#41

itā€™s a fucking brilliant album, 8/10. I donā€™t quite see it as a top tier hip hop album though. Donā€™t think the quality of the beats quite match Nas on this.

Itā€™s brevity is a big plus but I reckon thereā€™s quite a few 90ā€™s hip hop records that would be way better than this if you whittled them down to their 10 best tracks.

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#42

God this Survival of the Fittest track is so good. I havenā€™t ever heard Mobb Deep before or Iā€™ve never consciously gone to listen to them but now I will, thanks.

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#43

9 for me

one of the all time great rap albums

#44

ā€˜The Infamousā€™ is a staggering album. Similar to Nas in that itā€™s genuinely shocking to think they were teenagers when they wrote those lyrics.

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#45

Itā€™s a perfect record and one of the first hip hop records I truly loved back when I was about 13.

#46

:astonished:

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#47

Definite 10 out of 10 album. So good that itā€™s overshadowed the rest of his (pretty decent) career.

#48

Never quite grasped that phenomenon of lads (particularly at Glastonbury and Reading) who just sit around their tent drinking warm beers and listening to their own tunes for 3 days

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#49

Had a group of Liverpudlian lads camped next to us at Glastonbury one year who claim they only came to see BBK on the Sunday night. Spent the entire weekend at the campsite listening to music out of a Marley speaker and taking turns to crouch down and do keys of gear in a tiny tent shaped like a rocket which they named HMS Charge becuase ā€˜ā€˜when you do charge in it, you shoot off the to moonā€™ā€™. Not sure they knew HMS referred to ships and not rockets.

Lovely bunch of lads mind you, but mad as a box of frogs.

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#50

Nicky Minajā€™s verse on Monster maybe? She was probably always destined for big things but that was very much her introduction to the worldā€¦ god I had such high hopes off the back of that verse

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#51

yeah, itā€™s pretty much perfect innit?

#52

It is obviously a waste of money when you could theoretically do that anywhere, but on the other hand itā€™s great fun. Genuinely got very fond memories of missing loads of bands I wanted to see at Reading when I was a teenager to sit around the camp.

#53

Think she already had an album deal at that point - Pink Friday came out on the same day as MBDTF I think. What a verse though. I like her a lot, but that verse is by miles the greatest thing sheā€™s done. Easily one of the greatest guest verses ever. Could be the greatest. Canā€™t think of a better one.

Cappadonna on Winter Warz might be another example of an MC getting an album deal off a single verse. That one is an absolute all timer as well

#54

But their minds were older.

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#55

I think Cappadonna was pretty much guaranteed a solo album - he would have been on the first album had it not been for him being in jail according to what Iā€™ve read in the U-God book and elsewhere. But that verse is definitely one of my all time favourites too - it annoys me that itā€™s still not on the UK version of Ironman on Spotify.

There was a lot of hype round my way for the Jeru solo album after his verse on Daily Operation. But similar to the Cappadonna one, it was very much kept in the family. Not like either were scooped up by a label.

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#56

:rage:

pisses me off every time I reach for that album

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#57

huh, so it was. Could have sworn there was a gap between them.

#58

Yeah agree - Cappadonna was likely always going to get a solo album. Think Winter Warz may have bumped him up the order a bit though!

#59

wait til you get a hold of the rest of his catalog

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#60

this album is a ten but out of all the ten rap albums there are this is probably the last one i want to talk about any more idk why.

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