this is an easy one for me - labcabin all day...its on the short list of best produced albums of all time what really puts labcabin on another level is how musical it was....its almost orchestral...the way it was produced makes it sound like loops that are being played by live musicians...its just i...

Doogs wrote:[quote="CarlosDelgothoes" NORE legitimately one of the worst rappers of all time.

DMX is one of the worst rappers of all time, legitimately[/quote]

lol this

neither are particularly good but dmx is borderline unlistenable

went with high school high but soul in the hole is right there with it

soul in the hole is fucking great and probably the best soundtrack of all time

above the rim is almost pure garbage

bizarre ride to the pharcyde

my bad i meant word...life

i always do that shit

this would be akin to something like word...life up vs. low end theory...we can all differ on the size of the gap btwn the two records but in terms of votes it should be a shutout

HOTT take time

Quotashun wrote:Street Level. Top 10 album for me.

top 5 for me and anyone that says stone crazy is better needs to die slow

the singles on the coming were dope but the rest of the album is pretty underwhelming....br&l shits all over it

step into the arena is so far and away their best record its not even funny but daily operation would be a strong second if not for the utter embarrassment of its recording level which makes it borderline unlistenable For me it's always been between Step and Daily. And on any given day I may have e...

step into the arena is so far and away their best record its not even funny but daily operation would be a strong second if not for the utter embarrassment of its recording level which makes it borderline unlistenable

"Rap career's over/ better off acting" - super knockout punch to Ice Cube at the time. Com murked him rapping yet even knew that we all still loved 'Boyz n tha Hood' and nobody could front on it the problem with that song as fierce as it is is that it also has "aint made shit dope since amerikkkas ...

sleazy_j wrote:imagine big if he didn't have puff in his corner every waking moment of his rap career.

i guess hed be the GGOAT instead of just the GOAT?

that damn puff always holding biggie back

TFA might could be the better album but i find myself listening to BOBS more these days for the high points. 'Hip Hop," "Brooklyn" and "Mathematics" >>> this exactly....things fall apart might be more consistently good but at the end of the day its merely just good where as BOBS has a bunch of grea...

it's way better than that cynical attempt to recreate the magic as a sop to disgruntled trueschool heads What? "nas is like" is not a top 10 nas song imo It would be extremely hard for me to rank top 10 nas songs, and I'm not gonna do that right now. Bottom line tho, nas is like is a classic song.....

illmatic and it was written are the only nas albums where i can identify what songs are on them....i think ive heard all the tracks from natsradamus...i am....stillmatic and gods son but i have no clue which songs are on which albums ive literally never heard of distant relatives or life is good 1. ...

main ingredient by a lot....one of the most listenable albums ever made...nothing even close to a skippable track while i get what the roots were trying to do as far as the jazz thing and wanting a feel of just kind of jamming out it in many instances led to the songs running on way to long which re...

yeah its absolutely crazy how much better the beats are on ironman, ob4cl and liquid swords than tical...basically rza went dumpster diving for all the 36 chamber throwaway tracks and made an album for meth really suprised this isnt a close three way race...always thought ironman, ob4cl and liquid s...

diamond, sadat, finesse - you cant front

went with j live but bring it on is certainly worthy here.....especially because of the rapping...both emcees are out of their minds on that song

1980's 1. hey young world - slick rick 2. im still #1 - bdp 3. teacher teacher - slick rick 4. straight outta compton - nwa 5. car thief - beastie boys 6. another victory - big daddy kane 7. think about it - special ed 8. my mic is on fire - lord shafiyq 9. wrath of my madness - queen latifah 10. do...

edutainment is one of the most filler ridden albums ever...sex and violence is not far behind...the second half of his self titled album is pretty weak....i can live with boom bap being a straight thru listen although i dont really find myself fiendin for anything on there cept outta here and higher...

WiCkEd22 wrote:My Summer Vacation by a mile!!!! No comparison in my opinion...

yup...this should be a shutout

summer vacation is an all time hip hop anthem

ive always felt that redmans talent far exceeded his listenability...his flow breath control and rhyme writing are crazy good but at the same time by the end of his second record he started to sound the same on everything...if a song of his comes on a mix im playing its amazing every time but i rare...

bid daddy thing goes on for too long but i give it a slight edge over long live the kane which sounds like it was recorded inside a shipping container on a maersk freighter kane isnt really an album guy...hes like krs or even kanye where they dont really have an album that is a top notch straight th...

siLLy KiD wrote: If you can't fuck with this, no one will ever take your musical "taste" seriously.

whoa!

i better start getting into this j dilla guy

i get pun...i recognize the talent and understand how people could love his shit but hes borderline unlistenable to me dilla i dont get and never will....i feel like you have to be a technical nerd and understand the intricacies of his production technique or some shit because his actual music is la...

yeah i looked it up when you said that and as soon as i saw brainstorm i remembered it...whatever songs i heard from it at the time i recall being horrific so i probably then erased it from my memory....then i actually copped flava when it dropped strictly because of ali shaheed