most defensible album in Complex's The 50 Worst Rap Album Fails

This Erick Sermon track will snap your neck, but that LP isnt that great overall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRo6ZlAcuiw

I have some major love for Doggfather as well, just may get my vote. I pretty much love any pre overdubbed vocals Snoop. That album is kind of a personal classic of mine really. Doggfather eats it alive of course, but it holds up, and has aged well. Up Jump The Boogie, Vapors, Snoops Upside Your Head, Doggyland, Blueberry and Groopie are all pure.

DAMMMM, I love New Danger too, I always have to go to bat for that album, but I think its cool. Its way too long and has some issues, but there's so many good songs on there. Great cover art as well.

That Goodie Mobb album has some gems. I almost didnt buy it, the cover threw me, made me think twice, like uh yah so these are the same guys that did Still Standing and Soul Food, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ9LgYhvIkg

Last 2 Walk should be way higher, imho.

working now

wrong thread

Juvenile's Project English is a fucking unbelieveable album. The beats on it are ridic.

Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age is maybe one of the most underrated rap albums of all time. Got a manic Sly Stone vibe. Wildly funky.

MC Serch, Return Of The Product (1992) / Prime Minster Pete Nice, Dust To Dust (1993)

^both these albums are great

my rafikam Complex listicle de-listicler isn't working so no idea what dude is saying bout this shit

Also, I'll stan for World Party

the Goodie Mob album and the paisley-tinged "Put The Message In The Box" band

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

^v much in char

Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age is great. It's held up better than a lot of PE albums, too.

I know New Danger was more infamous, but True Magic was an infinitely shittier album, probably worse than anything in the top 10 of this list.

I loved New Danger when it came out

http://itsevab.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/kanye-shrug.png

alright, enough

True magic is worthless.

thread inspired me to listen to "Put The Message In The Box" twice in a row

I probably paid full retail for about 10 of these albums, but none of those purchases haunts me more than New Danger. I still kick myself for paying full price for that one.

Prince Paul's Politics of Business is the other great regret in my CD collection. A concept album about how terrible the album is. The joke is on people who bought it.

a lot of the titles give that "not really trying" feel like - DMX, Year Of The Dog...Again (2006)

Agree about that pp album. Xp

no wai, love that PP album

gtfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5XiXOXQdyA

Had a few jams iirc

I remember some major buyers remorse for that one though.

yeah, not saying its a classic or nothing, but def has some jams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84LUpG6ieis

Walking With A Panther is an amazing album that's 1/4 crap. Rap fans in always expecting too much shocker

Everyone wants Jay-Z to make Reasonable Doubt 15 fucking times.

^^Yeah, the one Chubb Rock song that riffs on a Prince Paul beat I already loved was OK. But so much of that disc was shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHfB7fhgzk

The joke gets old fast.

Everyone wants Jay-Z to make Reasonable Doubt 15 fucking times.

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:45 AM (4 minutes ago)

dude come on

forget nastradamus. the firm! the album! for whatever reason, i dunno, i heard this fairly recently. i mean, it was five years ago, but long after i was really really into nas. i heard it was horrible. listening to it right now, i am like how i imagine corny sincere college radio rap show djs are when they play a song they love, mouthing oh shit, head nodding sideways. it's like it was written made even darker, with shinier gleamier beats (dre! ). listen to "firm fiasco." az at his most abstruse and doing the best example of the thing that i really like, which is: this constant shifting between quranic imagery, madame blavatsky heavy mysticism (az the visualiza!) and the raw material world of various fabrics and the grunt of engines, gun sounds. bill clinton soundbyte sample nostalgia. and then, like, "firm biz" which has az unimaginable smoothness with a slur and fucking crazy disco hook. put on "throw your guns" right now.

i'm not going to misrepresent things, though. some of it is terrible. "firm all stars."

Muse Sick

i LOVELOVELOVE beats, rhymes & life, and unplugged 2.0, and the new danger is flawed but has a couple of great moments. but muse sick gets my vote, easily my 3rd fave PE and maybe my favourite album of that year.

Love Tarantula, Project English, World Party.

Also, I'll stan for World Party

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 27, 2011 5:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

also "aw man cuz man" is my jam

but i'm not gonna use it cause i'll just ruin it

voted

7. The Firm, The Album (1997)

cause there's nothing on any of these records better than 'desperados'

the Goodie Mob album and the paisley-tinged "Put The Message In The Box" band

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:14 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.youtube.com/v/DDQeXpIaPpE&fs=1&hl=en

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:14 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha ditto

Kane or LL

drive the car around the woooorhooooooooo

firm is kind of underrated. its not what people expected after lifes a bitch obv, which i think is why its on the list - ppl expected it to be a load of lifes a bitch/eye for an eye/verbal intercourse/mo money mo murda type tracks, instead they got this ultra glossy/slick/slightly silly with the cliches (these guys really went to town with their 'look ma, im in a scorcese flick!' fantasies) crime mafioso thriller/tv movie rather than what the godfather typography/the ppl making it might like to think they were making. it IS hip hop's 'cinematic' obsessions/aspirations rendered somewhat succesfully, just more multiplex than arthouse.

i need to check that melvyn flynt album though - i cant remember anything from it

glad im gay is on there - its prob the most boring thing lil b has done

46. Leaders Of The New School, T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye) (1993)

OH FUCK OFF. IF YOU COULDNT THINK OF A 50th YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST MADE IT 49 RECORDS AND LEFT OFF THIS K-CLAAAAAAAAAAASSIC.

Melvin Flynt had a decent Neptunes single, "Oh No"

still cracks me up that Nore's 'persona' for that album was conceived as a cross between Larry Flynt and Jack Nicholson's character from As Good As It Gets. not nearly enough rap albums based on the work of James L. Brooks if you ask me.

The eazy e nomination was insane. Perfect album

Lol Boring