Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

I'm starting to succumb. You already know that "In Da Club" is the banger of the year, but I'll be damned if 50 Cent's "21 Questions" (featuring Nate Dogg) isn't a damned fine follow-up - love the old-soul guitar lick that's endlessly looped, and the simple, simple beat. And you know, I may have to eat my earlier words; 50's starting to prove to me, as I creep deeper into Get Rich Or Die Tryin', that the boy's got some skillz on him.

That having been said, the hiphop single of '03 is still Freeway's "What We Do... ." It's got an energy and urgency I haven't heard in the genre since circa Illmatic, or Wu-Tang's first salvos. Fucking head-crackin', man!