but the rest I haven't heard or don't cut it, Co.Flow comes close but I preferred Can.Ox.


I have a TERRIBLE fucking memory, though. The only two rap songs I've ever memorized were Boyz-n-the-Hood (long forgotten, and mostly thanks to that Dynamite Hack cover that my white friends and I thought was hilarious in middle school so it got played over.andover) and Jay-Z's P.S.A., which I still recite to myself wen I'm iPodless and waiting for something pretty much anywhere in public.


But I haven't even memorized Beatles or Stevie lyrics and I've been listening to them for 15-20 years.


I'm definitely more moved by the music, but the rap music is what moves me. The idea of the rap as instrument, maybe.


edit: if we're going whole thread? maybe I can sneak in the backdoor. But I'm not gonna scan and find out, you can grade me if you're game.

TOWP TWENNY

1 - Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
2 - Nas - Illmatic (1994)
3 - Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
4 - Ghostface Killah - Ironman (1996)
5 - Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994)
6 - Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
7 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
8 - Digable Planets - Blowout Comb (1994)
9 - GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords (1995)
10 - Common - Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
11 - OutKast - Aquemini (1998)
12 - A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
13 - The Roots - Illadelph Halflife (1996)
14 - Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
15 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)
16 - Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (1998)
17 - Edan - Beauty and the Beat (2005)
18 - Redman - Muddy Waters (1996)
19 - Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)
20 - OutKast - ATLiens (1996)


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"I don't read pages of rap lyrics, I listen to rap music." © Bombastic
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