recommend a few albums...

ack

I'm going to be having a few brewskies shortly and I want you guys to recommend a few albums for me to listen to? No 2pac, Dre, NWA, G-Unit, Eminem, Busta, Jay-z, Nas, BIG or Ludacris because I've heard most of them. I want to expand my rap horizons. Let the healing begin...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the perceptionsists - black dialogue, handsome boy modelling school - white people and .. well anything by jurassic 5.

Merrick

Public Enemy.

Orizio

What I've been listening to lately,may give you some ideas...

Souls of Mischief-93 til' Infinity.
Jay-Z-In My Lifetime Vol. 1.
Spank Rock-YoYoYoYoYo.
UN-UN Or U Out.
Ford Minor-The Rising Tied.
The Roots-The Tipping Point.
Madlib-The Beat Konducta Vol 1 and 2.
ATCQ-Midnight Marauders.
Devin The Dude-Just Tryin Ta Live.
Spearhead-Home.

And for something a bit different,but still Hip-Hop related...

Rage Against The Machine-Renegades.
Amel Larrieux-Morning.

Now beat that for diverse music tastes...;)

Fraggle Rocks

DJ Format - Music For The Mature B-Boy
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust

gimmick

Jurrassic 5 already mentioned, but I cannot recommend POWER IN NUMBERS highly enough. Top class album.

I like alot of Jean Grae stuff also, so anything by her.

Beefeater

Saul Williams....poetry/hip hop
Wordsworth-Mirror Music
Masta Ace-Long hot summer, Disposable Arts
Immortal Technique- Revolutionary Vol 2
Cage- Hell's Winter
Mr. Lif- I Phantom
Anything by GZA
Cunninlynguists

Dooom

Cunninlynguists - A Piece Of Strange and Southern Underground
Klashnekoff - Focus Mode
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Links
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 1 and 2
Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance and The Movement
Mobb Deep - Infamous and Deep Thoughts
Nas - The Lost Tapes

That's what's playing off Winamp at the mo anyway. All cracker albums.

spacecoyote

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054852413

this thread, along with any of the newer stuff recommended should provide plenty to keep you going

ricey

Try some Xzibit or The Game.

Trip Hazard

UGK - Ridin' Dirty and Dirty money two great Southern albums. (difficult to get though)

Big Pun - Capital Punishment, Such a large album so many tracks to enjoy.

Petey Pablo - Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry, Petey 1st album, fantastic!

Dead Prez - Let's Get Free, very political but very enjoyable album.

I know you said No N.W.A but any old Eazy-E album is great to listen to while having a few beers.

If your looking for something mindless with good production to get the blood flowing try Lil Jon - Kings of Crunk or Crunk Juice.

Dooom

Throw in a few Canibus albums aswell - 2000BC, Can-I-Bus, Rip The Jacker (has to be one of the best album names ever..) and Lost Lyrics aswell.

spacecoyote

Trip Hazard wrote:

If your looking for something mindless with good production to get the blood flowing try Lil Jon - Kings of Crunk or Crunk Juice.

"mindless" definitely being the operative word here. Can you seriously recommend crunk in a sane frame of mind?

billstraighten

the las week i have been listening to and would reccomend
Big pun capital punishment (coz i heard one song off the new gta)
Wu-tang enter the 36 chambers
Raekwon-only built for cuban links
Sean Price -Monkey Barz
az-awol
Bun-b Trill

Thats it

Trip Hazard

spacecoyote wrote:

"mindless" definitely being the operative word here. Can you seriously recommend crunk in a sane frame of mind?

Yeah I can recommend Crunk in a sane frame of mind, correct me if i'm wrong but is some of the point of listening to certain music, for partying and enjoying yourself, and I think Crunk is just that type of music.

spacecoyote

Yeah music is definitely for enjoying, i just find crunk really hard to stomach, even in the party mood!

Peyton Manning

Big L - Lifestyles Ov Da Poor And Dangerous

^Best Hip Hop Album of all time...

melekalikimaka

insane clown posse - great milenko

Trip Hazard

spacecoyote wrote:

Yeah music is definitely for enjoying, i just find crunk really hard to stomach, even in the party mood!

Ok thats fair enough, frankly I love Crunk. Whether in a party mood or not. YYEEAAAHHH!!!!!!!

Executive Steve

skinnyman - council estate of mind

goodie mob - soul food

raekwon - only built for cuban linx

nas - illmatic

uk hip hop voice of the streets on unisex recordings is well worth a listen, some skinnyman, klashnekoff, rodney p, roots manuva and loads more... wicked compilation imo... "jankrowville" by klashnekoff gets me going each and every time...

kanibus

Archimedes wrote:

Big L - Lifestyles Ov Da Poor And Dangerous

^Best Hip Hop Album of all time...

^^^Too right

me and the biz

Zion I - mind over matter, Break a dawn. Lyrical commision - murderous metaphors. Show and AG - Fullscale. EPMD - strictly business, Run DMC - tougher than leather, run dmc, raising hell. kane - long live the kane, Soul position - things go better with Rj and al. Blockhead - music by cavelight, downtown science.

igork

just like somebody already mentioned above - cunninlynguists, plus - cee lo - "imperfections" & "the green machine" and hot new stuff from helsinki - redrama "street music".

Basebeatbang

Ghostface killah - the pretty toney album
Talib Kweli & Hi-tek - Reflection eternal, train of thought
Talib Kweli & Mos Def - Blackstar
Capone - Pain, time and glory
Jae Millz - Nothing but the freestyles
Jadakiss - Kiss of death
Big L - The Big Picture
J Dilla - Donuts
Common - Be

Resistance

Basebeatbang wrote:

Talib Kweli & Hi-tek - Reflection eternal, train of thought

Class album

Dilated Peoples-Expansion

kanibus

Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
GZA - Liquid Swords
Canibus - Rip The Jacker
Dead Prez - Lets Get Free
Biggie - Ready To Die
Talib Kweli - Quality
Talib Kweli - Right About Now
Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek - Reflection Eternal
Blackstar - Blackstar
Common - Resurrection
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
Viktor Vaughn - Vaundeville Villain
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Gangstarr - Momment Of Truth
Gangstarr - Daily Operation
Gangstarr - The Ownerz
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientelle
Wu-Tang - Enter the Wu-Tan(36 Chambers)
Saigon - Warning Shots
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
Nas - Illmatic
Nas - God Son
Nas - Stillmatic
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Dangermouse - Grey Album
Big Daddy Kane - The Very Best Of...
Killah Priest - Heavy Mental
Jae Millz - The Statue
Eminem - Slim Shady LP
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
AZ - A*W*O*L
AZ - Aziatic
Wordsworth - Mirror Music
Royce Da 5'9 - Rock City
Blackalicious - The Craft
Aesop Rock - Float
Method Man - Tical
Supernatural - S.P.I.T
Eric.B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Rass Kass - Soul On Ice
The Roots - Illadeplh Halflife
The Roots - The Tipping Point
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Roll Deep - In At The Deep End


is that enough??

Ill add more later!

Cannibal Ox

Giant Panda - Fly School Reunion (brillant, old school, new school...who knows, better then anything J5 has put out over the past few years)
Bigg Jus - Black Mamba Serums (one half of Company Flow, some people don't like it, but I do....beats are crazy, almost as nuts as anything El-P's ever done)
Constructus Corporation - The Ziggurat (wierd South African indie Hip Hop concept album)
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (best Rawkus album, by miles...led to the whole Def Jux, indie Hip Hop craze)
Dalek - Absence (Industrial Hip Hop...not for everyone)

billstraighten wrote:

Wu-tang enter the 36 chambers

Everyone should own this album, one of the best Hip Hop albums ever, even if the rest of the Wu collective/solo efforts are hit and miss at the best of times.

Evzer

Dont know if anyone's put it up already but The Perceptionists- Black Dialogue is a class album!