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The Ten Albums
Kid Modernist:
De La Soul's Three Feet and Rising is definitely a classic if you want to introduce someone to good hip hop. If you are going to listen to gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle is pretty good, but basically the only album in the genre I like. Mostly sentimental reasons, probably.
icancook:
--- Quote from: Kid Modernist ---De La Soul's Three Feet and Rising is definitely a classic if you want to introduce someone to good hip hop. If you are going to listen to gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle is pretty good, but basically the only album in the genre I like. Mostly sentimental reasons, probably.
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Ah, but no one with their minds intact likes gangsta rap? It has to be poetry. Not some yoyo-gunz-n-hoes-blingbling-rap.
ihateusernames:
ah yes... this thread has made me join. I gotta throw in my 2¢ with the hip-hop selection, but feel free to disagree...
1) Erik B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
2) Gift of Gab - 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up
3) De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
4) Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
5) Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Then a random mishmash of other stuff...
6) Pogues - Hell's Ditch or Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
7) Sublime - 40 oz. to Freedom
8) Bad Brains - I against I
9) Ted Hawkins - The Next Hundred Years
10) Morphine - Cure for Pain.
crud, there's some older stuff in here. off to the other topics to update my music...
MilkmanDan:
You'd give someone 'De La Soul is Dead' over '3 Feet High and Rising'?
I really don't know about that. Paul's Boutique, Low End Theory and Follow the Leader are all solid recs as well. 4th Dimensional Rocket Ships, not so sure. It's a great album, but, well I'm not sure really. It just doesn't grab me enough.
ihateusernames:
Yeah, I had to think about that one for a while. There's nothing wrong with 3 Feet, it's a great album (one of the first tapes I ever bought, and I still have it). I just don't think it's a good example of De La overall. De La Soul is Dead gets rid of the daisy and pothole imagery, keeps the production ideas and feels more like Native Tongue. It came down to Utopia vs. Reality. Plus, Biddies in the BK Lounge cracks me up every time I hear it.
You're right, I've rethought Gift of Gab. Replace it with Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow. You'd get to keep Gift, add Chief Xcel and guests by ?uestlove and Lyrics Born.
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