Round 1: Criminal Minded vs. ATLiens

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:26 am

Boogie Down Production ג Criminal Minded

vs.

OutKast - ATLiens

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:30 am

oh goodness

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:36 am

Blastmaster.

Combo7 · Post by **Combo7** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:39 am

Both have suffered from the passage of time for completely different reasons.

Voted KRS.

Funk Docta Bombay · Post by **Funk Docta Bombay** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:22 pm

Oh shit. I love these two albums for completely different reasons. Gonna have to think about it.

Seiko Flossberg · Post by **Seiko Flossberg** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:29 pm

ATLiens, no doubt. I never listen to BDP these days.

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:57 pm

Criminal Minded even thought ATLiens was a solid sophmore effort.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:04 pm

I like "Poetry", "South Bronx", "The Bridge Is Over" and remix of "The P Is Free" more than anything off "ATLiens" (bar, possibly, "Ova Da Wudz" and "Elevators") and Krs' spiral into 4 elementz with Nas and Nasa insanity is endlessly more rewarding than Andre's transmogrification into vaudeville Prince but "ATLiens" is the better album.

RacquetballGangsta · Post by **RacquetballGangsta** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:18 pm

Combo7 wrote:Both have suffered from the passage of time for completely different reasons.

theyre both just as good today as they were when they came out
what would possess you to say this?

i cant vote. two of my favorite albums.

blessingindisguise · Post by **blessingindisguise** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:08 pm

^^ You ain't never lie. Even Lil Wayne remade "Jazzy Belle" into "PMW(Pussy, Weed, and MOney)" I'm ride with Outkast by a narrow margin. Andre was in that rare 3 album zone rappers ever come back to. Especially on Wailin and 2 Dope Boyz.

Combo7 · Post by **Combo7** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:03 pm

RacquetballGangsta wrote:
Combo7 wrote:Both have suffered from the passage of time for completely different reasons.

theyre both just as good today as they were when they came out
what would possess you to say this?

i cant vote. two of my favorite albums.

Criminal Minded's production sounds badly dated (not to say I don't enjoy it when the mood strikes).

ATLiens is tainted by Andre's rampant fruitiness over the past several years.

marinville · Post by **marinville** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:35 pm

fuck it, ATLiens.

Murph · Post by **Murph** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:52 pm

Seiko Flossberg wrote:ATLiens, no doubt. I never listen to BDP these days.

clark bent · Post by **clark bent** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:12 pm

nyc/east coast bias at its very worst

jazzmatazz23 · Post by **jazzmatazz23** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:13 pm

Outkast

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:43 pm

I actually voted for Outkast here, shoot me. ATLiens is like a fuckin' journey and despite Dre's later douchebaggery he was one of my favorite emcees back in the mid nineties, and this album was a big part of the reason why. Big Boi was also great on every song on this album.

Criminal Minded is one of those records that was AMAZING for it's era, but I just don't go back to that often. By All Means Necessary, Critical Beatdown, Paid In Full, Strictly Business, Road to the Riches, It Takes a Nation all aged much better IMO.

image_35 · Post by **image_35** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:55 pm

ATLiens

glavet · Post by **glavet** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:09 pm

My love of 86-88 hip hop made me vote for Criminal Minded, but I couldn't be mad at someone voting for Outkast

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:10 pm

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:06 pm

oh wow, these are two top 10 albums of all time in hip hop to me.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:16 pm

And I just cast the vote to tie it up.

(I voted for BDP because repeated Western Blot tests come back negative)

intuition · Post by **intuition** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:56 pm

ATliens...sorry just a more important album in my development as a youth, and one that i go back to at least a couple times a year.

CheezPizza · Post by **CheezPizza** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:01 am

Criminal Minded is great but ATLiens is in my top 5.

JaH BLaZe · Post by **JaH BLaZe** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:39 am

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:57 am

jazzmatazz23 wrote:Outkast

Funk Docta Bombay · Post by **Funk Docta Bombay** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:10 pm

Voted Criminal Minded because I want this poll to be as close to a tie as possible.

9MM Goes Bang is better than 99% of the songs about guns/drugs that followed it.

Huldrich Bullsh!t · Post by **Huldrich Bullsh!t** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:39 pm

voted outkast. listen to it more often.
when i listen to bdp i take out blueprint or edutainment most of the time. but criminal minded has a few really classic songs. should listen to it again.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:13 am

2 dope boys and the lac win