The 4th Best Hip-Hop Album EVER MADE

In our last installment, Ethan paid tribute to OutKast's out-of-this-world third album while Scott sang the praises of 50 Cent's commercial rap masterpiece. Here, we each share our picks for the 4th best hip-hop album ever made.

Poor Game... you gonna get drunk and cry in a song about it?

Game's history of popping off and recanting is well documented. He has taken shots, subliminal and not-so-subliminal, at Jay-Z, who apparently couldn’t care less (“is there an ant biting the shoestrings of my S Dots?”), and Game then took them back. He beefed with Suge Knight briefly, and then deaded it (probably due to his crippling fear of being dangled over balconies). He went at Joe Budden, who did respond pretty harshly, and Game then appeared on Joe’s next album. He even went on Change of Heart and badmouthed his girlfriend the entire episode, then wanted to stay together in the end (she didn't). Game is not even too proud to beg for forgiveness when he really didn’t do anything to wrong that person, demonstrated by the title track from Doctor’s Advocate. Well, someone better remove the Belvedere and Banana Snapple from his hand and call Busta Rhymes to interpret Game’s unintelligible sobbing, because this man is down on his knees yet again pleading to be taken back.

Incredibly smart decision of the day: Diddy writing his own lyrics

Mr. Sean "Puff 'P. Diddy' Daddy" Combs and Officer Ricky "Rauwwsss" Ross recently announced via YouTube video that they would be ripping off Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Watch The Throne" album idea with their own upcoming "Bugatti Boyz" project. Before we are able to get too worried, though, Puffy assures us that they will only make us suffer through an EP, rather than a full-length album. The surprising announcement, however, was that Puff, famous for spitting ghostwritten verses, will actually be writing his own lyrics this time… well, half of them, anyway.

BTDubb: Calm down with the weekly leaks!

Timbaland recently announced via Twitter that he would be jumping on the bandwagon of leaking new music weekly. Crooked I started doing his thing on a weekly basis over 3 years ago with his Hip Hop Weekly series, but the trend did not really pick up steam until Kanye West kicked off his G.O.O.D. Friday series in August. Since then, several artists have followed suit, including RZA with Wu Wednesdays, Lloyd Banks with Blue Friday, Joe Budden with Mood Muzik Monday, and Swizz Beatz swizzing up Budden's day with Monster Monday (or Miserable Monday, as we have renamed it). Timbaland decided he would be taking on "Timbo Thursday" and then, before releasing a single track, promptly announced that he would be postponing it.

Amazing Music Video of the Day: MC Hammer - "Better Run Run"

MC Hammer… excuse me, King Hammer (he must've landed a job at BK) has inexplicably obtained internet access.  He heard what's been said about him and has had enough. The final straw was a few lines in Jay-Z’s verse on “So Appalled” from Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Friday series in which Jay acknowledges Hammer’s past financial woes and vows not to make the same mistakes. However, Hammer took this statement of fact as a diss and immediately announced that there would be answer.  Over a month later, the answer is here. Hammer released the song and video for “Better Run Run”, making it clear that he has some things he wants Hov, and you, to know. So LISTEN CLOSE! (Seriously, audio levels are very low in the beginning).