Illmatic Tracks Poll

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I don't think this has been done before.

also, though it's a great intro, i'm not including "The Genesis", you fucking contrarians

Poll Results

Option	Votes
N.Y. State of Mind	7
Life's a Bitch	7
The World is Yours	7
Halftime	6
One Love	6
Memory Lane (Sittin in da Park)	5
Represent	2
It Ain't Hard to Tell	2
One Time 4 Your Mind	0

― Kevin Keller, Friday, 14 November 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

also, if this has been done before, the ban button is

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― Kevin Keller, Friday, 14 November 2008 22:30 (seventeen years ago)

impossible

― sofa king (deej), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

the real way to do this is have everyone vote off one track, then do another poll minus that track, and so on

― sofa king (deej), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

i arbitrarily voted halftime

― sofa king (deej), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i'm actually thinking of boycotting the poll myself because it's too hard

― Kevin Keller, Friday, 14 November 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)

i'm not including "The Genesis", you fucking contrarians

hahah i like this guy

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

voted memory lane

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

I know this is some corny shit to say, but "Illmatic" is one of the few albums I can't listen to individual tracks from. If I wanna listen to it, I need to put 42 minutes to one side to do it.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

what is your favorite 3-5 minute section of that 42 minutes of great music then? ;)

― Kevin Keller, Friday, 14 November 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

^^^love this dude

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

Voted Half Time.

― a hoy hoy, Friday, 14 November 2008 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

world is yours

― Hair Gongro (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 14 November 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)

Bitch vs One Love. One Love won coin toss.

― Granny Dainger, Friday, 14 November 2008 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

one love was in my coin toss too

― Hair Gongro (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 14 November 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

One love

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 14 November 2008 23:40 (seventeen years ago)

NY state of mind

― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 14 November 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

someone had to vote for It Ain't Hard to Tell so I guess it might as well be me

― With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Friday, 14 November 2008 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

NY state of mind

― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, November 14, 2008 6:44 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― the dan glickman from the hilarious motion picture association of america (max), Friday, 14 November 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

it's "One Love" vs. "Life's A Bitch" for me

― she ain't shy no more she changed her username to some dude's bitch (some dude), Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

Best rap album ever.

― ablaeser, Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

Life's a Bitch.

― ablaeser, Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

this is one of those albums that is so praised you wanna challops and say it's not all that but you look at the tracklisting again and it's just like...holy fuck i can't believe this album ever happened.

― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

i don't know if anything this awesome could exist now.

― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 15 November 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

i hope something this good happens again!

anyway, choosing one of these is like choosing my favorite child, but I'll go with "it aint hard to tell" because it's been my ringtone since high school

― Kevin Keller, Saturday, 15 November 2008 03:07 (seventeen years ago)

No Genesis no credibility.

― Moka, Saturday, 15 November 2008 08:37 (seventeen years ago)

Even though the whole alb is incredible and all that, this is so obv NYSoM

― and somewhat dude (The Reverend), Saturday, 15 November 2008 09:28 (seventeen years ago)

memory lane. but the only song i really listen to on its own outside of the album that regularly is it aint hard to tell.

they really messed up the chance to do a good double-disc version of this by leaving off the remixes.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Saturday, 15 November 2008 10:21 (seventeen years ago)

'Halftime' although it could easily have been 'One Love' or 'It Ain't Hard To Tell' on a different day.

― Gavin in Leeds, Saturday, 15 November 2008 11:25 (seventeen years ago)

NYSOM

― Neil S, Saturday, 15 November 2008 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

Meant to vote "New York", assumed "Genesis" would be at the top of the list and ended up voting for "Life's a Bitch". But "NY" is the best track, great and perfect as the album is. It feels kinda different to the rest of the alb, I'd love a record of tracks like it.

― Oreo SB'd Wagon (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 November 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

I love NYSOM but if I put it on I have to hear the whole record. There were a few months in high school where I was taking the bus to school in another town and my copy of Illmatic skipped crazy bad except for "Memory Lane," so I'd just listen to it over and over, and it's the only one I can hear in isolation from the others.

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 15 November 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

fuckin love wildstyle theme - you shoulda included the genesis

― sofa king (deej), Sunday, 16 November 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

im listening to this record for the first time in like two years

― sofa king (deej), Sunday, 16 November 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

life's a bitch is one of my fav rap songs ever

― t-t-totally some dude (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:25 (seventeen years ago)

every song on this album is ... one of my fav rap songs ever

― sofa king (deej), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

^^^qft

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

we were beginners in the hood as five percenters but somethin musta got in us cause all of us turned to sinners

possibly my favorite line on the whole record

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

it's so perfect. AZ's a pretty talented dude himself, but imagine if you're him, trying to convince people that you can do something half as good as that verse. it's one of the best verses in all of rap as far as I'm concerned.

― Kevin Keller, Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:35 (seventeen years ago)

"End like Leviathan/It's deep?/Well let me try again" is mine

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

"End like Leviathan/It's deep?/Well let me try again" is mine

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

Twice!

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:44 (seventeen years ago)

isn't it about time someone asks what schwepervesence is?

― t-t-totally some dude (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/199/

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

thank you big hoos aka the steendriver

― lupe fiasco from the hilarious lupe fiasco albums (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

mine's probably
"born alone, die alone / no crew to keep my crown or throne / i'm deep by sound alone / caved inside a thousand miles from home"
though this is impossible. the cadence and rhyme scheme in this bit just fucking floors me

― Kevin Keller, Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/199/ haha xp

― sofa king (deej), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

also uh the entirety of the first verse of one love

guess who got shot in the dome piece? jerome's niece on her way home from jones beach its bugged

just the way he says "it's bugged" sounds like the whole sense of despair of seeing people drop around you is packed into it

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

"And it was full of children prob'ly couldn't see as I high as I be" - first time I ever heard it, knew this rekkid was world class.

― Oreo SB'd Wagon (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 16 November 2008 01:53 (seventeen years ago)

challops alert but i always liked nas's verse on lifes and bitch way more than azs

― the dan glickman from the hilarious motion picture association of america (max), Sunday, 16 November 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death

― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Sunday, 16 November 2008 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

^ named my blog after this

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 November 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

also used attendant clip as intro for podcast

― grindcore is an end-run on HOOSic (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 November 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

i'll be happy with just about any choice

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

the real way to do this is have everyone vote off one track, then do another poll minus that track, and so on

― sofa king (deej), Friday, November 14, 2008 10:32 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

i am down for this

― H-O-O-S yes i guess i could steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

fuckin love wildstyle theme - you shoulda included the genesis

Chris Stein of Blondie did the music for this (at Fab 5 Freddy's direction)

― Lasers of the New School (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

xp yeah that was a really good idea but it's too late now no?

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

maybe but i'm betting the results of this will be scattershot

― H-O-O-S yes i guess i could steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

no wtf am i saying nysom is gonna take this

― H-O-O-S yes i guess i could steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

ok if it's too spread out ill make a poll on whether or not to have a poll-down of illmatic

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

surely the only fair way

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

100 greatest tracks on "Illmatic" thread.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

if only there were 100

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:22 (seventeen years ago)

would be heaven

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:22 (seventeen years ago)

Anyone who hasn't heard the "The World Is Yours" remix over the "Dead Presidents" beat needs to do so immediately.

― ablaeser, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

― BIG HOOS enjoys a cold mindbeer (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 20 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Represent 2
It Ain't Hard to Tell 2

;_;

theres something so zen-like perfect about the 'represent' beat

― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Thursday, 20 November 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

fitting end for a kevin keller poll

― some dudes just wanna have fun (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 20 November 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

three way tie is craziness

― BIG HOOS enjoys a cold mindbeer (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 20 November 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

HI5 to whoever else voted Represent

― Rolling draadje (Roberto Spiralli), Thursday, 20 November 2008 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

I voted "Life's a Bitch" by mistake as noted above therefore "NY State" wins.

― Oreo SB'd Wagon (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 November 2008 01:45 (seventeen years ago)

boooooo

― BIG HOOS enjoys a cold mindbeer (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 20 November 2008 01:58 (seventeen years ago)

Most tiest tie ever.

― ablaeser, Thursday, 20 November 2008 05:07 (seventeen years ago)

fitting end for a kevin keller poll

hey!

― k3vin k3ll3r (Kevin Keller), Thursday, 20 November 2008 05:52 (seventeen years ago)

but yeah, this is ridiculous.

the real way to do this is have everyone vote off one track, then do another poll minus that track, and so on
― sofa king (deej), Friday, November 14, 2008 5:32 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

anyone game?

― k3vin k3ll3r (Kevin Keller), Thursday, 20 November 2008 05:53 (seventeen years ago)

the only one who could do a poll like that is our man k3vin k3ll3r

― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:10 (seventeen years ago)

theres something so zen-like perfect about the 'represent' beat

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― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:03 PM Bookmark

always been my least favorite beat on the album, not that that's the greatest slam in the world

― afrofuturist philosopher (The Reverend), Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:19 (seventeen years ago)

^^^insane

― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Thursday, 20 November 2008 08:20 (seventeen years ago)

One Time 4 Your Mind 0

^^^

I know I didn't even think to vote for it, but this is a shame.

― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 20 November 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)

jeez i never heard illmatic. is it that much better than the blueprint?

― or something, Friday, 21 November 2008 03:18 (seventeen years ago)

...yes.

re: one time 4 yr mind - great song, but my least favorite on the record too.

― Kevin Keller, Friday, 21 November 2008 03:25 (seventeen years ago)

what if YOU were the sockpuppet ... and everyone around you was real??

― is that my man hannity?? (deej), Friday, 21 November 2008 10:40 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

dude at the register next to me was copping 4 bottles of

http://www.creads.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/pub-schweppes.jpg

― swag serf (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 June 2009 00:08 (sixteen years ago)

did u feel the schweppervescence?

― autogucci cru (deej), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:07 (sixteen years ago)

the results of this poll are otm, i would not have been able to choose between those 3 songs had i voted.

― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

Represent, represent.
*Queensbridge crew thugs out/hotboxes studio in background*

― Craig D., Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:22 (sixteen years ago)

100 greatest tracks on "Illmatic" thread.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:19 (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if only there were 100

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:22 (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

would be heaven

― Kevin Keller, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:22 (7 months ago) Bookmark

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

― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

awesome thread, i think i would have picked memory lane

― Luz, a saucy taco slinger (hmmmm), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 08:28 (sixteen years ago)

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