Sirens sounded, they seemed astounded: THE ILM RAP MUSIC OF THE GODS ALL TIME 100 GREATEST ALBUMS OFFICIAL THREAD

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand heere we gooooooooo.....

100. Son of Bazerk - Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk (4 votes, 108 points)

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Can I just say that I'm not sure there is an album to crack the list that makes me as happy as our #100. Love u guyz, made it all worth it.

Yes! Good start.

Now I don't feel as bad about not getting my shit together enough to submit a ballot!

Nice sleeve! Now put the year up as well please, a hoy hoy.

oh my bad, it came out in 1991

More albums on my ballot from that year than any other I think.

sweet

#99 may not bring such good vibes.

99. Kanye West - Graduation (5 votes, 109 points - 2007).

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/graduation.jpg

i voted for a kanye record, but not this one.

tbf it has the best sleeve of any kanye record. that and flashing lights. but it's no three times dope.

sleeve is great, but I think the best kanye cover art is 808s & Heartbreak, even tho it is totally emo.

honestly dunno what he was thinking w/ the last record cover. i mean..

never really got into any of kanye's albums.

98. Quasimoto (Madlib) - The Unseen [4 votes, 112 points - 2000]

http://www.vinylsearcher.com/largeImages/3372504.jpg

Love that Bazerk album. Which rapper looks best in a suit?

love madlib. don't love the quasimoto voice.

love the Quasimoto voice, can take or leave most other Madlib stuff

Quasimoto is so great. Such a shame the Astronaut EP is so hard to get - everyone should have a copy.

one summer i lived with a friend who was getting heavy into that Quasimoto record and Anticon stuff, it was kind of the seed of me staying as far away from artsy backpacker stuff as possible for the rest of my adult life

real excited about seeing the results, go a hoy hoy!

Quasimoto is so much better rapped than the vast majority of Anticon stuff tho, it's a different thing really.

oh i know i wasn't comparing them, just saying he was into a whole spectrum of Rap I Have No Interest In

97. Viktor Vaughn (MF Doom) - Vaudeville Villain [5 votes, 114 points, 2003]

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/8514-vaudeville-villain.jpg

Didn't vote for it but that's my favourite MF Doom record alongside Madvillain. The guy releases too much stuff.

no he doesn't! he's released like 1 record in 6 years!

The guy releases has released too much stuff.

<3 98 & 97!

96. 3rd Bass - The Cactus Album [4 votes, 119 points, 1989]

http://poetryforgravediggers.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/3rd_bass_cactus_album.jpg

^^^^^dope

Oval Office <3

Great album art on all the picks so far.

I remember walking down to the Cellar, where I used to eat lunch in college, and finding 3rd Base signing autographs while Tim Dogg was performing Fuck Compton on the dinky little stage.

sorry Bass

The other side of hip hop album art also needs to be represented:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UxYjfPk8AJQ/SZH78Klai5I/AAAAAAAAAHM/58pRWSAABdg/s400/Ice+T+Home+Invasion.jpg

nice! I voted for this cactus album.

ICE-T really has some clunkers

I voted Viktor Vaughn and 3rd Bass.

Cactus Album is an undeniable classic.

Love the cover of Home Invasion

really suprised home invasion made it, hope that means power, OG, and freedom of speech made it

also glad to see two last minute ones i had to cut: son of bazerk and 3rd bass, make it :)

Home Invasion isn't on the list, someone just posted the cover art to make fun of it

yes, I also cut the Cactus Album at the last minute; voted 3rd Bass on my singles list though

didn't vote for any of these, love the thread title

Home Invasion isn't on the list, someone just posted the cover art to make fun of it

― a http://bit.ly/kv895M (some dude), Tuesday, May 31, 2011 10:43 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah duh! ok that makes sense that would have been a pretty o_O result

i'm really feeling bad about cutting cactus album now, production is so perfect on that album from front to back. sam sever, simulated dummies rule

son of bazerk might be the ultimate bomb squad album in some ways

Yah that Ice T image threw me too, lets not post pictures in here anymore yah (besides hoy hoy, obv)?

So happy to see Son Of Bazerk and The Cactus Album. Son Of Bazerk needs a nice reissue to focus some light on it.

I remember walking down to the Cellar, where I used to eat lunch in college, and finding 3rd Base signing autographs while Tim Dogg was performing Fuck Compton on the dinky little stage.

― President Keyes, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:49 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg this sounds like heaven.

sorry, had to pop out to see my mum. let me boot up excel and we can continue.

Quick. I have to go out soon so this is my last chance to cock up the thread with confusing jpegs of bad album art.

95. Kool Keith - Black Elvis/Lost In Space [4 votes, 122 points, 1999]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7oORHEsI5cs/TWbUcv1jkaI/AAAAAAAAAxs/9ZyaWx-gNXU/s1600/Black+Elvis-+Lost+In+Space.jpg

Read thread title.

In the nomination thread it was explicitly said that instrumental rap/electro/etc was okay, and the poll was originally called "hip hop poll", not "rap poll". I voted for one instrumental album (not DJ Shadow nor Dilla though) according to that.

Sorry, I meant "instrumental hip hop".

aside from whether or not an album without rapping should be included, there are more than 100 albums with rapping that are better than donuts & endtroducing

Like, why have I never heard a BDP album? WTF!

― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Sunday, June 5, 2011 2:07 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

!!!

I know most ppl don't rate it too highly but criminal minded is prolly my fave rap album OAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zLH4gHdM_M

u gotta get on it rev

I don't get all the bitching about the placement, like I think criminal minded should be top 20 if not top 10 but that's one man's opinion and plus I didn't vote so

just happy it ended up in the final list somewhere

Yeah, I've probably heard most of the songs on the first couple at least just here and there. xp

In the nomination thread it was explicitly said that instrumental rap/electro/etc was okay, and the poll was originally called "hip hop poll", not "rap poll". I voted for one instrumental album (not DJ Shadow nor Dilla though) according to that.

― Tuomas, Sunday, June 5, 2011 11:32 AM Bookmark

Ah, ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-alEhlHSzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rUbBZAsmH4

one more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRf8bgVlOM

I didn't say I've never heard any damn BDP!

Just that I've never sought out the albums, jeesh.

"Dope Beat" is the only one of those songs I wasn't already well acquainted with.

and "dope beat" is an awesome song!

I'm just nostalgia vibing on BDP now, don't mind me

Wtf with everyone shitting on Dr Octagon.. Every song and skit on that record is awesome. And I hate backpacker hiphop.

hey p dece list guys

some of the order is p lol and theres some random shit in there but most p classique

As usual with ILX, the results are far less frustrating than the comments.

I remember the first time I heard "9mm goes bang" echoing out of the neighbors house, one of those wtf is that/knocking on somebody's door moments

yah criminal minded was a total game changer, 1st of the super heady ny rap albums

Might have got Southernplayalistic and Bone Thugs into the top 100

Southernplayalistic was my No. 1

Btw everybody gtfoing at Endtroducing for not being a rap album also needs to gtfo at Donuts.

no problem. at least some of the tracks on Donuts were made into some decent rap backing tracks. can't say the same for shadow but inclusion of both was very rmde for me

ilxors be trippin

TODAY IS YR LAST DAY TO VOTE IN THE SINGLES

Like, why have I never heard a BDP album? WTF!

Ghetto Music: the Blueprint of Hip Hop gets underpraised in light of the first 2 imo

Listening to X-Clan on your recommendation, aero. One of those albums I was aware of but was deleted way back and I never got around to finding online.

Wtf with everyone shitting on Dr Octagon.. Every song and skit on that record is awesome. And I hate backpacker hiphop.

Dr Dooom First Come First Served >>>>>>>> Dr Octagonecologyst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k-cwwa05Uw

I voted for X-Clan fwiw

xp That's the only "Leave Me Alone" I've ever heard.. didn't realize it was a remix.

Dr Dooom First Come First Served >>>>>>>> Dr Octagonecologyst

Does not compute.

I mean, the Dr. Dooom album is cool and everything, but huh?

ye olde remove bookmarke from threade

Didn't vote but enjoyed this poll v. much. So thanks a hoy hoy.

I only ever buy 'canon'ised rap CDs but staggered at how many of these I own. Will check out the remainder no doubt.

I have to confess here that while I love De La Soul as singles artists, I've never really enjoyed their albums at all. Maybe it's cause I started becoming a rap nerd at a time when certain reverent cats were busy running De La's innovations to the ground and I heard a lot of that shit before I got around to checking out their own albums? It's not so much that I feel like I don't "get" their albums as I feel like there isn't that much for me to get that isn't already present in their standout best songs. Probably serves me right for not finally tracking down their albums until a few years after I was most into that type of rap. But I played 3 Feet High and Rising the other day after not listening to it for years and it left me just as cold as before except for the few songs I already knew I loved.

see i've barely ever even experienced their music as singles outside of "Me Myself & I" (and to a lesser degree "Buddy" and "Oooh") so they're totally an albums act to me

entirely possible this is just a "had to be there" thing but the first time I heard that album when I was 14 (or 15?) it just seemed like it was from another planet. had never heard anything even remotely like it before, much less wrapped up in such a long, in-jokey concept album format

2nd and 3rd de la are 100% classic

dunno what you have against the first, but yeah

xxp Yeah, I first really heard them (other than "Me, Myself, and I") in the early 2000s, by which time my friends had already foisted Jurassic 5 et al on me. And then never actually copped any of their albums except for a greatest hits comp I had til around 2005 or so.

in retrospect it is pretty weird/funny that they would get all butthurt about being called hippies after putting our videos showing them in paisley shirts tossing daisies around

xp

none of which are on youtube apparently...?

the 2nd and 3rd one seem more like bona fide rap albums to me - like, they slot more comfortably into the larger fabric of hip hop culture and the time period. 3 Feet High is more like an epic comedy album or something

I saw them with the Black Eyed Peas as an opening act like right at the absolute last moment that would have ever happened haha. BEP even performed "Where Is the Love" iirc.

pro tip: if u do not want ppl to call u hippies, prob best to make sure yr debut album sleeve does not look like this:

http://newyork.timeout.com/sites/default/files/images/blogs/thevolume/2009/04/383853a09da0795a7c3d4110l-300x300.jpg

in retrospect it is pretty weird/funny that they would get all butthurt about being called hippies after putting our videos showing them in paisley shirts tossing daisies around

xp

― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 10, 2011 5:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

they were the Tyler of their era, finding a way to get mad at a mountain of good press

pro tip: if u do not want ppl to call u hippies, prob best to make sure yr debut album sleeve does not look like this

I know rite? there's a peace sign RIGHT IN THE BAND LOGO

When I started watching Yo MTV Raps when I was 14 in early 1989 - the video for Me, Myself and I was so weird and different and goofy and I loved the "Not Just Knee Deep" sample despite having no idea who Funkadelic was. I bought the tape from Columbia House and my friend always made fun of me for liking it but that and the next two are all-time forever classics for me.

Buhloone Mind State is a good rec for the Rev to try and crack De La as an albums act