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

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.

see i've barely ever even experienced their music as singles outside of "Me Myself & I" (and to a lesser degree "Buddy" and "Oooh") so they're totally an albums act to me

entirely possible this is just a "had to be there" thing but the first time I heard that album when I was 14 (or 15?) it just seemed like it was from another planet. had never heard anything even remotely like it before, much less wrapped up in such a long, in-jokey concept album format

2nd and 3rd de la are 100% classic

dunno what you have against the first, but yeah

xxp Yeah, I first really heard them (other than "Me, Myself, and I") in the early 2000s, by which time my friends had already foisted Jurassic 5 et al on me. And then never actually copped any of their albums except for a greatest hits comp I had til around 2005 or so.

in retrospect it is pretty weird/funny that they would get all butthurt about being called hippies after putting our videos showing them in paisley shirts tossing daisies around

xp

none of which are on youtube apparently...?

the 2nd and 3rd one seem more like bona fide rap albums to me - like, they slot more comfortably into the larger fabric of hip hop culture and the time period. 3 Feet High is more like an epic comedy album or something

I saw them with the Black Eyed Peas as an opening act like right at the absolute last moment that would have ever happened haha. BEP even performed "Where Is the Love" iirc.

pro tip: if u do not want ppl to call u hippies, prob best to make sure yr debut album sleeve does not look like this:

http://newyork.timeout.com/sites/default/files/images/blogs/thevolume/2009/04/383853a09da0795a7c3d4110l-300x300.jpg

in retrospect it is pretty weird/funny that they would get all butthurt about being called hippies after putting our videos showing them in paisley shirts tossing daisies around

xp

― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 10, 2011 5:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

they were the Tyler of their era, finding a way to get mad at a mountain of good press

pro tip: if u do not want ppl to call u hippies, prob best to make sure yr debut album sleeve does not look like this

I know rite? there's a peace sign RIGHT IN THE BAND LOGO

When I started watching Yo MTV Raps when I was 14 in early 1989 - the video for Me, Myself and I was so weird and different and goofy and I loved the "Not Just Knee Deep" sample despite having no idea who Funkadelic was. I bought the tape from Columbia House and my friend always made fun of me for liking it but that and the next two are all-time forever classics for me.

Buhloone Mind State is a good rec for the Rev to try and crack De La as an albums act