Lost is one of the best albums i ever heard idc. GREAT album
8 Ball and MJG- On Top of The World appreciate thread
MrWillyWanker
Pro
yeah Lost needs its own thread. Lots of filler but all in all a great album.
I didn't appreciate this album until years after I got out the Marines. I was stationed with a homie from Arkansas who played this shyt every day and I didn't get it. It's funny how times when you reminiscing thinking about old times and homies you served with and did crazy shyt with take you back. Classic album!!!
YoungSimpson
RIP Strika
8ball is one of the GOATS. I love Lost. MJG is my favorite but Ball solo is better. My favorite group ever.
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Mr. Mike on All In My Mind 
KingsOfKings
♟️ GRANDMASTERS ♟️
One King Menes
Proud Alumni of Break-A-B$tch College
Wish I could dap you twice fam!Mr. Mike on All In My Mind
Favorite tracks : Pimp In My Own Rhyme, Break 'Em Off. For Real. Top Of The World. Funk Mission. Space Age Pimpin'. Hand Of The Devil.
The South always had heat and quality way prior to this but it was 1995 the year of this album, at The Source Awards when Andre 3000 said the infamous words of "The South Got Something to say", he was tired of the other coasts looking down on the South citing them as unoriginal and non lyrical, a lot would change for the South after that statement and people would delve and think a little deeper about the intentions and quality of the music being made there but it was all the way back to the late 80's where you had that Miami Bass sound being done in Hip-Hop by the controversial 2 Live Crew & also material from MC Shy-D (Cousin of Afrika Bambaataa) and also the early formation of the hardcore classic group The Geto Boys, you also had a real guilty pleasure album of mine Poison Clan - 2 Low Life Muthas that dropped in 1990, but it was Geto Boys who were ahead of the curve quality wise, with their album "We Cant Be Stopped" dropping in 1991, along with Scarface's classic solo album "Mr. Scarface Is Back" only dropping a few months afte rhe group album, UGK would come on the scene in 1992 with their debut album "Too Hard to Swallow" & the South Park Coalition would give Southern fans more Gangsta and controversial Music that year creating their own niche, so what Andre 3000 said was super important but their was artists creating the lanes, prior to Outkast's debut album but 1994 & 95, was when the South really started to come out in a more major and consistent way, along with that Outkast album in 94, you had releases from Big Mike (Formerly of the Convicts), Odd Squad (Abstract but fun Hip-Hop group of Devin the Dude) Eightball & MJG themselves and heavyweight releases from Scarface with "The Diary" album and UGK "Super Tight" an upgrade on their debut album and far from a sophomore Jinx, but onto Eightball & MJG.
The year was 1993, Eightball & MJG drop their album "Comin' Out Hard", giving Hip-Hop fans something they didn't always get to see, pimp orientated lyricism, with soulful production at the height of the summer, the rapping is fast paced, aggressive and laced with attitude, its definitely an album that put Memphis on the map, despite the album showing some influences and love for Houston, where they recorded this very album "On Top Of The World" in 1995, this album is a lesson in how to start and finish an album, with the tracks "Pimp In My Own Rhyme" (one of the hardest songs to start an album EVER from the South, I put it right up there with "Return" from UGK'S Super Tight album) this song just makes me wanna create enemies that don't even exist, it gets me that hyped up haha, on the closer you get "Break 'Em Off" an all out assault of a Hip-Hop song, with the funny and egotistical line "You ain't my best friend, you's another foe And bytch you ain't my main thing, you that other hoe.." , this song makes me go off, for the production on this album, they build greatly and more fully realized than on any of their previous albums but on the album "On the Outside Looking In" they scratched the surface of the G Funk inspired production but with "On Top of the World" they get way more advanced with incorporating it, you get deeper base lines, hardcore drums and funked out rhythm, to go with the uptempo rapping on this effort. the production has a cool mix of grimey beats and more approachable.
the album really has a futuristic Southern flare to it with extra doses of Funk, This album has some nasty and confident lyricism on it but it also has many tracks with conscious lyrics and concepts to them, on "What Can I Do" they give an ominous story to the listener about the dangers of the street life and addresses haters telling them they can't be conscious and be on that southern pimp shyt talk still, also on "Funk Mission" you get a loose concept record about drug addiction and their disgust for people who lead that lifestyle and what it can do to you, another concept record on the album with maybe the best lyrics from a quality standpoint is "Hand of the Devil", where they touch on the evils of greed and willing to risk your life and freedom for it, wanting to do good but your conscious keeps telling you, you need to get rich and in a bigger position of power, outside of the heavy subject matters you get the feel good record "Top of the World", the track is a celebration to themselves and all the success they have being having in the Hip-Hop game, the chorus is very West Coast inspired with that Zapp & Roger esque hook but historians know Sermon also did it back in 88, the Roger Troutman homage. further on the album you get the soulful smash "Space Age Pimpin'" another feel good song in the context of the record, this album features the O.G E-40 and I can definitely hear that Bay Area influence in some of the production on here, you also get appearances from the still young at the time Mac Mall, Big Mike & Mr Mike are also on there, so they keep the album interesting as well, for me this is a Southern classic and it gives me that fix I need whenever I throw it on, it's not a one and done album, I always go to particular songs in the tracklist, after I let it ride the first time.
The South always had heat and quality way prior to this but it was 1995 the year of this album, at The Source Awards when Andre 3000 said the infamous words of "The South Got Something to say", he was tired of the other coasts looking down on the South citing them as unoriginal and non lyrical, a lot would change for the South after that statement and people would delve and think a little deeper about the intentions and quality of the music being made there but it was all the way back to the late 80's where you had that Miami Bass sound being done in Hip-Hop by the controversial 2 Live Crew & also material from MC Shy-D (Cousin of Afrika Bambaataa) and also the early formation of the hardcore classic group The Geto Boys, you also had a real guilty pleasure album of mine Poison Clan - 2 Low Life Muthas that dropped in 1990, but it was Geto Boys who were ahead of the curve quality wise, with their album "We Cant Be Stopped" dropping in 1991, along with Scarface's classic solo album "Mr. Scarface Is Back" only dropping a few months afte rhe group album, UGK would come on the scene in 1992 with their debut album "Too Hard to Swallow" & the South Park Coalition would give Southern fans more Gangsta and controversial Music that year creating their own niche, so what Andre 3000 said was super important but their was artists creating the lanes, prior to Outkast's debut album but 1994 & 95, was when the South really started to come out in a more major and consistent way, along with that Outkast album in 94, you had releases from Big Mike (Formerly of the Convicts), Odd Squad (Abstract but fun Hip-Hop group of Devin the Dude) Eightball & MJG themselves and heavyweight releases from Scarface with "The Diary" album and UGK "Super Tight" an upgrade on their debut album and far from a sophomore Jinx, but onto Eightball & MJG.
The year was 1993, Eightball & MJG drop their album "Comin' Out Hard", giving Hip-Hop fans something they didn't always get to see, pimp orientated lyricism, with soulful production at the height of the summer, the rapping is fast paced, aggressive and laced with attitude, its definitely an album that put Memphis on the map, despite the album showing some influences and love for Houston, where they recorded this very album "On Top Of The World" in 1995, this album is a lesson in how to start and finish an album, with the tracks "Pimp In My Own Rhyme" (one of the hardest songs to start an album EVER from the South, I put it right up there with "Return" from UGK'S Super Tight album) this song just makes me wanna create enemies that don't even exist, it gets me that hyped up haha, on the closer you get "Break 'Em Off" an all out assault of a Hip-Hop song, with the funny and egotistical line "You ain't my best friend, you's another foe And bytch you ain't my main thing, you that other hoe.." , this song makes me go off, for the production on this album, they build greatly and more fully realized than on any of their previous albums but on the album "On the Outside Looking In" they scratched the surface of the G Funk inspired production but with "On Top of the World" they get way more advanced with incorporating it, you get deeper base lines, hardcore drums and funked out rhythm, to go with the uptempo rapping on this effort. the production has a cool mix of grimey beats and more approachable.
the album really has a futuristic Southern flare to it with extra doses of Funk, This album has some nasty and confident lyricism on it but it also has many tracks with conscious lyrics and concepts to them, on "What Can I Do" they give an ominous story to the listener about the dangers of the street life and addresses haters telling them they can't be conscious and be on that southern pimp shyt talk still, also on "Funk Mission" you get a loose concept record about drug addiction and their disgust for people who lead that lifestyle and what it can do to you, another concept record on the album with maybe the best lyrics from a quality standpoint is "Hand of the Devil", where they touch on the evils of greed and willing to risk your life and freedom for it, wanting to do good but your conscious keeps telling you, you need to get rich and in a bigger position of power, outside of the heavy subject matters you get the feel good record "Top of the World", the track is a celebration to themselves and all the success they have being having in the Hip-Hop game, the chorus is very West Coast inspired with that Zapp & Roger esque hook but historians know Sermon also did it back in 88, the Roger Troutman homage. further on the album you get the soulful smash "Space Age Pimpin'" another feel good song in the context of the record, this album features the O.G E-40 and I can definitely hear that Bay Area influence in some of the production on here, you also get appearances from the still young at the time Mac Mall, Big Mike & Mr Mike are also on there, so they keep the album interesting as well, for me this is a Southern classic and it gives me that fix I need whenever I throw it on, it's not a one and done album, I always go to particular songs in the tracklist, after I let it ride the first time.
Geechiedan214
All Star
My favorite 8ball & mag tape....yeah I said tape cuz when I bought it cds was just really coming into effect...used to to just let it rock out every song jamming like a mf
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Best song on the album to me. Everybody killed
Mr. Mike went the fukk off though
Mr. Mike went the fukk off though
Geechiedan214
All Star
Surprising Friend r Foe not on your favorites track