best 1994 rap album besides Illmatic and Ready To Die

ilx has the taste of borks

i think i'm going to do non-Wu polls of '93 and '95 -- dunno if anything else is obvious enough to take out (Doggystyle? Midnight Marauders? The Infamous?)

cuban linx

oh non-wu

how did whiney get 3 votes?

gotta say i am impressed by the spread of the votes -- lotta albums nobody even posted about got multiple votes!

tbh i have no clue what i wouldve voted for in this poll if id known about it. scarface probably

how did whiney get 3 votes?

― balls, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:29 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark

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i'd say exclude cuban linx and liquid swords from 95 and doggystyle and midnight marauders along w/ 36 chambers from 93, maybe infamous if it's that apparent it would win

yeah definitely excluding all Wu solo albums -- wouldn't trust some of y'all not to put ODB at #1 tbh

forgot to vote. happy to see Extinction Agenda placed fairly high. Pharoahe Monch is one of the best to ever do it.

to me these results invite a discussion about how many albums you should actually have heard out of a list of 40+ if you're gonna cast a vote

i'm forever of the opinion that if you only know one option in a poll it's fair game to vote

3 votes going to P.E. means we should set the floor at at least "1"

huh

what'd you end up voting for, hard to earn?

xp idk can anyone defend Muse? nobody talked about it on the thread

i voted for rappin' 4-tay just to get it on the board. anyway i wasn't trying to say i've heard (of) all these albums, but at the risk of being a dick it seems like most polls are mostly silent majority and they just turn out meaningless.

the gravediggaz herbs weren't very silent, tbf

what'd you end up voting for, hard to earn?

tbh i dont think i actually voted for anything but thats my pick in spirit its more that i didnt think anyone rated those jeru and warren g records never mind thought of them as the best (or i guess 3rd best) rap album of 94... and like there are bunch of albums that got votes that ive never heard a minute of.

the Warren G album is def not my #1/#3 but it's really, really dope

i do have a soft spot for jeru because he was headlining the first rap show i ever went to i got to 'sneak in' because my friend jessica knew the guy who was working the door and he let us in and i was to nervous to really do anything but sit and goggle at stuff but i had a p rad time so i always associate him w/ that, like for a minute he was my 'favorite rapper' because he did some crazy freestyles and i was very impressed with both that and myself in general so

xp idk can anyone defend Muse? nobody talked about it on the thread

― een, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's maybe like the 10th best album on this list of legendary albums; but it's dope and wildly underrated. Really a smart--fuck it, visionary--mix of samples and live instruments rubbing against each other. Ragged Sly vibes. It's great.

I guess most of the Tical voters went to 6 Feet Deep instead.

Left your boys at 99th and St. Clair high and dry.

Gravediggaz is the best

LITTLE-KNOWN FACT the original title of the Gravediggaz album, before the record company made them change it, was Niggas in Paris

i voted gravdiggaz, classic shit, there are a lot of good musics on here tho, except digable planets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DM2i1Hv70

^^^scarier than gravediggaz

ilx has the weirdest taste

― max, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh i have no clue what i wouldve voted for in this poll if id known about it. scarface probably

― max, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i never seen a max cry
until i seen a max *sigh*

gravdiggaz is not actually suposed to be scary guys, its just for fun

Who voted Keith Murray? I remember that record being really underwhelming after hearing a bunch of freestyles and guest verses and thinking he had a ton of personality and an interesting voice. That said, it ws years since I heard it. Worth trying again? His other records arent very memorable either.

its def the most beautifulest album on the list, the best tho, not so sure

xpost 'scary'

"Horrorcore", whatever. Sometimes I use it to get me pumped, sometimes I incorporate it into my enhanced interrogation of susupected terrorists, and yeah, sometimes I turn off all the lights and get real stoned and pretend that RZA is actually a psychopath i'm locked up with

Rolling Stone (10/6/94, p. 90) – 3.5 Stars – "[Gravediggaz] evoke the atmosphere of horror movies and ominous effects, they've also been street tested, boasting hard beats and verbal skills."

Entertainment Weekly (8/19/94, p. 62) – "The album doesn't take itself very seriously, but the flustered beats, washed in minor chords, are strangely irresistible--partly because it is all so silly". – Rating: B

Q magazine (11/94, p. 129) – 3 Stars – "The foursome use death, burial and The Grim Reaper as central themes for a chilling mid-tempo stomp through America's urban problems."

The Source (9/94, pp. 91–92) – 3.5 Stars – "No, this isn't the climax of the latest Stephen King flick or Jason, part 17. It's an image created by the Gravediggaz, one of a number of new groups combining rap with horror-movie macabre to create a genre unofficially known as `horror-core'".

NME (12/24/94, p. 22) – Ranked #22 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'

NME (Magazine) (9/10/94, p.46) – 8 – Excellent – "Gravediggaz feverishly document the low life – graveyard low.[5]"

In 2009, Fangoria named it as a iconic horrorcore album.[6]

tbh i dont think i actually voted for anything but thats my pick in spirit its more that i didnt think anyone rated those jeru and warren g records never mind thought of them as the best (or i guess 3rd best) rap album of 94... and like there are bunch of albums that got votes that ive never heard a minute of.

― Lamp, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the jeru is def widely considered a classic; if anything its star has fallen slightly in recent years but 'come clean' was like THE premo beat for awhile

that digable planets album >>> gravediggaz

i dont actually know that i believe that but hating on that DP album is weak

def agree with that second post

i know nothing about Digable Planets other than filing them alongside "Cantaloop" as an embarrassingly corny 'jazz rap' video that was on MTV all the time in 1993, so i've just stayed far far away from them in the decades since

you could have just stopped at "I know nothing about Digable Planets" tbh

which may be especially silly coming from someone whose favorite rap LP of all time is Low End Theory, but that's where i'm coming from

xpost

I think you would really dig Blowout Comb tbh, esp since you dig The Low End Theory

thread is lol

for some reason I didn't actually hear that Gravediggaz album til years later (even tho I did get the second one when it came out) so I don't have the sentimental associations with it that I would guess some folks here have. it's good tho.

not as good as Blowout Comb of course

hahahaha what the hell?

jesus

Blowout Comb is awesome, fuiud.

Also, one of two albums in this poll I've actually heard*, but don't worry, I didn't vote.

*the other is Zingalamaduni lol