i got yer back on the Blackalicious, too Sac.
Blazing Arrow is one of my 'desert island' albums.
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Posts: 218Posted 15 years ago #Okay...here's the first overrated album, and the reasons why I think its overrated....
Gnarls Barkley - St. ElsewhereThis album is not overrated because of its actual content, but at the sheer audacity of most heads to think this is a "Danger Mouse" album....This entire album was built as an apology for the DangerDoom track "Benzi Box", hands down the worst song on that entire album.
Now I'm probably a bit biased on this argument, being from Atlanta and having a lot of respect for pretty much every member of the old school Dungeon Family projects (P.A., Outkast, Goodie Mob, Sleepy's Theme, etc.), but to listen to this album and give production credit to Dangermouse is a horrid move by whoever assumed so. Go listen to the second Gnarls album; that is a Dangermouse Album....First one? Cee-lo all the way. Compare it to Cee-lo's solo projects and you'll get what I mean...Decent album from Cee-lo, but any real credit Dangermouse gets has a lot to do with a huge apology that was due from that man to Cee-lo Green himself....
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Posts: 218Posted 15 years ago #Regarding this thing....
Kanye - sh!t on you
Jay-Z - sh!t on you
Common - 3 (2 for Electric Circus or whatever that sh!t was)
Pharrell - 1~2
Mos Def - 4
Talib Kweli - 4
Busta Rhymes - 3
Leaders Of The New School - 3
A Tribe Called Quest - 4
Notorious B.I.G. - 2
2pac - 5 (reflecting my side of the argument involving the above mentioned)
Dr. Dre - 3
Snoop Dogg - 3
Eminem - 3~2
Beastie Boys - 3~4 (the live jams from albums 2 through 4 are bangin'...i.e In Sound tracklist)
Ugly Duckling - 3
Gang Starr - 4
Digable Planets - ??
Handsome Boy Modeling School - 3 (first one) ~ 2ish (white people)
Gnarls Barkley - (I just wrote an entire post about this...)
Living Legends - ??
Freestyle Fellowship - ??
Nujabes - 4 (RIP Nuja')
Rage Against The Machine - 5 (That this ended up here is worth its 5)
Afrika Bambaataa - 3~2 (first time is ill, then it starts getting stale)
Flying Lotus - 3~4
Giant Panda - 4
Time Machine - 3
Panacea - 4
Damu the Fudgemonk - 4 1/2
The Beatnuts - 3
Cypress Hill - 4
Big Daddy Kane - 3
Kool Moe Dee - 3~2
LL Cool J - I'd prefer to leave this alone...
Digital Underground - Sex Packets...3
Blackalicious - 4
Lyrics Born - 3ish
DJ Shadow - 5
Supernatural - ??
Biz Markie - 3
Black Eyed Peas - 3 before Fergie, 1.428563 since
Black Sheep - 2 (starts off nice enough, then gets old)
De La Soul - 5
Body Count - ??
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - 3
Krayzie Bone - 4
Wu-Tang Clan - 3
Boogie Down Productions - 3
KRS-One - 2
Brand Nubian - 3~4 (Depending on how 5% I feel that day)
Camp Lo - 3
Casual - ??
J-Live - 5
Too $hort - 2
Tone Loc - 2
Crown City Rockers/Mission - 5 (10 Live)
Cut Chemist - 3
Jungle Brothers - 3~4 (Brain is the gem)
Jurassic 5 - 3
Lootpack - 3
Ice Cube - 3
Ice-T - 2
Das EFX - ??
Public Enemy - 3
Dilated Peoples - 3
DJ Jazzy Jeff - 4
Will Smith - 3 (early) ~ -4 (later)
Doug E Fresh - 2~3
Slick Rick - 3
King Tee - 4
Busy Bee - ??
E-40 - ??
Keak da Sneak - Who?
OutKast - 5
Goodie Mob - 4
Edan - 4 (5 Live)
EPMD - 3
Eric B & Rakim - 3
The Pharcyde - 4
Timbaland - 2
2 Live Crew - 3
Murs - ??
The Fugees - 3
Funky DL - ??
Geto Boys - 3
Grandmaster Flash - 3
Kurtis Blow - 3
Drake - -4
Wiz Khalifa - Who?
Jeru The Damaja - 3
Pete Rock - 5
CL Smooth - 3
Master P - 2
MC Hammer - 1
Vanilla Ice - 1 (and only because of Go Ninja Go)
3rd Bass - ??
MF Doom - 4
Nas - 3
NWA - 2~3
P Diddy - 0
RJD2 - 3
The Roots - 4
Breakestra - 3
Run DMC - 3~2
Schoolly D - 3
Souls Of Mischief - 3
Special Ed - ??
Stetsasonic - ??
Tha Alkaholiks - 3
Three 6 Mafia - 2 -
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Posts: 94Posted 15 years ago #I can't believe so many of y'all are giving Jay Z a 1. Sure he made 37 million dollars last year (seriously, check it out http://www.therichest.org/entertainment/forbes-richest-rappers-2011/ ) and lots of his songs now are super whack, but this is the same dude that did Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint.
How can someone listen to Dead Presidents II and say that that guy isn't dope?
Then again I thought Kayne's first album was great too... Hell, I think the guy makes good music, minus his autotuned sh!t. His ego is annoying as hell though.
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Posts: 218Posted 15 years ago #I've just never honestly gotten into the sound of what Jay-Z drops...I try not to knock heads who like him too much, but he always seemed too big for the britches he was wearing...
I'll try Blueprint again (because you and several others seem so adamant about its importance), but I'm not promising anything....
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Posts: 218Posted 15 years ago #Oh, and a massive typo....
Will Smith - 3 (early) ~ 2 (Later)....Jiggy was whack as whack could get...and it didn't improve from there... -
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Posts: 94Posted 15 years ago #Haha nah man I'm not trying to hate on people who don't like Jay-Z either. it's all love either way
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Posts: 588Posted 15 years ago #
- I'm taking this one personal.Lock N Load said:
If you are giving Jay-z a 1, you don't know hip-hop and I bet both Thes and Dub would agree with me. F that all mainstream rappers are sellouts noise, good hip-hop is good hip hop.
“If you are giving Jay-Z a 1, you don’t know hip-hop.” This is coming from someone who answered “Not sure” to Afrika Bambaataa, Camp Lo, Tone Loc, Cut Chemist, Das EFX, King Tee, Busy Bee, Goodie Mob, Edan, Funky DL, 3rd Bass, RJD2, Breakestra, Schooly D, Special Ed, Stetsasonic, and answered “Don’t know enough” to Grandmaster Flash and Slick Rick.
Not only do you not know hip-hop, you misrepresent hip-hop. People that make statements such as “F that all mainstream rappers are sellouts noise, good hip-hop is good hip-hop” are people who embrace the mainstream’s labeling of hip-hop and not the hip-hop culture’s labeling of hip-hop. There’s a difference. Busta Rhymes used to make a distinction between what he called “business rap” and “hip-hop culture music,” in which the likes of MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Marky Mark, and Puff Daddy would fall under “business rap.” These were usually the products of the labels, detached from the hip-hop culture. The business rappers of today are people like Jay-Z, Kanye, Drake, and others. This distinction is obscured nowadays to people like you who let the media dictate and label what hip-hop music is. Something else that is often forgotten is that music is just one thing that comes from hip-hop culture. Unfortunately, Busta Rhymes ended up leaving hip-hop culture for business rap; that’s a sellout. Someone like a Vanilla Ice wouldn’t be considered a sellout because he wasn’t a part of the culture to begin with. So, you’re idea of “all mainstream rappers being sellouts” is a misunderstanding.
I remember 20 years ago when the hip-hop culture would diss on people like Vanilla Ice, people like you would always rise up and make the same “F that all mainstream rappers are sellouts noise, good hip-hop is good hip-hop” argument. I’m absolutely serious when I say that I used to constantly hear people say that Vanilla Ice was good hip-hop. But where are his fans now? Probably listening to whatever rap pop star is out there now. As for his music, it’s in the bargain-bin going for a nickel an album.
I don’t care if people like whatever music they want to like. Go ahead and like whoever you like. My problem is with the music industry exploiting hip-hop culture by labeling the music they create "hip-hop." Reminds me of how Taco Bell used to advertise their food as “Mexican;” it’s not, stop it.
"...I bet both Thes and Dub would agree with me" - irrelevant.
On another subject, the term “underground;” I don’t like using it. That term came around when the music industry started labeling their business rappers “hip-hop.” So in the rest of the world’s eyes, rap created by the music industry was hip-hop and the music coming from the hip-hop culture became “underground.” This is wrong. In one of the earlier posts someone asks whether underground hip-hop still hates Jay –Z to which I answer with a face-palm.
So go ahead and love Jay-Z, give him a 5 if you want, give him a 10 if you want. But don’t tell us, who are a part of hip-hop culture, that we don’t know hip-hop because we don’t subscribe to your Billboard standards.
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Posts: 3,255Posted 15 years ago #Man, this thread's gettin' heated... allow me to draw an analogy with the bar scene from "Back To School":
He said WHAT about Jay-Z?
Sactown ducks for cover with a beer...
This is what I think of Kanye!
Sactown tryin' to hold a brother back... and drink a beer
Too late!Call me non-supportive if you will (and I hope y'all don't), but I'mma sit this one out for a while... with a beer.
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Posts: 94Posted 15 years ago #holy sh!t sac that was hilarious. how do you come up with this sh!t? all i was going to do was post a line from bad boys 2...
THIS sh!t JUST GOT REAL
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Posts: 3,255Posted 15 years ago #
My office/mancave/study/etc. has all my movies (1,200+) in it, and I'm really good at tossing a movie in, finding a scene, pausing, "print screen"ing the image, reducing it in photoshop, and posting it. Takes me about 3 minutes a pic, so when I saw freshkest's post, I thought of hiding under a table, and BOOM... I thought of that second pic I posted with the guys under the table in the bar brawl scene in "Back To School".eightbitbreaks said:
holy sh!t sac that was hilarious. how do you come up with this sh!t? all i was going to do was post a line from bad boys 2...THIS sh!t JUST GOT REAL
... but i digress... it did just get raw though up in here...
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Posts: 1,528Posted 15 years ago #It would be interesting to sit down and actually look at what people have rated each artist side by side to draw a correlation among ourselves and what the "PUTS fan" average rating for an artist is. For instance, you know people at okayplayer.com would rate neo-soul and avant garde artists highly similar while lowly rating maybe PUTS (not saying they do, just an example). Could we pinpoint what the general consensus of our message board rating would be for any new album coming out? Brand it the PUTS fan coefficient.
It interesting seeing some of these ratings though because it makes you wonder what we truly rate some of the P's albums if we were to equate the P's career to a similar artist.
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Posts: 62Posted 15 years ago #eightbitbreaks said:
I can't believe so many of y'all are giving Jay Z a 1. Sure he made 37 million dollars last year (seriously, check it out http://www.therichest.org/entertainment/forbes-richest-rappers-2011/ ) and lots of his songs now are super whack, but this is the same dude that did Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint.How can someone listen to Dead Presidents II and say that that guy isn't dope?
Then again I thought Kayne's first album was great too... Hell, I think the guy makes good music, minus his autotuned sh!t. His ego is annoying as hell though.
This is why Jay-Z get's a 1:
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Posts: 62Posted 15 years ago #For those of you that don't know who LONS is (Leaders of the New School) They are the group that Busta came from, and were on Scenero with Tribe. Here's a couple of my favorite songs by them to get your whistles wet (this is early 90's stuff)
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Posts: 178Posted 15 years ago #Posted 12 hours ago #
I can't believe so many of y'all are giving Jay Z a 1. Sure he made 37 million dollars last year (seriously, check it out http://www.therichest.org/entertainment/forbes-richest-rappers-2011/ ) and lots of his songs now are super whack, but this is the same dude that did Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint.
How can someone listen to Dead Presidents II and say that that guy isn't dope?
It could be two things.
1. People don't know there hip-hop history. (Very sad)
2. The underground just like mainstream rap fans are filled with a lot of sheep. Being mainstream doesn't automatically qualify you as being wack.But yeah anyone who hasn't heard Jay-Z's first album Reasonable Doubt and recognize it is a classic really doesn't know hip-hop.
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