2. "Any Death Row classic" In response to Reply # 0
Sorry, but at the time they came out, I had an east coast bias and hated all of it. And now I'm too old to re access the records because I don't want to spend my time listening to (mental) teenagers rap about being miserable human beings.
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LAbeathustla Member since Jan 24th 2004 33858 posts
Tue Aug-06-13 08:09 PM
10. "this whole shit is just wrong as shit!!!" In response to Reply # 2
>Sorry, but at the time they came out, I had an east coast >bias and hated all of it. And now I'm too old to re access the >records because I don't want to spend my time listening to >(mental) teenagers rap about being miserable human beings.
42. "Endtroducing bro? lets take this outside" In response to Reply # 4
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16. "Agreed It's Not Even In My Radar For Being A Good Album" In response to Reply # 5 Tue Aug-06-13 10:58 PM by Dj Joey Joe
"Chronic" is basically decent at it's best, yeah everyone praised it and got on the bandwagon but not me, I ignored it (except for when J.Durpi & K.K. did their "Bomb" which was better) and couldn't wait for the G-Funk sound to die off.
I think the fact that I heard almost every Parliament & Funkadelic album growing up around one of my uncles, that I was wore out from every hearing those groups music even when being sampled.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
9. "Well, I came in here to say this but..." In response to Reply # 7
I've very recently come around to appreciating it way more. I still don't think it's a top tier classic a la Chronic or Illmatic but I find that it's Jay's most cohesive-sounding effort as far as the production and theme and sound are concerned. Lyrically he was really solid too even if I consider him a B-level MC compared to the other greats.
12. "RE: reasonable doubt" In response to Reply # 7
>Yes!
To be honest, I have tried to like it but, besides "Brooklyn's Finest", every song is marred by wack R&B choruses. Start the hate, but I'm not a Jay Z fan. Sorry.
17. "only on okp is this true" In response to Reply # 13
------------------------- Floyd Mayweather should be taking fights up to 157 or 160 pounds...His frame can hold the weight..it's not even a lot of weight....Go to the gym and lift weights man..lol.-- Warren Coolidge
other than shitting on pac, this album does nothing for me. drab dark beats that go nowhere made during a bad drug binge by Hav set the stage for an extremely mediocre album praised by many
------------------------- Floyd Mayweather should be taking fights up to 157 or 160 pounds...His frame can hold the weight..it's not even a lot of weight....Go to the gym and lift weights man..lol.-- Warren Coolidge
27. "of course i liked Wu Tang, i never really liked Rae much at all tho" In response to Reply # 23 Wed Aug-07-13 09:45 AM by philpot
> >>Only Built 4 Cuban Linx >> >>Raekwon is also hugely overrated as a rapper > >are you a Wu fan? i'm just curious. you feel GFK is better? >
i dont like his personality or how complicated he tries to make shit all to ultimately say nothing...at least ghost has heart & another side to his personality, Rae just seems like a self-absorbed bully
Ironman & Liquid Swords are better records to me
now Rza did his thing w/ the chops for the most part, Criminology/Verbal Intercourse & Ice Cream are classics but Raekwon ruins the overall product imo, for me anyway
edit: random aside...listening to Daytona 500 in a dorm room fall 96, Rae says "i say peace to cats who rock mac knowledge knowledges", one of my smoking buddies furrows his brow & says "that's not why the father gave us those lessons..."
________________________________________________________________ whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me
also i didn't say what he says doesn't make sense just that he spends a lot of rhyme energy "coding" things that are actually pretty simple & basic sentiments or ideas (mostly about money or supremacy of some sort over others)
but i know, rap dudes think they're "deep", yeah...
________________________________________________________________ whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me
30. "for the 1000 time no one cares about that shit sounding or" In response to Reply # 29
actually being deep. its suppose to sound good and fly over the track
Rae makes talking about money, women, clothes, and his hood memories sound cool as fuck and his patterns (in particular the internal rhyme schemes) are near unfukwitable
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
47. "this is also a "strike" against Camp Lo & De La. " In response to Reply # 29
how do you feel about them?
>also i didn't say what he says doesn't make sense just that he >spends a lot of rhyme energy "coding" things that are actually >pretty simple & basic sentiments or ideas (mostly about money >or supremacy of some sort over others)
36. "i used to fill the coke machines at this prison in White Post VA (camp 7..." In response to Reply # 35
they had a minimum security unit & like i'd literally walk in there among the inmates to fill up the machines, right?
so i had a kinda old pair of 996s that i wore for work, they weren't too ran over...
so one day im filling up the machines & this cat sidles up to me (normally they did that to ask for a hook up) & he looks me all serious in my face like "where you get them shoes?"
i was like "uh, up in Maryland"
he was like "ok"
only later was i like, yo these shoes must have some hood significance im unaware of...
________________________________________________________________ whenever you did these things to the least of my brothers you did them to me
34. "RE: Bblock : Midnight Marauders :: you : xxx" In response to Reply # 0
>what certified legendary u disputed classic do u think is not >as great as everybody else does? > >I'll start... > >Only Built 4 Cuban Linx > >Raekwon is also hugely overrated as a rapper
Wow, you're buggin' out.
I actually knew exactly what BB was talking about in regards to the 3rd best Tribe album but you just pooped in the best album in the Wu canon,
55. "Well at least you admit there are some strong cuts on there" In response to Reply # 50
I get it that Del's style is a little too "boho" for some folks for an entire album. I just still love that record so much and play it all the time even 20 years later.
56. "RE: any and everything El-P related. starting with Funcrusher Plus." In response to Reply # 45
I've never been fan of El-P as a rapper. As a producer he had some stuff that I dug but I have to say these past 2 albums with him and Killer Mike have me going back to see if maybe this time around I'll like some of that Company Flow and other El-P related stuff more.
49. "Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star" In response to Reply # 0 Thu Aug-08-13 09:24 AM by Nick Has a Problem..
Album is solid but not classic like most people here think. There are maybe 5 tracks on that album that i still listen to. Mos BOBS and RF's Train of Thought are better albums IMO.
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i listened to it when it first came out after being a Soulquarian stan back in the late 90's / early 00's and it just either went over my head or I just didn't like the album.
i'm kind of ashamed to name this here, given how influential the owner of the site was in making this album, but Voodoo just didn't hit me like it seemed to hit others.
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