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Top 5 Hip-Hop Albums · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  What up, y'all. I am your host Vegas and this is hip Hop
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  Bonus episodes are always fun. Patreon supporters get to hear it first, people
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  watch it first. But what I enjoy the most is chopping it up about
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  hip hop and sometimes the podcasting the hip hop social media can be a bit
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  much. People like to argue and stuff like that, but at the end
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  of the day, it's all about the enjoyment, the discussion, the debate
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  of hip hop. I do it with sports, so why should hip hop
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  be any different. Now, I know how I feel about these lists.
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  As publications do these lists, and sometimes, you know, we argue about
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  the list. Even myself, I react to the list sometimes in negative ways
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  because some things are difficult to understand. Well, I have decided to do
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  a couple of lists that I think I've never really done on the podcast.
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  You know, I've kind of flirted with a couple of things, you know
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  what I'm saying, But I never really wanted to commit to. These are
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  my top five albums, These are the top five MC's, these are the
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  top five beats. Like, I never really wanted to do that, only
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  because you know, it's it's it's my opinion, but also I can't never
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  make my mind. Now, I could say this is my top five albums
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  and then shift the order all around and stuff like that because I can't decide
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  which one I like the most, blah blah blah. So what I've done
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  is I'm gonna do a series top five albums, top five hip hop artists,
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  and top five beats all time. Now, of course this is my
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  opinion, and also it's probably leaning way more towards favorites. But nothing that
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  or nothing that I mentioned as far as the music, as far as the
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  beats or the albums or the artists, they all appear in somebody's top five,
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  top ten, top twenty, whatever it may be. So you're not
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  gonna hear me say kick cutting top five that a lot like this is never
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  gonna hear that, because who does that. It's not gonna be me.
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  So again, here's my criteria. As we talk about the top five hip
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  hop albums of all time. In my opinion and probably definitely my top five
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  favorite. A lot of what it has to do with none of it has
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  to do with sales. Most of it has to do with impact on me,
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  and I mean significant impact. Not just a good album that's just a
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  classic album, not an album that everybody likes. But when I first heard
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  it, how did I feel about it? Was? I did I feel
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  my blood pressure rising as I went from song song because I thought it was
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  so great? What feeling did it give me? You know, That's kind
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  of where I'm coming from when I talk about the impact, What was the
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  impact on me as the listener? And it's the same for you for your
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  top five. So let's see if your top five is my top five obviously,
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  of Arson, I want you to put your time five albums of all
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  time in the comments section. Let's talk about it, let's talk with my
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  right. Let's get ready to the business though. So at we're gonna start
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  at number one, because you know, I mean, honestly, if you
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  know me, if you're watching this right now, you already know where I'm
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  going with my number one. And it doesn't mean that one album is better
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  than the other, it's just the order I decided to put them in based
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  off of what I was thinking at the time when I wrote through this.
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  So at number one is ice Cube's death certificate. Now, I wrote a
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  whole chapter in my book about this album when I purchased the feelings at that
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  time and all that good stuff. But why do I feel like it's a
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  top five greatest hip hop album? Well, I came up in the time.
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  I'm gonna just go with the old head energy came up in the time
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  where you know, albums were journeys. They weren't just a collection of dope
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  songs, right, that wasn't really what you call the classic. They were
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  really like skits variety and rhms variety and beats concepts. They were really like
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  put it this way because I'm gonna go I think I said before on the
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  podcast, like threads and sheets, right, you know, if you know
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  cheats, when you go buy somebody, just go buy sheets and we'll get
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  Finnie got go get some sheets. Then they wonder why they slept on it
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  for a week and starting to pan out because the threads are light. It's
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  like ten threads sheets. I don't know if they make though, but you
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  know what I mean. Basically, its point is going to be cheap,
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  it's gonna wear out. But albums back specifically back in the nineties were three
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  thousand thread I don't even know if they make them, but you get the
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  point. It's an album that's being created in such a way where nothing is
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  just h put that on here or just throw that on there. Everything has
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  purpose, right, The skits have purpose, the inflections in the in the
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  artist's voice, the features you know, the the arrangement of the songs,
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  the album cover right, the who you choose to produce, what they produce
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  for certain songs, how do they match up with the concepts? Like,
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  everything is done with a certain level of quality and attention and care that it's
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  just made for great experiences. And again, this was at a time ice
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  Cube death certificate, and specifically this was at a time where you know,
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  music didn't artists then't release albums that frequently. If they released an album,
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  it was out for a couple of years before you heard something else. Sometimes
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  some artists you know, would hit you back in like two years or whatever
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  with a new album, but majority of the time you knew if ice Cube
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  had that new album, you wasn't thinking about when's the next one, because
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  you were kind of living with that and with ice Cube's death certificate. It's
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  sort of like a crossroads album between a guy who is growing up in the
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  hood in South Central in a hood and he's writing about all the things he
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  sees, experiences, the people who lived there, their motivations, like thereof
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  the things outside of the hood that affect the people in the hood, typically
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  in negative ways. And it was also a transition from Jerry carrol Ice to
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  now he cut his hair and he's rolling with the Nation of Islam. So
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  there was The first side was more like hood tails or the the light side,
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  because that's what it was referred to on cassette, which I have to
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  concept back here. And then the dark side ironically, well, actually the
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  dark side was the a side. The light side was like a knowledge of
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  self side, right where you started to look more deeply outside of your hood,
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  and he talked more about the things that were affecting them, right,
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  So the first side is really more about what's happening. The second side what's
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  a day in the hood. Basically, the first side is more like a
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  day in the hood. It's you know, it's going to the clinic for
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  STDs, it's you know, selling drugs out of state. It's steady mobbing,
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  like a just a day in the hood, it's all of that.
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  And the Light Side was more like, you know, songs like us,
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  they we blamed the white man for everything, but their things is that we
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  do that we need to change and look at each other. Act songs like
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  you to the Game, where it's sort of like guys who make it and
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  sell out. Right, Even a controversial song like Black Korea, which at
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  the time was very controversial because ice Cube was being called everything at that time,
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  anti semitic, you know everything, and Black Korea, you know,
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  was about, at least on the West Coast, these Korean grocery stores that
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  were all in the hood, but the owners never really had any respect for
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  the community itself. Right, So his words were more so like anger towards
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  being profiled rather than just a hate record. Right. I don't want to
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  say a hate crime because it didn't commend no crime, but it was looked
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  at as if it was a hate record when it wasn't really about that.
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  It was about a reaction to how you're treated in your neighborhood. Right,
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  So, and you know, obviously, you know, was it every single
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  Korean store in South central or in LA at the time. Probably not,
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  but it was enough for it to be common, you know, so to
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  speak. So this album is so dope because it just has so many different
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  looks as far as the production goes. And probably one of the things when
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  you think about all of that that comes from this one album, that stood
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  out to me the most was the fact that it had one of the greatest,
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  if not the greatest this records of all time at the very end.
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  And it was more so like we did all of this with this album.
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  But I forgot one thing and it was an answer to NWA on their album
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  Niggas for Life going at ice Cube because he had left the group. So
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  they was calling him like Benadict Garnold and was gonna cut your hair and you
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  know you're going over there to New York Cats. One interesting thing that Ice
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  Cube said a long time ago. I just saw that the interview recently,
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  was that when he left NWA, he originally wanted Doctor Dre to do his
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  solo album because he figured, well, my beef is not with you and
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  the group, It's really more so with Easy and Jerry Heller and the type
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  of business they were doing, but we could still work and I think you
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  know, even though he didn't get into it in that particular interview, he
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  kind of alluded to the fact that, you know, doctor Dre was just
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  trying not to be that guy, probably because he knew what was being said
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  within the NWA camp about ice Cube and then would have made him look funny
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  to go and produce ice Cubes away from Ruthless Records. But again, one
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  of the greatest diss records of all time one man against an entire group in
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  NWA was that the height of their powers do not be mistaken. The album
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  Niggas for Life was just as high, if not better than the debut,
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  and it did not have ice Cube on so it was it was powerful,
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  and it was crazy to go against a group like that, but he did
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  it, and it was on this album and it capped off an album that
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  would have been great without it. So that's why that's my number one.
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  My number two the notorious b I g Or Like back then we used to
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  call him Bicky Smalls. We still call him big or Bigue or whatever.
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  Ready to die. Why this album is so impactful or was for me was
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  I love the way it told a story from beginning to end. Again,
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  like I said in the nineties, albums were experiences. They weren't just a
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  collection of songs. Sure they were singles plucked off of certain albums and put
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  on the radio, but they were part of a full story when you got
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  the album, and that was kind of what was dope. It was like
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  the gateway into the project. If you like the single, you goes listen
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  to the album and you experience it. And but big it starts off with
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  him being born and eventually it ends within the skit or this intro with him
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  coming out of jail. I guess the CEO recross not to saying yo,
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  be back, and he was like, Yo, you ain't gonna see me
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  no more. And it's really more about the next step in his life.
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  And what's so dope about that is I was a pro should graduating high school
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  and I had committed, like in junior high school to really like, yo,
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  I'm a graduate high school. I'm to go to college. So mentally
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  I wanted to rush my life. And it was albums like this that gave
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  me perspective on, you know, going towards your journey. Right he's leaving
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  prison, He's like, I'm never coming back here again, and mainly you're
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  thinking because I'm gonna beat his big rap star. So I remember the first
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  time, you know, I heard things done changed and what was so dope
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  about that record? To open the album was like, especially the bar step
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  away with your fist fight ways, mother, could this ain't back in the
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  days? But you don't hear me though? It was kind of a sign
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  of a new generation, right yeah. Back in the days, it was
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  all you know, put your hands up right and maybe even shake hands and
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  then become friends or whatever. But in the nineties, it was more like
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  there were more guns on the street and it was sort of like dudes would
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  just shoot and it was a reality. Regardless of how you feel about it,
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  it was a reality. And I think that's what I liked the most
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  about Biggie's album because it not only told his story about his relationship with his
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  mom's and his baby mother, and the storytelling like song like Warning. You
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  know, songs like Warning, which is so dope because they were coming from
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  a tradition of hip hop artists before him, like an ice cube, like
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  a slick brick who had told these tales tales from the hood kind of situation,
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  and what was so dope about warning It was almost like listening to a
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  movie, right, And the video sort of did some of that too,
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  but it was just so dope. The beat was so dope. The fact
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  that method Man was on there from Wu Tang was hot because you just never
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  thought about that collaboration. That beat was hot, And probably my favorite song
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  besides like Unbelievable for obvious reasons on this album is Everyday Struggle. And when
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  I talked about, you know, me being high school and being close to
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  close enough and I was like a year or two, probably a year away
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  from graduating, I was just it was just really like that song spoke to
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  me. And I was never no drug dealer. I never sold nothing,
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  I never had to go out of town. I never had to beat on
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  the corner. But I felt what Biggie was feeling in that record. You're
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  trying to make it and you're starting not at the end, but you're not
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  even on the line for the race. You're just trying to make it,
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  not at the end of the line, the front. You try to get
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  to the front from not even being on the line. Because of circumstances.
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  Right, a lot of us grow up in the hood. It's not just
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  not having an opportunity, but not even knowing that you have opportunity because in
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  a lot of cases sometimes and I'm not speaking for everybody, include Biggie,
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  you don't have examples around you. Right. So the examples around you are
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  like my man over here, he getting all this money, he's able to
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  pay the rent, he's able to take care of his kid, and he's
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  selling drugs and he like here, no job interview, right, no pride,
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  no resume required, just your height. Right. So I love the
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  beat, I love the storytelling in that record. I love the way Big
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  conveyedd and you know, even like ending with suicidal thoughts. You know,
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  guy who's committing suicide because of you know, he can't handle life around him.
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  And again, like I said with the intro, it starts with him
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  being born and suicidal thoughts ends with him basically shooting himself. And the album
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  is called ready to Die, and that's a theme throughout throughout everything and throughout
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  songs like Juicy and stuff like that. So again, one of the greatest
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  hip hop albums of all times, for all the reasons I mentioned, but
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  specifically an impact that it had on me and why I related to a lot
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  of themes that didn't necessarily mirror my life, but I could understand, and
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  that's why I liked it. Next, stup Public Enemy. It takes the
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  nation of millions to hold us back. This is Public Enemy sophomore album,
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  and it is one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Not
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  that far back, I did a bonus episode on albums that just sound good,
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  like when you put them on. It's just the sound quality is so
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  great. You know, it's just from front to back. You just love
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  listening to it. Even if you're not listening to the lyrics, you're not
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  doing things with the beat, you know, I'm doing hand justice for those
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  who for those who are listening. And when I first heard it takes a
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  nation of millions to hold us back, it was the same feeling, except
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  this was coming more so from a black power, black pride, the almost
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  militant hip hop standpoint, from Chuck's voice being as powerful as it is as
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  a flavor flame, adding a certain level labor to the ad libs right terminated
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  acts doing what he does. The production from the Bomb Squad, who also
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  did production with ice Cube, Like it just felt It's an album that feels
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  and sounds powerful. Right now, some people will just throw certain words around,
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  right, They throw classic around, they throw gold around, they throw
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  hot around, like everything is that when they like it. This was more
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  than like this. When the album just makes you think, it just makes
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  you think about the things around you. It makes you think about the things
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  that Chuck D is saying that maybe you don't know about. So now you
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  feel like you're learning from Chuck D. To me, that's what this album
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  was. And even the videos, right Knight of the Living bass Heads,
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  right, a video that's playful but about a very serious topic. Right because
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  everything he's saying is true and more importantly me growing up in New York City
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  and Brooklyn around that time during the Crack era, a world he's describing the
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  world I see every day walking to school right with my little sisters sometimes,
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  like I'm seeing these things all the times. I'm seeing it around. I'm
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  hearing my parents talk about it, you know what I'm saying. Elder people
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  like older people talking about it. So just not even just that records like
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  that you got the Terminator, ask record like, it's just so many records
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  on this album that have a certain level of power and how it's approached.
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  And I just remember when I first heard this joint, even the way it
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  starts, it just sounds like the world was opening up for me at that
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  time as a young listener to details about topics you know that either indirectly or
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  directly effectively, and on the hip hop side, there's no way Beats alone
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  you listen to this album and don't think it's done just Beats. Then when
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  you listen to the potency of the lyrics, the variety in the songs,
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  like watching Channel Zeros, stuff like that, it's just when you hear people
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  say this is a classic album or this is one of the greatest hip hop
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  albums of all time, you hear it instantly. And that's kind of the
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  thing I was talking about before, right, Like with Death Certificate and with
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  Ready to Die. It's just a certain way that these albums pull you into
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  the content, and by the time you finish with it, that's when you
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  leave saying stuff like, yo, that's a tactic album, the greatest album
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  all time, stuff like that. So there's that two more this one.
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  If you're watching the video. It's right behind me into the Wu Tang thirty
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  six Chambers. Listen, Listen when I tell y'all, this album not even
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  Let's just not even the album. This is also this is a chapter in
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  my book that hasn't been released yet but pretty soon. Just hearing some of
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  these beats is what really just blew my mind. At the time, there
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  was plenty of rappers rapping back then, you know, early nineties. It
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  was a lot going on, you know, a lot. Tribe released their
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  third album, Midnight Marauders, same date for Prior to that, I knew
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  the other album I was picking up was the debut of Wu Tang Clan,
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  and it was one of those things where you just had to be there to
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  feel the energy of this album before it released. Hearing beats like cream,
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  can it be ahead of time? Protect your Neck method? Man, it
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  was like, I haven't heard a Wax song yet. And when I get
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  home and I press play and I listened to the first record shame on It,
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  I'm like, what is this beat? It sounds like Game Show with
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  Karate and the old dirty Bastards, like singing rapping, and it's just it's
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  just something that wasn't happening, and to speak to the greatness of not only
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  Riz and Wu Tang clan and what they brought to the game. But again
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  this is during the time and the same thing happened before that was, you
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  know, groups like Dosaffects and are artist like K Solo. It was almost
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  as if you couldn't bite anybody's style. You had to have your own style.
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  You had to be original, and it was like you had to have
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  a gimmick. But not in a negative sense, right, It was just
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  a style. It was something that you did that you were strong at,
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  that you basically pat while releasing your music. So for like Di's Effects,
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  it was the eggity and everybody thought that was ill. K Solo was out.
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  Everybody thought that spelling in your ROMs was ill because nobody else was doing
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  that. Right, it was a style. So when Wu Tang dropped and
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  now they incorporating Hung Fuo films, the nostalgia of Kung Ful films that all
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  of us had watched in the hood, you know, Saturday morning or whatever,
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  the Sunday afternoon and all that stuff used to come on television and here
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  they are sounded like the biggest fans but they're also the biggest fans of hip
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  hop, and it's all kind of put together, like the mystery of chest
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  boxing, Like it's they bringing in all these elements from not just the neighborhood,
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  but just coaching in general, chess, kung fu, flex, hip
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  hop, so like everything, and then being led by artists that we were
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  kind of familiar with. Like I remember when Protecting That came out, and
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  I think Jesse has the best verse on a but I remember when Protecting That
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  came out and I was like, yo, that's the genius. But somehow
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  he's way better than what I remember. And it took me a minute to
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  realize that Rizza was Prince Raki because I remember that song for back then,
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  but I didn't put two and two together because I didn't remember the video,
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  so seeing his face didn't, you know, jog my memory. But just
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  the fact that they knew each other, Oh wait a minute, they related
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  and oh they did from stat Island, like who's from there? Like it
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  was. It was kind of crazy. And I just remember, you know,
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  going through that album and like how iconic the skits were. I remember
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  that album dropped, Man, you go to school after that? Back then
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  in ninety three and everybody's talking about how funny you win my killer tape back
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  God, you know, just the lack of I guess resources to have a
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  gun sound. So you know, Riza's like, you know, give me
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  that, okay black like and then everybody's acting like, got shot. I'm
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  like, whoa, Actually it just made a gun noise it now, but
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  it didn't matter. We thought it was dope, you know what I'm saying,
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  So into the Wu Tang thirty six Chambers definitely an impact album and one
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  of the greatest hit my fouls of all time and the last one, I'm
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  not gonna hold y'all. I debated big time for this, and I didn't
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  really feel like, well, should I add something newer because it's there are
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  plenty of albums that are newer that are classics, right, But top five
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  and top five for me is Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, Mad City, And
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  not just for music reasons, but for what has been the theme of this
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  Top five albums that tell the story now. Typically, debuts, especially back
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  in the nineties, were always the best albums because they were it was the
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  time where the artists got to tell you their journey And what I loved about
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  this is Kendrick released this album. Not many albums were doing what I described
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  from the nineties, Not many of them were journeys. And we got to
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  the point where albums, even from some of our favorites like jay Z and
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  Nas, became more of a collection of songs and less of a story thread
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  throughout the album. And Good Kid Man City was the best way Kendrick could
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  tell his story. So what I liked about it was that he was a
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  newcat doing something old school right, but in his way. And I wasn't
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  prepared for the skits that told the story. I just knew I liked certain
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  records he released, certain singles, you know, like they just don't kill
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  My Vibe and records like that, But I just wasn't prepared for what was
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  on it, right. Drake was also on there with Boyded Justice. That
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  joint was hot an MC eight. You know the title record, Good Kid
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  Man City, Man's Confused and baby Like. It just was such a dope
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  journey. Kendrick Kamar is not only pinning his story, but he's flexing.
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  You know, the party records that aren't really designed to be party records,
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  they're just a part of what he's talking about where he is at this part
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  in the story on the album. I always say with Kendrick Kamar, it's
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  tough to listen to a first single sometimes and really like it because you know
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  it fits somewhat where within the story. You don't have the full context,
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  so you might feel like, I don't know if I really like that one,
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  and then when you hear it within the context of the album, you're
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  like, Okay, I get it now. Now I like that record because
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  it liked that record, but you ain't like that record all right, Sorry,
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  but you know what I'm saying. It was just one of those things
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  where I was proud because it felt like hip hop was coming full circle with
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  someone from the New school carrying on tradition because that's what he was doing with
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  this album. So whereas it worked well for a younger generation, it was
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  dope for them to experience what we had experienced for years with albums like Death
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  Certificate and Ready to Die. And I kind of feel like, sure,
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  there are number of albums I have a lot of music, and then a
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  number of albums I love that you know, do so many great things as
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  far as beats and rhyms and establishing styles and all kinds of things like that.
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  But at the end of the day, when I started to think about
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  other classics from Eric being Rock, Cam EVP and Doctor Dre's the chronic Doggie
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  style and stuff like that, a lot of them do some of the same
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  things. But I only could choose five, and those are my five.
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  So what are your top five hip hop albums all time? What are some
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  of the reasons you choose those albums? Are you like me and you have
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  a personal attachment to the stories being told within the album? Leave your comments
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  in a comment section below. Until next time, y'all. I'm not a
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  critic, I'm a fan. Subscribe today.