best 1994 rap album besides Illmatic and Ready To Die

people on an internet forum calling each other "herbs", i mean really

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nice tits

anyway, my favorite herb tits = gen & juice, blowout comb, 6 ft deep, tical and southernplayalistic

went with gravediggas because i have nostalgia

tical isnt even in my top 20 prob

I think I like it more in theory than in actuality - the first few tracks are so murky and clouded they kinda leave the false impression that the whole record is some sludged-out bleary-eyed stomper, but the more uptempo stuff doesn't work imho

yeah i love Meth and WANT to be able to go "best Wu solo album fuiud" etc. but i just can't, it ain't that hot

it does have a very unusual sound - it's interesting to chart the gradual shift in production from 36 Chambers to Tical to The Dirty Version and then there is just a huuuuge leap with the Raekwon and GZA records

Blackout! >>>>> Tical

xxxp to be honest I can't really remember the uptempo stuff. It mostly just strikes me as an odd record (esp. so since Meth is really the most conventional of the Wu-Tang). If Meth was less of a face (and minus the Wu-Tang connection, of course) it's hard to imagine it coming out on a major label.

I Get My Thing in Action, Release Yo'Self, Stimulation... they're okay but they aren't great or unusual or anything

keep beating that "tical ain't all that" dead horse guys

hard to earn is p rad

The uptempo parts are the GOOD parts of Tical!

O.C. - Word...Life

boring album but this is classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCJ6f5VnVVo

nah my fave tracks are Tical, What the Blood Clot, Biscuits, PLO Style

xp

boring album but this is classic

― am0n, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yet still better than tical :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j70w-I5Utx8

also the reason i was always a lil underwhelmed when blaze/jay flipped this sample :(

word...life isn't boring, but the songs are all super tight and flawless in the same way so it doesn't feel like there are any high points

we should have a thread about rap albums from '93-'96 that were wack. It seems like there were none. Almost.

Some of these albums seem years apart in my mind.

I voted for Blowout Comb, but if you asked me IN 1994, I would have probably said Method Man or Outkast. Main Ingredient is great too

Also the Public Enemy seemed good at the time, I probably haven't heard it in ten years though

i've still never heard that PE album. A slave to the critics, I guess

i'm listening to the albums I've never heard on spotify:

Big Mike- Somethin' Serious is pretty dope.

yeah, listened to that one and Fadanuf Fa Erybody!! today. Love the track with Pimp C on the Big Mike (the drums!) and the Odd Squad is downright brilliant

having thangs by big mike is a classic off that

Blackout! >>>>> Tical

― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:41 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

qft

we should have a thread about rap albums from '93-'96 that were wack. It seems like there were none. Almost.

― President Keyes, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i filtered Vanilla Ice, Hammer and ICP albums out of the poll options btw

the hammer album had a few good tracks

my fav rap singles of 94:

Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Gin And Juice"
Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy"
Warren G and Nate Dogg - "Regulate"
Wu Tang Clan - "C.R.E.A.M."
Craig Mack - "Flava In Ya Ear"
Gang Starr - "DWYCK"
Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y."
Beastie Boys - "Sure Shot"
Sagat - "Why Is It? (Funk Dat)"
Domino - "Getto Jam"
Jeru The Damaja - "Come Clean"
Heavy D & The Boyz -"Black Coffee"
Nas - "Ain't Hard To Tell"
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "Thuggish Ruggish Bone"
Ahmad - "Back In The Day"
E-40 f/ The Click - "Captain Save A Hoe"
Hammer - "Pumps And A Bump"
Nas - "One Love"
Da Brat - "Funkdafied"
Keith Murray - "The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World"
69 Boyz - "Tootsee Roll"
Domino - "Sweet Potato Pie"
Beastie Boys - "Root Down"
Common - "I Used To Love H.E.R."
Scarface - "I Seen A Man Die"
Outkast - "Player's Ball"
Lady of Rage f/ Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Afro Puffs"
Gang Starr - "Mass Appeal"
Lucas - "Lucas With The Lid Off"

Cleeeeeeeeaveland

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I f/w that Hammer album

sorry for not funky headhunting guys

man I just listened to "U.N.I.T.Y." for the first time in a looong time; that shit is great

i know right!?

I freely admit one of the reasons I like Tical so much is because of the Prodigy remix of "Release Yo (DS)elf":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uivw43LOwKo

alright partly strategic but i voted 4-tay. i'm not sure people know how consistent that album is... to me it's up there with kast and scarface

that album is totally solid!

Gravediggaz, along with regulate and doggystyle was my intro to hiphop. It was my fave then and remains to be to this day. Pretty much every track a banger. Prince paul's beats, the funky flows, rza in raw mode and the hilarious lyrics make it a classic. Still get's listened to on the reg.

prodigy remix of release yo delf is basically one of my top

...10 singles ever

that was much better than I expected. never heard it before

in retrospect, that remix feels like it sucked the last remnants of Howlett's Jilted Generation energy, leading him to write the same single three different ways and poop out some truly horrible album tracks for Fat of the Land

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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I don't know any of these well enough to vote, but I'm looking forward to the results to guide my future exploration.

Cant go wrong with the majority of that list. Don't have a clue how to pick just one! My list runs pretty parallel with deej's.

I have major feelings for Word Life, Spice 1 and the Diary. Tical is also great, I think its aged pretty well, love the overall gloomy vibe, it sounds so deep at times. MC Eiht - We Come Strapped is kind of a personal classic for me as well.

Would be interested in a 93-98 countdown poll.

considering that the big rap albums ballot poll we did was pretty heavy on 93-98 i think that might be a little redundant. i'd be happy to organize more yearly polls like this, though, with or without Illmatic/Ready To Die type exceptions to make things more interesting.