Nishan's 2009 Prediction

What's up all,

Well, if you have been listening to the show, you should already be able to guess who my number one prediction is. I will also have an explanation as to why I think the following artists will hold it down for the year 2009. Here it goes:

1. Joe Budden
2. Eminem
3. Lil' Wayne
4. Outkast
5. Cory Gunz

Honorable mention:

Juelz Santana


Now, as Jamal stated, this obviously isn't my top favorite rappers, but it is simply my prediction. Here's my explanation as to why I chose these 5 artists as oppose to anybody else.

Number 1, Joe Budden - aside from him being my favorite post-03 artist, he is finally given the chance to hit the mainstream again. With having only 1 mainstream album and 2 street album's out to date, he has been out of the light for some time now. But, from mid-July of 2008, he has caused a series of events that generated a good amount of buzz in the industry. The ode to hip hop, Who, I believe shook up the game, and had an incredible amount of feedback from the artists mentioned in the song. The Halfway House album = a great piece of work and leads in perfectly into his upcoming album Padded Room. Padded Room's first single just released, and it is BANANAS. This is the first mainstream song he has created since Pump It Up and features The Game! For those that do not realize the significance of this, long story short, Joe Budden was the first artist to attack G-Unit, and had a long lasting beef with The Game. Lastly, Joe Budden, along with Royce Da 5'9, Crooked I, and Joell Ortiz, has created the CRAZIEST hip hop group since Wu Tang. All of them are lyracists, and have great flow. If they continue doing what they do, garanteed - they will revolutionize the game.

I'll make the rest short.

Number 2, Eminem - crazy buzz, and has a long anticipated album releasing early next year (The Relapse).

Number 3, Lil' Wayne - love him or hate him, respect this man's grind. He already has a line up of releases planned for 09, such as the T-Wayne album, Tha Carter 3 Rebirth, another 30 song mixtape, the long anticipated I Can't Feel My Face album, and so on.

Number 4, Outkast - BIG THINGS PLANNED FOR OUTKAST!! Both are coming out with a solo album in 09. Big Boi's album, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, is set to come out in February, and Andre's unnamed solo album follows it up later on in the year.

Number 5, Cory Gunz - Everywhere you look Gunz is there, as of late. After the huge hype off his A Milli verse, he has been dropping his lyrical death bombs any and every place he gets the chance. He also outshined EVERYBODY that spit on The Cipher on the BET Awards. I am predicting that he will get resigned or find a great deal in 09, and he will take the W for most of 09, and 2010 will be his official year.

*By the way Juelz just got signed to Def Jam and got out of the big mess over with Dipset. He has a mixtape and album planned for 09, and if he can create a buzz similar to the amount of his last album, he will be able to hold his own.


We'll see if I'm right or not haha. Just a prediction.
It's been real, be easy people!


Nishan