S/D: Rap producer albums.

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Da Beatminerz: Brace 4 Impak
The Alchemist: 1st Infantry
DJ Spinna: Heavy Beats, Vol. 1 (okay, this is an EP really)

DESTROY:

Pete Rock: Soul Survivor
The Opus: First Contact

IN-BETWEEN:

Swizz Beatz: G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories (some nice tunes there, especially "Big Business", but some awful ones too)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

I guess the general rule for these is, "Don't try to rap yourself!", though The Alchemist drops some okay lines on his LP. Thankfully he limits his rapping to only a couple of tracks though. Swizz Beatz, on the other hand, proves himself to be one of the worst rappers ever.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Petestrumentals is dope.

― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

You think "brace 4 impak" is better than "soul survivor" therefore i deduce that you are a moronic foreign faggot with poor taste in rap.

The only positive thing i can say about "brace 4 impak" is that the Kool G. Rap + Ghostface and M.O.P + Tef tracks which didn't make the album due to sample clearance or whatever were bangin' while the LP itself was hot garbage.

― Dimehitter Dwayne Hosey (dwaynehosey), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

The reason I don't like Soul Survivor is that Pete Rock himself is a poor rapper, and his beats are way too smooth and mellow for my tastes. There's a couple of nice tunes there though, and some of the guests are okay. Brace 4 Impak, on the other hand, has hard-hitting beats and the guests contribute better verses even though (or exactly because, since established rappers can be lazy with these sort of guest spots) they're less known than those on Soul Survivor.

But yeah, I guess I'm just a moronic foreign faggot.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

OC, Kurupt, CL Smooth, Prodigy, Raekwon, Ghostface, Tragedy, Sticky Fingaz and Big Pun all kilt shit on "soul survivor", dawg

Pete, while obviosly not as good as he was in the Pete & CL days when Grand Puba was writin' his shit, is still better than most of the bums on "brace 4 impak" not to mention all of the jobbers minus Missin' Linx on the Spinna ep thang.

― Dimehitter Dwayne Hosey (dwaynehosey), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

I agree w/ Dimehitter, minus all most of the foreigner bashing

Also soul survivor 2 was really good.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

meant to use strikethru on "all"

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

PRINCE PAUL "PRINCE AMONG THIEVES"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

I like Large Pro's The LP a lot and 1st Class is kind of awful.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe no one has mentioned Entroducing haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

no one wants to be called a moronic foreign faggot

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

I honestly don't know why I still own that album

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

"no one wants to be called a moronic foreign faggot"

Like that's ever stopped Shadow fans before!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Endtroducing is a decent album. Oh wait but harhar poseurs think it's the greatest thing ever so therefore we must all mock it heavily.

S: Molemen: Beneath the Ground/Buried Alive
Da Grassroots: Passage through Time
Fat Jon: Wave Motion (Tuomas, you'd hate this)
D: Fatjack: Cater to the DJ

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

"D: Fatjack: Cater to the DJ"

You are out of your mind.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

I have to hear PEACE doing "Packed House" right NOW.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I really wish "A Prince Among Theives" wasn't a story album.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

I wish most of Prince Paul's records weren't concept records.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

The Fatjack would work great if each song was 20 seconds, but 4 minutes of the same 4 second loop grates on me.

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

smoke more weed, Chesty.

(okay, you may have a point)

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

Obv you don't know who you're giving that advice to.

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh fuck, a narc!

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

SEARCH:

El-P - Fantastic Damage

In-your-face lo-fi beats meet heavy metal thunder amidst a cyclone of rhyme. The shiz.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Search: Mannie Fresh - The Mind of

Destroy: Pharrell - In My Mind

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

fantastic damage is great

Search: Madlib - Beat Konducta, Vol. 1-2
J Dilla - Donuts

― g m a n (gman59), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

I thought Fantastic Damage was an El-P solo album? What I meant was albums where the producer doesn't rap (not much at least) and the guests handle most of the weight. Though I guess instrumental hip hop albums can be called "rap producer albums" too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomos is right about the Opus, although why he's listening to bland chicago indie rap is beyond me. i still remember a rap show i went to maybe 5 years ago where they were opening, and one of the dudes yells 'hey y'all heard of THE OPUS!???' and it was greeted with near-dead silence, pin-drop shit. AWKWARRRRD

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Well, their beats work finely on that one Rubberoom album, but only in tandem with the rather forceful Rubberoom MCs. (I bought The Opus album because it was in the bargain bin and because I loved the Rubberroom LP.) Without them, their tunes sound like bland, lifeless ambient drones with breakbeats.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Even the tune with Slug is kinda below what you'd expect from him.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

...What I meant was albums where the producer doesn't rap (not much at least) and the guests handle most of the weight...

Ahhh. Enter RZA

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

the old Marley Marl in Control ones were great.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah actually S: The World According to RZA even though it's not as good as the first RZA solo album or practically anything any of these folks didn't on their own.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

I really like the RZA/Xavier Naidoo song ("Ich Kenne Nichts") but I suspect that I'm the only person on the planet besides the German girls who introduced me to it.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Search: The Beatnuts, Intoxicated Demons thru Stoned Crazy

― mucho (mucho), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Search:

J Rawls "Essence Of"
Hi Tek: Hiteknology
Automator: Much better tomorrow (OK, that's really a duo thing)
RZA: Ghost Dog
The Creators: The Weight

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

ooh Ghost Dog sdtk (Japanese vsn) pwns

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

Diamond D - "Stunts, Blunts And Hip-Hop"

― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:02 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone remember if that Bobby Digital stuff was any good?

― Bear, is that you? (wolfwolfwolf), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

I have the second Bobby Digital LP, Digital Bullet, it's pretty good. Personally I kinda hate RZA's arythmic start-stop flow, but there are plenty of guests to keep things interesting. And it has maybe his best set of beats ever on one album, every tune has a different style of beat, and many of them are more polished than his typical Wu stuff, which makes it all the more interesting.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 13 January 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

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