The Starting 5: 2009 All Rookie Team Project
A little background info on this one:
Our homies over at Tha Carter Cartel (Specifically longh0rn) are always putting together these massive projects of certain artists. It could be anybody from Ryan Leslie to Kanye West but these projects contains massive amounts of music sometime tipping over the 500mb scale. I’ve always wanted to help out with getting shine for what they were doing so when I saw 2009 All Rookie Team Project (Seeing as Saule did a whole team theme recently with Hip-Hop groups), I was like; “Yea, this is the one”. Plus with the upcoming NBA All Star Game it all makes sense. All the credit should be due to longh0rn for putting together all this music; the only thing I did was slap on the banner you see above. I’ll let him explain in his own words as we look at the team and pass out the download links.
Point Guard: Drake [Link]
Shooting Guard: Big Sean [Link]
Here is the Guards of the All Rookie Team 2009. Drake is at the point position running the show for the Rooks. Big Sean is the shooting guard, dropping 3’s (punch lines). The material in these are just all of the mixtapes, random songs, and features these two Rooks did, over 700 mb together.
Small Forward: J. Cole [Link]
Jermaine Cole is the small forward on the 2009 All Rookie Team. Dude came out of my state and made it in the game. Not too long ago he was signed as Roc Nation’s first artist. He is now going on tour with Jay-Z, N.E.R.D & Lupe Fiasco. I can say everyday I play The Warm Up, it is easy one of the best mixtapes of last year but people sleep on it. Here’s my collection of his work, I’m sure I have all of it because not alot of material has been released.
Power Forward: B.o.B [Link #1 & Link #2]
Bobby Ray aka B.o.B. is your starting power forward on the 2009 All Rookie Team. Bobby Ray has been compared to Andre 3000 with his rapping style and can actually play the guitar unlike Lil’ Wayne. Like all of these rookies, he is one of my favorite artists right now. Here’s the collection of tracks I have of him, which is a lot!
Center: Kid Cudi [Link]
After dropping his debut album last year, his buzz will only continue. Also has another album dropping sometime this year, so we have that to look forward too. This includes the official mixtapes, and a bunch of random freestyles, remixes, and features CuDi has done. Before I lost all my music, I didn’t have most of these tracks and I’m a big Cudder follower.
Damn this is shit load of music!
(*Punches screen*)
How come Macho Man and Eli Porter are not on this list for the best new spitters of last year!
You will not ignore me and Eli skills.
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What about the backups and Where is Wale? He is better than these guys about three of those guys easily. And I love big Sean nohomo but i dont know about Big Sean over Cory Gunz
Wale is talented but I really think that performance at last year’s BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher really hurt his stock. He kinda dropped the ball.
Yeah but he still makes better music
Can’t co-sign B.O.B. If you think he spit like 3k, you need to be slapped upside your head… CuDi is wack too
Hold up…Cudi at Center, B.O.B on the list?
Shit is WACK son!
Yeah b.o.b shouldnt be here
Would put J. Cole at SG and replace B.o.B. with…… idk…. Wale i guess.
Drake at Center..Jermaine at PG….Don’t need the rest of these shmucks.
I think the problem with Wale, although he is one of my favorite freshman emcees (Listen to The Mixtape About Nothing, and you can’t say any different, or his older material), it’s not that he hasn’t been releasing new material, it’s not enough for another Starting 5 collection, because most of it would be with his older mixtapes/ album, and some unrelated unreleased songs.
I’ve downloaded the Big Sean & Drake mixtapes when they were first released, and I was pretty much impressed with them. Did Longh0rn update them, or are the same thing, because I’m considering DLing them again, just deleting the first files.
Yea, all the mixtapes and music are updated to the date the post was put up.
Aight then, because J. Cole doesn’t have too much material that’s released yet, so he doesn’t have to DLed, B.o.B is just too overwhelming, maybe Drake, if he’s actually had a lot of new songs (Anybody know?), Big Sean doesn’t have too much material (Unless he’s got some new singles or shit), and Kid Cudi’s file has a lot of the singles / unreleased material I was too lazy to get.
Kid Cudi is not that good. He alright but that album wasn’t all of that.
Nice!
I think I’m rooting for J.Cole and Drake on this one. Cudi…wow Cudi…dude drove me bananas with that album…
Loving that artwork once again!
J.Cole at point, Wale at the two, and Drake at the 3. U can’t put cudi up there and not wale