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  • This is a busy day/week for me at work, so I’ll have to keep this short.

    This album is very much a product of the time, so before I start I’ll mention some obvious stuff that doesn’t hold up super well. The beats can be repetitive and the rhymes/flows, my modern standards, are terrible. If a modern rapper came out sounding like this, nobody would buy that album.

    Now that that is out of the way, I love this album. When I first got in to rap (outside of weird underground stuff), this is the sort of stuff I listened to. I was in my “modern rappers just rap about bitches and money, old rapers rapped about real stuff” phase. While I outgrew that phase, it is nice to hear some blatantly political rap. I checked and this was the fifth best selling rap album of 1988, beaten by “Straight Outta Compton”, “Eazy-Duz-It”, “He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper” and “Life Is…Too $hort”. Not bad to be behind NWA, Eazy-E, Will Smith (and DJ Jazzy Jeff) and Too $hort. I also fucking love the scratching on some of these beats. That old school sound of a DJ scratching records always gets me hype.

    Favorite track is Bring the Noise and Show 'Em Whatcha Got. Bring The Noise is a classic and I just really like what they did with the saxophone sample on Show 'Em Whatcha Got.








  • My top 2 are Lil Wayne and Waka Flocka Flame. Wayne speaks for himself. He is one of the best to ever do it and has like 20 or 30 mixtapes. I heard T-Wayne for the first time recently and it reminded me how good Wayne is.

    Waka is different though. Guy doesn’t rap like Wayne, guy gets you hyped. He only had 3 albums but almost as many mixtapes as Wayne. Also worth noting is that while his last album was in 2012, but he has dropped at least 10 mixtapes since then. He doesn’t need the money, he just loves making tapes. A surprising amount of them are on Spotify too if you have never given them a listen. I won’t pretend they are all amazing, but I recommend I Can’t Rap and Twin Towers. Again, don’t expect lyrical rap. Waka is for when you need to get unreasonably hype.

    Honorable Mention to Nicki Minaj. She is mostly known for her pop-rap stuff, but she raps hard on Sucka Free,