Best/Favourite Masta Ace album
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Best/Favourite Masta Ace album
Dont think this ones been done before. He's never really dropped a brick so this could be interesting...(Im gonna discount the EMC album and ED OG collabo - they're decent but not really in the race)
- Take A Look Around (1990)
- Slaughtahouse (1993)
- Sittin On Chrome (1995)
- Disposable Arts (2001)
- Long Hot Summer (2004)
- Take A Look Around (1990)
- Slaughtahouse (1993)
- Sittin On Chrome (1995)
- Disposable Arts (2001)
- Long Hot Summer (2004)
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I'm going with Take A Look Around with Slaughtahouse in a close 2nd. I really love that early 90's Marley Marl sound where he was using such classic loops and breaks, plus Ace's creativity as a writer throughout his debut album. The bonus cuts are a great addition to that album as well
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Slaughtahouse. He was never one of my favorite emcees but he always made good songs and albums. Even the last two were, to me, surprisingly really good for this century.
I either bought the yellow Slaughtahouse tape on the same day with Fat Joe's debut or the Trendz album. Good days.
I either bought the yellow Slaughtahouse tape on the same day with Fat Joe's debut or the Trendz album. Good days.
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Voted for Take A Look Around, but I like most of his standout tracks from the first three lps.
He was really opposed to the mid 90s gangsta phase in the east coast, there was one interesting interview where he mentioned being at a Zulu Nation event where kids were singing along to Mad Lion's track (Shoot To Kill?), and it pissed him off.
Slaughtahouse the track makes me laugh to this day.
edit-does anyone have the definitive reason for the beef with Fat Joe? I read it was over the Rico Suave line or something in Born 2 Roll/Jeep Ass Niguh but when I started browsing the web much later there were various other stories on forums including something about graf or something like that.
He was really opposed to the mid 90s gangsta phase in the east coast, there was one interesting interview where he mentioned being at a Zulu Nation event where kids were singing along to Mad Lion's track (Shoot To Kill?), and it pissed him off.
Slaughtahouse the track makes me laugh to this day.
edit-does anyone have the definitive reason for the beef with Fat Joe? I read it was over the Rico Suave line or something in Born 2 Roll/Jeep Ass Niguh but when I started browsing the web much later there were various other stories on forums including something about graf or something like that.
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I prefer Mad Green Ace over Hardcore Ace. As much as I love The Mad Wunz, Crazy Drunken Style, The Big East, Jeep Ass Niguh, Saturday Nite Live, etc., there's something about joints like I Got Ta, Can't Stop the Bumrush, Letter to the Better, Movin' On, Brooklyn Battles, etc. that just wins me over.
I also think Slaughtahouse suffers a bit for following that mad "look-at-me-i-belong-in-a-straitjacket" trend so prominent by 93, even if his remains a stellar example. Plus it was more of a group dynamic with Lord Digga and them, and Look Around is completely him.
I also think Slaughtahouse suffers a bit for following that mad "look-at-me-i-belong-in-a-straitjacket" trend so prominent by 93, even if his remains a stellar example. Plus it was more of a group dynamic with Lord Digga and them, and Look Around is completely him.
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Ace probably should have had a classic album in between the debut and Slaughtahouse if these 91/92 era tracks are any indication:
So Here We Are
Can I Get A Dollar
Go Where I Send Thee
Scared Of The Dark
Wake Me When I'm Dead
And the Movin' On remix fits right in with these tracks.
I wonder what else is in the vaults?
So Here We Are
Can I Get A Dollar
Go Where I Send Thee
Scared Of The Dark
Wake Me When I'm Dead
And the Movin' On remix fits right in with these tracks.
I wonder what else is in the vaults?
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Huge Lord Digga fan here, i think there's about 8 of us worldwide, lol. But yeah, I do love Brooklyn Battles, Letter To The Better, I Got Ta and all those joints too.aleph wrote:Plus it was more of a group dynamic with Lord Digga and them, and Look Around is completely him.
That Lost Tapes record he put out in 2001 was damn good, too:
1996 - 1997:
A1 Always
A2 Game
A3 Dopes, Pushers, Addict
1992 - 1994:
B1 Way Of The World
B2 So Here We Are
B3 Can I Get A Dollar
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True enough. Ace very much in transition with these joints. We're at least four short of a decent comp here.Roy Johnson wrote:Ace probably should have had a classic album in between the debut and Slaughtahouse if these 91/92 era tracks are any indication:
So Here We Are
Can I Get A Dollar
Go Where I Send Thee
Scared Of The Dark
Wake Me When I'm Dead
And the Movin' On remix fits right in with these tracks.
I wonder what else is in the vaults?
I know this song so well that i thought it was on that first album. Great shit.Roy Johnson wrote: Go Where I Send Thee
I don't remember these by title.Scared Of The Dark
Wake Me When I'm Dead
I'm sure there's plenty as we've seen even the most random one 12" having artists releasing tons of vaulted music, I'm sure someone like Ace has plenty in the vaults.I wonder what else is in the vaults?
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Ok, duh, now I know what Wake Me When Im Dead is, dope. Listening to "Scared Of The Dark" now, never heard it. Tough since I'm so used to hearing Beatnuts over that sample but still, its dope. Definitely some transitional shit between the first 2 albums. Without the hook, I could see this on Slaughtahouse.
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yeah, I was thinking that. something around 92 with some Pete Rock or Large Pro beats couldve been great.Roy Johnson wrote:Ace probably should have had a classic album in between the debut and Slaughtahouse
Shame he never dropped a full set in the late 90s aswell - he had some good features and indie 12"s round that time though.
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Also i will add this... His 1st record..Verge wrote:Huge Lord Digga fan here, i think there's about 8 of us worldwide, lol. But yeah, I do love Brooklyn Battles, Letter To The Better, I Got Ta and all those joints too.aleph wrote:Plus it was more of a group dynamic with Lord Digga and them, and Look Around is completely him.
That Lost Tapes record he put out in 2001 was damn good, too:
1996 - 1997:
A1 Always
A2 Game
A3 Dopes, Pushers, Addict
1992 - 1994:
B1 Way Of The World
B2 So Here We Are
B3 Can I Get A Dollar
http://www.olasunbekons.com/2011/04/mas ... -2001.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4XZGVW7G
Ace (aka Masta Ace) & Action - Together / Letter To The Better (1989, Single)
Together (Long Version) 5:37
Together (Radio Edit) 3:50
Letter To The Better (Vocal) 4:56
Letter To The Better (Bonus Beats) 3:07
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'Dispoable Arts,' but I have a huge sentimental connection to that record and the time in my life that it dropped. Love its three predecessors though.
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