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

whiney i'm just saying don't try to use my jizz against me unless you're prepared to get it all over you

cum dude

it definitely felt like they just wanted to put a Rakim record on there to tick a box, like "all the great ones have their fallow period"

actually now i want to think of who the most canonical rap artists are that don't have a single album on this list: 2Pac, Biggie, Eminem, NWA, Outkast, De La, Kanye, Scarface, not a single person from Wu Tang, Beastie Boys, The Roots, Gang Starr, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes

definitely a few in there that could've been on the list

all the biggie fails were technically puffy fails

like, Idlewild and Before I Self Destruct and the Tipping Point were practically made for this list

there's a raekwon record on there

oh right yeah sorry

and fucking Encore! why not Encore!

but overall point still stands--idlewild certainly should have been there

Idlewild maybe

The Tipping Point and Before I Self Destruct are pretty dece albums

Eminem is a weird one

the love below should have been on there

Also, every single thing Pac released while he was alive is overrated beyond all comprehension and besides 2PAC BACK

i think of all the ones listed the one w/ a most obvious fail is either wu or eminem

Also, every single thing Pac released while he was alive is overrated beyond all comprehension and besides 2PAC BACK

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:54 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

by who / bullshit / gtfo

The only fail NWA had was getting back together without Yella

critically hes one of rap's most underrated relative to his profile w/ rap fans

yeah i would listen to idlewild again before love below for sure

critically hes one of rap's most underrated relative to his profile w/ rap fans

― D-40, Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:54 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he's on the cover of XXL this month

and he's dead

I mean, you're still OTM.

the love below should have been on there

it's hard to consider a diamond record a fail

As much as I hate Encore, it was also a successful record.

aaa i forgot to fix that statement...

in hiphop, it's hard to consier a diamond record a fail.

i am pretty sure sales were not the only criteria for this list

"forever" sold almost 1.5 mil and so

hiphop seems play up the business and money-making aspects more than almost any other genre of music

I'm sure their explanation for including "Forever" was valid.

doggfather's sold two mil

you dudes are good at reading things, especially the part where i claimed this list was entire based on sales.

entirely*

it's hard to consider a diamond record a fail

i'd ask you to unpack this then, but i mean who the fuck cares at the end of the day

"the ilx story"

it was a successful record. last i checked, "success" is an antonym for "failure."

oh you.

the love below should have been on there

― D-40, Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

otm

actually now i want to think of who the most canonical rap artists are that don't have a single album on this list: 2Pac, Biggie, Eminem, NWA, Outkast, De La, Kanye, Scarface, not a single person from Wu Tang, Beastie Boys, The Roots, Gang Starr, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes

― some dude, Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

feel like for most of these artists their shitty albums more came in the flow of a predicable decline, this list seems to be from a hay wait whatre u even doin perpective

its like opportunities unseized

All those multi-platinum, critically acclaimed Kanye fails, what an injustice

Also Gang Starr never made a bad album. Easily the worst post in this thread

17. LL Cool J, 14 Shots To The Dome (1993)
47. LL Cool J, Walking With A Panther (1989)

"How I'm Comin'"
"Buckin' Em Down'"
"All We Got Left Is the Beat"
"Back Seat (Of My Jeep)"
"Ain't No Stoppin' This"
"Diggy Down'"
"Crossroads"

vs

"I'm That Type of Guy"
"Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?"
"Going Back to Cali"
"Crime Stories"
"It Gets No Rougher"
"Big Ole Butt"
"Jingling Baby"
"Def Jam in the Motherland"
"Jack the Ripper"

i didn't say Gang Star SHOULD have been on the list, just pointing out that they WEREN'T, duh.

it's not like either of Biggie's albums is bad, clearly the list of names wasn't meant like that

oic

Actively enjoy the Eric B and the Tribe albums. Like parts of the Raekwon, Common and PE. Voting Eric B because Complex are idiots for singling out Casualties of War as a dud track.

Never having followed Mystikal's career that closely I didn't realise Tarantula was a flop. Assumed it was big at the time because of Bouncin' Back.

Every album here is more defensible than a feature spread across 50 pages with pop-ups.

Tarantula is the best Mystikal album.

i love Let's Get Ready, really need to check that one out

voted Beats Rhymes & Life

Don't Sweat The Technique

Don't really see how Fuck What You Heard was much of a fail. Was anyone expecting great things from Main Source minus Large Professor?