What hip hop albums should I get?

[ambchang]

Need some help on this as I know most of you guys are big hip hop fans.

I have a few hip hop albums but wouldn’t say a huge selection. I’m looking to expand in this genre and would like to get some recommendations. Looking to stuff that’s easy to get into as you can tell from what I have that most of my stuff are easy to access.

What I have:
- a few jay z (black album, those mashups with Radiohead and the Beatles, blueprint)
- Eminem show, Marshall mathers ep, slim shady
- aquemini, stankonia, speakeboxx/love below
- roots (forgot which ones, but I really like them
- rage against the machine (all of them, big fan)
- nwa
- public enemy
- illmatic
- linkin park
- limp bizkit (horrible, just horrible)
- paid the cost to be the boss
- miseducation of lauryn hill
- fugees best of
- Kendrick Lamar (one of them, forgot which one)
- beastie boys (a few, but forgot exactly which one)
- puff daddy (the one after big died)
- a best or of big
- a few Tupac


I’m looking to getting some a tribe called quest and some Rahim. Want to get some snoop and cypress hill but not sure which ones.



Any other recommendations?

[redzero]

Here, just go down the list: https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&genres=Hip+Hop&include_child_genres=t&include=both&limit=none&countries=

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Lil Pump
Lil Boost
Playboi Cardi
Lil Xian
Lil Benzo

[Fabbs]

Are you planning a bonfire?

[Spurminator]

You are missing Ice Cube. Get Death Certificate and Amerikkka's Most Wanted.

Throw away Puff Daddy.

[leemajors]

Paid In Full - Eric B and Rakim
Strictly Business - EPMD
Ridin Dirty = UGK
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
Sex Packets - Digital Underground
Slick Rick - Great Adventures of Slick Rick
southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast
ATLiens - Outkast
Soul Food - Goodie Mob
21 and Over - Alkaholiks

redzero provided a great link too.

[leemajors]

You are missing Ice Cube. Get Death Certificate and Amerikkka's Most Wanted.

Throw away Puff Daddy.

Predator too.

[baseline bum]

Predator too.

Kill at Will tambien

[baseline bum]

I can only recommend pretty old school stuff, but some must haves of the 80s-90s that you haven't listed would include

Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
Ice T - Power
Ice T - Rhyme Pays
Ice T - OG Original Gangster
Nas - Illmatic
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Ice Cube - Kill At Will (it's an EP though, not a full album)
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
EPMD - Strictly Business
Too Short - Life is Too Short
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
Geto Boys - Till Death Do Us Part
Bushwick Bill - Little Big Man
Scarface - Mr Scarface is Back
Run DMC - Run DMC
Run DMC - King of Rock
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather
Redman - Whut? The Album
Ras Kass - Soul On Ice
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot but these are some incredible hip hop albums, every single one of them.

[DJR210]

:lol Silk the Shocker.. Even with the nostalgia factor I can't stomach any of his discombobulated bullshit verses anymore

[baseline bum]

:lol Silk the Shocker.. Even with the nostalgia factor I can't stomach any of his discombobulated bullshit verses anymore

All that No Limit shit has aged horribly. I can't believe I used to like Kane & Abel and the Down South Hustlers tape. When I listen to it now the only good song on the album is Point Blank's My Mind Went Blank, and that song got kind of fucked since it's screwed. The original at normal speed is so much better.

[resistanze]

Souls of Mischief - 93 till Infinity
Oddisee (The Iceberg, The Good Fight, People Hear What They see)
Organized Konfusion - Stress (The Extinction Agenda)
Outkast - Aquemini
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Roc Marciano (Marcberg, Reloaded, Rosebudd's Revenge)
Skyzoo (Music for my Friends, In Celebration of Us)
MF DOOM (Operation Doomsday, Vaudeville Villain)
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage

[baseline bum]

Souls of Mischief - 93 till Infinity
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage

Aw fuck man, how did I leave these three off? Also, The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde is a must. Also Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over is an incredibly underrated album from the west coast. I'll put that on my list too, every song on the album is strong.

[baseline bum]

Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language would definitely be one of my hidden gems. I really liked Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst also, but that album is weird as fuck. Then again, so is Quasimoto - The Unseen, but damn the beats on that are epic.

[resistanze]

Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over

I need to fire this up, it's been forever tbh

[baseline bum]

I need to fire this up, it's been forever tbh

I don't give a fuck who your cousin used to fuck just I just wanna fuck, damn I wanna fuck :lol

[baseline bum]

I need to fire this up, it's been forever tbh

It's time to roll my sleeves up, fuck a few MCs up.
Another rough cut from the crew that don't ease up.
Tha Alkaholiks aka the forty downers
Flips rhymes like Calvin flips fries and quarter pounders.
I never drink & drive cause I might spill my drink.
I filled the breathalyzer so they put me in the clink.

[baseline bum]

Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)

[baseline bum]

You are missing Ice Cube. Get Death Certificate and Amerikkka's Most Wanted.

Throw away Puff Daddy.

This commercial :lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcZ3Fs9758E

[DJR210]

All that No Limit shit has aged horribly. I can't believe I used to like Kane & Abel and the Down South Hustlers tape. When I listen to it now the only good song on the album is Point Blank's My Mind Went Blank, and that song got kind of fucked since it's screwed. The original at normal speed is so much better.

I still listen to a lot of the old No Limit stuff, but from the main members only.. TRU, Master P, C-Murder, Mystikal, Fiend.. all the other fringe members were pretty crappy except for maybe Soulja Slim and Mac, but one killed, and the other got killed. I'd have to disagree about the screwed stuff too, I been banging Screw for the last 20 years and still prefer the screwed and chopped versions.

:lol I had that Down South Hustlaz CD too it was like 3 discs or some shit

[baseline bum]

I still listen to a lot of the old No Limit stuff, but from the main members only.. TRU, Master P, C-Murder, Mystikal, Fiend.. all the other fringe members were pretty crappy except for maybe Soulja Slim and Mac, but one killed, and the other got killed. I'd have to disagree about the screwed stuff too, I been banging Screw for the last 20 years and still prefer the screwed and chopped versions

Damn Tru's album True is terrible outside of Master P's verse in I'm Bout It. I can't get into screwed records man, all that shit sounds retarded. Lil Keke's Still Pimpin Pens is 100x better in the original version, as is ESG's Swanging and Banging.

[baseline bum]

UGK - Riding Dirty gotta be on this list too. timvp rollin in his grave at that omission.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu5P4pOUuYk

[Proxy]

Here, just go down the list: https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&genres=Hip+Hop&include_child_genres=t&include=both&limit=none&countries=

yeah... you're not going to find a better list than this

[DJR210]

Damn Tru's album True is terrible outside of Master P's verse in I'm Bout It. I can't get into screwed records man, all that shit sounds retarded. Lil Keke's Still Pimpin Pens is 100x better in the original version, as is ESG's Swanging and Banging.

I didn't like the TRU album either.. too old.. their production quality stepped up around TRU 2 Da Game

[DJR210]

UGK - Riding Dirty gotta be on this list too. timvp (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=8) rollin in his grave at that omission.

Another classic album.. I asked in another thread mentioning old school UGK if anyone thought Bun B (and Pimp C if he was alive) regretted some of the lyrics in Pregnant Pussy :lol

[baseline bum]

As for Snoop, I don't think his solo shit is that great, and the only good album he did was Doggystyle. He stole the show on Dre's album The Chronic though, and on the two songs from the Deep Cover soundtrack. Cypress Hill's best album by far was their self titled first album. Hand on the Pump has to be one of the catchiest songs of the 90s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1SwN70b0bw

[leemajors]

I don't give a fuck who your cousin used to fuck just I just wanna fuck, damn I wanna fuck :lol

it's easy to distinguish who drunk the old english cause it stays in my system till i drain it out my...

[resistanze]

Didn't see Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal yet ...

Some 'newer' shit (Last 10 years)
Willie the Kid - Masterpiece Theater
Willie the Kid - Deutsche Marks
Apollo Brown & OC - Trophies
Apollo Brown & Skyzoo - The Easy Truth
Black Milk - No Poison No Paradise
Conway the Machine- Reject 2
CZARFACE

[baseline bum]

Eazy Duz It by Eazy E has to be one of the great albums to ever come out of the west coast also.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7y2ZfyRF_g

Fucking 30 years old now

[Darth_Pelican]

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/480/MI0002480862.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

:lol That dude used to always be playing basketball at the REC Center at LSU back when I was a student.

[baseline bum]

:lol That dude used to always be playing basketball at the REC Center at LSU back when I was a student.

Was he always out of breath like when he was rhyming?

[DJR210]

I'm in the minority that believes Eazy got the best of Snoop and Dre in that beef. The "But Dre day only meant Eazy's pay day" part won that battle in one line IMO

[FrostKing]

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--5RTL2bRX--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/p4i9ajtzpvpnfmvwjmsw.jpg

[baseline bum]

I'm in the minority that believes Eazy got the best of Snoop and Dre in that beef. The "But Dre day only meant Eazy's pay day" part won that battle in one line IMO

Bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yay suck on these nuts nigga suck on these nuts

[tenbeersbold]

LMFAO buncha numpties talking about audio irritation, just a bunch of sounds with kindergarten rhymes for ADD folks
You can like it but dont call it music because it isn't
But hey man..BE COOL

[Spurminator]

This commercial :lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcZ3Fs9758E


:lmao

You can tell a genius at the top of his game when he can totally mail in some bullshit like that and it's still... not... bad...

[leemajors]

I'm in the minority that believes Eazy got the best of Snoop and Dre in that beef. The "But Dre day only meant Eazy's pay day" part won that battle in one line IMO

Pfft, check out Tim Dog son

[baseline bum]

Pfft, check out Tim Dog son

Fuck Compton was wack man, terrible song.

[leemajors]

Fuck Compton was wack man, terrible song.

You should check out Secret Fantasies he did with Kool Keith... he talks about pissing on En Vogue. I haven't listened to that album in over 20 years but I remembered that.

[baseline bum]

You should check out Secret Fantasies he did with Kool Keith... he talks about pissing on En Vogue. I haven't listened to that album in over 20 years but I remembered that.

Kool Keith has some wild shit. :lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVzTrO5RnWA

[Chris]

Yeah that No Limit shit aged terribly, but I have to listen to Mystikal's first two albums again because I remember them being FIRE.


I will give you some albums/tracks you probably have never heard of and you can LISTEN to them before you buy:


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[baseline bum]

Another great album I forgot to mention was Naughty By Nature. Whole album is fire:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_3AtPsYcQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwhVh0YGquE

[baseline bum]

Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat the Technique is also really good (though Paid in Full is still easily their best album)


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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1Emb7Jyks

[baseline bum]

If I had to pick a top 10 I think I'd rank them:

1. Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
2. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
3. Nas - Illmatic
4. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
5. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
6. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
7. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
8. Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
9. Eazy E - Eazy Duz It
10. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show

[TimmyBuckets]

idk much about new rap other than Kendrick Lamar, but here are some of my favorites in particular order

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang Forever (my favorite producer)
GZA - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1 and 2
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Living Legends - Classic
Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design (my 2nd favorite producer)
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth, Hard to Earn
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly

[Trill Clinton]

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/480/MI0002480862.jpg?partner=allrovi.com


classic album.

[Silver&Black]

If I had to pick a top 10 I think I'd rank them:

1. Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
2. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
3. Nas - Illmatic
4. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
5. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
6. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
7. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
8. Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
9. Eazy E - Eazy Duz It
10. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show

What you bumping to get UGK Ridin Dirty on the list?

You forgot the GOAT album tbh.

edit: Saw you mentioned it at the bottom of the first page. My fault. :lol I should have known that you knew better.

[Silver&Black]

Here ya go OP. Myself, benefactor, baseline bum, and DJR210 saved this thread. Just push play on anything the before mentioned posters put in the thread. You can't go wrong.

Ignore the JaRule, Sisqo, and DMX at the beginning. The rest is all good.

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=252478

[LaMarcus Bryant]

the czarface / mf doom album is pretty dope as far as new shit goes.

[rude1_79]

Nas -- Illmatic

[ambchang]

Thanks guys.

Now I’m gonna go broke buying albums again (yes I still buy albums)

[DJR210]

Pfft, check out Tim Dog son

Fuck Tim MUT.. back then I don't know anybody that listened to NY music tbh.. it was all West Coast shit for us in the early 90's

[baseline bum]

Fuck Tim MUT.. back then I don't know anybody that listened to NY music tbh.. it was all West Coast shit for us in the early 90's

East Coast has always put out much better hip hop than West Coast IMO.

[Bynumite]

https://img.discogs.com/apcVTPpulx-kBY5my3tMES-UIpM=/fit-in/600x389/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():qualit y(90)/discogs-images/R-6586151-1422559809-1848.jpeg.jpg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMOZRk74QrY

[DJR210]

East Coast has always put out much better hip hop than West Coast IMO.

I don't consider anything the West Coast made to even be "hip hop" thats an east coast term in itself.. and I think it's all trash

[benefactor]

Here ya go OP. Myself, benefactor, baseline bum, and DJR210 saved this thread. Just push play on anything the before mentioned posters put in the thread. You can't go wrong.

Ignore the JaRule, Sisqo, and DMX at the beginning. The rest is all good.

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=252478
Good times tbh

[Chucho]

idk much about new rap other than Kendrick Lamar, but here are some of my favorites in particular order

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang Forever (my favorite producer)
GZA - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1 and 2
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Living Legends - Classic
Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design (my 2nd favorite producer)
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth, Hard to Earn
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly

Stoupe is dope.

Also, cant go wrong with anything De La Soul. Art Official Intelligence is an under rated classic for turn-of-the-century.

[baseline bum]

Also, cant go wrong with anything De La Soul. Art Official Intelligence is an under rated classic for turn-of-the-century.

:tu Damn can't believe I forgot De La, though I gotta go with 3 Feet High & Rising as my favorite from them.

[baseline bum]

I don't consider anything the West Coast made to even be "hip hop" thats an east coast term in itself.. and I think it's all trash

I loved West Coast hip hop up to The Chronic, but everyone biting Dre's style got old fast.

[Chucho]

Just avoid shitty hyphee. Hyphee is like the stale fat of antiquated West Coast rap. Worst than the worst screwed album.

[Chucho]

Stale fart.*

[dirk4mvp]

Ch.2 World Domination

[cd021]

You are missing Ice Cube. Get Death Certificate and Amerikkka's Most Wanted.

Throw away Puff Daddy.

:tu The Predator too.

[cd021]

Another great album I forgot to mention was Naughty By Nature. Whole album is fire:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_3AtPsYcQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwhVh0YGquE

Tretch is one of the more underrated rappers tbh

[cd021]

If I had to pick a top 10 I think I'd rank them:

1. Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
2. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
3. Nas - Illmatic
4. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
5. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
6. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
7. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
8. Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
9. Eazy E - Eazy Duz It
10. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show

I've always thought NWA was overrated, once Ice Cube left, it was downhill fast. Even on SOC the only tracks I love are Express Yourself, Gangsta, Gangsta, and Fuck tha Police. Illmatic is still number 1

[cd021]

Need some help on this as I know most of you guys are big hip hop fans.

I have a few hip hop albums but wouldn’t say a huge selection. I’m looking to expand in this genre and would like to get some recommendations. Looking to stuff that’s easy to get into as you can tell from what I have that most of my stuff are easy to access.

What I have:
- a few jay z (black album, those mashups with Radiohead and the Beatles, blueprint)
- Eminem show, Marshall mathers ep, slim shady
- aquemini, stankonia, speakeboxx/love below
- roots (forgot which ones, but I really like them
- rage against the machine (all of them, big fan)
- nwa
- public enemy
- illmatic
- linkin park
- limp bizkit (horrible, just horrible)
- paid the cost to be the boss
- miseducation of lauryn hill
- fugees best of
- Kendrick Lamar (one of them, forgot which one)
- beastie boys (a few, but forgot exactly which one)
- puff daddy (the one after big died)
- a best or of big
- a few Tupac


I’m looking to getting some a tribe called quest and some Rahim. Want to get some snoop and cypress hill but not sure which ones.



Any other recommendations?


Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint, Black Album, American Gangster (shockingly slept on)

NaS-Illmatic, It Was Written, Stillmatic, Lost Tapes.

Biggie-The Greatest hits is a bit of a cash in, I would just get Ready to Die

Fugees- Same with the greatest hits, The Score is all you need.

ATCQ-Their first 3 and last album (People's instinctive travels..., Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Thank You For Your Service)

Outkast-ATLiens, Aquienmi, Stankonia

Wu Tang- 36 Chambers, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (Raekwon), Iron Man, Supreme Clientele (Ghost Face), Liquid Swords ( GZA)

Big L- Lifestyles ov da Poor and Dangerous

2pac-I'd settle for his Greatest hits (the double disc from from a couple of years after he died), its missing "Holla If You Hear Me"- his best song but its gets it mostly right, plus has "Changes" and three other good previously unreleased tracks.

Ice Cube-Amerikkka's Most Wanted, Death Certificate (most copies come with Kill at Will- his EP from around that time), and the Predator.

Dr. Dre-The Chronic

Eminem-Slim Shady LP, MMLP, Eminem Show

Kanye- College Dropout, Late Registration, MDTF,

Kendrick-Good Kid Maadd City, To Pimp A Buttterfly, Damn.

Scarface-Mr. Scarface is Back, The Diary




^Thats a pretty good start

[baseline bum]

I've always thought NWA was overrated, once Ice Cube left, it was downhill fast. Even on SOC the only tracks I love are Express Yourself, Gangsta, Gangsta, and Fuck tha Police. Illmatic is still number 1

IDK about Express Yourself. I thought that was one of the weakest tracks on the album as Dre is the weakest rapper in the crew. If I was going to pick a top 3 songs from that album they'd probably be Gangster Gangster, If it Ain't Ruff, and Straight Outta Compton.

[Spurminator]

Need to revisit this one but I remember liking it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Can_Do_It_Better#/media/File:No_One_Can_Do_It_Better_big.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/No_One_Can_Do_It_Better_big.jpg

[lebomb]

Pete Rock N CL Smoove
Lords of the Underground
Das EFX
Gangstarr

[DJR210]

Ch.2 World Domination

:tu

The End also a good listen

[Chucho]

Need to revisit this one but I remember liking it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Can_Do_It_Better#/media/File:No_One_Can_Do_It_Better_big.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/No_One_Can_Do_It_Better_big.jpg


If that's the album with "Bridgette" on it, that's good shit. Sad his career was cut short. Apparently he got his voice back tho.

[DeadlyDynasty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

courtesy of Veterinarian iirc

[leemajors]

Pete Rock N CL Smoove
Lords of the Underground
Das EFX
Gangstarr

:tu

DJ Quik had some good shit too.

[benefactor]

I mentioned this in the other thread, but a great album that flew under the radar in the 90's was Conversation by The Twinz. West coast G-Funk at its best.

[lebomb]

MC Eiht............ Straight up Menace........ G-Up!!

[DJR210]

MC Eiht............ Straight up Menace........ G-Up!!

Speaking of MC Eiht and DJ Quik.. man.. DJ Quik's line "E.I.H.T, shall I continue / You left out the G cuz the G ain't in you" was epic

[baseline bum]

Speaking of MC Eiht and DJ Quik.. man.. DJ Quik's line "E.I.H.T, shall I continue / You left out the G cuz the G ain't in you" was epic

:lol

[140]

Niggas don't listen man, representin it's illmatic

[baseline bum]

Niggas don't listen man, representin it's illmatic

Illmatic is one of the few albums I have ever heard where every single song (other than the intro) was at one point my favorite one on the album. If you like that album you should check the song "Live at the BBQ" by Main Source. Nas has the first verse, and that verse is probably why Columbia Records was willing to spend so much on producing Illmatic. It's the verse you hear in the background on the intro to Illmatic (btw that whole Main Source album, Breaking Atoms, is incredible).


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

[baseline bum]

I don't consider anything the West Coast made to even be "hip hop" thats an east coast term in itself.. and I think it's all trash

C'mon man, seriously tell me this is trash:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-kDEKxF0

[baseline bum]

Or this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7t8eoA_1jQ

[leemajors]

C'mon man, seriously tell me this is trash:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-kDEKxF0

Flav is hilarious in that video

[baseline bum]

Flav is hilarious in that video

:tu 911 is a joke is still prime Flava though


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M

[DJR210]

C'mon man, seriously tell me this is trash:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-kDEKxF0

Ok. They're both seriously trash. I was 5 then, it was before my time.

[baseline bum]

Ok. They're both seriously trash. I was 5 then, it was before my time.

SMH

[leemajors]

SMH

No joke, everything about that song is dope.

[leemajors]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvAAETHrXv0

[DJR210]

No joke, everything about that song is dope.

If it makes y'all feel any better I owned Vanilla Ice's album.. What the hell do I know

[SpursforSix]

Beastie Boys Check Yo Head

[cd021]

Illmatic is one of the few albums I have ever heard where every single song (other than the intro) was at one point my favorite one on the album. If you like that album you should check the song "Live at the BBQ" by Main Source. Nas has the first verse, and that verse is probably why Columbia Records was willing to spend so much on producing Illmatic. It's the verse you hear in the background on the intro to Illmatic (btw that whole Main Source album, Breaking Atoms, is incredible).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCWfJAPwbA
In the "Time is Illmatic" Documentary, I think it was mentioned that he had label execs trying to find him after that verse to sign him but it wasn't till "Back to the Grill" that he actually got discovered.

Memory Lane is one of those songs that you can listen to 20 times and on the 21 you really realize all that is being said - fucking classic.

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IDK about Express Yourself. I thought that was one of the weakest tracks on the album as Dre is the weakest rapper in the crew. If I was going to pick a top 3 songs from that album they'd probably be Gangster Gangster, If it Ain't Ruff, and Straight Outta Compton.

Forgot about the title track, but Express is a classic imo , even if Cube had to write it for Dre. It's probably more of a testament to Cube that he could write a song for another rapper, in a style completely different from his own, and have it be dope.

[baseline bum]

In the "Time is Illmatic" Documentary, I think it was mentioned that he had label execs trying to find him after that verse to sign him but it wasn't till "Back to the Grill" that he actually got discovered.


Damn I completely forgot that song off MC Serch's solo album (another great album BTW)



Memory Lane is one of those songs that you can listen to 20 times and on the 21 you really realize all that is being said - fucking classic.

Damn that beat too. Illmatic and Straight Outta Compton are the only two tapes I ever bought multiple copies of since I played each until the tape literally broke.

[leemajors]

If it makes y'all feel any better I owned Vanilla Ice's album.. What the hell do I know

My brother had it! I also had Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em.

[Spurminator]

My brother had it! I also had Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em.

I liked Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em so much I bought his debut album too. I was 10 though.

[baseline bum]

My brother had it! I also had Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em.

Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em had some jams on it, like Here Comes the Hammer and obviously U Can't Touch This. I thought Ice Cube was way out of line calling MC Hammer a sell-out in True to the Game. If he would have made that song after Too Legit to Quit (when Hammer started trying to bite a C&C Music Factory kind of sound) then I could have understood, but his first two albums were straight hip hop. Kind of disgusted me when I saw Cube prop MC Hammer in an interview the other day.


I liked Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em so much I bought his debut album too. I was 10 though.

His debut album was awesome. Turn This Mutha Out and Let's Get it Started were great songs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtpWTOk0Ghg


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

[DJR210]

My brother had it! I also had Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em.

Of course.. I had Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Kris Kross, my dumbass aunt bought 9 year old me the explicit copy of Sir Mix a Lot's album for some reason.. Perhaps the gayest shit of my life was buying the Salt n Pepa tape SMH

I have good memories of cruising around with my Mom at like ten years old banging Cypress Hill's Black Sunday full blast windows down :lol

[Chris]

My brother had it! I also had Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em.

I was 10 years old and Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em was being played EVERYWHERE. I also bought the Kriss Kross record :lol

[baseline bum]

Of course.. I had Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Kris Kross, my dumbass aunt bought 9 year old me the explicit copy of Sir Mix a Lot's album for some reason.. Perhaps the gayest shit of my life was buying the Salt n Pepa tape SMH

I have good memories of cruising around with my Mom at like ten years old banging Cypress Hill's Black Sunday full blast windows down :lol

Salt N Pepa is terrible, never liked any of their shit. But Mix-a-Lot's first three albums were good, and Swass was great. Vanilla was a one hit wonder. Ice Ice Baby was great but the whole rest of that tape was trash. Jump and Warm it Up were great songs, but I don't really know the rest of their debut album so can't comment. I didn't like Black Sunday much. Only songs on that album I liked were I Wanna Get High and A to the K. It was nowhere near as good as their debut where Pigs, How I Could Kill a Man, Hand on the Pump, The Phunky Feel One, Latin Lingo, Tres Equis, Hole in the Head, and Psychobetabuckdown were all amazing songs.

[baseline bum]

I was 10 years old and Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em was being played EVERYWHERE. I also bought the Kriss Kross record :lol

Anything good on that Kriss Kross album besides Jump and Warm it Up?

[Chris]

Black Sunday is classic. Insane in the Brain was transcendent.

1. "I Wanna Get High" 2:54
2. "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" 4:27
3. "Insane in the Brain" 3:28
4. "When the Shit Goes Down" 3:08
5. "Lick a Shot" 3:23
6. "Cock the Hammer" 4:25
7. "Lock Down" 1:16
8. "3 Lil' Putos" 3:40
9. "Legalize It" 0:46
10. "Hits from the Bong" 2:40
11. "What Go Around Come Around, Kid" 3:42
12. "A to the K" 3:27
13. "Hand on the Glock" 3:32
14. "Break 'Em Off Some"

"When the shit goes downnnnnnn you better be ready"

[baseline bum]

Speaking of MC Eiht and DJ Quik.. man.. DJ Quik's line "E.I.H.T, shall I continue / You left out the G cuz the G ain't in you" was epic

Damn so were you bumping the hell out of Jus Lyke Compton when DJ Quik gave the big shout out to San Antonio? :lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaCyV8eiRm8

[Chris]

Anything good on that Kriss Kross album besides Jump and Warm it Up?

Hell nah but we blasted it on repeat during Summer Camp :lol

Also Arrested Development :tu


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[baseline bum]

Hell nah but we blasted it on repeat during Summer Camp :lol

Also Arrested Development :tu


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Yeah Tennessee was the shit. Amazing song.

[baseline bum]

Speaking of DJ Quik, his debut album was really strong


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkOFh4FhCE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDba6HBbmqE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWSLM2lFjvg

Weird seeing Quik in Kings gear though since he's straight Piru.

[Chris]

This may be the greatest hip hop track of all time imo

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[baseline bum]

This may be the greatest hip hop track of all time imo

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:tu

Rest of the album was dope too

[Chris]

:tu

Rest of the album was dope too

Going to give it a full listen tonight

[DJR210]

Salt N Pepa is terrible, never liked any of their shit.

That shit was trash I just wasn't allowed to buy explicit content at Montgomery Wards

[DJR210]

Feels great to have a thread like this without that pussy ass bitch Avante ruining it with garabage :tu

[DJR210]

Damn so were you bumping the hell out of Jus Lyke Compton when DJ Quik gave the big shout out to San Antonio? :lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaCyV8eiRm8

Yup, somebody got blasted here at one of his shows.. something I learned years later

[baseline bum]

That shit was trash I just wasn't allowed to buy explicit content at Montgomery Wards

The other stores in the mall wouldn't sell you that shit? I think the only place that ever turned me down for age was the old Sound Warehouse on Walzem.

[baseline bum]

Anyone remember this jam that introduced Biggie to the world?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u5m_LfiXzM

[baseline bum]

Speaking of Super Cat, damn the bitch in white in this video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQhcd5sRRQ

Full song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxy1g1PDcjQ

Original reggae version is dope too:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6bVTYRh-w

[benefactor]

No love for Kool G Rap? He pretty much was Biggie before Biggie blew up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxysgIzX3Ps

Grand Puba's Reel to Reel was one of the first rap tapes I bought with my own money. I loved this album.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl2DFBlBmGM

[benefactor]

:tu

Rest of the album was dope too
I had a buddy that had this tape and we used to jam the hell out of it. Good shit.:tu

[DJR210]

The other stores in the mall wouldn't sell you that shit? I think the only place that ever turned me down for age was the old Sound Warehouse on Walzem.

The only other store at Westlakes Mall for music was Camelot Msuic, but they had tapes for almost 20 bucks back then so it was out of the question

[Chucho]

No love for Kool G Rap? He pretty much was Biggie before Biggie blew up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxysgIzX3Ps

Grand Puba's Reel to Reel was one of the first rap tapes I bought with my own money. I loved this album.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl2DFBlBmGM

Never heard anyone call Kool G Rap BIG before BIG was BIG. They sound nothing alike and Kool G is a legit legend ...Juice Crew in general was all killers.

[leemajors]

No love for Kool G Rap? He pretty much was Biggie before Biggie blew up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxysgIzX3Ps

Grand Puba's Reel to Reel was one of the first rap tapes I bought with my own money. I loved this album.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl2DFBlBmGM

it's later off the ghost dog soundtrack but this song is the shit


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

[baseline bum]

No love for Kool G Rap? He pretty much was Biggie before Biggie blew up.


I like Kool G Rap (especially on Fast Life w/ Nas) but he was never on par with Biggie.

[resistanze]

Oddisee (The Iceberg, The Good Fight, People Hear What They see)


Samples of Oddisee:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Snh2NZHhk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzjuReog3Yo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFNV-qrB1o

Just saw his show last week w/ Evidence (2nd time). Great performer live.

[cd021]

I like Kool G Rap (especially on Fast Life w/ Nas) but he was never on par with Biggie.

Young NaS going toe to toe with a legend tbh. He had a bunch of great features from around that time including on Only Built For Cuban Linux and the Infamous

[cd021]

Damn that beat too. Illmatic and Straight Outta Compton are the only two tapes I ever bought multiple copies of since I played each until the tape literally broke.

New York State of Mind and Shook Ones II might be the most iconic East Coast beats tbh. Nas and DJ Premiere were a great pairing

[Spurminator]

Another great album I forgot to mention was Naughty By Nature. Whole album is fire:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_3AtPsYcQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwhVh0YGquE

Good news, they're touring. You can go see them!

https://cdn.ontourmedia.io/nkotb//non_secure/images/20181007/nkb_mixtapetour_news_1x5651538977338/large.jpg

[DJR210]

Buy this shit:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1ETxqcsNY

[baseline bum]

Good news, they're touring. You can go see them!

https://cdn.ontourmedia.io/nkotb//non_secure/images/20181007/nkb_mixtapetour_news_1x5651538977338/large.jpg

Wow, I can't imagine hearing Ghetto Bastard at a New Kids on the Block concert. :lol

[Spurminator]

Wow, I can't imagine hearing Ghetto Bastard at a New Kids on the Block concert. :lol

Donnie Wahlberg will probably want to join them for a few songs.

[baseline bum]

Donnie Wahlberg will probably want to join them for a few songs.

It'll be worth going just to see a bunch of 45 year old bitches throwing their big panties on stage.

[gambit1990]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Mobbdeeptheinfamous1995.jpg

[Chris]

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[Fabbs]

have any of you rapereses heard of Young Dolph?