Fav rap albums

What do anons on Sup Forums consider their favourite rap album?

No negativity please, we all have different tastes

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I don't understand how this never got memed. I mean, I know Fantano did his whole "no" thing, but I mean look at that cover. It's totally meme-worthy.

Good

Shit imo

Haven't digged this yet

A personal fave. From it's catchy songs to its dramatic, it's theme is interesting and its subject matter dark. And all the while, DMX delivers good rhymes over well made beats.

I discount Illmatic as a fave because of how it's incomparably good it is to most hip hop in existence.

If Illmatic is in your top 10 you can just stop commenting rap altogether any time.

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>No negativity please, we all have different tastes
No nigga if someone has shit taste they deserve to be called out
Like this guy If we go fav as of recent.

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this album can get really really corny sometimes but when it bangs it FUCKING bangs

And if we go with all time. Bam

If your favourite rap album is a 2 day old drake rip off shit mixtape you better not criticise anyone else you bamboon

>tory lanez
>kendrick lamar
>kanye west
>future
>drake
>calls others out on bad taste
kys imminently

yeah kendrick and kanye so bad xd

Lotta corny shit in there senpai

Edgy

No, his taste is different from yours, its not shit

I've listened to this like 1-2 times a week for the past 2 months. Can't stop. Not all time fav but definitely my favorite from the past like 3 years. I just wish it didn't end so abruptly.

I really fucking liked that album.

Yes. Particularly Kendrick. Late Registration has a pass, but Kendrick is nothing but an industry puppet. Sad to see how they brainwashed so many on /moo.

I really want to stir up the haters but I'm not sure if its the right time, though

Still haven't found anything that tops this, it's what OP's album was attempting to revive.

Definitely an underrated release probably the best to come out of the west coast scene.

One of the rare albums where the skits are actually worth shit

Never really been super impressed with Big Sean. What should I expect from this?

>kendrick?
>industry puppet?
Discarded.

Damn man, this album was a huge grower for me. I don't know why I didn't listen to it sooner. I don't think I touched it at all in 2015. I started listening to it this year and it just clicked for me. some of the beats on it are so great.

That weird beat on "Off Top" is hypnotising.

Only good things in 2016

I can't listen to that album after watching FDT video

11/10

OP's album was nowhere near as good as this but it was still in my top ten

Except you missed Aesop Rock, Death Grips, Masta Ace, clipping., Blueprint, Joey Purp, Open Mike Eagle, Ugly Heroes, Oddisee, Kanye.

how has this not been mentioned yet?

>tfw you like 2001 and don't like The Chronic

Ye was trash.
clppng i skipped
iiiDrops didn't impress me

Rest I didn't bother

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please tell me you're not the same ayysop fan from yuki.la/mu/66418052

Check clipping, aesop and masta ace.

I liked it when I first listened to it but after revisiting it I totally fell in love with it. Grief is possibly the closest I've heard a song come to sonically representing millennial malaise/depression. The grating drums, the lazy, molasses flow, the way-too-relatable lyrics. Fuck man. I really haven't heard any other rap album that captures the same feel as this one.
Slime Season 3 is underrated.
Joey Purp makes some of the most middling, medicore, forgettable hip-hop I've ever listened to.

thats cool man
I like 2001 just as much, in fact I still listen to them both on a regular basis

There were like 3 Aesop fans in that thread. I was one of them, yes.
I can't wait for another Earl project. I liked that it was short, yet it may have been just a little too short for me.

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Shut up. You know nothing about Hip-Hop is Illmatic is in your top 10. It's definitely one of the best albums of all time, but it's not fucking top 10 unless you're entry level as fuck.

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Not that guy but I never ever listen to Illmatic. It's okay, but to me it's nothing special. I know that's pretty unpopular amongst hip hop fans, but I just don't see the huge appeal.

remember the Tyga fan?
oh shame that was cringey as fuck, not watching the tyga dude liking tyga but the faggots trying to roast him

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Top tier taste but I'm sorry to inform you that this will always be the best thing Three 6 Mafia ever did.
Can we not pretend that Thug was nearly as good before Barter 6?

Yeah. It got old fast. Tyga is garbage, but there's no point in reiterating it a thousand times.

can we not pretend that people cared about young thug before pitchfork gave him a 8.5

>Below the Heavens
my nigga

What are you hype for hip hop friends?

Danny Brown, Pusha T, and I don't know what else is coming out.

I don't know anything about what pitchfork gives who. I haven't been here for like 3 or so years.
I tried going back and listening to his old tapes.There's some good shit but the fact of the matter is that he's just gotten much, much better at choosing beats.

I don't see the hype over Young Thug. Lyrics are trash, and the beats are pretty much the only reason I really listen.

u forgot

You don't see it as much on his big singles but throughout his albums he generally does some fun vocal experimentation and surprisingly it usually works out.
Lyrics are mostly irrelevant in this style of rap.

>You be calling all your homegirls like i'm his wife
>But naah, you tripping, reevaluate your life
>I can't love no bitch, every single ho is trife
What did he mean by this?

my go-to pick for best rap album is UGK - Ridin Dirty. Houston is my favorite rap scene, and it's tough to argue anybody but UGK represented it best overall

my #2, Three 6 just captured this incredible aesthetic with the combination of the lo-fi production. sing-song rapping technique, and dark imagery

if we're doing a top 9 today i guess here's what i'd put

That's why I'm not a big trap fan. I don't see it as a sub genre of hip hop that has much more longevity. It will stick around, but I don't see it having much more popularity over the next 5 years.

geto boys

young thugs verses on givenchy from rich gang tha tour are some of my favorite material in hip hop the past couple years

Does he stray away from the sex, ferrari, drugs, lean shit?

aesthetic and cult of personality

Not completely terrible, I mean in an album of 20 songs he has bout 3-4 good songs and the rest is only good for clubs

Same goes for Rick Ross, except he does have albums where every single song is actually amazing

I feel like Rick Ross is better on features. He was fantastic on MBDTF.

Geto Boys are amazing, I think Scarface is one of the greatest rappers of all time, but overall UGK were more consistent. Super Tight and Ridin Dirty are both classics. the worst UGK album is maybe Dirty Money which is still fantastic. going on into the 2000s UGK had Underground Kingz which is incredible even with it being a double album, plus it had International Players Anthem which is arguably one of the greatest hip hop songs ever made. basically I'd say Geto Boys established Houston rap, UGK took up where they left off and went even further

At the moment it's probably this desu

I really enjoyed Black Market, entire album was awesome IMO

This guy needs more love on this board and in general.

I'll have to give it a listen, thanks.

I made this two days ago
Not the guy but after listening to all this (and this is only the 90s) and some more, Illmatic is still top 10.

Why do I constantly feel like I'm the only one that doesn't see the hype over Illmatic. I must be a pleb.

You're not alone

i mean if "what does he rap about" is the way you value a rapper you're limiting yourself. any rapper can rap about girls, cars, money, and drugs just like any rapper can rap about poverty and social issues.

the reason i like young thug is because i feel like he's using his own voice as an instrument. i love his verses in givenchy because he's just constantly switching up his flow, he starts up with a really simple basis of a few syllables, riffs off of it, using a few variations on that flow. when he starts doubling up he says "don't stop, you know i can't stop", like he's signifying the shift. then he goes back to a more relaxed flow ("you know i got stamina"), until he finally goes back to the same flow and rhythm he started his verse out in and then rides the rest of the song out

idk i get people valuing traditional lyricism but so many rappers have done that before, the shit young thug does is so much more interesting to me

While I don't mind sex, drugs and alcohol as a topic, it seems to be pretty much the only thing that trap rappers talk about. That's why I asked. Although for the most part, lyrical content is important to me in hip hop.

Young Thug's experimentation with melody and pitch over eerie, sparse, often psychedelic beats, pulls you through an underwater dimension - almost like playing Mario on promethazine.

Thug's lyrics are spontaneous, playful and creative; he can make a legit analogy out of the most outlandish things.

He goes out of his way to be different, experiments out of joy for his craft.
Also most people fail to understand that everything about thugger's music is meant to be listened to in an altered state of mind

He uses his voice like an instrument and focuses on short non-sequiters as opposed to an overarching story for this reason

yeah i guess we're just coming at hip hop from different perspectives. for me it's not what you say but how you say it. i just want to see rappers using words in interesting ways.

I agree with that. I'm a big flow guy as well, but lyrical content is something I really want in hip hop. I feel like it's kind of fallen upon the way side for a lot of rappers in general. Not all, but a lot.
I don't dislike him or anything, I kind of enjoy him, but I don't think he's one of the greatest hip hop artists of the 2010s or anything. I do agree that trap music can be kind of hypnotising sometimes, really alluring like.

I just realised I was replying to pasta. It was so obvious, yet I didn't see it at the time.

Future is generic trap garbage, but you should check Barter 6 out. The album's barely there production doesn’t so much frame Thug's rapping as it does provide a surface for his words to dance upon, to explore the art of rapping in multiple dimensions: melodically, rhythmically, lyrically, and in terms of composition. His voice glides through the thick absence of sound. He’s responsible for a lot of the songwriting; he knocks out his own hooks, and his writing speaks to his use of phrasing, his backgrounds, the flows he uses, and the way he plays with each song’s internal architecture. On “Halftime,” his car-screech adlibs are elongated—it’s as if a camera panned suddenly from a pinprick of light, causing it to blur—so he can change tones, harmonizing this background yelp with his own main vocals.

Thug's lyrical style stands out in a number of ways; the most obvious is his ear for figurative language. Thug’s similes often build upon familiar imagery, but move in unexpected directions. On “Check,” he opens rapping about a “Mink coat with the rolls like a Shar Pei”; later on, he raps, “All my niggas, they hard, call them beetles.” These aren’t punchlines intended to get rap fans doubling over laughing (although they can be funny in their unpredictability). Thug seems more interested in an original and idiosyncratic approach to imagery, in discovering pathways in language that haven’t already been heavily traveled.

In this, his lyrical approach is closer to a rapper like Raekwon than it is Lil Wayne, with whom Thug is frequently compared through some fault of his own. But any close reading of his lyrics suggest comparisons between The Barter 6 and Wayne’s Carter series, for which it is named, are a total misdirection. Where Wayne shredded his vocals against hip-hop’s formal constraints, Thug is a synthesist, a rapper of control, an artist in the process of reassembly.

really makes you think

r8 my current rotations

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I'd hang with you desu. Also, Tetsuo & Youth is amazing and I'm glad to see someone else acknowledge it.

for an example specifically from young thug:

one of my favorite moments from da barter is in check

"if cops pull up i put that crack in my crack / or, i put that brack in my brack"

he's taking a pretty standard idea (hiding drugs from police officers), but then in the framework of his own verse, he checks himself for using c's instead of b's, and corrects himself. he could have easily just said "brack in my brack" easily and anybody listening to it would have gotten that it's a bloods reference, but by intentionally using c first, he's kinda breaking the fourth wall on his own lyrics

>who/10

>I'm trying hard to be obscure as possible: The post

Fair enough man. To each their own. I say do your thing, enjoy it as much as possible. Maybe one day I'll enjoy him as much as you do.

>that complete lack of southern hiphop

str8 busta

East side, nigga.

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>mfw listening to diamonds & wood as I saw your post

My nigga. Altough I find your lack of scarface disturbing.

Gonna have to check out this Homeboy Sandman. Dude gets great reviews for like every album he's released.

>old school west vs east mentality
>tfw chitown and dirty south in rap thread

>In this, his lyrical approach is closer to a rapper like Raekwon than it is Lil Wayne

>"Ayy, she runnin' away from my weed like it farted"

>"She suck on that dick on the plane and I just called her airhead (Woo!)"

>"Bitches on my dick cause my nuts look like raisins"
that nigga the truth

Truly the best lyricist of our time. Far superior to Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.

There are only 2 obscure artists on there, SpaceCats and Dida, the rest might be lesser known but far from obscure.
>canibus
>obscure
I guess it also helps not being born after 1997

Are you fucking with me?

No one can touch him, even UGK knew he was untouchable.

If you want to talk about classics he has several.

Mr. Scarface is Back is to southern hiphop what Velvet Underground was to rock in the 60s.

Mr. Scarface is Back, The Diary, and The Fix are undisputed masterpieces. The rest of his discog is higly rated, he has never made a bad ablum.

Born in 94, only heard of Canibus. and Illogic.

94, only heard of homeboy sandman and canibus get slaughtered by diz at KOTD

Southside holdin' playa

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