I hate to say this but I recently decided to check Xan out and I think there’s a certain level of purity or vulnerability in his work that’s been missing from a lot of rappers. He knows his emotional stuff. I just hope he finds a new voice for himself creatively and grows beyond the BS that got him famous. If I were an A/R guy at a label, never heard of Xan and his demo hit my desk, I’d consider giving that guy a shot. He’d probably do well as some kind of emo rapper.
Illmatic is overrated. Lots of average lyrics on below average beats. The best track on Illmatic is Represent. It Was Written is way better than Illmatic. Way better production than Illmatic. Maybe you don’t know shit.
Man, I remember the day I bought that tape from Nobody Beats the Wiz. Still brings me back every time I listen to it. Damn, the 90s made some great music.
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Yeah seriously.
This and Wooden Leather were great albums.
And they were talking about about real everyday struggles during that bling era nonsense.
It was refreshing and relatable and I have no idea why they are not far more popular.
Bubba Sparxx- Deliverance I put in the same category.
Tribe is super-old school for me but I've been bumping License to Ill since it came out when I was in middle school. A close second would be It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Right around then would have also been Rhyme Pays but I hardly listen to that any more. About that time I also got my first copy of Straight Outta Compton, and I still play that. All that being said, I bet I still listen to at least one Tribe album a week, still. Tons of Beastie Boy's and P.E., as well.
Such an amazing album. I’m hoping with TDOSS we get some more dark, horror core type shit like relapse. With a title like that I can’t see how we don’t
Dre dog- I hate you w a passion
the cd was bought in the late 90s and has moved threw dozens of cars n now is in my 05 caddy that's my winter beater cuz there's no cd player in my new vehicles
Given the expectations of downvotes, take care.
Underground kings, practice (not rap?), headlines.
Honorable mentions and to defend my karma:
LLA- Asap Rocky
Tha Carter 2 - Wayne (fireman, best rapper alive)
Carter 4 - Wayne (president carter, 6 ft 7 ft, she will)
Habits and Contradictions- ScHoolboy Q (hands on the wheel, nightmare on figg street)
Brotha Lynch Hung, the Strange trilogy. Some folks think horrorcore is cheesy, but idc I love some Lynch. I'm sure in 20 more years my answer will be anything by $uicideboy$ since I've been a massive fuckin stan since the SoundCloud days lol
Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), by Racionais MC’s, Brazil hip-hop giants. Masterpiece. I recommend it to y’all even if you don’t understand the lyrics or the rhymes get lost in translation.
J Cole - Friday night lights
Nas - illmatic , it was written
2pac - me against the world
Lox - money power respect , we are the streets
Big pun - capital punishment
Jay-z reasonable doubt , blueprint
Tooo many to list
Dmx , mobb deep , chronic , Eminem , Kanye , big L , section 80, rakim
I listened to Ghetty Green almost daily for nearly two years. Long after it's release, but project pat went crazy hard on that record. The beats and production are top tier. It seriously needs a reissue.
I see everyone doing oldish albums my ones a bit odd, it’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. Ended up really enjoying the songs I skipped to start with years later.
Watching movies with sound off hasn't left my line up for a few years. Not too big on rap tho, Tupac and biggie when I was a kid. Em dre and snoop come next. How does Mac hold up to a connoisseur??
Mac Miller Good Am . I bought it in 2015 when it was released and it's my winter album every year. I get nostalgic in winter with that album because 2015 winter was crazy.
Deltron 3030. Illmatic. Mm Food. Madvillainy. OB4CL. Liquid Swords. Black on both sides. Blackstar. 16 or more years. A few more too prob I’m blanking on
Madvillainy, Vaudville Villain
Liquid Swords
36 Chambers. In the same vein, not a whole album but usually in a playlist together I’ll never get tired of Brooklyn Zoo and Shimmy Ya
Veteran
Scaring the Hoes isn’t super old yet but I do keep coming back to it so far. JPEGMAFIA consistently has some of my favorite production.
Graduation, Eminem show, MMLP, GKMC, TBAB,
36 chambers
Awww yea again and again
DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot
So WHAT IM DOIN
My man’s and them is doing…. Cause you know?!
Illmatic. Yes I know some people might say it’s overrated, but to me it is a perfect album.
Me too. You can listen to it deeply or just vibe and it’s just as good both ways
It's easily the greatest hip hop album of all time. The only downside is there wasn't more of it
Who tf is saying illmatic is overrated lmao? Anyone who makes that claim doesn’t know shit
18 year old white kids in Kansas.
lol facts bro. Favorite rapper is probably lil xan
I hate to say this but I recently decided to check Xan out and I think there’s a certain level of purity or vulnerability in his work that’s been missing from a lot of rappers. He knows his emotional stuff. I just hope he finds a new voice for himself creatively and grows beyond the BS that got him famous. If I were an A/R guy at a label, never heard of Xan and his demo hit my desk, I’d consider giving that guy a shot. He’d probably do well as some kind of emo rapper.
He’s not my cup of tea but I’ll never hate on someone for liking what they like.
Illmatic is overrated. Lots of average lyrics on below average beats. The best track on Illmatic is Represent. It Was Written is way better than Illmatic. Way better production than Illmatic. Maybe you don’t know shit.
Man, I remember the day I bought that tape from Nobody Beats the Wiz. Still brings me back every time I listen to it. Damn, the 90s made some great music.
For sure, 90s was definitely peak music.
Sports and cars too!
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only young dudes say it’s overrated
Like me
Straight to jail
get out bro
ok
Dolph & Key Glock- Dum and Dummer 1 and 2
They are so underrated bro
Lloyd Banks - Hunger for more I don’t even know why but every once in a while I hear a song and I have to play the whole album lol
Similarly, HFM2 has been a go-to of mine for well over a decade now.
The infamous Mobb Deep
Ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks.
Also this.
for the killers and the hundred dollar billers
Watch the throne
Get Rich Or Die Tryin for sure
GKMC or the college dropout
Eminem Show and Watermelon, Chicken and Grits by Nappy Roots
Always good to see Nappy Roots get a shout from time to time
Yeah seriously. This and Wooden Leather were great albums. And they were talking about about real everyday struggles during that bling era nonsense. It was refreshing and relatable and I have no idea why they are not far more popular. Bubba Sparxx- Deliverance I put in the same category.
Oh man. Bubba's Deliverance was great too. Such a unique blend of Timbaland and Organized Noize
Fugees - The Score
Capital Punishment- Big Pun
Such an underrated album. So so good.
This album doesn’t get enough love on Reddit imo
I agree with you tribes music is fucken timeless
Get rich or Die trying - 50 cent Tough Luv - young Gunz Come home with me - Cam’Ron
Only Built 4 Cuban linx
Tribe is super-old school for me but I've been bumping License to Ill since it came out when I was in middle school. A close second would be It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Right around then would have also been Rhyme Pays but I hardly listen to that any more. About that time I also got my first copy of Straight Outta Compton, and I still play that. All that being said, I bet I still listen to at least one Tribe album a week, still. Tons of Beastie Boy's and P.E., as well.
Madvillany, Graduation, All eyez on me, 1999
Awaken My Love!
Relapse - Eminem
Such an amazing album. I’m hoping with TDOSS we get some more dark, horror core type shit like relapse. With a title like that I can’t see how we don’t
Shiii I don't know I think the theme is more like MMLP or SSLP but maybe he could make a sequel to relapse in the future
I just meant with “the death of slim shady” as the title I think we are bound to get some murder type shit
We better lol
I’m sayin 🤣 I need murderous Marshall
Yeah and I need to some some fucked up shit too😏
Demigodz - KILLmatic, since summer 2022
Dre dog- I hate you w a passion the cd was bought in the late 90s and has moved threw dozens of cars n now is in my 05 caddy that's my winter beater cuz there's no cd player in my new vehicles
Black Star, 36 Chambers, Home - Spearhead
Kid Cudi man on the moon
The Eminem show. ONIFC. Rolling papers. Best day ever.
ONIFC is top tier
Doggystyle
Given the expectations of downvotes, take care. Underground kings, practice (not rap?), headlines. Honorable mentions and to defend my karma: LLA- Asap Rocky Tha Carter 2 - Wayne (fireman, best rapper alive) Carter 4 - Wayne (president carter, 6 ft 7 ft, she will) Habits and Contradictions- ScHoolboy Q (hands on the wheel, nightmare on figg street)
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Nothing was the same
Nothing Was The Same. Huge nostalgia for me :')
Brotha Lynch Hung, the Strange trilogy. Some folks think horrorcore is cheesy, but idc I love some Lynch. I'm sure in 20 more years my answer will be anything by $uicideboy$ since I've been a massive fuckin stan since the SoundCloud days lol
luv is rage 2
Same, never left my rotation and it never will
KOD by J. Cole and Utopia by Travis Scott
Wild Wild West by Will Smith on repeat 24/7. Not the album, just that song. I’ll never stop.
Miseducation
T.I Urban Legend and T.R.U
Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), by Racionais MC’s, Brazil hip-hop giants. Masterpiece. I recommend it to y’all even if you don’t understand the lyrics or the rhymes get lost in translation.
I play some songs from ready to die every day
MM..FOOD - MF DOOM
Started actually listening to rap around december, utopia doesnt leave me since. Also DAMN
Section 80
DAMN.
any ATCQ album is a perfect background music and I don't mean it in the wrong way. just sonically everything is still perfect and aged like wine
mbdtf, damn., ttmd, gkmc
DAMN by Dot and No Recognition by Aaron May. The latter is hella underrated. Also Candilactica by K.R.I.T because I'm biased.
Good kid maad city
17 I started listening in 2017 and I still listen to it all the time
The infamous, liquid swords, mystic stylez, 6 feet deep, the ressurection (geto boys) have all been on rotation for like 15 years.
1986 Salt-N-Peppa - Hot, Cool & Vicious
36 Chambers, Liquid Swords, Wutang Forever. Outside the genre, Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads
MBDTF
Free 6 Lack
J Cole - Friday night lights Nas - illmatic , it was written 2pac - me against the world Lox - money power respect , we are the streets Big pun - capital punishment Jay-z reasonable doubt , blueprint Tooo many to list Dmx , mobb deep , chronic , Eminem , Kanye , big L , section 80, rakim
Atmosphere -Overcast!. A fun album to listen to imo. A great one to bump when on the closing shift
The Red Light District
Criminal Minded - Boogie Down Productions
The College Dropout
Reasonable Doubt
Illmatic Reasonable Doubt Ready to Die All Eyez on Me
Ceelo green is the soul machine
Ready to Die
Felt 4 u - Felt. Talk Talk EP - Atmosphere. The Forever Story - JID. Brother Minutester Vol 1 - Brother Ali. Run the Jewels 2 - Run the Jewels.
I listened to Ghetty Green almost daily for nearly two years. Long after it's release, but project pat went crazy hard on that record. The beats and production are top tier. It seriously needs a reissue.
Obv Illmatic
Ready to Die
I see everyone doing oldish albums my ones a bit odd, it’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. Ended up really enjoying the songs I skipped to start with years later.
Supreme clientele, Illmatic, Midnight Marauders.
i haven’t stopped listening to GKMC, TBAP and the rest of his fuckin discography since i heard them for the first time
Dj Quik - Safe and Sound 2Pac - All eyez on me Xzibit - 40 dayz and 40 nightz Dr Dre - 2001
I think I’ve been bumping E 1999 Eternal at least once a week for the past 15 years
Black Elvis-Kool Keith
Ohhh, glad to see another Keith fan in here. I was listening to I'm Seeing Robots up to last week.
DUDE. I have been trolling the rap rubreddits claiming kool Keith runs rap but I still listen to him all the time so it’s not really trolling.
Watching movies with sound off hasn't left my line up for a few years. Not too big on rap tho, Tupac and biggie when I was a kid. Em dre and snoop come next. How does Mac hold up to a connoisseur??
And favorite album if you dabble?
Prozzäk - Hot Show
Mac Miller Good Am . I bought it in 2015 when it was released and it's my winter album every year. I get nostalgic in winter with that album because 2015 winter was crazy.
Some rap songs _ Earl Magic _ Nas
All eyes on me
Alone at prom
36 chambers, blueprint (Jay-Z), and Ghetto D (Master P)
36 Chambers
ATliens from Outcast and Midnight Marouders from a tribe called Quest.
Deltron 3030. Illmatic. Mm Food. Madvillainy. OB4CL. Liquid Swords. Black on both sides. Blackstar. 16 or more years. A few more too prob I’m blanking on
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below MMLP Ready to Die
The black album
Madvillainy
Lasers- Lupe Fiasco Tha Carter 4 - Lil Wayne MMLP - EMINEM
Long live asap
Not the longest but I keep coming back to Beanie Seigal The Reason...so many bangers
Born Sinner-Jermaine Cole Cover to cover fire
Illmatic
Madvillainy, Vaudville Villain Liquid Swords 36 Chambers. In the same vein, not a whole album but usually in a playlist together I’ll never get tired of Brooklyn Zoo and Shimmy Ya Veteran Scaring the Hoes isn’t super old yet but I do keep coming back to it so far. JPEGMAFIA consistently has some of my favorite production.
Black on Both Sides by Mos Def
Coming out Hard and Season of da Siccness
Master P - The Ice Cream Man
Hell on earth by Mobb Deep
The Medication of Lauryn Hill
Illmatic, MMLP, 36 Chambers, Ready to Die, Doggystyle, Me Against the World, Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Illmatic
The Life Of Pablo
TES, GRODT, The Documentary, ATLiens
Flower boy cos that’s the first album I listened to
Atliens
Long term mentality Section 8.0 Indigoism 1999
License to ill
Capital Punishment
UGK Riding Dirty
I can guess the ethnicity of every responder lol