I like The Blueprint, but I'm not really a fan either. On the other hand, I've wanted to listen to Wondrous Bughouse for quite some time now. I'll maybe do it tonight.
The Blueprint is an OK album for me, good rapping, bad lyrics and I like American Gangster, Reasonable Doubt and The Black Album better; but Wondrous Bughouse, best album of the millennium? Really?
The Blueprint, by miles and miles and miles. Wondrous Bughouse is perfectly pleasant, but The Blueprint is just stunning. One of the first albums I ever bought, and one that I still return to pretty frequently. The way he tears apart Prodigy and Nas on 'Takeover' is just brutal ("four albums in ten years? I can divide, that's one every let's say two, two of them shits was doo, one was meh, the other was Illmatic, that's a one-hot-album-every-ten-year average"), then that six song run of 'I.Z.Z.O.' through to the stunning 'Heart of the City' is about as good as mainstream rap ever got. Every one of those six songs is a straight-up banger, the best, most accessible beats Jay-Z ever rapped over, and he murders each of them. Like murders them. Focused, nimble, full of the best boasts ever, surprisingly introspective at times. Then there's the darker last chapter of the album, featuring the great ballads 'Never Change', 'Song Cry', 'Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)', and that downright ridiculous, incredible Eminem verse on 'Renegade', a strong contender for the best verse of all-time ("I'm a motherfuckin' spiteful, delightful eyeful, the new Ice Cube, motherfuckers hate to like you"). One of the best albums ever, and extremely influential on mainstream hip-hop in the five years following, including Kanye, 50 Cent, T.I., The Clipse, I could go on. The Blueprint should be a serious contender for this whole tournament.
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