Ones that come to mind as classics:
Only Built for Cuban Lynx Deltron 3030 The Low End Theory Ready to Die Mississippi: The Album The Blueprint The Marshall Mathers LP Raising Hell Aquemini Enter the Wu The Cold Vein Black Star The Digital Underground record from 1990 Bubba Sparxx's Deliverance -- ridiculously underrated. Supa Dupa Fly Cypress Hill
― Jiminy Krokus, Monday, 23 July 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't make me bless this thread with a personal Top 100.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf with that Kool Keith album
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 23 July 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
jk http://www.alleyezonme.com/lyrics/makaveli_large.jpg http://www.alleyezonme.com/lyrics/makaveli_large.jpghttp://www.alleyezonme.com/lyrics/makaveli_large.jpg
― luriqua, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
No Scarface isn't obscure just never heard that as the best ever, ever.
Do you really think that 'It Takes a Nation' is the best ever? Good, but wouldn't think that.
Jiminy I like that list and Low End Theory yes I think that needs to be considered seriously.
I hate Ice Cube and his retarded rant against Koreans so fuck his record.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:50 (sixteen years ago) link
STOP DISRESPECTING TUPAC
― luriqua, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
digital underground - sex packets
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
luriqa that's not even the best 2pac album!
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thuglife.ic.cz/obaly/All%20Eyez%20On%20Me%20(pred).jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 05:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I never got the love for Makaveli.
But then, I never really got the love for Pac either.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
He had a pretty face.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i never really got people who 'didn't get' pac
even when i was at my most reactionary 'pac is overrated' college-era pretentiousness i still 'got' why he resonated.
― deej, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i do understand the impulse to say he's 'overrated,' he does inspire some passion in folks that is hard to reconcile with all the time, especially for a music nerd crowd that tends to avoid anything so directly emotional and finds such genuine-ness heavy-handed but it still seems abundantly clear why he resonated w/ so many people
― deej, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
So it's clear why he resonated and yet he's overrated. Check.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I suppose I phrased that wrong, didn't mean to come across anti-Pac on principle. What I was trying to say is that I never really liked him (mainly because of his voice, which I just can't get into and am surprised so many people can, hence 'not getting'), but I can certainly understand why he's got resonance.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
this is right up there for me...
http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drc400/c433/c433738d7uh.jpg
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
am0n otm although I've always struggled with how nihilistic All Eyez is - Shock G had a great line on "Fear of a Mixed Planet" that ran "his special special gift was his love side/so many tryin' to be 'Pac, but only copped the thug side" but All Eyez is pretty short on the "love side" - there's "Life Goes On" and "I Ain't Mad Atcha" but these are a long way from the "conscious" stuff he'd done before, that political passion took a back seat to G stuff although it's fair to ask "isn't that where your head might be at if you'd just gotten out of prison?"
It's an uneven record but that's some of its strength for me, it's like this huge uncontrollable avalanche of creative energy. Some days though I think "Ready to Die" is better, but I am emo and R2D even when it's pissed off unhinged is pretty tightly controlled, while "All Eyez" is more raw imo and that's what I favor at the end of the day.
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll second Tuomas [...]
-- Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan)
never thought i'd see the day
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
(also the DOC getting in that car accident and losing his voice is one of the great tragedies in rap imo)
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree. he was great.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
there is more than one greatest rap album of all time. there are a bunch.
Just reading about that in Third Coast, shit was fuckin tragic. How is his most recent record? I hear the voice is coming back a little? xxpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Scott - agreed. Especially since 'rap' covers such a broad spectrum of styles, but I love arguing over this.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link