phony rappers that do not write; phony rappers

[Jonny_Paycheck]

You know, I like the beats better on Main Ingredient these days but some of the rhyming is a little cringe-inducing. Whereas I love the rhyming on Mecca & The Soul Brother.

Other than that yeah most of the albums discussed in this thread are shit. Big Stacks, a grown and sexy man like yourself wouldn't be caught dead listening to a terd like "That's Them" would you?

Oh yeah, cosign on New World Order. Very slept on album with some straight heatery.

 

[DocBeezy]

Some other gems from that time would have to be

The B.U.M.S. - Lyfe 'n' Tyme
O.C. - Word....Life
Artifacts - That's Them
Pete Rock and Cl Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Poor Righteous Teachers - New World Order
Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (One of my all time favorites)

Seriously, I challenge anyone to listen to at least 4/5ths of those above albums and make it through even half the songs without being bored to tears. This is coming from someone who actually really LOVED hip-hop during that era but as time goes by, a lot of that shit just doesn't age well..

I cant stand that BUMS shit.
OC=BORING EVEN THEN
ARTIFACTS=Still can Get with
Pete Rock and Cl Smooth - The Main Ingredient-VERY BORING
Poor Righteous Teachers - New World Order STILL GREAT
Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (One of my all time favorites) NOT BORING AT ALL!

Breakself,

Go back to that OGC its great. I could be biased though, I was all about boot camp for years until that "For the people" mess came out.

 

[E_Daily]

yall some mad hatters...





main ingredient boring...woah..what on earth were you thinking while you typed that???

 

[meistromoco]

Jeru - Wrath of the Math (I still love this shit)

Beatnuts - Stone Crazy (I'm sure I'll get some shit for this, but I think this was seriously slept on)

Stakes is High (someone already said this, but yes! Still so dope.)

Most (if not all) of the Wu-related releases (pre Wu-TAng forever) still sound fresh.

Nas - It was written (I skip through a lot of this album)

Bahamadia - The Kollage (Yup, Still listen to this all the way through)

KRS One - S/T (not so much. I still will check a few tracks on here, but can't listen to the whole album)

 

[JacobWizzle]

Some other gems from that time would have to be

The B.U.M.S. - Lyfe 'n' Tyme
O.C. - Word....Life
Artifacts - That's Them
Pete Rock and Cl Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Poor Righteous Teachers - New World Order
Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (One of my all time favorites)

Seriously, I challenge anyone to listen to at least 4/5ths of those above albums and make it through even half the songs without being bored to tears. This is coming from someone who actually really LOVED hip-hop during that era but as time goes by, a lot of that shit just doesn't age well. Off that list though, the PRT was, in my opinion, rather slept-on and as I get older, I find that "The Main Ingredient's" best cuts are more listenable to me than most of "Mecca and the Soul Brother" though there was also some syrupy bullshit on "The Main Ingredient" too.
The Main Ingredient is still a dope album. The "commercial" type efforts were bammer but there is plenty of heat on it. CL has never been good but who cares with those beats. The rest of that list besides OC never really got much run from me. All those groups had dope songs but the albums weren't really saying it. Kurious's whole album started with a upright bass and some echo horns on damn near every song!!

 

[DOR]

I still like me some Lost Boyz LP's from that time.

And a yes on Main Ingredient.

I Got a Love is playin right now...

 

[m_dejean]

new q tip is cornier than phife

Q-Tip Kravitz = painfully corny





Amplified = better than the last two ATCQ records


(Yeah, I said it)




I kinda like that new "For The Nasty" joint with tip/busta/nep. I hated "Amplified" when it came out, but it grew on me.

 

[mannybolone]

yall some mad hatters...

main ingredient boring...woah..what on earth were you thinking while you typed that???

Dog, do the knowledge:

A1 In The House (5:27) SOLID
A2 Carmel City (3:52) CORNBALL
A3 I Get Physical (4:54) COOL
A4 Sun Won't Come Out (4:24) SO-SO
B1 I Gotta Love (5:04) CORNBALL LYRICS/DOPE TRACK
B2 Escape (5:14) SO-SO
B3 The Main Ingredient (5:17) DECENT
B4 Worldwide (3:02) DECENT TRACK/SLEEPY LYRICS
Featuring - Rob O
C1 All The Places (5:39) DECENT
C2 Tell Me (4:17) CORNBALL
C3 Take You There (4:47) CORNBALL
C4 Searching (4:45) CORNBALL
D1 Check It Out (4:37) DECENT
D2 In The Flesh (5:00) DECENT
Featuring - Deda , Rob O
D3 It's On You (5:21) DECENT
D4 Get On The Mic (3:50) SOLID


If I had to pull together a selection of songs I wouldn't get tired of listening to, it'd be A1, B1, D2, D4. That's 25% of the entire LP.

 

[Jonny_Paycheck]

yall some mad hatters...

main ingredient boring...woah..what on earth were you thinking while you typed that???

Dog, do the knowledge:

A1 In The House (5:27) SOLID
A2 Carmel City (3:52) CORNBALL
A3 I Get Physical (4:54) COOL
A4 Sun Won't Come Out (4:24) SO-SO
B1 I Gotta Love (5:04) CORNBALL LYRICS/DOPE TRACK
B2 Escape (5:14) SO-SO
B3 The Main Ingredient (5:17) DECENT
B4 Worldwide (3:02) DECENT TRACK/SLEEPY LYRICS
Featuring - Rob O
C1 All The Places (5:39) DECENT
C2 Tell Me (4:17) CORNBALL
C3 Take You There (4:47) CORNBALL
C4 Searching (4:45) CORNBALL
D1 Check It Out (4:37) DECENT
D2 In The Flesh (5:00) DECENT
Featuring - Deda , Rob O
D3 It's On You (5:21) DECENT
D4 Get On The Mic (3:50) SOLID


If I had to pull together a selection of songs I wouldn't get tired of listening to, it'd be A1, B1, D2, D4. That's 25% of the entire LP.
But Oliver, you're really not giving credit where it's due, the beats on damn near ALL of it were incredible.

I agree on a lot of songs CL is just corny man.

 

[Big_Stacks]

Big Stacks, a grown and sexy man like yourself wouldn't be caught dead listening to a terd like "That's Them" would you?

Hey JP,

Honestly, it's mainly the production on there that makes me listen still. Tame One and the Sensai are bargain basement MCs lyrically though.

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

 

[magnetic]

OC=BORING EVEN THEN

Go back to that OGC its great. I could be biased though

 

[E_Daily]

yall some mad hatters...

main ingredient boring...woah..what on earth were you thinking while you typed that???

Dog, do the knowledge:

A1 In The House (5:27) SOLID
A2 Carmel City (3:52) CORNBALL
A3 I Get Physical (4:54) COOL
A4 Sun Won't Come Out (4:24) SO-SO
B1 I Gotta Love (5:04) CORNBALL LYRICS/DOPE TRACK
B2 Escape (5:14) SO-SO
B3 The Main Ingredient (5:17) DECENT
B4 Worldwide (3:02) DECENT TRACK/SLEEPY LYRICS
Featuring - Rob O
C1 All The Places (5:39) DECENT
C2 Tell Me (4:17) CORNBALL
C3 Take You There (4:47) CORNBALL
C4 Searching (4:45) CORNBALL
D1 Check It Out (4:37) DECENT
D2 In The Flesh (5:00) DECENT
Featuring - Deda , Rob O
D3 It's On You (5:21) DECENT
D4 Get On The Mic (3:50) SOLID


If I had to pull together a selection of songs I wouldn't get tired of listening to, it'd be A1, B1, D2, D4. That's 25% of the entire LP.
I've never been a friend of grading quality of Albums like that.
Are we grading mathexams? No, this is music. To me this has ALOT more to do with how you feel when you play the album. Reviewing LPs sure does require going more in detail listening to the tracks one by one, but this looks like some
score : 7 out of 16 ish.

Some ppl are stuck on source grading(no offense),... and there's always a way to give someone 5 mics.

 

[rascmon]

Dog, do the knowledge:

A1 In The House (5:27) SOLID
A2 Carmel City (3:52) CORNBALL
A3 I Get Physical (4:54) COOL
A4 Sun Won't Come Out (4:24) SO-SO
B1 I Gotta Love (5:04) CORNBALL LYRICS/DOPE TRACK
B2 Escape (5:14) SO-SO
B3 The Main Ingredient (5:17) DECENT
B4 Worldwide (3:02) DECENT TRACK/SLEEPY LYRICS
Featuring - Rob O
C1 All The Places (5:39) DECENT
C2 Tell Me (4:17) CORNBALL
C3 Take You There (4:47) CORNBALL
C4 Searching (4:45) CORNBALL
D1 Check It Out (4:37) DECENT
D2 In The Flesh (5:00) DECENT
Featuring - Deda , Rob O
D3 It's On You (5:21) DECENT
D4 Get On The Mic (3:50) SOLID

going by this, the album has 8-9 decent/solid tracks. so what's so bad about it? i'll have to think about the last time i bought a new rap album and had that many worthy tracks on it

 

[Arkive]

Some other gems from that time would have to be

The B.U.M.S. - Lyfe 'n' Tyme
O.C. - Word....Life
Artifacts - That's Them
Pete Rock and Cl Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Poor Righteous Teachers - New World Order
Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (One of my all time favorites)

Seriously, I challenge anyone to listen to at least 4/5ths of those above albums and make it through even half the songs without being bored to tears. This is coming from someone who actually really LOVED hip-hop during that era but as time goes by, a lot of that shit just doesn't age well. Off that list though, the PRT was, in my opinion, rather slept-on and as I get older, I find that "The Main Ingredient's" best cuts are more listenable to me than most of "Mecca and the Soul Brother" though there was also some syrupy bullshit on "The Main Ingredient" too.
WOW?!?!?!

I'm actually really shocked that people would hate on that list.

I'd really like to see what their list would consist of?

Next they'll probably say KRS ONE - Return of the Boom Bap was boring.

 

[mannybolone]

Arkive,

There's a long distance b/t "Return of the Boom Bap" and "Constipdated Monkey" or "That's Them." The two don't belong in the same conversation with one another even if they happened to come out with the same time frame.

And let me also second that I've always found O.C. to be an MC who people either really like or really don't. Personally, I think he's way overrated and that album never moved me. I also thought "Times Up" was just "so-so" and never got why people went ga-ga over it. But hey, that's me.


Oliver

Some other gems from that time would have to be

The B.U.M.S. - Lyfe 'n' Tyme
O.C. - Word....Life
Artifacts - That's Them
Pete Rock and Cl Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Poor Righteous Teachers - New World Order
Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (One of my all time favorites)

Seriously, I challenge anyone to listen to at least 4/5ths of those above albums and make it through even half the songs without being bored to tears. This is coming from someone who actually really LOVED hip-hop during that era but as time goes by, a lot of that shit just doesn't age well. Off that list though, the PRT was, in my opinion, rather slept-on and as I get older, I find that "The Main Ingredient's" best cuts are more listenable to me than most of "Mecca and the Soul Brother" though there was also some syrupy bullshit on "The Main Ingredient" too.
WOW?!?!?!

I'm actually really shocked that people would hate on that list.

I'd really like to see what their list would consist of?

Next they'll probably say KRS ONE - Return of the Boom Bap was boring.

 

[Arkive]

Arkive,

There's a long distance b/t "Return of the Boom Bap" and "Constipdated Monkey" or "That's Them." The two don't belong in the same conversation with one another even if they happened to come out with the same time frame.

And let me also second that I've always found O.C. to be an MC who people either really like or really don't. Personally, I think he's way overrated and that album never moved me. I also thought "Times Up" was just "so-so" and never got why people went ga-ga over it. But hey, that's me.


Oliver





Some other gems from that time would have to be

The B.U.M.S. - Lyfe 'n' Tyme
O.C. - Word....Life
Artifacts - That's Them
Pete Rock and Cl Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Poor Righteous Teachers - New World Order
Kurious - A Constipated Monkey (One of my all time favorites)

Seriously, I challenge anyone to listen to at least 4/5ths of those above albums and make it through even half the songs without being bored to tears. This is coming from someone who actually really LOVED hip-hop during that era but as time goes by, a lot of that shit just doesn't age well. Off that list though, the PRT was, in my opinion, rather slept-on and as I get older, I find that "The Main Ingredient's" best cuts are more listenable to me than most of "Mecca and the Soul Brother" though there was also some syrupy bullshit on "The Main Ingredient" too.
WOW?!?!?!

I'm actually really shocked that people would hate on that list.

I'd really like to see what their list would consist of?

Next they'll probably say KRS ONE - Return of the Boom Bap was boring.

I'm not trying to compare those other albums to Return of the Boom Bap.
Because you're right their is a long distance between those albums.

All I'm saying is those albums were real dope and to say they weren't I wouldn't be surprised if you hated on Return of the Boom Bap as well. Which again is superior to those other albums.