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**777** · 10-14-2011, 09:12 PM

Couple other potential hip hop essentials.

NWA - Efil4zaggin
Cypress Hill
Redman - Whut? Thee Album!
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Black Sheep - Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Leaders of the New School - Future Without a Past
DiamonD & the Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
Beastie Boys - License To Ill
Fugees - The Score
Method Man - Tical

Plus a lot of stuff already posted by nogimmicksneeded and Choke2death. Del, Dre, PE, Pharcyde and some others. Been a while since I've heard a really solid modern rap/hip hop album. Kanye's College Dropout is pretty essential. Liked The Carter III. Rick Ross is pretty sweet. Have yet to hear a Jay Z album I didn't skip tracks on.

Choke2Death · 10-15-2011, 08:24 AM

Damn, how could I forget Whut? Thee Album, that's one of my absolute favorites. Love every cut on it.

Some more good stuff - O.G. Original Gangster (Ice-T), Long Live the Kane, It's a Big Daddy Thing (Big Daddy Kane), Mr. Scarface is Back, The Fix (Scarface), Run-DMC (Run D.M.C.), Live and Let Die (Kool G Rap), No One Can Do It Better (The D.O.C.), Eazy-Duz-It (Eazy-E), One for All (Brand Nubian), Steal This Album, Genocide and Juice (The Coup), Take a Look Around (Masta Ace), By All Means Necessary (Boogie Down Productions), First Come First Served (Dr. Dooom/Kool Keith), All Eyez on Me (2Pac), Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (Outkast), Ridin' Dirty (UGK), The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Matters LP (Eminem).

**777** · 10-15-2011, 08:54 AM

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Damn, how could I forget Whut? Thee Album, that's one of my absolute favorites. Love every cut on it.

Nogimmickneeded repped me a week or so ago when I posted it in the 'last album listened to' thread. Front to back "More funk than a bag of skunks and twice the funk of James Brown's socks."

Are we getting into second tier lists?
Casual - Fear Itself, Grand Puba - Reel To Reel, Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity, Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal, Beastie Boys - Check Your Head, Del - I Wish My Brother George Was Here, Both Sides of the Brain, House of Pain, Funkdoobiest - Which Doobie UB?, EPMD - Business Never Personal, Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth, Onyx - Bacdafucup, NERD - In Search Of, Ludacris - Back For the First Time and 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Trying.

All are solid from front to back.

NoGimmicksNeeded · 10-15-2011, 09:24 AM

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Nogimmickneeded repped me a week or so ago when I posted it in the 'last album listened to' thread

This explains why I couldn't get you in my latest drunken rep spree. In hindsight, the Redman rep was probably more deserved. Love that album.

**i$e** · 10-15-2011, 09:45 AM

Mobb Deep - The Infamous is my favourite rap album of all time.

hardcore_rko · 10-15-2011, 10:40 AM

good to see twisted by design. one of my fav 90s albums. so many good songs.

**Daredevil Jeff** · 10-15-2011, 03:06 PM

Interesting inductee in the Jazz genre. Sun Ra seems so weird. That album is quite great. SEA OF SOUNDS~!

Also since you included Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Cannonball Adderley, what are your thoughts on Joe Zawinul? He should be appreciated way more here in Austria since he is one of very few great artists we have/had. (excluding all the Classical composers, we're quite awesome in that area

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**i$e** · 10-15-2011, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by AbismoNegro777

50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Trying.

All are solid from front to back.

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Originally Posted by Daredevil Jeff

Interesting inductee in the Jazz genre. Sun Ra seems so weird. That album is quite great. SEA OF SOUNDS~!

Also since you included Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Cannonball Adderley, what are your thoughts on Joe Zawinul? He should be appreciated way more here in Austria since he is one of very few great artists we have/had. (excluding all the Classical composers, we're quite awesome in that area

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I've not really heard a great deal of Zawinul, tbh. What would you recommend?

I need to put some classical recs up in that original post, though.

**777** · 10-15-2011, 09:55 PM

At the end of the day, I likes what I likes. Regardless of dissenting opinions, popular or otherwise.

In my eyes, this album was fresh, especially at that time period. It didn't get over simply because pop radio played the piss out of 'In Da Club' and tracks were played multiple times a night on the club scene. It got over because it was dope. Hardcore rap fanatics wanted/recognized something new and the masses felt it too.
The lyrics were ingenious, beats and loops were phat, it maintained it's 'ghetto swag' despite the mainstream exposure and it was the background music to a lot of good memories. I tout it over a lot of critically acclaimed stuff.
I dislike Eminem so this was an alternative I could sink my teeth into.

You don't have to agree but I stand by the selection.

...his other stuff was lack luster though.

**i$e** · 10-15-2011, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by AbismoNegro777

Hardcore rap fanatics wanted/recognized something new and the masses felt it too.

This isn't true. The album is widely considered to be garbage by the majority of credible rap fans, besides a few of the singles. I'm sure it's a guilty pleasure for a few. I'd contend it wasn't fresh, either. I respect you like what you like, but put it next to pretty much any other rap album mentioned in here and it's exposed for what it is; an unoriginal, disposable pop-hop album with no lasting impact on the genre.

Having said that, P.I.M.P is a classic.