Been meaning to post on the subject for a while…

1.) Jay’s new album Kingdom Come is hot. Just Blaze outdoes himself on tracks like "Oh My God," and "Kingdom Come," the latter featuring a break from Rick James. Despite the annoying lyrics, Just Blaze puts together a great track based on Public Enemy’s classic interlude "Show Em Whatcha Got." Also a surprising number of Dre beats. Kanye produced the track for "Do You Wanna Ride," to which John Legend adds some stunning vocals, and Jay discusses those behind enemy lines. Swizz Beats also contributes to "Dig a Hole," and the last track, "Beach Chair," while weird as hell, is surprisingly pleasant. Highlight is clearly "Minority Report," produced by Dre and dealing with Katrina, even featuring a clip of Kanye’s "George Bush doesn’t care about Black people."

2.) Papoose keeps up the good work, this time aiming his legal-analytic skills (previously seen on his "Law Library" tracks) at the NYPD’s recent murders:

New York Daily News - Dec 2, 2006 
‘50 Shots’ - Rap Song on Bell Slaying Hits the Airwaves
By Michael White

Less than a week after cops killed an unarmed groom on his wedding day, a rap song condemning the controversial shooting - and the NYPD - has hit the airwaves. The rage-fueled rap "50 Shots" by an up-and-coming emcee, Papoose, has found airplay on satellite radio and is being circulated on the Internet.

The song, a collaboration between mixtape master Papoose and Hot 97 radio show host DJ Kayslay, blasts the cops involved in last Saturday’s shooting, along with police union boss Patrick Lynch and a New York Post columnist who criticized Mayor Bloomberg for saying the shooting was "excessive."

The song also singles out Detective Mike Oliver, who fired 31 of the 50 police bullets into the car of 23- year-old Sean Bell and his pals, who were all unarmed. Oliver has said that he reloaded his gun because he believed it had jammed. But police sources say the gun stopped firing because he had emptied the first ammo clip.

"Think we dumb? If your clips was loaded to the top / And your gun jammed, how you fire 31 shots?" raps Papoose, 27, a Bedford-Stuyvesant native. The rapper, who landed on Rolling Stone magazine’s "10 Artists to Watch" list last March, also references NYPD guidelines that prohibit cops from
shooting at cars, though he wrongly calls the rules the "law." "The law states that a cop is not permitted to shoot at a moving car. / It don’t matter if it’s coming straight at him / Cuz if they shoot the driver, a 4,000-pound car could cause more drama."