Y2K | 
| Artist: Screwball
Label: Tommy Boy
Category: Music
Buy New: $17.80
New (4) Used (7) from $10.15
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 89047
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 016998134429
EAN: 0016998134429
ASIN: B00001ZWD4
Release Date: February 8, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Album Intro - Screwball | | • | That Shit - Screwball | | • | F.A.Y.B.A.N. - Screwball | | • | Take It There - Capone, Hostyle, Kyron, Poet | | • | Y2K - Screwball | | • | Seen It All - Hostyle, KL, Poet | | • | Somebody's Gotta Do It - Hostyle, Kyron, Triple Seis | | • | You Love to Hear the Stories - MC Shan, Poet | | • | Heat Is On - Godfather Don, Poet, Prodigy | | • | Blocks - Hostyle, Kyron, Nature | | • | No Exceptions - Hostyle, KL, Poet, Rappin' Noyd | | • | Operation - Hostyle, Kyron, Nashawn, Poet | | • | Urban Warfare - Hostyle | | • | Who Shot Rudy? - Hostyle, Kyron | | • | Biz Interlude - Biz Markie, Kyron | | • | H-O-S-T-Y-L-E - Screwball | | • | Communications - KL, Prince AD | | • | Zoning - Hostyle, KL, Kyron, Poet | | • | Attention: A&R Department - Hostyle, KL, Kyron, Poet | | • | On the Real - Cormega, Havoc, KL, Kyron |
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Album Description
Released in 2000, right before the emergence of rap's shiny suits and gimmicks galore, Y2K consistently damages eardrums throughout its 20 tracks. Armed with over 10 years of service within New York City's underground scene, the members of Screwball had already carved an infamous reputation, individual projects inevitably led to the four MCs forming Voltron-style and adopting the name Screwball after a deceased friend. A deal with Tommy Boy Records meant larger exposure for the group, a fact they were obviously aware of, because Y2K is an extremely focused and hungry rap album. Lyrically, all four members command their respective microphones with the ferocity of artists like M.O.P., while the production line-up of beat-makers such as DJ Premier, Pete Rock and Marley Marl damn near guarantees audio fire. 2005.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Don't Sleep on this album March 4, 2000
Tom Robinson (Havana, Fla)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Do not sleep on this album because this is some of the best NYC hardcore in years. Although some people might think this is just the same old QB hardcore like Mobb Deep or CNN, this is similar but still fresh. There isn't one bad song on the entire album. Although Who Shot Rudy? is the most well-known song, Take It There, Somebodys Gotta Do It, The Blocks, No Exceptions, The Operation, and On the Real are all hot tracks as well. This album features some great production by the likes of Mike Heron, DJ Premier, VIC, Godfather Don, Pete Rock, Max Vargas, Marley Marl, and EZ Elpee (who did some production on N.O.R.E., and produced Iraq & Bloody Money on The War Report and Bloody Money Part 3 on Melvin Flynt Da Hustler). The album is almost worth buying for all the guest appearances by fellow QB artists like Capone of CNN, Havoc and Prodigy of Mobb Deep, MC Shan, Nature, Rapper Noyd aka Big Noyd, Cormega, Triple Seis, Nashawn, and Prince AD. This album has great production, rhyming, guest spots, and great beats. In short if you like hardcore NYC/East Coast rap BUY THIS ALBUM!
Best Hip-hop album December 7, 2004
Kenna M. Hubai
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love QB rappers, and these guys are the best around besides Mobb Deep, NAS, CNN, Cormega, etc... Every single track on this album will keep your head nodding! It's a bomb album. Give it a shot, you won't be disappointed. It's better than any commercial stuff you hear all over the radio now!
One of the best hip hop albums out there May 31, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most definitely phat! dope!! album all songs are nice on this album producers like dj premier pete rock marly marl etc gives you that underground real hip hop plus the lyrics have creative more and just brag.if you love real hip hop this album is a must buy!!!
Screwball November 24, 2005
Sincere (T-Dot)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In all honesty this is one of the best rap albums I have ever had the privilege of listening to. It has incredible production, insanely tight lyrics (expecially by Hostyle) and a great nessage to hip-pop musicaians which is "F U". These are some grimey QB rappers, if you like this album try to cop the double cd 'Screwed Up'. I don't think they sell it on amazon, but I have it and it has the best tracks from Y2K and Loyalty pplus some of the tracks have been changed a bit and there are some new tracks as well. Screwball is one of the best groups in rap, realize it.
 Screwball is tight September 15, 2001
Rich-Zed (Szekesfehervar, Magyarorszag)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only word come in my head is: tight (with capital letters). Listening to this album first, it sounded hot to me. Not just because tracks was produced by DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Marley Marl or EZ Elpee, but the voice of Poet and Kyron (these two MCs plain rip the mic). For the first time, I heard tremendous beats of 'F.A.Y.B.A.N.', 'Seen it all', 'You love to hear the stories', 'The heat is on' & 'The operation'. The tracks just caught my attention because of the beats. Then I just sat down and tried to understand the lyrics. Understanding the lyrics consisted of memorizing the hooks. Yes, the hooks was tight, so I memorized nearly all of that. The next step was to analyze the lyrics. I started to read them all. I can't say I really understand every word or phrase (maybe that's because of me being Hungarian and not knowing every ghetto slang). So, in addition, I must admit, I found a gem. The beats is tight and there's lyrics that are not like pioneers of a new hip-hop lyrical movement, but are well-structured. At the end, I must say this album is not one that going to be a classic like "Illmatic" or "The Infamous..." but is a must-have in every New York based hardcore rappers collection. There's so many wack MCs out nowadays but them Screwball MCs is kicking it. And it's true they are behind Nas or Prodigy but amongst other fellow Queensbridge MCs who is recognized real such as Cormega, Nature or that future shining star Nashawn a.k.a Millennium Thug. I can't say no bad words about Screwball: they real and truly represent where they came from. That's deep. And if something's deep then that can't be wrong. So, get Screwball album "Y2K" because it worth the money you spend on it. Told: 4-stars. One.
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