Why do people gas Ridin Dirty as UGK's magnum opus?

[murksiderock]

Because not only is it the most beautiful, cohesive, timeless project in their catalogue, it’s also one of the most beautiful, cohesive, timeless projects in all of hip hop.

It’s where they combined everything they’d learned from previous albums and EP’s to perfection. None of there other albums are as balanced or perfect, from front to back.

Supertight would be the closest, but like “Too hard to Swallow” , it’s just a collection of their hardest, recent efforts just put together. Nothing outside of “Ridin Dirty” had as much depth, color, introspection, or harmony. It was the perfect marriage of effort and artistry.

Where Supertight and Too Hard were fun to listen to, Ridin Dirty played like a movie. It never got old. Through and through classic. Musically, lyrically, and thematically, It will always be up there with the rest of the other greats.

UGK is also my favorites behind Kast.

Ridin Dirty is their best album but if somone puts Super Tight over Ridin Dirty I won't disagree

Too Hard To Swallow is like their 5th/6th best album. Dirty Money is underrated and their double CD a classic

Too Hard To Swallow suffers cause of all the changes by Jive

Ridin Dirty
Super Tight
Underground Kingz
Dirty Money
UGK 4 Life
Too Hard To Swallow

Mfs always gotta be on that hipster "...well actually their older material is far superior"

Ain't no problem preferring Super Tight to Ridin Dirty but just don't play ignorant on why one is more popular than the other.

Super Tight is cohesive though, so I don't understand the criticism that it isn't. Too Hard To Swallow is choppy sure, but not Super Tight...

The stories they were telling on Super Tight was picturesque as anything they've ever done. Ridn Dirty is dope but I've been listening to UGK for years and I've never thought Ridin Dirty was better...

Too Hard To Swallow, I think was an outstanding intro album for how raw it was, but I may be blinded by my personal fandom for that drop...

 

[Zero]

Super Tight is their best work

 

[987654321]

Riding’ Dirty was their style and sound polished and perfected…i know part of it for me is age bias, there’s an almost iron clad divide around ‘95-‘96 where stuff sounds “old school” to my ear before and everything after is modern rap….even the shyt I absolutely love before that divide (Super Tight and Hard to Swallow along with a bunch of shyt like SPCFM, the Chronic, Doggystyle, RTD, Illmatic, first two Quik albums, Creepin on a Come Up etc) I enjoy with almost a sense of novelty…it’s the shyt my uncle and other OGs played…almost without exception I prefer that Ridin’ Dirty, ATLiens, IWW, Life After Death, E. 1999, etc class of albums

I have Underground Kingz as their second best project too

Underground felt so much like supertight on steroids, sprinkled with a little Ridin dirty and Dirty money top

 

[Mastamimd]

Supertight is my personal favorite, Ridin Dirty is the best. They have a phenomenal discography too.

 

[Mastamimd]

And it's them, Kast, and Eightball and MJG. Whatever order.

 

[CoryMack]

Super Tight was always my favorite.

 

[Ohene]

the screw versions of super tight/too hard to swallow are better than the ogs

im taking ridin dirty

 

[dizzy4111]

Ridin' Dirty is cinema

 

[GeeEffKay]

I always preferred Super Tight a bit more but both are great of course

 

[Tribal Outkast]

The simple answer is they were on top of their game lyrically and the music was more polished. I love that rough style production from back then but Ridin Dirty was their first “big” album. That’s when UGK became UGK.

 

[No Hook]

Ridin Dirty is lyrically superior than any other UGK album. Not by a huge margin though

I can play Ridin Dirty front to back with no skips. I can't do that with Too Hard to Swallow and Super Tight even though I l fukk with several songs on those albums

 

[Monoblock]

When Too Hard To Swallow and Super Tight are both greater works of art?

Also, here's my annual reminder to the board that UGK is second to only Kast in All-Time duos...

Both of those are great but Bun got into his bag on Ridin Dirty and the production was just better and they perfected their identity. They were more introspective on Ridin Dirty and the songs are just flat out legendary. Not knocking either album (I own all of them on vinyl and CD) but RD is their best album IMO.

 

[Mac Ten]

That album obviously had a impact on certain rappers...

-Jay-Z brought multiple copies at one point

- A lot of rappers be quoting the song "Murder" a lot.

If u check out the backstories during the making of the album, you'll have a newfound appreciation for Ridin Dirty.

Smoke D recorded the skits from prison plus they were trying to make a screwed and chopped version of thealbum before it became a thing later.


David Banner was the first to get a certification for a chopped and screwed album.

 

[Mac Ten]

Supertight is my personal favorite, Ridin Dirty is the best. They have a phenomenal discography too.

That album is slept on...

I wish Pimp was here so they can make videos to most of these songs from the album.

I left it wet needs a video.


Protect and Serve could have been a tribute to Big Floyd.

 

[WIA20XX]

If you wasn't with em during The Southern Way, was you really down?