Name albums that were ahead their time but were overlooked as being classics.
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Non Sequitur
Creep.
Ghostface Killah ~ Fishscale
Illadelph Halflife - The Roots at the peak of their powers.
Soul On Ice - The West Coast Illmatic. I feel like this one gets props, but not enough props.
Disposable Arts/A Long Hot Summer - Loved the theme of the albums, the production was great and Ace was at his best.
Food and Liquor - One of my favorite debuts in a long time.
Expansion Team - My favorite Dilated LP, a little more polished than their first efforts.
How I Got Over - A great Roots album which I never expected to get at this stage. Production is outstanding and Thought is excellent.
Soul On Ice - The West Coast Illmatic. I feel like this one gets props, but not enough props.
Disposable Arts/A Long Hot Summer - Loved the theme of the albums, the production was great and Ace was at his best.
Food and Liquor - One of my favorite debuts in a long time.
Expansion Team - My favorite Dilated LP, a little more polished than their first efforts.
How I Got Over - A great Roots album which I never expected to get at this stage. Production is outstanding and Thought is excellent.
g-ice
aka #DiamondNightmare
Busta Rhymes - ELE
Common - The Dreamer/The Believer & One Day It'll All Make Sense
DMX - And Then There Was X...
The Roots - How I Got Over & Undun
Common - The Dreamer/The Believer & One Day It'll All Make Sense
DMX - And Then There Was X...
The Roots - How I Got Over & Undun
ReasonableMatic
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Word..
"The lord lives among us
The young uns hunger become a means to get it
By any means necessary, under pressure
Children feeling lesser, with the steel up on the dresser
Killin’ will aggressors, DESTINY’s CHILDren
SURVIVORS, SOLDIERs, in front of buildings they eyes look older
Hard to see blessings in the violent culture
Face against weapons, sirens, holsters
That aint the way that Langston Hughes wrote us
Soul controllers on the shoulders of Moses and Noah
We go from being oppressors to Oprah
Cultivated to overcome ever since we came overseas
Today and the way that you can see we determined
Solar keeps burning, shawty’s know to keep learning
Lesson’s in our life, but life stripes that we earning
Took raps advice that Christ is returning
Like a thief in the night, I write the beacons of light
For those of us in dark alleys and parched valleys
Street kids spark rallies of the conscience conquerors of a contest
That seems beyond us, even through the unseen, I know that God watches
From one King’s dream he was able to Barack us
The prophets, nothing can stop us, UHHH"- Common / The Believer
Common blacked out and went back to his "BE" shyt
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
You question Clipse's credibility, then big up Kid Rock; a guy who grew up on an apple orchard in Michigan whose dad owns a car dealership.
Then have the nerve to talk about marketing ploys.
And even though they rap circles around Fat Joe (whose DITC cred is long gone) and Ray Cash, over better beats, their product is somehow inferior.
wait a minute,....
do you know kid rock's background as a grassroots mi artist.
if not, be real quiet,......
art barr
roots-higo (stayed on repeat for well over a month) undun as well. just quality music pushed aside.
deltron 3030
gravediggaz-6 feet deep (i always considered this beast a classic)
common-one day.....(this is neck and neck for my fav com album)
deltron 3030
gravediggaz-6 feet deep (i always considered this beast a classic)
common-one day.....(this is neck and neck for my fav com album)
Non Sequitur
Creep.
Yes, I do. And you can take that Early Morning Stoned Pimp bullshyt with you when you GTFOH.
Microfracture
Real G's move in silence
Youngbloodz- Everybody Know Me
Schoolboy Q- Habits & Contradictions
I don't think people will fully realize how good HnC is unless Black Hippy really blows up. More people need to pay attention to that album. There's not a doubt in my mind that would be labeled a classic if it dropped when rap was more hardcore. It may not be better than Section 80 but it's sure as hell a more enjoyable listen.
Schoolboy Q- Habits & Contradictions
I don't think people will fully realize how good HnC is unless Black Hippy really blows up. More people need to pay attention to that album. There's not a doubt in my mind that would be labeled a classic if it dropped when rap was more hardcore. It may not be better than Section 80 but it's sure as hell a more enjoyable listen.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Yes, I do. And you can take that Early Morning Stoned Pimp bullshyt with you when you GTFOH.
fukk outta here and defy what the man did on a much larger grassroots scale than the clipse did.
the clipse live off of marketing for emo artist and that has sustained their draw.
more than that wack trap rap meets electric circus ass album they made.
the shyt sucked,..now, get over it.
not to mention kid rock in comparison as a cultural bboy in michigan.
far exceeds two wack sellout gangsta rappers with eclectic emo marketing and pr.
which does not help them save face in the genre to fans of that music.
QUEEN LATIFAH : they are wack,...face it!!
art barr
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
JasonSJackson
Jah Sun Ma'at Ra
Phrenology
USSInsiders
Banned
I guess you didn't feel the beats. Listen nikka I listen to music to hear an intriguing story and be entertained. Idgaf if it's Rick Ross or Scarface, if you have a good song, I'm willing to hear it. The Clipse's word play and opposing dynamic is genius. The whole album is the duality of man. It's ghetto hood drug dealing rap with a conscience, something very, very, few artists in that niche every offer.
Of course the shyt ain't gonna be as lyrical as a the We got it for cheap tapes, many of those songs structurally were trash though. HHNF IS a classic. I notice it's only dumb nikkas that don't get/feel that album or any of the Clipse's music for that matter. I'm not saying you're dumb or stupid, but I would venture to say you missed the point of the album completely.
The similes, cadence, delivery-- just everything from Pusha especially was everything you want from a rapper. I don't care if this nikka works at Toys R Us in reality, the nikka had fukking bars upon bars. However, music is a relative thing so if you didn't like it, you didn't like. That's just how I feel about HHNF. It's probably the only hip hop album besides Reasonable Doubt or a Kanye album that I can go through and listen to everything without skipping. Hello New World is one of my favorite hip hop tracks of all time though.
Im still waiting for the dude ziggy to explain how an album that sold far over 2 million, is nas biggest album and was a direct copy of what Rae, az, ghost, jay, big l, mobb deep all the way back to Kool G Rap were doing... Is "overlooked" and "ahead of its time"
