― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Although my fave album isn't on there (BDP's Criminal Minded) he hits a lot of classics and defends the overlooked (OTM re: Scarface). Plus, no Mobb Deep, who I think are way overrated.
― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
he wrote a blurb about The Predator for the SNL-edited issue of spin back in what, 92? it always stuck with me and its pretty similar.
― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I posted a little quote from Prince Paul on the topic: http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/001288.html
― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.R., Sunday, 26 February 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
So is the first Gravediggaz actually. And the second one is better than you'd expect. Also been getting into that first Tribe record as well. Phenomenal.
Cool to see "Stillmatic" is on there but not "Illmatic". Finally someone else who doesn't think "Illmatic" was the be all and end all of Nas' career. It's likely that he still has his best album in him.
― Eroc LAzron, Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― beaux knee (boney), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Sunday, 26 February 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― lil' flipper (eman), Monday, 27 February 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 27 February 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― beaux knee (boney), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Reasonable Doubt is definitely the best Jay-Z album but, like, even David Duke agrees with that.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 27 February 2006 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 February 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 27 February 2006 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
"Album" implies the full-length product with multiple records on it.
I think you might have to be over 30 to remember when that was common parlance.
Maybe more music critics should be not-really-a-music-critic music critics. or something..
This is a massive understatement.
― Dan (Go 'Head, Chris) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
u get the bozack
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That's pretty funny and OTM.
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― cheshire, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
I do too. I was 20% of the white people in the crowd. Had a blast.
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rob Cooper, Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
The 2nd Pharcyde album is just as good...
― PappaWheelie B.C., Friday, 26 May 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Shhhh, you're giving it away!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link
buhloone mindstate is easily one of the best hip hop albums ever....
the one album i would put in there is the first brand nubian
― grapple (grapple), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Where's all your top 25s? I wanna see some lists dammit.
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link
1. Notorious BIG - Life After Death2. Scarface - The Diary3. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle4. Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In5. The Big Tymers - I Got That Work6. Kurious - Constipated Monkey7. Outkast - Aquemini8. Ice Cube - The Predator9. Mia X - Unlady Like10. Fat Joe - Jealous Ones Envy11. T.I. - Trap Muzik12. Rappin' 4-Tay - 4 tha Hardway13. Big L - The Big Picture14. Kool G Rap - 4,5,615. Dr. Dre - 200116. Ma$e - Harlem World17. Do or Die - Picture This18. Nas - Illmatic19. Jay-Z - Vol 2 Hard Knock Life20. Black Moon - Diggin in Dah Vaults21. Gang Starr - Hard to Earn22. B.G. - Chopper City in the Ghetto23. Three 6 Mafia - Choices Soundtrack24. Tru - True25. Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
― deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Chronic >>> 2001
Reasonable Doubt >>> Vol 2
Illmatic > 4,5,6
― Some Guy, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Some Guy, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link
ok. dont get why thats hilarious tho
― so fly zone (D-40), Thursday, 24 March 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
because you were on some "metal is just metal imo" talkin from the mountains and you can't even recognize one of it's most iconic images
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i don't see how that's lol. i'm way more into metal than deej (although still not exactly a metalhead) and have no idea what pic we're talking about.
― some dude, Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
me neither...? I mean, I guess I am aware that the Mayhem guy committed suicide but I don't really seek out photos of that kind of shit. Because I am not a morbidly obsessed teenager.
― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
you don't have to "seek it out" it was on the cover of an album iirc tbh otm afaik
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
a bootleg live album iirc tbh otm wtf dude
― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
9. Mia X - Unlady Like
― deeej, Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:59 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark
finally snagged a used copy of this. totally love it. fuck Allmusic saying she's No Limit's Lil Kim/Foxy Brown. she drops some topics that rarely ever make it in hardcore rap...domestic abuse from the point of view of the lady? Being a single mom? the last 4 tracks are really heavy but awesome. she had lyrics. def high point of No Limit, sad I waited so long to hear this.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 3 March 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
That record is classic
― what's a goon to garbus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 3 March 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
I think it may be v well the best thing No Limit ever put out
totally. not surprised why ethan listed her as his top female MC.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 3 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
deej and reverend are otm, ban Jordan S.
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― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Sunday, 4 March 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
I was a huge fan of the Wyclef album, and it's a shame he's so maligned by the hipsterati. The Carnival is an eclectic and fascinating record.So is anyone inclined to post their OWN top 25 hip-hop albums?
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:03 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark
so quaint to see him using terms as tame as 'hipsterati' back then
― some dude, Sunday, 4 March 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
dj shadow's entroducing would be nice, but theres no rapping on it― Rob Cooper, Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT A RAP ALBUM.― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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