The jury's still out on my favorite album (it's like a four-way tie right now, honestly), so I want y'all to convince me.
Why so dope? Why this album? Don't just name a favorite song, either. Give me some good reasons. Just curious.
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Posts: 3,255Posted 16 years ago #So, it seems like a LOT of you on the forums like "Question" the best out of all the P albums. At this point, I'd even venture to call it the "fan favorite."
The jury's still out on my favorite album (it's like a four-way tie right now, honestly), so I want y'all to convince me.
Why so dope? Why this album? Don't just name a favorite song, either. Give me some good reasons. Just curious. -
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Posts: 1,137Posted 16 years ago #This is me gettin' all literary, but I feel like Question is a genuine story. The album's lyrical content is just so personal, so varying, so human, that it's almost like these guys are just my homies telling me about their day.
It's a long one, so for the music snobs here that's good because that's more time to soak in what's going on, analyze etc. Also that means it's more of a challenge to get through (not to mention that it's one of the P's most lo-fi records compared to everything else). There's a ton of variation and complexity the styles of the beats and overall production so it's really never boring.
The sound is just totally raw too. Not in the sense of grimy or unquantized (hello Madlib). It's organic and the sh!t just grooves hella natural and there aren't any keys or drum packs or anything like that, it's just more real.
Yeah, anyways, that's just my two long winded cents. -
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Posts: 594Posted 16 years ago #i think the allure of Question is all the dope, definitely unique beats... at least for me. the songs are jams one after the other (although i admit i didnt like sterns to western at first) and its tied together nicely (long, mellow songs at the end: "The Cat", "We'll Be There") and pumpin kick- you-in-your-kidney songs in the beginning: "Crazy Live", "Youth Explosion"); and no filler, every song on Q was my favorite P song at one point or another. do you know what i am saying? -
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Posts: 594Posted 16 years ago #but for sentimental reasons, or stay tuned... will always be my favorite -
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Posts: 1,528Posted 16 years ago #It goes beyond the fact of QFZ being an undeniably dope album. Just like trenchmc said, it sounds like these are your homeboys just telling you about what went down last week while you were away on vacation or something. It's just a fun and enjoyable listen from beginning to end.
For me, it was the soundtrack to my sophomore/junior year in college. I walked to class with it, studied to it, had video game tournaments in my dorm to it, rode the train/bus home on the weekends to it, etc.
When something becomes or became a part of your life, it's difficult to explain why because it just is. That's why a lot of us gravitate to it the most I guess. Depending on the day of the week, I hold OST in a higher regard for the same reasons of it having its place in my life. -
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Posts: 1,137Posted 16 years ago #esomedina said:
For me, it was the soundtrack to my sophomore/junior year in college. I walked to class with it, studied to it, had video game tournaments in my dorm to it, rode the train/bus home on the weekends to it, etc.
Another reason why this album is set apart from the rest. This past spring/summer I was bumpin' the album non stop. -
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Posts: 59Posted 16 years ago #williamhmacy said: but for sentimental reasons, or stay tuned... will always be my favorite
Word. Question will without a doubt, always be my favorite album for sentimental reasons. Not to take away from how dope the album really is though. It does have a raw catch. The long hours in the basement are very well displayed, you can just feel it.
As far as the best album goes, OST IMO. Wooten. nuff said
Honestly though, the P has been the soundtrack to my life. Since I was 17, diggin through Workmans in Melrose and got Next Step with the beedee in it, (you probably have no clue what Im talkin about) to now. A grown ass man with a wife and 2 kids. And I can honestly say I roll with nothin but 90's rap/hiphop/r&b and that good ol' funk. Thanks to the P, I will never be blinded by this new bullshizzle. Sorry, just got carried away. No pun intended -
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Posts: 362Posted 16 years ago #I know the original post said not to single one song out, but how can you not with "Youth Explosion." At least I can't.
For me, this song is straight raw and I love all the aspects of it. First and foremost, Thes straight up kills it with his verse; I'd put it up against any other Thes verse on a P track. Mike's verse isn't bad, but I think he dominates this song with the scratching (almost as bad ass as The Double K Song). The samples, drums, and loops are on point; another hip-hop artist uses a a different sample from one of the same songs... but I think their song sucks. Even the intro and fade are money.
The two times I have been to a P show they haven't performed it... I'm not sure if they ever do it live anymore. At the Atlanta show recently the opening act introduced the P by covering it... Thes was blown away. I saw a YouTube video of an in-store where it was done... maybe it was done at the El Rey show? You can't leave a P show disappointed.... but some day I'll see them bust it live... maybe Jappy Jap, too. -
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Posts: 3,255Posted 16 years ago #Cool. Thank you. I think that at least answers my questions. If I'd been in my hip-hop phase a little earlier in life, I would've definitely peeped this album sooner than I did, but other than the "I grew up with it", I can appreciate and agree with everything y'all said. So many tunes on here are instant classics. Each track on the album does get doper and doper. I straight OD on it.
Even so, I'm still at a loss to pick my favorite album. I know it's not Next Step or American Men Vol 1 (although myself and the iPod give 'em a lot of love), but Question, OST, ...Or Stay Tuned, Stepfather, Fun DMC, and Carried Away are all so fresh. I get f*cked up in the head trying to piece it:
"Well, Question has this consistency, it's on FIRE and sh!t... but 'The Outrage'? 'The Dig'? Man, it's gotta be OST... Oh sh!t, 'Plunken Em's playing on my iPod, dude, can't WAIT 'til 'Yo' comes on... Nah, f*** it, Stay Tuned is the best... but I don't know, I was blasting 'The Brownout' the other day, and that dude in the next car asked me what I was listening to, Stepfather's got it, you know what I'm saying? ... ... ... Cool, I just rolled up to the party. sh!t, I better bring in 'Fun DMC' to liven it up, 'cause you know 'Anotha' (BBQ)' always gets the homies singin... but that one fool EJ is trippin on 'Down in LA', gotta bring that too..."
It'll never end; the battle rages on. F*ck you, Thes. F*ck you, Double. Y'all done f*cked my head up. -
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Posts: 537Posted 16 years ago #SactownConnection said: Cool. Thank you. I think that at least answers my questions. If I'd been in my hip-hop phase a little earlier in life, I would've definitely peeped this album sooner than I did, but other than the "I grew up with it", I can appreciate and agree with everything y'all said. So many tunes on here are instant classics. Each track on the album does get doper and doper. I straight OD on it.
Even so, I'm still at a loss to pick my favorite album. I know it's not Next Step or American Men Vol 1 (although myself and the iPod give 'em a lot of love), but Question, OST, ...Or Stay Tuned, Stepfather, Fun DMC, and Carried Away are all so fresh. I get f*cked up in the head trying to piece it:
"Well, Question has this consistency, it's on FIRE and sh!t... but 'The Outrage'? 'The Dig'? Man, it's gotta be OST... Oh sh!t, 'Plunken Em's playing on my iPod, dude, can't WAIT 'til 'Yo' comes on... Nah, f*** it, Stay Tuned is the best... but I don't know, I was blasting 'The Brownout' the other day, and that dude in the next car asked me what I was listening to, Stepfather's got it, you know what I'm saying? ... ... ... Cool, I just rolled up to the party. sh!t, I better bring in 'Fun DMC' to liven it up, 'cause you know 'Anotha' (BBQ)' always gets the homies singin... but that one fool EJ is trippin on 'Down in LA', gotta bring that too..."
It'll never end; the battle rages on. F*ck you, Thes. F*ck you, Double. Y'all done f*cked my head up.
WORD sactown. The P f%cks up my head everytime they come up on my playlist.
Long live the P. And you sactown. You da sh!t. -
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Posts: 178Posted 16 years ago #This is a great question. Man it is so hard to explain why you like one piece of music over the other but someone mentioned the organic quality of the sound. I agree, this is just simple unpretentious vibe music that has such a deep musical layer to it while being completely simple at the same time that you have got to love it. I can't ever listen to E business without being put in a trance, same goes with that Code Check song and a number of other tracks on the album. Fact is, even when you listen to the last track and skip to the end where Thes & Double are just shouting out the homies, that is still one of the nicest beats you'll ever hear.
By the same note, I'm so glad that not every album sounds like Questions. The P completely pumped the pace up and the energy level on OST on songs like The Outrage, Joyride and of course Hang Lose while still keeping that relaxed mellow vibe on Kidd Drunkadelic and Keeping it Live and of course Breakdown.
When you want to relax and have a high stress level though their is no album to me quite like Questions. Maybe that's why it's my favorite.
On a random note. Between Carried Away, The Mike & Chris Show (highly underrated) On & On, Breakdown, and even Play It Again (love the beat and gregorian chant blend that mix perfectly together at the end, has anyone else noticed how strong the P ends their albums? It's just amazing. -
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Posts: 3,255Posted 16 years ago #Lock N Load said: On a random note. Between Carried Away, The Mike & Chris Show (highly underrated) On & On, Breakdown, and even Play It Again (love the beat and gregorian chant blend that mix perfectly together at the end, has anyone else noticed how strong the P ends their albums? It's just amazing.
Forgot "Outrun," yo, and that song definitely goes to support your theory, too.
Outrun is one of the best... That Wesley Willis shout-out's too f****in' much! Vultures Ate My Dead Ass Up... Rock over London. Rock on, Chicago! Bar S, It's America's Hot Dog!! -
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Posts: 537Posted 16 years ago #SactownConnection said:
Lock N Load said: On a random note. Between Carried Away, The Mike & Chris Show (highly underrated) On & On, Breakdown, and even Play It Again (love the beat and gregorian chant blend that mix perfectly together at the end, has anyone else noticed how strong the P ends their albums? It's just amazing.
Forgot "Outrun," yo, and that song definitely goes to support your theory, too.
Outrun is one of the best... That Wesley Willis shout-out's too f****in' much! Vultures Ate My Dead Ass Up... Rock over London. Rock on, Chicago! Bar S, It's America's Hot Dog!!
G.E. We bring good things to life. I f*cking lose it every time I hear that.
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