Poisonous Dart's Greatest Hip-Hop LPs

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mistersloane said:
and I don't think Fat Joe gets his props either, and no DITC?
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Never liked fat joe much, But DITC put out so many classic records during that era I can hardly count.

The Full Scale EP was amazing, and I would have put it in my list, but its not really an official "album" release. The song with KRS and Pun is a personal favorite of mine.
 
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crackerjack

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Gawd, I always thought Fat Joe was well overrated. Watch The Sound is great, the rest I can leave.

Big L and Finesse were DITC's finest. And OC for a while.
 
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tom pr

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mistersloane said:
Capital Punishment fucking rules, it's one of the hiphop albums I can put on and non-hip hop people go 'this is good, what's this?'.
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I actually liked the one after Capital Punishment more, though maybe it's just because I haven't listened to it in so long... But yeah, by all accounts Pun seemed like a very troubled, violent person. According to his wiki entry he used to smash the walls in his house up, and then eat the wood.
 
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Poisonous Dart

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I agree, disagree

crackerjack said:
Cheeky bugger, I was staring at that for 5 minutes going :confused:

AG is good, obv., but he's very clinical and there's something about that that just doesn't excite me the way L and Finesse do -



:eek:
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I think he rates like this in comparison to the other D.I.T.C. emcees:

1. Big L
2. Lord Finesse
3. O.C.
4. A.G.
5. Diamond
6. Fat Joe
7. Showbiz

However, he's spit heat on all of the Showbiz & A.G. albums and A.G.'s "The Dirty Version" LP is a damn classic. One.
 
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daddek

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Tribe Called Quest "Midnight Marauders" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

Freestyle Fellowship "Innercity Griots" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

Dilla "Donuts" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

on a personal...

Abstract Tribe Unique "South Central Thynk Taynk". It's not the greatest hip hop album but I love it dearly, far more than most others in this thread. But then I feel the same about Eligh "A story of two worlds", which is a very strange, utterly non-classic record.
 
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crackerjack said:
Ah, that 7 Eyes, 7 Horns (actually by his Scaramanga alias) is the shit.
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yeah, totally, "cash flow" probably has the sickest flows of any rap tune i've ever heard. has anyone heard the new scaramanga LP Snake Eyes, it has apparently been released but i can't find it anywhere?
 
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crackerjack

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daddek said:
Tribe Called Quest "Midnight Marauders" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

Freestyle Fellowship "Innercity Griots" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

Dilla "Donuts" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

on a personal...

Abstract Tribe Unique "South Central Thynk Taynk". It's not the greatest hip hop album but I love it dearly, far more than most others in this thread. But then I feel the same about Eligh "A story of two worlds", which is a very strange, utterly non-classic record.
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Midnight Marauders would certainly be on mine (along with Tribe's 1st & 2nd if the list was extened to, say, 50)

The others wouldn't be anywhere, except Freestyle's which would be somewhere near the top of my Most Overrated chart.
 
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Immryr

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big satan said:
yeah, totally, "cash flow" probably has the sickest flows of any rap tune i've ever heard. has anyone heard the new scaramanga LP Snake Eyes, it has apparently been released but i can't find it anywhere?
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i think sandbox automatic has/had it.
 
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daddek

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crackerjack said:
The others wouldn't be anywhere, except Freestyle's which would be somewhere near the top of my Most Overrated chart.
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lol, shaadup. It was groundbreaking, influential (for better or for worse) and I genuinely love it. I didn't notice that "To Whom it may concern" made Dart's list, but still I feel "Griots" is the greater album.

Donuts rekindled my love for music, as it did for thousands and thousands of people, for whom it's a modern day classic. Not so many of the albums thus far mentioned hit me in that way. So on my list, it gets a mention.
 
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crackerjack

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daddek said:
lol, shaadup. It was groundbreaking, influential (for better or for worse) and I genuinely love it. I didn't notice that "To Whom it may concern" made Dart's list, but still I feel "Griots" is the greater album.
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I know, I know, I know. The sheer number of west coast artists who sing its praises is testament to what you say. It just does my 'ead in.
 
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gumdrops

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when LL comes up in these lists, i dont think people ever mention mama said knock you out... which is his best album IMO (although hes not *quite* as on form lyrically as he was earlier)
 
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crackerjack

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gumdrops said:
when LL comes up in these lists, i dont think people ever mention mama said knock you out... which is his best album IMO (although hes not *quite* as on form lyrically as he was earlier)
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I thought a few people had. It's certainly my fave LL album. In fact it might be my only LL album.
 
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Poisonous Dart

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Really?

daddek said:
Tribe Called Quest "Midnight Marauders" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

Freestyle Fellowship "Innercity Griots" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

Dilla "Donuts" -- i didn't see this on any one's list??!

on a personal...

Abstract Tribe Unique "South Central Thynk Taynk". It's not the greatest hip hop album but I love it dearly, far more than most others in this thread. But then I feel the same about Eligh "A story of two worlds", which is a very strange, utterly non-classic record.
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Do you mean people on Dissensus on in the bloggerverse? All of those albums have been prominent on hip hop writers/bloggers Top 25 lists with the exception of "Donuts". One.
 
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DJ PIMP

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Bigger And Deffer is insanely raw/hot. Practically every track destroys.

Some of my favourite beats and scratching ever.


We ain't playin, we came here to get ill
Iller than ill, L L you know what I'm sayin?
 
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DJ PIMP

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I would have picked Ice-Ts Power over Rhyme Pays as the better/bigger LP.

Saw him and PE do a show about 15 years ago (rare for NZ (back then)). One man on stage (+ DJ) and he was more compelling than PE + entourage. Great, magnetic performance...

PE was still PE though :cool:
 
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