Illmatic Midnight Marauders Resurrection 36 Chambers Reasonable Doubt The Infamous Hard to Earn
All records that I played incessantly as a teenager, in a way that I don't play any record anymore.
I'm confused.
You're constantly giving dudes shit for firmly grasping That Real Schitt??? yet the only shit that you admit to playing the shit out of just so happens to be That Real Schitt??? - the very same shit you constantly shit on - yet for some reason or another the post-Harlem World shit that you claim to be THEE hottest shit obviously ain't really shit to you since apparently no shit that came out after '95/'96 was worth a shit?
I'm not incredulous at the idea of somebody saying "You know, here's an underappreciated gem--I really like this album".
I am incredulous when somebody tells me that they've listened to Rough House Surivivors more than any other rap album ever.
Yeah, I don't know what that is. But cmon, late period De La and CoFlow? They may not be your faves but I know you know cats were diggin on that shit, regardless of how much you're amazed by that fact.
That's a slightly different issue. I'm not incredulous at the idea of Funcrusher being somebody's most listened-to rap album--I know that there are plenty of such people out there--but I do wonder what is wrong with those people.
It's a cool album for what it is--but it's not something to center your personal rap universe around.
Faux = disconnected from the late '90s?
I'm saying mang. I know people who center their personal rap universe around Sage Francis and dudes like that. "Funcrusher Plus" feels positively populist in comparison.
This wasn't the case when I was younger (read: for most of the '90s) but at this point, I'm pretty sure "Illmatic" is the album I've given the most spin, end to end. To me, this has aged well in ways that a lot of albums I used to like when I was younger have not (#1 on that list, right now at least, is Brand Nubian's "One For All").
And what I find most amazing about "Illmatic" is that Nas STILL sounds like a fucking genius on here in ways that leave me stunned. (It also helps that I conveniently forget some of the output he's had since).
Prior to "Illmatic," most played was probably "Stunts, Blunts and Hip-Hop" but I don't really fuck with this much at all these days.
Run DMC-S/T LL Cool J-Radio UTFO-Skeezer Pleezer Beastie Boys- the 1st Three ATCQ-the first Three Eric B and Rakim-Paid In Full EPMD-Strictly Business Schooly D-Saturday Night Gang Star-Hard to Earn BDP-Criminal Minded/By Any Means... Wu Tang- 36 Chambers Common Sense-Resurrection Pete Rock and Cl Smooth-The Main Ingredient Eazy E-EZ Duz It NWA-Straight Outta Compton Ice T-Power Ice Cube-1st three De La-first four PE-1st Three Main Source-Breaking Atoms Pharcyde-Bizarre Ride Mantronix-1st 2 Just Ice-Cold Gettin Dumg Big Daddy Kane-1st 2
See this is what im not seein. You listened to Skeezer Pleezer as much as 36 Chambers?
Straight Outta Compton got the same spin as Cold Getting "DUMG"?
Couldnt u sift through the list and see what rises to the top.
You listened to all 3 PE albums equally? Yeah Right.
Maybe it's a grammar thing, like CPeetz didn't notice that the original question was about which "rap album" vs. "albums." Or maybe the term "most" doesn't register.
Run DMC-S/T LL Cool J-Radio UTFO-Skeezer Pleezer Beastie Boys- the 1st Three ATCQ-the first Three Eric B and Rakim-Paid In Full EPMD-Strictly Business Schooly D-Saturday Night Gang Star-Hard to Earn BDP-Criminal Minded/By Any Means... Wu Tang- 36 Chambers Common Sense-Resurrection Pete Rock and Cl Smooth-The Main Ingredient Eazy E-EZ Duz It NWA-Straight Outta Compton Ice T-Power Ice Cube-1st three De La-first four PE-1st Three Main Source-Breaking Atoms Pharcyde-Bizarre Ride Mantronix-1st 2 Just Ice-Cold Gettin Dumg Big Daddy Kane-1st 2
See this is what im not seein. You listened to Skeezer Pleezer as much as 36 Chambers?
Straight Outta Compton got the same spin as Cold Getting "DUMG"?
Couldnt u sift through the list and see what rises to the top.
You listened to all 3 PE albums equally? Yeah Right.
Aside from everything else mentioned in this thread so far
Im going with:
I was wondering if anyone would mention Quasimoto, Im almost inclined to consder it somewhat of a mixtape rather than an rap album, but definitely one of my favs.
I also wore out a booted tape of Boxcar Sessions and a few Roots and Redman tapes as well.
Big_Stacks"I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
Hey,
I gotta say:
Coming in at an EXTREMELY CLOSE 2nd place is:
These LPs changed my life and how I approached producing.
Maybe I missed it....but nobody has mentioned Too Short "Life is..." !?!?
That was a standard issue up here in the northwest. One of the few guys that used to roll through here on the regular.
I remember it like yesterday...Too Short/Ice Cube/Geto Boys & Gorillas in the Mist at Civic Stadium.
The memories.
Otheres include most of the usual suspects:
Wu Tang Clan-36 Chambers Nas-Illmatic (I've owned 3 of the CDs, 2 of the LPs and 2 of the tapes in my lifetime.) Coup-Genocide and Juice BDP-Criminal Minded Tribe-Low End Theory Gang Starr-Hard to Earn Geto Boys-We Can't Be Stopped
Big_Stacks"I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
Hey,
To add to the discussion, how did your "Most Listened to Rap Album" address you musical desires? How did it hit "the spot," so to speak? For me, "Straight Out the Jungle" appealed to my sensibilities because it was so musical and multilayered. It was , and since I was trained musically, its complexity hit the spot. "Critical Beatdown" touched my percussion nerve, since it was so funky and rhythmic. I play drums, so the programming and the music fulfilled my preference for funk and basslines, more than any LP up to that date. Marley Marl came real close to hitting this nerve at the level that Ultramag did with "Goin' Off" by Biz Markie.
To add to the discussion, how did your "Most Listened to Rap Album" address you musical desires? How did it hit "the spot," so to speak? For me, "Straight Out the Jungle" appealed to my sensibilities because it was so musical and multilayered. It was , and since I was trained musical, its complexity hit the spot. "Critical Beatdown" touched my percussion nerve, since it was so funky and rhythmic. I play drums, so the programming and the music fulfilled my preference for funk and basslines, more than an LP up to that date.
Good question.
S8 OTJungle for me was a return to classic breakbeats w/ a "dirty" production sound that was different to what was out at the time. Most of the Radio stuff was gettin polished and singles that Red Alert played sounded "dirty". Baby Bam seemed to capture a "feel" that dudes like Marley didnt have. On top of that....The imagery of them as Urban Safari dudes was a new idea to the game. In terms of visual style and concept dudes were separating themselves from the pack. The Zulu connection was also a throwback to earlier times when being associated w/ the Nation was like a status symbol. The messages within the rhymes were cool as well. Shit just really came together for me on this album. Mike G & Baby Bam arent super "lyrical", but for me they had a "feel"(plain ole rockin the mic). Compared to what Run-Dmc were doing at the time, this was pure uncut Hip Hop. It's the root of the "Native Tongue" Sound that is still being cloned.
Run DMC-S/T LL Cool J-Radio UTFO-Skeezer Pleezer Beastie Boys- the 1st Three ATCQ-the first Three Eric B and Rakim-Paid In Full EPMD-Strictly Business Schooly D-Saturday Night Gang Star-Hard to Earn BDP-Criminal Minded/By Any Means... Wu Tang- 36 Chambers Common Sense-Resurrection Pete Rock and Cl Smooth-The Main Ingredient Eazy E-EZ Duz It NWA-Straight Outta Compton Ice T-Power Ice Cube-1st three De La-first four PE-1st Three Main Source-Breaking Atoms Pharcyde-Bizarre Ride Mantronix-1st 2 Just Ice-Cold Gettin Dumg Big Daddy Kane-1st 2
See this is what im not seein. You listened to Skeezer Pleezer as much as 36 Chambers?
Straight Outta Compton got the same spin as Cold Getting "DUMG"?
Couldnt u sift through the list and see what rises to the top.
You listened to all 3 PE albums equally? Yeah Right.
Dudes wanna cover all the bases........
I suppose I could have edited that list, obviously some of those got listened to more than others. It sort of morphed into records I really listened to over and over and over again. Sorry I didn't answer the question to your liking guy. You act like I said something about your mom. Take a chill pill.
Maybe it's a grammar thing, like CPeetz didn't notice that the original question was about which "rap album" vs. "albums." Or maybe the term "most" doesn't register.
Every album on my long ass list is a "rap album"? And yeah I'm not familiar with the term "most".... I guess you need to be a professor or a blogger or something to figure that one out.
91-92 Low End Theory/Mecca and the Soul Brother/Wolf in Sheep's Clothing/Step in the Arena/ 93 Inner City Griots/The Chronic/Enta da Stage/Enter the Wu Tang/Bizarre Ride II tha Pharcyde/21 and Over
probably should add It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, By All Means Necessary by Boogie Down Productions, Long Live the Kane, Critical Beatdown, Goin' Off by Biz Markie,Straight Out the Jungle,The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Strictly Business, De La Soul Is Dead, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing,Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop,Daily Operation,Breaking Atoms,Reel to Reel by Grand Puba,Whut? Thee Album,The Sun Rises in the East, Enter the Wu-Tang , Enta da Stage by Black Moon, and The Chronic.
R.I.P. the hip-hop full-length. Cant think of many clasics since the late 90's.
I was wondering if anyone would mention Quasimoto, Im almost inclined to consder it somewhat of a mixtape rather than an rap album, but definitely one of my favs.
I also wore out a booted tape of Boxcar Sessions and a few Roots and Redman tapes as well.
i'll ride for the Unseen all day. listening to it on the solid state portable right motherfuckin now. it gets you clean like a public washing machine. dont know why youd consider it a mixtape??!?! its a concept album extraordinaire
i love saafir but i dont bang with boxcar sessions
probably should add It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, By All Means Necessary by Boogie Down Productions, Long Live the Kane, Critical Beatdown, Goin' Off by Biz Markie,Straight Out the Jungle,The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Strictly Business, De La Soul Is Dead, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing,Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop,Daily Operation,Breaking Atoms,Reel to Reel by Grand Puba,Whut? Thee Album,The Sun Rises in the East, Enter the Wu-Tang , Enta da Stage by Black Moon, and The Chronic.
R.I.P. the hip-hop full-length. Cant think of many clasics since the late 90's.
That's a long list brotha I hope Mr. Literal and his sidekick don't launch an attack.
Asshurt For Dayz.
So.... You start capping on me, I retort, therefore I'm asshurt. That makes no sense. Seems to me ya'll came off asshurt when your panties got twisted over the proper number of albums to include in your "most listened" category. I'm not mad at anyone, just poking a bit of fun.
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Harvey,
It just occurred to me that you're the one who can answer this...
Which Rifleman or CVE song/CD does the following line come from:
"You know, just chillin' with my friends!"
That line has been a catchphrase of mine and M*rs' for years and neither of us can remember what song it's from!
Herm
I'm confused.
You're constantly giving dudes shit for firmly grasping That Real Schitt??? yet the only shit that you admit to playing the shit out of just so happens to be That Real Schitt??? - the very same shit you constantly shit on - yet for some reason or another the post-Harlem World shit that you claim to be THEE hottest shit obviously ain't really shit to you since apparently no shit that came out after '95/'96 was worth a shit?
Wow. Ain't THAT some shit?
Take off hard to earn, and add Ready to die and the shining and you basicly have my highschool soundtrack.
I wish i could still get into records this much.
Faux = disconnected from the late '90s?
I'm saying mang. I know people who center their personal rap universe around Sage Francis and dudes like that. "Funcrusher Plus" feels positively populist in comparison.
And what I find most amazing about "Illmatic" is that Nas STILL sounds like a fucking genius on here in ways that leave me stunned. (It also helps that I conveniently forget some of the output he's had since).
Prior to "Illmatic," most played was probably "Stunts, Blunts and Hip-Hop" but I don't really fuck with this much at all these days.
See this is what im not seein. You listened to Skeezer Pleezer as much as 36 Chambers?
Straight Outta Compton got the same spin as Cold Getting "DUMG"?
Couldnt u sift through the list and see what rises to the top.
You listened to all 3 PE albums equally? Yeah Right.
Dudes wanna cover all the bases........
No doubt.
Im going with:
I was wondering if anyone would mention Quasimoto, Im almost inclined to consder it somewhat of a mixtape rather than an rap album, but definitely one of my favs.
I also wore out a booted tape of Boxcar Sessions and a few Roots and Redman tapes as well.
I gotta say:
Coming in at an EXTREMELY CLOSE 2nd place is:
These LPs changed my life and how I approached producing.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
That was a standard issue up here in the northwest. One of the few guys that used to roll through here on the regular.
I remember it like yesterday...Too Short/Ice Cube/Geto Boys & Gorillas in the Mist at Civic Stadium.
The memories.
Otheres include most of the usual suspects:
Wu Tang Clan-36 Chambers
Nas-Illmatic (I've owned 3 of the CDs, 2 of the LPs and 2 of the tapes in my lifetime.)
Coup-Genocide and Juice
BDP-Criminal Minded
Tribe-Low End Theory
Gang Starr-Hard to Earn
Geto Boys-We Can't Be Stopped
To add to the discussion, how did your "Most Listened to Rap Album" address you musical desires? How did it hit "the spot," so to speak? For me, "Straight Out the Jungle" appealed to my sensibilities because it was so musical and multilayered. It was
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
S8 OTJungle for me was a return to classic breakbeats w/ a "dirty" production sound that was different to what was out at the time. Most of the Radio stuff was gettin polished and singles that Red Alert played sounded "dirty". Baby Bam seemed to capture a "feel" that dudes like Marley didnt have.
On top of that....The imagery of them as Urban Safari dudes was a new idea to the game. In terms of visual style and concept dudes were separating themselves from the pack. The Zulu connection was also a throwback to earlier times when being associated w/ the Nation was like a status symbol.
The messages within the rhymes were cool as well. Shit just really came together for me on this album.
Mike G & Baby Bam arent super "lyrical", but for me they had a "feel"(plain ole rockin the mic).
Compared to what Run-Dmc were doing at the time, this was pure uncut Hip Hop. It's the root of the "Native Tongue" Sound that is still being cloned.
Dont get me started on Critical Beatdown.
I suppose I could have edited that list, obviously some of those got listened to more than others.
It sort of morphed into records I really listened to over and over and over again.
Sorry I didn't answer the question to your liking guy.
You act like I said something about your mom.
Take a chill pill.
My Mom is Hip Hop
Every album on my long ass list is a "rap album"?
And yeah I'm not familiar with the term "most"....
I guess you need to be a professor or a blogger or something to figure that one out.
pete rock & cl smooth - main ingredient
juggaknotz - clear blue skies
Bumped this while blunted many a time.
cotdamn these were good years!
(damn i'm old...)
R.I.P. the hip-hop full-length. Cant think of many clasics since the late 90's.
Illmatic
Daily Operation
Probably in this order.
R.I.F.
???
Sorry I don't know all the internet acronyms.
i'll ride for the Unseen all day. listening to it on the solid state portable right motherfuckin now. it gets you clean like a public washing machine. dont know why youd consider it a mixtape??!?! its a concept album extraordinaire
i love saafir
So....
You start capping on me, I retort, therefore I'm asshurt.
That makes no sense.
Seems to me ya'll came off asshurt when your panties got twisted
over the proper number of albums to include in your "most listened"
category.
I'm not mad at anyone, just poking a bit of fun.