huh? It came out November 9th, 1993 - same day as Midnight Marauders.Luke wrote:^That is some alright craziness.
Weeks from now Enter the 36 Chambers will be twenty years old.
Complete with brickwall mastering and filling every available disc space with b-sides, demos, and live performances.noiseredux wrote: Yeah both of those deserve some serious deluxe reissues.
+1AppleQueso wrote:Complete with brickwall mastering and filling every available disc space with b-sides, demos, and live performances.noiseredux wrote: Yeah both of those deserve some serious deluxe reissues.
That's a tough call right there. I'd stray to the side of the tribe.noiseredux wrote: Enter the 36 Chambers or Midnight Marauders?
wow, great stuff, especially "Electronic Relaxation" I used to get so hype everytime the Wayans Bros. show would come on since that was their theme song for a while. Low End Theory is in my all time top 5 Hip Hop albums though. God I love that whole album...noiseredux wrote: Um.. fav hip hop album of all time would be Midnight Marauders.
As great as those days were for hip hop, there are still plenty of brilliant albums recorded each year. It's just these days you have to dig for them. This year alone there's the Ugly Heroes album, Effect & Dang, Epidemic, Cyrus Malachi, Demigodz - they all have that throwback quality but with a modern twist. Just because Jay-Z and Rick Ross are what the industry want us to think is modern hip hop, there will always be an authentic scene. It's just harder to find (but ironically, easier to access).alexis524 wrote:wow, great stuff, especially "Electronic Relaxation" I used to get so hype everytime the Wayans Bros. show would come on since that was their theme song for a while. Low End Theory is in my all time top 5 Hip Hop albums though. God I love that whole album...noiseredux wrote: Um.. fav hip hop album of all time would be Midnight Marauders.
Some other notables would be Digable Planets, Das EFX, Eric B & Rakim, 3rd Bass, GZA's (Liquid Swords Especially), Black Sheep, Naughty by Nature, Jeru the Damaja, Gangstarr, Black Moon, Smif N' Wessun, O.G.C., Heltah Skeltah (pretty much anything by BCC), K-OS, Mos Def, Blackstar, Common, Pharcyde, Beastie Boys, EPMD. As you can see, I'm a big fan of '90's-'00 era hip hop. This side of the century, my hat gets tipped to Nujabes, Nomak, which starts to now cross into instrumental and not so much lyrical, good stuff none-the-less.
I can't put my finger on it, but hip hop was just in a different state of mind back then. Beats, hooks, lyrics were just captivating and really hit. It was all "Edu-taining" (Nod to KRS-One). It provided an education into hip hop culture that was very entertaining/enlightening, whereas todays' dare I say "Hop-Hop" doesn't leave me feeling educated, or even entertained, just disconnected. It's just my perspective and is in now way any knock to the current state of hip hop. It's all good, just not my preference.
The Wu is doing a 20th anniversary tour and releasing an anniversary album titled "A Better Tommorow". It was supposed to drop in July, but it still hasn't and we havent gotten any updates.noiseredux wrote:huh? It came out November 9th, 1993 - same day as Midnight Marauders.Luke wrote:^That is some alright craziness.
Weeks from now Enter the 36 Chambers will be twenty years old.
I mean "weeks from now" I guess. But, quite a few weeks.
Yeah both of those deserve some serious deluxe reissues.
