Greatest Rap Album of all Time?
Illmatic
― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, followed closely by Paullelujah.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Symplistic (shmuel), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Phife_Diggy, Friday, 29 October 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Outkast: "Aquemini"Nas: "It Was Written"Bone Thugs-n-Harmony: "E. 1999 Eternal"Eve: "Let There Be Eve..."Heltah Skeltah: "Nocturnal"Gravediggaz: "Six Feet Deep"Nas: "God's Son"Dead Prez: "Let's Get Free"Ice Cube: "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted"Wu-Tang: "36 Chambers"Divine Styler: "Wordpower vol. 2"Cannibal Ox: "The Cold Vein"The Coup: "Party Music"Da Beatminerz: "Brace 4 Impak"Organized Konfusion: "Stress: The Extinction Agenda"
Since I finally bought "It Was Written" has become my favourite Nas album, especially due to the beats. Where's the love for Trackmasters? And the Dre beat on it is one of his best too. Besides, even if "I Gave You Power" bites Organized's "Stray Bullet", Nas deals with the concept in an even more chilling and critical way.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Derek Emery (Zedd138), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
1. "straight outta compton," NWA2. "ameriKKKa's most wanted," ice cube3. "fear of a black planet," public enemy4. "enter the 36 chambers," wu-tang clan5. "liquid swords," gza/genius6. "ready to die," biggie7. "reasonable doubt," jay-z8. "strictly business," epmd9. "the resurrection," geto boys10. "doggy style," snoop
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Outkast - Aquemini is the best rap album ever. How can you argue otherwise?
― humansuit, Monday, 23 July 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link
The Fix, maybe
― J0hn D., Monday, 23 July 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
any albums from the past 2-3 years deserved to be er "canonized"? i guess most would throw out college dropout. i would say tha carter II but we've all read enough comments on rap blogs on that front. madvillany? boy in da corner? black album?
― Jordan Sargent, Monday, 23 July 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Deserves if it's good enough IMO.
The Fix is a little obscure - haven't heard that before.
College Dropout - no way can any Kanye West album be considered the best, IMO.
Jay-Z albums - I like many of the singles but never found them to be consistent enough to be labeled the greatest rap album ever.
Cannot comment on the other two, I'll have to check that out.
― humansuit, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
not best ever... merely top 15/20/25 ever.
― Jordan Sargent, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Nation of Millions, hands down.-- Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:10 (1 year ago) Link
-- Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:10 (1 year ago) Link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://row1.info/images/stories/news/dec06/kool-keith-the-commissioner-2.jpg
― luriqua, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.threshrecs.com/collect_files/image004.jpg
― luriqua, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.threshrecs.com/collect_files/image002.jpg
I honestly believe The Marshall Mathers LP will still be my favourite album ever in 20 odd years time. It's perfect in so many ways.
― butchy, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
NO WRONG RECORD ITS SUPPOSED T BE KOOL KEITH - COMMI$$IONER 2
― luriqua, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Scarface is obscure!? I saw "My Block" on MTV and everything.
― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link
peaked at #4, five mics in the source, etc.
― marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link
'madvillainy' deserves another mention definitely.
how about 'tricks of the shade' by The Goats ? not really a contender for best ever but unfairly forgotten in my eyes.
― sam500, Monday, 23 July 2007 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x245/chromski/image004.jpg
― luriqua, Monday, 23 July 2007 06:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I skipped some thread but the thing about "N$$$$$$A PLEASE" is it has "I Can'T Wait" on it, and that's the best song ever recorded, so y'know it tends to make the rest of the rtec look pretty good too
― President Evil, Monday, 23 July 2007 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this the RONG thread?
― deej, Monday, 23 July 2007 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
If compilations are kosher - and we're talking "favourite" rather than "best", I'd go with a Roxanne Shanté collection. Otherwise, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, I guess.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 23 July 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Ones that come to mind as classics:
Only Built for Cuban Lynx Deltron 3030 The Low End Theory Ready to Die Mississippi: The Album The Blueprint The Marshall Mathers LP Raising Hell Aquemini Enter the Wu The Cold Vein Black Star The Digital Underground record from 1990 Bubba Sparxx's Deliverance -- ridiculously underrated. Supa Dupa Fly Cypress Hill
― Jiminy Krokus, Monday, 23 July 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Don't make me bless this thread with a personal Top 100.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
wtf with that Kool Keith album
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 23 July 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
jk http://www.alleyezonme.com/lyrics/makaveli_large.jpg http://www.alleyezonme.com/lyrics/makaveli_large.jpghttp://www.alleyezonme.com/lyrics/makaveli_large.jpg
― luriqua, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
No Scarface isn't obscure just never heard that as the best ever, ever.
Do you really think that 'It Takes a Nation' is the best ever? Good, but wouldn't think that.
Jiminy I like that list and Low End Theory yes I think that needs to be considered seriously.
I hate Ice Cube and his retarded rant against Koreans so fuck his record.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
STOP DISRESPECTING TUPAC
― luriqua, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
digital underground - sex packets
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
luriqa that's not even the best 2pac album!
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.thuglife.ic.cz/obaly/All%20Eyez%20On%20Me%20(pred).jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I never got the love for Makaveli.
But then, I never really got the love for Pac either.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
He had a pretty face.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
i never really got people who 'didn't get' pac
even when i was at my most reactionary 'pac is overrated' college-era pretentiousness i still 'got' why he resonated.
― deej, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
i do understand the impulse to say he's 'overrated,' he does inspire some passion in folks that is hard to reconcile with all the time, especially for a music nerd crowd that tends to avoid anything so directly emotional and finds such genuine-ness heavy-handed but it still seems abundantly clear why he resonated w/ so many people
― deej, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
So it's clear why he resonated and yet he's overrated. Check.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I suppose I phrased that wrong, didn't mean to come across anti-Pac on principle. What I was trying to say is that I never really liked him (mainly because of his voice, which I just can't get into and am surprised so many people can, hence 'not getting'), but I can certainly understand why he's got resonance.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link