Boo Yah b----!!!! That’s what I want to hear. I must drive home this idea because I don’t think I was clear enough in OP- this thread is not about objective best albums, this is about YOUR FAVOURITE ALBUMS. I want to hear people talking that s--- h--- yeah!!!
Teflon Don—Mastermind is also a personal favorite of mine. Rich Forever as well, which honestly I think should be included in this because it was going to be an album but he released it for free as a "mixtape" due to label issues. Just shows how meaningless the "mixtape" vs. "album" terminology was at that point.
I've said this in the past and I'll say it again. I've been a die-hard West Coast fan since I was a teenager. Never got into the majority of the East Coast sound. But I'd love to.
Nothing taking me away from X for a while yet though.
All of these albums are in that certified classic category that keeps me revisiting them time and time again. I think I could recite these all backward lol. Besides Tical and you could probably make a solid argument for any of them being the best but my personal pick would be Liquid Swords. It was one of the first albums I remember completely nerding out to, trying to figure out the hidden meaning in every single bar, just listening on repeat for weeks at a time. And that cinematically grimy sound that RZA produced that I'm pretty sure shaped my music taste forever.
Tbh at this point I'd put Enter the Wu above any of these. Thats just utter perfection on the same level as Illmatic, MBDTF, etc. to me.
Could not disagree more. Tical is a decent album but no where on the level of the other 4. I guess I’ve never really cares for m--- as a solo artist at all, only with Wu or with red
Honestly haven't heard any of those in years besides Ironman—all great albums that get neglected simply because there's so many AAA albums from Wu. I'm bout to throw on the ODB album cuz I was just thinking about him when I was listening to Danny Brown's Old yesterday (which was originally called ODB ). We don't talk enough about how influential ODB was in general.
After careful consideration I've gotta go with Its Dark and h--- is Hot. I guess it's the same for a lot of debut albums, the hunger is at the peak of intensity. Faultless piece of work and perfectly sets his entire discography for that certain sound. The "X" factor if you will...
It's been ages since I've listened to his albums other than the first 2 (which I still occasionally revisit just because of how d--- good they are), but man, And Then There Was X and Grand Champ were vital to my introduction to hip hop back back in the day. Great Depression too, although I never got into that one as much. But in terms of his overall catalog, its gotta be Its Dark and h--- Is Hot. Thats a contender for Top 10 hip hop album of all time. I've seen it being described as the Dante's Inferno of hip hop, just a journey through h--- told in the voice of a half-man-half-dog on a murderous rampage.
@Jeans you've got the right idea though, I think I'mma need to relisten to the full discog.
Toss up between his first two. It's tough for me to wanna vote against an album with the line "I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse/I got blood on my d-ck cuz I f----- a corpse" but I've always kinda liked It's Dark and h--- Is Hot more.
