![]() ![]() Wait, did he really just say “gooder and gooder”? Despite that embarrassing terrible grammar moment this was enjoyable, in a guilty pleasure kind of way. This one is filled with clever punchline after punchline (the lines about Issac Hayes’ head and G Rap’s “hip-hop cock” are hi-larious). Talk Like Sex – The title sums it up in a nutshell: G rap spits hilariously misogynistic rhymes over a funky instrumental that the liner notes credit him as producing as well. G Rap’s reference of Video Soul was a blast from the past. G Rap completely annihilates the simple but bangin’ instrumental with his heavily lisped delivery. Freddie Foxxx (who you younger readers may know as Bumpy Knuckles) and Kool G Rap follow with solid verses, while Cold Chillin’ roadie, Ant-Live wraps things up with a mediocre performance. Minus the Ant-Live verse this was a pretty entertaining listen.īad To The Bone – Eric B and G Rap are given co-producer credits but it aint hard to tell this instrumental is all Extra P. Money In The Bank – Extra P provides a beauty of an instrumental for this posse cut so it’s only right that he sets things off and in the process rips the hell out of his own beat. The Large Professor instrumental could have used a little more Lawrys, though. ![]() Raps in straight gangster mode on this one: he spends all three verses killing rivals or at minimum sending them violent threats which I have to admit, some of them made me chuckle (not chuckling because their corny but more of an acknowledgement G Rap clever wordplay and wit). The Large Professor produced instrumental is dope (especially the saxophone at the beginning and the piano sprinkled throughout the song). Streets Of New York – Over two verses G Rap paints visuals of what takes place on the New York streets he’s accustom to. Rap has what it takes on the mic, but will Extra P’s production bring the musical consistency missing from G. Butcher) who handled the bulk of the production duties on Road To The Riches , are benched (with the exception of one song) in place of a young up and coming producer, Large Professor (and some dude named Anton) to handle most of the production load on Wanted: Dead Or Alive. Rap must have realized this as well as Marley Marl (along with Dr. Rap was a beast on the mic but the production was inconsistent. If you haven’t already, check out my opinion of their debut Road To The Riches but for those of you too lazy to read that review (or just don’t care what my opinion is of the album) here is a quick recap: G. To a fan coming up in the era of Cardi or Tyler or Polo G or Playboi Carti, the golden age is now.Sticking with the recent Juice Crew theme, today’s review is on Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s sophomore album Wanted: Dead Or Alive. One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that it evolves and expands faster than any other genre in music history. to Houston to Chicago, and beyond.Īs we dug and listened, we found ourselves a little less swayed by “golden age” mystique than we might’ve been had we done this list 10 or 15 years ago. and Rakim and others, through the gangsta era, the rise of the South, the ascendance of larger-than-life aughts superstars like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and on and on into more recent moments like blog-rap, emo-rap, and drill, from New York to L.A. The result was a list that touches on every important moment in the genre’s evolution - from compilations that honor the music’s paleo old-school days, to its artistic flourishing in the late Eighties and early Nineties with Public Enemy, De La Soul, Eric B. When confronted with a choice between the third (or fourth or fifth) record by a classic artist (Outkast, for instance, or A Tribe Called Quest) and an album from an artist who would make the list more interesting (The Jacka or Saba or Camp Lo), we tended to go with the latter option. Relatedly, a list of hip-hop-adjacent albums from the worlds of dancehall or reggaeton or grime would be fun and fascinating, and something for us to revisit down the road. That’s one reason we limited our scope to English language hip-hop. ![]() But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied, we were forced to make some painful choices - there are so many iconic artists with deep catalogs, so many constantly evolving sounds and regional scenes. Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be. ![]()
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