Not really a rap record but I kinda never got the fuss over D'Angelo's "Voodoo". Other than Devil's Pie it all sounded identical and structure-less. I like some songs in my r&b. But a ton of people who I think have good taste ride for this shit.
Interestingly enough, Rick Rubin said in a recent interview regarding Voodoo: "I dont think a better album has been made since then. That???s as good as it gets.???
I agree with the Group Home. "Like a rattle snake, but I don't rattle". "Should I jump off the roof?". :-S
jlee said:
36 Chambers????
This one deserves the worship it gets (I could do without without the torture skit and a couple of others), but Bulletproof Wallets and a lot of Method Man stuff doesn't impress me. I don't know how well the streetz still regards them more than ten years later, though.
Oui, mon ami.
Any act has at least one song which is anywhere from listenable to interesting to incredibly good, but it's hard to rate it or care when the rest of their contributions are anywhere from overwhelmingly annoying to boring to like squirrels jumping up and down on my last nerve.
All of it!
oh, god yes on Mos Def. and Talib Kweli. that whole Black Star (and Black on Both Sides) record was hailed as some second coming. the thing is absolute rubbish, and everything they've put out since those first 12"s. in the UK at the time you could hardly hear a word said against this pair of charlatans.
i don't think anyone said it yet: Ready to Die is extremely overrated.
Have to agree with The Roots they seemed to have rode their luck a bit with the instrument playing niche that they have. Never got into them and thought their album from last year was pretty grim.
Eminem should go without saying but I've seen him mentioned in lists of rappers who are very flattering company for him. Again, having a niche (whiny white boy rap) has done him no harm at all.
Midnight Marauders should never have been mentioned here in my opinion, possibly alongside Illmatic although when it's regularly mentioned as THE greatest hip hop album it was always gonna make an appearance I guess.
Midnight Marauders should never have been mentioned here in my opinion, possibly alongside Illmatic although when it's regularly mentioned as THE greatest hip hop album it was always gonna make an appearance I guess.
MM didnt make the SS Top 100 yet........And it lost the VS thread.
Midnight Marauders should never have been mentioned here in my opinion, possibly alongside Illmatic although when it's regularly mentioned as THE greatest hip hop album it was always gonna make an appearance I guess.
MM didnt make the SS Top 100 yet........And it lost the VS thread.
Seems to be regarded on here as Tribe's second best album so I didn't think it was particularly overrated.
Obviously the 12"s are all time classics but this is always the album entered in a best ever chart. It has inferior mixes, filler and doo doo DJ tracks on there.
I think Eric B And Rakim got better with each album and peaked with 'Don't Sweat The Technique'.
Oh and we have not even discussed the peculiar sub-species of college dudes who think "Stakes Is High" is a masterpiece. That shit makes me want to tear my ears off. It should be called "Brilliant Poets Choose Complaining Over Poetry" and it should be illegal to like it more than the first 3 albums.
How dare you...I'll have you know that LP was the soundtrack to a glorious post-8th grade summer of mine...
Blasphemy, sir.
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Rishan said:
i don't think anyone said it yet: Ready to Die is extremely overrated.
I'm not a Biggie dude at all, but....NO WAY.
Some of y'all really missed the boat on how crucial some of these albums were at the time that they dropped. Ready to Die, Straight Outta Compton, Doggystyle...they aren't just collections of songs on records/cd's/tapes to be quantified, but prime cultural moments that put everyone (that mattered) on the same page of wonder and awe. And time doesn't just wipe that shit away.
i don't think anyone said it yet: Ready to Die is extremely overrated.
I'm not a Biggie dude at all, but....NO WAY.
Some of y'all really missed the boat on how crucial some of these albums were at the time that they dropped. Ready to Die, Straight Outta Compton, Doggystyle...they aren't just collections of songs on records/cd's/tapes to be quantified, but prime cultural moments that put everyone (that mattered) on the same page of wonder and awe. And time doesn't just wipe that shit away.
Like I said first three songs are classic but overall I think there's some filler on there. I guess the great stuff on there is classic enough to carry the whole thing though. I guess I brought it up just to ruffle some feathers
i don't think anyone said it yet: Ready to Die is extremely overrated.
I'm not a Biggie dude at all, but....NO WAY.
Some of y'all really missed the boat on how crucial some of these albums were at the time that they dropped. Ready to Die, Straight Outta Compton, Doggystyle...they aren't just collections of songs on records/cd's/tapes to be quantified, but prime cultural moments that put everyone (that mattered) on the same page of wonder and awe. And time doesn't just wipe that shit away.
Doggystyle and Compton, I'm with you all the way. Ready to Die is like the slightly dirtier, but still too polished Reasonable Doubt. it tries way too hard and doesn't deliver
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Interestingly enough, Rick Rubin said in a recent interview regarding Voodoo: "I dont think a better album has been made since then. That???s as good as it gets.???
http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/145/heroes-rick-rubin
In my very humble opinion, I think it's incredible and worth all the praise. Give it another shot!
2x poast
This one deserves the worship it gets (I could do without without the torture skit and a couple of others), but Bulletproof Wallets and a lot of Method Man stuff doesn't impress me. I don't know how well the streetz still regards them more than ten years later, though.
Fixed ;)
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Vraiment? 95% of it is meh, but "Proceed" is head-noddable.
Any act has at least one song which is anywhere from listenable to interesting to incredibly good, but it's hard to rate it or care when the rest of their contributions are anywhere from overwhelmingly annoying to boring to like squirrels jumping up and down on my last nerve.
All of it!
i don't think anyone said it yet: Ready to Die is extremely overrated.
Eminem should go without saying but I've seen him mentioned in lists of rappers who are very flattering company for him. Again, having a niche (whiny white boy rap) has done him no harm at all.
Midnight Marauders should never have been mentioned here in my opinion, possibly alongside Illmatic although when it's regularly mentioned as THE greatest hip hop album it was always gonna make an appearance I guess.
Extremely?
I dont think its gets too over praised.
MM didnt make the SS Top 100 yet........And it lost the VS thread.
Seems to be regarded on here as Tribe's second best album so I didn't think it was particularly overrated.
Obviously the 12"s are all time classics but this is always the album entered in a best ever chart. It has inferior mixes, filler and doo doo DJ tracks on there.
I think Eric B And Rakim got better with each album and peaked with 'Don't Sweat The Technique'.
In the 90's it was but I havent seen that placed on a G.O.A.T. list in a long long time.
How dare you...I'll have you know that LP was the soundtrack to a glorious post-8th grade summer of mine...
Blasphemy, sir.
I'm not a Biggie dude at all, but....NO WAY.
Some of y'all really missed the boat on how crucial some of these albums were at the time that they dropped. Ready to Die, Straight Outta Compton, Doggystyle...they aren't just collections of songs on records/cd's/tapes to be quantified, but prime cultural moments that put everyone (that mattered) on the same page of wonder and awe. And time doesn't just wipe that shit away.
"The Chronic isnt that good after Deez Nuts"
Somewhere a cargo-short, New Balance, and Jay Dee Saved My Life t-shirt-wearing 30-year-old white guy just added DJ Enki to his people to kill list.
Oh no I better run for shelter in the Opera House ;)
There, that should cover it.
Like I said first three songs are classic but overall I think there's some filler on there. I guess the great stuff on there is classic enough to carry the whole thing though. I guess I brought it up just to ruffle some feathers
Doggystyle and Compton, I'm with you all the way. Ready to Die is like the slightly dirtier, but still too polished Reasonable Doubt. it tries way too hard and doesn't deliver
No, it has been carved in stone that the Nutcracker is an accidental genius on this record. :walk_away_son: