Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand heere we gooooooooo.....
100. Son of Bazerk - Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk (4 votes, 108 points)
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― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Now I don't feel as bad about not getting my shit together enough to submit a ballot!
― Tom Skerritt Mustache Ride (DJP), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice sleeve! Now put the year up as well please, a hoy hoy.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my bad, it came out in 1991
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
More albums on my ballot from that year than any other I think.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
sweet
― shalmaneser (tpp), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
#99 may not bring such good vibes.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
99. Kanye West - Graduation (5 votes, 109 points - 2007).
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/graduation.jpg
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i voted for a kanye record, but not this one.
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf it has the best sleeve of any kanye record. that and flashing lights. but it's no three times dope.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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..
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
never really got into any of kanye's albums.
― shalmaneser (tpp), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
98. Quasimoto (Madlib) - The Unseen [4 votes, 112 points - 2000]
http://www.vinylsearcher.com/largeImages/3372504.jpg
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Love that Bazerk album. Which rapper looks best in a suit?
― PG Harpy (Doran), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
love madlib. don't love the quasimoto voice.
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
love the Quasimoto voice, can take or leave most other Madlib stuff
― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Quasimoto is so great. Such a shame the Astronaut EP is so hard to get - everyone should have a copy.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― some dude, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Quasimoto is so much better rapped than the vast majority of Anticon stuff tho, it's a different thing really.
― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i know i wasn't comparing them, just saying he was into a whole spectrum of Rap I Have No Interest In
― a http://bit.ly/kv895M (some dude), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
97. Viktor Vaughn (MF Doom) - Vaudeville Villain [5 votes, 114 points, 2003]
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/8514-vaudeville-villain.jpg
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't vote for it but that's my favourite MF Doom record alongside Madvillain. The guy releases too much stuff.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
no he doesn't! he's released like 1 record in 6 years!
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The guy releases has released too much stuff.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 98 & 97!
― alcololics anonymmvous (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
96. 3rd Bass - The Cactus Album [4 votes, 119 points, 1989]
http://poetryforgravediggers.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/3rd_bass_cactus_album.jpg
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^dope
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Oval Office <3
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
nice! I voted for this cactus album.
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ICE-T really has some clunkers
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I voted Viktor Vaughn and 3rd Bass.
― PG Harpy (Doran), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Cactus Album is an undeniable classic.
Love the cover of Home Invasion
― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
really suprised home invasion made it, hope that means power, OG, and freedom of speech made it
― Blink 187um (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
also glad to see two last minute ones i had to cut: son of bazerk and 3rd bass, make it :)
― Blink 187um (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 31 May 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, I also cut the Cactus Album at the last minute; voted 3rd Bass on my singles list though
― Euler, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't vote for any of these, love the thread title
― marc gasloi (symsymsym), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― Blink 187um (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
son of bazerk might be the ultimate bomb squad album in some ways
― Blink 187um (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yah that Ice T image threw me too, lets not post pictures in here anymore yah (besides hoy hoy, obv)?
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
So happy to see Son Of Bazerk and The Cactus Album. Son Of Bazerk needs a nice reissue to focus some light on it.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 5 June 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― lebroner (D-40), Sunday, 5 June 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Sunday, 5 June 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zLH4gHdM_M
u gotta get on it rev
― lebroner (D-40), Sunday, 5 June 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've probably heard most of the songs on the first couple at least just here and there. xp
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― Tuomas, Sunday, June 5, 2011 11:32 AM Bookmark
Ah, ok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-alEhlHSzk
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rUbBZAsmH4
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
one more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRf8bgVlOM
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't say I've never heard any damn BDP!
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
and "dope beat" is an awesome song!
I'm just nostalgia vibing on BDP now, don't mind me
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Wtf with everyone shitting on Dr Octagon.. Every song and skit on that record is awesome. And I hate backpacker hiphop.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
hey p dece list guys
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
some of the order is p lol and theres some random shit in there but most p classique
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
As usual with ILX, the results are far less frustrating than the comments.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yah criminal minded was a total game changer, 1st of the super heady ny rap albums
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 5 June 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Might have got Southernplayalistic and Bone Thugs into the top 100
Southernplayalistic was my No. 1
― Number None, Monday, 6 June 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxors be trippin
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Monday, 6 June 2011 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
TODAY IS YR LAST DAY TO VOTE IN THE SINGLES
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Monday, 6 June 2011 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Ghetto Music: the Blueprint of Hip Hop gets underpraised in light of the first 2 imo
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 6 June 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Monday, 6 June 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Dr Dooom First Come First Served >>>>>>>> Dr Octagonecologyst
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 6 June 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k-cwwa05Uw
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 6 June 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I voted for X-Clan fwiw
― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
xp That's the only "Leave Me Alone" I've ever heard.. didn't realize it was a remix.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Does not compute.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, the Dr. Dooom album is cool and everything, but huh?
ye olde remove bookmarke from threade
― nultybutnice (whatever), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Friday, 10 June 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― some dude, Friday, 10 June 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 June 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
2nd and 3rd de la are 100% classic
― lebroner (D-40), Friday, 10 June 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno what you have against the first, but yeah
― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 June 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Friday, 10 June 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 10 June 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
none of which are on youtube apparently...?
― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 June 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 June 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― buhlogna mindstate (Pillbox), Friday, 10 June 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― some dude, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― minor domestic strife coping with death dinosaur harrassment (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 June 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Friday, 10 June 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Buhloone Mind State is a good rec for the Rev to try and crack De La as an albums act
― all cats are gay (sic), Friday, 10 June 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link