Uptown Saturday Night was the best produced Hip Hop album of 97'

[I love Latina women]

been listening back to a lot of albums from 97' and that was a bad year for hip hop

a lot of shyt didn't aged well


i put that Camp Lo album on this past weekend while i was on the road traveling for hours and it hit me that Uptown Saturday Night Live was the best produced album of 97'


the production on that album has aged gracefully

time has been kind to that album.

it's even better than i gave it credit for a few years ago when i started going back and listening to it again after so much time had passed since the 90's

 

[CHAIN]

I agree.
This is not a hot take, even though '97 wasn't as bad as you remembered...at all.

Wu-Tang Forever, Life After Death, When Disaster Strikes, The War Report, Ghetto Millionaire, The Pick, The Sickle and The Shovel (Gravediggaz) and let's not shyt on Missy's debut.

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

97 was an amazing year for hiphop/music

street gospel
life after death
baduizm
velvet rope
share my world
gridlockd soundtrack
vol.1
wu tang forever
war report
no way out
warren g. Sophomore
mack 10 sophomore
1 day itll make sense
mariah carey

that year was

 

[Cool DOC]

been listening back to a lot of albums from 97' and that was a bad year for hip hop

a lot of shyt didn't aged well


i put that Camp Lo album on this past weekend while i was on the road traveling for hours and it hit me that Uptown Saturday Night Live was the best produced album of 97'


the production on that album has aged gracefully

time has been kind to that album.

it's even better than i gave it credit for a few years ago when i started going back and listening to it again after so much time had passed since the 90's

And that Uptown Saturday Night Demo was just as tough.

 

[I love Latina women]

97 was an amazing year for hiphop/music

street gospel
life after death
baduizm
velvet rope
share my world
gridlockd soundtrack
vol.1
wu tang forever
war report
no way out
warren g. Sophomore
mack 10 sophomore
1 day itll make sense
mariah carey

that year was

we talking hip hop, remove those r&b albums from your list, lol.


Street Gospel was nice

Life After Death. i went back and listened to this album Ready To Die back to back and i gotta say, Ready To Die was better. the OG production on Life After Death songs were much better than the retail version that came out.
Gridlock'd sdtrk was outside of a few songs. that album was table scraps of leftovers.

Vol. 1 was a poor man's Life After Death

Wu Forever was cluttered and bloated (and there's stuff on there that i do like, but in retrospect it pales in comparison to Linx, Liquid, 36, and Return)

War Report was nice, but the best songs from Trag and CNN ain't even on there. album could've been way better.

No Way Out *crickets* go back and listen to that album now and tell me with a straight face you can't hear how corny 95% of that album sounds now.

Warren G's Take A Look Over Your Shoulder album? NO! lol. even in real time i can remember how horrible that album was. the singles and the album cuts were booty. Nah man.

Mack 10's Based On A True Story *slowly starts laughing*. nah man.

Com's One Day It'll All Make Sense was top tier. but for as nice as that was, even that album ain't fukking with the PRODUCTION on Camp Lo's shyt.


go back and listen to all of those albums and then listen to Camp Lo's album, the production on Uptown Saturday Night wins.

 

[Monoblock]

It was for me. One of the best produced albums of all time IMO.

 

[JustCKing]

Twista- Adrenaline Rush
This album could drop now and not sound out of place. Very underrated. This one might get more love now than it did in 1997 if it came out now. "Emotions", "Get It Wet" and the title track would do damage.

Missy Elliott- Supa Dupa Fly
Another album that wouldn't sound out of place now.

 

[Newark88]

97 is a year that sometimes get scrutinized because that was the height of the shiny suit era and everyone jocking the Bad Boy sound. But a lot of great quality music dropped that year.

 

[African Peasant]

I agree.
This is not a hot take, even though '97 wasn't as bad as you remembered...at all.

Wu-Tang Forever, Life After Death, When Disaster Strikes, The War Report, Ghetto Millionaire, The Pick, The Sickle and The Shovel (Gravediggaz) and let's not shyt on Missy's debut.

97 was an amazing year for hiphop/music

street gospel
life after death
baduizm
velvet rope
share my world
gridlockd soundtrack
vol.1
wu tang forever
war report
no way out
warren g. Sophomore
mack 10 sophomore
1 day itll make sense
mariah carey

that year was

Compared to 95 and 96, 97 was a setback

 

[TheNig]

been listening back to a lot of albums from 97' and that was a bad year for hip hop

a lot of shyt didn't aged well


i put that Camp Lo album on this past weekend while i was on the road traveling for hours and it hit me that Uptown Saturday Night Live was the best produced album of 97'


the production on that album has aged gracefully

time has been kind to that album.

it's even better than i gave it credit for a few years ago when i started going back and listening to it again after so much time had passed since the 90's

I'm tryna think and you might be right. Beat-wise, it ain't no skips. Too bad I'm not smart enough to understand what the fukk them nikkas was talking about half the time.

 

[WIA20XX]

Definitely the most cohesive, but I didn't really like this album at all. My boys on the other hand, loved this record.

I personally see 97 as the end of the golden era. 95 was the peak, 96 was good, but 97 was the changing of the era.

What was in the running at the time

1997 in hip-hop - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I'd give mentions to

• Missy Elliot - Sock it 2 Me, The Rain
• Slum Village - Dilla fans won't allow anyone to rest without them talking about this album.
• Company Flow - an underground "classic"
• Biggie - Hypnotize, Kick in the Door, I got a Story to Tell, Ten Crack Commandments
• Puffy - lots of hits
• Royal Flush - Moving on Ya Weak Production
• Common Sense - a few joints on that
• Beatnuts - Off the Books

I'd put Puffy's No Way Out as the best produced lp of that era, with Life After Death as being the better hip hop record.
For underground/not as popular stuff - Co Flow for me.

For the South - hmm

"I always feel like"



But honestly...

Tru - Tru 2 Da Game - for "No Limit Soldier"


^ If you was in the clubs when this dropped - made you feel like The Incredible Hulk mixed with Wolverine mixed with the Tasmanian Devil.

 

[I love Latina women]

It was for me. One of the best produced albums of all time IMO.

I agree

Compared to 95 and 96, 97 was a setback

Exactly

 

[I love Latina women]

I'm tryna think and you might be right. Beat-wise, it ain't no skips. Too bad I'm not smart enough to understand what the fukk them nikkas was talking about half the time.

You see/hear it too

Yeah, I’ll be honest, I’d be good with just an instrumental version of this album.

Coolie High is one of the greatest beats ever made

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Shout out to Ski Beatz for producing this classic.

He from the crib

 

[I love Latina women]

Did Camp Lo release an instrumental version of Uptown Saturday Night or am I tripping?