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3032000, Best beginnings to albums
Posted by OKdamn, Wed Apr-21-21 04:36 PM
https://youtu.be/WD1PZblwjPI
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3032001, Beatnuts - Ya Don't Stop
Posted by OKdamn, Wed Apr-21-21 04:42 PM
https://youtu.be/fXXQuQJlI-Q
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3032002, Tribe - Excursions
Posted by DJR, Wed Apr-21-21 04:46 PM
http://youtu.be/NZWS6CITutY
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3032003, Common - Be
Posted by DJR, Wed Apr-21-21 04:48 PM
http://youtu.be/hJwAkpfcEj4
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3032012, No doubt. That's Derrick Hodge on bass.
Posted by C. Thelonius, Wed Apr-21-21 05:59 PM
I used to replay that over and over to hear those bass lines.
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3032018, Common has a knack for dope album openers in general.
Posted by Brew, Wed Apr-21-21 08:30 PM
Resurrection
Invocation
Time Travelin'
Soul Power
Be
Start the Show
The Dreamer
Joy & Peace
I'd even include The Neighborhood (from Nobody Smilin') and A Penny for my Thoughts (from Can I Borrow a Dollar ?) personally, although I assume those two (and maybe a couple others I *did* list) aren't as praiseworthy to others as they are to me.
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3032452, RE: Common has a knack for dope album openers in general.
Posted by Birdzeye, Sat May-15-21 05:41 AM
Yeah, Common is a master of album openers.. He just know how to set an album of in synth with the overall theme and vibe of the album.
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3032377, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Posted by kinetic94761180, Mon May-10-21 04:33 PM
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3032004, Nas - Stillmatic
Posted by DJR, Wed Apr-21-21 04:49 PM
http://youtu.be/avQioEwD6zI
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3032005, Gang Starr - You know My Steez
Posted by Nabs, Wed Apr-21-21 04:58 PM
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3032006, ATLiens: You May Die - Two Dope Boyz will always be the answer
Posted by Anonymous, Wed Apr-21-21 05:38 PM
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3032008, Maaaan. Incredible
Posted by DJR, Wed Apr-21-21 05:40 PM
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3032009, yep
Posted by LeroyBumpkin, Wed Apr-21-21 05:44 PM
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3032036, The first album too
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 01:09 PM
Niggas in the point ain't changed..
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3032330, Hold On, Be Strong into Return of the G, too.
Posted by JFrost1117, Thu May-06-21 11:56 PM
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3032461, ^^^^ This is the one for me
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Mon May-17-21 08:29 AM
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3032007, Pete & CL – The Main Ingredient LP -->> In The House
Posted by My_SP1200_Broken_Again, Wed Apr-21-21 05:40 PM
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3032011, Return of the Mecca is right up there too.
Posted by mrhood75, Wed Apr-21-21 05:53 PM
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3032015, Yessir!
Posted by Anonymous, Wed Apr-21-21 07:51 PM
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3032017, It’s perfect
Posted by DJR, Wed Apr-21-21 08:18 PM
The whole album is.
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3032020, when in the house sample drops in.... man
Posted by My_SP1200_Broken_Again, Wed Apr-21-21 09:47 PM
...its like coming out of a tunnel and emerging into something soulful and amazing
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3032062, Intro is one of the best beats on the album
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 10:20 PM
..and it isn't even a song
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3032136, No doubt! i wasn't even thinking about the treat beats.. haha..
Posted by My_SP1200_Broken_Again, Tue Apr-27-21 08:43 AM
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3032106, The Reason I Didn't Like That They Used That As The First Song...
Posted by Dj Joey Joe, Sat Apr-24-21 08:21 PM
...cause "In The House" was originally off Eddie F.'s & The Untouchables compilation "Let's Get It On" which came out earlier that year; but I guess me being so into hip-hop at the time I was one of the few who even heard of that album so when "Main Ingredient" dropped it "In The House" was the first time they heard the song while I heard it plenty of times.
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3032157, word?? Mine had just 5 songs... didn't know there was a full LP...
Posted by My_SP1200_Broken_Again, Wed Apr-28-21 09:17 AM
...crazy because that would have been one of my favorite songs of summer 94 if i had heard it
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3032010, GZA - Liquid Swords. Especially with the Shogun Assassin sample
Posted by mrhood75, Wed Apr-21-21 05:52 PM
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3032016, And that complete my Top 3 albums being mentioned in a row
Posted by Anonymous, Wed Apr-21-21 07:52 PM
Lol...
The Main Ingredient
ATLiens
Liquid Swords
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3032013, Goodie Mob - Free
Posted by Nabs, Wed Apr-21-21 06:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31erJCYsWVg
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3032027, Free & Thought Process
Posted by Anonymous, Thu Apr-22-21 10:52 AM
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3032019, Wyclef - The Carnival Intro/Apocalypse
Posted by Ray_Snill, Wed Apr-21-21 09:42 PM
I usually skip skits but this Intro is pretty much how skits should be done with the way it blends into the first song which has the sickest beat Wyclef ever made
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https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/PYzh4v9cSf4FDnq3yMQyqNqh79o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale%28%29/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4079674/jlio.0.gif
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3032024, Bro, yes...it flows into Apocalypse, SO good
Posted by Dstl1, Thu Apr-22-21 09:22 AM
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3032028, That whole album is severely overlooked
Posted by Anonymous, Thu Apr-22-21 10:53 AM
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3032038, RE: Wyclef - The Carnival Intro/Apocalypse
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 01:13 PM
Hell yeah..i forgot about this
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3032133, RE: Wyclef - The Carnival Intro/Apocalypse
Posted by ajiav, Tue Apr-27-21 12:06 AM
Also a good choice. The Apocalypse vocal sample always was dope.
I feel like Clef got labeled as corny or something but I dug this album.
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3032154, YEP
Posted by will_5198, Tue Apr-27-21 09:50 PM
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3032021, Airbag - Radiohead
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Thu Apr-22-21 12:53 AM
Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead
Block Rockin' Beats - The Chemical Brothers
Trip Like I Do - The Crystal Method
Midnight Marauders Tour Guide - A Tribe Called Quest
Dillatastic Vol Won(derful) - The Roots
Supermagic - Mos Def
The Chronic (Intro) - Dr. Dre
Bathtub - Snoop Dogg
Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n' Roses
Are you Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
Live - Lenny Kravitz
NY State of Mind - Nas
Aftermath (The Intro) - Dr. Dre
Go - The Chemical Brothers
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
Contract on the World Love Jam - Public Enemy
Lost at Birth - Public Enemy
Capital Punishment in America - Da Lynch Mob
Ambitionz as a Rider - 2Pac
Holler if Ya Hear Me - 2Pac
Bloom - Radiohead
Railing, Pt II - Roni Size
Let Me Drown - Soundgarden
Wesley's Theory - Kendrick Lamar
Get Down - Nas
The Space Program - A Tribe Called Quest
Wait Up - Q-Tip
Puppet Master - DJ Muggs
2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
Smack My B!tch Up - Prodigy
The Start of Your Ending - Mobb Deep
The Coming - Busta Rhymes
No Church in the Wild - Jay Z, Kanye West
Anything - Above the Rim Soundtrack
Sure Shot - The Beastie Boys
Twofifteen - Black Thought
So What? - Miles Davis
Slowes Comb/The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug - Digable Planets
My Philosophy - BDP
Drums of Death - UNKLE
Ghost of Soulja Slim - Jay Electronica
Return of the "G" - OutKast
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Tick Tick Boom - The Hives
Fetanyl - Black Thought
The Boomin System - LL Cool J
I'm Bad - LL Cool J
That's Love - Oddisee
The Golden Age - Beck
Loser - Beck
Rappers R. N. Dainja - KRS ONE
Cult of Personality - Living Color
Crooklyn - Crooklyn Soundtrack
Son of Sam - Elliot Smith
Track A - Solo Dancer - Charles Mingus
Key to the City - Large Professor
Star/Pointro - The Roots
Cochise - Audioslave
A Peace of Light - The Roots
Neva Left - Snoop Dogg
Get Your Snack On - Amon Tobin
Mic Checka - Das EFX
Bring Da Ruckus - Wu Tang Clan
The Horror - RJD2
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3032040, RE: Airbag - Radiohead
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 01:20 PM
Shit, man...that's a hell of a list
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3032061, I had some downtime from work
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Thu Apr-22-21 09:13 PM
But it was cool to revisit the memories of those songs.
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3032023, Great ones have been mentioned, but my personal favorite....
Posted by Dstl1, Thu Apr-22-21 09:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjx5l92oBbc
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3032026, Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Thu Apr-22-21 10:25 AM
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3032029, Never liked his interludes BUT
Posted by Anonymous, Thu Apr-22-21 10:54 AM
Those 3 Nottz joints off top are INSANE
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3032042, Man..
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 01:25 PM
This: https://youtu.be/ufqml5G8f5g
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3032134, RE: Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event
Posted by ajiav, Tue Apr-27-21 12:08 AM
I'm also good with The Coming's intro.
I remember it felt long to me as a kid but for the rest of my life I will have "There's only five years left!" imprinted on my brain.
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3032030, DMX (RIP) - It's Dark .. Intro
Posted by Brew, Thu Apr-22-21 11:15 AM
Might be THE best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSeIRnrjUAw
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3032056, RE: DMX (RIP) - It's Dark .. Intro AND THE BEST ENDING
Posted by Beamer6178, Thu Apr-22-21 08:17 PM
>Might be THE best.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSeIRnrjUAw
like from Intro to Niggaz Done Started Something. Talk about Bookends.
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3032031, Kanye - We Don't Care
Posted by Brew, Thu Apr-22-21 11:16 AM
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3032041, RE: Kanye - We Don't Care
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 01:23 PM
That's definitely in my Kanye top 10
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3032047, My Kanye top 10 would be about half College Dropout songs
Posted by DJR, Thu Apr-22-21 02:21 PM
The cool kids say that album is dated while talking up some weird, pretentious bullshit that he made later on. I say that CD is easily his most timeless work largely because it’s relatable. We Don’t Care set that album off lovely.
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3032050, Let me try..work is slow
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 04:44 PM
Spaceship
We Don't Care
Crack Music
Send It Up
New Slaves
Addiction
Late
Flashing Lights
No More Parties In L.A.
Guilt Trip
I'd put Mercy over Guilt Trip but I'm not sure that counts as a Kanye West song since it wasn't from a regular album
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3032043, Good one
Posted by DJR, Thu Apr-22-21 01:42 PM
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3032034, 3 Feet High and Rising and Blazing Arrow
Posted by mista k5, Thu Apr-22-21 11:47 AM
When the first second plays for both of those I know what time it is. Gets me right in the mood for the albums.
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3032037, A Prince Among Thieves - Pain
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 01:11 PM
https://youtu.be/mJF2dGDOcyg
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3032039, Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Posted by OKdamn, Thu Apr-22-21 01:16 PM
Buck Tha Devil https://youtu.be/u6dtoLFR4bc
Ice Cube's first 4 started off crazy
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3032044, ^^^absolutely
Posted by spenzalii, Thu Apr-22-21 01:51 PM
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3032045, Steve Miller Band - Space Intro --> Fly LIke an Eagle
Posted by spenzalii, Thu Apr-22-21 01:53 PM
Damn near transcendent.
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3032046, Black Sheep - U Mean I'm Not?
Posted by spenzalii, Thu Apr-22-21 01:55 PM
https://youtu.be/IrPoHV-6XVg
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3032049, I won't deny it...
Posted by Stadiq, Thu Apr-22-21 04:01 PM
I mean, I know its OkayPlayer but....that shit is legendary.
Actually Pac has a few. Holla If Ya Hear Me. If I Die 2nite. Bury Me a G.
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3032063, Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside
Posted by javi222, Thu Apr-22-21 10:25 PM
.
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3032068, Ice Cube - The Nigga You Love To Hate
Posted by chincheckin, Fri Apr-23-21 07:28 AM
M.O.P. - Billy Skit/Breakin Da Rules
DeLa Soul - The Magic Number
Dilla - Let's Take It Back
Jay Z (f/Memphis Bleek) - Intro – Hand It Down
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3032132, RE: Ice Cube - The Nigga You Love To Hate
Posted by ajiav, Tue Apr-27-21 12:03 AM
Cube is a good choice; I forgot about that...
"Yeah, I got some last words!!!"
*dead* (literally tho)
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3032070, Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Posted by doitall76, Fri Apr-23-21 09:26 AM
"...what was your dick doing in the milk man?" and then the intro.
You felt like you just missed out on one of the greatest stories between two dudes.
But the rest of it was fire.
Peace
Doitall76
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3032458, Yeah!
Posted by ProgressiveSound, Sun May-16-21 07:43 PM
Dope way to close the album too with that outro after Operation Lockdown ends
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3032100, Mobb Deep - The Start of your Ending
Posted by natenate101, Sat Apr-24-21 10:08 AM
Del - You’re in Shambles
Freestyle Fellowship - Blood/Bullies of the Block
Brand Nubian - Allah U Akbar
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3032101, Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Posted by Anonymous, Sat Apr-24-21 11:45 AM
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3032103, Rock Creek Park - The Blackbyrds
Posted by c71, Sat Apr-24-21 12:11 PM
Luv N' Haight - Sly and the Family Stone
Penitentiary Philosophy - Erykah Badu
When the curtain calls for you - Jonathan Fire*Eater
Strangler - Calla
Victim in pain - Agnostic Front
Rise Above - Black Flag
Chocolate City - Parliament
Skin tight - Ohio Players
When problems arise - Fishbone
Soul Craft - Bad Brains
two fisted love - Phoebe Snow
Breath from another - Esthero
Life in mono - Mono
Brakhage - Stereolab
Search & Destroy - the Stooges
La Femme d'Argent - Air
Chameleon - Herbie Hancock
Monk's Dream - Thelonious Monk Quartet
feelin' that glow - Roberta Flack
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3032107, Hi-Tek "Scratch Rappin'"
Posted by Dj Joey Joe, Sat Apr-24-21 08:25 PM
I'm a sucker for album intros with instrumentals or a DJ doing some scratching at the beginning, so when Hi-Tek's album "Hi-Teknology" starts off it gets me so hyped with that neck snappin' beat then the scratching montage that Premier would do type stuff is how I always feel an intro to a rap album should start off.
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3032108, Slum Village "Fantastic 1"
Posted by Dj Joey Joe, Sat Apr-24-21 08:41 PM
C'mon every version of "Fantastic" is just so infamous, like Baatin says "write up a scroll on da hoe when she don't act right"; the chorus to it should be like an OKP group anthem..."IT'S FANN TASS TIC!".
https://youtu.be/HwTx35i4xk4
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3032109, This one's my favorite
Posted by OKdamn, Sat Apr-24-21 10:19 PM
https://youtu.be/1q2bYe2xr8g
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3032111, Raekwon - Striving For Perfection
Posted by NorthWeezy, Sun Apr-25-21 02:43 PM
Lauryn Hill - Intro (Roll Call)
Ghost face - Iron's Theme
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3032112, A recent one: Little Brother - The Feel
Posted by DJR, Sun Apr-25-21 02:56 PM
Sets that album off perfectly.
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3032116, Van Halen "1984"
Posted by Dj Joey Joe, Mon Apr-26-21 10:37 AM
The intro to their album "1984" is also the name of the intro, with those spacey synth keys is so epic, it's basically sounds like the intro the song "Jump" but it's still a dope way to start off an album.
https://youtu.be/UM68ZL42hp0
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3032117, .... when I first heard Criminal Minded.... Damn where was I?
Posted by , Mon Apr-26-21 10:43 AM
Intro to Stakes is High is always classic....
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3032119, Oh hell yea - great call.
Posted by Brew, Mon Apr-26-21 01:12 PM
The beat to that intro is dope as hell.
They also nailed the Grind Date intro w/"The Future"
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3032124, I’m gonna add on Supa Emcees too
Posted by Anonymous, Mon Apr-26-21 07:49 PM
That 1-2 punch is so dope to me.
LOVE the entire album.
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3032128, Def. Can stretch it to Dinninit, personally. Haha.
Posted by Brew, Mon Apr-26-21 08:57 PM
Such a dope run to start an album. And even more impressive considering the change in tone Stakes is High had relative to their first 3 albums, which were more playful.
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3032137, Mad I didn't say this.
Posted by LeroyBumpkin, Tue Apr-27-21 08:55 AM
Yes. Stakes Is High.
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3032121, Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy
Posted by Ishwip, Mon Apr-26-21 05:56 PM
https://youtu.be/FBJghl_wmto
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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!
Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno
Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)
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3032125, Rhythm Nation - Janet. That intro let you know
Posted by soulfunk, Mon Apr-26-21 07:52 PM
that Jam and Lewis were NOT playing around. Then when Janet comes in? Set the scene for the rest of that album (and set the scene for the peak heights of her career over the next couple albums.)
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3032126, The black tape
Posted by OKdamn, Mon Apr-26-21 08:04 PM
Janet's best album..i wore that sucker out
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3032156, this whole album SLAPS
Posted by Ashy Achilles, Wed Apr-28-21 08:55 AM
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3032158, YES.
Posted by soulfunk, Wed Apr-28-21 10:15 AM
The Jimmy Jam episode of the QLS podcast goes into it, but that album messed Michael Jackson up from a standpoint of chasing that sound...
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3032160, i can totally see that happening
Posted by Ashy Achilles, Wed Apr-28-21 11:21 AM
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3032329, Prhyme 2
Posted by Beamer6178, Thu May-06-21 11:32 PM
Royce goes in fierce
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3032381, Good example
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Mon May-10-21 08:51 PM
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3032375, wu-tang forever
Posted by kinetic94761180, Mon May-10-21 04:30 PM
perhaps it was the lead-up hype, but popa wu set that cd off right.
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3032382, That is one of the worst starts to any great album
Posted by Anonymous, Mon May-10-21 10:31 PM
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3032753, Ha ha. Right?
Posted by LeroyBumpkin, Thu Jun-03-21 12:48 PM
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3032754, Disc 2 Intro - Triumph was perfect
Posted by Anonymous, Thu Jun-03-21 12:53 PM
That should’ve set it off and then went into Reunited 3rd.
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3032376, w. gunn - supreme blientele
Posted by kinetic94761180, Mon May-10-21 04:31 PM
big homie arn w/ jewels
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3032737, Hardcore G shit homie, I don’t play around
Posted by DJR, Wed Jun-02-21 07:55 PM
ain’t shit sweet bout the peach, this Atlanta clown
Killer Mike - Big Beast
http://youtu.be/7m72ZPUyeTo
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3032752, El-P's intro songs on I'll sleep... And Cancer 4 cure
Posted by las raises, Thu Jun-03-21 12:20 PM
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