james said:HarveyCanal said:bassie said:
Perhaps a Rap 100 is in order.
YES!
No.
A rap list--any specialized list, really--would be mostly perpendicular to the mongrel nature of this site (to the extent that it still has a nature). The possibility of folks arguing the relative merits of What's Going On versus fucking Black Moon or whatever at least has a wild-card element to it, and is maybe something you can't get just anywhere. A hundred pages of dueling rap orthodoxies woud be something far more common and have far less bounce.
Plus, as I said at some point during this current taste glacier's excruciatingly long walk home, a list of a hundred records is a lot, even for an all-genre list. A list of a hundred rap records--or a hundred disco records, or a hundred reggae records, or a hundred liturgical trap records, or whatever-- is simply not gonna require the kind of choices that will tell you anything about the records or the people who picked them.
I know there's an upper crust of folks to whom this does not apply, but I promise you that a vast majority of soulstrut members haven't listened to a hundred rap records total. If this list goes down, dudes are gonna be scraping the sides--in the words of that one rap record--in a major way. You're gonna be seeing Flipmode records and shit.
Y'all only think you want this.
lol - Perhaps you're right.
After Harvey endorsed it, I realized there would only be about five people on the Board who would want to contribute to or care about this.
And it is almost guaranteed that it would turn into a Rap is Dead geritol swap/Old School cheerleaders squad meet
