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

Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91 The Empire Strikes Black 5 90
Public Enemy - Enemy Strikes Black 1 25

Should Apocalypse '91 have made the top 100?

just read the full rundown.

fuck a lot of you. srsly.

hahahah

Haha

I really should have voted :(

Might have got Southernplayalistic and Bone Thugs into the top 100

No Bone Thugs is kind of a disgrace yeah.

I didn't vote cos I just felt it was too big and unmanageable a subject and I've got big gaps in my knowledge but if I'd've known Eazy was gonna finish 125th and 187um Killa wasn't even gonna appear I'd've done a ballot with just that at no. 1

Yeah, this poll is revealing all the weird gaps in my knowledge, which I think is cause during the time in my life I was most interested in rap ::canon::, I didn't have much $$$ or access to filesharing.

keep looking thru the top 100 and i'm like jesus where the fuck would you start dissecting the rongness? the fucking Clipse 20-odd places above Return to the 36 Chambers just GET. TAE. FUCK.

Like, why have I never heard a BDP album? WTF!

Btw everybody gtfoing at Endtroducing for not being a rap album also needs to gtfo at Donuts.

I used to play By All Means Necessary a lot way back when but I never really feel like listening to them nowadays.

think you probly have to include Shadow in a Hip Hop poll but that record is at least 150 places too high

Read thread title.

Btw I love that Son of Bazerk cover, which I'd never seen before.

Read thread title.

In the nomination thread it was explicitly said that instrumental rap/electro/etc was okay, and the poll was originally called "hip hop poll", not "rap poll". I voted for one instrumental album (not DJ Shadow nor Dilla though) according to that.

Sorry, I meant "instrumental hip hop".

aside from whether or not an album without rapping should be included, there are more than 100 albums with rapping that are better than donuts & endtroducing

Like, why have I never heard a BDP album? WTF!

― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Sunday, June 5, 2011 2:07 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

!!!

I know most ppl don't rate it too highly but criminal minded is prolly my fave rap album OAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zLH4gHdM_M

u gotta get on it rev

I don't get all the bitching about the placement, like I think criminal minded should be top 20 if not top 10 but that's one man's opinion and plus I didn't vote so

just happy it ended up in the final list somewhere

Yeah, I've probably heard most of the songs on the first couple at least just here and there. xp

In the nomination thread it was explicitly said that instrumental rap/electro/etc was okay, and the poll was originally called "hip hop poll", not "rap poll". I voted for one instrumental album (not DJ Shadow nor Dilla though) according to that.

― Tuomas, Sunday, June 5, 2011 11:32 AM Bookmark

Ah, ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-alEhlHSzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rUbBZAsmH4

one more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRf8bgVlOM

I didn't say I've never heard any damn BDP!

Just that I've never sought out the albums, jeesh.

"Dope Beat" is the only one of those songs I wasn't already well acquainted with.

and "dope beat" is an awesome song!

I'm just nostalgia vibing on BDP now, don't mind me

Wtf with everyone shitting on Dr Octagon.. Every song and skit on that record is awesome. And I hate backpacker hiphop.

hey p dece list guys

some of the order is p lol and theres some random shit in there but most p classique

As usual with ILX, the results are far less frustrating than the comments.

I remember the first time I heard "9mm goes bang" echoing out of the neighbors house, one of those wtf is that/knocking on somebody's door moments

yah criminal minded was a total game changer, 1st of the super heady ny rap albums

Might have got Southernplayalistic and Bone Thugs into the top 100

Southernplayalistic was my No. 1

Btw everybody gtfoing at Endtroducing for not being a rap album also needs to gtfo at Donuts.

no problem. at least some of the tracks on Donuts were made into some decent rap backing tracks. can't say the same for shadow but inclusion of both was very rmde for me

ilxors be trippin

TODAY IS YR LAST DAY TO VOTE IN THE SINGLES

Like, why have I never heard a BDP album? WTF!

Ghetto Music: the Blueprint of Hip Hop gets underpraised in light of the first 2 imo

Listening to X-Clan on your recommendation, aero. One of those albums I was aware of but was deleted way back and I never got around to finding online.

Wtf with everyone shitting on Dr Octagon.. Every song and skit on that record is awesome. And I hate backpacker hiphop.

Dr Dooom First Come First Served >>>>>>>> Dr Octagonecologyst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k-cwwa05Uw

I voted for X-Clan fwiw

xp That's the only "Leave Me Alone" I've ever heard.. didn't realize it was a remix.

Dr Dooom First Come First Served >>>>>>>> Dr Octagonecologyst

Does not compute.

I mean, the Dr. Dooom album is cool and everything, but huh?

ye olde remove bookmarke from threade

Didn't vote but enjoyed this poll v. much. So thanks a hoy hoy.

I only ever buy 'canon'ised rap CDs but staggered at how many of these I own. Will check out the remainder no doubt.

I have to confess here that while I love De La Soul as singles artists, I've never really enjoyed their albums at all. Maybe it's cause I started becoming a rap nerd at a time when certain reverent cats were busy running De La's innovations to the ground and I heard a lot of that shit before I got around to checking out their own albums? It's not so much that I feel like I don't "get" their albums as I feel like there isn't that much for me to get that isn't already present in their standout best songs. Probably serves me right for not finally tracking down their albums until a few years after I was most into that type of rap. But I played 3 Feet High and Rising the other day after not listening to it for years and it left me just as cold as before except for the few songs I already knew I loved.