Ice Cube "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" LL Cool J "Mama Said Knock You Out" A Tribe Called Quest "People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm" Public Enemy "Fear Of A Black Planet" Boogie Down Productions "Edutainment"
Gang Starr - Step in the Arena XClan - To The East, Blackwards Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet Brand Nubian - One For All EpMd - Business as Usual
Damn, looking back.... there was A LOT of quality hip hop coming out between 90 and 95!
137. "RE: lol... you just figured that out, huh?" In response to Reply # 70
> >>Damn, looking back.... there was A LOT of quality hip hop >>coming out between 90 and 95! > > Not so much... I'm speaking in terms of the quality and quantity then were pretty well defined. Now there is far more quantity than quality. So in turn, I guess I was speaking aloud in comparison with hip-hop today. Some of these lists were hard to narrow down to 5... more recent years, I would be lucky to have 5 I could solidly place on the list.
SEX PACKETS - Digital Underground LE MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES, Vol. 2 LIVIN' LIKE HUSTLERS - Above The Law STEP IN THE ARENA - Gang Starr THE FUTURE - Guy
Eric B & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit Em Ice Cube - America's Most wanted Ice Cube - Kill At Will LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out Special Ed - Legal Poor Righteous - Holy Intellect Tribe - Peoples Instinctive Travels... Public Enemy - Fear of A Black Planet Kool G Rap & Polo - Wanted Dead or Alive Brand Nubian - One For All EPMD - Business As Usual Paris - The Devil Made Me Do It King Sun - Righteous But Ruthless CMW - It's A Compton Thang Intelligent Hoodlum - Intelligent Hoodlum Lord Finesse - Funky Technician Lakim Shabazz - Lost Tribe of Shabazz Geto Boys - The Geto Boys Above The Law - Livin Like Hustlers X-Clan - To The East Blackwards Digital Underground - Sex Packets Too Short - Short Dog's in the House Richie Rich - Don't Do It D-Nice - Call Me D-Nice Big Daddy Kane - Taste of Chocolate
A Tribe Called Quest "People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths Of Rhythm" Ice Cube "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" Public Enemy "Fear Of A Black Planet" Eric B. & Rakim "Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em" Boogie Down Productions "Edutainment"
Ice Cube "Death Certificate" A Tribe Called Quest "The Low End Theory" Public Enemy "Apocolypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black" EPMD "Business As Usual" Brand Nubian "One For All"
THE LOW END THEORY - A Tribe Called Quest A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING - Black Sheep NEVERMIND - Nirvana EFIL4ZAGGIN - NWA DE LA SOUL IS DEAD - De La Soul
Ice Cube - Death Certificate Gangstarr - Step In The Arena PRT - Pure Poverty Black Sheep - Wolf In Sheep's Clothing Tribe - Low End Theory Main Source - Breaking Atoms Pete Rock & Cl Smooth - All Souled Out EP Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion Frestyle Fellowship - To Whom It May Concern CMW - Straight Checkin Em DJ Quik - Quik Is The Name De la Soul - De la Soul Is Dead 3rd Bass - Derlicks of Dialect KMD - Mr Hood Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill LONS - A Future Without a Past Showbiz & AG - Soul Clap EP Naughty By Nature - Naughty By Nature Slick Rick - The Rulers Back Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Back Ice T - O.G. Original Gangster NWA - Efil4zaggin Del - I Wish My Brother George Was Here Nice & Smooth - Ain't A Damn Thing Changed WC & The Mad Circle - Ain't A Damn Thing Changed 2Pac - 2Pacalypse Now O.G. Style - I Know how to Play Em 2nd II None - 2nd II None Edo G & Da Bulldogs - Life of a Kid In The Ghetto Scarface - Mr Scarface Is Back Geto Boys - We Can't be Stopped D-Nice - D-Nice To The Rescue Genius - Words From The Genius Two Kings in a Cipher - Pyramids to Projects
167. "RE: 1991" In response to Reply # 2 Tue Aug-16-22 02:02 AM by trouble man
I didn't realize I already contributed to this post for 1991. It was a LOT of great albums that released that year. I always talk about 88 and 94 but I gotta start talking about 91 in that same vein.
Redman - Whut? The Album Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother Das Efx - Dead Serious Pharcyde - Bizarre Ryde to the Pharcyde Gang Starr - Daily Operation
Gangstarr "Daily Operation" Showbiz & AG "Runaway Slave" Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics "Stunts, Blunts, & Hip-Hop" DJ Quik "Way 2 Fonky" Pete Rock & CL Smooth "Mecca And The Soul Brother"
BIZARRE RIDE II THE PHARCYDE - Pharcyde HEAVY RHYME EXPERIENCE VOL. 1 - The Brand New Heavies BONE MACHINE - Tom Waits DAILY OPERATION - Gang Starr THE CHRONIC - Dr. Dre
106. "My Top 25 of 1992" In response to Reply # 3 Sat May-07-11 03:20 PM by CanUooooFeeLiT
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother Gang Starr - Daily Operation Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat the Technique Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde CMW - Music II Driveby DJ Quik - Way 2 Fonky Brand nubian - In God We Trust Dr. Dre - The Chronic Paris - Sleeping With The Enemy Showbiz & AG - Runaway Slave Lord Finesse - Return of the Funkyman Diamond D - Stunts blunts & Hip Hop Redman - Whut?? Thee Album EPMD - Business Never Personal Ice Cube - The Predator Kool G & Polo - Live & Let Die Ultramagnetic MC's - Funk Ya Head Up Grand Puba - Reel To Reel Heavy D - Blue Funk Penthouse Players Clique - Paid The Cost Das Efx - Dead Serious BDP - Sex & Violence Double XX Posse - Put Ya Boots On Original Flavor - This Is How It Is Future Sound - The Whole Shabang Vol.1
A Tribe Called Quest "Midnight Marauders" Snoop Doggy Dogg "Doggystyle" De La Soul "Buhloone Mindstate" Black Moon "Enta Da Stage" Threat "Sickinnahead"
107. "Top 30 albums of 1993" In response to Reply # 4
Souls of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity Tribe - Midnight Marauders PRT - Black Business Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots Wu Tang - Enter The Wu Tang(36 Chambers) Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle Del - No Need For Alarm Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over King Tee - Tha Triffin Album Black Moon - Enter The Stage De la Soul - Buhloone Mindstate Kam - Neva Again The Coup - Kill My Landlord Too Short- Get In Where You Fit In KRS One - Return of the Boom Bap Mobb Deep - Juvenile Hell Spice 1 - 187 He Wrote LONS - T.I.M.E. Lords of the Underground - Here Come The Lords Naughty By Nature - 19 Naughty III Beatnuts - Intoxicated Demons Intelligent Hoodlum - Tragedy: saga of a Hoodlum Onyx - Bacdafucup Da Youngstas - The Aftermath Ice Cube - Lethal Injection Above the Law - Black Mafia Life Ant Banks - Sittin On Something Phat Cypress Hill - Black Sunday Scarface - The World Is Yours Digable Planets - Reachin... Eazy E - It's On(Dr. Dre) 187um Killa
GROOVE COLLECTIVE - Groove Collective THE SUN RISES IN THE EAST - Jeru Tha Damaja STRESS: THE EXTINCTION AGENDA - Organized Konfusion ILLMATIC - Nas DO YOU WANT MORE?!!!??! - The Roots
Nas "Illmatic" The Notorious B.I.G. "Ready To Die" Organized Konfusion "Stress: The Extinction Agenda" Jeru Tha Damaja "The Sun Rises In The East" Pete Rock & CL Smooth "The Main Ingredient"
HERE TO SAVE YOU ALL - Chino XL STAKES IS HIGH - De La Soul PEACE BEYOND PASSION - Me'Shell NdegeOcello LEWIS TAYLOR - Lewis Taylor KOLLAGE - Bahamadia
ONE DAY IT'LL ALL MAKE SENSE - Common SOULFUL FRUIT - Rob Swift TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING - Jamiroquai MELODICA EP - Blackalicious PORTISHEAD - Portihead
85. "RE: 1998" In response to Reply # 9 Fri May-06-11 09:49 PM by Jaymz
GOOD HUMOUR - Saint Etienne ANCIENT TERMITES - PhonosycographDISK DECKSANDDRUMSANDROCKANDROLL - Propellerheads MOS DEF AND TALIB KWELI ARE BLACK STAR MOMENT OF TRUTH - Gang Starr
EVERYBODY LOVES A HAPPY ENDING - Tears For Fears STONED, PART 2 - Lewis Taylor BRAVEBIRD - Amel Larrieux THE GRIND DATE - De La Soul THE TIPPING POINT - The Roots
THE BEAUTY ROOM - The Beauty Room LOVE GONE WRONG/THE BUTTERFLY THEORY - Project Move TRUE INDEED - The Sound Providers GAME THEORY - The Roots FALLING IN BETWEEN - Toto (yep.)
HOW I GOT OVER - The Roots STRAY BULLETS (mixtape) - Cee-Lo Green NEW AMERYKAH PART TWO: RETURN OF THE ANKH - Erykah Badu THE ARCHANDROID - Janelle Monae COMPASS - Jamie Lidell
128. "RE: spinoff question:" In response to Reply # 92
94 and 96 are the hardest years to narrow down because there are so many great albums that came out.
the easiest year was 95 to me. and that's not to say there weren't a lot of good albums that year because there definitely were, like Jealous One's Envy, The Natural, Coast II Coast, Me Against The World, Labcabincalifornia etc etc BUT, the 5 I chose, in my opinion, are LOCKED in their spots more so than any other year.
Not to mention, some years like 03 are hard to even find 5 great albums in my opinion.
Willie Evans Jr. – Introducin’ The Roots – Undun Flash Bang Greneda – 10 Haters People Under the Stairs – Highlighter Kaimbr & Kev Brown – Alexander Green
157. "RE: 2015" In response to Reply # 146 Sun Aug-14-22 07:47 PM by Nick Has a Problem..
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly billy woods - Today, I Wrote Nothing Beach House - Depression Cherry U.S. Girls - Half Free Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth
****************************************** Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks
Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Schoolboy Q - Blank Face LP Anderson .Paak - Malibu
****************************************** Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks
Dillon & Paten Locke – Food Chain A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here De La Soul - …And the Anonymous Nobody Mr. Lif – Don’t Look Down Aesop Rock – Impossible Kid
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. JK Flesh - Suicide Estate Big K.R.I.T. - 4Eva Is A Mighty Long Time Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent billy woods - Known Unknowns
****************************************** Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks
Brother Ali – All the Beauty In This Whole Life Rapsody – Laila’s Wisdom Tanya Morgan – You Get What You $ 4 Oddisee – The Iceberg Da Bruze Bruvaz – Adebisi Hat
Royce Da 5’9 - Book of Ryan Phonte - No News is Good News Elzhi & Khrysis are Jericho Jackson Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 3 Westside Gunn - Supreme Blientele
Jean Grae and Quelle Chris – Everything's Fine Phonte – No News Is Good News Elzhi and Khrysis – Jericho Jackson Roc Marciano – Behold a Dark Horse Blueprint – Two Headed Monster
Little Brother – May the Lord Watch Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana Your Old Droog – Transportation Quelle Chris – Guns People Under the Stairs - Sincerely, The P
Stove God Cooks - Reasonable Drought Conway the Machine - From King to a God Freddie Gibbs and Alchemist - Alfredo Benny the Butcher - Burden of Proof Boldy James and Alchemist - The Price of Tea in China
I listed albums but 2020 probably had more dope EP’s than LP’s to me.
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – Alfredo Run the Jewels – RTJ4 Black Thought – Streams of Thought, Vol. 3 Your Old Droog – Dump YOD: Krutoy Stove God Cook$ & Roc Marciano – Reasonable Drought
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future Madteo - Head Gone Wrong By Noise Nas - King's Disease II Moor Mother & Billy Woods - Brass Casper Clausen – Better Way
****************************************** Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks
1. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram 2. Evidence - The Unlearning Vol. 1 3. Blu - The Color Blu(e) 4. Your Old Droog - Time 5. Westside Gunn - Hitler Loves Hermes 8
181. "HWH 8 was a monster " In response to Reply # 179
I may have struggled on how to rate that, because it was released in 2 parts. First part I remember well. I know I liked part 2…but I gotta go back to it because it’s not sticking to me as well.
Where, for example, Boldy’s album was extremely cohesive and memorable as one project.
174. "Can we talk about how 2022 has been incredible?" In response to Reply # 0
I’ve gotten dope releases from; Aesop Rock Lupe Fiasco Black Thought Nas (I’m counting Magic) Black Star Roc Marci Method Man Czarface Elzhi Ransom Conway Benny Joey
195. "RE: Can we talk about how 2022 has been incredible?" In response to Reply # 174
>I’ve gotten dope releases from;
>Lupe Fiasco >Black Thought >Nas (I’m counting Magic) >Roc Marci >Elzhi >Conway >Benny >Joey > >And still the 4th quarter to go? > >I need that KD3
I gotta check that Meth and Czarface and give more time to Random and Black Star. I’m not into Aesep Rock. But the rest of those, I like/love. In addition, I’ve been into:
Vince Staples Rapper Big Pooh Lloyd Banks Domo Genesis Big KRIT JID Kendrick Boldy James Curren$y 38 Spesh Pusha T Phife Dawg Cypress Hill Fly Anakin DJ Premier EP Sean Boog Tab One Kno/Sadistik
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