The hip-hop release clock never stops. New music is constantly being pushed up, pushed back, re-released, and updated. However, at the end of the year it is always fun to look at what we were supposed to get in the year prior and speculate, based on industry rumors, what we will be getting in the following year.

Kanye West is a hard figure to talk and write about. No matter where you land on the political and religious spectrum, he manages to alienate or inspire people of all beliefs though I do recognize it is mostly the former.