2012 is almost wrap, and it means plenty of Hip-Hop albums that were supposed to drop, damn sure didn’t. Thanks to the speed of the Internet and thus social media, rappers are able to easily share their late release dates on a whim. Unfortunately, that means plenty of times the schedule they laid out was nothing more than a pipe dream, despite the best of intentions.
For some artists, the announcement of any “solid” release date has become borderline comical. See: 50 Cent. For other artists, every year that passes makes that next album an urban legend. See: Dr. Dre or artists on Bad Boy Records, no shots. The first installment of the inaugural 2012 Hip-Hop Wired Struggle Awards takes a look at artists with albums that at one time or another were promised to be available for purchase by year’s end.
Yeah, that didn’t happen. Click below to see what artist earned the “Where Is Your Album?” award, aka “The Detox”; for obvious reasons.
11. A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP
That PMF originally gave a Halloween 2012 release date for his debut, Long.Live. A$AP. Being that this year Halloween fell on a Wednesday, we never believed him. Long.Live.A$AP will be out January 15th, 2013, though.
10. GOOD Music – Cruel Summer
Yes, Cruel Summer did actually drop in 2012. Unfortunately, even if you copped it the day it was available you only had about a week to actually listen to it while it was still summertime.
9. Bow Wow – Underrated
To his credit, Bow Wow got a gig at BET’s 106 & Park. However, that long in the works YMCMB album, Underrated, is nowhere in sight. In fact, in August he said “F-ck that album & F-ck a release date.” Alrighty then.
8. Swizz Beatz – Haute Living
Swizzy stays working on an on-again maybe off-again new album, allegedly called Haute Living. But even he can’t commit to a release date. He did buy 150 copies of his wife’s album, though.
7. French Montana – Excuse My French
Despite appearing on a number of hit singles, whether his own (“Pop That”) or as a guest (“Stay Schemin”), the Coke Boy wasn’t able to fanute a 2012 album release.
5. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being 2
Originally planned for this fall, Weezy sequel to 2010’s I Am Not A Human Being will be hitting hard drives on, or near, February 19, 2013.
4. Juelz Santana – Born To Lose, Built To Win
Can’t Feel My Face with Lil Weezy is fast approaching Detox status. Now Juelz, who is still on Def Jam, swears his new album, Born To Lose, Built To Win, will be out in 2013, and executive produced by Weezy, too.
Jay Electronica – Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn)
We discussed Jay Elec-Ramadan’s busy 2012 here. We are also convinced Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) just may be a figment of Jay-Z’s imagination.
