ATLiens

This is before Outkast went too left field for my taste.

6. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

The most colorful album ever. Remember the purple tape? The production on here coupled the sampling age with a more cinematic experience. Not to mention everyone became Italian mobsters after this. I know it sounds corny, it was the mid-90s. Nas’s guest appearance here is insane.

5. Method Man - Tical

This is when Meth wasn’t Hollywood and his flow was in another world, plus he made no damn sense, which was great.

4. Tupac - All Eyez on Me

This album is pretty much the blueprint for all the good artist from the South. This is album was the beginning of Pac’s end as he had just come out of jail and was signed to Death Row and the rest, well you know the rest.

3. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
The album that pretty much changed the world, but no one cared until Volume 2 came out.

2. Nas - It Was Written

The intro on this album is enough to call this classic as this album introduced the new age of hip hop away from the “break beats” and “dusty samples” of Illmatic.

1. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die: The Remaster

Greatest rap album of all time. This album is the blueprint of everything. This was also the prologue to the “shiny suit” era.

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