best 1994 rap album besides Illmatic and Ready To Die

outkast is an amazing group. thinking outkast made the greatest album of 1994 or any year is for herbs

unless you count big boi solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A__90V2h_9o

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voting Hard To Earn obv

how is this not mellow gold?

There it is

in 94 I definitely listened to Common more than any of these

outkast is an amazing group. thinking outkast made the greatest album of 1994 or any year is for herbs

― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 16, 2012 8:09 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unless you count big boi solo

― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 16, 2012 8:09 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...

:O

LOL @ Shipley's total snub of Ill Communication

outkast is an amazing group. thinking outkast made the greatest album of 1994 or any year is for herbs

― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 16, 2012 8:09 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I take this back because 1998

almost as lol as constructing a byzantine pecking order in which something can be better than illmatic but definitely not the album of the year (xpost)

"if this is higher than 4th place on your list but lower than 8th place, then FUCK YOU HERB"

Replace the album names with Mike & Molly episodes and Semisonic songs & you can call me your brother from another mother

:P

^then implying that that pitchfork big boi record was better than any of kast's records. the audacity

xxp

Replace the album names with Mike & Molly episodes and Semisonic songs & you can call me your brother from another mother

― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 16, 2012 9:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

you have ad hominem tourette's, dogg, stay on the topic

kevin, i wasn't saying that, idiot

voted scarface over gravediggaz if only cuz that's how i would've voted in 94. i can understand why it's not here but the above the rim soundtrack seems like an omission in terms of 'what was unavoidable in 94'. haha also the fresh soundtrack.

yeah i thought about including Above The Rim since it felt so huge just off of "Regulate" being on it well before Warren's album dropped but just decided to stick w/ artist albums. "Pain" is one of my fav Pac songs, though.

btw Scarface recently revealed in an interview that the original title of The Diary was LISTEN TO THIS BRAD

Surprised myself by voting The Coup over Gravediggaz or Organized Konfusion, but Genocide & Juice is such a perfect example of how political music should be: part funny, part angry, part sad, with great rabble-rousing beats too.

didn't surprise me since the main reason i included The Coup was that you whined about their absence in best rap album of 1998

the rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble

btw Scarface recently revealed in an interview that the original title of The Diary was LISTEN TO THIS BRAD

― some dude, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:21 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey i know but still i'm lollin @ this

Genocide & Juice is great

Has anyone heard that Dred Scott album?

I bet I'll like it, I am very afrocentric

didn't surprise me since the main reason i included The Coup was that you whined about their absence in best rap album of 1998

Haha, well yeah, but the 1998 poll didn't have as many (non-Coup) albums I love as this one.

In the 1998 poll I would've voted for The Coup without a second thought. But here I had to think hard what to vote, even though Genocide & Juice is my favourite Coup album. Just shows how great a year 1994 was for rap.

btw ppl not up on Blowout Comb should really get up on Blowout Comb, it's fucking great

I would still pick Gravediggaz, Tical, and Outkast over it (possibly also O.K.) but it's a great album

I think I might buy everything on this list I don't already own (looking esp. at you, Jeru)

anyone heard that Main Source (minus Large Prof.) album? I thought it never came out, but wikipedia says it was released and then shelved (whatever that means) and then released in 1999.

i remember reading about how bad it supposedly is a while back but i didn't realize it wasn't actually released in 94, my bad for including it

btw Scarface recently revealed in an interview that the original title of The Diary was LISTEN TO THIS BRAD

glad i voted for it

love that jeru album, some of premier's best work ever

"if this is higher than 4th place on your list but lower than 8th place, then FUCK YOU HERB"

^^^this

wtf whiney

people on an internet forum calling each other "herbs", i mean really

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ba1evEwO1qargt4o1_400.jpg

nice tits

anyway, my favorite herb tits = gen & juice, blowout comb, 6 ft deep, tical and southernplayalistic

went with gravediggas because i have nostalgia

tical isnt even in my top 20 prob

I think I like it more in theory than in actuality - the first few tracks are so murky and clouded they kinda leave the false impression that the whole record is some sludged-out bleary-eyed stomper, but the more uptempo stuff doesn't work imho

yeah i love Meth and WANT to be able to go "best Wu solo album fuiud" etc. but i just can't, it ain't that hot

it does have a very unusual sound - it's interesting to chart the gradual shift in production from 36 Chambers to Tical to The Dirty Version and then there is just a huuuuge leap with the Raekwon and GZA records

Blackout! >>>>> Tical

xxxp to be honest I can't really remember the uptempo stuff. It mostly just strikes me as an odd record (esp. so since Meth is really the most conventional of the Wu-Tang). If Meth was less of a face (and minus the Wu-Tang connection, of course) it's hard to imagine it coming out on a major label.

I Get My Thing in Action, Release Yo'Self, Stimulation... they're okay but they aren't great or unusual or anything

keep beating that "tical ain't all that" dead horse guys

hard to earn is p rad

The uptempo parts are the GOOD parts of Tical!

O.C. - Word...Life

boring album but this is classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCJ6f5VnVVo