FREEFORM 1990's ALTERNATIVE ALBUM POLL - THE RECKONING (TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW)

COMPOSER OF HARDCORE A LYRICAL DESTRUCTOR DON'T MAKE ME BUCK YA COS I'M A WILD MOTHERFUCKER

Got G's in my pocket hit off my main squeeze
Push back, the sunroof, let the cold air breeze
through the butter soft leather upholestry
But mostly, keep the gat closely, cuz niggaz wanna toast me

tt tt tt tt BOOM tt tt tt tt BOOM WORD UP SON, WORD tt tt tt tt BOOM TO ALL THE KILLAS AND HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLAZ tt tt tt tt BOOM TO ALL THE REAL NIGGAZ WHO AIN'T GOT NO FEELINZ

I know I voted 1 record w/ more points than this that will make the poll later and is most prob better but fucking hell atm there is no record better than The Infamous.

I mean fuck a Mozart or Lennon or whatever, P got them shook.

/drunk

you all alone in these streets cousin/ every man for themself in this land we be gunnin'

srs, not one moment in the last year where infamous or hell on earth weren't in my car. fuck a 9-5 i get the loot with ease

THERE IS A WAR OUTSIDE NO ONE IS SAFE FROM

oh man i should go find my copy of hell on earth. also more beer.

Should have gone 40 infamous/ 40 hell on earth/ 40 life after death/ 80 cuban linx, why did i bother voting the fugees or cat power or kmd.

now that's what i call the 1990s

please don't reveal what you voted for

22 Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
83 points
5 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: samosa gibreel

http://www.daviddallas.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/medium_jay_z_-_reasonable_doubt-front.jpg

There are about 100 ILX threads with "Jay-Z" in the title so kept my ILXsearching real simple like

Strangely enough though, people still don't seem to understand the concept of reasonable doubt.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:35 (5 years ago)

By the way - I'd say some animal research is done out of pure bloodthirstyness... Harry Harlow showed this beyond any reasonable doubt. He was insane.

― C-Man (C-Man), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:46 (6 years ago)

"The prosecution will show that Kate did, beyond any reasonable doubt, drug and intice this innocaent young man into a bathtub while she pleasured herself in front of him."

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Monday, 4 October 2004 16:47 (5 years ago)

this all seems reasonable, doubt it will really change 77 at all anyway

― crackers is biters (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 01:13 (1 year ago)

wait also 10 pts for iron man for cappa's winter warz verse. oh and the best mc of the past 15 years i guess. but winter warz!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAwdXRbyWM

my bad lj, i think i am cool w/ knowing kmd won't make it doe.

also :DDDDDDDDDDDDD reasonable doubt!

!!! hellls yowws yes, "Brooklyn's finest" is basically mankind's crowning achievement

so splended. ok gonna put it on right now

Re: Reasonable Doubt.

I didn't get it for ages. Compared to most similar albums of the age it seems vulgar at first. There is no dirt to it. Even the biggest, most epic records of the era have their battles fought in the streets. Jay swoops in as the Godfather, already positioning himself at the top, without any track record or anything to show for it. Cuban Linx is Scarface, from the start. Life After Death is very much post-Ready To Die, and starts with Biggie potentially giving up all he's earned just to avenge his fallen comrade. Reasonable Doubt doesn't really have that. He is untouchable and he is better than you. I think Jay learnt his mistakes very quickly here, even over did it with his 'ok i get it, i'm not better than big' modesty.

That said, once you get used to it as a one off from his career, as the start of this insane untouchable bravado rap, making records with Mary and Big and Premo from the off, you have to admire the boy's confidence. That and its fun as hell, 22 twos and brooklyns finest can't help but make me smile.

yay! 2 more of my votes, I'm up to 5/10! only think 1 more of mine will make it tho. rip soul food/southernplayalistic/rhythmalism/2001 ;_;

2001! I always think of it as a 2k record, damn the name. I think it still has a chance though?

:D nicely put a hoy hoy! xposts

no comment Rev - but that's a pretty good hit-rate as far as these ballots go

Next album (last for the day) is gonna cause some sweet-ass controversy. And hopefully get a certain ILM poster explainin' and defendin' like never before

I say this because what few ILM posts there are on the band are pretty much blanket negative, except for this dude's.

21 Remy Zero - Remy Zero (1996)
85 points
1 vote
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: Drugs A. Money

http://bp0.blogger.com/_IWtJPVg2znw/Rg-ArLKThxI/AAAAAAAAACE/TQ7Fv3-h-2c/s400/B000003TBU.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

most underrated album: Remy Zero - s/t.

― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 28 April 2008 23:23 (2 years ago)

I think Remy Zero is the polar opposite of punk.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

seriously guys...Remy Zero's first album dropped a year before OK Computer, and is so much better (and was kind of a defining influence on the best-album-of-the-90s standby)

forget the Coldplay-before-Coldplay hype, that came later...first album is Southern post-rock and thrilling shoegazer with all sorts of shifting sonic textures...

― ha! (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 15 February 2010 20:33 (2 months ago)

reasonable doubt is like rap music for aristocrats at a party. ladies in white satin dresses drinking martinis, exorbitant fish tanks.

Jay's flow on "Friend or Foe" is so conversational that the first time I heard it, I didn't even realize he was rapping until halfway through it. Also it is his scariest song, because Jay-Z was never scary because he was tough, he was scary because he was smart, and on "Friend or Foe" he hasn't out-toughed his nemesis, he's outsmarted them, which rings much truer to form than any gunplay he's ever rapped about.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/4572851528_108fc11e2c.jpg

xpost

looool

was not listening to 'reasonable doubt' when that picture was taken, sadly

pimpin'

looooooool

admittedly pimpin

who is that?
xposts

lo' and humbie iirc

lol is that samosa in the back of that pic?

yezir

this has rather distracted from Rev's post, which is a good'un

but samosa's face in that pic is about as undistilled jay-z as it gets

aw, shucks

um I probably mean 'distilled'. or 'undiluted'.

for once words have failed lj, and all because of samosa's visage

even MCs get writer's block

Anyone got OPINIONZ on Remy Zero (or rather, the first album, because apparently they went to absolute shit afterwards)? Or are we indulging in a bit of hip-hop before the top 20 descends with wall-to-wall guitar indie?

let's all just pull out our tuxedos and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs8Zb2dXsFU

actually, now i think about it, has anyone else successfully done the tuxedo gangster thing before or after? i can't think of anything.

reasonable doubt is one of those album that i don't necessarily think about or put on very regularly, but whenever i'm listening to it i just become overwhelmed with joy and pleasure and it's like ok why exactly haven't i gottan a microchip-sized speaker implanted into my brain programmed to play this twenty four hours a day for the rest of my life yet?

I liked the reasonable doubt blurb. Why are we all up?

we are wearing tuxedos and listening to feelin it iirc

because i'm drunk and getting ready for working nights tomorrow. also rap music is awes.