Name albums that were ahead their time but were overlooked as being classics.

[Art Barr]

8ball
lost

8 ball& mjg
the first record on grand hustle,...greatly overlooked and even the soulja boi record feature works

mobb deep
free agents : best rap double album ever

prodigy
productof the 80's : INCREDIBLE
RETURN OF THE MAC : a departure and return of what was & would become a new direction for prodigy


eminem
the mixtape with buffalo bill

gucci mayne
mixtape with cocacola: i forgot the name of this record, forgive me!!
i reviewed it in the other promotion

rich kids:
desired taste and direction, but so new and saucey it was incredible!!


louis logic
sin-a-matic : no emo performer has built the wordsmith content extrsvaganza to fukk wit this record. the masterful emcee'n and content rubrick of the entire genre.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I'm probably gonna get clowned for this but you know what, not a fukk will be given.

One album that comes to mind is Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space). The samples in that album with the slick lyrics just put you in a mood where it will make you think back to when you was out for the summer and you was just enjoying life. I can put that CD in and just listen straight thru.

i hate digable for stealing what q tip could have done given time.

plus doodle bug was so disrespectful culturally. he got served by common and juice at the elbo room via tagteam. fukk digable planets bite'n ass.

The other album is Sticky Fingaz - Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones. To me this was way ahead of it's time in concept. The entire album tells a story, but to me this one went deeper than that. That's just me. Both albums are classic.

one of the best conceptually classic executd albums in rap history.
this is what prince paul and organized failed to do, properly.

great choice,..thump!!


art barr

 

[DosCadenaz]

dont know about classic, but Smokeout Conversations by Dizzy Wright is pretty fukking dope

 

[JoelB]

 

[Darts]

I'm probably gonna get clowned for this but you know what, not a fukk will be given.

One album that comes to mind is Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space). The samples in that album with the slick lyrics just put you in a mood where it will make you think back to when you was out for the summer and you was just enjoying life. I can put that CD in and just listen straight thru.

The other album is Sticky Fingaz - Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones. To me this was way ahead of it's time in concept. The entire album tells a story, but to me this one went deeper than that. That's just me. Both albums are classic.

No reason to be clowned, both of Digable Planets joints are certified classics imo, can listen to both those albums all the way thru. Good looks on the Sticky joint, was just about the mention that.

 

[Art Barr]

section 80

i can not give this record credit.

as this only got acclaim,..that should have gone to mikkey halsted.

if mikkey got to make a solo album.

with the style that was employed by weezy.

that lamar lifted like any popular biter rapper has done and erroneously been given props for.
plus this record is not great at all,...if you were familiar with gw weezy from 2003 till 2008.

art barr

 

[Drizzy Dre]

When I read the topic I instantly thought of this gem of an album:

Busta Rhymes - ELE

 

[Scoop]

It Was Written.

Few albums were seen as such huge disappointments upon release only to become as influential and age as well as IWW.

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

MOP "First Family 4 Life"
Daz Dillinger "Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back"
The Beatnuts "A Musical Massacre"
Three 6 Mafia "Chapter 2: World Domination"

 

[Non Sequitur]

do or die has its props and is not a classic.
az's performances on the album are what you could rate as classic submissions of lyricism.
yet,..when it comes to the full package of the actual sum of the whole.

it fell flat and still falls flat as a classic. especially how much the overall direction track to track falls flat.

incomparison to real classics of that exact time.

good gateway album for a female in that time frame.

as i turned hordes of women onto az...in that time.

beginning with m'sjones pink cassette cover to don'ttake it personal and az's rather unique bside to sugarhill.

including the subsequent release of do or die.

yet i think it was more females being into az's physical aesthetic.
while, not being a true barometer of the actual records on the album.

hell hath no fury is one of the worst electric circus tries to make alternative produced trap rap that failed ever.

shyt sucks and is offbrand production wise.

lyrically, it lacks convincability much needed for the subject matter and genre.

plus it lacks punch lyrically to the material on the wgi4c mixtapes predating it.

which built the fervor for the record to be unshelved and released.

record is awful,.....the worst records in that period of releases well.

where fat joe and ray cash released in the same time show how inferior the album is from two different perspectives. plus jeezy's release marginalizes hellhath on his second album as well. during that time frame,..record is the epitome of unconvincing offbrand trash.

easily one of the worst records of the past six years as well.

i still remember how awful a spin this record was and still is.

even keys open doors was garbage.

clipse and pusha t's imaginary cred are just the byproduct. of being marketed as eclectic wack alternative trap rap by the company who took over pr of atmosphere.

if notfor this connection,..the clipse would not be saved to draw in any capacity.


art barr

HHNF is trap music for smart people.

In hindsight...not really a big market

 

[OneManGang]

you know what it is.

 

[Piff Perkins]

MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday: Madvillainy gets most of the props but it wouldn't exist without DOOM's first solo album.

Kool G Rap - 4,5,6: Most discussions about great mafioso 90s albums revolve around It Was Written, Cuban Linx, and Reasonable Doubt. This album stacks up pretty well against all of them. Kool G may be a "legend" but will truly never get the props he deserves imo. He's the genesis of so much shyt

 

[TheHomie]

i can not give this record credit.

as this only got acclaim,..that should have gone to mikkey halsted.

if mikkey got to make a solo album.

with the style that was employed by weezy.

that lamar lifted like any popular biter rapper has done and erroneously been given props for.
plus this record is not great at all,...if you were familiar with gw weezy from 2003 till 2008.

art barr

Hol' up.........did you just compare weezy to Kendrick Lamar?

 

[Non Sequitur]

Hol' up.........did you just compare weezy to Kendrick Lamar?

Thought I was the only one that caught that...

 

[Coach Gully]

Common The Dreamer/Believer.

It was a really good album and sucks that it will probably be forgotten. I think that him starting a shyt with Drake really deterred people from talking about the album.

I'm a HUGE Common fan and thats exactly what it was, as much as I want to I can't even listen to that album the same.