Sirens sounded, they seemed astounded: THE ILM RAP MUSIC OF THE GODS ALL TIME 100 GREATEST ALBUMS OFFICIAL THREAD

Slow and Low is probably their finest moment for me. A Run DMC cast off.

(tie w/ #73) 72. MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday [6 votes, 154 points, 1999]

http://theovun.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/51x0oz6azl_ss500_.jpg

I only voted for my #1 btw. I planned to figure it all out but I got so pissed off after doing the tallying within two days that i never did. If I did - Operation Doomsday would have easily been top 10.

Yeah, I've never picked up the first OK album either, despite owning Stress and The Equinox (which is a very good case for why rap albums should never have skits). The few tracks I've heard from it I liked okay, but somehow they sounded too "goofy" compared to the more dark and ponderous stuff on the latter two albums... Maybe I'm wrong and I should check out the debut though?

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71. T.I. - King [7 votes, 156 points, 2006]

http://www.mixmatters.com/hot/images/ti_king.jpg

70. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm [6 votes, 158 points, 5 mics, 1990]

http://design-milk.com/images/2009/11/tribe-called-quest-1.jpg

(tie w/ #67) 68. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader [8 votes, 162 points, 1988]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PZYScm1NuZ4/S7P6m32PhsI/AAAAAAAAAZg/ImEqzwNWo7c/s1600/B0008KLVUU.jpg

^^^not that good tbh, even if it has Microphone Fiends. Pt. 2 in 'i want that old school rapper jacket' tho.

(tie w/ #68) 67. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP [5 votes, 162 points, 2000]

http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/502qc1t.jpg

66. DJ Quik & Kurupt – Blaqkout [7 votes, 164 points, 2009]

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/blaqkout.jpg

where did 69 go?

looooooool oh shit. brb let me sort that.

69. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded [3 votes, 159 points, 1987]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-V2I94F2g3s/TH8ZgSPM_AI/AAAAAAAAARU/seCZf7xAbc8/s1600/bdp.jpg

and on we go let the trumpets blow

65. Ice-T - O.G.: Original Gangster [6 votes, 167 points, 1991]

http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/johmbolaya/covers/IceTOG.jpg

when King showed up i thought "i wonder if that's the most recent album on the list," then BlaQKout popped up and i thought the same thing

my answer to that is maybe, considering i can't remember when the next one came out.

need to go out for a couple hours, so the next is the last till for about 4 hours.

64. J Dilla - Donuts [7 votes, 168 points, 2006]

http://www.fifthelementonline.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/353x/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/j/d/jdilla.jpg

"Fight For Your Right" is literally the WORST song on Licensed To Ill and completely unrelated to anything else going on on that album, which is an all-time great.

I love OG so much! Only three votes for Criminal Minded? Really should have voted

Things getting a little more canonical today, which is cool. But low placement of stuff like Licensed to Ill, Tribe and Donuts makes me feel like maybe there'll be room for at least a couple of surprises toward the top.

DJ Quik & Kurupt will totally be the most recent album to make it. Unless Cuban Linx II sneaks in there (or MBDTF, which knowing this crowd won't).

I will be stoked if Late Registration and Graduation make it, but College Dropout doesn't.

did Last Train to Paris get nom'd?

sam you know you're doing the first part of the list at like 730 am american time right? and like 430 am shakey time - not going to get a lot of discussion

interesting list so far tbh - nothing out and out terrible, altho some of the placings are kind of weird

also deej not sure what you were referring to upthread as "canonical" (Black Moon? OK?)

fwiw I am very curious about the Black Moon album, dunno how that one passed me by at the time - very strange

more albums i left off, more i voted for...p good list so far.

black moon is pretty boom bap backpacker roots canonical imo.....

it gets props iirc

I was hoping Eminem would somehow not show up.

x-post Didn't Buckshot once claim that the Backpacker thing started because he and his crew used to wear backpacks so they didn't have hide their guns in their pants?

I listened to Marshall Mathers and Slim Shady Lp for the first time in 3 years this morning. Thought they were both still pretty fucking great tbh.

Never liked either.

that Marshall Mathers LP cover is some silly-ass emo nonsense btw

(fwiw I don't like Eminem at all apart from some of the singles)

Same here, but maybe only like one or two album cuts, not the singles.

"Kim" and "Stan" are both fantastic IMO

gtfo with that Dido nonsense

you gtfo

*arms crossed*

Guilty Conscience is classic

It's always bugged me that none of the stuff in 'Guilty Conscience' is about conscience at all - does he know that?

isn't the Em voice a conscience?

I mean Dre

The way I remember it, it's about not getting caught, not doing the right thing.

isn't the Dre voice a conscience?

that's nonsense

haha

Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition, or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong.

Dre:Yo! This girl's only fifteen years old
You shouldn't take advantage of her, that's not fair

What am I missing?

Marshall Mathers LP is all over the place, but totally a landmark album. Deserves to be exactly where it is. "Kill You" is unfuckwithable.

sam you know you're doing the first part of the list at like 730 am american time right? and like 430 am shakey time - not going to get a lot of discussion

― max tldr (k3vin k.), Wednesday, June 1, 2011 11:38 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

hey if hoy wants to post albums when i'm up giving the baby his breakfast i will discuss them

sam you know you're doing the first part of the list at like 730 am american time right? and like 430 am shakey time - not going to get a lot of discussion

― max tldr (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 16:38 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol my bad. that will just be for today - my week has all been out of wack w/ work n shit. and to continue...