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No 90s Hip Hop Album has Stood The Test of Time Quite Like Mobb Deep’s The Infamous - GOAT Album
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Whips-n-Chains
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They're all time timeless songs, but I've heard them a billion times. Albums with a lot of commercial success tend to have singles that get played out.
Nothing wrong w/ the songs other than me hearing them so many times.
Least played song on Cuban Linx is Ice Cream, for example
Or What's my name from Doggystyle
Rell84shots
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Personally I feel like Midnight Marauders is a better album.
MajesticLion
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Tip’s contributions were essential and without him the album wouldn’t have sounded the way it did, but I don’t think he had much in the way of creative input (outside of the three songs he produced of course). What I mean by creative input, is that I believe (and this is all speculation of course) that Havoc was the one to manipulate all the samples to create the beats. In other words, Hav had the ideas. My understanding is that Tip helped with studio tricks to make the drums hit harder and otherwise to make Hav’s beats sound better. Almost equivalent to mixing the album down.
Also, Tip’s name is nowhere on the Shook Ones Pt 2 vinyl single (which of course predates the release of the album). That doesn’t conclusively establish that he had nothing to do with that song, but it is an indication he didn’t.
I don’t think Tip had anything to do with sample selection on the beats Hav produced.
The ill thing about Hav is that he switched up his style with each album.
The beats on Episodes of a Hustler/Hell on Earth don’t sound like his beats from The Infamous and then the beats on MM don’t sound like the Episodes of a Hustler/Hell on Earth era.
Infamy was another left turn.
There was a thread running through it all and you always felt like you were getting some Mobb shyt (up until Infamy at least), but he kept subtly reinventing himself and changing the game. That’s why he’s the unheralded GOAT producer.
I agree with what you’re saying about Friend of Mine and Respect 100%. I wouldn’t call them filler, but there definitely on a lower level quality wise.
I hear you about the ubiquitous commercial joints getting played out in a way that Shook Ones never will.
That top 5
personally I prefer Dogg Food over Doggystyle and It Was Written over Illmatic
but the Infamous definitely top 5 to me
get these nets
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Glad that OP is such an advocate for your favorite group, but there's at least one glaring inconsistency in the pleas copped about that album.
Making excuses about its record sales compared to the rest of the list. " Bu bu but Loud was small potatoes" doesn't add up when a previously released Loud Records album is on the list. Enter the Wutang
Glad that OP is such an advocate for your favorite group, but there's at least one glaring inconsistency in the pleas copped about that album.
Making excuses about its record sales compared to the rest of the list. " Bu bu but Loud was small potatoes" doesn't add up when a previously released Loud Records album is on the list. Enter the Wutang