― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
That album just really really bugs the crap out of me, makes my skin CRAWL...but I'm quite a weirdo; I put the Latyrx album on my greatest-of-all-time, what's that say about me?
;D
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 24 January 2003 05:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Friday, 24 January 2003 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fabfunk (Fabfunk), Friday, 24 January 2003 09:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
illmatic the infamousENTER THE WUTANG : 36 CHAMBERS (hello?)ready to dieCAPITAL PUNISHMENT (hello?!?)ironmanblueprint
― gi66y, Monday, 27 January 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
BTW, I think Run DMC's Raising Hell has been mentioned far too few times in this thread.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gi66y, Monday, 27 January 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
But 'Low End Theory' would make my top 5.
― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
_Fear Of A Black Planet_ is the best PE album, although _Nation of Millions..._ is very, very, very, very, very good (if only for "Night Of The Living Baseheads").
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why do you think so? I like 'em both about the same. Only thing is the first Chronic is easier to listen to since it has all its great tracks loaded up for the first half of the album, while 2001 has them scattered about. (more skipping around, see?) But it doesn't really matter since I just listen to a mix-cd of both of them anyway.
Capital Punishment is good, yes.
― original bgm, Monday, 27 January 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
But rap/hip-hop is not an album genre, so this list is not representative of my taste in Roxannes.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 1 February 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 2 February 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris herrington, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
...oh, and LIQUID SWORDS!!!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
but also:master p - ghetto dgangstarr - daily operationsugk - riding dirtyblack moon enta da stagebig l - lifestyles ov da poor and dangerous8ball and mjg - in our lifetimemight be on the list, aside from stuff already mentioned.
― d k (d k), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 15 May 2003 07:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 May 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 May 2003 07:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
Death Certificate is mentioned in this thread, but how come no one's said AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted? I hadn't been listening to that record in years (I only had it on tape), but then I spotted and bought the reissue which also adds the Kill at Will ("Dead Homiez"!) EP to the package, and damn what a package! Even though it's produced by the Bomb Squad it's better than anything made PE (this is a highly personal opinion, I know, I just happen to like Ice Cube's flow and delivery a lot more than Chuck D's). I'd completely forgotten how good Cube was before he became a Hollywood star; I guess I should by the the Death Certificate reissue next.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
and now that I've said that, let's all salute the genius that is L.L. Cool J's Walking With a Panther, which decimates Frank Kogan's non-argument about hip-hop not being an album genre.
― Neudonym, Monday, 14 July 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Mecca And The Soul Brother. Not one bad track. No instrumental interludes. NO FUCKING SKITS. Just flow, flow, flow for 75 minutes.
Other nominations from me:
New Kingdom, Paradise Don't Come Cheap (Funkadelic circa 1970 meets Godflesh)
Schoolly D, Smoke Some Kill
Genius/GZA, Liquid Swords
Sensational, Loaded With Power
Ol' Dirty Bastard, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
Wonderful album. Did they only have the two releases?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 14 July 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. Outkast - Aquemini (so much better than Stankonia, total definition of an aesthetic)2. Brand Nubian - One for All (why hasn't anyone mentioned this one? It's so goddam good!)3. Eminem - Slim Shady LP4. Ol Dirty Bastard - N****a Please5. Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
Oh. I guess Cube doesn't make the list after all. Fuck. Never mind. He's like #7 maybe behind the Blueprint.
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
Um, yes there are.
― oops (Oops), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I know I mentioned Breaking Atoms upthread, but I don't know what I'd place as the first now. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted? Fear of a Black Planet? Liquid Swords? Live and Let Die? The Blueprint? Supreme Clientele?
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
Does anyone actually think Common now is anywhere near as interesting an MC as he was at Resurrection?
― Matt Kasper..., Tuesday, 15 July 2003 03:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've never even heard two of the things I listed. (Gangstarr, Black Moon.) And I don't like All Eyez on Me. I don't understand why I would lie about that. I wanted to seem worldly or something, I guess.
― d k (d k), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 03:33 (twenty-one years ago) link