― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:52 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:52 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, I don't understand the the Dead Prez hate I've been seeing here; are they becoming the new PE? In my opinion, "Let's Get Free" is one of the best rap albums of recent years, and it would definitely make into my canon.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 07:22 (twenty years ago) link
My choices are all fairly typical, I suppose...Illmatic as #1, followed by Liquid Swords, 36 Chambers, Nation of Millions...and the first Gold Chains EP as the darkhorse.
― Clay, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 07:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 07:57 (twenty years ago) link
or, yeah, clouddead
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 08:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link
― ron (ron), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
An oft overlooked super-classic great-from-beginning-to-end album chock fulla great lyrics, beats, & interludes = Kool Keith's Sex Style. Unfuckwithable. To the MAX.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
ATLiens: strong from start to finish and the production gels perfectly with Andre/ Big Boi's flow. Deserves the modifier "dope" more than any hip hop record in recent memory.
― Will (will), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
actually every Outkast album is perfect (except the best of)
― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― sean g, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
i think what tuomas was saying is that hank shocklee was involved with engineering both records but under a different guise (ts: bomb squad vs. lynch mob) and that several people on this thread prefer his work with ice cube vs. public enemy.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
Oh shit, I forgot about that album! Ice Cube's cousin Del(aka -tron aka -Tha Funky Homosapien) was on it too! That was a great album.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link
chilly chill was the DJ for the Lench Mob and if you haven't heard Ice Cube's "jackin' for beats" (and you love mid-school rap), you should... It's a really funny song (musically, not literally).
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
A beat.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
(That's what I get for playing devil's advocate.)
So... greatest album of all-time...
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:51 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
― disco stu (disco stu), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 July 2003 08:05 (twenty years ago) link
Ghostface - SupremeBabu - Duck Season (cuz i played it to death)Biz Markie - The Biz Never SleepsDilated Peoples - Expansion TeamGang Starr - Moment of TruthBumpy Knuckles AKA Freddie Foxxx - Industry ShakedownQuasimoto - The Unseen
― DJ NODIS, Monday, 27 September 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Symplistic (shmuel), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Outkast - AqueminiNas - StillmaticDead Prez - Let's Get FreeIce Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most WantedGza - Liquid SwordsDivine Styler - Wordpower, Vol. 2: DirectrixBone Thugs-n-Harmony - E. 1999 EternalEve - Let There Be Eve... Ruff Ryders' First LadyHeltah Skeltah - NocturnalGravediggaz - Six Feet Deep
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
ghostface - supreme clientelenotorious big - ready to diedmx - and then there was x...petey pablo - still writin' in my diary: the 2nd entrylil wayne - tha cartergza - liquid swordsrza - as bobby digital in stereogeto boys - we can't be stoppedsnoop dogg - doggystylejay-z - vol 2: hard knock life
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link