What is Rap's best double-album

GodlessInfidel

All eyes on me? Life after Death? Blueprint 2? Forever? Streets Disciple ????

Hip-Hop albums are usually full of filler. I guess thats only logical given that alot of them have up to twenty songs on der!!

So the chances of a double album being classic is twice as hard.

What's your favourite??

PrettyBoy

All Eyez On Me.

PoppyRowe

BLUEPRINT 2 FOREVUH YALL


HOVITO TOO MUCH FLO ON THE FLO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdl1NImsuk

Jay Ru

there is none. all double albums are watered down with to much filler material. cud u imagine how good life after death or all eyez on me wud of been if they where single albums.

charlemont

wu tang forever.... brilliant album 1997.. bone thugs n harmony the art of war is pretty good too

KrazeeEyezKilla

I usually avoid double-albums but I did get Speakerboxx/The Love Below when it was out. It was good but there's some really dumb stuff on it. Andres half having the worst of it.

Boom_Bap

Speakerboxx/Love Below or WuTang Forever would take it for me. E-40's new Renevnue Retrieving is quite good, not sure if it counts as a double album though, much like Nelly's Sweat and Suit. I think E-40 had another double album and UGK as well, havent heard them though to comment.

All Eyez on me is good but gets boring in places
Life After Death has too much Puffy hits and not enough Biggy doing his thing
Streets Disciple was muck, i dont think you would get a good single album out if it.
BluePrint II is decent

But if this was a best Triple-Album thread then American Hunger from MF GRimm wins hands down

Shapey Fiend

American Hunger is surprisingly consistent. Too much to consume in one sitting but if you listen to one disk at a time it's grand.

Da GOAT

tupacs greatest hits lol.

in fairness most doubles are poor. All eyes on me is solid. Speakerboxx was complete crap imo.

Filler is a big problem usually.

horsebox09

Definitely Wu Tang Forever for me

Reunited, Triumph, Hellz Wind Staff, Heaters, A Better Tomorrow - actually minus 2 or 3 tracks that album is pretty much classic material

Speakerboxxx/Love Below is worth a mention too, I think Andre's half of that album went over a lot of hip hop fans head's

If Nas's I Am/Nastradamus double album wasn't scrapped because of leaks that would have been up there too

spacecoyote

Lyricist Lounge Volume 1

Its a 2 x CD compilation, but who cares, still trumps any single artist 2 cd album imo!

HalloweenJack

horsebox09 wrote: »

Speakerboxxx/Love Below is worth a mention too,I think Andre's half of that album went over a lot of hip hop fans head' s

I couldn't have put it better myself.

Speakerboxxx is a very consistent album. It doesn't have too many highs but at the same time, there are no lows.

If you're going to critique The Love Below, you need to think outside the rapper André 3000 and more along the lines of someone like Prince or Roger Troutman, someone who's mixing lots of different styles.

Because of the separation of both sides, I think Speakerboxxx/Love Below works better as an entire album than Stankonia, which showed hints of the direction Dré was pulling in.

Boom_Bap

horsebox09 wrote: »

Definitely Wu Tang Forever for me

Reunited, Triumph, Hellz Wind Staff, Heaters, A Better Tomorrow - actually minus 2 or 3 tracks that album is pretty much classic material

Just cut out the Poppa Wu rant and it's golden

floggg

None. And if unlikely there ever will be one worth getting excited about either.

Even aside from the filler issue, your going to get bored of any album that takes over two hours just to get through.

Most of the best albums are short, sweet aand on point. 12 songs is generally about right, but anything over 15 and you're getting into quantity over quality.

Less is more my friends.

Jay Ru

horsebox09 wrote: »

Definitely Wu Tang Forever for me

Reunited, Triumph, Hellz Wind Staff, Heaters, A Better Tomorrow - actually minus 2 or 3 tracks that album is pretty much classic material

Speakerboxxx/Love Below is worth a mention too, I think Andre's half of that album went over a lot of hip hop fans head's

If Nas's I Am/Nastradamus double album wasn't scrapped because of leaks that would have been up there too

a double album of Nas worst 2 albums, i doubt that wud be very good now wud it?

ItsNugget

All eyes on me is ****. Mostly rushed together filler just to get it out as quick as he could. Theres about 10 good tunes out of what 25? I cringe at most of it.

holy guacamole

I know it's a best of but Gangstarr's 'Full Clip: A Decade of GangStarr' is arguably the best double album ever released in the hip hop genre imo.

KrazeeEyezKilla

horsebox09 wrote: »

Speakerboxxx/Love Below is worth a mention too, I think Andre's half of that album went over a lot of hip hop fans head's

It didn't go over my head. I liked it at first but after a while I got fed up with a lot of it. I havent listened to it in years so I probably should go back to it.

Notorious97

Life After Death without a doubt, i dont agree it had 'filler' content and too 'much puffy songs'. Biggie completely destroyed it with this album, he has so many different styles on this it isnt funny, Notorious thugs for example was great lyrically (Not that Bigs lyrics ever let us down) and his flow was perfect.

I know songs like Playa Hater with him and Puff singing were piss takes, but the album was unreal. Considering the backdrop against this album, the whole bi coastal war, Bigs lyrics shine through, with his flow, My Downfall and Long Kiss Goodnight for example are incredible songs. This album and ready To Die are my favourite albums of all time (im aware R2D isnt a double disc lol)

All eyes on Me was a really good album too, BP2 i am not so keen about even though im a huge Jigga fan, Biggie and Jigga my favourite rappers, i just think that had alot of songs just thrown on for the sake of a double album, compare this to BP1 and BP3 it doesnt add up, had a few good tracks, but then it was reissued as BP2.1 single disc.

Boom_Bap

Ras Kass has just released a new double album called A.D.I.D.A.S and has got some decent reviews. Must check it out.

floggg

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Ras Kass has just released a new double album called A.D.I.D.A.S and has got some decent reviews. Must check it out.

Yes although again, apparently there's just too much filler. Although as the review I read said, in rassy's case, you can understand why he wanted to release as much music for his fans as he possibly could.