And let's say that it has to be at least 5 years since you first heard the album.

Make note if when you first heard the album was when it was released.

What makes you like this album more now?

What made it "click" for you?

first heard it some time in high school (2006ish)

it went over my head, i liked it but def not as much as now

now its one of my favorite hip hop albums

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And I'm a big El-P fan but I just wasn't on it when it came out and then I never went back to it.

I will one day!

Seriously. Today.

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It Was Written - Copped it when it first dropped. Probably the day of. Really don't feel the "pop" nature of a chunk of it. Didn't like "Affirmative Action" or "Black Girl Lost". Hated "Nas Is Coming." Wasn't feeling the singing on the choruses. Even though I knew all of it was coming, it still all disappointed me. I guess I got turned around by years of getting beaten down by other MCs I liked doing the same thing. I also focused more on the lyrcis, which was usually dope.

In God We Trust - Copped it when it first dropped. Probably the day of.
Even though Sadat had always been my favorite member of the group, I missed Puba's presence. I thought aside from his verse on "Punks Jump Up...", Lord Jamar wasn't that good of an MC at the time. Didn't like how, I don't know, much mean-spirited it seemed in comparison to the previous album. Also probably didn't like that the single version of "Punks Jump Up..." wasn't on it, or even the 12" remix. I probably came around on it when "Everything is Everything" dropped, which is really when I started buying into the Sadat/Jamar configuration of the group, even though they were even more gangsta that time around.

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Checkin' Our Style, Return To Zero:

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it was just okay when it first came out but it has become a favorite when I get in my 90's mood.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

Maybe I could even put it on my list.

I really liked it when it dropped but there were things I didn't like.

I remember not liking the Watch Dem hook, Nas Is Coming as a whole, Suspect was a slacker to me.

And even though those are minor flaws, I can say I enjoy the album more now than back then. Nas put on a rap clinic and I have even more appreciation for it now.

Brand Nubian is a good choice. I was never the biggest fan but I could probably list Foundation as an album I like more now than I did when it dropped. Even though the Busta and Loon songs kill it.

Much more appreciative of the production now. When I got it I was a mainly radio hip hop fan and only cared about the single with Missy. Now I actually have respect for my ears.

I was really not a fan of OB4CL as a kid, it was one of the first rap albums I'd ever heard and it just didn't make sense to this Batman & Robin soundtrack, Alvin and the Chipmunks listening white boy. I never really gave it a chance until a few years ago.

Supreme Clientele was always a good album to me but it wasn't a classic until a couple years after I'd first gotten acquainted with it.

Thank Me Later felt woefully average at first and I thought Drake's lyrics were consistently dumb and uninteresting...then while I was working that summer as a delivery driver my shift habits quickly became Trap or Die 2, Thank Me Later and very little else. Eventually I came to kind of love it.


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When I was in high school the low-key samples didn't really click with me. I wanted catchy loops.

Now it's the opposite.

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(Ok it hasn't even been 5 months but I was all set to reply before I read past the title)

I've been listening to this the past 2 days and concluded that the production is more amazing than what I remembered when it first came out. I'd get the instrumental version if they ever release that.

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Gang Starr / Nujabes blend - https://youtu.be/lsci1vu6ick
DOOM Tribute - https://youtu.be/qmBQ2BDefKM
Donut of the Heart cover in Javascript - https://youtu.be/afLc2CkC8lk

Came to post the same thing, then I read the rules too, lol

But umm...yeah...exactly what you said

It Was Written (came to love the production as the years went on)

Tha Doggfather (came to appreciate the direction after the initial "it's no Doggystyle" disappointment. Couple of his better songs are on there)

Finding Forever (initially I thought the whole album was lazy as fuck lyrically, but now I recognize that while there are spots of lazy/corny writing, there are also moments of that vintage Common lyrical wizardry sprinkled in there as well)

American Gangster (I liked the album well enough when it first came out but have come to realize that it is up there with his most consistent sounding albums thematically and as far as overall production in his career)

Relapse (only 4 years but oh well...Em put on a lyrical CLINIC on this album and wasn't screaming and emo, it took getting over the accents to realize the true genius of this album)

Cocaine 80s (all their albums...I didn't really "get" them when I first downloaded them, but once they clicked I haven't stopped listening...my top 25 iTunes tracks contains I think 9 Cocaine 80s song. I just can't get enough.

There's more, I'll come back as I think of them.

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it was a creeper
took me a while to get it

I believe I bought it/heard it back when it was released in 1988.

I was into fast Hardcore punk then and I didn't like much of anything with a heavy metal influence.

In the late 90's, I was into music that had a sort of high quality brilliant type of production (Fugazi "end hits", Sunny Day Real Estate "how it feels to be something on", Jonathan Fire*Eater "wolf songs for lambs", The Cardigans "First band on the moon", Radiohead "Ok computer")

Now, Rollins Band "life time" has the right feel and vibe since I've had enough fast/charged up music and enough "pristine" production sound quality music (nah, I'm still not into low-fi production or slow-core type music).

Rollins Band fell off in the 90's IMO when he tried to blend the stripped-down, metallic and slightly bluesy "post-hardcore" vibe with a more jammy vibe and some funk-metal stuff. The early records are pretty underrated now though even if I haven't played them in many years. Still, I remember both this one and "Hard volume" as pretty good; time to revisit I guess-I haven't even thought about those albums for many years...

>I believe I bought it/heard it back when it was released in
>1988.
>
>I was into fast Hardcore punk then and I didn't like much of
>anything with a heavy metal influence.
>
>In the late 90's, I was into music that had a sort of high
>quality brilliant type of production (Fugazi "end hits", Sunny
>Day Real Estate "how it feels to be something on", Jonathan
>Fire*Eater "wolf songs for lambs", The Cardigans "First band
>on the moon", Radiohead "Ok computer")
>
>Now, Rollins Band "life time" has the right feel and vibe
>since I've had enough fast/charged up music and enough
>"pristine" production sound quality music (nah, I'm still not
>into low-fi production or slow-core type music).

Oh man, when that came out, I was absolutely blown away...saw him on that tour and it totally changed my opinion of what a good live band is. They were phenomenal. They were good up until about "Weight" then they totally lost me.

it was the sound of LM
and the image of Amplified is what threw me off and had me disliking them

but now, shieeet, i love both of those albums

I didn't get the hype when it came out. I enjoyed it, but I didn't think
it was worth all the best hip hop album of the decade talk that it was receiving
I had always liked Operation: Doomsday more anyway


Revisited it around 08 or so, around my sophomore year in college.
Since then I have probably listened to that album at least once per month
Might be one of my favorite rap albums period.
I donno even know what I heard differently, but I loved that shit

And it will sound even MORE enjoyable.
I have a strrrronnng hunch that we will NEVER get another album from those two again.
We will look back on this album with pristine fondness.
A thing that only happened once.

The Madlib & Dilla album just seemed really boring when it came out in 2002.
Tricky's album in 1997 was too dark for me to understand.
Faith No More's 1995 album didn't have the same metal sound as "Angel Dust". It took some maturing on my part before I could actually enjoy it. The whole album is nonstop, unskippable awesomeness.

great fuxkin album, took me a while to notice tho.

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I'm not still going back to it if I'm finding it less appealing over time.


``i know you are fake. . . 'cause man, i'm the same.``
"untitled 6." http://bit.ly/19QmVPu
"untitled 5." http://bit.ly/GWjmBl
"king of rain." http://bit.ly/GNVnDp
"saudade de mañana." http://bit.ly/1hNZLhy
"1.5.2.0." http://bit.ly/18UMv7A

There are albums that I like just as muh as when they first dropped.

ATLiens...Liquid Swords...The Main Ingredient

Albums like that have stayed pretty consistent.

But then there are albums that I didn't like that much and now love.

That's what I'm getting at.

"bad" is an album i really liked a lot at the time,
but now that the expectations have died down, i hear it as
the best possible follow up to "thriller" that could have been reasonably expected.


HIStory works when I listen to it as a "here, my dear" style confessional
instead of a pop album.

and "invincible" is dope now that I am not hoping it will be the album that brings MJ back to the top of the charts.
The fast songs that used to sound like dated dangerous outtakes
actually work for me now... probably because the 90s sound makes more sense
20 yrs removed from the 90s.

now that i've developed what i at least think is a more diverse appreciation for sounds/vibes in hip-hop, i dig az's 'pieces of a man' a LOT more than before. even the r&bish joints sound good to me, and az kills it on each track. guest appearances all on point, and trackmasters produced the album very well, too.

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word.

I couldn't figure out what...........what were they trying to do.

I bought and sold this CD a couple of times.

I kept wondering.........what?????

Then, I finally came around to understanding what they were doing.

It used to sound so odd to me.