In a B-Boy Stance
Oct 25 '00
If you have a question about milking a cow, you’d ask a cattle farmer, right? If you wanted to know about tax evasion, money laundering or womanizing, you’d hit up the White House, correct? Well when you want to know about the top 10 hip hop albums of all time, you’d better ask somebody that was there. I was the cat sneaking out of my bedroom window to battle heads at Studio 54 (the one in Jersey, ah! See you didn’t know there was a ’54 in Jersey did you). I took this little review seriously, dug in the crates and all that, youknowwhatimsayin? So I got an opinion about all this rap s**t. Check this out…
10) Gang Starr- STEP IN THE ARENA: Do not sleep. Most of y’all fake ass hip hoppers never even heard this album. Now whut!!!. “Check the meaning of the Name” GANG STARR…. Yo! Primo and Guru, this is their best album. Straight up. I bought this my first year of college on the hum bug. I was in Nashville, (I got gassed into going out there) I bought it at the book store with my meal card. They was rockin’ dat s**t. Mad joints, Check the Technique, Step in the Arena, Take a Rest, For real if you don’t have it, cop it.
9) Mobb Deep- THE INFAMOUS: Yo! When I first heard ‘Shook Ones’ it renewed my faith in hip hop. Prodigy was just flowin’ and Havoc represented luv on the beats. Yo! When they mixed in Nas and Ray… that was some hot s**t sun, word.
8) Raekwon- ONLY BUILT FOR CUBAN LINX: This joun was only built for cats that rock links, WHUT!!! Ray was making hits by mistake on this one (Incarcerated Scarfaces). Yo! Remember Nas’s verse on Verbal Intercourse, “…Props is a true thug’s wife, its like a cycle, n**ggas go home some will go in, do a bullet come back do the same s**t again” Starky Luv took it to the next level –“I don’t want no n**gas soundin’ like me, on no album” Damn I might have to move this one up.
7) EPMD- STRICTLY BUSINESS: All through High School this was my favorite group. I quoted them in my yearbook “He who don’t believe get the Bozack” (yeah I know that’s from their second album, so what). Parrish is cool, but E- was my favorite. He was sayin’ some ill s**t on this album. Remember the Steve Martin dance? No you don’t.
6) Brand Nubian: ONE FOR ALL- One of the most innovative records of all time. They mixed their form of righteousness, with a bunch of straight braggadocio s**t. Reggae, dance hip hop (when you were still allowed to do it). Puba had a mad unique flow. I still rock this one. I’ll be in the club and all the females get hype when they hear…. SLOW DOWN!
THE TOP FIVE:
5) Dr. Dre- THE CHRONIC- Spring break ’93. We pumped this from Maryland all the way to Florida, over and over and over for 15 hours up and back, and again. Deez Nuttz, Bootsy Farnworth, Hot apple turnovers…a couple cokes. The beats were ridiculous, we got introduced to SNOOP, Dre represented, Rage, top five baby.
4) NWA- STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: I ain’t gonna front, I was hatin’ on these cats for years. I had to give in. They were straight rippin’ it. Easy couldn’t write, but he effortlessly attacked a mic. Beats by Dre of course, and they told you what was up in their town. Nobody really cared about Compton, or any place except NYC, and Philly up until that point. Yo! They put the West on the map and it ain’t been the same since.
3) Slick Rick- THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF SLICK RICK: This cat I knew, liked ‘Teenage Love’. So he kept playin it, rewindin’ it over and over. So I was like “Yo! What’s this soft rap, turn this off.” He kept playin’ it. Cats, it grew on me- then when I heard the rest of the album I was like damn. I’m feelin’ every song on this album. We used to make up dances to’Mona Lisa’. Remember “Hey Ya Hey Ya Hey Ya HEY?
2) Public Enemy- It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back: I read some other reviews and they left this off. Memo to Epinion.com: If a reviewer writes a hip hop review of the top 10 hip hop albums ever, and they leave this off, straight up, ban them from the site, the integrity of your whole business model is at stake. This album meant everything, bringing consciousness plus a message to their art. The beats were totally new and Flava had/has dumb energy. Remember that video, you know which one, The Night Of The Living Baseheads…. Hah hah, that was ill.
1) BDP- Criminal Minded: This is the best album of all time. Bar nun. Say it ain’t. Name another album with 3+ undisputed classics (The Bridge is Over, South Bronx, The P’ is Free, Super Hoe) I don’t mean 3+ good songs, I mean classics. Hip hop that transcends time. I’ve referred to other albums that were hot during their time, but if you released them now, people would front. You could release this album today and still drop bomb. These cats didn’t even receive one dime for their efforts. These rap cats learned their game on the backs of BDP- lyrically, musically, philosophically, and business wise. Respect dat.
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Member: Antwone Harris
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