Rap's 25 Greatest Albums, according to Chris Rock

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Ah, it just came in the mail. I'm about halfway through it, good stuff. It doesn't make me want to kill anyone, though

Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't like it, it's like a highlight reel...all the songs under 3 minutes...lots of gratuitious spliced-in cameos from other rappers.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link

That's par for the mixtape course though.

Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how we're still parsing the choices that an actor made on his personal top 25.

Where's all your top 25s? I wanna see some lists dammit.

Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Here is a quick top 25 off the top, of albums that I've been coming back to a lot these days, albums from this year excluded. Don't pay too much attention to the order.

1. Notorious BIG - Life After Death
2. Scarface - The Diary
3. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
4. Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In
5. The Big Tymers - I Got That Work
6. Kurious - Constipated Monkey
7. Outkast - Aquemini
8. Ice Cube - The Predator
9. Mia X - Unlady Like
10. Fat Joe - Jealous Ones Envy
11. T.I. - Trap Muzik
12. Rappin' 4-Tay - 4 tha Hardway
13. Big L - The Big Picture
14. Kool G Rap - 4,5,6
15. Dr. Dre - 2001
16. Ma$e - Harlem World
17. Do or Die - Picture This
18. Nas - Illmatic
19. Jay-Z - Vol 2 Hard Knock Life
20. Black Moon - Diggin in Dah Vaults
21. Gang Starr - Hard to Earn
22. B.G. - Chopper City in the Ghetto
23. Three 6 Mafia - Choices Soundtrack
24. Tru - True
25. Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I meant to put Suga Free's "Street Gospel" in there but I forgot.

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link

deeej your list is pretty good methinks even though I only have like three of those records. I will do a list that no one likes but it will take me a couple of days.

Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

(Apologies to Brand Nubian, Beatnuts, De La, Tribe, Mobb Deep, Spice 1, MOP, DITC, etc etc etc to infinity)

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link

thnx Matt.

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine is a pretty male-dominated list.

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Funny you say that because the one album on there that I was like, "Hmmm, I wonder what *that's* like!" is the Mia X one.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The Big Tymers - I Got That Work = bleh

Chronic >>> 2001

Reasonable Doubt >>> Vol 2

Illmatic > 4,5,6

Some Guy, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

But the rest of the albums I have ahead of Illmatic are OK?

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, maybe not. I picked 4,5,6 to compare Illmatic to because it seems pretty derivative of Illmatic

Some Guy, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Illmatic = pretty derivative of G Rap and Polo.

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Sadly, no Erase Racism on Illmatic though.

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

As far as the others, I Got That Work is a good comedy album with unexpected depth, I've always found Reasonable Doubt to be pretty overrated (actually my favorite Jay track right now is Where I'm From). I love the singles from Chronic but never pull it out as much as '01.

deeej, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Illmatic = pretty derivative of G Rap and Polo.
-- deeej (li...), May 31st, 2006.

Illmatic = pretty superior to all Kool G Rap albums.

ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I should have just left the damn thing off the list altogether.

deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Replace with Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money

deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

replace with sage francis lol

and what (ooo), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Thats #26

deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

chronic 2001 is boring...the beats are kinda 'eh', although it starts out really good and then dies after "The Next Episode".

for Jay-Z, I like Hard Knock Life, but it has filler and isn't anywhere near as good as Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint, or even The Black Album. I think it's high point is "A Week Ago" with Too Short.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Shut up, Blowjob.

The Reverend, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link

oooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link

how old were you when that was taken?

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link

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The Reverend, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link

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Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link

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The Reverend, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link

ugh i dont know if hes a sockpuppet/troll or not but bjo is the worst regardless

deej, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link

in a strong field

Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link

The best I can say for him is that he's better than pipecock.

The Reverend, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link

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Noodle Vague, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't totally get the Bo Jackson Overdrive hate campaign. Seems like straight-shooting Nickalicious (or, if I'm being generous, He1geson) type minus a little of the self-awareness or occasional lolz that those guys usually have. Maybe I missed something he did to piss people off, though.

Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 27 January 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link

I started a kazillion threads my first week and showed no restraint, which got their initial ire, then I dared to say I didn't like albums some people held as sacred cows here.

I've kind of given up on the idea of me and this board ever working , but seems now even when I try to get banned it doesn't work.

i spend more time posting on rogthefrog.com atm.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link

he bumps 897834572 rap threads and is just flat-out RONG or repeats conventional wisdom, i.e. "Dre is better at beats than rapping"

also posted a disgusting picture in this thread

deej, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link

thinks hes 'skewering sacred cows' by claiming that reasonable doubt is better than hard knock life

deej, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link

yeah someone should delete it

J0rdan S., Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Wow, an American who like Dizzee.

Bodrick III, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link

al this is like the 6th thread that hes revived over the last couple weeks to SHOCK US ALL by telling us that he thinks 2001 is boring

max, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link

dj shadow's entroducing would be nice, but theres no rapping on it

-- Rob Cooper, Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:50 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT A RAP ALBUM.

-- s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:17 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Bodrick III, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link

al this is like the 6th thread that hes revived over the last couple weeks to SHOCK US ALL by telling us that he thinks 2001 is boring

-- max, Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:18 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Go ahead and produce the other 5, cocksucker, or shut the fuck up. The last time I said 2001 was boring was probably over a month ago.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

deej, you are a fucking retarded orangutan.

You consider yourself the Godfather of Rap and actually get offended when someone dares disagree with your opinion (note I've never actually said any of YOUR opinions were 'RONG' before).

You are a fucking idiot. People like you deserve to be fed to the wolves.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

as far as repeating conventional wisdom...so essentially that's saying "how dare you say something right that many of us know already". Fucking plebeian.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Shut up, Blowjob.

-- The Reverend, Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

The Reverend, Sunday, 27 January 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link

suck my dick, future 7-11 employee

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 27 January 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link

deej and reverend are otm, ban Jordan S.

Dom Passantino, Sunday, 27 January 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link

guys can this be the Official Bo Jackson Overdrive Finally Goes Batshit And Gets Banned Thread?

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 January 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link


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