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

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