There are a lot of memories from that album...some of this board...

Let's pay homage to this classic album...

One of my favorite opening tracks of all-time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fzbnhsXQjM

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I listen to this track once a week minimum...

10 years goes fast as fuck...

i loved this joint when it dropped... thought it outdid the listening at the time...

now i don't know...i love both

really dope record i wish i had on wax

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Everyone involved was in a zone with this one: Tigallo, Pooh, 9th, Khyrsis, etc.

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For many reasons, the furor surrounding The Minstrel Show overshadowed the music itself. On August 16, 2005, hip hop magazine The Source's Editor-in-Chief, Joshua "Fahiym" Ratcliffe, announced his retirement due to conflicting opinions on the rating The Minstrel Show was to receive in the next issue of the publication. According to Ratcliffe, his original rating of 4.5 (out of 5) was reduced to 4 by the magazine's Chief Brand Executive, Raymond "Benzino" Scott and CEO Dave Mays because Ratcliffe gave then-upcoming artist Young Jeezy a rating of 4. After they refused to change the rating back to 4.5 he decided to step down from his editorial position. For his part, Benzino admitted at the time of questioning, that he had yet to listen to the album for himself and had no problem with Ratcliffe's original rating.

While this may have built up anticipation for the album, another more serious obstacle reared its head when the entertainment network BET (Black Entertainment Television) refused to play the group's video for the single, "Lovin' It", allegedly because they deemed it "too intelligent". Michael Lewellen, a publicist and program director for BET, responded, "It's not true, not in that context. BET reserves the right to show or not to show music videos of any type based on the network's own standards and decision-making processes." In a portion of the video, the group lightly pokes fun at the different stylistic aspects of hip hop subgenres such as "gangsta", "backpack", "earthy" and "icy". The rest of it sees them performing to a zealous crowd.

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Folks wanted to give that album 5 Mics in The Source though...The Naked Truth by Lil Kim got that award in the magazine...and The Minstrel Show got 4.5...

XXL was suppose to give it a perfect rating too...but because they just gave Common's Be a perfect rating...they couldn't give The Minstrel Show that...

it sounds really flat and devoid of life. But musically it's pretty great. Thematically they really knew how to execute from song to song, which is something not many groups can or even know how to do.

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>it sounds really flat and devoid of life. But musically it's
>pretty great. Thematically they really knew how to execute
>from song to song, which is something not many groups can or
>even know how to do.

You can blame Young Guru (Roc-A-Fella) for that.

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9th's drums had tons of character to them, and in the attempt to polish the sound he ended up getting rid of all of that.

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You can def hear the difference between this album and The Listening. I remember Young Guru speaking about how proud of that album he was and I'm thinking "Fam, you kinda muffled their sound."

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As much as I liked the album, I always chose The Listening over it... the mixing must be the reason

And was really disappointed in how flat and muffled it sounds.

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to mixing the Akai processed MPC to mixing the "what you put in is what you get out" raw quality of FL didn't translate well.

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They were so much like those Native Tongue records that I always compared them to Little Brother's music. As solid as the Little Brother albums were, they just didn't have the extra spark that groups like Tribe or De La had to me.

That being said, The Minstrel Show was a really good album and got alot of burn from me. We Got Now is one of the best closing tracks I've ever heard and there's alot of diversity in terms of themes in the album - introspection, humor, songs that just go.

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it got me through some tough times. That album will always have a very special meaning to me.

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Could not wait to get out of work to go get it. I was not disappointed.....easily my most played album that fall, and one that I still go back to sometimes. Even more than loving the music, I really wanted them to win. I always felt like if people heard the music, they would like it. Kanye was blowing up at the time, with some similarities and I felt like they made better music than Kanye(who I also liked). I was frustrated that the album didn't get much traction on that front.

Top 5....Hiding Place, All For You, Watch Me, Slow It Down, Not Enough

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I remember this came on in the whip and I lost my damn mind. Still one of the most played songs on my iPod, apparently

As a group, LB was the last 'movement' type feel I can remember, or at least the last group (and satellite members) that I really rode for. It's a shame this album didn't get more burn than it deserved

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I used to listen to this album all the time. been about 5 years since it's been out of the rotation. gonna add it on my spotify again.

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