OPO: hip-hop DOUBLE albums

Life After Death

Still a good 5 or so tracks too long and Biggie spread him self a little too thinly but there are so many classic tracks on there it's ridiculous. You got grimey shit like "what's beef?", "last dayz" and "10 crack commandments"; Introspective songs like "sky's the limit", "my downfall" and "you're nobody.."; Storytellin' cuts like "somebody's gotta die", "niggaz bleed" and "i got a story to tell"; Macked-out sex tracks like "fuck you tonight" and "the world is filled.."; club/radio classics like "hypnotize", "i love the dough" and "mo' money mo' problems" and raw m.c bangers like "kick in the door" and the interlude over "p.s.k" by Schoolly D.

Around half of "wu-tang forever" is trash; "blueprint 2" has some outstanding moments like "the watcher 2", "show u how", "meet the parents" and "poppin' tags" but you've got to wade through a lot of crap to get to them; "streets disciple" was lame and should've been an ep with "thief's theme", "virgo" and 3 or 4 more cuts on it and i have no interest in 2pac

Then again, I think it's the best hip hop album ever released, so no surprises...

I don't agree with this.

wu tang forever was like a quadruple lp. same for speakerboxxxxxxx

Uhhh I'm talking about CDs here. Double CDs. 'albums' referring to releases, not vinyl, which most people don't buy.

I think every genre would be improved by this, frankly.

-- Keith C (kcraw91...), June 17th, 2005.

the new Young Gunz album is 43 minutes long (and one of the songs is a year old and was tacked on), and it's garbage. brevity isn't everything.

maybe i should give "life after death" more rotation time, i never really got into it.

Fantastic songs on that though, the one where he destroys Black Thought lyrically and that one with Fat Joe.. dead in the middle of little italy.. etc!

OK, boss

From East to West, whether your thin or thick
Whether your girl sucks lollis or just pure dick
Mario Puzo said that I'm the don
W-W I'm the shit dot com
The first born, gone, born conceaded
The black Moses, ask me to leave Egypt
Straight heady, I manage heavy, and lolli petty
I gave R. Kelly a Rolex wit a diamond bezzy
Rock Steady, beg me, consider me stern
The original hoodlum, Fishburn had to learn
Supersperm, court's adjorn for the [?]

You, you got what I need!

Let her toss your sald, big hittas love to sit wit big figgas
I love black people, but I can't stand niggas
The ozz heads, back me, I'll cock shoggy
Ready to hold it down, I pop niggas like acne
Pay a token to breathe
Apollo wit low creed
For every government nigga, there's government cheese
I'm Mr. Please, Mr. Large
Thirty foot garage
Mercedes beggy
Mad cheddy
Mr. Elly

But 90% of today's most acclaimed hiphop albums are mostly filler anyway. Back-to-front classic hiphop albums aren't released nearly as often these days as they were ten or more years ago. Today, ones that are barely 50% classic are treated as masterpieces - especially debut albums, like The College Dropout or especially Get Rich Or Die Tryin. Yes, it would be better if this occured, but the industry will never encourage shorter and tighter hiphop LPs. All they really care about is hot singles. Beyond that, quantity is absolutely preferred to quality, because they like to make consumers feel like they're recieving more bang for the buck.

And also half of the tracks on most hiphop records are intros, outros, interludes and skits, so there are times when the album only has 10 or 11 real songs. To make tighter LPs, all of these will need to disappear. Most of them shouldn't be there anyway. I always skip track 1's titled "Intro." They're so completely unnecessary. The only ones who do interludes in an interesting way are Outkast. Everyone else just repeats the same things everyone else is doing, just to make their albums longer.

I'd still pick Life After Death or Street's Diciple over it, but it does have a buch of awesome tracks: The Artist Pays The Price, Backyard Misissippi, Stompin' & Pimpin, My Homeboy's Girlfriend, Coffee Shoppe, I Don't Wanna Die, My First Love, All 4 Nothin'....