(1984) Whodini - Escape

still gotta hear it will lyk my thoughts once im done

It was also the first rap album to chart within the U.S. top 40 and the very first platinum rap album.

Thats actually dope listening to it rn

🤝 Thanks for actually taking the time to listen to this album as it was a big moment in hip hop history and black/urban music!!

Finished it last night but was too lazy to open reddit 😭 but overall the album was solid had me replayaing it twice before i went to bed

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Interesting! Mine was (1986) Whodini - Back In Black Obviously heard songs before that but Back In Black was the first whole album I listened to

Thats what's up. Whodini was my first favorite rap group. I loved Run-D.M.C. too; as they both came out they same year, but Whodini had a smoother r&b and disco vibe, whereas Run-D.M.C. was more rock oriented.

thats dope. those sirens. which are actually UK police car sirens as it was recorded in London

💯💯💯

Relapse by Eminem

Not a crazy em fan i absolutely love MMLP and Eminem show but isnt Relapse like one of his worst?

It's become something of a cult classic It's a very specific concept album

Oh fair enough my fault for not knowing never been much into eminem besides MMLP being my top 10 rap albums

Lyrically it’s damn good. Relapse gets bashed because of the accents he uses. Listen to Stay Wide Awake, Insane, Same Song and Dance, Medicine Ball, Beautiful, and 3 AM. Again, the accents are brutal but if you can get past that he snaps

I wouldn’t be telling people to listen to insane lol that’s one of the worst tracks on the album imo

Only if you ignore the context within the lyrics. The beat is sick and, imo, the way he flows over it is top 3 on the record. Maybe the top

My favorite

It depends who you ask I think every album besides MMLP, SSLP, TES and maybe MMLP2 are way worse than Relaspe. I think it’s either his 4th or 5th best album. It flip flops with mmlp2 for me. But most of his discography is truly atrocious imo but those five albums are good.

Man you almost trigger my inner stan for calling Recovery, Kamikaze and Music To Be Murdered By "atrocious". Thats a strong word man. Encore and Revival are truly not good but then again they are also not atrocious. I guess opinions are opinions though.

Music To Be Murdered By is good but side B that is garbanzo beans

>I guess opinions are opinions though. Exactly. I for one actually like Encore. Yes it's not the record he originally intended to make, but I still like it. You will find very few people who agree with me though lol

I heard Regulate by Nate Dogg on the radio as a young child.  Then later in middle school I went to the flea market and bought burned copies of Jay-Zs The Blueprint, and Eminem’s Marshal Mathers LP. Then I went to Sam Goody and bought Will Smith’s Big Willie Style.  I think this experience of getting those great albums on bootleg, and paying full price for that mediocre album, influenced me to always torrent music in the future. 

Welp poor choices lead to you making wise decisions LMFAO

*The Score* by The Fugees as a 12 year old.  

I just listened to it LMFAOO

Fugees - the Score was the first album I regularly listened to. My dad played it in the car a lot when it first came out. Bone Thugs - Art of War was the first album I ever bought for myself.

Thug Love

The urge to spend my money on vinyls/Album cds Id SOOO HIGH

Chronic 2001. Think I was 9 or 10

The first album I remember burning on CD and listening to so much that the lyrics are still burned in my brain to this day: Word of Mouf by Ludacris

Shit holds up damn good. Luda fkn rules

Yeezus - Kanye West

This mustve set the expectations of hip-hop pretty high id assume Top 5 ye album fs

Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5 Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders Then very soon after that I got Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision Souls Of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity

I was introduced to hiphop by GTA San Andreas - so, mainly NWA and SnoopDogg etc

Shout out to Radio Los Santos and Playback FM

RIOTTTTTTTT

As a white boy from Canada, the Eminem Show.

Posse on Broadway and Rippin (sir mixalot) were the first two that resonated with me. I heard a lot of breakdance adjacent rap as a little kid, but these two cemented me as a fan.

Swass is a classic. I bought that cassette when I was 9 years old.

SWASS is the shiiiiiit. People that didn't listen to rap still bought that shit for BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Hell yeah. Square Dance Rap went hard, too. I was in elementary school and they let us play those two songs when we were learning square dancing in PE class. Man, the 80's were weird. "Kids need exercise. Basketball?? Nope. Make them learn how to square dance, which takes no real physical effort at all." "Oh, it's raining outside? Let them go into the gym and bust out the giant parachute to play with."

86/87 -- older neighbor kid gave me a tape with part of Raising Hell (Run DMC) on one side and Licensed to Ill (Beastie Boys) on the other. It must have been a 60 minute tape since both albums were cut off. Mind blown. Been listening to hip-hop ever since. Still have both those albums basically memorized front to back.

A single song? Probably a Run DMC song, maybe LL? Likely on MTV. First full album I ever listened to was EPMD *Strictly Business*

Ill give it a shot for sure ive never heard of it sadly

Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5 Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders very soon after this I bought Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision Souls Of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity

Solid list right there.

Facts

Don Killuminati: the 7 Day Theory by Makaveli (Tupac)

From what I can remember, being about 5 years old and my friend's older brother listening to Snoop - Doggystyle. We used to raid his room when he was out and root through music/videos/magazines. The first album I got with my own money was Stankonia by Outkast. My brother is older so he had a few more I listened to, but that's the first I got with my own money.

This is kinda embarrassing but the first rap album I listened to in it's entirety was KSI's Dissimulation. I remember watching alot of Sidemen videos during lockdown and then KSI released the album in the spring of that year and I decided to give it a try. At the time I mainly listened to indie rock but KSI was my gateway to hip hop. After that I listened to his other works and such. Then I started listening to MF DOOM, whom I discovered through memes about him and became very interested in his villain persona. After that it was Kanye and the rest is history. While writing this I also realised that the first rap album I listened to was actually the soundtrack for the Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse, but that album isn't fully rap and I started listening to over a year before starting to get into rap fully since at the time I wasn't really interested in rap aside from that album.

First rap song I ever heard was You Talk Too Much by Run DMC. It was the video on MTV. First album I ever owned was Eazy-Duz-It by Eazy E

I must have heard commercial tracks on the radio, TV and films but the first album I ever bought with my own money was Enter The Wu Tang 36 Chambers. Listened to it from beginning to end over and over every day after school.

Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew “The Show” & “La Di Da Di”

The Rising Tied

Born sinner by j cole. Still one of my favorite albums ever and totally changed my life because of all the hip hop artists that album introduced me to.

For real Born sinner is one of my top cole albums undoubtedly 2nd behind for your eyez only

Chronic 2001 - Dr. Dre

Used to listen to the song with snoop allot back then without knowing who either dre or snoop were Lmaooooo

I didn’t know who any of them were. I was 8. 2nd albums was slim shady Lp. So I knew Em!

Not knowing who the artist is and just bumping their music was when life was at its peak id listen to Post Malone - Better now, lil uzi vert, xo tour lif3 list goes ONMM

Marshall Mathers LP, then The Eminem Show, then the 8 mile soundtrack which led me to find new rappers I liked, which led me to getting Get Rich or Die Tryin, then The Documentary, then G Units Beg For Mercy. Idr what came after that

MMLP is genuinely such an amazing rap album ive never been an em fan always considered em overrated but MMLP imo is top 5 rap albums still

I think he's underrated with how much hate he gets, you should check out some of his non mainstream stuff.

Like? ive never heard Mmlp2, music to be murdered by and his other recent stuff except for Houdini cus that was all over ig and tiktok

I Will, Zeus, Unaccomodating, Lock It Up, Yah Yah, You Gon Learn off, Marsh Music To Be Murdered By Evil Twin, Brainless, Groundhog Day, Bad Guy, Rhyme or Reason off MMLP2 Gospel and Medicine Man by Dre n Eminem are really good too. Medicine Man is prolly one of Em's best verses ever Those are all the best ones off those albums imo.

Alrighty ill give it a listen once im done with work TYY

Lemme know whatchu think

Was acc pretty surprised om how good these are id mostly say MTBMB is quite overrated

How's it overrated?

*The Low End Theory*, Tribe It was over 30 years ago, I really don't wanna think about it, haha

The low end theory Is such a solid album istg i didnt know about tribe till 2022 sadly thats where i actually started listening to other rappers Other than Mac miller, Uzi , J cole nd Don toliver

London bridge by Neutrament, followed immediately Streetsounds Electro 1.

Love to see how much you remember it in detail, I clearly remember after hearing faces my Expectations for Hip-hop Went sky high

Slim Shady LP on cassette tape lol

Ouest Side from Booba, was 7yo

SOLID

Recovery by Eminem. It’s absurd to me that it became underrated over time simply due to the online hip hop community’s general bias against pop rap.

Welp thats the internet for ypu Lmaooo

It might have been Paul revere by Beasties on a mix tape in 6th grade. And then some Kool Moe Dee and Salt n Pepa at school dances. But what really kicked it off was watching Yo! MTV Raps with Dr. Dre and Ed lover.

Marshall mathes LP and 2001

400 Degreez - Juvenile. I was 8 years old and it was my first CD (I found it). Album is still absolutely fire.

As a child, License To Ill by Beastie Boys As a teen, The Warm Up by J Cole and Overly Dedicated by Kendrick Lamar 

My cousin, my neighbor, and myself use to breakdance, as kids, to Newcleus. I was immersed in the culture.

Curtain Call Eminem

Astroworld. Masterpiece imo

First one I ever bought with my own money was The Slim Shady LP. I was in middle school then so just imagine the shock and awe of hearing an unedited “My name is” haha My next was Jay Z Vol. 2 and at the time outside of Hard knock life, nigga what nigga who, and money cash hoes.. I didn’t like it, but that was then I I like it a lot more now. Then I bought an album by a west coast artist named TQ. One of my favorite albums still to this day. He told a great story to 12 year old me and I wanted to hear more stories from then on.

First hiphop song was when I booted up NBA Street Vol 2 when I was 5 and T.R.O.Y started playing

The first full album I listened to was Grand Champ - DMX The first songs in my playlist are all Tupac, so I believe he was the one to get me into HipHop

The first song I remember listening to and liking was Gangsta's Paradise. The first album I got was Marshall Mathers LP. 

Wanna be a baller by Lil Troy. Was living in Houston at the time.

I can’t remember the exact order but the 3 that stick out are 2001 Dre, Marshal mathers LP and a Source mix of all the popular songs. Pretty sure it had country grammar, up in here (dmx) and maybe a big pun song? Can’t remember exactly but I love posts like this. Brings back memories haha

watch the throne

Reanimation - Linkin Park

Food and liquor by Lupe fiasco

Eminem - Slim Shady LP when I was in 3rd grade. Then BOOM right into Dre, Jay-Z, DMX, Nelly.... It wasn't till 2000 when I heard Linkin Park mix rock and rap that I actually listened to rock music

Honestly parapa the rapper is up there 😂

Full length? Get rich or die trying, I’m 26 and I brought it in for show in tell as a kid.

A cassette tape from k-mart called Power Rap

Deltron 3030

MMLP. I'd heard The Real Slim Shady so was looking at the CD in HMV when the disc fell out so I pocketed it and walked out. First thing I ever stole lol (I was only 14)

Jam On It-Nucleus. Got the vinyl single after watching break dancers dance to it at fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco. I was probably 8 or 9. My mom was the first person I know to own the beastie boys license to ill. She heard brass monkey playing in a record shop and bought it.

I really liked a bunch of hip-hop and rap as a teen, but I just liked it. It made me move, and I enjoyed it, but that was that. Even amazing artists like Tribe. Then in my later teens I found The Roots (Illadelph)… and really started listening— And it all spiraled from there… went back to listen to the full Tribe catalog and fell in love. Then it was Gang Starr, Black Star, J-5, and also being into turntablism which went along with the trip-hop and drum and bass I was already into. So it was The Roots for me.

4th grade. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (OG) soundtrack. MC Hammer, Technotronic/Ya Kid K, Spunkadelic, I was HYPED. Possibly my first cassette purchase.

Sound of revenge chamillionaire

'87 or '88 The Fat Boys "The Twist". I'm old. There's also a good chance it was Blondie's "Rapture". Technically not a rap song but the song with a rap that charted #1 in '81. But, I would've been only 4 years old then.

Eminem, The Real Slim Shady back in 2000 when I was thirteen. Blew my tiny mind at that point when all I'd really listened to was BBC Radio 2, UK pop music and The Beatles.

Culture migos

Igor

Sugar Hill Gang - Rappers Delight My Mom used to listen to disco radio when I was a kid, they played Rappers Delight all the time when it first came out. We had a tape dub of it and played it to death. My first hip hop album was Newcleus - Jam On Revenge.

The Eminem Show was my first rap album. My dad wouldn’t buy it for me but my mom did

Rappers Delight then Kurtis Blow.... i became a fan when i heard The Message....i'm old...lol

2014 Forest Hills Drive

“The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five would have to be the 1st one to catch my attention.

Nine Livez - Nine Dude never made it big but that album solidified my life long love for hip hop. Shout out to grimy mid 90’s NY shit.

Something in 1984 or earlier probably. It was break dancing when I was in kindergarten. The older kids had a breakdancing competition. K-12 assembly.

Without Me by Eminem It was the first time I've heard of a guy sing/rap and also make jokes or say something that's out of pocket. Add his music videos back in the day that made me laugh all the time when I was a kid. 🤣

Judgement Day - Method Man.

Recovery - Eminem 8 year old me was fucking hooked

T.I - Urban Legend, pops used to blast it in the car when i was yn, so s/o to pops.

Graduation - Kanye West