best 1994 rap album besides Illmatic and Ready To Die

i know right!?

I freely admit one of the reasons I like Tical so much is because of the Prodigy remix of "Release Yo (DS)elf":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uivw43LOwKo

alright partly strategic but i voted 4-tay. i'm not sure people know how consistent that album is... to me it's up there with kast and scarface

that album is totally solid!

Gravediggaz, along with regulate and doggystyle was my intro to hiphop. It was my fave then and remains to be to this day. Pretty much every track a banger. Prince paul's beats, the funky flows, rza in raw mode and the hilarious lyrics make it a classic. Still get's listened to on the reg.

prodigy remix of release yo delf is basically one of my top

...10 singles ever

that was much better than I expected. never heard it before

in retrospect, that remix feels like it sucked the last remnants of Howlett's Jilted Generation energy, leading him to write the same single three different ways and poop out some truly horrible album tracks for Fat of the Land

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I don't know any of these well enough to vote, but I'm looking forward to the results to guide my future exploration.

Cant go wrong with the majority of that list. Don't have a clue how to pick just one! My list runs pretty parallel with deej's.

I have major feelings for Word Life, Spice 1 and the Diary. Tical is also great, I think its aged pretty well, love the overall gloomy vibe, it sounds so deep at times. MC Eiht - We Come Strapped is kind of a personal classic for me as well.

Would be interested in a 93-98 countdown poll.

considering that the big rap albums ballot poll we did was pretty heavy on 93-98 i think that might be a little redundant. i'd be happy to organize more yearly polls like this, though, with or without Illmatic/Ready To Die type exceptions to make things more interesting.

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you'd have to exclude enter the wu tang from '93

xpost fuck you wu heads

For fuck's sake, how did Muse Sick beat Resurrection? Have you people heard that album?

seriously

Good point xp, I do like the idea of these yearly ones.

ilx has the weirdest taste

ilx has the taste of borks

i think i'm going to do non-Wu polls of '93 and '95 -- dunno if anything else is obvious enough to take out (Doggystyle? Midnight Marauders? The Infamous?)

cuban linx

oh non-wu

how did whiney get 3 votes?

gotta say i am impressed by the spread of the votes -- lotta albums nobody even posted about got multiple votes!

tbh i have no clue what i wouldve voted for in this poll if id known about it. scarface probably

how did whiney get 3 votes?

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i'd say exclude cuban linx and liquid swords from 95 and doggystyle and midnight marauders along w/ 36 chambers from 93, maybe infamous if it's that apparent it would win

yeah definitely excluding all Wu solo albums -- wouldn't trust some of y'all not to put ODB at #1 tbh

forgot to vote. happy to see Extinction Agenda placed fairly high. Pharoahe Monch is one of the best to ever do it.

to me these results invite a discussion about how many albums you should actually have heard out of a list of 40+ if you're gonna cast a vote

i'm forever of the opinion that if you only know one option in a poll it's fair game to vote

3 votes going to P.E. means we should set the floor at at least "1"

huh

what'd you end up voting for, hard to earn?

xp idk can anyone defend Muse? nobody talked about it on the thread

i voted for rappin' 4-tay just to get it on the board. anyway i wasn't trying to say i've heard (of) all these albums, but at the risk of being a dick it seems like most polls are mostly silent majority and they just turn out meaningless.

the gravediggaz herbs weren't very silent, tbf

what'd you end up voting for, hard to earn?

tbh i dont think i actually voted for anything but thats my pick in spirit its more that i didnt think anyone rated those jeru and warren g records never mind thought of them as the best (or i guess 3rd best) rap album of 94... and like there are bunch of albums that got votes that ive never heard a minute of.

the Warren G album is def not my #1/#3 but it's really, really dope

i do have a soft spot for jeru because he was headlining the first rap show i ever went to i got to 'sneak in' because my friend jessica knew the guy who was working the door and he let us in and i was to nervous to really do anything but sit and goggle at stuff but i had a p rad time so i always associate him w/ that, like for a minute he was my 'favorite rapper' because he did some crazy freestyles and i was very impressed with both that and myself in general so

xp idk can anyone defend Muse? nobody talked about it on the thread

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It's maybe like the 10th best album on this list of legendary albums; but it's dope and wildly underrated. Really a smart--fuck it, visionary--mix of samples and live instruments rubbing against each other. Ragged Sly vibes. It's great.

I guess most of the Tical voters went to 6 Feet Deep instead.

Left your boys at 99th and St. Clair high and dry.

Gravediggaz is the best

LITTLE-KNOWN FACT the original title of the Gravediggaz album, before the record company made them change it, was Niggas in Paris

i voted gravdiggaz, classic shit, there are a lot of good musics on here tho, except digable planets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DM2i1Hv70

^^^scarier than gravediggaz