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Originally Posted by Tune_It_Lower
It's interesting, as a metal appreciator first, and a hip hop appreciator second, Ice T. seems very much a household name to me, and his contributions are well noted... but then again, most people (then & now) didn't know that 'Cop Killer' was a song recorded with his metal band Body Count, and not a rap track. Y'all been out of touch since '92.
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Tell me about it. I can't count the number of times people tried calling me out (even on this forum) for saying that "99 problems" was an Ice-T track.
As for me, I'm in the '91-'96 camp myself:
Ice Cube
Cypress Hill
Kool Moe Dee
Mobb Deep
Redman
Modern talents I like, but weren't in the aforementioned era:
Hopsin
Bo-rat
Nocando
Illmaculate
First 1-2 albums of Eminem
Busta Rhymes
Pharaoh Monch
plenty of others, I'm sure
Honorable mentions:
Pretty much anything major pre-91. I think I JUST missed the boat on these guys...they influenced everything I like and I'm sure I'd have been a bigger fan if I were born just a couple years earlier.
Doggystyle- album. This is one of (if not) my favorite albums of all time, but I can't stand anything that Snoop has done since.
Spice 1 - I love his first...I think 4 albums (up to and including 1990-sick)? But there's something about him I can't explain, it's almost as if either:
a) 90% of his songs are ghost-written and the 10% he wrote himself are crap
or
b) vice versa
Because for every 9 diamond tracks like "187 proof" or "trigga gots no heart", there's one piece of garbage like "I'm the f****n murderer" or "what the f***" where there are almost no lyrics at all because he staggers syllables:
"I kicks the r-uh r-uh red r-uh r-uh rum
and leave your b-uh b-uh body n-uh n-uh numb"
God, I'm mad just thinking about that song. Why is everything else so good, and then THAT SONG?
Wu-tang clan: Crazy talented, but the verses felt too "freestyle" for me (which I understand is part of the appeal, but I'd dig them more in a cypher than on an album). Just personal taste...I love these guys.
Notable absences:
2pac: I'm just not as into him as everyone else was. I loved the album "strictly for my *****z", but I never saw him as revolutionary as everyone else did I guess. I don't DISLIKE him, I just didn't like him as much as everyone else
Biggie: Same as 2pac, except I liked him even less...I really enjoyed a few tracks but that was about it.
Nas: Was a close call. I think I wanted to rule him out because personally he's kind of a d-bag. But he's definitely talented.
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