4 Awesome Hip-Hop Albums that Will Never See the Light of Day

The current state of Hip-Hop is getting a bad "rap" - pun intended - due to the laxed emphasis on lyricism and its overall dumbed-down theme, but Hip-Hop would be in a much better state if the following highly anticipated albums would ever see the light of day.

Detox - Dr. Dre

"Hear ye, hear ye! Detox is a-coming!" Hip-Hop fans have been hearing the same false promises of Dr. Dre's third album Detox for over 10 years now and every year that passes is another year that Detox is promised, yet still remains off of store shelves. Dr. Dre's last two albums were classics independent of each other and if Detox is ever released, it's sure to be yet another Hip-Hop smash.

I Can't Feel My Face - Lil' Wayne and Juelz Santana

There was once a time when Dipset member Juelz Santana and Lil' Wayne were thick as thieves - and actually made good music together. Lil' Wayne and Mr. "Human Crack in the Flesh" himself, Juelz Santana, were rumored to create an album together called I Can't Feel My Face and they've even released two mixtapes that were leading up to the album that is never likely to happen. When Lil' Wayne and Juelz Santana vowed to create their I Can't Feel My Face album, Wayne and Juelz Santana were pretty much seen as equals, but in the years that followed their announcement, Santana has managed to stay almost irrelevant while Lil' Wayne has become a Hip-Hop megastar.

Black Star 2 - Mos Def & Talib Kweli

In 1998, Mos Def and Talib Kweli released one of my favorite Hip-Hop albums of all-time: Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star. Talib and "Mighty" Mos's Hip-Hop duo was an all-time Hip-Hop classic and seeing how close Mos and Kweli were - and still are - it only made sense that they'd create a follow-up to their first Black Star album and with more recent joints like Mos Def's History - featuring Talib Kweli, it's safe to say that the two homeboys still have good charisma in the booth together.

(CRS) Child Rebel Soldiers - Kanye, Pharrell, and Lupe Fiasco

Hip-Hop super-group isn't a phrase thrown around too often nowadays, but one was set to be formed in 2008, when Kanye, Lupe, and Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D announced that they'd be forging a Hip-Hop super team known as CRS. The trio went on the record a few songs together including Us Placers and Everybody Nose, but the full CRS album likely fell apart somehow.

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