Hip Hop albums where the AMAZING production makes up for the mediocre rapping.

Joe Budden's self-titled comes to mind.

u can bump as many threads as u want but its not gonna make u right doggie

parts of timbalands albums. missys albums. erick sermons solo albums (god some of his rapping back then was poor). the black milk albums dont have bad rapping by any means but the beats do help a lot. answers to this thread = basically any album from a producer-turned-rapper.

Yeah, Timbaland's first two albums def.

MC Paul Barman EP

They sound alright but dear god I wish Jaylib's Champion Sound was given to a real, focused MC.

champion sound would have been okay if it was just dilla and his boys rapping on it rather than madlib.

Group Home's Livin' Proof to thread

Rapping is great on Group home, WTF

I think the beats on Beastie Boys' To The Five Boroughs are pretty dope in comparison to the pisspoor rapping

Rapping is great on Group home, WTF

― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in a lol sense maybe

Phillys Most Wanted
Slimm Calhoun

joe budden's 1st record had great raps

1st D12 album

every game album

esp. for west cost fetishists like deej, xp to myself

every game album

― some dude's gotta give (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 24, 2008 5:28 AM (15 minutes ago)

I gotta say, Jermaine Dupri's production on the first Kriss Kross album is pretty solid.

I'd feel sort of bad for saying Blowout Comb, since I do kind of like their vocals, but it's hard to imagine their rapping standing that strongly on its own.

1st Slum Village album
Lootpack album

Subtle - New White

99 percent of Anticon product

I gotta say, Jermaine Dupri's production on the first Kriss Kross album is pretty solid.

OTM! "Warm it up Kris" is one of my perennial go-to jams. How old was Dupri when that shit came out. Couldn't have been much past high school.

Wearing ones jeans and/or baseball jersey backward, ala DM & MD, actually became a popular fashion choice for some of my fellow 9th graders back then. For about two weeks or so, at least.

Quasimoto, or whathever that thing was called. Mainly, the nice beats kinda make up for the irritating gimmick of the chipmunk raps.

Art of pretend forgetfulness.

What do you mean?

Anything by Gang Starr! Sorry Guru...

Definitely Gang Starr. I was just about to suggest Step in the Arena.

Guru's best raps are a huge part of what makes Gang Starr ace. When he's boring or stupid the beats don't often save the track.

Quasimoto is great, although I can understand it might not be to everyone's taste.

noodle vague otm guru is the shit

To be fair, he's gotten a lot better since Step In The Arena, it's just that his flow can be a bit monotonous. He can make a virtue of that sometimes...

Rapping is great on Group home, WTF

― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, November 24, 2008 5:20 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nutcracker doin' hits by the dozen
when I make moves, I ride the train with my cousin
nowhere near simple; my mental
flex more complex than Mozart's instrumental

Subtle - New White

99 percent of Anticon product

― Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Monday, November 24, 2008 8:50 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so you're the one

"All Eyez On Me" is amazingly produced and almost makes up for the fact that it does contain rapping at all.

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geir did you download the instrumentals

Do they exist? Would have been more interesting with some vocals (singing) on top though. :)

Geir, when you see the phrase "Hip-Hop albums" in the new answers que, what inspires you to open the thread?

the past few jedi mind tricks albums

group home otm

I'll probably regret this later: schoolly d

oh man

the flip of this doesn't exist for me.

I'll probably regret this later: schoolly d

― Edward III, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:03 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no

it's just that his flow can be a bit monotonous

wild - with my monotone style
because I don't need gimmicks
gimme a fly beat and I'm all in it

the first bobby digital album. loved the production on that - wouldnt have minded some half decent rapping on it.

I'll probably regret this later: schoolly d

― Edward III, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:03 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what in god's name?

yeah um pretty much all beastie boys albums to some extent

and i like the beastie boys, but if they didn't have those beats...

The lyrics on Licensed to Ill are great.

The lyrics on Paul's Boutique vary. Car Thief, et al, are fantastic narratives. Mike D already proves the weak link. Yauch proves to be in his own world, which was a plus at that time.

The lyrics on Pass da Mic (and nearly all from this point) are atrocious.

(the fact that Run-DMC wrote Paul Revere and Slow & Low is not immediately noticeable says something about Licensed)

Some Kanye - for me, specifically "Diamonds in Sierra Leone." The production is so bombastic and serious (as well as the video) that it even drowns out his verse sometimes. Later, when I heard the line about the "fat friend, her nickname is minivan" I looked up the lyrics and they're pretty asinine.

Also, RZA is my xp in the thread.

there are many many Kanye songs that belong in this thread, "Diamonds" is not one of them.