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Nori · Feb 20, 2016

Feb 20, 2016
So they let this cac off the hook but they lock up ma n----- Bill Cosby

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx · Jan 25, 2016

Jan 25, 2016
U dont choose who u stan, it chooses u

Winter · Sep 4, 2022

Sep 4, 2022
Kanye. At this point his personal life and erratic behaviour has overshadowed his music, which has also been subpar for years.

Ricky · Mar 14, 2022

Mar 14, 2022
Delete this before more people see

Mikey · Jun 20, 2017

Jun 20, 2017
one of the best hip hop songs of all time

Jehovah · Mar 31, 2017

Mar 31, 2017
Logic really hurt about not being able to say n----- lol

this man wanted to call his album "africaryan" im done :KoolAid1:

Jehovah · Mar 14, 2017

Mar 14, 2017
Changelog

15th March 2017
Added Missing Track 23:
A$AP Rocky - PMW "(All I Really Need] [Original]"

21st April 2017
Added:
Playboi Carti - New Choppa (feat. A$AP Rocky)
D.R.A.M - Gilligan (feat. A$AP Rocky & Juicy J)

30th April 2017
Added:
A$AP Mob - Wrong (feat. A$AP Rocky & A$AP Ferg)

26th May 2017
Added:
A$AP Mob - RAF (CDQ)

13th June 2017
Added:
Kanye West - Euro (feat. A$AP Rocky)
Mary J. Bllige - Love Yourself (feat. A$AP Rocky) [Remix]

30th June 2017
Added:
Tyler The Creator - Who Dat Boy (feat. A$AP Rocky)
A$AP Rocky - Feeling Good

21st January 2018
*Completed compilation (Every Rocky loosie/feature - 2018 has been added) *

Had to delete link; PM me if you want it

DKC · Apr 23, 2016

Apr 23, 2016

7. Mobb Deep - The Infamous (1995)

If I recall correctly, I don’t think anyone has guessed this so far. I had a feeling this might be one of the more surprising ones, as I feel like it usually gets passed over in favor of other phenomenal NY classics like Illmatic, Enter the Wu-Tang, and Ready to Die. Speaking of the latter, what I’ve always appreciated about The Infamous is that it feels timeless to me in the same way that Ready to Die does. While an album like Illmatic is an absolute classic, its sound feels a little “dustier” than Infamous or Ready to Die. I know the term “dusty” has a negative connotation these days, but I don’t think it’s always a bad thing. Madlib’s beats feel “dusty” in a lot of cases, but that’s part of the charm. Illmatic transports you back to 1994 and makes you feel like you’re right there shooting dice and drinking E&J with Nas in Queensbridge, and while The Infamous is certainly a product of the 90s, it’s not as explicit as Illmatic to me. Though it still boasts those sparse drums that characterized NY at the time, everything feels a little bit crisper, and songs like “Temperature’s Rising” and “Drink Away the Pain” help curb the sparseness. For that reason, I feel like it’s one of the more accessible 90s NY albums after Ready to Die and Reasonable Doubt.

Anyway, Mobb Deep makes pretty bad music now and have for quite some time (remember when they were in G-Unit? lol), but this and h--- on Earth are both classics in my eyes. The only song harder than “Shook Ones Pt. II” I can think of off the top of my head is “Ante Up,” and even so, I feel like “Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone” has a special place in every rap fan’s heart. “Drink Away the Pain” is probably in my top 25 favorite rap songs of all time as well. Also, Prodigy’s reaction to getting a 4.9 on Pitchfork is a 10.0:

6. Kendrick Lamar - section.80 (2011)

Sorry , but section.80 is, and always has been my favorite Kendrick album. Props to @Maad City for guessing this right (I feel like @JFK would have guessed this right as well), cuz everyone else who guessed Kendrick guessed good kid, m.A.A.d city.

Don’t get me wrong: good kid is Kendrick’s best album and I completely understand why most would pick it as their favorite. However, there’s a certain intrigue to section.80 that I don’t think Kendrick has captured since. I thought To p---- a Butterfly was going to have it, but it became less interesting upon each listen while section.80 gets more rewarding upon subsequent listens. Despite the somewhat botched ending, good kid is a great album I can throw on anytime as well, but I find section.80 to be a lot more fascinating in terms of its structure and more abstract nature. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: GKMC follows a very simple narrative, but there’s nothing wrong wth that because it executes that simple narrative extremely, extremely well. At the same time, having a more abstract narrative doesn’t necessarily make section.80 the better album either (if only TPAB stans could learn that).

Only a handful of albums have captivated me upon first listen as much as section.80, so much so that I listened to it something like 16 times the first few days after I downloaded it (and no, not because something something jazz something something 2pac, I just personally find this album really interesting and also sonically pleasing). Each song feels kind of like a vignette that tangentially relates to the overall story and themes of the album, but they aren’t fully and concretely connected to one another like on GKMC. 2016 Kendrick could not flip a p---- C sample and make it work to the degree “Blow My High Does” (this honestly might be my favorite Kendrick song on a good day). “ADHD” is obviously great. “f--- Your Ethnicity” remains by far my favorite Kendrick album opener. Despite somewhat of an awkward chorus, “Hol’ Up” gets stuck in my head forever and the beat is godly. Though the highs might be higher on good kid, section.80 remains my favorite front-to-back Kendrick listen.

5. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (2014)

Back when the first blog was open and we were making our Top 25 Rap Albums of the 2010s (so far), we all got in a pretty heated argument about this album (it was mostly @Narsh and I vs. @Slyk and @Koolo if I remember right). We had My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as number one, but the number two spot was between this and good kid, m.A.A.d city. If I’m being real, I’d pick Piñata over good kid pretty easily (as demonstrated by the previous entry in this list), but I think they are pretty close in quality. I only bring up the GKMC comparison because I think they share their biggest flaw: relatively lackluster endings. “Compton” and “Piñata” are both victory laps, but the latter is a little bit easier for me to separate from the rest of the album as “Shame” feels like a natural closer has the “Big Time Watts” skit to separate it. GKMC makes more of a clunky transition after “Sing About Me” with the inferior “Dying of Thirst” and “Real.” Still, “Piñata” is a decent posse cut with a few great verses (Domo, Meechy, and Gibbs obviously), but Gibbs’ verse is way too early in the song to have this be the last track, especially when it ends with a subpar Mac Miller verse.

Nitpicking aside, from Madlib’s production to Gibbs’ rapping to the features (it accurately states “featuring every MFer in the rap game worth f---ing with” on the cover), this album is virtually flawless in my eyes. Gibbs is a villain, but what I’ve always loved about him is that he’s an honest villain: he’ll call you out for cheating on your girl or doing blow, but only because you’re just like him. And of course, there’s the ruthless destruction of Young Jeezy on “Real,” which is probably the most underrated diss track of the past few years. It’s hard to talk about this album without going into a full review because legitimately every song is great. “High” might my favorite weed song of all time, and even though I have almost 100 plays of it on iTunes I still can’t manage to rap Danny Brown’s verse all the way through. Gibbs and Scarface complement each other perfectly on “Broken.” Most of all, Madlib’s production truly is timeless — the samples sound crisp and contemporary while still maintaining that “dusting off an old record” vibe. Also, multiple Friday references are also always a plus: “Skinny n-----, six wings mild sauce/With all the fries you can get me I tear them b------s off.”

Side note: the album was originally called Cocaine Piñata because it was supposedly inspired by a dream Gibbs had about a piñata full of cocaine.

4. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)

Tribe was probably the first artist or group I ever stanned. After my neighbor gave me a copy of their greatest hits (The Anthology), I downloaded their discography and spent hours scouring Limewire for anything labeled “feat. Q-Tip” or “feat. Phife Dawg,” which quickly got me into the Native Tongues Posse (De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep…and then honorary members like The Roots and the Beatnuts). Unfortunately that kinda spurred my “real hip-hop”/backpacker phase, but that attitude’s long gone and I discovered a lot of dope music through it so I ain’t mad about it.

Anyway, The Low End Theory was my favorite Tribe album for years and I think the majority of fans would pick it as their best. The highs might be higher on The Low End Theory (“Scenario,” “Check the Rhime,” “Jazz”), but Midnight Marauders isn’t far behind (“Electric Relaxation,” “Oh My God,” “The Chase, Part II”). I’m always a person who is going to value a holistic album experience more than just a collection of really good songs (even if said really good songs are better), so that’s where Marauders comes out ahead for me. It really does feel like the “Midnight Marauders Program” as it’s referred to on a couple of the short skits that break up the songs. As you probably could have guessed by the name, it’s one of my favorite albums to put on during a low-key night at home — something just doesn’t feel as right when I listen to it during the daytime. Though Q-Tip is probably in my top five favorite rappers of all time, Phife is equally as good on here. I think he’s one of the most underrated rappers in terms of quotables/humor (“Yo I'll take it back, I'm the Indian giver”; “I like my beats hard like two-day-old s---/steady eatin’ booty MCs like cheese grits”; “Let me hit it from the back, girl I won't catch a hernia/Bust off on your couch, now you got Seaman's Furniture”). R.I.P. Phife.

Mike Tyson · Sep 22, 2015

Sep 22, 2015
Bruh, I was about to hit play, but I don't think I can voluntarily subject myself to a female yelling.

My girl does that enough to me.

JMG · Feb 9, 2022

Feb 9, 2022
EMINEM X DRE X SNOOP X KENDRICK X MARY J

Ricky · Apr 12, 2021

Apr 12, 2021

DMX. Dark Man X. Earl Simmons aka The Dog.

What a loss for Hip-Hop and entertainment world... One of my favorite rappers of all time, his talent for creating bangers was unmatched. Nobody's song can hype me up as DMX. Bangers like "Party Up", "Where The Hood At", "X Gon Give It To Ya", "Get It On The Floor", "I Don't Dance" or "It's All Good" are party classics at this point. Once it's on - IT'S ON, believe me. Knowing my wild drunk nature I used to spaz the f--- out when X songs were on. Besides his natural fun, party vibe, X albums were full of raw, angry, sometimes sad tracks that pushed your mind into that weird reflection zone, where you was just thinking about life-related things. His wole catalogue is amazing, from early 1992 tracks to his latest and first posthumous release "X Moves" his mic presence was unreal. There's not many rappers that energy can flow through you while bumping their music. X was one of them.

I remember my introduction to X - like I said in the other thread I was a little non-english speaking fella, knowing only a very few english words like "f---" (obviously), "taxi" or "stop", cause stop is stop lmao. One of my older friends had him on his wallpaper, that picture where X looked so skinny, standing in the middle of the street with his dogs. I think it was a pic from this photoshoot, or even this particular photo:

We were sitting in his room, downloading music illegaly and he played me some song, I don't even remember what it was, but I liked it a lot. These days were the days when I got hooked up into Hip-Hop. I was listening to Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg mostly back then, mostly west-coast stuff. When I've heard DMX I was like "Whoa, that's banging" , I think it was "Party Up" or "Get At Me Dog" - I'm not sure. It was early 2000s.

Since then, I was downloading some single songs of X. Never a whole album. Once my "listen to everything, cause I am Hip-Hop" phase kicked in, I downloaded every X album and man... I fell in love with this style. I even recorded a few short tracks over DMX instrumentals back in 2011-2013. If I find them I'll post it for laughs.

I was listening to him with my friends, I was blasting it at my parties, I was bumping his raw songs when I felt down. He was and still is one of my favorite artists. I felt devastated once I heard the news about him suffering a heart attack. I knew he had a drug problem, but I wasn't expecting him dying. It's still surreal to me tbh.

I have so many great memories related with his music/my friends wilding out, but I won't post it, cause I don't wanna bore you more than I'm doing right now lol.

I just wanna say: Thank you DMX for great music, even greater contribution to the culture, for making my childhood/teenager/grown up days more fun. I will always blast your music and I hope my kids if I ever had some will blast your tracks at their parties in the future. f---, this is sad.

Now, here are my favorite DMX songs, in no order, no descripion, just favorite tracks:

(I made a song over the same Phill Collins sample - not Sunnyvale Cheeseburger distrubutor, the artist)

(When I heard Party Up in Chappelle's early special, bro, instant smile on my face)

(Song over Boss' Life instrumental, amazing)

f--- it, I could post any song at this point. I went down the memory lane just by finding these tracks.

RIP DMX, I will forever miss you. I can't wait to hear this new album.

Sav Stanfield · Nov 16, 2019

Nov 16, 2019

Plenty of artists have made 2 great albums in a row, plenty of artists have made 2 back to back classics.

But to follow up one of the most influential and important hip hop albums of all time with yet another genre-defining, game-changing masterpiece puts Dre in an elite not many others can claim. n----s wanna be the King but the Ace is back.

one of the first albums I ever owned. listening to this felt like opening a portal to another dimension. its a towering landmark in hip hop history, marked the beginning of the Aftermath dominance that would define the decade that followed and 20 years later and still sounds like it comes from the future. No one's been able to replicate it, not even Dre himself.

asvdawg · Apr 22, 2018

Apr 22, 2018

Big Dangerous · Feb 2, 2018

Feb 2, 2018

The Lyricvore · Nov 15, 2017

Nov 15, 2017
OUT NOW!!

Cunner · Aug 2, 2017

Aug 2, 2017
LIL TUNECHI OFF THE WALL LIKE SPIDERMAN !!!

Ricky · Jul 20, 2017

Jul 20, 2017
< link removed >

It's version with the new Dr. Dre verse, not the one leaked back in the days.

The Gooch · Aug 6, 2016

Aug 6, 2016
Both tlop and views were a step back lyrically for both artist.

Tlop featuring quotables such as the bleached a------ line

And views with the happy meal line, chaining Tatum

Now you may be thinking "this is just a coincidence" but wait for it...

They're also neighbors now, this is more than a coincidence imo as both artists have been found to not write 100% of their recent lyrics. So my theory is after QM left, Drake started using Ye's writer for help. Don't bother combating my claims bc they are the truth

WPG · Apr 30, 2016

Apr 30, 2016
Since @BigCountry posted his ten favorite albums of all time, and since he asked me to do something similar, I decided to put together a list. Over the course of the weekend I'm going to slowly (two at a time?) reveal what I believe to be the top 20 rap albums released since January 1, 2000.

To be honest, I'm procrastinating a little bit--I'm on, like, four deadlines as we speak. So my posts are not going to be as thoughtful and considered as BC's; each album will probably come accompanied by one or two sentences of explanation, but I'll add in what I think is the best song from the record as a Youtube link.

I'm not limiting it to one album per artist, though I will immediately take the cop-out route and say that I didn't consider 808s & Heartbreak as it's really not a rap album.

Please post saying that you'd like to be mentioned. I don't want to steal anyone else's mention list. The first few will be up this afternoon. Start guessing.

Base Reality · Apr 17, 2016

Apr 17, 2016

Welcome to the SXN 80's Official List of Classics!

Okay, so I had this idea which is something I think could turn out to be really awesome if members contribute.

Everyone is always arguing about whether or not an album is a classic right? So in this thread every week (every 3 days for now until we have tougher nominations), members will vote between 5 albums (these 5 nominations will be chosen by me based off how often I see them described as classic, you can also suggest nominations). At the end of the week the album with the most votes will be certified "SXN 80 Classic". Voting will take place every week (3 days) until we have a pretty solid list. The first few rounds should be pretty easy as many albums are Classic Status worthy but things will get tougher!

Rules: 1 vote, per member, per week (3 days). Only counting Studio Albums. List will be mainly focused on hip-hop/rap albums for now but may branch off into different genres later on.

Note: The nomination that comes in 2nd place will also be nominated the following week, while the remaining 3 will NOT be eligible for nomination the following week but will be allowed in the weeks to come.

Just to clear things up, the goal of this is to create the most credible list of Classics on the internet. In order do this we must vote every album onto the list. If we were to excuse certain albums and deem them already as classics the list would lose credibility.

This weeks nominations: On Page 12

Like this post to be mentioned weekly when the next round of voting begins!

Certified SXN 80 Classics:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West

Certified Classic on 4/20/2016

Illmaitc
Nas

Certified Classic on 4/22/2016

Reasonable Doubt
Jay Z

Certified Classic on 4/25/2016

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Kendrick Lamar

Certified Classic on 7/19/2016

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