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

ok wtf SOC is yr favourite rap album and you can't listen to the chronic? what is wrong with your ears?

FUCK WIT DRE DAY

36 chambers
ready to die
nation of millions
illmatic
the chronic

this is solid but somebody's getting screwed, illmatic or paul's boutique or OB4CL

I will post the full list of votes later btw.

i don't think i've ever heard paul's boutique is it really one of the top 5 best rap albums of all time ever

no.

k

yes it is.

so confused

yes

no..

we can debate top 5 all day but saying PB isn't one of the top 100 rap albums ever made seems wrong

yes it is

top 20 maybe, not top 5.

and not better than low end.

Shakey, I reckon those lost out to vote-splitting. There must be votes for multiple albums in each case.

Looking forward to seeing the full results. Brand Nubian is the omission that really surprised me.

imo Paul's Boutique is more 'Odelay precursor' than 'great rap record' but I dunno much about anything when it comes to this so...

not even the second best beasties album imo

Pau's B>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Odelay

Paul's Boutique>Ill Communication>Check Your Head>Licensed to Ill

check your head better than pauls imo.

if check yr head makes this list and paul's boutique doesn't, I dunno what to make of that

xp lol

ok wtf SOC is yr favourite rap album and you can't listen to the chronic? what is wrong with your ears?

SOC is seminal, groundbreaking, and sonically it's pretty different from the Chronic. Chronic is way less sample-based and Dre had moved into this synth-heavy "interpolation" style of producing tracks that I quite frankly just don't like as much. and the nihilism/mysogyny/stupidity of a lot of the lyrics just comes off as grating to me, it had lost it's novelty for me by the time this came out (and fwiw I find it more tolerable on Doggystyle where I think the songs are just better and Snoop is more focused/sharper). I like what came before and what came after the Chronic a lot better. At the time I found Ice Cube's career path way more interesting than Dre's, which just seemed to get stupider and more one-dimensional, whereas Cube was getting more complex and nuanced.

xp

check yr head has like 3 rap songs on it

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Therealness.jpg

woula voted for :/

coming next is the last album not to get a #1

. Brand Nubian is the omission that really surprised me.

oh yeah definitely, knew I left someone off that list (d'oh!) I voted for it fwiw.

I'm with shakey on the chronic, I'm a bigger fan of doggystyle but the chronic was more landmark so w/e

props bnw. i voted for 'the true meaning'

Shakey, I reckon those lost out to vote-splitting. There must be votes for multiple albums in each case.

yeah at first I tried to guess which E-40 & Too $hort records others might vote for in hopes of ensuring they would get on the list for SOMETHING, but in the end I just gave up and voted for the ones I listen to the most

wait sorry its not, i thought i'd already posted #6 :S

chronic is classic 4 all time tell shakey to lick deeeeeez nuts

6. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... [21 votes, 2 #1 votes, 737 points, 1995]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zczid7d2FBE/Tcr9TChd5tI/AAAAAAAAABE/yIC1L10StC8/s1600/Raekwon-Only-Built-4-Cuban-Linx.png

http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2010/08/raekwon-the-making-of-only-built-for-cuban-linx/

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat no!

my #1

fuck off is 36 chambers better than this

P'sB is #5 then?

glad OB4CL beat Liquid Swords at the very least. LS winning the Wu poll was some bullshit.

and yeah I think it's better than 36 Chambers too

I get why ppl would rate The Chronic higher than The Low End Theory. I also get why some people vote Republican.

I need to live with Cuban Links a little longer; I only finished getting the initial round of Wu releases last year. Still not better than TLET (or De La Soul Is Dead, for that matter).

raekwon is one of the best rappers o.a.t

(np: "My Brother's A Basehead")

top 5 is pretty much on point, whatever the order

one of the best nas verses on this album too

Like SOC, the first half of the Chronic is totally amazing and hugely a part of my life - but there's a lot of stuff I just don't care about afterwards, and nothing on the Chronic is as good as some of the stuff on side two of SOC (I ain't the one, Dopeman).

Also realizing that for a lot of these records I still think very strongly in terms of side one and side two.

not a big OB4CL fan tbh

and I rep for raekwon always, like, I dug immobilarity

and OB4CL part 2 is one of my fave rap albums of the past 5 years

xpost When I saw Wu-Tang live a few years ago Raekwon spent all his time between verses sitting on the side of the stage scowling and swigging from a bottle. Then Method Man invited some women up on stage and it was mostly white girls and Raekwon got pissed and grabbed the mic and shouted/slurred, "Yo yo, where all the black pussy at?" Lost a little of his mystique that night, I have to say. Still GOAT, as tpp says.

xpost OTM Chronic does drop off after Lil Ghetto Boy, but still some great stuff. Bitches Ain't Shit is garbage tho

5. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die [21 votes, 749 points, 1994]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IlsYqVEhf5w/TPz_wntEInI/AAAAAAAAASE/XZ-qosS6hqQ/s1600/the+notorious+big-ready_to_die.jpg

holy shit i only thought there was a LAD one but now I'm going to go read http://www.xxlmag.com/magazine/2006/03/the-making-of-ready-to-diefamily-business/