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Accepted 'classic' hip hop albums?
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Dope thread has me breaking my neck!
Also some personal favorites:
Completely forgot I had this and was listening to it early. Still good, but for Kool Keith I have a soft spot for:
and have to agree with this being a classic:
Shame this came out though, think it was the last Kool Keith CD I picked up:
Bobby Roberts
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Albino_Samurai
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Keith is lightyears ahead of everyone else!
Then again, he has a spaceship wich gives him that advantage...
Then again, he has a spaceship wich gives him that advantage...
FootballFan
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This one for me.
DixieFlatline
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Yes. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is a fine example of the state of southern Hip-Hop at the time, then ATLiens blew it all out of the water. Not just in lyrics and subject matter but musically as well. Perhaps some of the first hip-hop artists to take up the tragedy of poverty itself instead of overcoming it or defying it.
Perfect example is SpottieOttieDopaliscious. No one dared to rap over funk riffs and horns in the 90's, at least that I know of. More importantly, the story of Hollywood Cole is the perfect representation of the tragic story that happens to so many young kids growing up poor in the south. Masterpiece.
RobotChant
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Bobby Roberts
Banned
Spottie was on Aquemini, though.
But I agree - that was probably the best track on that album, and definitely the riskiest.
"But the people at the United Parcel Service didn't call you back 'cause you had cloudy piss. So now you back in the trap. Just that: Trapped. Go 'head and marinate on that for a minute."
Thank goodness.
Can't believe I missed this thread. Don't want to go through the pages so I'll list favs..
Low End Theory
It Was Written
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
ATLiens
Death Certficate
The Chronic (OG version of course)
Doggystyle
E 1999 Eternal
Muddy Waters
Lifestyles ov da Poor & Dangerous
Just a few of my personal favorites from the 90s. I get the feeling the albums released in the 00's are a lot more subjective.
But my top three albums from the last decade are :
The Eminem Show
The Cool
Good Kid Maad City (Expecting flak for this choice)
Dude is a legend in the game no doubt, IMO his discography declines as times go by, somewhere after mid 2000s.Completely forgot I had this and was listening to it early. Still good, but for Kool Keith I have a soft spot for:
and have to agree with this being a classic:
Shame this came out though, think it was the last Kool Keith CD I picked up:
Nogatco Rd. is pretty good
Lol at this.
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Anyway, not sure if this has been mentioned already:
The concept of a "classic" is just fucking funny to me. Who decides what a classic is anyway? A committee of g-wannabes, doo-rag wearing Internet nobodies?
Rastafarian42
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Sometimes I feel I'm the only person who thinks ATLiens >> Aquemini I both consider them classics but ATLiens edges it out.
Sis Focaccia
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Well, at least we can agree that Curren$y ain't got one. Right?
Just kidding, I haven't even heard that album, but I feel compelled to check it out after all this. Downloading now
ps, if it sucks then I will call names like there's no tomorrow
Rastafarian42
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Had to post some of that Bay shit.
Don't do it. Lol. Pilot Talk is still a nice album though.
Master_Funk
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Rastafarian42
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I think Curren$y's best project to date is The Stoned Immaculate.
It was a good listen. I always hear Covert Coup or one of the Pilot Talks. I'm not that big of a Currensy fan though. Lol.
Phat Michael
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Some of these have already been posted but i have a list ready so here goes:
GZA - Liquid Swords
Gravediggaz: 6 Feet Deep
Ghost Face Killah - Ironman
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Wu - 36 Chambers
ODB - return to the 36 chambers
Jedi Mind Tricks - Psycho Social
Immortal Technique - revolutionary 1 and 2
KRS ONE - the one with step into a world on it.
Methodman - Tical
Mobb Deep: Infamous and Hell on Earth
Cypress Hill: Temples of Boom/Black Sunday
Wu Forever
Onyx: All We Got iz Us
Onyx: Bacdafuckup
Dr Octagon - Octagonacolagist
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing
Im sure there are some im forgetting but i think that covers some of the major ones. Shame i cant put my Australian hiphop in here but no one would know who/what they are....
GZA - Liquid Swords
Gravediggaz: 6 Feet Deep
Ghost Face Killah - Ironman
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Wu - 36 Chambers
ODB - return to the 36 chambers
Jedi Mind Tricks - Psycho Social
Immortal Technique - revolutionary 1 and 2
KRS ONE - the one with step into a world on it.
Methodman - Tical
Mobb Deep: Infamous and Hell on Earth
Cypress Hill: Temples of Boom/Black Sunday
Wu Forever
Onyx: All We Got iz Us
Onyx: Bacdafuckup
Dr Octagon - Octagonacolagist
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing
Im sure there are some im forgetting but i think that covers some of the major ones. Shame i cant put my Australian hiphop in here but no one would know who/what they are....
Bobby Roberts
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Had to post some of that Bay shit.
Some bay shit, huh?
The Click - Game Related
Dru Down - Explicit Game
Dre Dog - The New Jim Jones
RBL Posse - A Lesson to be Learned
11/5 - Fiendin for the Funk
Spice-1 - Amerikkka's Nightmare
Mac Mall - Untouchable
E-40 - In a Major Way
Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Rastafarian42
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Curren$y needs the right production for me to like a whole project from him.
Rastafarian42
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I see you..
I remember the Mac Mall cover and of course In a Major Way when I was around seven back when I lived in the Bay.
tearsofash
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Deltron 3030 and Dr. Octagonecologyst
Bobby Roberts
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I don't even remember HOW I got put up on Mac Dre. I know it was California Livin' but there's no Earthly explanation as to why a 13 year old kid from Oregon would have found out about that shit. Tape just basically apparated into a friend's deck one day.
Rastafarian42
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His popularity did reach all the way out to Kansas though. I just remember hearing Thizzle dance around 10 years old back in 02 and was like WDF is this then he started catching on after he died in 04.
Bobby Roberts
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If you wish to check your personal choices against the aggregate decisionmaking of The Source's editorial staff - these are the list of all the 5 mic albums ever made, in chronological order.
Rastafarian42
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What's your rank for those three albums ?
Sis Focaccia
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I used to think those Pen & Pixel covers were ugly as sin but now I find them incredibely beautiful, lol. Doin' Thangs is one of the greatest things ever obviously (not the album itself, it's average) but I practically like all of them now
This is one that I can't call beautiful with a straight face, but I find it fascinating as fuck that this actually was a real cd cover, even one that topped the Billboard chart and sold over 3 million copies
edit:
yeah I knew I missed something... here is how the cd actually looked!
This is one that I can't call beautiful with a straight face, but I find it fascinating as fuck that this actually was a real cd cover, even one that topped the Billboard chart and sold over 3 million copies
edit:
yeah I knew I missed something... here is how the cd actually looked!
Bobby Roberts
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This is mine. Didn't forget them, saw MBDTF mentioned earlier and College Dropout mentioned as well.
Rastafarian42
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College Dropout is the first hip-hop album I bought with my own money I use to play it every fucking day until I lost the cd. MBDTF and LR are dope and LR comes really close to touching College Dropout the only one thing that MBDTF had against it for me is Kanye West releasing at least half of the songs of the album before it came out.
CD >= LR > MBDTF
Only song I heard before release was Power.
Rastafarian42
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Kanye came out with Good Fridays were he'd release free music on Fridays from G.O.O.D. music some of the songs were on the album, then he released a short film for the album which contained snippets of the whole album.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOD_Fridays
Dreams-Visions
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thread seems to have everything covered.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Nothing you would have added that wasn't already posted up? Curious to see what you would have tossed into the mix.
I know. I just tend to avoid any sort of prerelease stuff. I suffer from extreme spoilerphobia.
Rastafarian42
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Lucky.. I avoided everything for Good Kid Mad City lesson learned.
sooperkool
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Old Head checking in, here is a definite hip-hop classic that hasn't been mentioned. The originator of the posse cut and posse album.
Phat Michael
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Except for the fact that Kanye fucking West is being mentioned in the same breath as Wutang, gravediggaz, onyx, Dj shadow and more. That's just disgusting.
Most classics are going to be taken from the golden era of rap (1993-1996) -i.e. first gen wutang solo, cypress hill black sunday and temples, gravediggaz etc. Now people are posting Kanye?
I love what Jedi Mind Tricks say about him. vinnie paz and Jus Allah have got kanye's number lol.
Nah, I'm good.
College Dropout > Late Registration > Graduation > everything else
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