What hiphop album turned you into a Hiphop Head?
 

My first Rap Tape was Easier said than done by Easy E. Dope record but that ain't what did it.


When I heard AZ Doe or die....I was hooked

Tupac. Ru still down double disc sealed it for me. I destinctly.remember getting it and being like ya.. This is it for me from now.on

Cool G Rap, Eric B & Rakim, NWA and EPMD.

Sir Mix A Lot Buttermilk Biscuits

Somewhere between Eminem’s debut album, the roots tipping point, DMX THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND LUDACRJS WORD OF MOUF

Illmatic

yea I had a lot of nwa and easy e stuff at the beginning of my listening....I think the first album I ever had tho was coolio gangsters paradise

but word the first album that I actually was like whoa I actually love this shit was probably all eyez on me....east 1999 eternal was also huge for me

cant even spell kool g rap name right tho>? the shame

That’s how you know the nigga is fucking lying.

Anyway.

Ghetto boys- my mind is playing tricks on me

First rap song I ever heard, hooked me

Phrenology by the Roots

Nothing groundbreaking, but it was the first time I really heard the rhythm section matter in a hip hop setting. A lot of those tracks are good as instrumentals

Oh also.. I remember nas "i am" album being a rly heavy tipping point. Still one of my allyime fav albums

Tracks like
Nas is like
Undying love
Money is my bitch
Favor 4 a favor ft. face
..that whole album the shit.

I am

Is underrated as fuck to me....it might be blasphemy but I liked it better than illmatic

Just my opinion

honestly i was always and am still am of the jayz camp....i really never even heard illmatic till the internet. most of us can remember how difficult it was to get music without it i would think. plus i was still a child so that involved convincing my parents to buy me these wildly offensive albums with their money. really i was only getting a handful of albums a year MAYBE plus it wasn't nearly as saturated as it is now......it wouldnt even be a new rap album out every month.

but yea i mean I AM dropped when i was like a freshman in highschool and it was a big deal. then jayz and nas beef popped off a couple years later and that's when i was like....ok nas....i suppose i need to listen to all of your music since u just ripped out my super heros heart. i still maintain jay won the war....pretty positive that's a general consensus at this point but word that was when nas became really relevant to me.

Oh because auto correct spelled it right, yea - I should give a fuck?

Thanks for pointing that one out, tho.

And your beta faggot inno for confirming he's a passive and submissive pussy and will co-sign anything you say.

Amen brother.

I distinctively remember not just hearing but where I was and loving "Tha Crossroads"(the days of waiting for the radio to play the song and record it on a tape) & the music video for "If I ruled the World" on Rap City.

So I guess Bone & Nas were my first hip-hop obsessions. Also remember my family being stationed in Dover, De for a brief period of time and my dad telling me "We are from the east coast don't ever choose 2pac over Biggie." LOL

Shit was better when you had to wait all day to hear ya favorites songs.....you be so hyped to finally hear it that the Shit go that much harder.

LOL hell yeah...be waitin forever to hear one song sometimes they play two before yours if it was super poppin/poppy like Gangsta's Paradise or goddamn Montell Jordan.

This is how we do it, it's friday night and I feel alrightttt.
The party's here on the west side...

Lmao damn - super throwback.

Same. Its my favorite nas album. Then it was written then illmatic.

Forgot to mention Wu-Tang.

I agree with i am....but liked illmatic better than it was written.

I think illmatic is considered his best album just because at the time it was released ppl were so caught off guard by his talents. By the time I Am dropped kats knew esco was incredible and expected that type of material from him

36 chambers was top 5 album all time

Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous or 4,5,6

yea big l dope....his old shit was awful to me tho with those old wack fucking beats. the big picture dropped when I was in 9th grade or so and me an my boys never even heard of him....picked it up off the strength of pac on the feature alone and we were blown away.

No one had or has better punchlines than L

Rip

ask beavis I get nothing butthead literally was probably quoted for all 3 years of highschool I attended

Classic line.

1st album I actually bought, to play in my sony walkman.

Ya girl asked me for a ring & I put one around her whole eye

I'm known for snatchin purses and bombin churches
I get more pussy by accident than most niggas get on purpose
I got drug spots from New York to Canada
Cause Big L be fuckin with more keys than a janitor


Don't forget Big L had mad swag & flow too back then...

Lord finesse & Buckshot laced that project in my opinion but yea no doubt. They were def dusty as fuck. I wish School days Devil Son & hard times on the blvd were on the album tho. Pussy ass Columbia records

OC ft Big L still in rotation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Flv9JiRb8

Always in rotation. Songs fire and the beat bananas.

The album was suppose to be called Murder Incoporated. Lol L was a wild motherfucker

My fav big l features are off Herb Mcgruffs debut. That’s def a classic tho

Big l was dope...but he never had the production to push him

This guy^ lol

Are you really trying to tell me the big picture didn’t have the production?

Ebonics, size em up, platinum plus, intro.. the heist, deadly combination , the enemy

Yup. Generic hand me down NY beats from that era...

Given the right production he could of had a illmatic type album in my opinon