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

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/

RIP

I understand why RtD beat TLET and can live with the placement, grudgingly

in life there is never a bad moment to spontaneously burst into rapping along to 'juicy'

^^^my #2 and #5 if i had voted

urgh. my number 1.

ok so we are all in agreement that Paperboy is number 1.

Ditty4Life

reminds me i really wanted 'no way out' to place...

wait RtD didn't have a #1 vote? you sure your ballot was counted bingo?

http://hiphopcollector.com/test_bestanden/Paperboy_-_The_Nine_Yards.jpg

i voted for paid in full as the number one, RTD was my number one out of the remaining.

lol, you know one of the reasons I hated Ashanti so much is because she reappropriated the beat to "One More Chance" remix and I would always get happy when it started, and then get really mad when Ashanti started whining

Paul's Boutique is going to be too high - should be a 10-15 album, not better than Ready to Die and OB4CL.

4. Lady Sovereign - Public Warning [25 votes, 1 #1 vote, 780 points, 2006]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Ladysovereign_publicwarning.jpg

lol e3

NWA does kinda suck,

NO YOU SUCK

didn't vote Illmatic

from the age of about 16 to 21, Ice Cube was the greatest songwriter on the planet. don't think anyone in any field has ever given up so young when they were so great before.

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

new king of challops

no Junior Mafia on this either huh.

4. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [21 votes, 3 #1 votes, 787 points, 1988]

http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/p/public_enemy-it_takes_a_nation_of_millions_to_hold_us_back%282%29.jpg

BLACK BEYONCE wrote this on thread People who use the phrase "Uncle Tom" should be beaten senseless on board I Love Everything on 09-Jul-2008

freedom is a road seldom travelled by $RANDOM_WHITE_DUDE

lol that quote

I approve of this album ranking this high; I would have put it somewhere between #2 and #4

LADY SOVEREIGN? SERIOUSLY? oh man.

3. Big Bear- Doin Thangs [210 votes, 20 #1 votes, 7370 points, 1998]
http://www.woosk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bigbear.jpg

more challops: I never gave a fuck about RtD either. The first time I saw the video for "Big Poppa" I distinctly recall thinking "wow, if this is where hip hop is going, I just don't care anymore"