I stopped contributing to Stylus regularly after the year-end roundup stuff a few months ago, mainly because the only thing I was really into doing there was long-winded album reviews with generous wordcount constraints, and I had a lot less time and motivation to do those once I got a 9-5 and a weekly writing workload with the City Paper site gig. But last week William B. Swygart put out the call for more folks to help out with the Stylus Jukebox and I obliged, since it's something I'd always been vaguely interested in participating in. When I read it, I usually find myself vehemently disagreeing with everyone's opinion, so it's nice to get in there and try and drag down the average score or boost it up when I think it needs it. This is what I've blurbed that's run so far, with my scores compared to the averages:

Fabolous ft. Young Jeezy - Diamonds [4/5.4]
D.G. Yola - I Ain’t Gon’ Let Up [8/7.25]
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill [4/7]
Crime Mob ft. Lil Scrappy - Rock Yo Hips [5/7]
Mike Jones ft. Bun-B & Snoop Dogg - My 6-4 [7/6.8]

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lol: Kevin J. Elliott: The jukebox here (and my daily experiences in the public schools) makes me privy to a smattering of hip-hop singles and this is by far the most street joint I’ve heard in some time
 
seriously though, i can't even find this on the stylus homepage. In fact I think it would be a good look if they converted all album and singles reviews to this format.
 
Yeah, sometimes there's a link to it, at the bottom of the left column below the album reviews, if there's a recent entry, but a lot of the time I'd have no idea how to get to the Jukebox page if I didn't already know the address, it's weird. I do agree that it'd at least be pretty entertaining if album reviews were scored democratically, too.
 
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