For all microphone fiends, the NOMINATIONS THREAD for the BEST RAP/HIP-HOP SINGLES AND ALBUMS EVER poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr61P5P-jFc

Nominations end 21st April, in 1 month.

You get to nominate 25 singles/freestyles/breaks and 25 albums/mixtapes/instrumental albums.

There will be 2 polls.

You can vote or nominate for only one if you wish, but not 50 of 1 and 0 of the other - 25 is the limit on each. Real headz shouldn't have a problem with either side though.

The votes will let you vote for a list of up to 50 singles and 50 albums. The points system will be in descending order, #2 = 49 points, #3 = 48 etc. but with an additional boost of 60 points for your #1. You don't have to vote for 50 of each and if you say just voted for three records, they would be attributed 60, 49, 48.

Preferably I'd like to get enough votes to make this a serious TOP 150 of each, counting down 30 on each weekday.

Peace Godz.

Discussion of what counts as hip-hop or not can come in this thread if you want to be a sucker and try to pretend that James Brown or Mary J. Blige or Asher Roth should be allowed in.

requesting unranked ballot option for those of us who don't care to decide on rankings within a top 50 ballot, plz?

Hadn't thought about it. Sure. Too lazy to do the maths right now.

or, an option for #1 (60 pts.) + 49 unranked tracks (25 pts. apiece) would be rad

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)
MF Doom - Dead Bent (album version)

(traxx)

ilxor yeah that is cool.

So voting will be 50 ranked votes, 60-#1 and then 49-#2 down; 60-#1 and then 25-#unranked. You have to have a #1 though.

Yes, can people clearly state whether things are tracks or albums. Even if I do have p decent knowledge of things, I may still get things confused.

tracks (3/25)-

Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
The Beatnuts - Reign of the Tec

Presuming Dom and maybe Ethan or whoever still read ilm and want to be involved, feel free to go through someone.

Tracks (6/25)-

Mikes Jones, Slim Thug & Paul Wall - Still Tippin'
Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
The Notorious B.I.G. - Kick In The Door

Albums (3/25)-

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Gang Starr - Step In The Arena

i don't even know where to start

traxx (6/25)

Lil Wayne - 3 AM
Flipmode Squad - Cha Cha Cha
Eminem - If I Had
Lil B - The Age of Information

(7/25)

Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin pt. 1

Rebecca Black - Friday (Rap Mix)

traxx (9/25)

Ghostface Killah (ft MethodMan, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, Redman) - Buck 50
Madvillain - Curls

bump #1

TRACKS (25/25)

Mos Def - Ghetto Rock
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump
Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message
Whodini - Magic's Wand
Run-DMC - It's Like That
Missy Elliott - Work It
Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
2Pac ft. Dr. Dre - California Love
Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
LL Cool J - Rock the Bells
Cocoa Brovaz - Super Brooklyn
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a G Thang
Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin'
AMG - Bitch Betta Have My Money
Newcleus - Jam on It (← this had better count)
Stetsasonic - On Fire
L'Trimm - Cars With the Boom
Q-Tip - Vivrant Thing
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
Sole - Selling Live Water

Several obvious/canon choices included here just because it might as get done and I'm fine doing it. Also a few that heads will probably laugh at, but whatever.

Electro hits like Jam On It totally count.

In that case, I'd like to swap out that Sole song that nobody would vote for besides me with this:

Pretty Tony - Jam the Box

tracks(15/25)

Ice-T - New Jack Hustler
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly (probably prefer it to "Stay High")
50 Cent - In Da Club
Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
UGK feat. Outkast - International Players Anthem
Warren G. feat. Nate Dogg - Regulate
De La Soul - Eye Know
Run D.M.C. - Rock Box
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
MC Lyte - Ruffneck
B-Rock and the Bizz - My Baby Daddy
Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint

albums (3/25)

Digable Planets - Reachin'
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Ice-T - O.G.

This is easy for the single and I cannot believe it wasn't mentioned yet:

A Side ---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gww98XxU1lc

B Side ---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_PjuLsTDNw

Perfection.

Almost nommed that one. Didn't like it as much as I'd remembered liking it upon a quick revisit.

Jesus, what is wrong with it? There's a reason it's the most sampled rap single ever...

Sure it sounds a little dated but so does almost all classic hip-hop.

Soft spot for this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRAFPHD8W4

Never figured out where that guitar riff came from. Anyone know?

ALBUMS (14/25)

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Stetsasonic - On Fire
LL Cool J - Radio
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Kanye West - Graduation
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
2Pac - All Eyez on Me

Sure it sounds a little dated but so does almost all classic hip-hop.

That's not it. I love LOVE old drum-machine hip-hop. "The Show" just sounds a little clunkier than I remember.

ALBUMS (16/25)

Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

(a couple of so-obvious-I-actually-forgot-them nominations)

Here's my nominations, tried to keep it to one nom per artist, which was kinda difficult:

TRACKS

Man Parrish feat. Freeze Force - Boogie Down (Bronx)
Pras feat. ODB & Mya - Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)
Eve feat. Drag-On - Let's Talk About
Organized Konfusion - Bring It On
The Sequence - Funk You Up
Nas - One Mic
Skee-Lo - I Wish
Cypress Hill - Illusions
Rah Digga - Lessons of Today
Ice Cube - Dead Homiez
Rubberoom - Born
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
MC Lyte - Paper Thin
Wu-Tang Clan feat. Isaac Hayes - I Can't Go to Sleep
Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
Busta Rhymes - Fire It Up
Ty - Wait a Minute
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
Queen Latifah feat. Monie Love - Ladies First
Luniz - I Got 5 on It
Ice-T - I'm Your Pusher
Naughty by Nature - OPP
Lil' Kim - Whoa
Onyx - Last Dayz

ALBUMS

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
AZ - Aziatic
Eve - Ruff Ryder's First Lady
Nas - God's Son
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep / Niggamortis
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
The Brotherhood - Elementalz
The Lady of Rage - Necessary Roughness
The Coup - Genocide & Juice
Dead Prez - Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1
Blak Twang - Kik Off
Killah Priest - Priesthood
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Black Moon - Total Eclipse
The Majesticons - Beauty Party
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine
Yo-Yo - Make Way for the Motherlode
Divine Styler - Wordpower 2: Directrix
Da Beatminerz - Brace 4 Impak
Screwball - Y2K
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
2Pac - Me Against the World
Various - Major Force – The Original Art-Form (Major Force label compilation)

omg yes paper thin

guessing grime counts as hip-hop? (and indeed the global hip-hop diaspora eg mc solaar)

Even though it's good and everything, I'm kinda hoping 36 Chambers doesn't win the album poll. I have no idea what might win the tracks poll - that one is certainly the more interesting of the two.

I see no reason why non-US hip hop shouldn't count. I thought of nominating a couple of Finnish rap records, but decided to leave them out because none of you would've heard them anyway.

ctrl-f'd couldn't see it so v pleased to be the one to nominate the eventual poll-topper:
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance

I'm hoping someone else besides me will vote for Elementalz and Kik Off, those are dope UK albums.

http://www.rivmixx.com/uploads/assets//hiphop/dizzee-rascal-embed.jpg

considering this was the cover of hiphop connection, i'll allow it.

(x-post)

Holy shit, I completely forgot about Digital Underground! Someone please nominate their first two albums.

Are we voting any track of any given album or strictly limited to single releases?

Tracks (14/25) -

Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, Missy Elliott and Twista - Is That Yo Chick?
Jay-Z and Juvenile - Snoopy Track
Outkast - B.O.B.
Mark '45' King - #900 Number
Klashnekoff - It's Murda
Jehst - Adventures in New Bohemia
Group Home - Supa Star

Albums (10/25) -

The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
KMD - Black Bastards
Klashnekoff and Joe Buddha - Lionheart: Tussle With The Beast
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
The Fugees - The Score
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
David Banner - Mississippi: The Album

Moka: Well considering I opened it up to freestyles, I think album tracks can count.

i guess the rule for r&b/hip-hop tracks is division of verses between rapping and singing? if 50% or more of verses are rapping, it counts, if less then it doesn't?

I don't think we need a strict formula. I nommed that one Cee-Lo album because it feels like hip hop to me, even though there might be more than 50% of singing on it. If you nom something, and people don't think it's hip hop enough, they shouldn't vote for it. Simple as that.

Yeah. I mean I don't want "but it's called 'hip hop soul'". Like think of it as if it is Ja Rule ft. Ashanti then its... eligible but if its Ashanti ft. Ja Rule then gtfo

traxx (12/25)

2Pac - Hail Mary
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Dr. Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'

Tracks (18/25)

A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum (Why? Edit)
De La Soul - Roller Skatin' Jam Called ''Saturdays'
Delinquent Habits - Tres Delinquentes
Edan - Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Mobb Depp - Shook Ones Part II
Madvillain - Accordion
Madvillain - ALL CAPS
Molotov - Gimme Tha Power
Nas - NY State of Mind
Rammellzee - Beat Bop (Vs. K-Rob)
Redman - Rated 'R'
Saint Etienne - Filthy
Schoolly D - P.S.K.-What Does It Mean?
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Tricky - Hell Is Round the Corner
Yo Majesty - Club Action

ALBUMS

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Does M.I.A. count as hip hop? Has a few tracks that might make it... want to nominate something.

Albums (13/25) (all canon, but someone has to nom them!)

Genius/ GZA - Liquid Swords
ODB - Return to the 36 Chambers
ODB - Nigga Please
Nas - Illmatic
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Steinski - What Does it all Mean? 1983 - 2006 Retrospective
Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy - Yo! Bumrush the Show
MF Doom - MM Food

Two instrumental hip hop records there- what's the thinking on those?

I think it should be ok - I nommed an instrumental hip hop compilation too.

what's with the singles/tracks confusion? I nominated Suicidal Thoughts by accident...

Does M.I.A. count as hip hop? Has a few tracks that might make it... want to nominate something.

i would think not... here's what wikipedia says, tho:

Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (Tamil: மாதங்கி 'மாயா' அருள்பிரகாசம், Mātaṅki 'Māyā' Aruḷpirakācam ?; born 18 July 1975),[1] better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer whose eclectic compositions combine elements of hip-hop, electronica, dance, avante-garde, alternative and world music.

cant wait to see the results of this 'best of wu tang & mf doom' poll

i don't even know where to start

^^^^

didn't see that comment coming :D

Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me

already been nommed.

i'd count m.i.a. - wouldn't vote for her in a month of sundays even if i like her, but i'd count her. and then call people names when or if they vote for her. but i think she should count. not sure on gil-scott heron though.

cant wait to see the results of this 'best of wu tang & mf doom' poll

lol, i bet you can't wait for that doom/ghostface record, huh?

Holy shit, I completely forgot about Digital Underground! Someone please nominate their first two albums

I got yr back on this one don't worry

D40 otm

http://www.elsberryhardware.com/wd40.jpg

Like asking me to name my 25 favorite rap albums is easy, but asking me to search to see if anyone's "nommed" all of them in this sea of "stuff white people like" rap is something you couldn't get me to do if you held a gun to my head

can't wait for you to get banned again

What was the point of that post? Aren't you white too? And ctrl+f isn't that hard to use.

(x-post)

whiney just curious, did you ever catch nabisco's posts re: j3ssica h0pper's piece on vampire weekend?

Nah, they good?

they are otm, lol

Are u of all ppl getting on my case about making an "SWPL" joke?

Seriously, I don't quite understand the mind games involved in being suspicious of particular music because you suspect other people who are in the same group as you, but from which you disassociate yourself because of some kind of elitism disguised as "realness", might also like it. That's like not wanting to order pizza because Arnold Schwarzenegger probably eats pizza too.

Are u of all ppl getting on my case about making an "SWPL" joke?

― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, March 21, 2011 4:47 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

of all ppl? i hate swpl

borks do tend to like a particular type of rap, though (xpost)

lol tuomas <3 that analogy

'bork' is my fav useful e-rap slang since 'stan'

Tuomas, I like all rap, btw. I'll stump for pm dawn and arrested development so lol at me being "suspicious" or whatev

i think this poll shoulda been invite only

Really hoping this thread doesn't get clusterfucked, because I'm looking forward to seeing this poll actually happen.

looooool lamp

my only real problem w/ something like this is the results being a predictable mish mash of obvious canon picks and ilm favorites is the BEST case scenario

I voted

Like asking me to name my 25 favorite rap albums is easy, but asking me to search to see if anyone's "nommed" all of them in this sea of "stuff white people like" rap is something you couldn't get me to do if you held a gun to my head

please whiney, tell me about this mysterious sub-genre of "stuff black people like" rap. dont know how i'll ever hear any if u don't shed some light on the subject 4 me. i'm white btw :(

Oh my god it's a fucking joke guys, fuck

also, lol @ whiney being willing to waste literally HOURS PER DAY posting on ilx, yet can't be bothered to Ctrl-F for a few keywords before he types in some rap albums that he likes- looooooooooool

I mean i guess doing 50 control Fs is technically just a little more tedious than replying to you

reply to him on twitter then

hey ilxor you ever thought of doing your summary reviews like you do here but on twitter?

And we can have thread for each one!!!

i would need an I Love ilxor board first, wouldnt want to clog up ilx w/ my threads

which of course i never do currently O_O

hmmm AG- you think i could get a book deal?

Don't be silly, who the fuck would buy shite like twitter reviews in book form?

ugh you two are the worst

would have to be a ltd edition tweet box w/ some crazy swag-ass handcrafted wood iirc

xp

dunno ilxor, that all seems to be a bit RYM aspie

(full disclosure: i almost bought a whiney tweet box)

<3 you all

maybe thats why whiney calls me that, he can self identify!

Ilxor, I'm still in Austin, btw, chillin on the lady bird lake trail

whaaaaaa! no way. i'm about 1/4 mile away, 3rd st or so.

You two should have lunch and bag on AG face to face.

lol if u are out by the lake and posting on ilx via mobile or some shit tho. disconnect!

just ate lunch iirc (pastrami sandwich, banana)

JF we're all buddies really

why must every rap thread devolve into this nonsense

not just rap. you obviously missed the weekend, lol

yeah I don't check in much on the weekends

I'll remove whichever 5 of my picks you non-white purists prefer.

gawd I hope Bill Callahan shows up soon

ok LOL

hahahahahaha

i'll participate in this but no idea where to start with noms

i figured id wait until a few more lists were posted before posting a list but ill point out that things dont bode well when u have edan & blak twang but not epmd or kool g rap

I'll post mine in a minute (um are messages sent via ILX webmail stored somewhere?)

unfortunately the only Kool G Rap I felt comfortable getting on there was Marley Marl's The Symphony. G Rap's albums are all a bit too uneven (altho Live and Let Die is reaaaallly classic), and I was torn about his singles (Road to the Riches being the most obvious contender)

hmmm looks like I will have to ask a hoy hoy to post my ballot since I didn't save it...

I'll post mine in a minute (um are messages sent via ILX webmail stored somewhere?)

unfortunately the only Kool G Rap I felt comfortable getting on there was Marley Marl's The Symphony. G Rap's albums are all a bit too uneven (altho Live and Let Die is reaaaallly classic), and I was torn about his singles (Road to the Riches being the most obvious contender)

― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, March 21, 2011 6:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lets just make sure there's room for MIA, lol

I consider her rap but yeah she didn't make the cut. actually very little of the 00s made the cut for me, quel surprise

Would it be insane if we just didn't have a nom thread for once? can't we each just send in our top 25?

i wish 2000-2005 rap wasn't a blind spot for me since i'm afraid it's gonna be underrepresented here. it's like...post-"nostalgic"-era and pre-pfork and other rock/generalist critics seriously engaging rap

Would it be insane if we just didn't have a nom thread for once? can't we each just send in our top 25?
--symsymsym

Otfm

TRACKS: (5/25)

Positive K - I Got A Man
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Outkast - Ms Jackson
MOP - Ante Up

i wish 2000-2005 rap wasn't a blind spot for me since i'm afraid it's gonna be underrepresented here. it's like...post-"nostalgic"-era and pre-pfork and other rock/generalist critics seriously engaging rap

yeah i feel pre-emptively sad about this too, but the bulk of my ballot will be from those years (or at least this decade) (or at least this decade + the last couple of years in the 90s) - like say 1998-2006 is my own personal golden era of rap

^^^so wrong

I look forward to the clusterfuck results tho

How can lex be wrong? He said it was his personal golden era.

ALBUMS - 21/25

Trina - Diamond Princess
Lil' Kim - The Notorious K.I.M.
T.I. - King
Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin'
DMX - The Great Depression
Missy Elliott - Da Real World
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
Trick Daddy - Thugs Are Us
Pitbull - M.I.A.M.I.
Crime Mob - Crime Mob
Trina - Da Baddest Bitch
UGK - Super Tight...
Three 6 Mafia - Da Unbreakables
Salt'n'Pepa - Very Necessary
Jay-Z - Vol. 3: Life And Times Of S. Carter
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice
Nicki Minaj - Beam Me Up Scotty
Angel Haze - Altered Ego
DJ Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout
Ruff Sqwad - Guns And Roses Vol. 2

I just happen to be the right age for THE golden era to my personal golden era.

it's 90% because that was when i first started growing up and getting into hip-hop - sure i appreciate a token few from previously but as with most genres - esp fast-moving ones like hip-hop and dance - i never feel like i properly "own" music from before my era

dont you miss out on an awful lot of great music that way?

everything before lex was born sucks dontchaknow

nah he doesnt say that

I suppose he just listens to so much new stuff for his job he hasn't bothered with older stuff but he has the rest of his life to catch up. I know,as much as i listen to new stuff and old stuff, there's loads more i'll still be catching up on decades from now!

Unless i become one of those who think music is for young people only and listen to radio 4

tracks:

nas- halftime
wu-tang - cream
wu-tang - protect ya neck
big - party and bullshit
jeru the damaja - come clean
brand nubian - slow down
lords of the underground - chief rocka
big l - put it on
big pun- off the books
big pun - still not a player
public enemy - shut 'em down (pete rock remix)
big - machine gun funk
slick rick - children's story
a tribe called quest - electric relaxation
TI - what you know
Lil wayne - a milli
ludacris - area codes
dr. dre - let me ride
outkast - southernplayalisticcadillacfunkymuzik
devin the dude - doobie ashtray
mos def - ms. fat booty
black moon - buck em down
scarface - on my block
ice cube - steady mobbin
jay-z - so ghetto

someone nominate la di da di

no, at the risk of having this argument again, i do listen to old stuff, and am actually fairly conscientious about discovering old artists (i just don't talk about it much), but a lot of the time even if i've discovered great old music i don't feel as connected to it as i do to the music i've discovered at the time in my own life, and that's especially the case for genres that are very fast-moving and of-the-moment like dance and hip-hop - eg kraftwerk, i've heard them and i can appreciate them but i have no idea what i'm supposed to DO with them - i'm never going to actively feel like listening to them in 2011 like i actively cane ellen allien or booka shade trax

ludacris - area codes

this came on in the car the other day and my wife lol'd and asked how many hoes I had in different area codes

someone nominate la di da di

I won't lie, this was number 1 in my tracks ballot

haha how did you respond shakey?

albums -

slick rick - great adventures of slick rick
TI - trap muzik
jay-z - reasonable doubt
big pun - capital punishment
big l - lifestylez of the poor and dangerous
lil wayne - tha carter II
mos def- black on both sides
tribe - low end theory
tribe - midnight marauders
de la soul - buhloone mindstate
scarface - the fix
scarface - the diary
immortal technique - revolutionary vol. 2
main source - breakin atoms
kanye west - college dropout
smoothe da hustler - once upon a time in america
devin the dude - just tryin ta live
devin the dude - 2 tha extreme
outkast - atliens
outkast - aquemini
ghostface - pretty toney album
camron - purple haze
pharcyde - bizarre ride
eric b and rakim - follow the leader
dr. dre - 2001

can i nominate 25 more tracks now plz

let sym nominate as much as he wants imo

haha how did you respond shakey?

well I e-mailed my ballot to a hoy hoy via ILX webmail but I didn't save it, unfortunately...

I know "tribe" is the standard shortened version of A Tribe Called Quest, but if your noms are like that on the master list come voting time, I may end up forgetting to look for them.

do the ppl who scold goons for being cliquey & insular, like, relish shakey mo & algerian goalkeeper posts or do they just not come across their posts ever

if I am in the goon clique that is news to me

shakey, i meant to your wife lol

coming up with a ballot & reading results thread for this will be fun, thx sam

yeah this is a cool idea, and i am genuinely curious about what will win. but this nomination process seems like hell on earth

tracks:

aceyalone "the guidelines"
aesop rock "daylight"
aesop rock "pigs"
blackalicious "chemical calisthenics"
brother ali "forest whitiker"
cannibal ox "pigeons"
company flow "krazy kings"
danger mouse + jemini "ghetto pop life"
d-stroy "roll out"
edan "sing it shitface"
el-p "stepfather factory"
goodie mob "dirty south"
the juggaknots "clear blue skies"
jurrasic 5 "quality control"
talib kweli "good to you"
lootpack "the questions"
madvillian "all caps"
the majesticons "majestwest party"
mf grimm "do it for the kids"
mr. lif ft. el-p "phantom"
non-prophets "damage"
odd nosdam "fly mode"
pharoahe monch "the light"
sage francis "makeshift patriot"
ugly duckling "journey to anywhere"
zion i "inner light"

flopson if you wish me to steer clear of your clubhouse then fair enough i can do that. Not looking to cause any drama. I'll just watch the results come in and check out the youtubes and hear some good stuff hopefully and say nothing.

symsymsym feel free to have my noms ok?

if that's ok with sam

haha thx goalkeeper

i'm having a silent auction for my noms

please webmail me your bids

haha how did you respond shakey?

oh okay lol duh - um I think I skipped to the next track, which was, ironically 2 Live Crew's "Get The Fuck Out My House, Bitch". which is from my wife's collection lol

Lamp has the backpacker market cornered I see

xp ag- ha, no need to react like that dude. was just on my mind bc of something i think sarahel was saying last night, think the clubhouse rep is remnant of a bygone era & if anything kept alive by whiney or deej occasionally zinging some shakey mo post or broad teasing abt herbishness

no worries man

Tracks (21/25)

A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum (Why? Edit)
Clipse - Grindin
De La Soul - Roller Skatin' Jam Called ''Saturdays'
Dj Quik & Kurupt - 9x's Outta 10
Delinquent Habits - Tres Delinquentes
Edan - Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
Lil Wayne - Lollipop
Mobb Depp - Shook Ones Part II
Madvillain - Accordion
Madvillain - ALL CAPS
Molotov - Gimme Tha Power
Nas - NY State of Mind
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
Rammellzee - Beat Bop (Vs. K-Rob)
Redman - Rated 'R'
Rosco P. Coldchain w/ Pusha-T & Boo-Boni - Hot
Saint Etienne - Filthy
Schoolly D - P.S.K.-What Does It Mean?
Slum Village - Players
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
T.I. - What You Know
Tricky - Hell Is Round the Corner
Yo Majesty - Club Action

^ Actually 20/25

algerian goalkeeper's tracks list:

goodie mob - cell therapy
young jeezy - go crazy
eric b and rakim - paid in full
slick rick/doug e fresh - the show
slick rick/doug e fresh - la di da di
aceyalone - five feet
masta ace - dear diary
gang starr - DWYCK
pharcyde - passin me by
david banner - cadillacs on 22s
lil wayne - six foot seven foot
fatlip - whats up fatlip
black star - defintion
2pac- hit 'em up
2pac - can't c me
notorious big - gimme the loot
notorious big - ten crack commandments
smoothe da hustler - broken language
krs-one - step into a world
common - the bitch in you
dmx - ruff ryders anthem
dr. dre - the next episode
snoop dogg - drop it like it's hot
noreaga - superthug
big pun -twinz
big pun - super lyrical
the roots - you got me
missy elliot - the rain (supa dupa fly)
missy elliot - get ur freak on

hey symsym, you accidentally nominated the recent lil wayne song "six foot seven foot" in a "best rap songs of all time poll" -- just giving you a heads up

algerian goalkeeper is obv bad at counting. someone actually put youtubes up for la di da di/the show upthread, but that's hard to find

it's my #1 pick jordan

im expecting it to win

hey symsym, you accidentally nominated the recent lil wayne song "six foot seven foot" in a "best rap songs of all time poll" -- just giving you a heads up

― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Monday, 21 March 2011 20:12 (6 minutes ago) Permalink

the lex nominated angel haze, an artist he didnt know existed 1-2 mo ago iirc

feelin lamps list, lol

Tracks:

(10/25)
Convicts - 1900-Dial-a-Crook
UGK - One Day
Juvenile - Ha
Digable Planets - Black Ego
Goodie Mob - Black Ice
Gravediggaz - 1800-Suicide
Three 6 Mafia - Testin My Gangsta
Sir Mix-a-Lot - Posse on Broadway
Devin the Dude - Briar Patch
Petey Pablo - Get on Dis Motorcycle

yeah forest whitaker and clear blue skies are amazing xp

lamps list is awesome in a way but theres only 1 track on it that i might consider voting for

the lex nominated angel haze, an artist he didnt know existed 1-2 mo ago iirc

yeah and what

TRACKS: (15/25)

The Game - Hate It Or Love It
Nas - The World Is Yours
Clipse - Young Boy
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Young Jeezy - Put On
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
NWA - Express Yourself

Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok

okay waht

haha i know that track

just checking that somebody's reading (not really, I love that track!)

tempted to nominate Paul Hardcastle now

xp: I love it too but I would never nominate it for a hip-hop poll!

Rappers love Phil Collins and Coldplay right? They should be eligible. (j/k)

I really want to nominate me some John Barnes now

TRACKS: (20/25)

Method Man ft Mary J Blige - You're All I Need To Get By
Wyclef, Loon & Busta Rhymes - Pussycat
Fugees - Ready Or Not
Notorious BIG - Mo' Money Mo' Problems
Eminem - Stan

unmentioned artists off the top of my head

solo quik
dogg pound
spice 1
e-40
gangsta boo
z-ro
lil boosie
jungle brothers
saafir
too $hort
ma$e
big daddy kane
solo eazy
superlover cee & casanova rud
8ball & mjg
epmd
kool g rap
freestyle fellowship
mac mall
mac dre
3x dope
das efx

just dont nom Wham Rap

xp

I would've nommed a Ma$e track, but I didn't want to get joked.

above the law
cormega

dude noms haven't even been open 24 hrs

an artist he didnt know existed 1-2 mo ago

I was really hesitant about including anything that I just happen to be currently excited about (Revenue Retrievin, for ex). nagl imho

e-40
jungle brothers
too $hort
big daddy kane
epmd
kool g rap

I voted for all these dudes fyi

suga free
rappin 4tay
lord finesse
o.c.

dude noms haven't even been open 24 hrs

― flopson, Monday, March 21, 2011 8:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just sayin, we found time for Wiley votes but not ma$e thats messed up yo

but consider this more a voting guide than a public shaming anyway

if anything having superlover cee & casanova rud on a lift of egregious exceptions w/in first 24hrs feels like we're doing ok

yeah but kool g??

rap

someone should nom mystikal

otm

make a list deej

i will im waiting until more lists are posted so i can fill in the spaces

When are we gonna start tracking this stuff with spreadsheets?

yeah but kool g??

― D-40, Monday, March 21, 2011 4:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

rap

― D-40, Monday, March 21, 2011 4:49 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol'd at this

2pistols - death before dishonor
8ball & MJG - comin' out hard
abn - it is what it is
big mike - somethin' serious
chamillionaire - sound of revenge
c-murder - life or death
geto boys - grip it!
gorilla zoe - welcome to the zoo
juvenile - 400 degreez
master p - ice cream man
master p - mp the last don
mystikal - dont mess w/ mystikal
p.a. - straight no chase
paul wall & chamillionaire - get ya mind correct
project pat - security cam
ugk - ridin' dirty
scarface - mr. scarface is back
three 6 mafia - underground vol. 1 (1991-1994)
three 6 mafia - chapter 2: world domination
t.i. - king
webbie - savage life
z-ro - let the truth be told

lamp can you explain this 2 pistols thing to me? have been baffled ever since the 08 albums poll

haha you are an ilxor & your singles ballot is from 2003 and your albums ballot was made in 2006

j0rdan idk i recognize that the 2 pistols record is second rate in a lot of ways but the way he inhabits his persona w/ such sincerity & conviction & (strangely) good humor is really enjoyable to me. i like the gothic swell of the production of tracks like 'robbery' its almost out-of-time & i like the skits...

idk a lot of time when i do ilx lists i just look @ how much ive listened to various records & ive listened to that one, a lot, since i 1st d/led it.

I was Rated 'X' but I flexed. I beat up the devil with a shovel so he dropped me a level.

Redman's first two albums are beyond criticism.

New Kingdom - Paradise Don't Come Cheap

Gravediggaz - Niggamortis

First half of Biggie's debut

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders/Low End Theory

3rd Bass - The Cactus Album

Mobb Deep - The Infamous

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride....

I would be more interested to see a list of amazing raps that have been forgoten because they reside on commercial failure/mediocre albums. People like Grand Daddy IU, Just Ice, Hard 2 Obtain. I haven't heard it in a long time but at the time Ism & Blues seemed like a neglected hip hop classic to me. I might have a listen and see how it has weathered.

amazing raps that have been forgoten because they reside on commercial failure/mediocre albums

lol most Jay-Z songs

getting tedious dude

pot::kettle

haha you are an ilxor & your singles ballot is from 2003 and your albums ballot was made in 2006

idgi btw was this directed @ me or j0rdan?

this is gonna be the best poll thread ever!

xp

because i didnt post here until like mid 2008

pot::kettle

― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, March 21, 2011 9:51 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not sure what you think i do thats tedious but if u think being an old head cliche is less boring than lex refusing to listen to TROY or w/e then think again

lamp that was a self deprecating joke abt the nature of ilx's interest in rap music & how it changed in the crunk xplosion of 2k4

hey guys. having fun?

i'm gonna start making the master list in a bit. But for ease of use, can you please keep to standard ilx polling with just Artist - Song Or Album, no need for anything else.

Are there any pre-1985 songs on this or is it all grime and Ugly Duckling?

hey a hoy hoy can you post my ballot cuz um I didn't save it

thx!

not sure what you think i do thats tedious

really? not a clue, eh?

Shakey - I sent it to you through the webmail.

there was music b4 1985????

grime >>> music before 1985

I am totally gonna nom some pre-85 singles. dunno about many albums that i'd care about from then though?

grime >>> music before 1985

― lex pretend, Monday, 21 March 2011 22:15 (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh, wrinklepaws.

ah thx a hoy hoy

here's my "old head cliche" ballots

Singles
1. Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew - La Di Da Di
2. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
3. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
4. Slick Rick - Children?s Story
5. Too $hort - Don?t Fight the Feelin
6. Marley Marl featuring Craig G, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, and Big Daddy Kane - The Symphony
7. Run DMC - Peter Piper
8. Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500
9. E-40 - Yay Area
10. Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
11. Geto Boys - Mind Playin Tricks on Me
12. EPMD - Strictly Business
13. Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys - Get Low
14. Outkast - Ms. Jackson
15. Ghostface Killah - Save Me Dear
16. Jay-Z -? Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
17. Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint
18. Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew ? The Show
19. MC Lyte - 10% Dis
20. E-40 - Automatic
21. Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge is Over
22. Ice Cube - When Will They Shoot?
23. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
24. Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
25. House of Pain - Jump Around

Albums

1. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
2. De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
3. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
4. Ice Cube - Death Certificate
5. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
6. Ghostface Killah - Pretty Toney
7. Too $hort - Life Is ...
8. Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
9. Outkast - Stankonia
10. E-40 - In a Major Way
11. Digital Underground - Sex Packets
12. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
13. Snoop - Doggystyle
14. Brand Nubian - One For All
15. Digital Underground - Sons of the P
16. EPMD - Strictly Business
17. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
18. Run DMC - Raisin' Hell
19. Kool Keith - Black Elvis
20. Missy Elliott - Under Construction
21. Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Wit the Remedy
22. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
23. Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
24. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
25. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VvQ48ulQ-A&feature=related

can sum1 nominate this for whiney???

wait, shakey's already voting?

yeah I don't need to read the rest of your losers' suggestions

j/k I am bad at following rules... I just made two lists

i did this in a hurry so it p sucks and tried to vote as much old shit as i could

1 Top Billin' - Audio 2
2 Straight Outta Compton - NWA
3 Broken Language - Smoothe da Hustler feat. Trigga da Gambler
4 I Got It Made - Special Ed
5 Peter Piper - Run-DMC
6 Don't Believe the Hype - Public Enemy
7 Brooklyn's Finest - Jay Z feat Notorious BIG
8 Symphony - Marly Marl feat Juice Crew All Stars
9 You Gots to Chill - EPMD
10 My Mind Playin' Tricks on Me - Geto Boys
11 Microphone Fiend - Eric B and Rakim
12 Too Short - LIfe Is Too Short
13 Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours
14 Rock the Bells - LL Cool J
15 Rock Dis Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
16 Road to the Riches - Kool G Rap
17 PSK - What Does it Mean? - Schooly D
18 The Bridge is Over - Boogie Down Productions
19 Dead Presidents - Jay Z
20 One Love - Nas/AZ
21 Ante Up (Robbin' Hoodz Theory) - MOP
22 Bass - King Tee
23 Steppin to the AM - 3rd Bass
24 Pete Rock & CL Smooth - TROY
25 Regulate - Warren G/Nate Dogg

rap albums

1 Nas - Illmatic
2 Amerikkka's Most Wanted - Ice Cube
3 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
4 Raising Hell - Run DMC
5 Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
6 Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
7 NWA - Straight Outta Compton
8 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted: Dead or Alive
9 Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
10 EPMD - Strictly Business
11 The DOC - No One Can Do It Better
12 Above the Law - Livin' Like Hustlers
13 Mobb Deep - The Infamous
14 Special Ed - Youngest in Charge
15 Too Short - Life Is...Too Short
16 LL Cool J - Radio
17 Redman - Whut? The Album
18 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
19 Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
20 Cypress Hill - s/t
21 Sir Mix-a-Lot - Swass
22 Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane
23 Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
24 Gang Starr - Hard to Earn
25 Geto Boys - Grip It! on that Other Level

"Various - Major Force – The Original Art-Form (Major Force label compilation)"

i don't think i've ever said this before, but...i heart tuomas.

would totally vote for that too if i voted for things. as long as we are talking about the entire boxed set. its something that i actually want buried with me. or burned with me. one or the other.

lol m@tt pretty much everything on your list that's not on mine was stuff I agonized over cutting, glad they got covered

yeah p much vice versa, i suck at making lists anyway

mostly with the albums list (singles, christ there's so MANY SINGLES) - like I knew if I subbed out Nas for something else, Illmatic was still gonna get a bunch of votes from others

yeah cutting it down to 25 songs and albums is impossible, could have easily done a list of all newer stuff that's great but suspected there wouldn't be as many votes for old shit so wanted to make sure it was on there except like some albums like illmatic it's a corny pic but man i listened to that tape over and over and over one summer on my walkman

It's 25 noms but you can vote for 50, no?

yeah I don't need to read the rest of your losers' suggestions

― Hyper Rescue Troop (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, March 21, 2011 6:23 PM (37 minutes ago)

He may not have said it the kindest way possible, but yeah... the nominations period being a month long seems extreme, especially in a genre poll where pretty much everyone has their own canon anyway. I wouldn't normally, but in this case I'd actually endorse just sending in ballots and let the results happen.

yes

"Various - Major Force – The Original Art-Form (Major Force label compilation)"

i don't think i've ever said this before, but...i heart tuomas.

would totally vote for that too if i voted for things. as long as we are talking about the entire boxed set. its something that i actually want buried with me. or burned with me. one or the other.

Glad to hear it! I'm not a big fan of instrumental hip hop in general, but I luuuv this comp - it's so innovative and fun!

ok moka YOU NOMMED SAINT ETIENNE? IS THIS A JOKE OR?

i dont want to be all thread police and will keep this open but... saint etienne?

I am thinking that in the last week of giving people 5 extra noms in each catagory so they don't have to worry so much about canon picks?

sam that saint etienne track has vocals by a rapper called q-tee - it'd be kind of like someone nominating basement jaxx ft. dizzee rascal's "lucky star" - idk what the position is on a non-hip-hop track with actual rap vocals though

oh ok. i'll include it but smh.

Yeah I did nominate Saint Etienne and you can sod off because that track is hip hop by all means and also awesome but you can be at peace because you should note I eliminated it from my noms in the second round.

symsymsym - you nommed big pun - off the books. i am going to put this as a beatnuts track unless there is a specific version that isn't beatnuts ft. big pun you meant?

the nice things about polls is that if people really want to nominate and vote for goofy shit nobody else in their right mind will vote for, you can always just let them go ahead and waste their vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68d_wfuXcX4

moka ha ok, i obv haven't got there yet. should have just started a database as soon as i opened the thread

i didn't mean to be a dick btw, i just always thought st etienne were like some twee indie disco thing?

in my mind, it would be like putting belle & sebastian in there.

Hahaha yeah they pretty much are a twee indie disco thing which is why I reconsidered including them at all. This particular track doesn't sound really sound like Saint Etienne, blame it on the lack of their main vocalist being substituted by a 15 year old aspiring MC.

And terribly sorry for the confusion. Please ignore my first tracklist.

going through the comments there are a few people being annoyed at this thread so I thought i best say that when i thought about doing this, i wanted to keep it open and as trad-ilx-poll as possible after the 2kxgoon poll debacle.

'debacle'?? best ilx year end list in ages

st etiennes singer wasn't much of an MC but was quite a WS iirc

"symsymsym - you nommed big pun - off the books. i am going to put this as a beatnuts track unless there is a specific version that isn't beatnuts ft. big pun you meant?"

yes the beatnuts song is what i meant. i was confused bcz i have it on endangered species

i was going to make a joke like "did anyone nominate juicy" but uh no one nominated juicy

this is too big a genre to do a good poll imo

my nominations

notorios b.i.g. - juicy
jungle brothers - what u waitin 4
souls of mischief - 93 til infinity
wiz khalifa - say yeah

my nominations

notorios b.i.g. - juicy
jungle brothers - what u waitin 4
souls of mischief - 93 til infinity
wiz khalifa - say yeah

you can just use that as my ballot too

this is too big a genre to do a good poll imo

― D-40, Monday, March 21, 2011 8:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah it feels a little weird to give the entire genre of hip hop basically the same kind of poll this board did for a rock subgenre as tiny as shoegaze

i don't see how it's so different from a poll of a decade or of heavy metal or of the 20th century

all of which have been done successfully imo

I think rap can withstand polling this way. The tinier the genre, the more repeated/second choice artists squeeze their way in.

(Of course, this being ILM, it didn't stop New Order from getting 3 or 4 spots in the top 125 songs of the 20th century.)

that's a good jungle bros song max

it's too bad new order didn't make any rap songs, they could dominate this poll

yeah polls in having different scales of what is or isn't included shocker

it's too bad new order didn't make any rap songs, they could dominate this poll

― B1ll C4ll4h4n (symsymsym), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:37 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

I really want to nominate me some John Barnes now

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 21 March 2011 20:35 (Yesterday) Bookmark

john cooper clarke could qualify maybe

a poll of rap songs by non-hip hop acts would be pretty entertaining

that's a good jungle bros song max

― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, March 21, 2011 8:36 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-KR-14uXM

thanking britishes for introducing me to the glories of john barnes rap verse, it is my new #1

For all microphone fiends, the NOMINATIONS THREAD for the BEST RAP/HIP-HOP SINGLES AND ALBUMS EVER poll

DAMO SUZIKIS PARROT - is this a noms list or not? I'm gonna blow past it unless you really want "First half of Biggie's debut" on the list.

im just having trouble making a list. i listen to so much rap its like, how could this possibly be done? idk. it seems too broad for me

i dont get why ppl keep comparing it to metal, what metal has been broadly popular in the past two decades. a couple past peak metallica records? isnt the metal canon more agreed-upon than the rap one anyway

u can correct me if im wrong this is an outsider interpretation

for the love of the earth can we not have a genuine rap vs metal conversation in this thread on ilm ever?

deej you've already made these points elsewhere on ilm at some point in the past two years you could prob look up the argument

you cant blame me! (i dunno why rap keeps getting compared to metal)

metal is a big genre (like rap) so the poll was expanded to top 300 to cover everything. Dunno if sam can be arsed with doing a top 300 though?

shakey mo - you have a bunch of already-nommed, so i am just adding:

Too $hort - Don?t Fight the Feelin
House of Pain - Jump Around
6. Marley Marl featuring Craig G, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, and Big Daddy Kane - The Symphony
7. Run DMC - Peter Piper
8. Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500
9. E-40 - Yay Area
10. Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
12. EPMD - Strictly Business
13. Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys - Get Low
15. Ghostface Killah - Save Me Dear
16. Jay-Z -? Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
17. Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint
19. MC Lyte - 10% Dis
20. E-40 - Automatic
21. Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge is Over
22. Ice Cube - When Will They Shoot?
23. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel

17/25

Too $hort - Life Is ...
Outkast - Stankonia
E-40 - In a Major Way
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Brand Nubian - One For All
Digital Underground - Sons of the P
Kool Keith - Black Elvis
Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Wit the Remedy
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
EPMD - Strictly Business
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

14/25

ha, lets see how this goes first and maybe a top 300 could happen.

its only been one day and i'm still putting the damn list together

yeah we got like 100 ballots which allowed a bigger roll out. But with a huge 40 year old genre still evolving and giving new sub-genres all the time it was kinda necessary to make it big as possible so every sub-genre was represented (though hair metal and dozens of other styles still didn't get in it)

If you're giving 60 points for a #1 and you get 100 ballots you will find a top 300 is easily done.

ok, one thing i have not taken into account - i have put the list together on google docs spreadsheet but i cannot c&p the whole column onto ilm? anyone know a good way to get around this?

but using needle made it no extra work as we had the full results anyway, if you are doing it manually then it might be too much hassle.
xp

j0rdan & johnny know that stuff sam iirc

i forgot how i used to do it -- i think there's a way to change the view that allows you to c/p

up to h3lg3s0n, as tonight i cannot be bothered to root through the things already nommed and flip the title and the artist around:

tracks
albums
[url=https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?hl=en&key=tEXi87ZtLKxfcT83w5djhqQ&hl=en#gid=0[who has voted, for how much and what they nommed that had already made the list[/url]

bump #2

I'm gonna post my ballot in here and someone can tell me if everything's been nominated right?

sure

Don't do a top 300, it'd be far too long. 100 or thereabouts will be plenty.

Albums

The Coup- Steal This Album
Goodie Mob- Still Standing
Goodie Mob- Soul Food
Ras Kass- Soul on Ice

(22/25)

Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
Kanye West - Monster

(23/25)
Arrested Development - Tennessee

Tempted to nominate pop crossovers which noone has touched yet (Tag Team, MC Hammer, Salt N Pepa)

this is gonna be a good fuckin poll

Salt'n'Pepa definitely needs to get some of their best singles nominated... At the very least "Push It", "Shoop", and "Let's Talk About", though "Heaven and Hell" is my personal favourite.

TRACKS (25) -

T La Rock - It's Yours
Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check!
Double XX Posse - Not Gonna Be Able to Do It
Craig Mack - Flavor In Ya Ear Remix
A Tribe Called Quest ft. The Leaders of the New School - Scenario
504 Boyz - Wobble Wobble
JVC Force - Strong Island
Jazzy-Jay - Def Jam
Furious Five featuring Cowboy, Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio - Step Off
Dimples D - Sucker DJs (I Will Survive)
Lovebug Starski & the Harlem World Crew - Positive Life
Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up

ALBUMS (25) -

The Alkaholiks - 21 & Over
Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKas Most Wanted
Biz Markie - Goin' Off
Run-DMC - Run-DMC
Just-Ice - Back to the Old School
3rd Bass - The Cactus album
Nice & Smooth - Ain't A Damn Thing Changed
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Jaylib - Champion Sound
Black Sheep - a Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday!
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Ludacris - Back for the First Time
Demon Boyz - Recognition

Tempted to nominate pop crossovers which noone has touched yet (Tag Team, MC Hammer, Salt N Pepa)

― Moka, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 5:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some of those haven't been touched for a reason (u can't touch this!)

Dimples D - Sucker DJs (I Will Survive)

I know this version is considered the classic one, but I actually love the 1990 Ben Liebrand remix (that was a hit in Europe) even more. I hope someone will nominate that version too.

I take it remixes/reworkings will be combined, pointswise? I didn't nominate 'Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)' on that basis.

Is that one even a remix? It doesn't have anything in common with the original "Protect Ya Neck" except for the title.

glad someone nommed flockaveli. but I think we're missing a couple of Mac Dre albums, Mystic Stylez by three 6 mafia, maybe some dj paul? Lil jon - who u wid? DJ Screw - 3 n tha mornin' pt. 2, kool keith's spankmaster? botany boyz - thought of many ways. etc etc etc.

Supposed to be a remake xp but maybe you're right - I don't know the original v well and just assumed there were similarities that I'm not hearing. Why did they call it that though if there's nothing in common?

I have no idea, but raps on "Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)" are completely different from "Protect Ya Neck", and the beat sounds pretty different too. Maybe there's a sample of the original in it or something, but it's still a different tune.

Some noms:

ALBUMS
Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
Clouddead - Clouddead
Eazy E - Eazy-Duz-It
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Geto Boys - Geto Boys
KRS-One - Return of the Boom Bap
2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be
2 Live Crew - Banned in the USA
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
Why? - Oaklandazulasylum

TRACKS
El-P - Deep Space 9mm
Geto Boys - Fuck 'Em (All)
Geto Boys - Mind of a Lunatic
KRS-One - Black Cop
KRS-One - Sound of da Police
2 Live Crew - Coolin'
2 Live Crew - Arrest in Effect

Albums
KMD - Mr Hood
EPMD - Back In Business
Erick Sermon - React
Method Man & Redman - Blackout

Tracks
Ice Cube - Pushin' Weight
Kano - Reload It
Lethal Bizzle - Pow!
Mystikal - Danger
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Wiley - Wot Do U call It?

TRACKS (22/25) AND BUMP:

Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)
Bomfunk MCs - Freestyler

Albums:
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
David Banner - Mississippi: The Album
RZA/Various Artists - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Soundtrack)
GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
Ol' Dirty Bastard -Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Method Man - Tical
Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin'(Day Shift/Night Shift)
T.I. - King
Dj Shadow - Entroducing...
J Dilla - Donuts
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Talib Kweli - Quality

(16/25) Kris Kross - Jump

banner, i think the gza, odb, king and entroducing all def been nommed before.

anyone able to tell me how to copy and paste from a spreadsheet yet? they are up thread.

ismael: og protect ya neck and the jump off are two totally different songs, in which the og is 10000000000000x better.

I need to listen more closely then, cos the jump off sounds miles better to me

dead to me etc.

(I did recently write a weeks worth on my Wu blog about the og though. Greatest hiphop single of all time. Only didn't nom it because i fucking assumed someone else would by now.)

oh wait they have, thank fuck.

link to blog please - feel like a bit of chin-stroking will help me appreciate it fully

http://shaolin-directory.tumblr.com/

Nice. I'll need to give that a bit of time.

From the spreadsheets as they currently look:

ALBUMS

2Pac - All Eyez on Me
2Pac - Me Against the World
2pistols - death before dishonor
8ball & MJG - comin' out hard
a tribe called quest - low end theory
a tribe called quest - midnight marauders
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
abn - it is what it is
Angel Haze - Altered Ego
AZ - Aziatic
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
big l - lifestylez of the poor and dangerous
big mike - somethin' serious
big pun - capital punishment
Black Moon - Total Eclipse
Blak Twang - Kik Off
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Brand Nubian - One For All
c-murder - life or death
camron - purple haze
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine
chamillionaire - sound of revenge
Crime Mob - Crime Mob
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
Da Beatminerz - Brace 4 Impak
David Banner - Mississippi: The Album
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
de la soul - buhloone mindstate
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Dead Prez - Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1
devin the dude - 2 tha extreme
devin the dude - just tryin ta live
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Digable Planets - Reachin'
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Digital Underground - Sons of the P
Divine Styler - Wordpower 2: Directrix
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
DJ Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
DMX - The Great Depression
dr. dre - 2001
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
E-40 - In a Major Way
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
eric b and rakim - follow the leader
Eve - Ruff Ryder's First Lady
Gang Starr - Step In The Arena
Genius/ GZA - Liquid Swords
geto boys - grip it!
ghostface - pretty toney album
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
gorilla zoe - welcome to the zoo
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep / Niggamortis
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Ice-T - O.G.
immortal technique - revolutionary vol. 2
jay-z - reasonable doubt
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Jay-Z - Vol. 3: Life And Times Of S. Carter
Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Wit the Remedy
juvenile - 400 degreez
kanye west - college dropout
Kanye West - Graduation
Killah Priest - Priesthood
Klashnekoff and Joe Buddha - Lionheart: Tussle With The Beast
KMD - Black Bastards
Kool Keith - Black Elvis
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
lil wayne - tha carter II
Lil' Kim - The Notorious K.I.M.
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J - Radio
Madvillain - Madvillainy
main source - breakin atoms
master p - ice cream man
master p - mp the last don
MF Doom - MM Food
Missy Elliott - Da Real World
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
mos def- black on both sides
mystikal - dont mess w/ mystikal
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Nas - God's Son
Nas - Illmatic
Nicki Minaj - Beam Me Up Scotty
ODB - Nigga Please
ODB - Return to the 36 Chambers
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
outkast - aquemini
outkast - atliens
Outkast - Stankonia
p.a. - straight no chase
paul wall & chamillionaire - get ya mind correct
pharcyde - bizarre ride
Pitbull - M.I.A.M.I.
Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
project pat - security cam
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy - Yo! Bumrush the Show
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Ruff Sqwad - Guns And Roses Vol. 2
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Salt'n'Pepa - Very Necessary
scarface - mr. scarface is back
scarface - the diary
scarface - the fix
Screwball - Y2K
slick rick - great adventures of slick rick
smoothe da hustler - once upon a time in america
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Steinski - What Does it all Mean? 1983 - 2006 Retrospective
Stetsasonic - On Fire
T.I. - King
The Brotherhood - Elementalz
The Coup - Genocide & Juice
The Fugees - The Score
The Lady of Rage - Necessary Roughness
The Majesticons - Beauty Party
The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
three 6 mafia - chapter 2: world domination
Three 6 Mafia - Da Unbreakables
three 6 mafia - underground vol. 1 (1991-1994)
TI - trap muzik
Too $hort - Life Is ...
Trick Daddy - Thugs Are Us
Trina - Da Baddest Bitch
Trina - Diamond Princess
ugk - ridin' dirty
UGK - Super Tight...
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
Various - Major Force – The Original Art-Form (Major Force label compilation)
webbie - savage life
Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Yo-Yo - Make Way for the Motherlode
Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin'
Young Jeezy - The Recession
z-ro - let the truth be told

TRACKS

2pac - can't c me
2Pac - Hail Mary
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
2Pac ft. Dr. Dre - California Love
2pac- hit 'em up
50 Cent - In Da Club
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum (Why? Edit)
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
a tribe called quest - electric relaxation
aceyalone - five feet
"aceyalone ""the guidelines"""
"aesop rock ""daylight"""
"aesop rock ""pigs"""
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
AMG - Bitch Betta Have My Money
B-Rock and the Bizz - My Baby Daddy
Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump
big l - put it on
big pun - still not a player
big pun - super lyrical
big pun -twinz
black moon - buck em down
black star - defintion
"blackalicious ""chemical calisthenics"""
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge is Over
brand nubian - slow down
"brother ali ""forest whitiker"" "
Busta Rhymes - Fire It Up
"cannibal ox ""pigeons"""
Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin'
Clipse - Grindin
Clipse - Young Boy
Cocoa Brovaz - Super Brooklyn
common - the bitch in you
"company flow ""krazy kings"""
Convicts - 1900-Dial-a-Crook
Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
Cypress Hill - Illusions
"d-stroy ""roll out"" "
"danger mouse + jemini ""ghetto pop life"" "
david banner - cadillacs on 22s
De La Soul - Eye Know
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
De La Soul - Roller Skatin' Jam Called ''Saturdays'
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Delinquent Habits - Tres Delinquentes
Devin the Dude - Briar Patch
devin the dude - doobie ashtray
Digable Planets - Black Ego
Dj Quik & Kurupt - 9x's Outta 10
dmx - ruff ryders anthem
Dr. Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'
dr. dre - let me ride
dr. dre - the next episode
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a G Thang
E-40 - Automatic
E-40 - Yay Area
"edan ""sing it shitface"" "
"el-p ""stepfather factory"""
Eminem - If I Had
Eminem - Stan
Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
eric b and rakim - paid in full
Eve feat. Drag-On - Let's Talk About
fatlip - whats up fatlip
Flipmode Squad - Cha Cha Cha
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
Fugees - Ready Or Not
Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint
Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint
gang starr - DWYCK
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500
Ghostface Killah - Save Me Dear
"Ghostface Killah (ft MethodMan, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, Redman) - Buck 50"
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Goodie Mob - Black Ice
goodie mob - cell therapy
"goodie mob ""dirty south"" "
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message
Gravediggaz - 1800-Suicide
Group Home - Supa Star
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
House of Pain - Jump Around
Ice Cube - Dead Homiez
Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
ice cube - steady mobbin
Ice Cube - When Will They Shoot?
Ice-T - I'm Your Pusher
Ice-T - New Jack Hustler
Jay-Z - 99 Problems
jay-z - so ghetto
Jay-Z -? Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
Jay-Z and Juvenile - Snoopy Track
"Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, Missy Elliott and Twista - Is That Yo Chick?"
jeru the damaja - come clean
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
"jurrasic 5 ""quality control"" "
Juvenile - Ha
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Klashnekoff - It's Murda
krs-one - step into a world
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
L'Trimm - Cars With the Boom
Lil B - The Age of Information
Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys - Get Low
Lil Wayne - 3 AM
Lil wayne - a milli
Lil Wayne - Lollipop
lil wayne - six foot seven foot
Lil' Kim - Whoa
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J - Rock the Bells
"lootpack ""the questions"""
lords of the underground - chief rocka
ludacris - area codes
Luniz - I Got 5 on It
Madvillain - Accordion
Madvillain - ALL CAPS
Madvillain - Curls
"Man Parrish feat. Freeze Force - Boogie Down (Bronx)
"
Mark '45' King - #900 Number
"Marley Marl featuring Craig G, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, and Big Daddy Kane - The Symphony"
masta ace - dear diary
MC Lyte - 10% Dis
MC Lyte - Paper Thin
MC Lyte - Ruffneck
Method Man ft Mary J Blige - You're All I Need To Get By
MF Doom - Dead Bent (album version)
"mf grimm ""do it for the kids"""
"Mikes Jones, Slim Thug & Paul Wall - Still Tippin'"
missy elliot - get ur freak on
missy elliot - the rain (supa dupa fly)
Missy Elliott - Work It
Mobb Depp - Shook Ones Part II
MOP - Ante Up
Mos Def - Ghetto Rock
mos def - ms. fat booty
"mr. lif ft. el-p ""phantom"""
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Nas - NY State of Mind
Nas - One Mic
Nas - The World Is Yours
nas- halftime
Naughty by Nature - OPP
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
Newcleus - Jam on It
Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
"non-prophets ""damage"""
noreaga - superthug
Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
notorious big - gimme the loot
Notorious BIG - Mo' Money Mo' Problems
notorious big - ten crack commandments
NWA - Express Yourself
"odd nosdam ""fly mode"" "
Onyx - Last Dayz
Organized Konfusion - Bring It On
Outkast - B.O.B.
Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin pt. 1
Outkast - Ms Jackson
outkast - southernplayalisticcadillacfunkymuzik
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)
Petey Pablo - Get on Dis Motorcycle
pharcyde - passin me by
"pharoahe monch ""the light"" "
Positive K - I Got A Man
Pras feat. ODB & Mya - Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)
Pretty Tony - Jam the Box
Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
public enemy - shut 'em down (pete rock remix)
Q-Tip - Vivrant Thing
Queen Latifah feat. Monie Love - Ladies First
Rah Digga - Lessons of Today
Rammellzee - Beat Bop (Vs. K-Rob)
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
Rosco P. Coldchain w/ Pusha-T & Boo-Boni - Hot
Rubberoom - Born
Run D.M.C. - Rock Box
Run DMC - Peter Piper
Run-DMC - It's Like That
"sage francis ""makeshift patriot"" "
scarface - on my block
Schoolly D - P.S.K.-What Does It Mean?
Sir Mix-a-Lot - Posse on Broadway
Skee-Lo - I Wish
slick rick - children's story
slick rick/doug e fresh - la di da di
slick rick/doug e fresh - the show
Slum Village - Players
smoothe da hustler - broken language
snoop dogg - drop it like it's hot
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
Stetsasonic - On Fire
Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
"talib kweli ""good to you"""
the beatnuts - off the books
The Beatnuts - Reign of the Tec
The Game - Hate It Or Love It
"the juggaknots ""clear blue skies"" "
"the majesticons ""majestwest party"" "
The Notorious B.I.G. - Kick In The Door
the notorious b.i.g. - machine gun funk
the notorious b.i.g. - party and bullshit
the roots - you got me
The Sequence - Funk You Up
Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly
Three 6 Mafia - Testin My Gangsta
TI - what you know
Too $hort - Don?t Fight the Feelin
Ty - Wait a Minute
UGK - One Day
UGK feat. Outkast - International Players Anthem
ugly duckling ""journey to anywhere""
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Warren G. feat. Nate Dogg - Regulate
Whodini - Magic's Wand
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
wu-tang - cream
wu-tang - protect ya neck
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Wu-Tang Clan feat. Isaac Hayes - I Can't Go to Sleep
Wyclef, Loon & Busta Rhymes - Pussycat
Yo Majesty - Club Action
young jeezy - go crazy
Young Jeezy - Put On
zion i ""inner light""

Dunno where all the quotemarks came from.

From what spreadsheet is that? Because my nominations aren't on that list. None of them ;_;

I don't know the last time a hoy hoy updated tbh

from here For all microphone fiends, the NOMINATIONS THREAD for the BEST RAP/HIP-HOP SINGLES AND ALBUMS EVER poll

last night. i got as far as needing to do m@tts noms, was going to continue later.

Ah ok I see, nevermind then.

Cool.

Everybody should look at the tracks list, though. It's a good example of why using the Artist - Song format is sort of important. I really don't know why anything else even seems instinctual for people ffs.

Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song
Artist - Song

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this.

We have been doing polls for like a decade, how have people not got used to the formula?

bump in the trunk

Ismael, between you, me, Garda, and Chris we could probably get 'Anfield Rap' into the top 20. That would be wrong though.

I can't say it hadn't crossed my mind!

lol. feel free to nominate it :D

don't think anyone has picked up wham rap yet btw. or anything by afroman.

While you're here a hoy hoy. 'Bug Powder Dust' rap? or a dance track that happens to have a bit of rapping on it?

So, just to be clear, I have to go through the list and only nominate things that haven't already been nominated - even though it'll make me look like a tool.

'Bug Powder Dust' surely counts. I thought about giving a shout to 2 Unlimited since I only recently found out Ray's verses had been excised for UK consumption - but they probably don't.

i have no idea what it is but if someone else gives you the ok (ismael) then sure.

doran - why would it make you look a tool?

Because my list will just be New Order's 'World In Motion' and 'Rapture' by Blondie becuase everyone's already said 'Brooklyn Zoo' by ODB.

This is a joke by the way.

TRACKS

Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Roxanne Shante - Queen Of Rox (Shante Rox On)
UTFO - Roxanne, Roxanne
J.V.C.F.O.R.C.E - Strong Island
Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It)
LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio
Jungle Brothers - What "U" Waitin' "4"
De La Soul - The Magic Number
Brother "D" With Collective Effort - How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise?
Malclom McLaren - Buffalo Gals
World's Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ
Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson One - The Payoff Mix
King Sun & D-Moet - Hey Love
Roxanne Shante - Have A Nice Day
Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now
EPMD - Strictly Business
Young MC - Know How
Big Daddy Kane - Raw
Salt 'N' Pepa - Tramp
Mantronix - King Of The Beats
Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
Doug Lazy - Let It Roll
Kid Frost - La Raza

i know off hand that strictly business and strong island have been nommed, have another two goes mike :D also what are those last two? worth checking out?

xp 'Bug Powder Dust's by Bomb The Bass, a heavily distorted thing based around The Naked Lunch iirc. I don't recall it as well as I thought - it set a rap going in my head but I've looked it up and it's not the one I'm thinking of. That was actually 'What Time Is Love?' by The KLF. Ricardo da Force is a glaring omission here, even more than Mr C.

wow this brother d is dope. can't believe i've never heard this before.

you could obviously make an argument for dance tracks w/rapping being eligible but it seems a bit wrong-headed and against the spirit of the poll to make room for them if you'r ebeing asked to pick the creme de la creme of the hip-hop genre

'Bug Powder Dust's by Bomb The Bass, a heavily distorted thing based around The Naked Lunch iirc. I don't recall it as well as I thought - it set a rap going in my head but I've looked it up and it's not the one I'm thinking of. That was actually 'What Time Is Love?' by The KLF. Ricardo da Force is a glaring omission here, even more than Mr C.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

hmm -- bug powder dust isn't dance rly, it's hip-hop speed. interesting question whether it's hip-hop. it's british-ish.

well yeah i suppose more people are going to vote for mobb deep than bomfunk mcs but if thats what the people want

some great hiphop is british nrq! and has been nominated!

Tracks (XP with Mike TD)
Masta Ace 'Born To Roll'
DJ Spanish Fly 'Smokin Onions'
DJ Spanish Fly 'Trigga Man' remix
Cash Money Marvellous 'Mighty Hard Rocker'
J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. 'Strong Island'
Ice Cube 'You Can Do It'
Westside Connection 'We Be Clubbin'
Beastie Boys 'Slow And Low'
Silver Bullet 'Bring Forth The Guillotine'
Dizzee Rascal 'I Luv U'
Ruthless Rap Assassins 'Justice'
KRSOne 'Sound Of Da Police'
JJ Fad 'You're Going Down'
Eric B and Rakim 'Juice (Know The Ledge)'
Blackalicious 'Alphabet Aerobics'
Nas 'Made You Look'
Young MC 'Know How'
Notorious BIG 'Hypnotize'
Public Enemy 'You're Gonna Get Yours'
ODB 'Brooklyn Zoo'
Ultramagnetic MCs 'Give The Drummer Some'
Dynamixx II - Just Give The DJ A Break
Handsome Boy Modelling School 'Rock And Roll'
Time Zone 'World Domination'

like one minute ago i said strong island had been nominated. in fact i was the person to do so. i believe sound of da police and brooklyn zoo are already on the list too off the top of my head, so if you want 3 more noms.

i will def. update the list later.

BPD isn't what I'd call hip-hop exactly, but it's a tune based around the rapping rather than just having a verse or two thrown in.

well yeah i suppose more people are going to vote for mobb deep than bomfunk mcs but if thats what the people want

I know Bomfunk MC's isn't really rap music as such, but Raymond Ebanks, their rapper, is a local rap pioneer in here: he was one of the first Finnish rappers back in the 1980s. Sadly, that part of his career was never put on record except for some live tapes.

it's kind of a silly qn really, it's too big a genre

haven't read thread but instrumental hip-hop like 'king of the beats' (which has been nom'd) or similar doesn't have a lot in common with rap music 20 years later so far as i can tell

xpost

fuck it i'm nominating 'freestyler'

I thought that said BDP wasn't exactly hip hop. Sorry, I didn't see any of the ones I included and I'm in the middle of moving house so don't have time to read the full thread.

Neither KRS One or ODB are on the main list so I'll nom them and have one more.

Ignore me. I see what you mean.

Er, no they're not, I've just checked, so I'll have: Latyrx 'Storm Warning'

i kind of feel like this is just too hard to do.

Some more album noms (13-22):

Dr Octagon - Ecolygist
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Method Man - Tical
Quasimoto - The Unseen
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
DJ Krush - Meiso

Sorry, I don't want that Latyrx track. If other people are having instrumental tracks can I have: Coldcut 'More Beats + Pieces'? Cheers.

xp JVC Force "Strong Island" and EPMD "Strictly Business" were nommed, but they aren't on the most recent master list. So, assuming they'll get there without me, I'll add:

The Real Roxanne with Hitman Howie T - Bang Zoom (Let's Go Go)
The Classical II - New Generation

The Real Roxanne with Hitman Howie T - Bang Zoom (Let's Go Go)

nice

Waah, no, hold up, scratch The Classical II! And replace with this monster:

Original Concept - Can You Feel It?

Doran: I already nommed Young MC "Know How", so you've got one more...

Cheers. NWA - '100 Miles And Runnin'

Although that "nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide" sample is terrible.

Ismael, between you, me, Garda, and Chris we could probably get 'Anfield Rap' into the top 20. That would be wrong though.

have i been kicked out of the lifetime supporters club? :(

I added most of these upthread but they didnt all make it to the spreadsheet. I'll just add em again.

ALBUMS:
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
Dead Prez - Let's Get Free
Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
J Dilla - Donuts
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Talib Kweli - Quality
The Luniz - Operation Stackola
Nas - Stillmatic
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2
De La Soul - Stakes Is High

TRAXX (14/25)

50 Cent - What Up Gangsta
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock

just you tubed mike t diva's track list (even tho I had heard/have most of them)Has led to a v enjoyable couple of hours or so. Thx Mike!

For some reason Algerian Goalkeeper = metal to me, not LFC. Many apologies. Forget Top 20, Top 10 and beyond!!

albums: 14 - 20

RZA/Various Artists - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Soundtrack)
Kurupt - Tha Streets Iz a Mutha
DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Puff Daddy and the Family - No Way Out
Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes...
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain

they haven't made the master list for the sole reason that i have been too busy/lazy in the past 24 hours to update. will be done tonight, i promise. but first the simpsons is on.

Sorry. You're doing a fine job sir.

Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91 The Empire Strikes Black
Public Enemy - Greatest Misses
Wu Tang Clan - The W
Ghostface - Fishscale
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me

Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Coldcut - 70 Minutes Of Madness
Edan - Beauty And The Beat
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

Luke Vibert's UK Hardcore Rap Mix For Planet Mu

Lightnin' Rod - Hustler's Convention

ALBUMS:

DJ Quik - Rhythm-al-ism (my number 1 overall)
DJ Quik - Safe & Sound
DJ Quik - Balance & Options
MOP - Firing Squad
8ball & MJG – On Top Of The World
Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In
Suga Free - Street Gospel
O.C. - Word... Life
Kool G Rap - 4,5,6
Zion I – Mind Over Matter
Onyx - All We Got Iz Us
Smif-N-Wessun – Dah Shinin’
Big Daddy Kane – Prince of Darkness
Camp Lo – Uptown Saturday Night
Large Pro – The LP
Show & AG – Goodfellas
Geto Boys – We Cant Be Stopped
Redman – Dare Iz A Darkside
Xzibit – 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
Tha Alkaholiks – 21 & Over
Jeru Tha Damaja – Wrath of the Math
Comptons Most Wanted & MC Eiht – Music to Driveby
Binary Star – Masters of the Universe
Gang Starr – Moment of Truth
J Dilla – Welcome 2 Detroit

haha wtf like half of that is my list

8ball & MJG – On Top Of The World
Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In
Suga Free - Street Gospel
O.C. - Word... Life
Kool G Rap - 4,5,6

+ rhythmalism @ #1 are like canon deej lol

also big up repping for The LP, so many ppl hate on it being 'boring' but i kind of love how boring it is

Is Rhythm-al-ism really your favorite? I don't think I've ever known another person to hold it that high. Its perfect in every way imo. 12+ years of consistent rotation and I've never gotten tired of it.

I saw you mentioned some of those artists but no specifics, so I stepped in for the cock-block. Interested to see what you come up with now.

People hate on The LP? Crazy talk.

Rap's 25 Greatest Albums, according to Chris Rock

the list has changed considerably since but 4,5,6 & get in where you fit in are total mindgarden classics haha

(quik doesnt make that list for ex, which would be absurd to me now)

Nice, interesting to see a couple No Limit releases in there. I went through a HUGE No Limit phase late 90s, used to love that TRU record.

is 456 really that good? i dont think i've ever listened to his post &djpolo stuff.

Fabolous ft. Nate Dogg – Can’t Deny It

Track Nom (20 or 21?)

Shade Sheist ft. Nate Dogg & Kurupt – Where I Wanna Be

is 456 really that good? i dont think i've ever listened to his post &djpolo stuff.

― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Yah man, its definitely that good. Not sure if it would make my actual top 25, but def top 50. Its the uncle to Illmatic and Doe Or Die (those two being brothers). 10 concise tracks and a short intro, a master stroke of brevity (like its nephews), nothing even approaching filler here. I never just listen to one track off it, always the full lp.

The production on it goes less for the jazzy, horn-laced loops of Polo and instead guns for that hard NY mafioso sound. I think G Rap sounds excellent on both styles, but dude was born to rap over grit. The snare sound throughout is among my favorite in all of rap, particularly on the tracks Blowin Up In The World, 4,5,6 and Money On My Brain. A couple verses from MF Grimm & B1, and one Nas spot is all the help he called in, he handles everything else with ease.

Executioner Style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcR6ffNDRvk

Blowin' Up In The World (my favorite track; the way he floats in and out of double-timing, the snare, the sing-along posse hook, the story... perfection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n491xFgN8PA

Hmm, dope! Will check it out sometime!

I was wondering about that 3,4,5 album too, never heard it. Not that DJ Polo has ever been my favorite thing about the duo's records (I mean lol my favorite one is Live and Let Die, which is like 90% DJ Pooh) but it just didn't even occur to me to check out G Rap's solo stuff. duh.

Other than a few tracks, the rest of his solo stuff is passable. 4,5,6 is essential though, especially for G Rap fans.

'ghetto knows' has my fav snares

Now enjoying my first listen to Rhythm-al-ism (being shamefully ignorant of DJ Quik's work prior to BlaQKout) thanks to this thread. Will check out 4,5,6 next.

wutz good w. dj quik

theres where i do a nerd post on dj quik for a big vague career outline

id probably say more / difft things now but its still prob good for the gist of it

Cool, thanks deej

had a p shitty week but getting back on the horse. first question is to matt:

20 One Love - Nas/AZ

Do you mean One Love or Life's a Bitch?

Also of your track nominations - straight outta compton, broken language, peter piper, symphony, mind playing tricks on me, rock the bells, psk, the bridge is over, ante up, troy, regulate have been added already, which leaves you with 11 more track nominations, 12 if you don't vote for either nas song or 10 if you add both. About to input your albums.

:D

ah thanks yes i would love to do 11 more tracks, i really did my quickly before.

I meant One Love (sorry az)

also 4,5,6 by Kool G rules and Fast Life off that has maybe my fav Nas stuff ever on it

Yung Humma ft. Flynt Flossy - Lemme Smang It

also helge only 12 of your album picks made the list, you can have 13 other nominations.

could you tell me the 12 that made it? thanks :)

my 11 replacement tracks:

1 Organized Konfusion - "Stray Bullet"
2 Spoonie G - "Spoonin' Rap"
3 Cool Breeze - "Watch for the Hook"
3 Big Daddy Kane - "Ain't No Half Steppin'" (wow how did this not get nominated before??
4 Ice-T - "6 n' the mornin'"
5 do or die - "po pimp"
6 whodini - "freaks come out at night"
7 black moon - "who got the props?"
8 bone thugs n harmony - "thuggish ruggish bone"
9 lord tariq & peter gunz - "deja vu (uptown baby)"
10 dmx - "get at me dog"
11 heltah skeltah feat ogc - "lefleuf leflah eskoshka"

12 that weren't already nominated, including some surprisingly big names:

2 Amerikkka's Most Wanted - Ice Cube
6 Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
8 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted: Dead or Alive
11 The DOC - No One Can Do It Better
12 Above the Law - Livin' Like Hustlers
13 Mobb Deep - The Infamous
14 Special Ed - Youngest in Charge
17 Redman - Whut? The Album
21 Sir Mix-a-Lot - Swass
22 Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane
23 Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
24 Gang Starr - Hard to Earn

iirc

also <3 for lord tariq and peter gunz

black cow loop kills it every time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fle-zebSXNc

^^^poll input sounds, underrated and unfortunately forgotten jam.

What!? Noone has nominated Blackstreet? For shame ILM for shame.

Blackstreet - No Diggity

does Blackstreet count as rap?

well, they are black and their music has drums in it, so...

Oh shit son. I feel like I've been waiting for this.

Also, isn't One Night in Bangkok from the ABBA MUSICAL?

no, it's from "Chess"

(wait, who wrote "Chess", I just assumed you were talking about "Mamma Mia!")

(lol @ me)

Actually no, they're not hip hop they're r&b... but 'no diggity' features dre and queen pen so it qualifies right?

13 sub albums for my list

1 diamond d & the psychotic neurotics - stunts, blunts, and hip hop
2 brother ali - the undisputed truth
3 beanie sigel - the b.coming
4 styles p - the ghost sessions
5 south circle - anotha day, anotha balla - (underrated southern classic!)
6 2 live crew - move something
7 artifacts - between a rock and a hard place
8 aceyalone - all balls don't bounce
9 mc lyte - eyes on this
10 various artists - philadelphia: classic material
11 black star - most def and talib kweli are black star
12 the roots - illadelph halflife
13 stetsasonic - in full gear

Songs

Atmosphere - Modern Man's Hustle
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)
Cannibal Ox - The F-Word
The Coup - Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Grenada Last Night
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
Eminem - Kill You
EPMD - So Wat Cha Sayin
Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
The Fixxers - Can You Work With That
Gang Starr - Ex Girl To Next Girl
Jay-Z - Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)
Jean Grae - Take Me
Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothin'
LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali
Main Source - Lookin At The Front Door
Nas - It Ain't Hard to Tell
OC - Time's Up
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
OutKast - Spottieottiedopalicious
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says
Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause
Rick Ross - Mafia Music
The Roots - Silent Treatment
World Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ

mc breed & tupac - gotta get mine
mac dre - off tha rictor
husalah - frozen heart
outkast / mystikal - neck uv da woods
special ed - the mission
ugk - take it off
gang starr - royalty
8ball and mjg - space age pimpin
scarface - now i feel ya
soulja slim - souljas on my feet
t.i. - asap
jim jones - crunk muzik
master p - bout it bout it
dr. dre - the next episode
beatnuts - watch out now
outkast - so fresh, so clean
three-6 mafia - sippin on syrup
andre nickatina - soul of a dope dealer
esg - swangin and bangin
spice 1 - strap on the side

i already nommed next episode, but really happy you nommed watch out now - top 20 material for sure

someone nominate blahzay blahzay - danger

replace 'next episode' w/ O.C. - 'born 2 live'

p-grillz - i know the black sheep off hand has already been nommed. sorry i didn't continue sorting the list earlier, crazy ex girlfriend got in the way, (also the reason i am up at 5 in the morning.)

"The Humpty Dance" and "Follow the Leader" from Parenthetical Grillz' list have also been already nominated.

"Hey DJ" has also been nommed already.

Just inquiring again...are we actually leaving noms open until the original deadline? This is taking FOREVER.

hmm, maybe not. but otoh, hardly anyone has nommed. would a closer deadline cause people to nut up?

Who knows. It's only been ten days (which I just now realized), and I usually let my own poll nom threads go two weeks or more. Maybe I'm just impatient about voting and seeing the countdowns.

What's the problem this time? There was a starburst of enthusiasm, then nothing. Other noms processes settle into some kind of steady flow.

Generally I think it just works on whether something stays top of SNA or not. All it needs is a busy couple of hours not being bumped to be forgotten for the latest race baiting.

Well I'm currently updating the list. We are doing fine w/ tracks, albums could do w/ a boost.

tbh I suspected there'd be a less enthusiastic rush of album nominations. I wonder if albums results will lean undie while trax results lean popular like in eoy polls.

Well i'm currently at 222 albums listed, with still some left to input, so its not like we are exactly going to call it off. hope to hit at least 300 by the end of it.

Updated lists!

Tracks - https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvVRi2dr-BrcdC02MTJkQnRwNkhTcGJZZEd0ME55N2c&hl=en&authkey=CP281esM#gid=0

Albums - https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvVRi2dr-BrcdGx2TGFUMXVJdDdsV043ZFJ3QVE4MFE&hl=en#gid=0

Who has nominated, for how many things and what they have doubled up on - https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvVRi2dr-BrcdEVYaTg3WnRMS3hmY1Q4M3c1ZGpocVE&hl=en#gid=0

Johnny you couldn't c&p the master lists again could you? Cheers.

someone nominate blahzay blahzay - danger

― symsymsym, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:11 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

Track
Blahzay Blahzay - Danger

lol i think it was already on the list somewhere.

Track
Jeru Da Damaja - Ya Playing Yourself

xp just checked the list and you're right. blahzay already there. sorry a hoy.

Johnny you couldn't c&p the master lists again could you? Cheers.

All I did was d/l them and open them in Wordpad. Anyone can do that.

Tracks:

2 Live Crew - Arrest in Effect
2 Live Crew - Coolin'
2pac - can't c me
2Pac - Hail Mary
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
2Pac ft. Dr. Dre - California Love
2pac- hit 'em up
3rd Bass - Steppin' To The AM
50 Cent - In Da Club
50 Cent - What Up Gangsta
504 Boyz - Wobble Wobble
8ball and mjg - space age pimpin
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum (Why? Edit)
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
a tribe called quest - electric relaxation
A Tribe Called Quest ft. The Leaders of the New School - Scenario
aceyalone - five feet
aceyalone "the guidelines"
aesop rock "daylight"
aesop rock "pigs"
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
AMG - Bitch Betta Have My Money
andre nickatina - soul of a dope dealer
Arrested Development - Tennessee
Atmosphere - Modern Man's Hustle
Audio Two - Top Billin'
B-Rock and the Bizz - My Baby Daddy
Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
Beastie Boys 'Slow And Low'
beatnuts - watch out now
Big Daddy Kane - "Ain't No Half Steppin'"
Big Daddy Kane - Raw
big l - put it on
big pun - still not a player
big pun - super lyrical
big pun -twinz
black moon - "who got the props?"
black moon - buck em down
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
black star - defintion
Blackalicious 'Alphabet Aerobics'
blackalicious "chemical calisthenics"
blahzay blahzay - danger
Bomfunk MCs - Freestyler
bone thugs n harmony - "thuggish ruggish bone"
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge is Over
brand nubian - slow down
Brother "D" With Collective Effort - How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise?
brother ali "forest whitiker"
Busta Rhymes - Fire It Up
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check!
Cannibal Ox - The F-Word
cannibal ox "pigeons"
Cash Money Marvellous 'Mighty Hard Rocker'
Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin'
Clipse - Grindin
Clipse - Young Boy
Cocoa Brovaz - Super Brooklyn
Coldcut 'More Beats + Pieces'
common - the bitch in you
company flow "krazy kings"
Convicts - 1900-Dial-a-Crook
Cool Breeze - "Watch for the Hook"
Craig Mack - Flavor In Ya Ear Remix
Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
Cypress Hill - Illusions
d-stroy "roll out"
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
danger mouse + jemini "ghetto pop life"
david banner - cadillacs on 22s
De La Soul - Eye Know
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
De La Soul - Roller Skatin' Jam Called ''Saturdays'
De La Soul - The Magic Number
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Delinquent Habits - Tres Delinquentes
Devin the Dude - Briar Patch
devin the dude - doobie ashtray
Digable Planets - Black Ego
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
Dimples D - Sucker DJs (I Will Survive)
Dizzee Rascal 'I Luv U'
Dj Quik & Kurupt - 9x's Outta 10
DJ Spanish Fly 'Smokin Onions'
DJ Spanish Fly 'Trigga Man' remix
dmx - "get at me dog"
dmx - ruff ryders anthem
do or die - "po pimp"
Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson One - The Payoff Mix
Double XX Posse - Not Gonna Be Able to Do It
Doug Lazy - Let It Roll
Dr. Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'
dr. dre - let me ride
dr. dre - the next episode
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a G Thang
Dynamixx II - Just Give The DJ A Break
E-40 - Automatic
E-40 - Yay Area
edan "sing it shitface"
El-P - Deep Space 9mm
el-p "stepfather factory"
Eminem - If I Had
Eminem - Kill You
Eminem - Stan
EPMD - So Wat Cha Sayin
EPMD - Strictly Business
EPMD - You Gots To Chill
Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend
eric b and rakim - paid in full
Eric B and Rakim 'Juice (Know The Ledge)'
esg - swangin and bangin
Eve feat. Drag-On - Let's Talk About
Fabolous ft. Nate Dogg – Can’t Deny It
fatlip - whats up fatlip
Flipmode Squad - Cha Cha Cha
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
Fugees - Ready Or Not
Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint
Furious Five featuring Cowboy, Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio - Step Off
gang starr - DWYCK
Gang Starr - Ex Girl To Next Girl
gang starr - royalty
Geto Boys - Fuck 'Em (All)
Geto Boys - Mind of a Lunatic
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids
Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500
Ghostface Killah - Save Me Dear
Ghostface Killah (ft MethodMan, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, Redman) - Buck 50
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Goodie Mob - Black Ice
goodie mob - cell therapy
goodie mob "dirty south"
Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message
Gravediggaz - 1800-Suicide
Group Home - Supa Star
Handsome Boy Modelling School 'Rock And Roll'
heltah skeltah feat ogc - "lefleuf leflah eskoshka"
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
House of Pain - Jump Around
husalah - frozen heart
Ice Cube - Dead Homiez
Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day
Ice Cube - Pushin' Weight
ice cube - steady mobbin
Ice Cube - When Will They Shoot?
Ice Cube 'You Can Do It'
Ice-T - "6 n' the mornin'"
Ice-T - I'm Your Pusher
Ice-T - New Jack Hustler
Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Jay-Z - Dead Presidents
Jay-Z - Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)
jay-z - so ghetto
Jay-Z -? Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
Jay-Z and Juvenile - Snoopy Track
Jay-Z ft. Biggie - Brooklyns Finest
Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, Missy Elliott and Twista - Is That Yo Chick?
Jazzy-Jay - Def Jam
Jean Grae - Take Me
jeru the damaja - come clean
jim jones - crunk muzik
JJ Fad 'You're Going Down'
Jungle Brothers - What U Waitin' 4
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
jurrasic 5 "quality control"
Juvenile - Ha
JVC Force - Strong Island
Kano - Reload It
Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothin'
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Kanye West - Monster
Kid Frost - La Raza
King Sun & D-Moet - Hey Love
King Tee - Bass
Klashnekoff - It's Murda
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road To The Riches
Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now
Kris Kross - Jump
KRS-One - Black Cop
KRS-One - Sound of da Police
krs-one - step into a world
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
L'Trimm - Cars With the Boom
Latyrx 'Storm Warning'
Lethal Bizzle - Pow!
Lil B - The Age of Information
Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys - Get Low
Lil Wayne - 3 AM
Lil wayne - a milli
Lil Wayne - Lollipop
lil wayne - six foot seven foot
Lil' Kim - Whoa
LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali
LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J - Rock the Bells
lootpack "the questions"
lord tariq & peter gunz - "deja vu (uptown baby)"
lords of the underground - chief rocka
Lovebug Starski & the Harlem World Crew - Positive Life
ludacris - area codes
Luniz - I Got 5 on It
mac dre - off tha rictor
Madvillain - Accordion
Madvillain - ALL CAPS
Madvillain - Curls
Main Source - Lookin At The Front Door
Malclom McLaren - Buffalo Gals
"Man Parrish feat. Freeze Force - Boogie Down (Bronx)
Mantronix - King Of The Beats
Mark '45' King - #900 Number
Marley Marl featuring Craig G, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, and Big Daddy Kane - The Symphony
masta ace - dear diary
Masta Ace 'Born To Roll'
master p - bout it bout it
mc breed & tupac - gotta get mine
MC Lyte - 10% Dis
MC Lyte - Paper Thin
MC Lyte - Ruffneck
Method Man ft Mary J Blige - You're All I Need To Get By
MF Doom - Dead Bent (album version)
mf grimm "do it for the kids"
Mikes Jones, Slim Thug & Paul Wall - Still Tippin'
missy elliot - get ur freak on
missy elliot - the rain (supa dupa fly)
Missy Elliott - Work It
Mobb Depp - Shook Ones Part II
MOP - Ante Up
Mos Def - Ghetto Rock
mos def - ms. fat booty
mr. lif ft. el-p "phantom"
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
Mystikal - Danger
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Nas - It Ain't Hard to Tell
Nas - NY State of Mind
Nas - One Love
Nas - One Mic
Nas - The World Is Yours
Nas 'Made You Look'
nas- halftime
Naughty by Nature - OPP
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
Newcleus - Jam on It
Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
non-prophets "damage"
noreaga - superthug
Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
notorious big - gimme the loot
Notorious BIG - Mo' Money Mo' Problems
notorious big - ten crack commandments
Notorious BIG 'Hypnotize'
NWA - '100 Miles And Runnin'
NWA - Express Yourself
O.C. - 'born 2 live'
OC - Time's Up
ODB 'Brooklyn Zoo'
odd nosdam "fly mode"
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money (Feat. Kelis)
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Onyx - Last Dayz
Organized Konfusion - "Stray Bullet"
Organized Konfusion - Bring It On
Original Concept - Can You Feel It?
Outkast - B.O.B.
Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin pt. 1
Outkast - Ms Jackson
outkast - so fresh, so clean
outkast - southernplayalisticcadillacfunkymuzik
OutKast - Spottieottiedopalicious
outkast / mystikal - neck uv da woods
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)
Petey Pablo - Get on Dis Motorcycle
pharcyde - passin me by
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says
pharoahe monch "the light"
Poor Righteous Teachers - Rock Dis Funky Joint
Positive K - I Got A Man
Pras feat. ODB & Mya - Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)
Pretty Tony - Jam the Box
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause
public enemy - shut 'em down (pete rock remix)
Public Enemy 'You're Gonna Get Yours'
Q-Tip - Vivrant Thing
Queen Latifah feat. Monie Love - Ladies First
Rah Digga - Lessons of Today
Rammellzee - Beat Bop (Vs. K-Rob)
Rick Ross - Mafia Music
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - It Takes Two
Rosco P. Coldchain w/ Pusha-T & Boo-Boni - Hot
Roxanne Shante - Have A Nice Day
Roxanne Shante - Queen Of Rox (Shante Rox On)
Rubberoom - Born
Run D.M.C. - Rock Box
Run DMC - Peter Piper
Run-DMC - It's Like That
Ruthless Rap Assassins 'Justice'
sage francis "makeshift patriot"
Salt 'N' Pepa - Tramp
scarface - now i feel ya
scarface - on my block
Schoolly D - P.S.K.-What Does It Mean?
Shade Sheist ft. Nate Dogg & Kurupt – Where I Wanna Be
Silver Bullet 'Bring Forth The Guillotine'
Sir Mix-a-Lot - Posse on Broadway
Skee-Lo - I Wish
slick rick - children's story
slick rick/doug e fresh - la di da di
slick rick/doug e fresh - the show
Slum Village - Players
smoothe da hustler - broken language
snoop dogg - drop it like it's hot
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
soulja slim - souljas on my feet
Souls of Mischief - '93 Til' Infinity
Special Ed - I Got It Made
special ed - the mission
spice 1 - strap on the side
Spoonie G - "Spoonin' Rap"
Stetsasonic - On Fire
Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz
Sugarhill Gang - 8th Wonder
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
T La Rock - It's Yours
t.i. - asap
talib kweli "good to you"
the beatnuts - off the books
The Beatnuts - Reign of the Tec
The Classical II - New Generation
The Coup - Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Grenada Last Night
The Fixxers - Can You Work With That
The Game - Hate It Or Love It
the juggaknots "clear blue skies"
the majesticons "majestwest party"
The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
The Notorious B.I.G. - Kick In The Door
the notorious b.i.g. - machine gun funk
the notorious b.i.g. - party and bullshit
The Real Roxanne with Hitman Howie T - Bang Zoom (Let's Go Go)
The Roots - Silent Treatment
the roots - you got me
The Sequence - Funk You Up
Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly
Three 6 Mafia - Testin My Gangsta
three-6 mafia - sippin on syrup
TI - what you know
Time Zone 'World Domination'
Too $hort - Don?t Fight the Feelin
Too $hort - Life Is Too $hort
Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up
Ty - Wait a Minute
UGK - One Day
ugk - take it off
UGK feat. Outkast - International Players Anthem
ugly duckling "journey to anywhere"
Ultramagnetic MCs 'Give The Drummer Some'
UTFO - Roxanne, Roxanne
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Warren G. feat. Nate Dogg - Regulate
Westside Connection 'We Be Clubbin'
whodini - "freaks come out at night"
Whodini - Magic's Wand
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Wiley - Wot Do U call It?
Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah
World's Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ
wu-tang - cream
wu-tang - protect ya neck
Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Wu-Tang Clan feat. Isaac Hayes - I Can't Go to Sleep
Wyclef, Loon & Busta Rhymes - Pussycat
Yo Majesty - Club Action
young jeezy - go crazy
Young Jeezy - Put On
Young MC - Know How
Young MC 'Know How'
Yung Humma ft. Flynt Flossy - Lemme Smang It
zion i "inner light"

Albums -

2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be
2 Live Crew - Banned in the USA
2 live crew - move something
2Pac - All Eyez on Me
2Pac - Me Against the World
2pistols - death before dishonor
3rd Bass - The Cactus album
8ball & MJG - comin' out hard
8ball & MJG – On Top Of The World
A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life
a tribe called quest - low end theory
a tribe called quest - midnight marauders
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
abn - it is what it is
Above The Law - Livin' Like Hustlers
aceyalone - all balls don't bounce
Angel Haze - Altered Ego
Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue
artifacts - between a rock and a hard place
AZ - Aziatic
beanie sigel - the b.coming
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
Big Daddy Kane – Prince of Darkness
big l - lifestylez of the poor and dangerous
big mike - somethin' serious
big pun - capital punishment
Binary Star – Masters of the Universe
Biz Markie - Goin' Off
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Black Moon - Total Eclipse
Black Sheep - a Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
black star - most def and talib kweli are black star
Blak Twang - Kik Off
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Brand Nubian - One For All
brother ali - the undisputed truth
Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes...
c-murder - life or death
Camp Lo – Uptown Saturday Night
camron - purple haze
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine
chamillionaire - sound of revenge
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Clouddead - Clouddead
Coldcut - 70 Minutes Of Madness
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Comptons Most Wanted & MC Eiht – Music to Driveby
Crime Mob - Crime Mob
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
Da Beatminerz - Brace 4 Impak
David Banner - Mississippi: The Album
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
de la soul - buhloone mindstate
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Dead Prez - Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1
Demon Boyz - Recognition
devin the dude - 2 tha extreme
devin the dude - just tryin ta live
diamond d & the psychotic neurotics - stunts, blunts, and hip hop
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Digable Planets - Reachin'
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Digital Underground - Sons of the P
Divine Styler - Wordpower 2: Directrix
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
DJ Krush - Meiso
DJ Quik - Balance & Options
DJ Quik - Rhythm-al-ism
DJ Quik - Safe & Sound
DJ Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
DMX - The Great Depression
Dr Octagon - Ecolygist
dr. dre - 2001
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
E-40 - In a Major Way
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin'(Day Shift/Night Shift)
Eazy E - Eazy-Duz-It
Edan - Beauty And The Beat
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
EPMD - Back In Business
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
eric b and rakim - follow the leader
Erick Sermon - React
Eve - Ruff Ryder's First Lady
Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
Gang Starr - Step In The Arena
Gang Starr – Moment of Truth
Genius/ GZA - Liquid Swords
Geto Boys - Geto Boys
geto boys - grip it!
Geto Boys – We Cant Be Stopped
Ghostface - Fishscale
ghostface - pretty toney album
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Goodie Mob - Soul Food
Goodie Mob - Still Standing
gorilla zoe - welcome to the zoo
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep / Niggamortis
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Ice cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Ice Cube - The Predator
Ice-T - O.G.
immortal technique - revolutionary vol. 2
J Dilla - Donuts
J Dilla – Welcome 2 Detroit
jay-z - reasonable doubt
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Jay-Z - Vol. 3: Life And Times Of S. Carter
Jaylib - Champion Sound
Jeru Tha Damaja – Wrath of the Math
Jeru The damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Wit the Remedy
Just-Ice - Back to the Old School
juvenile - 400 degreez
kanye west - college dropout
Kanye West - Graduation
Killah Priest - Priesthood
Klashnekoff and Joe Buddha - Lionheart: Tussle With The Beast
KMD - Black Bastards
KMD - Mr. Hood
Kool G Rap - 4,5,6
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted: Dead or Alive
Kool Keith - Black Elvis
KRS-One - Return of the Boom Bap
Kurupt - Tha Streets Iz a Mutha
Large Pro – The LP
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
Lightnin' Rod - Hustler's Convention
lil wayne - tha carter II
Lil' Kim - The Notorious K.I.M.
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J - Radio
Ludacris - Back for the First Time
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
Luke Vibert's UK Hardcore Rap Mix For Planet Mu
Madvillain - Madvillainy
main source - breakin atoms
master p - ice cream man
master p - mp the last don
mc lyte - eyes on this
Method Man - Tical
Method Man - Tical
Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
MF Doom - MM Food
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday!
Missy Elliott - Da Real World
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
MOP - Firing Squad
mos def- black on both sides
mystikal - dont mess w/ mystikal
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Nas - God's Son
Nas - Illmatic
Nas - Stillmatic
Nice & Smooth - Ain't A Damn Thing Changed
Nicki Minaj - Beam Me Up Scotty
O.C. - Word... Life
ODB - Nigga Please
ODB - Return to the 36 Chambers
Onyx - All We Got Iz Us
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
outkast - aquemini
outkast - atliens
Outkast - Stankonia
p.a. - straight no chase
paul wall & chamillionaire - get ya mind correct
pharcyde - bizarre ride
Pitbull - M.I.A.M.I.
Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
project pat - security cam
Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91 The Empire Strikes Black
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy - Greatest Misses
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy - Yo! Bumrush the Show
Puff Daddy and the Family - No Way Out
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Ras Kass - Soul On Ice
Redman - Whut? Thee Album
Redman – Dare Iz A Darkside
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Ruff Sqwad - Guns And Roses Vol. 2
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Run-DMC - Run-DMC
RZA/Various Artists - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Soundtrack)
Salt'n'Pepa - Very Necessary
scarface - mr. scarface is back
scarface - the diary
scarface - the fix
Screwball - Y2K
Show & AG – Goodfellas
Sir Mix-a-Lot - Swass
slick rick - great adventures of slick rick
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2
Smif-N-Wessun – Dah Shinin’
smoothe da hustler - once upon a time in america
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
south circle - anotha day, anotha balla
Special Ed - Youngest In Charge
Steinski - What Does it all Mean? 1983 - 2006 Retrospective
stetsasonic - in full gear
Stetsasonic - On Fire
styles p - the ghost sessions
Suga Free - Street Gospel
T.I. - King
Talib Kweli - Quality
Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food
The Alkaholiks - 21 & Over
The Brotherhood - Elementalz
The Coup - Genocide & Juice
The Coup - Steal This Album
The D.O.C. - Nobody Does It Better
The Fugees - The Score
The Lady of Rage - Necessary Roughness
The Luniz - Operation Stackola
The Majesticons - Beauty Party
The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
the roots - illadelph halflife
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
three 6 mafia - chapter 2: world domination
Three 6 Mafia - Da Unbreakables
three 6 mafia - underground vol. 1 (1991-1994)
TI - trap muzik
Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In
Too $hort - Life Is ...
Trick Daddy - Thugs Are Us
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
Trina - Da Baddest Bitch
Trina - Diamond Princess
ugk - ridin' dirty
UGK - Super Tight...
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
Various - Major Force – The Original Art-Form (Major Force label compilation)
various artists - philadelphia: classic material
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
webbie - savage life
Why? - Oaklandazulasylum
Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice
Wu Tang Clan - The W
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Xzibit – 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
Yo-Yo - Make Way for the Motherlode
Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin'
Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
Young Jeezy - The Recession
z-ro - let the truth be told
Zion I – Mind Over Matter

Tracks:

UGK - Wood Wheel
De La Soul - Ego Trippin' (Part Two)
2Pac - I Get Around
Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E.
Birdman & Lil Wayne - Stuntin Like My Daddy
Three 6 Mafia - Who Run It
Jay-Z - Nigga What, Nigga Who
8Ball & MJG - Throw Ya Hands Up (ft. Oukast)
Biz Markie - Just A Friend
Big Daddy Kane - Smooth Operator
Gangstarr - Just to Get a Rep
Big L - Ebonics
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
E-40 - Sprinkle Me (ft Suga T)
Ghostface - Run
Ludacris - Phat Rabbit
Outkast - Player's Ball
Scarface - Guess Who's Back (ft. Jay-Z & Beanie Siegel)
Raekwon - Incarcerated Scarfaces
Lil Wayne - Shine
Dre Dog - Smoke Dope and Rap
Pharcyde - Drop
Fabolous - Right Now & Later On

A Hoy Hoy, Johnny Fever, thanks for all the work on this! Looking forward to the actual voting!

I can take no credit here. This is a hoy hoy's baby. I'm just a bystander.

no tim dawg makes sam sad.

Tracks: (I think that's me all out, sorry 'Girls, Girls, Girls')

Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Jay Z - Empire State Of Mind
Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me

I feel like the really big names should have a lot more tracks nominated, and votesplitting be damned. There should be more than three Kanye tracks, for example, the guy hogs our end-of-years as it is.

25 Tracks:

Public Enemy – Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
Eminem—The Way I Am
Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up Look Sharp
Dr. Dre – Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat
Geto Boys – Let A Ho Be A Ho
Geto Boys – Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster
Ghostface Killah – Shakey Dog
Ghostface Killah –Champ
Kanye West – Runaway
Kanye West – All Of The Lights
Kanye West – Heard ‘Em Say
Jay-Z – Big Pimpin’
Wu-Tang Clan – Bring Da Ruckus
A Tribe Called Quest – I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
Lil Wayne – 3Peat
Lil Wayne – Dr. Carter
Lil Wayne – Mrs. Officer
Serengeti – Dennehy
The Roots – The Seed 2.0
Lil Wayne – Let The Beat Build
Outkast – Gasoline Dreams
Mystikal – Bouncin Back (Bumpin’ Me Against The Wall)
Panjabi MC featuring Jay-Z – Beware Of The Boys
Beastie Boys – High Plains Drifter
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy – Television (The Drug Of A Nation)

p-grillz - i know the black sheep off hand has already been nommed. sorry i didn't continue sorting the list earlier, crazy ex girlfriend got in the way, (also the reason i am up at 5 in the morning.)
-"The Humpty Dance" and "Follow the Leader" from Parenthetical Grillz' list have also been already nominated.
-"Hey DJ" has also been nommed already.

Sorry, I control-f-ed all those shits before nominating. (I wasn't sure if The Humpty Dance was an actual nom, because it hadn't been added to the master list.) MY BAD! I will gladly substitute the following tracks:

Beanie Sigel - Purple Rain (Feat. Bun B)
Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin
Just-Ice - Cold Gettin' Dumb
TI - Rubberband Man

Albums

Mantronix
Schoolly D - Saturday Night! The Album
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing
EPMD - Unfinshed Business

Ice T - The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say
Jungle Brothers - Done In By the Forces of Nature
Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen
EPMD - Business As Usual
Eric B. & Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em

Organized Konfusion
Eric B. & Rakim - Don't Sweat the Technique
Gang Starr - Daily Operation
Big Daddy Kane - Looks Like a Job For...
Atmosphere - Lucy Ford

The Coup - Party Music
Missy Elliott - Miss E: So Addictive
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Jean Grae - Attack of the Attacking Things
De La Soul - The Grind Date

Jay-Z - American Gangster
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Rick Ross - Teflon Don

Mostly just filling in gaps really.

OC - Time's Up

i'm ashamed of myself for not nominating this! (to be fair i was at church with my moms)

btw i nominated move something by 2 live crew because i saw that somehow banned in the usa had been nominated so please don't vote for that that album sucks and move something was their peak imo

if you change the nom deadline please put the new date in the thread title and don't move it up to like TOMORROW or something, i can't imagine i'm the only one kinda on the sidelines waiting to see what isn't nommed yet and then trying to fill in the blanks in the last few days

There's a ton of stuff I'm astounded isn't in the tracks list (yet, hopefully).

i've criticized the "nom this for me" thing in other polls before but tbh if anyone who's used up their noms wants to be point out to me important things that haven't been covered yet let me know and we can talk offboard or something

The albums list is getting there.

There should be a way to automatically nominate the canon, so that individual nominations can be personal without missing anything huge.

24/25

Scarface - Seen A Man Die
Kanye West - Flashing Lights
Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy With It
Clipse - Trill
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
Warren G - This DJ
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
KRS-One - Love's Gonna Getcha

Jay Z - Empire State Of Mind

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:02 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Used to <3 u, now dead to me.

not to mention all this new kanye shit coming up today when 'when's the last time' or 'new york new york' still haven't made it.

There should be a way to automatically nominate the canon, so that individual nominations can be personal without missing anything huge.

― Parenthetical Grillz, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 17:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Was thinking of adding the ego trip lists, but that would make the list toooooo fucking big.

Think I've been dead to you twice on thread so far already - getting nervous about sending in my ballot now!

Anyway, I did think twice before nomming cos the verses are not my favourite part and it does go on a bit long, but come on it's a terrific record.

lol you know its straight love but eurgh i hate that song.

TRACKS

Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Streets of New York
Organized Konfusion - Prisoners of War
Nine - Whutcha Want?
Scarface - Seen a Man Die
Method Man - Bring the Pain
Gang Starr - Check the Technique
Divine Styler - Grey Matter
Das Efx - They Want Efx
Da Lench Mob - Freedom Got an AK
Caveman - I'm Ready
Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds to Comply
Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers
Paris - Bush Killa
Ice Cube & Dr Dre - Natural Born Killaz

ALBUMS

Organized Konfusion - s/t
Divine Styler - Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light

Organized Konfusion's self-titled first album was already nommed above.

Please forgive me for the cardinal sin of accidental repetition on a noms thread. [suggest bans self]

man dl you got some good tracks that should have been nominated before

No it wasn't Tuomas! :D It was Stress that was already nominated iirc.

Stress is nominated also, but I just nominated the self-titled.

Tuomas, are you just sitting around watching this thread for repeats?

24 tracks, predictably square at this point:

A Tribe Called Quest - Find a Way
AG - Infected
Atmosphere - In Her Music Box
Boogie Down Productions - You Must Learn
Chalie Boy - I Look Good
The Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn
The D.O.C. - It's Funky Enough
De La Soul - Trying People
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Summertime
Eyedea & Abilities - Spin Cycle
Gang Starr - Words I Manifest (Special Remix)
Heavy D & the Boyz - Gyrlz, They Love Me (45 single mix)
Hi-Tek feat. Common & Vinia Mojica - The Sun God
I Self Devine - Ice Cold
Kool G Rap (featuring the RZA) - Cakes
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth - Bad Mutha
Madvillain - Meat Grinder
N.W.A. - _ _ _ _ tha Police (Fill In The Blanks)
OutKast - Wheelz of Steel
P.O.S. - Music for Shoplifting
Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out (Remix)
Q-Tip - Johnny Is Dead
Run-DMC - Run's House
Salt-N-Pepa featuring E.U. - Shake Your Thang

Those are mostly for fun and won't place, but I'd make a case for "Crooklyn" as one of the great rap singles.

crooklyn rules

lol i will probably vote for chalie boy i look good

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Summertime

I was going to put out a plea for this, many thanks! Now we need some of those classic early Beastie Boys cuts I think.

xuxhkson

haha, Summertime is pretty great actually. Can't believe that someone nominated Getting Jiggy With It.

No, actually I can believe it. I just don't want to.

It is great. What year is it from? It must be later than I thought, it's got that proto G-funk sound all over it.

Also, Will does some crazy-ass dancing midway through the video. I had a friend would dance like that - every party we went to, he'd try to manufacture pretty much exactly that scene, bursting into a group of people so he could jerk wildly in the middle. Oddly, I was the only person who seemed to find it at all cringeworthy, everyone else always seemed to lap it up.

will vote for gettin jiggy with it too

15 albums (apologies if i doubled anything, i did ctrl-f everything i'm pretty sure)

odd squad - fadanuf fa erybody
beanie sigel - public enemy number 1
young jeezy - trap or die
50 cent - get rich or die trying
clipse - lord willin
cormega - the true meaning
cormega - the realness
dj scream - only the crunk survive xii
big moe - city of syrup
the l.o.x - we are the streets
juelz santana - from me to u
g-unit - 50 cent is the future
gucci mane - gucci sosa
nas - the lost tapes
jadakiss - the champ is here

Candyman - Knockin' Boots (just sprang to mind, adding it to my noms)

will vote for gettin jiggy with it too

― flopson, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:24 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jesus christ

Big Moe!