capital punishment: 1998THEYEARIN HIP-HOP
 TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
 THE HOTTEST ALBUMS RELEASED BETWEEN NOV '97 AND NOV '98
 JAY-Z
 LAURYN HILL
 The Miseducation of
 Lauryn Hill
 LAURYN HILE
 In My Lifetime, Vol. Il,
 Hard Knock Life
 champonship seasons-to MCs
 a Jayz-ate not only parned for
 whot does it say about hip hop when
 one ofthe better hiphoo tecords of the
 they'te expected
 ear contains little actual rapping?
 -Reoond Report, Nov 98
 Ancerd Raport Sep "8
 OUTKAST
 Aquemini
 DMX
 It's Dark And Hell Is Hot
 Aquemini is a briliant recond Let
 that uneeuvocal statement be sad
 rght off the bot
 DMX
 DMX and his op notch inhouse
 producton tean have dcodod any one-
 hit wonder tak
 MASTERP
 MP: Da Last Don
 NOREAGA
 N.O.R.E
 Master P not ony does whet
 Seinfeld couldn't do with millons of
 poople watching (save the bos: for
 astl he creatos tho bluoprint for
 the finde album.
 What separates him from the rest?
 t's his signature characceristic his
 own fommn of Ncrebonics.
 General Ps Last Sand Jy 98
 BIG
 PUN
 BIG PUNISHER
 Capital Punishment
 EIGHTBALL
 Lost
 4's the rotund rapper's wicked
 sense of humor that oives this join
 the Southeen gant ergages us with
 stories that compare his pest and pre
 sent Ifestylos
 -Record Report Juy 188
 GANGSTARR
 Moment Of Truth
 MASE
 Harlem World
 never wavering in the eve of the
 stotm, hho top's purveyors of tho
 undergrcund have rison iko brus
 charnpions
 how could one no: spprove of
 Mase's witty punchines, canchy fiow
 and pory charisma.7
 Record Report May 8