Albums Devin The Dude - Acoustic Levitation (Album Discussion Thread)

[The Intergalactic Koala]

What is the best Devin album?

Jus Tryin' ta Live is his best work imo. shyt was creative, honest, and had probably one of my favorite close out tracks of all time



Close contender is To Tha X-treme mainly because it had the most chill tracks and had some creative aspects to the album.

This shyt still bangs

 

[LevelUp]

to the x-treme is that album.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

devin always got the wackest album covers

I love his shyt too.. some coli brehs need to throw him a bone

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Jus Tryin' ta Live is his best work imo. shyt was creative, honest, and had probably one of my favorite close out tracks of all time



Close contender is To Tha X-treme mainly because it had the most chill tracks and had some creative aspects to the album.

This shyt still bangs

for me just tryin ta live
to the extreme
the dude
it's a toss up after that...

just tryin ta live was my shyt for a long ass time. very solid album. I tried to put nikkaz on but back then it wasn't nearly as many people tryna hear that shyt up north.

 

[Magnum P.I.M.P.]

Love Devin. Really gracious and humble guy too. Bought me a Budweiser when I met him. His album covers do suck, but who cares; and as far as features go he's great at limiting them on every album.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

for me just tryin ta live
to the extreme
the dude
it's a toss up after that...

just tryin ta live was my shyt for a long ass time. very solid album. I tried to put nikkaz on but back then it wasn't nearly as many people tryna hear that shyt up north.

Sounds like pretty much the same for me concerning The Dude being on the list as well. Good album, but it felt like it was missing something. The second album brought out the best of him due to it being cohesive.

It's like this...

The Dude was a Rap a Lot album, Just Tryin Ta Live was Devin's album.

 

[Motife43]

Re: Features

For the most part Devin has had the same group of people featured throughout the years, RAL days: Face, Jugg Mugg and Rob, KB, *insert southern rapper*
Recently it's been dudes from Coughee Brothaz. Those two Coughee Brothaz albums had some joints





@shopthatwrecks please bless us Coli brehs with a random Devin story

 

[Magnum P.I.M.P.]

Re: Features

For the most part Devin has had the same group of people featured throughout the years, RAL days: Face, Jugg Mugg and Rob, KB, *insert southern rapper*
Recently it's been dudes from Coughee Brothaz. Those two Coughee Brothaz albums had some joints





@shopthatwrecks please bless us Coli brehs with a random Devin story

fukk having joints, those albums are incredibly good. Just really fun albums to listen to whenever you need something to pick you up.

 

[TNOT]

I would say Just Tryin' ta Live because it has some of his best songs ever - i.e. Doobie Ashtray, Just A Man, I-Hi, Some of 'Em, etc.

Crazy that he got two Dr. Dre beats on that album and a Premo beat back when producers were charging top dollar. J Prince must've opened up the wallet for this album...wouldn't be shocked if he paid Dre to get Devin on The Chronic 2001, too.

Wasn't he the only feature on Best of Both Worlds. ?

 

[Rev]

Wasn't he the only feature on Best of Both Worlds. ?

Naaa they had Beanie and Lil Kim on tracks too.

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

What is the best Devin album?

2-tha-xtreme is his best, followed by the dude. Just tryin ta live is great but its his 3rd best effort, imo. Start with 2 tha xtreme.

 

[SchrodingersStrapped!]

breaking out the loud like fine wine to this bih....I'm ready

 

[Turbulent]

My favorite is Waiting to Inhale. Maybe it's just my state of mind when i first listened. The album was smooth but there was a certain cleaness/crispness to it without sounding too sanitized.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

OMG totally unexpected

I'm so hype for some new devin music

 

[criminology]

I don't think anyone ever did self-conscious, humble hip hop better. Lacville '79, doobie ashtray, anythang, etc. I'll be honest tho I only ever listened to 2-3 album. Didn't realize he had 9