best 1994 rap album besides Illmatic and Ready To Die

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

ilx has the weirdest taste

― max, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― max, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i never seen a max cry
until i seen a max *sigh*

gravdiggaz is not actually suposed to be scary guys, its just for fun

Who voted Keith Murray? I remember that record being really underwhelming after hearing a bunch of freestyles and guest verses and thinking he had a ton of personality and an interesting voice. That said, it ws years since I heard it. Worth trying again? His other records arent very memorable either.

its def the most beautifulest album on the list, the best tho, not so sure

xpost 'scary'

"Horrorcore", whatever. Sometimes I use it to get me pumped, sometimes I incorporate it into my enhanced interrogation of susupected terrorists, and yeah, sometimes I turn off all the lights and get real stoned and pretend that RZA is actually a psychopath i'm locked up with

Rolling Stone (10/6/94, p. 90) – 3.5 Stars – "[Gravediggaz] evoke the atmosphere of horror movies and ominous effects, they've also been street tested, boasting hard beats and verbal skills."

Entertainment Weekly (8/19/94, p. 62) – "The album doesn't take itself very seriously, but the flustered beats, washed in minor chords, are strangely irresistible--partly because it is all so silly". – Rating: B

Q magazine (11/94, p. 129) – 3 Stars – "The foursome use death, burial and The Grim Reaper as central themes for a chilling mid-tempo stomp through America's urban problems."

The Source (9/94, pp. 91–92) – 3.5 Stars – "No, this isn't the climax of the latest Stephen King flick or Jason, part 17. It's an image created by the Gravediggaz, one of a number of new groups combining rap with horror-movie macabre to create a genre unofficially known as `horror-core'".

NME (12/24/94, p. 22) – Ranked #22 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'

NME (Magazine) (9/10/94, p.46) – 8 – Excellent – "Gravediggaz feverishly document the low life – graveyard low.[5]"

In 2009, Fangoria named it as a iconic horrorcore album.[6]

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.

― Lamp, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the jeru is def widely considered a classic; if anything its star has fallen slightly in recent years but 'come clean' was like THE premo beat for awhile

that digable planets album >>> gravediggaz

i dont actually know that i believe that but hating on that DP album is weak

def agree with that second post

i know nothing about Digable Planets other than filing them alongside "Cantaloop" as an embarrassingly corny 'jazz rap' video that was on MTV all the time in 1993, so i've just stayed far far away from them in the decades since

you could have just stopped at "I know nothing about Digable Planets" tbh

which may be especially silly coming from someone whose favorite rap LP of all time is Low End Theory, but that's where i'm coming from

xpost

I think you would really dig Blowout Comb tbh, esp since you dig The Low End Theory

thread is lol

for some reason I didn't actually hear that Gravediggaz album til years later (even tho I did get the second one when it came out) so I don't have the sentimental associations with it that I would guess some folks here have. it's good tho.

not as good as Blowout Comb of course

hahahaha what the hell?

jesus

Blowout Comb is awesome, fuiud.

Also, one of two albums in this poll I've actually heard*, but don't worry, I didn't vote.

*the other is Zingalamaduni lol

lol jaymc

up until this moment I always thought that album was called Zingalamundi

boy your face must be read as you recall all the conversations where you pronounced it wrong and your appalled friends hesitate to say anything

yes ~~the shame~~

luckily I don't think I've ever pronounced it out loud

digable planets r cute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJKIPz1c0Gw

me: guy in the koala shirt

although tbf that planet is much more respectable than the first one

jazzy joyce jazzy joyce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4kqL13jGM

ilx: the white dread

are the two of them brother and sister that cutesy ny accent rap voice thing they do is so grating

biddy biddy bop FUNKY FUNKY

baby talk paddy cake eat a bucket a buns

second album is a completely different animal from the first imho (altho the first has its moments)

dp is pretty innocuous.

loving them or hating them too much is nagl

lol youre some aspiring rapper who moves in the same circles as the nascent digable planets then they sign a deal and get huge and youre all that guy for real world THE BABY TALK GUY

no one said blowout comb wasn't a charming artifact of the post native tongue bo-ho era, but c'mon

gravediggaz is good but i've never understood ppl on ILX rating it so highly.

I think you would really dig Blowout Comb tbh, esp since you dig The Low End Theory

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf some dude ignores 99% of recommendations

but just to be clear everyone my dislike of them is not that intense and totally w/in aceptable parameters

gravediggaz is good but i've never understood ppl on ILX rating it so highly.

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:53 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they like menacing rappers to be as cartoony& self aware as possible?

that sounds about right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eVp0hi0TCQ

musically its just a dope record

although 'lets get creamy' i guess sounds kinda silly. but w/e

gravediggaz is good but i've never understood ppl on ILX rating it so highly.

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:53 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they like menacing rappers to be as cartoony& self aware as possible?

― google deeznuts (D-40), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or maybe its really good music, two of the best producers at the top of their games, dope rappers having fun idk