Criminally slept on or underrated albums and why...
I am going to throw out one of mine to get this started...This is of my favorite albums to talk about and get people to listen to
The first is Lyfe and Tyme by The B.U.M.S.
...Stupid spelling notwithstanding this is one of the best examples of left coast boom bap circa '95. These people were supposed to be at least as successful as other oak-town contemporaries like the luniz but for some reason this album went double wood...These two MCs have serious flow and the samples range from Smokey to Teddy Pendergrass...and they drop gems like niggas be playing superman but funky like bizarro give it a rest i'm squeezing hearts like a cardiac arrest then im out the front door like large profess...they even end the album with an accapella that breaks down how damaging eurocentric values are to us folks...
"What special right do you have to block my people's path,
with your un-wanted & un-appreciated racist views,
we've played your games, we've gone to your schools,
we;ve studied your acheivements, your wars, struggles, hertiage & culture,
Now who gives you the right not to know ours,
for my opressors i can only pray,
because as sure as the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west,
what goes around comes around twice as hard on judgement day...
But then who gives me the right to say?"
check em out folks and give me some of yours...
The first is Lyfe and Tyme by The B.U.M.S.
...Stupid spelling notwithstanding this is one of the best examples of left coast boom bap circa '95. These people were supposed to be at least as successful as other oak-town contemporaries like the luniz but for some reason this album went double wood...These two MCs have serious flow and the samples range from Smokey to Teddy Pendergrass...and they drop gems like niggas be playing superman but funky like bizarro give it a rest i'm squeezing hearts like a cardiac arrest then im out the front door like large profess...they even end the album with an accapella that breaks down how damaging eurocentric values are to us folks...
"What special right do you have to block my people's path,
with your un-wanted & un-appreciated racist views,
we've played your games, we've gone to your schools,
we;ve studied your acheivements, your wars, struggles, hertiage & culture,
Now who gives you the right not to know ours,
for my opressors i can only pray,
because as sure as the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west,
what goes around comes around twice as hard on judgement day...
But then who gives me the right to say?"
check em out folks and give me some of yours...
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Permalink Reply by misskayjones on -
Mine will consist of mostly R&B stuff:
Tony! Toni! Toné! - House of Music
Van Hunt-Van Hunt (2004)
Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage
Eric Benet - True to Myself
Stevie Wonder - A Time To Love
Lalah Hathaway - Outrun The Sky
Les Nubians - One Step Forward
Amel Larrieux - ALL OF HER ALBUMS!!!
This is just a start. I may come back with more.
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Permalink Reply by Tarik Salim on -
never gave eric benet a chance...maybe ill consider it...everything else on here is fire tho...love that lalah and that van hunt is genius
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Permalink Reply by Nashira on -
I feel you Miss Kay on ALL of those ( you know how we do)
The Roots- Game Theory- and EVERY ALBUM
Talib Kweli- Reflection Eternal
Lupe- Food and Liquor
Little Brother- Every Album
D'angelo- Voodoo
Goapole- Change it
all
Erykah Badu- Mamas Gun
Dwele- all of his albums
FYI- Badu has a new joint droppin soon! YES!!!! Produced by ninth wonder!
more to come...
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Permalink Reply by Tarik Salim on
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damn i hate how they do LB...they need to be moving major units...i would agree on illadelph and do you want more with roots but i think every other roots album got its due...and if you aint up on voodoo then you are a lame...talib will never get enough props for my liking(especially eardrum and the joint he did with madlib)
i am curious to hear your rationale on your choices especially food and liquor which was a pretty big hit wasn't it...
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Permalink Reply by Nashira on
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Food and Liquor is def. sick! Lupe is very intelligent and definately droppin knowlege and not afraid to speak the truth... Goapole has a beautiful voice, but I never ever heard any of her joints on the radio... Dwele as well
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Meador on -
Here's just a few to get my list started...
Talib Kweli - Ear Drum and Liberation - don't know why, but these albums never get to much credit
Jean Grae - This Week - she brought fire with that one, but great female MCs never get the love they deserve
Zion I & Grouch - Heroes in the City of Dope - amazing east bay underground that def didn't get it's due
People Under the Stairs - everything the put out is slept on by the majority of folks
Crown City Rockers - Earthtones - Funky grooves, Raashan's flows are tight, everything about this album is hot
K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco - Brother really brings it with this one, smooth, soulful and hard as hell too
Stephen Marley - Mind Control - Wow! Long awaited and def does not disappoint.
...more to come
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Permalink Reply by Tarik Salim on
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yeah kyle me and you can def be down...PUTS does it quite well actually...i feel bad honestly for their lack of props...but they get mad love in the southland cuz every time i peep one of their shows the whole crowd has all their lyrics memorized...yeah and i guess nobody has heard that crown city either and that's a damn shame...thier mission(different moniker and same members and flavor from what i can tell) album is tight too...they are dope live too...i need to get up on more K-os actually...i c an aim file sharing relationship in our future haha
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Meador on
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Most def down wit the file sharing. I have so much music to share. We may just have to start sending some data disks through the mail. Have you checked that Zion I & Grouch. If you haven't.... get on that. Let's def owrk on that file sharing relationship...
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Permalink Reply by Fanon Che Wilkins on -
Yo that Zion I and Grouch shit is bananas.
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Meador on
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Yeah, had a chance to see them rock it together a couple months ago too! Killed it, up and down, all through the set. Just rippin it. Not only that but Brother Ali opened and came real hard.
And now, since most of what the Living Legends put out is slept on by folks outside of the bay and LA, here's some of that list...
- Three Melancholy Gypsies (Murs, Scarub and Eligh) - If your haven't check out any of these albums yet, get on that, these joints is banging. Great beats and flows from Eligh and line for line, verse for verse, some of Scarubs best work.. and Murs brings that old shit that e loved so much.
- CMA (The Grouch and Luckyiam.PSC) - Shit is hard, especially the second album, All Over, realy hot, with guests like Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Slug, Murs, Brother Ali, JC & Reese One of Bleu Collar. Another certified Legends banger!
- Felt (Slug and Murs, production from Atmosphere) - Great albums! Also a great concept (in that nerdy, underground hip-hop, backpack sort of way). Felt is a musical collaboration with the long-term goal of having sex with b-level Hollywood actresses. Christina RIcci. Lisa Bonet. These records are not for the love of hip hop. The album is not to prove whose city has a better-implemented smoking ban. It's solely a vehicle for largely unknown rappers to have celebrity sex. Fantastic!
- Mystik Journeymen's The Black Sands of Eternia album was and still is fire!
- Eligh's Enigma - Very moody, a little dark, and a tad expiramental, but overall a very tight mix of beat machine style instrumentals and 8 songs all with lives of their own! I suppose I could say that it combines the stylings of Eligh and his alter ego, the beat wizard known as Gandalf, into one dope album.
...more Living Legends recomendations to come soon too...
Fanon, I'm jealous of you on that Premier ish last night though. Been a long time since I've seen him rock it. Gang Starr with Rage Against the Machine, way back. Been way to long. Looking forward to the video though. Peace.
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Permalink Reply by Fanon Che Wilkins on
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Just picked up this new Zimbabwe Legit-House of Stone. If you not hip, then you will be because this disc is Dylan style hot fiyah:) I'm about to post it on my site later today, stay tuned.....!!
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