Yay, for "I Wish", one of the best one-hit-wonder hits of all time. It was my #26; I remember around the time it was a hit, I shaved my head bald for the first time, and some friends of mine I thought I looked like Skee-Lo, so they started calling me that. That tune is so solidly intertwined with a particular era in my life that I could just not have left it off my ballot, even if it wasn't as dope as it is.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
bone thugz used to rule "the box" channel
― bnw, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad some Bone Thugs made it; I didn't vote for this one--it feels a bit played--but I voted for others
― pwn thugs n harmony (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe a hoy hoy was mad at my blondie vote lol
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i'm down w/ debbie and freddie
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Or Murray Head
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
90. EPMD - You Gots To Chill [4 votes, 139 points, 1988]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGisre9xNU
This video is o_O and deserves some low level meme status
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
right?
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
vote to point ratio reflects the exceptional taste of four ilxors
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
bone thugs are dope, that song is def not close to my favorite
― lebroner (D-40), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
love seeing some epmd
whiney & j0rdan have dropped 14 messages in my inbox in the last 15 mins discussing this thread lol
― lebroner (D-40), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
love Sermon's little dance moves in the bkgd
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
are Whiney and Jordan both banned or something? why does Whiney get banned all the time?
S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier)
:)
re Bone: no love for Mo Murda/1st of the Month/Fo The Love Of $/Creepin on a Come Up/Notorious Thugs/Shoot Em Up?
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"Tha Crossroads" was my #1, fuck anyone who thinks it isn't good! The reasons I put it on the top spot:
* Again, it was a big part of my youth.
* Combining sweet doo-wop vocals with gangsta rap was a brilliant idea, and this was the first time I (and millions of others) heard BTnH do it, so back then it felt like such a revelation.
* Despite the seemingly positive afterlife imagery in the video, the song is all about being afraid of death; the sentiment is expressed in such a straightforward and timeless way that it's almost impossible to ignore. "I miss my uncle Charles, he shouldn't be gone in front of his home..." - who of us couldn't empathize with that? I wasn't religious when the song came out and I'm still not, but the simple, insistent repetition of "and we pray and we pray and we pray" in it always pulls my heart strings: it tells so much about the uncertainties death brings to our lives and how we try to deal with it every day.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
1st of the Month is the only one of those I recall off the top of my head... yeah I dunno they just never clicked with me. I dunno, it's funny - probably has something to do with young me being super-serious about my chosen allegiances in the aftermath of NWA (ie, Cube over everybody else), I let a bunch of stuff associated with Dre, Eazy, etc. just pass me by
xp
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Bone is one of those that peaked w/ their first single imo, tho 1st of tha Month comes close
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
""Tha Crossroads" was my #1, fuck anyone who thinks it isn't good!"
I like it too, one of the first rap videos I really got hooked into. I just don't have the affection for it I used to, and other BTNH tracks have hurdled it over the years. Like, I still listen to Bone but haven't listened to that track in probably 8-10 years. Cant front on your reasoning tho.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"probably has something to do with young me being super-serious about my chosen allegiances in the aftermath of NWA "
haha yah, totally, when I was young and the east/west nonsense was going down, I would always say stuff like "the east sucks man" without any reasoning. I could never EVER get down with Mobb Deep cos they had beef w Pac. Soooo dumb.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Did you vote for No Vaseline Shakey or have you put all that beef behind you?
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Bone Thugs have some stellar album cuts imo.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I like "Thug Love" more than "Tha Crossroads" but I don't expect anyone else to agree with me
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
89. Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean [5 votes, 140 points, 1993]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B5dOCSBBEI
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lol given how shitty Cube got and how much better Dre got (and how dead Eazy-E got lol) it's all water under the bridge at this point
if there were a poll of 100 All Time Greatest Dis Tracks tho, No Vaseline would be my #1
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
wait is jordan banned??????????????
yes to Jeru
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
come clean is dope as fuck but really you could pick anything off those first two records and it is legendary
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Come Clean is another one that fell just outside my 50. So good.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
YES
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ummm bridge is over come on
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
voted for My Mind Spray, but I'll gladly take Come Clean
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
in fact my rap snaps ya sacroilliac!!
― steady sbobbin (symsymsym), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Got a freaky-freaky, freaky-freaky-freaky flow.
#21 on my list
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
88. De La Soul - Eye Know [5 votes, 142 points, 1989]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CaN4thI5w
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
And so begins the De La domination.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
every time I see the title of that song, the first thing that comes to mind is always the Prince track off of Lovesexy
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
now now johnny de la only have another 86 songs in the coming 87.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
87. Ludacris - Southern Hospitality [6 votes, 143 points, 2000]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QWQVm9J5DM
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
so far this is all pretty much the definition of "my shit"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Perry otm.
Anyone wanna have a stab at predictions?
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Next record is so goon crew canon that if we had a rolling thread back then, it would have been named after it.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
(tie w/ #85) 86. Smoothe da Hustler ft. Trigger tha Gambler - Broken Language [4 votes, 146 points, 1996]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcdmGINcqI
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
First thing on the list I haven't heard/heard of before. LEARNING!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Shamefully this is the first time I've heard this. Wow. I approve.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
(tie w/ #86) 85. Nas - The World Is Yours [5 votes, 146 points, 1994]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5PnuIRnJW8
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Where would be a good place to start albums/mixtapes wise?xp about smoothe
― pandemic, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't love that Smoothe album as much as some of the goon cru but that track is great
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
rolling gun sounds thread
Some Broken Language discussion
BROKEN LANGUAGE POLL
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ty
― pandemic, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link