Classics Albums From A Different Region You Discovered Late

[Mike Ock]

I'm from NYC and was decades late before I heard "Soul Food" from Goodie Mob.
It is a very dope album. I did not expect such a dope album based off of the "Who's That Peekin At My Window" song.

Add on...

 

[I'm Blackman]

Reasonable Doubt...a little late (97....became a jay fan from vol 1 and went back)

illmatic (97.after i heard iww)

the infamous (like 2020 or so....classic)

captial punishment (finally listened around 2021 or so...it was cool)

liquid swords (in like 2020...from the wu i only listened to the wu, ghost, meth, and rae back in the day)

soul on ice (around 2017...amazing album)

it takes a nation to..(around 2015...i didnt like pe as a kid so...took a long time...amazing album)

paid in full (around 2015)


90 percent of south and west coast classics from 1991 onward i was on in real time. The production appealed to me more (generally speaking)

 

[Mike Ock]

Reasonable Doubt...a little late (97....became a jay fan from vol 1 and went back)

illmatic (97.after i heard iww)

the infamous (like 2020 or so....classic)

captial punishment (finally listened around 2021 or so...it was cool)

liquid swords (in like 2020...from the wu i only listened to the wu, ghost, meth, and rae back in the day)

soul on ice (around 2017...amazing album)

it takes a nation to..(around 2015...i didnt like pe as a kid so...took a long time...amazing album)

paid in full (around 2015)


90 percent of south and west coast classics from 1991 onward i was on in real time. The production appealed to me more (generally speaking)

Yes!, I totally forgot about Soul On Ice. Its another album I always see with high regards and have never checked out. I will do so tomorrow.

I heard "Criminal Minded" by KRS1 for the first time a few years ago and was surprised with how dope the production was.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Yes!, I totally forgot about Soul On Ice. Its another album I always see with high regards and have never checked out. I will do so tomorrow.

I heard "Criminal Minded" by KRS1 for the first time a few years ago and was surprised with how dope the production was.

i was late on Criminal minded too lol.

 

[Ashtrey]

Thanks to The Source back in 2002 I went back and listened to all the NY classics they re-rated 5 mics that I didn't listen to before.

Criminal Minded
By All Means Necessary
Straight Out The Jungle
Critical Beatdown
Breakin' Atoms

Some of them have become my all time favorites especially BDP.

 

[H. Selassie]

Pretty much all of the essential Eastcoast classics from Wu, Nas, Biggie, Jay, Mobb Deep, etc.

I grew up on No Limit, Cash Money, Memphis Underground Rap, and 2Pac…basically whatever my uncle was listening to, that’s what I knew as far as full albums until late middle school/early high school when I started burning cds and discovering other shyt.

 

[Metal Face]

IDK about classic but this album had some crazy beats

 

[Antdrewjosh]

I'm from NYC and was decades late before I heard "Soul Food" from Goodie Mob.
It is a very dope album. I did not expect such a dope album based off of the "Who's That Peekin At My Window" song.

Add on...

Who's that peeking is what pulled me in!!
I'm Jersey and I had my boys bumping that album which led me to Outkast..for me its UGK

 

[Mr. Negative]

I'm not gonna lie.

I didn't fukk with "mainstream" west coast for a looooooooooong time because I swore all the shyt sounded like those three beats up there.

Which is why I only listened to "Dogg Food" early this year and cursed myself for a fool. shyt is on my GOAT album (rap) list right now.

that post is from 2015