Best Hip Hop Album Ever.

[indica]

Ice Cube - The Predator.




That's all.

[Lanky Love]

Listen to Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona

it will chnage evreything

[downhiller_1]

i think it a bit of a pointless thread coz there is heaps more out there but...

recapturing the vibe- hilltop hoods

[RYDA]

anything that comes outta UK.


Jehst, Akala, MF Doom, Taskforce etc etc

[indica]

Listen to Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona

it will chnage evreything

Heard it, rate it, love PE.

i think it a bit of a pointless thread coz there is heaps more out there but...

recapturing the vibe- hilltop hoods

Not pointless, Hilltops rock.

anything that comes outta UK.

UK hip hop is sick.

Jehst, Akala, MF Doom etc etc

Love UK stuff, haven't heard of the first 2 I'm going looking now. - Sweet, thanks for the heads up ...

But, The Predator is the best album, listen to it now, tell me I'm wrong.

[RYDA]

let me know how you like em.

other UK hip hop artists include; Braintax, JME, Klashnekoff, Black Moon, Dizzee Rascal...

[Smacks]

You're forgetting Rootie Toot Roots Manuva. My favourite English artist.

[indica]

let me know how you like em.

other UK hip hop artists include; Braintax, JME, Klashnekoff, Black Moon, Dizzee Rascal...

I have Klashnekoff - thanks to Kidulthood, we all know Dizee.
Don't know the others, but I kinda like Wilee - Grime Wave and Shystie.

[Emmett]

But, The Predator is the best album, listen to it now, tell me I'm wrong.

You are wrong;)

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

[RYDA]

shakespeare and electro livin by akala.

GOLD

[indica]

You are wrong;)

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Yes great album, BUT are you listening to The Predator NOW?

shakespeare and electro livin by akala.

GOLD

Okay, I'll get em tonight ....

[RYDA]

Yes great album, BUT are you listening to The Predator NOW?



Can't find that one ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcqS6AP8uI&feature=related

[indica]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcqS6AP8uI&feature=related

Cheers, was looking elsewhere - what.cd - found it and will grab it tonight.
Ms. Dynamite e eeeeee's bro? Good genetics there.

My statement still stands though.

[Breaka]

A Tribe Called Quest = Excellent. I've got Anthology, Anthology - Bonus CD, Beats, Rhymes And Life, Midnight Marauders, People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller, The Love Movement, The Love Movement - bonus CD, The Low End Theory.

And out of all that I'd have to say that 'the hop' is the greatest.

Pretty big on Hip-Hop and I like plenty of shit but I always go back to Wu. Absolutely love Wu. ODB being my fav' MC/rapper I bought Return to the 36 Chambers a few weeks back and it's some of the best shit I've heard.

Back to the OT, I don't mind Ice-Cube and I do like Westside Connection but all those movies were shit as. Should have stopped at Boys in da Hoooood.

[ThePig]

Da Lench mob - Guerillas in the mist.

[indica]

A Tribe Called Quest = Excellent. I've got Anthology, Anthology - Bonus CD, Beats, Rhymes And Life, Midnight Marauders, People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller, The Love Movement, The Love Movement - bonus CD, The Low End Theory.

And out of all that I'd have to say that 'the hop' is the greatest.

Pretty big on Hip-Hop and I like plenty of shit but I always go back to Wu. Absolutely love Wu. ODB being my fav' MC/rapper I bought Return to the 36 Chambers a few weeks back and it's some of the best shit I've heard.

Back to the OT, I don't mind Ice-Cube and I do like Westside Connection but all those movies were shit as. Should have stopped at Boys in da Hoooood.

His movies were shit. Still listening to The Predator.... who else is?

Love the Tribe ...

[NCR600]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e368/NCR600/BeastieBoysPaulsBoutique.jpg

[Christo]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e368/NCR600/BeastieBoysPaulsBoutique.jpg

Yes, tied with Public Enemy 'It takes a nation of millions to hold us back'.

[Jordo99]

Not pointless, Hilltops rock.


Yes, Yes they do rock.
hiltop hoods are madd

[thecat]

Cookie crew "Born this way"

[PINT of Stella, mate!]

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h34/taylorndt/Vanilla_Ice-To_the_Extreme_album_co.jpg

"To the extreme I rock the mic like a vandal, light up the stage I'll wax a chump like a candle!"

word to your mother...

:cool:

personally a fair proportion of my late teens were spent caning Cypress Hill's 'Black Sunday' Ice-T's 'Original Gangster' and Public Enemy's 'it takes a nation of millions...' but then it's not really my main cup of tea so I can't really comment...

[roasted]

Top three in no order:
Enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)
Mantronix - The Album
A tribe called quest - Low End Theory or Midnight Marauders.

But seriously, best moment in hip hop: Kool Moe Dee and Busy Bee battle:
doco on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtejGcQB75M


annnnnnnnnd the tape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMakc5eWfw&feature=related

[red_d0g]

muph & plutonic - and then tomorrow came, silence the sirens, hunger pains :)

horrorshow is different to any other hiphop i have heard not the greatest but certainly good!

mystro - diggi down unda; what a great album hes from the UK

dj bonez - roll call is pretty good too!

i love aussie hiphop so much more than any other, but ice cube etc are great to listen to sometimes


oh and does anyone have last.fm (www.last.fm)?

[EzyLee]

I have these two mixtapes by DJ Konflikt that pretty much feature the best of Mos Def and another one for Common. They are getting heavy rotation on my ipod at the moment.

Dilated Peoples - 20/20 Vision also does it for me and so does Heiroglyphics - Third Eye Vision.

As far as Aussie Hip Hop goes... Pegz - Axis, Muph + Plutonic - Hunger Pains are my pic of the bunch.

[merlz]

I love a lot of older hip hop artists, but 3 all time favourite albums would be:

Gang Starr - Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr
Souls of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity
KRS ONE - KRS ONE

[shake_rattle_and_ roll]

Bit like trying to pick the best rock album.

Anyway, here's a few must have hip-hop albums.

PE- Fear of a Black Planet

Dangerdoom- Mouse and the Mask (You're a fool if you don't own this album)
Def vs Doom w DJ Phonetic- Mix Bag
Roots Manuva- Awfully Deep/Alternately Deep & Run Come Save Me
Cypress Hil- Black SUnday
Deltron- 3030
Busta Ryhmes- The Coming
A Tribe Called Quest- Beats, Rymes and Life
De La Soul- 3 Feet High and Rising
Wu Tang Clan- Wu Tang Forever
Ol' Dirty Bastard- Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, and Nigga Please
Jay Z- The Blueprint (god I wanted to hate the guy, but fuck its a top album. Also dig the by-line to this album release. An album that was tightly kept under wraps throughout production, then announced a week prior to release, Sept. 11th 2001. Long story short, album released, planes crash, WTC collapses, America left reeling, only 16 000 albums sold in first 4 days of release, 3 days out from chart debut and The Blueprint was shaping up as hip-hop's biggest commercial flop, in last 72hrs it sells in excess of 430 000 copies to debut not only at number 1, but also as hip-hop's highest selling debut album.)
Bliss n Eso- Flying Colours
Urthboy- Distant Sense of Random Menace

[No Skid Marks]

Yup, Fear of a Black Planet was by far and unfortunatly P.E.s best album. Coldlampin cerial.
Defjam Classics(I think volume two)was cool.

[spewyogrady]

Various - Enjoy!
Label: New York Connexion
Catalog#: NYL 500
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12"

Country: UK
Released: 1983
Genre: Hip Hop
Style:
Notes: Compiled by Bobby Robinson of Enjoy Records and Disc O'Dell of Y Records. Both records play at 45rpm.

Cover Illustration: Emma Harrison
Inside Photo: Wayne Sorce
Design: Martin Lambert

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Tracklisting:
A1 Fearless Four, The Rockin' It
A2 Funky 4 + 1 Rappin' And Rockin' The House
B1 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Super Rappin' No.2
B2 Higher Ground (2) Shake 'Em Up
C1 Treacherous Three The Body Rock
C2 Spoonie Gee Love Rap
D1 Masterdon Committee, The Gonna Get You Hot
D2 Midnight Blue Enjoy With Me


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[nico jacko]

Beastie boys license to Ill

[Nerf Herder]

+1 ... De La Soul > 3 feet High and Rising
Jungle Brothers > Done by the Forces of Nature

*edit
Onyx > Back da F#%k Up ... angry music with beat

[Moggio]

Really hasn't hip-hop been a big dissapointment... in the 80s and 90s it had progressed from Grandmaster Flash to stuff like PE and then it just sucked.

After that it became repetitive with no new innovation and lots of stupid acting tough crap. It just became boring and hasn't progressed anywhere near fast enough to be valid. Its like phsychadelic pop, or surf music.. really terrific stuff just a stagnant form of artistic expression repeating the same cliches over and over.

The only advances have been away from the genre with things like Squarepusher, DJ Shadow, and Richard E James.... and that stuff relates more to the dub tradition in many ways than hip-hop.

I am probably wrong, but I would like to be shown some progession and validity. It really is a shame it just sort of pimped itself out to mediocrity no matter how much it puffs up its feathers.

I vote "Fear of Black Planet" as a peak... maybe Paul's Boutique.

[frosteee01]

cant beleive im on page 4 of this thread and someone has not mentioned the albumn

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON by NWA...

greatist hip hop albumn of all time...........

[BUSHPIG]

whatever is in inevitable descent- "matter of time" or something?

[indica]

cant beleive im on page 4 of this thread and someone has not mentioned the albumn

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON by NWA...

greatist hip hop albumn of all time...........

Is dope, the cube represents fully on that.

[From.Out.Of.Nowhere]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e368/NCR600/BeastieBoysPaulsBoutique.jpg

I don't know why people are still posting, NCR600 has given the correct answer.:cool:

[gravelclimber]

Best rap song ever:

Jedi Mind Tricks: Uncommon Valor (A Vietnam Story)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0KpWMNxnM

Best albums:

Immortal Technique: Revolutionary Vol. 1
Jedi Mind Tricks: The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological & Electro-Magnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness
Wu-Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Aesop Rock: Labor Days
NWA: Straight Outta Compton
Brother Ali: Shadows on the Sun
Madvillian: Madvilliany

[gravelclimber]

Really hasn't hip-hop been a big dissapointment... in the 80s and 90s it had progressed from Grandmaster Flash to stuff like PE and then it just sucked.

After that it became repetitive with no new innovation and lots of stupid acting tough crap. It just became boring and hasn't progressed anywhere near fast enough to be valid. Its like phsychadelic pop, or surf music.. really terrific stuff just a stagnant form of artistic expression repeating the same cliches over and over.

The only advances have been away from the genre with things like Squarepusher, DJ Shadow, and Richard E James.... and that stuff relates more to the dub tradition in many ways than hip-hop.

I am probably wrong, but I would like to be shown some progession and validity. It really is a shame it just sort of pimped itself out to mediocrity no matter how much it puffs up its feathers.

I vote "Fear of Black Planet" as a peak... maybe Paul's Boutique.

Here's some progression:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1u43KDiWD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M72zVuBNpEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzAxWPQaNlg

[Jordo_c]

hiltop hoods
sum41
planet funk
ghetto boys
M.O.P
drapht

i could go on for every:):)

[indica]

drapht

i could go on for every:):)

Dig the new drapht

[cuts and bones will heal]

too many to choose just one...

Jurassic 5 - Power in numbers, Quality control
Gang Starr - Moment of truth
Wu-tang Clan - Enter the Wu-tang (36 chambers) <---most people here seem to agree on this
Nas - Illmatic
Zion I - Mind over matter
Hilltop Hoods - Left foot, right foot, The Calling

Unfortunatly this is mostly american stuff, will check out some of the English/Aussie names in this thread.

Jay Z- The Blueprint (god I wanted to hate the guy, but fuck its a top album. Also dig the by-line to this album release. An album that was tightly kept under wraps throughout production, then announced a week prior to release, Sept. 11th 2001. Long story short, album released, planes crash, WTC collapses, America left reeling, only 16 000 albums sold in first 4 days of release, 3 days out from chart debut and The Blueprint was shaping up as hip-hop's biggest commercial flop, in last 72hrs it sells in excess of 430 000 copies to debut not only at number 1, but also as hip-hop's highest selling debut album.)

Haven't had a really good listen to it, but i wasn't all that impressed, Reasonable Doubt was, and is, a milllllllion times better. Can't say i like Jay-Z much, if at all, but that album is the exception that proves the rule...

[bazza]

Top one in no order:
Enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)


10characters

[indica]

too many to choose just one...

Jurassic 5 - Power in numbers, Quality control
Gang Starr - Moment of truth
Wu-tang Clan - Enter the Wu-tang (36 chambers) <---most people here seem to agree on this
Nas - Illmatic
Zion I - Mind over matter
Hilltop Hoods - Left foot, right foot, The Calling

Unfortunatly this is mostly american stuff, will check out some of the English/Aussie names in this thread.



Haven't had a really good listen to it, but i wasn't all that impressed, Reasonable Doubt was, and is, a milllllllion times better. Can't say i like Jay-Z much, if at all, but that album is the exception that proves the rule...

Love J-5, saw them live and had a ball....

Jay-z sucks arse along with Kanye, but I kinda like Common and Talib.

Love the aussie stuff, new Muph & Plutonic, Pegz, Bliss n Eso, Herd, Urthboy - solo, Hermitude.

Aussie hip hop is much better than anything else at the moment.

[Moggio]

Here's some progression:



Thanks for the suggestions... , but listening to them they are still using the same basic methods that were already in place by say the end of '92 or '93. Around that time it lost its aggressive edge as well.. PE is pretty full on stuff, NWA was intense and funky while the Beastie's were just damn funky.

I find this loss of intensity so depressing... its all these dreary vamps that don't change and all at around the same tempo too. Its like its not cool to go faster, louder or be more like what you are talking about.

The actual rap rhythms have improved a bit, but someone like Chuck D was so good because he wrote lyrics that had the rhythms of great speeches while now rappers do a lot of clever clever over the bar line stuff.. sometimes kind of cool, but often just imitations of each other rather than stylistically original.

I know I am a boring old fart, and a music that doesn't progress is pretty standard (heck blues is almost a completely static art form, but heck can still be terrific beyond belief)... it just was a shame with hip-hop that it got stuck in a rut.

Please keep any suggestions coming because I would love to see something jaw dropping and be proven wrong.

Stuff like "Paul's Boutique" or "It Takes a Nation....", at the time were just "where the heck did this come from???" and they still sound that way..

[TheLunchbox]

Del la soul = AOI
Wu tang Clan = enter the 36 chambers
Redman = Muddy waters.
Redman and Methodman = blackout

[skivi]

i'm kinda with Moggio on this one.

i've never really gotten into hip-hop but find some real soul in early groups and contemporaries like a tribe called quest, i'm also partial to nu-jazz/future soul with hip-hop influences but only on occasion, for me to actually like a style of music i have to see soul in it.

people should check the Artifacts, they resonated with me

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRhxt642uQ

[shake_rattle_and_ roll]

Dangerdoom (w Ghostface Killah)

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=UQakz9-kvfI
The Mask

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zR2BboZeLEw
Sofa King

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FUEi1gKo5hY
Benzie Box

[Breaka]

Love J-5, saw them live and had a ball....

Jay-z sucks arse along with Kanye, but I kinda like Common and Talib.

Love the aussie stuff, new Muph & Plutonic, Pegz, Bliss n Eso, Herd, Urthboy - solo, Hermitude.

Aussie hip hop is much better than anything else at the moment.

Kanye who? Jay-z is OOOKKK but I can't say I'm a fan. Common is pretty good whilst Talib is really really lame.

I'm a big fan of Aus hip-hop and I can't reccomend the Culture of King's albums enough. Some of Aussie's finest MC's/rap artist featured over a few albums. Highlight artist/groups being Terra Firma, Hyjak 'n' Torcha, Koolism, Delta, Ken Oath, Downsyde, Bias B, Delta (Ben Delts), Muph n Plutonic. Only downfall is the female MC's...I cannot f*cking stand Aussie chick MC's.

I've whored these two clips on farkin a while ago but I'd like to show again.
Uncesored Brooklyn Zoo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9U6hYTLlA&feature=related

Dirty Dancin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0zNdkEEG8

Dopest of all time. Still listening to return to 36 chambers like it's going out of fashion...

Although Biz was a bit of a joke in his day I do enjoy some of his shit. Big Daddy Kane and Biz for a bit of fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHtjh7L9hb8

[TheLunchbox]

DILATED PEOPLES = The Plattform... man I was playing that for ages :cool:

[downhiller_1]

best song ever made... answer and straw's "who we rep" made about my hometown MELTON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Vypfz4USY

[Breaka]

Buddah Monk - Killa From The Villa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEbtIToo_TY

More ODB :rolleyes: - SNAKES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N59-KujbEY0&feature=related

[Techno Destructo]

PE, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Jungle Brothers, all legendary...

But have I entered some kind of bizarre universe? I can't believe no-one mentioned:
http://mnmedia.musicnation.com/Blog/paidinfull.jpg

[Techno Destructo]

Thanks for the suggestions... , but listening to them they are still using the same basic methods that were already in place by say the end of '92 or '93. Around that time it lost its aggressive edge as well.. PE is pretty full on stuff,

Listen to any Paris? If you love PE, you'll probably really enjoy Paris. Very angry militant black rap. Very punchy and upbeat style. Awesome stuff. Choice tracks are "Break the Grip of Shame", "The Devil Made Me Do It" and "Guerillas in the Mist", to name a few.

[RCOH]

I love 'Lethal Injection' way more than 'The Predator' if we're talking Ice Cube.
It has Cave Bitch & Ghetto Bird for starters.

My other faves include:

DeLaSoul - 3ft high...
The Pharcyde - The Bizarre Ride II
The Herd - anything they have done
Wu Tang - 36 chambers, forever
Judgement Night Soundtrack
Slick Rick da Ruler
Dre - 2001
Roots manuva - Run Come Save Me
Dangermouse - The Gray Album
Cyprus Hill - Black Sunday
PE - Apocalypse 91, Fear of...
Xibit - the album with 'Paparazzi' on it
Whitey Ford sings the Blues
Snoop Dogg's debut - the one with 'gin & juice'
The Streets - All 3 albums
Del tha funkee homosapien - 3030 + bob dobalina
Beastie Boys - all albums but especially ill communication

[fairy1]

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Technique vol II.

This guy would have to be the best lyricist I have ever come across, his words are very harsh but mostly true.

[indica]

I love 'Lethal Injection' way more than 'The Predator' if we're talking Ice Cube.
It has Cave Bitch & Ghetto Bird for starters.

My other faves include:

DeLaSoul - 3ft high...
The Pharcyde - The Bizarre Ride II
The Herd - anything they have done
Wu Tang - 36 chambers, forever
Judgement Night Soundtrack
Slick Rick da Ruler
Dre - 2001
Roots manuva - Run Come Save Me
Dangermouse - The Gray Album
Cyprus Hill - Black Sunday
PE - Apocalypse 91, Fear of...
Xibit - the album with 'Paparazzi' on it
Whitey Ford sings the Blues
Snoop Dogg's debut - the one with 'gin & juice'
The Streets - All 3 albums
Del tha funkee homosapien - 3030 + bob dobalina
Beastie Boys - all albums but especially ill communication

Word .... but no Whitey Ford Or Snoop please.
But, have you seen Up In Smoke tour vid with Cube, Dre, Snoop and that little white boy?

The Streets ... What about the fourth album?


Grime/ UK hip hop, just got the Adulthood Soundtrack, great cross section of that scene.

[RCOH]

Word .... but no Whitey Ford Or Snoop please.
But, have you seen Up In Smoke tour vid with Cube, Dre, Snoop and that little white boy?

The Streets ... What about the fourth album?


Grime/ UK hip hop, just got the Adulthood Soundtrack, great cross section of that scene.

I used to have a copy of that Up In Smoke dvd but Hip hop live doesn't do it for me, except for the Herd.

Haven't heard the latest Streets album. Any good? Mike Skinner is a bit of a genius.

Early Snoop is the fuckin' bomb. And I really love the guitar sound on the Whitey Ford album (the debut one). House of Pain aren't too bad either.

As for Grime - I like a bit of dizzee & lady soverign but not too up on it. Also that pommie/sri lankan chick rapper - she is pretty ace (what i have heard).

[indica]

Haven't heard the latest Streets album. Any good? Mike Skinner is a bit of a genius.

Early Snoop is the fuckin' bomb. And I really love the guitar sound on the Whitey Ford album (the debut one). House of Pain aren't too bad either.

As for Grime - I like a bit of dizzee & lady soverign but not too up on it. Also that pommie/sri lankan chick rapper - she is pretty ace (what i have heard).

Love the Streets. The new one is alright, I've only played it through once.
Whitey Ford ain't hip hop, I have the album and quite like it though.

M.I.A. - check here out on youtube, funny stuff.
Wiley makes me laugh too.

Grab the Adulthood soundtrack if you can, good for a laugh.

[Matt H]

This is kinda off topic, but...

What do all you hiphop gurus think of this guy?

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=258258089

I met him at a party last night and he wants me to record some acoustic guitar for his next song. Never been into aus hiphop but his 'alone' song is alright.

[Breaka]

UK grime, garage etc etc is pretty sweet. Used to really dig dizzee, but now not so much.

Streets are great, absolutely great. Orginal Pirate material is one of my all time faves - gives me a silly nestoligic feel.

MIA is great too. Check out this take of Mango Pickle she did with the Wilcannia Mob. I find it quite funny because my mates and I used to sing it quite a while ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvNBfXprgT8

[Belle]

Quasimoto - the unseen

Great album.

[Graunched]

A couple of my all time favorites

The Pharcyde - Cydeways
The Fugees - Blunted on Reality
A Tribe Called Quest - Every Cd
2pac - All Eyes on Me
Downsyde - When the Dust Settles
Guru - Jazmataz
KRS ONE - Misc Songs
The Notorious Big - Ready to Die
Ugly Duckling - Every CD
Snoop Dog - Doggy Style
Roots Manuva - Every CD
Naughty By Nature - Natures Finest
Audio Bullys - Generation
De La Soul - The Best Of CD 1
One Million Strong (awesome old collaboration CD with Ice Cube, 2pac, Notorious Big, The Alcoholics + many more..... must hear)

[Techno Destructo]

annnnnnnnnd the tape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMakc5eWfw&feature=related

That was frickin' insane. :eek:

[thecat]

Boo Yaa T.R.I.B.E.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvhxU_x9nQ

[indica]

Hermitude's new effort ...

http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=releases&releaseId=61, I just got it today .... great album.

[clockworked]

My other faves include:

The Pharcyde - The Bizarre Ride II

A couple of my all time favorites
KRS ONE

took long enough to get to here!

[JONO WADE]

Bliss N Eso's new album flying colours is awesome :D

[Mammy]

Hard to nail just one album, but I have to agree that Paul's Boutique provided a seminal mainstream, lateral platform for hip hop. It left a lasting legacy.

A few personal faves include:

Hijack: Horns of Jerico
Mantronix: Music Madness
Ice T: Power
PE: It takes a Nation of Millions...
Organized Konfusion: self titled (Releasing Hypnotical Gases is a track a decade before its time)
BDP KRS1: Criminal Minded
Eric B & Rakim: Paid in Full
The DOC: No one can do it better.
El-P: Fantastic Damage
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein

Honourable mention to Sage Francis, whom I have had the pleasure of sharing a room with at Sound Summit in Newcastle many years ago.
And also, every incarnation and off-spin of MF Doom who has been kicking it since the Gas Face era.

[indica]

Dr. Octagon ... Dr. Octagonecologyst.
and anything else from Kool Keith.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en&q=dr.+octagon&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

Great video too.

[shake_rattle_and_ roll]

Dr. Octagon ... Dr. Octagonecologyst.
and anything else from Kool Keith.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en&q=dr.+octagon&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

Great video too.

Ha-ha! Knew there was one I left out- Kool Keith.

Top call Indica.

[24alpha]

Ice T: Power
PE: It takes a Nation of Millions.../Fear of a Black Planet


About bloody time someone mention Ice-T's Power...THE Original Gangster.
Regardless of what anyone says, this album was the defining moment rappers stopped talking shit about them selves and started rapping about the issues of the day. Same can be said about PE. It was an honour to meet Chuck D and Ice-T on the same night at Festival Hall.
Following up was N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton, which im my humble opinion changed the way rap was from that point in time.

Someone posted in here about what happened to rap in the 90's? They started shooting each other, and ALL the good rising talent was killed off.

And does anyone know the #1 selling RAP album of ALL time? Vanilia Ice - To The Extreme
Maybe that should be at the top! Edit: Wiki says #3 in the US, can't find the original article that claims #1.

[Mammy]

I first saw Ice-T back in 89, when he visited Australia for a couple of gigs.
Got to shake the man's hand and get an autographed trucker cap.
A year later, I swapped the cap for Stetsasonic's In Full Gear LP. Bad move.

As for rap souring in the 90s, I'd say that was the case from the latter half of that decade. The early nineties saw many offshoots from the golden age of hip hop develop, with distinct sounds and schools of thought consolidating throughout different parts of the world.

But you're right, the whole East vs West shifted the focus that is still fucking up hip hop in so many ways...