put ya ballots in the ayurr and post em like ya just don't cayurr ILM RAP TRACKS OF THE GODS BALLOTS

And actually was thinking about using 'saturday night' instead of 'psk'... never got around sending my ballot. I think I even nommed 'saturday night'.

as usual, I didn't save my ballot

― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 10, 2011 7:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think we've discovered who voted for 'smang it'

Explain to me why Lil Wayne is bad, people. Why don't we like him anymore? He seems pretty good to me.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, June 10, 2011 8:58 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was just picking on you and i won't defend my rudeness but since you asked: 5 songs by any one artist on is a little over the top but not in and of itself bad, 5 songs by Lil Wayne in particular is kinda understandable since he does have a really sprawling discography, 5 songs from the album that wasn't good enough to be Lil Wayne record on the top 100 albums list is just kinda nutso.

1. Crooklyn Dodgers- Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
2. Gangstarr – You Know My Steez
3. The Coup - Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Grenada Last Night
4. Boogie Down Productions – My Philosophy
5. Ice Cube - When Will They Shoot?
6. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)
7. A Tribe Called Quest ft. The Leaders of the New School - Scenario
8. Mobb Depp - Shook Ones Part II
9. MOP - Ante Up
10. wu-tang - protect ya neck
11. jeru the damaja - come clean
12. outkast – elevators
13. The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
14. public enemy - welcome to the terrordome
15. smoothe da hustler - broken language
16. Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
17. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
18. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
19. Souls of Mischief - '93 Til' Infinity
20. goodie mob - cell therapy
21. Ras Kass- Nature of the Threat
22. slick rick/doug e fresh - la di da di
23. Ice Cube- My Summer Vacation
24. Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a G Thang
25. common – I used to love h.e.r.
26. Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
27. Big Daddy Kane - "Ain't No Half Steppin'"
28. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
29. Camp Lo- Luchini (This Is It)
30. Nas - The World Is Yours
31. Outkast - ATLiens
32. Ghostface Killah - Run
33. Dj Quik & Kurupt - 9x's Outta 10
34. EPMD - So Wat Cha Sayin
35. Outkast - Player's Ball
36. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
37. Method Man - Bring the Pain
38. aesop rock "daylight"
39. Jay-Z - Dead Presidents
40. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
41. De La Soul - Roller Skatin' Jam Called ''Saturdays'
42. Warren G. feat. Nate Dogg – Regulate
43. Public Enemy – Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
44. Outkast - Rosa Parks
45. Beastie Boys- Shake Your Rump
46. pharcyde - passin me by
47. Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause
48. big pun - still not a player
49. jay-z - the takeover
50. The Game - Hate It Or Love It

outkast - elevators
mobb deep - shook ones pt 2
geto boys - mind playing tricks on me
the notorious b.i.g - juicy
dr. dre ft. snoop doggy dogg - fuck wit dre day
nas - it ain't hard to tell
jay-z - a million and one questions
puff daddy - it's all about the benjamins (remix)
raekwon ft. ghostface killah, cappadonna & method man - ice cream
a tribe called quest - scenario (remix)
craig mack - flava in ya ear (remix)
special ed - i got it made
2pac ft. shocky g & money b - i get around
a tribe called quest - electric relaxation
pete rock & cl smooth - t.r.o.y
the notorious b.i.g - hypnotize
master p ft. mia x - bout it bout it pt 2
dr dre - still d.r.e
eric b & rakim - i ain't no joke
clipse - grindin
public enemy - fight the power
big daddy kane - smooth operator
ll cool j - around the way girl
missy elliot - the rain (supa dupa fly)
jay-z - heart of the city (ain't no love)
outkast - spottieottiedopalicious
devin the dude - doobie ashtray
50 cent - in da club
juvenile - ha
noreaga - superthug
big punisher ft. joe - still not a player
das efx - real hip hop (pete rock remix)
epmd - you gots to chill
scarface - on my block
akinyele - put it in your mouth
the notorious b.i.g - mo money mo problems
three-6 mafia - sippin on syrup
t.i. - rubberband man
snoop doggy dogg - who am i (what's my name)?
ludacris - area codes
outkast - so fresh so clean
bone thugs-n-harmony - tha crossroads
dj dmd ft. lil keke & fat pat - 25 lighters
biz markie - just a friend
busta rhymes - put your hands where my eyes can see
crime mob - rock yo hips
goodie mobb - black ice
scarface ft. too $hort, tela & devin the dude - fuck faces
lil kim ft lil cease - crush on you
cam'ron ft. juelz santana - oh boy

^would play

De La Soul - The Magic Number
Mobb Depp - Shook Ones Part II
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a G Thang
UGK - One Day
Souls of Mischief - '93 Til' Infinity
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
the notorious b.i.g. - party and bullshit
Big L - Put It On
three-6 mafia - sippin on syrup
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
Jay-Z - Nigga What, Nigga Who
Jay-Z – Big Pimpin’
public enemy - shut 'em down (pete rock remix)
the beatnuts - off the books
NWA - Express Yourself
Scarface - Guess Who's Back (ft. Jay-Z & Beanie Siegel)
Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
Nas 'Made You Look'
Domino - Getto Jam
UGK - Wood Wheel
2Pac - I Get Around
E-40 - Sprinkle Me (ft Suga T)
Lil Wayne - Shine
gang starr - DWYCK
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
De La Soul - Eye Know
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
goodie mob "dirty south"
jay-z - so ghetto
Luniz - I Got 5 on It
Main Source - Lookin At The Front Door
Notorious BIG 'Hypnotize'
Outkast - B.O.B
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)
pharcyde - passin me by
Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz
three six mafia - stay fly
TI - what you know
Trina ft. Ludacris - B R Right
UGK feat. Outkast - International Players Anthem
De La Soul - Ego Trippin' (Part Two)
Gang Starr - You Know My Steez
Ludacris - Phat Rabbit
The Game - Hate It Or Love It
Kanye West - Drive Slow
Method Man - Release Yo' Delf
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads

congrats, you are the 1 person who voted for "runaway"

― Edward III, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lols.

2. Eve feat. Drag-On - Let's Talk About

lol this is such a great unusual choice

What can I say, I just love Eve when she's in a more hardcore mode, and the tune has possibly the best Swiss Beatz beat of all time. Plus, for some reason I'm a sucker for these kind of woman/man "fuck you!"/"fuck you too!" songs, I love "It's a Man's World" by Cube and Yo-yo too.

ha, i was thinking about starting a thread for "fuck you"/"fuck you too!" songs!

i think i will

Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause
notorious big - gimme the loot
eric b and rakim - paid in full

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me

jay-z - the takeover
Outkast - Ms Jackson

KRS-One - Love's Gonna Getcha

missy elliot - get ur freak on

Ghostface - Run

LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

N.W.A. - Fuck tha Police

Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly
jay-z - can i get a

Young MC - Bust a Move

Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man

Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
Public Enemy – Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys - Get Low

TI - Rubberband Man

slick rick/doug e fresh - la di da di
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a G Thang
Kanye West - Gold Digger

the notorious b.i.g. - machine gun funk

50 Cent - In Da Club

jay-z - izzo (hova)

Warren G. feat. Nate Dogg - Regulate

Clipse - Grindin

Ice Cube - Check Yo Self (feat. Das EFX)

Naughty by Nature – OPP

Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
geto boys - gangster of love

The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
dr. dre - the next episode

Eminem - Kill You
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali

Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader

Outkast - Rosa Parks

Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
J.J. Fad – Supersonic
Kanye West - Flashing Lights

E-40 - Lightweight Jammin'
2Pac ft. Dr. Dre - California Love

N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton

3rd Base - Pop Goes The Weasel

A Tribe Called Quest – I Left My Wallet In El Segundo

Candyman - Knockin' Boots

1. Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
2. Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
3. Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly
4. Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
5. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message
6. De La Soul - Eye Know
7. Ice-T - New Jack Hustler
8. The Notorious B.I.G. - Kick In The Door
9. Warren G. feat. Nate Dogg – Regulate
10. Eminem – Stan
11. Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
12. Outkast - B.O.B.
13. 50 Cent - In Da Club
14. TI - what you know
15. Outkast - Ms Jackson
16. Wrecx-N-Effect – Rumpshaker
17. 2Pac ft. Dr. Dre - California Love
18. Run D.M.C. - Rock Box
19. Schoolly D - P.S.K.-What Does It Mean?
20. Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
21. Jay-Z – Big Pimpin’
22. Audio Two - Top Billin'
23. The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
24. Public Enemy - welcome to the terrordome
25. Mobb Depp - Shook Ones Part II
26. MOP - Ante Up
27. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
28. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
29. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
30. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
31. The Game - Hate It Or Love It
32. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
33. The Coup - Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Grenada Last Night
34. UGK feat. Outkast - International Players Anthem
35. Public Enemy – Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
36. Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre - No Diggity
37. Missy Elliot - the rain (supa dupa fly)
38. Ol' Dirty Bastard - 'Brooklyn Zoo
39. Kanye West – Monster
40. KRS-One - Love's Gonna Getcha
41. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
42. DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Summertime
43. Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
44. MC Lyte – Ruffneck
45. B-Rock and the Bizz - My Baby Daddy
46. Kris Kross – Jump
47. Lil wayne - a milli
48. Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
49. Method Man - Bring the Pain
50. Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice

I was really hoping New Jack Hustler, Kick In The Door, In Da Club, Rumpshaker and P.S.K. would place. the high placing of Summertime is probably the nicest suprise

god knows why i have this thread bookmarked, i have every ballot already

1. OutKast – Spottieottiedopalicious
2. Lord Finesse – Hip 2 Da Game
3. Camp Lo – Luchini (This Is It)
4. Mobb Deep – Hell On Earth (Frontlines)
5. Young Buck – Get Buck
6. Outkast – ATLiens
7. MOP – Ante Up
8. Method Man – Release Yo' Delf
9. Masta Ace – Born To Roll
10. smoothe da hustler – broken language
11. UGK – Murder
12. OC – Times Up
13. heltah skeltah – lefleuf leflah eskoshka
14. Goodie Mob – Black Ice
15. Ghostface – Run
16. E-40 – Sprinkle Me
17. do or die – po pimp
18. DJ Quik – Dollaz + Sense
19. Pete Rock & CL Smooth – T.R.O.Y.
20. Biggy – Everyday Struggle
21. Jeru The Damaja – Come Clean
22. beatnuts – watch out now
23. big tymers – get your roll on
24. Comptons Most Wanted – All For The Money
25. Black Moon – I Got Cha Opin
26. Large Pro – I Juswanna Chill
27. Crooklyn Dodgers – Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
28. De La Soul – Ego Trippin' (Part Two)
29. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Ill Street Blues
30. Fiend – Streets Aint Safe
31. Rappin 4-Tay – Playaz Club
32. Tha Alkaholiks – Hip Hop Drunkies (f ODB)
33. Alchemist – That'll Work (f Three 6 Mafia, Juvenile)
34. Three 6 Mafia – Late Nite Tip
35. Mystikal - Here I go
36. Tha Dogg Pound – Lets Play House
37. Too Short – The Ghetto
38. Snoop – Doggy Dogg World
39. Lil Wayne – Go DJ
40. Xzibit – What You See Is What You Get
41. Kurupt – We Can Freak it
42. Showbiz & AG – Next Level (Nyte Time Mix)
43. Celly Cel – Its Goin Down Remix (f Rappin' 4Tay, E-40, B-Legit, Mack 10)
44. Master P – Burbans & Lacs
45. Devin The Dude – Do What you Wanna Do
46. Domino – Sweet Potato Pie
47. Suga Free – Doe Doe And A Skunk
48. RBL Posse – Don't Give Me No Bammer
49. Fat Joe – John Blaze (f Nas, Big Pun, Jada, Raekwon)
50. Aceyalone – Mic Check

Really didnt vote very much in line with the results. I kinda just tried to get some personal classics to place, it seemed to work with Times Up, Spottieottiedopaliscous, Luchini, Broken Language and Lefleuf Leflah Eskoshka. Came up short with the other ones. I figured the canon classics would be well represented anyway. To be honest, at this point I'd rather listen to these than a large chunk of the polls results.

I had "saturday night" at #2, not entirely a strategic vote but I hoped it would've been enough to get it to place

in hindsight I wish I'd put "talking all tha jazz" higher, and even "luchini", which placed nicely but is just so classic, prolly my fave rap single of the past 15 years

fuck w/ spottie's ballot

ranked:

MF Doom - Dead Bent (album version)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)
Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin pt. 1
Madvillain - Curls
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Cypress Hill: "Hand on the Pump"
MOP - Ante Up
The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
NWA - Express Yourself
Eminem - If I Had
outkast - elevators
Notorious BIG 'Hypnotize'
Lil B - The Age of Information
wu-tang - protect ya neck
bone thugs n harmony - "thuggish ruggish bone"
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Ice Cube - Check Yo Self (feat. Das EFX)
Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check!
Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E.
dr. dre - the next episode
Lil Wayne - 3 AM
Nas 'Made You Look'
Q-Tip - Vivrant Thing
Ghostface Killah (ft MethodMan, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, Redman) - Buck 50
Camp Lo- Luchini (This Is It)
Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
black moon - "who got the props?"
Three 6 Mafia – Late Nite Tip
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers
Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin
Flipmode Squad - Cha Cha Cha
MF Doom - Saliva
Earl Sweatshirt - Earl
bone thugs n' harmony - 1st of da month
Cam’ron – Hey Ma
The Game - Hate It Or Love It
Lil Wayne - La La La
Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500
GZA - 4th Chamber
Craig Mack - Flavor In Ya Ear Remix
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
nappy roots- awnaw
Lil wayne - a milli
kanye west - all falls down
50 Cent - What Up Gangsta
Mikes Jones, Slim Thug & Paul Wall - Still Tippin'
Notorious B.I.G. - Notorious Thugs (feat. Bone Thugs n Harmony)

(aw crap I was gonna bold the ones that placed

"Flipmode Squad - Cha Cha Cha"

Such a great peculiar pick. I remember being totally let down with that album when I bought it (98 iirc). Gave it a spin years later (and recently too) and realized I was fronting hard, its pretty great. Some cool boombappers like Straight Spittin, We Got You Open and Do For Self balanced with some really off the wall ish like Cha Cha Cha and Last Night. LONG STORY, anyway Cha Cha Cha is great but just such a random track to see in your top 50 list, maybe you lost your virginity to it or something.

Also props on Late Nite Tip, just got some new cans (Audio Technica m-50s) with sufficient bass, that was the first song I played to test em.

Also seeing Vivraint Thing there makes me wonder why that didnt place and why I didnt vote for it.

Tuomas wins the 'most erratic list' award btw.

anyway Cha Cha Cha is great but just such a random track to see in your top 50 list, maybe you lost your virginity to it or something.

hahaha no when I went to college, I pledged to a fraternity, and at the end of the night, when the fraternity would be done doing what it did, we would all go to this one dude's room & get blazed; he would always start out by playing Cha Cha Cha...

he was also a huge fan of Vivrant Thing; I moved into the fraternity house that next year, and he'd always be playing it. this was also the dude that started me listening to Erykah Badu...

(I still had my virginity when all of this happened btw)

"eclectic"

xp

That works.

I never posted my ballots, was out of town last week. Anyway i did this fast and could be better but they are ok. (btw picked Audio 2 as best song and Illmatic as best album -- all others are UNRANKED)

Biggest mistake: i should have taken It Was Written by Nas off and replaced it w/something else after I decided not to have multiples by one artist on the list...also that spot could have gone to SLICK RICK who i fucking forgot and i'm still pissed.

SONGS:

Audio 2 Top Billin
Big Daddy Kane Ain't No Half Steppin
Black Moon Who Got the Props?
Black Sheep The Choice is Yours
Notorious BIG Juicy
Bone Thugs n Harmony Thuggis Ruggish Bone
Boogie Down Productions The Bridge is Over
Clipse Grindin'
Cypress Hill How I Could Just Kill A Man
Das EFX They Want EFX
Warre G/Nate Dogg Regulate
The DOC It's Funky Enough
Digital Underground The Humpty Dance
DMX Get At Me Dog
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock It Takes Two
Dr. Dre & Snoop Nuthin' But a G Thang
Eazy-E Nobody Move
EPMD So What Cha Sayin'
Run-DMC Run's House
Eric B & Rakim Microphone Fiend
Sir Mix-A-Lot Posse on Broadway
Funky Four Plus One That's the Joint
Gangstarr DWYCK
Geto Boys Mind Playin' Tricks on Me
Ghostface Killah Daytona 500
Grandmaster Flash The Message
Ice Cube No Vaseline
Wu Tang Clan Protect Ya Neck
Jay-Z Dead Presidents
Jay-Z feat Biggie Brooklyn's Finest
Jeru the Damaja Come Clean
King Tee Bass
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo Streets of New York
LL Cool J Rock the Bells
Marley Marl/Juice Crew The Symphony
Special Ed I Got It Made
Mobb Deep Shook Ones PT II
MOP Ante Up
NWA Straight Outta Compton
Slick Rick/Doug E Fresh La Di Da Di
Nas The World is Yours
Spoonie G Spoonin' Rap
Nice & Smooth Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
Noreaga Superthug
OC Time's Up
Organized Konfusion Stray Bullet
Outkast Art of Storytellin' pt 1
Public Enemy Bring the Noise
Raekwon Incarcerated Scarfaces
Too Short Life is Too Short

ALBUMS:

A Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory
Above the Law Livin Like Hustlers
Beanie Sigel The B. Coming
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Big Daddy Kane Long Live the Kane
Big L Lifestyle of the Poor & Dangerous
Big Pun Capital Punishment
Black Sheep Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded
Camp Lo Uptown Saturday Night
Cypress Hill s/t
De La Soul 3 Feet High & rising
Devin the Dude` Just Tryin Ta Live
Digital Underground Sex Packets
Dr Dre The Chronic
Eazy E Eazy Duz It
EPMD Unfinished Business
Eric B & Rakim Paid in Full
Freeway Philadelphia Freeway
Gang Starr Hard to Earn
Genius/GZA Liquid Swords
Geto Boys Grip It! on that Otha Level
Geto Boys We Can't Be Stopped
Goodie Mob Soul Food
Ice Cube Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Ice T O.G.
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
Jeru the Damaja The Sun rises in the East
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo Wanted: Dead or Alive
LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out
Madvillain Madvillainy
Masta Ace Inc Slaughtahouse
Method Man Tical
MF Doom Operation Doomsday
Mobb Deep The Infamous
Nas Illmatic
Nas It Was Written
Notorious BIG Ready to Die
NWA Straight Outta Compton
ODB Return to the 36 Chambers
Outkast Aquemini
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Run-DMC Raising Hell
Sir Mix-a-Lot Swass
Smoothe Da Hustler Once Upon a time in America
Specal Ed Youngest in Charge
The DOC No One Can Do It Better
Too Short Life is Too Short
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the 36 Chambers

know what shd have made it?? posse on broadway

yeah man, honestly, when i was a kid there was this period where we basically listened to Swass by Mix-A-Lot ALL the time...you know how sometimes things get really popular at your particular school for no apparent reason? well for whatever reason pre-baby got back Mix-A-Lot like ruled my school, everyone loved the shit out of Sir.

He also should get more credit for keeping electro non-sample beats alive during that era

I also see that I have two Geto Boys albums on there, which i didn't mean to do, but that's not really bad as they are both total classics...I do like It Was Written but there's way better stuff I left off.

shit would probably cut Tical by Method Man too, though I feel that album is hella dusted and weird and underrated

was really torn between Audio 2 and "I Got It Made" by Special Ed for my number one song

Incarcerated Scarfaces - completely forgot about that song. Good lists btw.

Why so much love for Philadelphia Freeway? iirc it kind of washed over me, although admittedly its been a while since I listened.

Didn't do a tracks ballot, which is good cos it probably would have made that poll even more Wuly.

1. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
2. nas- halftime
3. GZA - 4th Chamber
4. Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check!
5. Luniz - I Got 5 on It
6. MOP - Ante Up
7. eric b and rakim - paid in full
8. Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E.
9. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
10. Kris Kross - Jump
11. Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It)
12. Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
13. Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers
14. Public Enemy – Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
15. missy elliot - get ur freak on
16. Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
17. Method Man - Bring the Pain
18. Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
19. lauryn hill - doo wop (that thing)
20. Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
21. Gang Starr - Check the Technique
22. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
23. Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces
24. Ghostface Killah – Shakey Dog
25. Mark '45' King - #900 Number
26. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
27. mos def - ms. fat booty
28. Kool G Rap (featuring the RZA) - Cakes
29. Naughty by Nature – OPP
30. House of Pain - Jump Around
31. Das Efx - They Want Efx
32. 2Pac ft. Dr. Dre - California Love
33. Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
34. Mantronix - King Of The Beats
35. Deltron 3030 – 3030
36. Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
37. Wrecx-N-Effect - Rumpshaker
38. Craig Mack - Flavor In Ya Ear Remix
39. Yung Humma ft. Flynt Flossy - Lemme Smang It
40. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
41. Big Boi - Shutterbug
42. ludacris - area codes
43. outkast - elevators
44. Young MC - Know How
45. Pharcyde - Drop
46. Cash Money Marvellous 'Mighty Hard Rocker'
47. Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend
48. dr. dre - let me ride
49. KRS-One - Sound of da Police
50. Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope)

Why so much love for Philadelphia Freeway? iirc it kind of washed over me, although admittedly its been a while since I listened.

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i was surprised that there were 4 voters for this, i thought i'd probably be the only one! it's obv not perfect or anything but it's got classic singles, the pinnacle of Just Blaze and perhaps the whole post-Blueprint Roc sound, and obv if you're a Freeway stan like i am it's his best record.

9. Masta Ace – Born To Roll

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Saturday, June 11, 2011 4:33 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hey random question, I didn't recognize this song title, played the video and ... I know I've heard this beat and chorus hundreds of times, but with a different rapper? Not just a different track using the same sample, but a complete remake/homage/West Coast version with exactly the same chorus. I remember hearing it on the radio as a kid in Sacramento ('95-'96 seems right), but I'm thinking a kind of nasally, animated, not otherwise known iirc, almost B-Real sounding dude? Can't seem to find anything supporting this idea online though.
You're from the Bay, right, Spottie? Am I just crazy/remembering it wrong?

whoah that does sound totally familiar hmmm

i was surprised that there were 4 voters for this, i thought i'd probably be the only one! it's obv not perfect or anything but it's got classic singles, the pinnacle of Just Blaze and perhaps the whole post-Blueprint Roc sound, and obv if you're a Freeway stan like i am it's his best record.

― Mr. John Scatman (some dude), Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^this exactly

Re: Masta Ace – Born To Roll

Grew up in Salinas, about 2 hours south. This track you speak of sounds kinda familiar but nothing else coming to mind, I honestly think this might be the only version. Born To Roll completely crossed over into the bay scene due to that beat, which has a very distinct west coast slap to it. I knew the track around 94-95, it was pretty prominent up and down the west coast. I had no idea Masta Ace was an east coast dude until years later. Sittin On Chrome is such a weird album for that reason, a mixture of west-coast melodic slaps and east coast boom bap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrF6QjtUQCw

Probably not much help, its still very possible that this other track exists that you're thinking of.

Also, for the record, as far as bass-lines go:

Born To Roll > (bigger than) Hip Hop

^^^def

it's kind of an amazing record, like someone so associated with golden age NYC stuff did a super west coast record all of a sudden

Very much so. Kind of hard if I had to pick between it and Slaughtahouse. Both great, obv.

actually listening to a long hot summer right now, it holds up pretty well but obv kind of a minor record

i thought 'disposable arts' was better than long hot summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goTp_B8E92k

^^^despite the art on that youtube that track is from disposable arts not LHS

90s jeep-ass Masta Ace >> 80s Juice Crew Masta Ace >>>>>>>>>> 00s backpacker Masta Ace

obv

although tbh 00s 'backpacker' masta ace is p dope

too many arrows there imo

Agree with all of this. Ive always kind of lumped Disposable Arts & LHS together as equals, but its been a while since I listened to either.

DA has more annoying skits but better songs imo

Disposable Arts is classic--almost made my albums list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6dxaRlOiUY

never actually heard disposable arts, i'm sure i would like it