Step in the Arena through Moment of Truth are classics to me. OutKast is close imo but Stankonia got some tracks I don't love. Still a dope album! I would include De La Soul too but I'm not the biggest fan of 3 Feet High and Rising. De La Soul Is Dead was my introduction to them and that's a much better album imo. What other groups/artists have great 4 album runs? I'm talking hip hop but it doesn't have to be hip hop related. I know Stevie and Prince will get mentioned.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

but that 2nd album.....

>but that 2nd album.....

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in the running for a great 4 albums run

Is he doing a bit?
Or is this a troll post?
Somebody tell me cause I'm not sure.

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Yep

Not worth responding to either way cuz either his taste sucks or he's trolling.

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top 25 hip-hop albums post) have very good taste.

... in this very post) have miserable taste.

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3 feet is that good

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sorry pal

that

that

Have a try

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i think most people that like 3 feet high more would think so.

de la soul's first four albums are all classics/great. which one you prefer doesnt take away from how great the others are.

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the man locked himself in a basement for four years and consecutively produced:

Enter the Wu-Tang
Tical
Liquid Swords
Return to the 36 Chambers
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Ironman

simply unbelievable in retrospect

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>the man locked himself in a basement for four years and
>consecutively produced:
>
>Enter the Wu-Tang
>Tical
>Liquid Swords
>Return to the 36 Chambers
>Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
>Ironman
>
>simply unbelievable in retrospect

The greatest run for a hip hop producer.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

Hard to Earn
Living Proof
Sun Rises In The East

All released in 18 months of each other.

This really is another post, but yeah...

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Hard To Earn
The Sun Rises In The East
Livin’ Proof
Wrath Of The Math
Moment Of Truth

That to me is better than RZA’s run.

Buuuuuut...

Mecca And The Soul Brother
The Main Ingredient
Center Of Attention
Soul Survivor

Is just outrageous

>Hard To Earn
>The Sun Rises In The East
>Livin’ Proof
>Wrath Of The Math
>Moment Of Truth
>
>That to me is better than RZA’s run.
>
>Buuuuuut...
>
>Mecca And The Soul Brother
>The Main Ingredient
>Center Of Attention
>Soul Survivor
>
>Is just outrageous
>

was and is trash

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The only songs that really stand out to me after all these years are Bring the Pain and the remixes to All I Need.

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Tical is wild underrated.

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The fact that he lost the original Tical, Deck's original debut, and most likely the second round for everyone else in two floods is one of hip hop's greatest what-if's. That run could have easily have been twice as long.

It's close though.

For me, ATLiens and Aquemini are hard to beat.
I like 3 Feet, but the next 3 De La albums are KILLER!

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That is if you count Section.80?

I've never looked at Gangstarr's run in a historical sense. Maybe it's because while I think Premier and Guru's are as consistent as any act in hip-hop, I, personally, don't have many 'kirk out' moments with their work, like I did OutKast or De La or with RZA's work.

I can't and won't argue that their run isn't historic. Premier is one of the GOATs for a reason and Guru was just the perfect complement to his beats. I wasn't a big fan of their work growing up but I've become a big fan of theirs as an adult and I see why others revere them.

But on a personal level, I don't hold their run as well as De La's or OutKast's or Kendrick's.

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Why do you feel it's less than his other albums?

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>Why do you feel it's less than his other albums?

For starters it only has 3 dope songs surrounded by some terrible shit lol

From a strict 'spitting' perspective, you may be right. But the depth of emotions Kendrick touches on and the level of detail he puts into his lyrics to construct his narrative are immense. Plus it's also his most accessible album if that makes sense. I personally feel it's his best work.

But I can also see that for as great as his albums are to listen to, they're really hard to come back to. Probably because they're like Barry Jenkins movies but our small attention spans have us all listening to the equivalent of film shorts.

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It's a good set but for me his run starts with GKMC... but maybe I'm alone in that. It feels like an exceptional debut but not necessarily an exceptional record.

GKMC/TPAB/DAMN is a heck of a run though. Don't know how anyone can not like DAMN -- in terms of regular rotation listening, I probably go back to it and GKMC the most.

-thebigfunk

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I respect TPAB and it has its moments, but overall it never fully grabbed me. DAMN didn’t do a lot for me either.

>I respect TPAB and it has its moments, but overall it never
>fully grabbed me. DAMN didn’t do a lot for me either.

I also like S.80 and GKMC best, they are the most musically palatable for my tastes.

But like you, I respect the vision and am a trillion percent on board with the content of TPAB, obviously. But musically it didn't grab me either. It's almost a chore to get through from a production standpoint. Just not for me sonically. I gave it a spin this past summer to see if maybe my opinion would change, but it did not. Haha.

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>But like you, I respect the vision and am a trillion percent
>on board with the content of TPAB, obviously. But musically it
>didn't grab me either. It's almost a chore to get through from
>a production standpoint. Just not for me sonically. I gave it
>a spin this past summer to see if maybe my opinion would
>change, but it did not. Haha.

So this is really interesting to me. I'm pretty similar: I really love TPAB as a whole, will easily call it a classic, but it's not something I want to listen to often. And even if you break it down track by track, it's kind of a hard sell. It's the whole that counts. And I think that you hear this *way* more about TPAB than really any other hip hop record I can think of.

I don't have any issues with this from an artistic standpoint but it's kind of unique in hip hop, I think. And it's really hard for me to pin down *why* it is the case with TPAB.

-thebigfunk

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It's not nearly as good as the three classics (to me) that came after it. But it's a really good debut.

Either way, if you include Section.80 the list is backheavy. More so than any other artist listed in the thread.

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I love Gang Starr like everyone else (or maybe I don’t lol) but it’s not on the same level.

Hard To Earn is the second best Gang Starr album to me behind Moment Of Truth and that dropped in 94 and wasn’t better than OutKast’s debut.

OutKast only gets better from there.

There’s just something special about what Kast represented.

I agree, I don’t love everything on Stankonia but the highs of that album are so much higher than the weakest Gang Starr album in their run which is Step Into The Arena in my opinion.

And y’all can say what you want about Beats, Rhymes, & Life but that shit is classic to me and give ATCQ a better run than Gang Starr as well.

lol...get all the way the FUCK out

we are talking about hip hop right?? stankonia is a great record... a great record but its just as much pop as it is rap

comparing that to step in the arena...is like comparing kendrick to bandana

it dont even make sense

and step in the arena is fucking better

just to get a rep? check the technique? are bonafide hip hop classics!

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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Fear of a Black Planet
Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black

People tend to forget just how great Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em is. EPMD's run was flawless. And I'm a huge fan of those first four Redman albums.

I'd probably put those three ahead of Gang Starr, but behind De La.

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Doc’s Da Name is dope!

... but oh well.

If you want to reduce it to 3 album runs, then that moves the goalposts to make it a bit more interesting. Hard to top Rakim's first three albums.

Criminal Minded
By All Means Necessary
Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop
Return of the Boom Bap

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>Edutainment is REALLY dope.

Exactly.


Can't have a 4 album run that skips albums. That's not a run.


Runs must contain consecutively released albums. No skips.

To people like US, a record is a piece of history. A moment in time.
Most people don't get it.

Yeah, I'm saying... for me.... People Under The Stairs have 4 back to backs that I think are trophies and enjoy more than your gangstarr run

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Though there's some question as to whether "...Or Stay Tuned" counts, as it's an official release, even it's one made up of mostly OST leftovers.

If we leave out "...Or Stay Tuned," I prefer the run of:

Question...
OST
Stepfather
Fun-DMC

or even

OST
Stepfather
Fun-DMC
Carried Away

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to get those 4.

Straight Outta Compton (NWA Group)
Amerikkkas Most Wanted
Kill At Will (EP)
Death Certificate
The Predator

That's 4 1/2 albums

..i'd throw Masta Ace in the mix too ..and if you love his cold chillin LP as much as I do, he probably has 6 LPs to throw in the ring

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*shrug*

He was the first 'hardcore' MC I got into and so his work has a special place in my hip-hop heart. I even liked a lot of Lethal Injection. That's how deep my appreciation of his work was.

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...look at all these amazing runs by all of these amazing artists.

And people still wanna put Nas near the top of all-time lists because of ONE classic 8 1/2 song album performance.

You've gotta be kidding me.

You sound foolish

Nah not the best/greatest, but their

DYWM through Phrenology deserves more love imo.

I was about to do the same.

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May not be "greatest" but that run was dope and consistent as fuck.

I wanted to post DOOM today too but it's a little more convoluted w/him obviously cuz he rapped under so many different monikers and shit haha.

But Doomsday, Take Me to Your Leader, Vaudeville Villain, Madvillainy ? C'mon now.

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i think at 3 albums they can go up against any 3 other 3 albums. for me phrenology did it too and i think it has aged well. i still think its a bit of a step down but no more than other "weaker" albums that have been listed in this post.

>i think at 3 albums they can go up against any 3 other 3
>albums. for me phrenology did it too and i think it has aged
>well. i still think its a bit of a step down but no more than
>other "weaker" albums that have been listed in this post.

It was so fantastic I've been unfairly hard on everything since.

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All of these rappers/groups below imo have great 4 album runs ( no order)

1.Redman
2.The Roots
3.Common
4.De La Soul
5.People Under the Stairs
6.ATCQ
7.Outkast
8.Aceyalone
9.Gang Starr
10.Blackalicious
11.Zion I
12.Del The Funkee Homosapien
13.Ice Cube
14.Atmosphere

or Kendrick

or Posdnous