Same. That's the only reason why I like MM more, otherwise they are both classics.
Y'all really like Midnight Marauders more than The Low End Theory??
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TheYoungPolitician
Keepin It 3Hunna, Fam
it's MM to me but like someone else said I like BRL more than the debut prolly cause I grew up with it...I had that CD with the hologram album cover
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
This is like when people try to get me to choose between Atliens and aquemini - the third album from both wins, just the intangibles lol, but both are classic
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Tribal Outkast
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Took me years to like the the infamous date rape but I love it now. I agree with everything else you said though. I like every single thing on MM so it wins. This was the Tribe at their best and highest success. This is one of the albums in my lifetime album playlist.
Slim Charles
All Star
As others said MM more melodic with better production. I’m 33 so didn’t listen to them when they dropped but LET I find quite repetitive relative to MM in terms of beats.
Splakavellie504
Superstar
Super close but MM for me
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
There are songs on The Low End Theory that I feel like I don't need to listen to, even though I like all of them. I have to listen to everything on Midnight Marauders.
I also feel like this is the album where Phife became better than Q-Tip.
I also feel like this is the album where Phife became better than Q-Tip.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
The Low End Theory is STILL my favorite album of all-time. So it's obviously my favorite Tribe album, and they're my favorite group.
A lot of people I know who like MM better, heard MM first. And that makes sense. I started with Tribe, as a kid, with People's Instinctive Travels and I liked it, but LET was next-level to me. I've been playing that album religiously since it came out. Tip was using shyt on that album that nobody had ever touched before. Samples that became popular because of that album. And while I love MM to death, it's not as groundbreaking as LET was. It's Tip's favorite Tribe album too. And Dr. Dre's. He said it influenced him for The Chronic. It changed music.
You can't go wrong with either joint, but LET shook Hip Hop up when it dropped. If you were around, you remember how people spoke about it. We never heard anything like that back then. I never lost that feeling, and that's why it's always been my favorite album. Nothing sounds like The Low End Theory.
A lot of people I know who like MM better, heard MM first. And that makes sense. I started with Tribe, as a kid, with People's Instinctive Travels and I liked it, but LET was next-level to me. I've been playing that album religiously since it came out. Tip was using shyt on that album that nobody had ever touched before. Samples that became popular because of that album. And while I love MM to death, it's not as groundbreaking as LET was. It's Tip's favorite Tribe album too. And Dr. Dre's. He said it influenced him for The Chronic. It changed music.
You can't go wrong with either joint, but LET shook Hip Hop up when it dropped. If you were around, you remember how people spoke about it. We never heard anything like that back then. I never lost that feeling, and that's why it's always been my favorite album. Nothing sounds like The Low End Theory.
Low End Theory was revolutionary. It was the album that changed the way hip hop albums were produced. It ushered the jazz-rap era. It introduced the reverb effect sound into hip hop. It make people see Phife as a legit MC that can hold his own. There will NEVER be another Low End Theory. Midnight Mauaders is enjoyable and from a production standpoint is flawless, but it wasn't revolutionary. It wasn't a game changer like Low End Theory was.
BUSINESS AS USUAL
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MM top 5 ever
crazy thing about it, they did it twice. their 1st album changed the way hip hop sounded as a whole and low end theory did it again. can be argued that MM is also a turning point
Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
The discussion is proof that the most influential album isn’t necessarily the best. Low End Theory gave birth to everything that came after. Without that album you don’t get ATLiens, The Score, The Listening...the list is almost endless. The Chronic dropped around the same time and influenced Tip, but Tribe showed how Jazz...America’s greatest art form, fit within Hip Hop’s landscape. Rock had figured it out decades earlier and went into it’s golden period with that knowledge. You can tell me in some way Enta Da Stage, Illmatic, The Infamous, Da Shining and all those great golden era Hip Hop records don’t owe their existence to Low End Theory.
Midnight Marauders on the other hand, is “just” a perfect album. Hip Hop has plenty of them, but its not a standard that artists are still trying to reach subconsciously. Kendrick Lamar when he made Butterfly whether he knew it or not what trying to make Low End Theory. That attempt within itself made him the most respected artist of the last 10 years
Midnight Marauders on the other hand, is “just” a perfect album. Hip Hop has plenty of them, but its not a standard that artists are still trying to reach subconsciously. Kendrick Lamar when he made Butterfly whether he knew it or not what trying to make Low End Theory. That attempt within itself made him the most respected artist of the last 10 years
What makes Low End Theory NOT a "perfect album"? Keeping in mind THAT earned the 5 MICS from The Source.. Not Midnight Marauders. Low End Theory was already viewed at that PERIOD as the perfect rap album. So it's moot to put at "perfect" either one.
