This is a sanctuary, a place to seek and receive absolution.

You can keep the fitteds, tees, AF1's and chucks, but check your weapons at the door.

I'll start.

I confess the sin of never quite being all in on Only Built For Cuban Linx.

I never really gave it much play. I've given it a few listens, thought, "this is cool". But it never got a spot in the rotation like Liquid Swords, Iron Man, or Supreme Clientele. I gave The Pillage more tick- and no diss to Pillage, because I fucking love that album.

I gave OB4CL2 more tick.

In repentance, I'm listening to it, from start to finish.

I beg forgiveness and absolution.

Please, come hither, and confess your own sins.

We're all in this together now (c)

He’s good, really good.. but i just never liked his voice all that much. Its wild because I love most of his hits and videos but I never had a desire to listen to a whole album.

Blame it on my East Coast back packer phase.

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I like a few tracks on 2Pacalypse Now and Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., and that is IT.

Some of it is East Coast backpacker bias, like you said, but a lot of it was a real distaste with his whole gangsta schtick. It never felt authentic to me, and his music felt really redundant. I get it...you gotta be hard out here to survive...now give me something else.

Now I did like digital underground 2 pac and 2pacalypse now. I thought he was going in a public enemy direction.

I have no music with Tupac on it, and never will.

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but he wasn’t for me.

totally understand why people love him.

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>but he wasn’t for me.
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>totally understand why people love him.

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
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Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

i think he played Bishop in Juice and never let go of the character.

and him going at Biggie was some sucka shit. he knew who got at him and he ain't want it with them. so he chose the path of least resistance.

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I’ll always say his interviews were better than his music.

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Yes! She's on the drugs. (c) BoHagon

I was always middle of the road on Pac. He was fine but folks hyped him up a little too much for me.

Like JFrost says, the best cuts on "All Eyez On Me" make up a solid album. And the Makaveli album is one of my all time favorites.

So my enjoyment of Tupac is tempered.

I've never made myself sit thru an entire album by Tupac/2Pac ever, but it's a lot of albums I've never listened to from beginning to end without skipping a song or two; Tupac basically bores me, he's a one trick pony vocally and his songs or content contradict themselves too much when listening but people seem to like his so-called wisdom in these songs.

I've never understood his calling women bitches & hoes, but then rap on some uplift & praise black women & etc.; c'mon mane, pick a lane.

https://tinyurl.com/y4ba6hog

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"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

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>I've never understood his calling women bitches & hoes, but
>then rap on some uplift & praise black women & etc.; c'mon
>mane, pick a lane.
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<--- Big Baller World Order

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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

<--- Big Baller World Order

Biggie was probably what made me give any of it a chance. I’ve said on here before that that shit reminds me of standing by a trash can fire in the dark and cold, no matter what song it is.

Pre-‘94-‘95 is what I’m talking about in the “is Puff a producer” post when I say “listen to how crusty my sample is.”

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this:

https://ibb.co/nDWv1wN

I was a college grad by that point.

I put this in the hip-hop confessions post because I blame hip-hop for this.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

not sure what was going on but the people behind you were like “really my nigga?”
were you spittin hot fire?

Nothing wrong with what you had on tho, that was typical NYC hip hop gear.

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Days like this I miss Sha Mecca

I get why people like it, but I was reminded that I wasn't a big fan of super grimey hip-hop 20 years ago. That's how I ended up here in the first place.



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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

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<--- Big Baller World Order

if you like Westside Gunn you wild.

dude's voice grates your ears after more than 3 songs in a row. not his fault, i get it, but it does.

lol

I’m from buffalo 😊

I just call it like it is.

I love Westside Gunn's whole steez OUTSIDE of rap. But he's unlistenable after 10 minutes.

Benny has the verse of the year IMO on Russ' EP.

Also, for anyone reading, The Black Soprano Family's "The Respected Sopranos" mixtape that Benny and DJ Drama did is one of the most slept on rap releases this year.

I gotta support the home team, lol

I get it tho. like, how I feel about patti labelle’s voice

I don’t do much grim either.

it hits different when you know the storytelling is real tho...

3:30 In Houston

It's definitely niche though

Westside Gunn does nothing for me

Damn if I'm gonna listen to a whole project of him.
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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

>Damn if I'm gonna listen to a whole project of him.


I probably doesn't help that he's pretty weak lyrically. I do wonder how he settled on such a high pitched emcee voice though because he has a pretty normal voice when he speaks.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

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I'm just sort of overall "meh" about Wu Tang in general, musically.

A lot of it is just because there's so much music, so many artists to follow, that it's too daunting to keep up with.

But it's also because outside of 36 Chambers and Forever, I find most of their albums to be hit or miss. Including most of their solos.

Sorry.

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overall my feeling is i dont get the hype. theyre good, really good but the way people hype them up? i dont quite get it.

i almost feel like i must have not listened to the albums because i dont have that same type of love for them as most seem to have. i recently started playing all my music on shuffle thats on my phone and songs from ghost albums and raekwon albums keep coming up. i like them but i also dont remember hearing them before. yet theyre on my phone and any song thats on it i have listened to before.

for all the universal love they get i figured they should be up there with tribe and de la for me but theyre not quite there.

we ><

Name an artist and I've either not listened to more than 5 songs or never listened to an album of theirs

Is it a sin or preference lol. I HAVE listened to Illmatic. "That's they one!" - barber from Coming to America

ive never listened to capital punishment for one.

thought Still Not a Player sucked (still do) and never bothered listening to any other stuff from Big Pun...besides that Deep Cover one with Fat Joe.

"Dressed up like an evil villain dressed up like a soccer dad"

>thought Still Not a Player sucked (still do) and never
>bothered listening to any other stuff from Big Pun...besides
>that Deep Cover one with Fat Joe.


Not a player is the only real commercial track on there. Give it a listen, you might be surprsed.

That second album he has is wack-AF tho.

I can see people not liking the Wyclef joint and I supposed if you’re the type completely against R&B mixed in then Punish Me may get some frowns although I love that joint.

But other than that?

Beware
Super Lyrical
Dream Shatterer
You’re Not A Killer
Glamour Life
Capital Punishment
I’m Not A Player (always preferred this joint)
Twinz
Boomerang
You Came Up
Tres Lenches (best joint to me)

Those songs are ALL dope.

Always thought the last two songs were a little weak bit that may be because the album is too long.

But shit...put those 11 with Punish Me and the Intro and you have some flawless shit when cutting the terrible skits and a fewer weaker songs. Always said 13 was the perfect number of tracks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hip_hop_albums_considered_to_be_influential

based on this wiki list here are the albums from it that i have not listened to
LL Cool J: Radio*
Schoolly D: Schoolly D
Biz Markie: Goin' Off
EPMD: Strictly Business
Ultramagnetic MCs: Critical Beatdown
Queen Latifah: All Hail the Queen
X-Clan: To the East, Blackwards
Brand Nubian: One for All
Main Source: Breaking Atoms
Scarface: Mr. Scarface Is Back
Souls of Mischief: 93 'til Infinity*
Mobb Deep: The Infamous*


*maybe have listened but dont remember

i guess i can start going through them

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Aquemini
Stankonia
Miseducation
People's Instinctive
Low End
Midnight
Bizarre Ride (I think)
College Dropout
Enter the 36
Illmatic
Resurrection

that's...interesting lol. I tried to listen to Cuban Linx but anything else I've never even tried to listen to in full

I thought I might have heard it before but after giving it a listen I don't think I had. It does have some songs I have heard before and that I like. As a whole I did not enjoy it. I appreciate LL and all he has done but I don't think I really enjoy listening to him rap except for a handful of songs.

There were a good 4/5 songs I was tempted to skip. I would keep I Can't Live Without My Radio, I Can Give You More (first time I heard this I think, and Rock the Bells.

I can appreciate and recognize that the album was important for Hip Hop but I don't think it's a must listen.

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
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Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

I've been wanting to listen to this. All the talk of Schoolly being the start of gangsta rap had me intrigued. I can see it. It was an interesting listen. Not really something I see myself coming back to but definitely happy I finally gave it a listen.

Not sure why I thought I had not heard this. That said, it's not on Youtube music. I found a zip and listening to it some songs have some big differences vs the ones I'm used to hearing. Now I'm wondering which one is the official one.

Either way, yeah this one is dope. Nobody beats the Biz. I hope he gets well soon.

Okay this is great. I can definitely see how it influenced so many others and it still stands up on its own. I would say this is a must listen.

Not sure why I slept on it for this long. I used to be a big fan of Def Squad.

I like this. I don't think it's overall as good as Strictly Business but it is pretty great. Sonically it's a bit dated but the rapping? Wow, definitely deserves all the praise it gets. Not sure I would say it's a must listen for everyone but definitely for rap heads, particularly lyrics/rapping focused ones.

This is great. Especially as a De La fan it was fun to hear more of that style, although she does do many other styles. Fun record with a good message. Might have a couple low points but overall it's great. I would say it is a must listen.

I think I will need to give this another spin. Kind of too much going on to be able to feel confident on how I feel about it.

A weird blend of older stuff, current stuff (at the time) and some sounds that got popular later. I think this is an album that you had to be there for to truly appreciate it. To hear it for the first time now I feel I have too much context for it?

Overall I didn't enjoy it but it might be because I had a bit too much going on while I was listening.

I'm mad at myself for sleeping on this one. This is right up my alley. Loved this. Has a couple tracks that were okay but as a whole I love it. Not sure why I hadn't gone back to this. I have liked the new music that Sadat X and Grand Puba have released. Going to have to dive into their catalog.

Okay, yeah the production on this is awesome. It kind of reminds me of 3 ft high and dead but with a twist. Kind of sounds like buhloone built off this as well. The rapping is fine, not the best but definitely not bad.

What's the deal with the title "Just a Friendly Game of Baseball (For Our Friends in a Tribe Called Quest)"? It shows like that on the remix on Youtube Music. It's the 2017 remastered version. I only see Remix on track listings online. Was it like that in the original too or was it done for the 2017 version? If its only the 2017 version I would imagine it is a shout out but my first instinct was that it was a shot at them. Wouldn't know why. I'm guessing its just a shout out.

I had high hopes for this one. I really like Scarface's delivery but the album didn't really do it for me. Might need to give it some more spins.

Definitely my type of album. Really liked it. Got a bit busy so got distracted. I will definitely come back to it.

This is pretty great. I think I may have heard it before but I don't think I was really about this vibe at the time. Might be a song or two I was eh about but the rest were dope.

I come from a time of MCs, not rappers.

You mofos should be ashamed of yourselves.

And should be sentenced to listening to PM Dawn for the rest of yall’s lives.


Lol

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