It seems like when rap artists taste a little bit of success their album titles often go from innocent to apocalyptic, pretentious OTT theatrical. ITT we list the worst offenders from rap artists (note I'm not saying 'bad', but just 'most pretentious').
Example would be: Busta Rhymes - "E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front"
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:23 (sixteen years ago)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2: The Gift And The Curse
― morbetoragus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:26 (sixteen years ago)
though pretty sure it's gonna be impossible to top:
Divine Styler - Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light
― morbetoragus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:27 (sixteen years ago)
or, essentially, the entire PM catalog
• Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience• The Bliss Album…?• Jesus Wept• Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad
― morbetoragus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:28 (sixteen years ago)
not taht offensively pretentious but hey -
Leaders of The New School - TIME (The Inner Mind's Eye)
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:28 (sixteen years ago)
wau @ the PM catalog
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:30 (sixteen years ago)
Various Anticon Presents: Music For The Advancement Of Hip Hop
― srahell (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:30 (sixteen years ago)
Before anybody starts dropping PE titles can I ask them to fuck off?
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:31 (sixteen years ago)
Noted.
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:32 (sixteen years ago)
Pretentious album titles are easier to google than "HI THIS IS MY NEW JOINT" btw
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:32 (sixteen years ago)
The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological & Electro-Magnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:36 (sixteen years ago)
Jay-Z's Volume 3 full-title
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:03 (sixteen years ago)
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:19 (sixteen years ago)
De La Soul - Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:20 (sixteen years ago)
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:21 (sixteen years ago)
anything with a colon and a subtitle is fair game, i guess
i'm gonna suggest Hell Hath No Fury, especially because i feel like they just wanted to use an intense-sounding phrase without thinking about how it might imply that they're women
― some dude, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:27 (sixteen years ago)
Tical 2000: Judgement Day
― ground zero μ-Ziq (kkvgz), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:28 (sixteen years ago)
"HI THIS IS MY NEW JOINT"
Good title!
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:45 (sixteen years ago)
DMX - Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
― whyte mayne (corey), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:47 (sixteen years ago)
Sage Francis - Li(f)e
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:50 (sixteen years ago)
good one
― Parenthetical Grillz, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:13 (sixteen years ago)
Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
― ground zero μ-Ziq (kkvgz), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:15 (sixteen years ago)
hahaha @ that sage francis one
― i feed these skreets (tpp), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:17 (sixteen years ago)
lol so many colons in these titles
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:20 (sixteen years ago)
Edutainment was always a bit up itself tbh
― Shit Cat and Party (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:24 (sixteen years ago)
Organized Konfusion - Stress (The Extinction Agenda)
Boogiemonsters - Riders of the Storm (The Underwater Album)
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:25 (sixteen years ago)
also first thing i thought of was that divine styler that WGW posted
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:26 (sixteen years ago)
A lot of these sound like they were written by the same guy. I wonder if labels just have in-house pretentious title copy writers or something.
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:27 (sixteen years ago)
public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:29 (sixteen years ago)
(sorry noodle)
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:30 (sixteen years ago)
Imagine is Morrissey was a rapper.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:31 (sixteen years ago)
duh...s/is/if/
various artists - america is dying slowly
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:31 (sixteen years ago)
xxxp
TBH that's one of the least pretentious titles you could've picked
― Shit Cat and Party (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:31 (sixteen years ago)
muse sick in hour mess age?
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:32 (sixteen years ago)
Public Enemy - Muse Sick In Hour Mess Age
GODDAMMIT XPOST
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:33 (sixteen years ago)
How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? was over-egging it a bit
― Shit Cat and Party (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:35 (sixteen years ago)
bdp - ghetto music: the blueprint of hip-hop
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:38 (sixteen years ago)
Forthcoming:
Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R. (We are Renegades)
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:39 (sixteen years ago)
q-tip - kamaal/the abstract
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:41 (sixteen years ago)
Acronyms vs. Colons vs. Titles with "Theory"
― Olde Executioner 8hundo (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:41 (sixteen years ago)
vs. Parenthesis
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:46 (sixteen years ago)
important thread: worst Public Enemy album title
― some dude, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:47 (sixteen years ago)
xp: vs. biblical shit and self-mythologizing
It Was Written
― ground zero μ-Ziq (kkvgz), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:49 (sixteen years ago)
Black Milk - Album of the Year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_of_the_Year_(Black_Milk_album)
― Indexed, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
that's a dope title
― morbetoragus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 17:39 (sixteen years ago)
i mean can i justhttp://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3142/77242776.jpg
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 16:29 (2 hours ago)
that's one the best album titles, and i'm not even a huge fan of public enemy
if 'us' = pe then at worst it's frontif 'us' = black militancy generally, not remotely pretentious
― srahell (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 17:43 (sixteen years ago)
yeah it's an awesome title and awesome album, still pretentious tho
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 17:52 (sixteen years ago)
Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 18:32 (sixteen years ago)
Ice Cube War And Peace Volumes 1 & 2
― I brake for breaks (lpz), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 18:39 (sixteen years ago)
^^^^^^^ also qualify for "albums which proved artist was in an irreversible sucky decline"
― Bo Jackson Cruise Control (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 18:45 (sixteen years ago)
the original title of the 1998 eponymous/untitled album by Nas
― Baluchistan of Landscape Avocado (Pillbox), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 18:46 (sixteen years ago)
..er 2008
2Pacalypse NowThe Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory
― I brake for breaks (lpz), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 18:57 (sixteen years ago)
― some dude, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 3:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
yesssssssss i have thought about this like once a month for 2 years
― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 19:09 (sixteen years ago)
a woman zorned
― srahell (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 20:37 (sixteen years ago)
wu-tang forever is just unimaginative
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
LL Cool J - G.O.A.T.: The Greatest of All Time
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 20:48 (sixteen years ago)
man, the next thing you know LL will say he's the best rapper in the history of rap itself!
― i sit alone in my three-cornered hat staring at candles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:15 (sixteen years ago)
God's Son
― rock n roll individual (The Reverend), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:15 (sixteen years ago)
without thinking about how it might imply that they're women― some dude, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 3:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
like seriously i even did some fuckin mental gymnastics to convince myself that by alluding to scorned women it was a paltry acknowledgement of their wax misogyny and some kind of hint at eventual retribution THIS IS HOW HARD I STANNEDECORD
― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:29 (sixteen years ago)
*THIS IS HOW HARD I STANNED FOR THAT RECORD
MFERS AINT KNOW
― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 22:30 (sixteen years ago)