idg why ppl hate on pharcyde good group imo
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think anyone said they're not good for what they are, i just like a bunch of these records more
― push iatee (some dude), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
I like Pharcyde better than Predator because there's way to compare it to a much better previous album. Also because it has no "Gangsta Fairytale 2" on it.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh what, you've never heard Bizarre Ride I The Pharcyde?
― push iatee (some dude), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
I used to have three fourths of these on tape. I heard Das EFX and Redman on baskspin radio the other day and was surprised how nice they sounded through my trucks speakers. Showbiz & A.G's best album didn't come till 97 or 98 with Full Scale. For awhile it seemed like everyone in school was singing Pocket Full Of Stones.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
cool school!
― push iatee (some dude), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Redman, Gang Starr, Das EFX, DJ Quik, Pharcyde ... I have gone for Whut? Thee Album, fuck me what a vintage year and '93 was even better. Not really dug much of Redman post Dare Iz A Darkside, loved bits of Muddy Waters though. I thought The Pharcyde's follow up to Bizarre Ride was very disappointing as well.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I grew up an hour from Port Arthur and an hour and a half from Houston, UGK were huge and the Houston scene. There was a radio station call The Box out of Houston that played local artists before they were known outside of the area. I used to have tapes I recorded from the Box late shows.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
lol Bizarre Ride I
I like Pharcyde better than Predator because there's way to compare it to a much better previous album.
(I've said before that) I wasn't down with Death Certificate when I was a kid, the a) homophobia b) racism c) slackness towards women made me take it back to the shop and exchange for something else.
Also because it has no "Gangsta Fairytale 2" on it.
This is a feeble charge to lay against an album that has When Will They Shoot on it, let alone Wicked and Check Yo Self with the OG beat and Good Day (remember how remarkable it was at the time before it became the most-played Cube song ever). Not to mention We Had To Tear This Muthafucka Up and Who Got The Camera and Say Hi and...
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I just listened to the Predator again and it really isn't bad, but Death Certificate just feels like a better album to me. I was like 15 when it came out and it didn't seem any worse than any of the other stuff I was into at the time content-wise and I was dumbly oblivious to a lot of it anyway. That and a lot of other records do make me cringe a bit now.
I just never liked Dirty Mack and Now I Gotta Wet Cha that much, and the sudden and obvious Das EFX and Cypress Hill influences kind of bugged me too. And nothing on it - even Good Day - comes close to Steady Mobbin', Alive on Arrival, or My Summer Vacation.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
the remix of Good Day w/the Staples/Mayfield sample may be my favorite Cube song ever but even still Death Certificate just hangs together better, warts and all. the skits/interludes on Predator are annoying, and while his bandwagon-jumping songs aren't bad in and of themselves they are kind of glaring
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I just listened to the Predator again and it really isn't bad, but Death Certificate just feels like a better album to me.
I bought the re-release later and love it to bits, of course (bcz now I hate women, gooks and gays) (and many of the songs were still fully intact in my head from the week I'd had it the first time), but I have no problem at all seeing The Predator as a great album separate from its predecessors (it's no Amerikkka's Most Wanted either)
I was like 15 when it came out and it didn't seem any worse than any of the other stuff I was into at the time content-wise and I was dumbly oblivious to a lot of it anyway. That and a lot of other records do make me cringe a bit now.
as an Australian teenager I had no problem rapping along with "nigga"s in songs, but I'd stfu & rolleye or come up with my own "my ninja" style substitutes for homophobic lyrics.
"The Big Daddy law is anti-bigot / That means no intol-E-R-A-N-C-E..."
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
I do think Predator has Cube's best singles altho man When Will They Shoot? really should've been the lead-off single
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
^ true
Alive On Arrival might be one of Cube's five best songs ever, even counting NWA
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
a single of WWTS would have meant a version existing without the last word or two of the intro crashing the beat >:(
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
done watched two episodes of M*A*S*H*
xp
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
only ran one block, but my shirt's soaking wet
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
^ also a great example of what a great rapper Cube was in his imperial period - halfway through "shirt" he slows down a tiny bit, juuust lagging behind the beat for those next three and a half syllables; this provides a subtle enough emphasis that the listener will subconsciously note it, and make the callback connection on the reveal a few lines later, AND! ALSO! once you know the scenario for future listens, reads as the narrator physically losing step without even being conscious of it himself yet.
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
boom bap bump
― Citizen Ship (some dude), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
Predator talk is making me happy I voted for it
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Ended up voting for Redman.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:16 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is killing me
― croup da color of mayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 8 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
nice turnout!
― Citizen Ship (some dude), Thursday, 8 November 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
results pretty much what I would expect. glad the corny backpacker vote got split lol
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 November 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
that quik album super underrated. i always forget to vote in these things
― all mods con (k3vin k.), Thursday, 8 November 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Yo-Yo – Black Pearl 1
lol who voted for this
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
love everyone involved but album really doesn't work
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in the midst of making a 1992 top 25 list and am just curious about how y'all would rank the following albums:
Music To Driveby vs. Black Mafia Life
Daily Operation vs. Mecca and The Soul Brother
― weak willie (longneck), Friday, 16 November 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
MTD >DO >
― Good job, good multiple efforts (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 16 November 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
We're including R&B stuff as well, and it's bloody hard. Just the thought of pitting Funky Divas against Black Mafia Life gives me a headache.
Dangerous vs. What's the 411? vs. Love Deluxe vs. Funky Divas vs. It's About Time?
― weak willie (longneck), Saturday, 17 November 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
So, on the topic of 'The Chronic,' there's this lyric to "Fuck Wit Dre Day" that I've always found puzzling. When Dre says, "Gots teeth in yo mouth so my dick's gotta fit," isn't he kind of saying that his dick is smaller than... teeth? Does this bother anyone else???
― boy_slayer, Saturday, 17 November 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
it's "gap teeth" and it's a reference to Luther Campbell and thank you for showing us that there is indeed a demand for Rap Genius's services
― K3v Ink (some dude), Saturday, 17 November 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
― Good job, good multiple efforts (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, November 16, 2012 11:43 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this altho imo the mtd v bml is a much closer contest
― D-40, Friday, 7 December 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
― weak willie (longneck), Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:50 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love deluxe >>>>>>>>>
― D-40, Friday, 7 December 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
― boy_slayer, Saturday, November 17, 2012 5:31 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― K3v Ink (some dude), Saturday, November 17, 2012 5:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LMAO
that's been answered multiple times on ILX longer than rapgenius has been aorund
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
Our 1992 countdown has come to an end. 17 people voted for 24 albums each, and 66 different albums received votes. Here are the complete results:
1. Dr. Dre: The Chronic2. Gang Starr: Daily Operation3. Ice Cube: The Predator4. Redman: Whut? Thee Album5. Underground Kingz: Too Hard To Swallow6. Pharcyde: Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde7. Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Mecca And The Soul Brother8. DJ Quik: Way 2 Fonky9. Beastie Boys: Check Your Head10. Diamond and The Psychotic Neurotics: Stunts, Blunts And Hip Hop11. Above The Law: Black Mafia Life12. Sade: Love Deluxe13. Compton's Most Wanted: Music To Driveby14. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo: Live And Let Die15. Paris: Sleeping With The Enemy16. Das EFX: Dead Serious17. EPMD: Business Never Personal18. Eric B and Rakim: Don’t Sweat The Technique19. Prince & The NPG: Prince XV/Love Symbol20. Lord Finesse: Return Of The Funky Man21. Penthouse Players Clique: Paid The Cost22. Showbiz & AG: Runaway Slave23. Eazy-E: 5150 Home Of The Sick24. Common Sense: Can I Borrow A Dollar?25. Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy: Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury26. Mary J Blige: What's The 411?27. Boogie Down Productions: Sex & Violence28. Mac Dre: What's Really Going On?29. Too Short: Shorty The Pimp30. Ultramagnetic MCs: Funk Your Head Up31. Soundtrack: Juice32. Willie Dee: I'm Goin Out Like A Soldier33. Da Lench Mob: Guerillas In The Mist34. R. Kelly & Public Announcement: Born Into The 90s35. The Goats: Tricks Of The Shade36. Brand Nubian: In God We Trust37. Hard Knocks: School Of Hard Knocks38. Michael Jackson: Dangerous39. Bone Hard Productions feat Big Mello: Bone Hard Zaggin40. Shabba Ranks: X-Tra Naked41. Tweedy Bird Loc: 187 Ride By42. Spice 1: Spice 143. En Vogue: Funky Divas44. A Tribe Called Quest: Revisited Quest For The Seasoned Traveler45. Tung Twista: Runnin' Off At Tha Mouth46. Grand Puba: Reel To Reel47. TRU: Understanding The Criminal Mind48. OFTB: Straight Up Watts49. Roxanne Shante: Bitch Is Back50. Body Count: Body Count51. Buju Banton: Mr. Mention52. Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine53. Chubb Rock: Gotta Get Mine Yo!54. MC Ren: Kizz My Black Azz55. Too Much Trouble: Bringin' Hell On Earth56. Yo Yo :Black Pearl57. Demon Boyz: Original Guidance58. RBL Posse: A Lesson To Be Learned59. Point Blank: Prone To Bad Dreams60. SWV: It's About Time61. X Clan : Xodus62. Master P: Mama's Bad Boy63. Heavy D & The Boyz : Blue Funk64. Poison Clan: Poisonous Mentality65. Public Enemy: Greatest Misses66. Kid Frost: East Side Story
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link