best 1994 rap album besides Illmatic and Ready to Die and anythng that got more than one vote in the last poll

Odd Squad - Fadanuf fa Erybody

This Dom Perignon, it's supposed to bubble

goin with 4-Tay

Word Life

PappaWheelie!

hey pappa!

spice1

yeah that spice is hard to ignore

uh, the coup

no

Gotta be M.O.P.

xpost yes

This Dom Perignon, it's supposed to bubble

― The Reverend, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^

run off poll is a little silly but hey if y'all think it's fun

MOP or Main Ingredient. Or maybe Word... Life. AHH this is harder than the first poll imo. Voting MOP.

I'd heard 18 from the original poll but only eight of these and some of those only once... Main Ingredient or Super Tight I guess.

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Creepin On Ah Come Up EP
The Coup - Genocide & Juice
UGK - Super Tight
O.C. - Word...Life
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Casual - Fear Itself
Dred Scott - Breaking Combs
Kurious - Constipated Monkey
Artifacts - Between a Rock & A Hard Place

love all of these

Coup.

someone explain the appeal of Bone Thugs to me idgi

they will see you at the crossroads

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted Artifacts this time around

Bone Thugs feels like the aural equivalent of graffitti tags, in a great way.

The Coup - Genocide & Juice
UGK - Super Tight
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Spice 1 - AmeriKKKa's Nightmare
E-40 - The Mail Man EP

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

1. critically lionized in retrospect safe choice
2. political rap
3. political rap

lol

im glad #1 beat #2 actually, although all the above records are dope

these results are less rmde than the orig poll

i was talking w/ jordan about this on gchat today, about how spice 1's lyrical focus on murder was such a crazily claustrophobic tunnel vision, it's completely psychotic, like every single line is about shooting someone

these results are less rmde than the orig poll

― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Thursday, August 2, 2012 8:21 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah no doubt they're more interesting i was just being silly

i know what you mean, sometimes if i haven't heard some older gangsta stuff for a long time i'm always shocked at how vicious it is....

i was thinking about it b/c of this http://respect-mag.com/to-3hunna-and-beyond-an-interview-w-lil-reese/

"While trap rap forgoes some of the socially-minded angst that marked gangsta rap in the ‘90s, to chop down and zero in on one facet of the culture would be shortsighted."

the idea that gangster rap in the 90s was so much more socially minded is such an attempt to rewrite history imo

I think most people frame "gangsta rap" in terms of Ice Cube, basically, his writing for NWA and the early solo albums....he clearly tried to connect the dots between LA gangsta culture and Black Panthers, Nation of Islam type radicalism....ditto for, say Kam or Lench Mob....but yeah I mean most of it was a really hardheaded (or nightmarish in some cases) nihilism....Eazy's philosophy as opposed to Cube's

MIssed this one, woulda voted Spice 1 I think, maybe word life.