Raekwon tells his top 10 albums of all time
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seemed more like normal rivalry than a beef
the cac mamba
Veteran
havent thought about this latelyinfamous
cuban linx
ready to die
illmatic
supreme clientele
diplomatic immunity
liquid swords
the chronic
it was written
the realness
Sade Love Deluxe is the greatest album of all time in all of the multiverse.
Rae's list is solid but having three different Wu Albums on there is biased.
Amerikkkas Most Wanted
The Infamous
Midnight Marauders
Dr Dre 2001
are on my list
The Chronic and Illmatic aren't my top 10 but deserve a mention.
Rae's list is solid but having three different Wu Albums on there is biased.
Amerikkkas Most Wanted
The Infamous
Midnight Marauders
Dr Dre 2001
are on my list
The Chronic and Illmatic aren't my top 10 but deserve a mention.
My top 10 has 3 wu/wu member albums. Probably more.
Plankton
All Star
infamous
cuban linx
ready to die
illmatic
supreme clientele
diplomatic immunity
liquid swords
the chronic
it was written
the realness
Not 1 album from the golden 80's. Interesting.
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Veteran
the quality of music's step up from the 80s to the 90s is impossible to ignoreNot 1 album from the golden 80's. Interesting.
dudes like kane and rakim might have been the pioneers, but they didn't make better music in the 80s than dudes were doing in the 90s. imo. at least not to make a top 10 list. they just didnt get the benefits of the advances in production
36 Chambers for sure.
But top 10 albums EVER?
You got MJ with one and a couple of possibles. Then there's James Brown, P Funk, Kool and the Gang, Stevie and all kinds of groundbreaking artists..
I'm partial to Hip Hop, but there's several non Hip Hop albums that deserve consideration.
Plankton
All Star
the quality of music's step up from the 80s to the 90s is impossible to ignore
dudes like kane and rakim might have been the pioneers, but they didn't make better music in the 80s than dudes were doing in the 90s. imo. at least not to make a top 10 list. they just didnt get the benefits of the advances in production
As someone who was there in the 80's, all I can say to your response is that you obviously weren't there.
80's Hip Hop culture itself had a atmosphere that we never saw again once the 80's ended. I love 90's Hip Hop too but the 80's was very special.
That would some serious introspection
Not 1 album from the golden 80's. Interesting.
Let's talk about it.
I loved the first Run DMC albums. Tougher Than Leather didn't do it for me.
Paid In Full blew my mind but seriously.. do I jam Paid in Full whole album? Have I ran through the album straight through after the 80s?
Just name the classic 80s Hip Hop albums that you can play straight through today.
Straight Outta Compton perhaps. But for me theres about 4 songs off of there that I wanna hear right now.
He got Make It Last Forever in his top 10
My favorite R&B album of all time
My favorite R&B album of all time
He needs to get some Taylor Swift up in thereYou cain’t T Swizzle without a spoon
Plankton
All Star
See that's the thing about the 80's. That 808 sound from the mid 80's which got abandoned for samples by the late 80's was a moment. That's why Timbaland was being compared to Mantronix when he first started to make noise in the late 90's because the way Timbo was playing with sounds on that Moog was similar to what Mantronix was doing on those drum machines. For it's time it sounded futuristic yet most people not from that era would say it sounds dated and too old school.
Singles were a driving force in the early/mid 80s and we didnt really start seeing the development of quality front to back Hip Hop albums until the mid 80's going into the late 80's. All those classics we embrace in the 90's came about from the late 80's template.
As for albums where do I start.
Bizs first album
Kanes first album
De Las first album which Rza called a masterpiece
It Takes A Nation
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Princes 2nd album....A Classic from front to back.
Run DMC's Raising Hell was the one.
BDPs first album
Eric B and Rakims 1st and 2nd albums
White Boys was flexing. Beasties first 2 albums and 3rd Bass' first album
And one of the most turning point albums that really defined 80's Hip Hop..... Slick Ricks first album
Slick Ricks first album was a real 'you had to be there' moment, It made sense why Nas would try to recapture that album cover for Stillmatic. Nas was there.
I could name more albums but the ones I'm thinking of might fall in that dated sound category that someone who was there would appreciate more then someone who wasn't so the ones posted are enough and its more then 10
Mind you. The 80's was also the decade where the DJ shined with the rapper. Thats why Rakim, Fresh Prince, KRS, Kool G Rap....all of them had DJ partners along with their names because the 80's was the last decade where the DJ would be a thing too. The DJ being the star along with the rapper died out once the 90's hit. The 90's started to focus more on the producer.
Things that were also popular in 80's hip hop we stopped seeing in the 90's.
Breakdancing
Beatboxing (Tho Rahzel did his thing in the late 90's)
Scratching on records really started to slow down and almost became non existent once the 2000's hit
Hardcore records without cursing
The drug dealer being the bad guy and smoking weed not being so cool on a popular level.
Devil Plisken…CMS
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Thriller
Purple Rain
Love At First Sting
No Jacket Required
Life After Death
Doggystyle
Thug Motivation 101
It Was Written
Don’t Be Cruel
Purple Rain
Love At First Sting
No Jacket Required
Life After Death
Doggystyle
Thug Motivation 101
It Was Written
Don’t Be Cruel