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Rap Albums with Lyrics in the Booklets

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I can only name a few:

Eminem - Encore and The Eminem Show
Outkast - Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/Love Below
Madvillain - Madvillainy


I can't remember if this is correct or not, but for some reason I'm thinking that Dr. Octagonecologyst came with lyrics, but I could be wrong (I lost my copy quite some time ago). Can someone confirm this?

What other rap albums come with lyrics?

― Bobby Northcutt, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

fear of a black planet

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

dr. octagon didn't

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

most of the beasties albums, it takes a nation

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

the first talib kweli album

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

disposable heroes of hiphopracy (natch)

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

college dropout

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

do rap albums with printed lyrics have better lyrics?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

monie love, down to earth; therefore, yes

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

P.M. Dawn, The Bliss Album
P.M. Dawn, Jesus Wept

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Fear of a Black Planet

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

vanilla ice" to the extreme " i played it today after not playing for 4 years and played it all the way thru - it's gr8

― La Camilla Henemark, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, also Check Your Head on vinyl.

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

the third pe album

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

aquemini too

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Princess Superstar, Last Of The Great 20th Century Composers and Princess Superstar Is

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Princess Superstar, Last Of The Great 20th Century Composers and Princess Superstar Is
-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), February 8th, 2005.
she is hot

― pizzaboy, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Chillin with kool keith

ihttp://www.curtiscurtis.com/vertical/acts/actpics/koolkeithday.jpg

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

PS: awful rapper w/ annoying fans.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Interesting to note that most of these records have been crossover hits with white rock audiences. I'm not sure if that's not entirely a coincidence.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

All the Public Enemy albums.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Also: the Lauryn Hill album. So far, Matthew seems to have a point...

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Did the Wu-Tang ever do it tho?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Nope, but I think Wu-Tang is more along the lines of Jay-Z and Nas.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

The new Sage Francis album ("A Healthy Distrust") prints the lyrics. In fact, I think the sticker on the front of the CD advertises the fact that lyrics are included.

― subgenius (subgenius), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

(I think it's safe to say that Sage Francis has some appeal to the white rock audiences, especially now that he's signed to Epitaph.)

― subgenius (subgenius), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

new aesop rock cd showed up, in slim jewel case, with a thick-ass booklet of lyrics from all five albums of his.

― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

The new Saul Williams record has all the lyrics printed out. Probably the first one too.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

MC Paul Barman also includes his lyrics in his packaging.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

xxxxpost - i bet princess superstar shagged kool keith.

― ppp, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Nas - It Was Written

― Dan Alper (Kenyonthug), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

the pe album with "fight the power" on it

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

The Coup

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Did the Wu-Tang ever do it tho?

No, but the Rza's new book about 36 chambers has the lyrics with annotations!

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Fabolous - Real Talk

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Hey the RZA has a book? Is there a thread?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Sista Souljah's "360 Degrees of Power" had the lyrics, and funnily enough some of the explicit lyrics - but not all of them - were censored in the booklet.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

PS: awful rapper w/ annoying fans.

wrong! and wrong!

Princess Superstar = magnificent woman with great songs.

hip-hop purists hate her. this doesn't make her good, because she's good anyway, but it's a bonus.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
RZA's "Birth of a Prince" has all the lyrics printed in the booklet. I wish more Wu-Tang albums did this (at least now there's the Manual...)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)


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