Which album is NOT classic material?

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Which album is NOT classic material?

The Beatnuts - Street Level
11
10%
2Pac - Me Against The World
18
17%
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
6
6%
OutKast - ATLiens
3
3%
Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
1
1%
KRS-One - Return of The Boom Bap
4
4%
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle
7
7%
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
1
1%
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
16
15%
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
35
33%
All of the above
3
3%
 
Total votes: 105

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Thun wrote:you guys really like the deep album cuts on all of those BDP albums that much?
Edutainment, Ghetto Music, and Sex and Violence, yes, but I played the shit out of those tapes, so I'm pretty biased on that one.

Boom Bap was awesome though. I'd put it right up there with those three and it was the last raw, BDP-sounding album he did.

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Thun wrote:I prefer Return Of The Boom-Bap to every BDP album except for Criminal Minded. The beats are a solid and bang in the whip , KRS modernized his style and flows with ferocity ... you guys really like the deep album cuts on all of those BDP albums that much?
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Street Level
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Magneto wrote:Street Level
:omgracist:

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Thun wrote:I prefer Return Of The Boom-Bap to every BDP album except for Criminal Minded. The beats are a solid and bang in the whip , KRS modernized his style and flows with ferocity ... you guys really like the deep album cuts on all of those BDP albums that much?
I feel pretty much the same way, except I'd rank 'em like this:

1. Criminal Minded
2. Sex & Violence
3. Return Of The Boom Bap

I'm counting 9 tracks that I thoroughly enjoy:

Krs-One Attacks
Outta Here
Mortal Thought
Sound Of Da Police
Mad Crew
Return Of The Boom Bap
"P" Is Still Free
Stop Frontin'
Higher Level

I could listen to it all the way through, though.
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Magneto wrote:Street Level
Not enough gun totting?

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Thun wrote:I prefer Return Of The Boom-Bap to every BDP album except for Criminal Minded. The beats are a solid and bang in the whip , KRS modernized his style and flows with ferocity ... you guys really like the deep album cuts on all of those BDP albums that much?
sex and violence and edutainment are much better in my opinion. i'd say it's about even with "ghetto music:the blueprint". they've got great songs on them, but over all, it missed a fair amount.
"return of the boom bap" was the first album krs did where i started to like him less. he was noticeably cornier. i can't even put my finger on it but , back then, i remember beginning to care less about what he had to say cause of that album.

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Eh, I guess I'll vote for Eminem, but I never actually listened to any of his albums because I was too gayed out by the tracks that I'd heard on mixtapes, etc. No offense to any Eminem fans. I can see why people like that stuff.
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Blockhead wrote:
Thun wrote:I prefer Return Of The Boom-Bap to every BDP album except for Criminal Minded. The beats are a solid and bang in the whip , KRS modernized his style and flows with ferocity ... you guys really like the deep album cuts on all of those BDP albums that much?
sex and violence and edutainment are much better in my opinion. i'd say it's about even with "ghetto music:the blueprint". they've got great songs on them, but over all, it missed a fair amount.
"return of the boom bap" was the first album krs did where i started to like him less. he was noticeably cornier. i can't even put my finger on it but , back then, i remember beginning to care less about what he had to say cause of that album.
Edutainment and Blueprint are front to back trash. In my opinon. Sex and Violence has like two good songs, both singles.

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Magneto wrote:Street Level
every song on street level is greater than joe buddens entire catalog.

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Thun wrote:
Blockhead wrote:
Thun wrote:I prefer Return Of The Boom-Bap to every BDP album except for Criminal Minded. The beats are a solid and bang in the whip , KRS modernized his style and flows with ferocity ... you guys really like the deep album cuts on all of those BDP albums that much?
sex and violence and edutainment are much better in my opinion. i'd say it's about even with "ghetto music:the blueprint". they've got great songs on them, but over all, it missed a fair amount.
"return of the boom bap" was the first album krs did where i started to like him less. he was noticeably cornier. i can't even put my finger on it but , back then, i remember beginning to care less about what he had to say cause of that album.
Edutainment and Blueprint are front to back trash. In my opinon. Sex and Violence has like two good songs, both singles.

:larry:
i'll give you "blueprint". i don't agree but it's the weakest of the lot and i can see how you'd feel that way. but "edutainment" is ,while a little long, my favorite by far ("criminal minded" excluded, of course). there are like 10 dope songs on there. "sex and violence" is pretty great to me as well.
i think i see "return of the boom bap" how you look at "sex and violence".

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Beatnuts

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Thun wrote:Edutainment and Blueprint are front to back trash
No love for "The Blueprint," "Gimme Dat," "Love's Gonna Get Cha" or "Ya Know The Rules"?

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Thun wrote:I prefer Return Of The Boom-Bap to every BDP album except for Criminal Minded.
Agreed.

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I love that Beatnuts album!

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man, im surprised by the pac hate.

i voted blueprint but mostly cuz i dont like jay-z period.

the correct answer is probably em.

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Blockhead wrote:
Thun wrote: Edutainment and Blueprint are front to back trash. In my opinon. Sex and Violence has like two good songs, both singles.
:larry:
i'll give you "blueprint". i don't agree but it's the weakest of the lot and i can see how you'd feel that way. but "edutainment" is ,while a little long, my favorite by far ("criminal minded" excluded, of course). there are like 10 dope songs on there. "sex and violence" is pretty great to me as well.
i think i see "return of the boom bap" how you look at "sex and violence".
There was a time when I thought that both "Edutainment" and "Blueprint" were uncontrollably wack, but every time that I revisit 'em, I take a liking to new tracks that I slept on for whatever reason.

But, you know, you can put together about ten 80 minute CDs worth of KRS non-album tracks from 1985-1997, and then you gotta take all of the officials into account. There's too much to listen to, so I rarely ever revisit those albums, but when I do, I always take a liking to something new.
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Roy Johnson wrote:There's too much to listen to / so I rarely ever revisit those albums / but when I do... / I always take a liking to something new.
Rhyme of the month, right there.

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Some of the opinions in this thread are making me sick.

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MD wrote:
Roy Johnson wrote:There's too much to listen to / so I rarely ever revisit those albums / but when I do... / I always take a liking to something new.
Rhyme of the month, right there.
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Roy Johnson wrote: But, you know, you can put together about ten 80 minute CDs worth of KRS non-album tracks from 1985-1997, and then you gotta take all of the officials into account. There's too much to listen to, so I rarely ever revisit those albums, but when I do, I always take a liking to something new.
to be honest, i can't listen to krs at all nowadays cause he's such a clown. even the older shit that i used to love.
his shittiness in the last ten or so years has pretty much ruined all his best work for me. it's a bummer.

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beatnuts, em & pac

voted beatnuts because i thought no one else would.

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props over here was really the only beatnuts song that got played below the mason dixon line. just sayin

ugk supertight came out that year, as well as big mike's first album, so we werent trying to hear this jazz drum bubble goose walkman rap.
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I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT 3(CURRENTLY) FAGGOTS SAID THAT "DOGGYSTYLE" IS NOT A CLASSIC? IDENTIFY YO SELF PLEASE AND SCHOOL ME ON HOW THAT ALBUM ISN'T WORTHY OF CLASSIC STATUS?

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Big Breeze wrote:I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT 3(CURRENTLY) FAGGOTS SAID THAT "DOGGYSTYLE" IS NOT A CLASSIC? IDENTIFY YO SELF PLEASE AND SCHOOL ME ON HOW THAT ALBUM ISN'T WORTHY OF CLASSIC STATUS?
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Philaflava wrote:
Magneto wrote:Street Level
Not enough gun totting?
It's a personal classic to me, but I think out of all the selections it's the least "classic" in the universal sense.

If it was which album you liked the least, I'd pick the Marshall Mathers LP. But the question you asked is completely different.
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Blockhead wrote:
Roy Johnson wrote: But, you know, you can put together about ten 80 minute CDs worth of KRS non-album tracks from 1985-1997, and then you gotta take all of the officials into account. There's too much to listen to, so I rarely ever revisit those albums, but when I do, I always take a liking to something new.
to be honest, i can't listen to krs at all nowadays cause he's such a clown. even the older shit that i used to love.
his shittiness in the last ten or so years has pretty much ruined all his best work for me. it's a bummer.
KRS-One is actually good now. He had a run from about 2003-2007 when he was pretty awful, now he's made a solid little comeback the last year or so.

KRS-One is the GOAT, btw.
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Big Breeze wrote:I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT 3(CURRENTLY) FAGGOTS SAID THAT "DOGGYSTYLE" IS NOT A CLASSIC? IDENTIFY YO SELF PLEASE AND SCHOOL ME ON HOW THAT ALBUM ISN'T WORTHY OF CLASSIC STATUS?
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I chose Jungle Brothers. Great album which i awarded classic status back in the day just as time pass iono about it anymore.

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Magneto wrote:
Philaflava wrote:
Magneto wrote:Street Level
Not enough gun totting?
It's a personal classic to me, but I think out of all the selections it's the least "classic" in the universal sense.

If it was which album you liked the least, I'd pick the Marshall Mathers LP. But the question you asked is completely different.

AllHipHop.com: What are your 5 favorite Hip Hop albums ever?ג€

Joe Budden: It Takes A Nation of Millions [To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy] Mama Said Knock You Out [By LL Cool J], Me Against The World [By Tupac], Ready to Die [By The Notorious B.I.G.]..thenג€¦I donג€™t know. Itג€™s a toss-up between The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, The Marshall Mathers LP and Makaveli [By Tupac].

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