Rated 10/10
Really started my love of newer hip hop rather than being stuck in the 90s. Incredible lyricism, storytelling, and just straight up rapping. I’ll play it once every year probably until I die
Rated 6/10
Didn’t really hit for me but it was produced very well (2.5/5)
Rated 6/10
Interesting but nothing grabbed me tbh. I just plodded through my listen (2.5/5)
Rated 6/10
1. Awful name for an album
2. Tough being forever associated with Rob Dyrdek’s Ridiculousness
Otherwise pretty good record. It’s fun, weird, and has great energy. The Stones cover is dope too. Reminded me of Dead Milkmen or the B-52’s (3.5/5)
Rated 6/10
Very solid reggae record. Appreciate the social commentary but don’t know if I’d throw any of these in a playlist
Rated 6/10
Quick and energetic. Not sure why the deluxe adds a movie’s length of tracks
Rated 6/10
Listened to this awhile ago and still dig it. Like a rougher Cream record
Rated 6/10
Solid work and a good entry into trip hop type production
Love Tribe and this is the early songs showing how much potential the group had. Can I Kick It? Is an all time hip hop classic, people may recognize that bass line more from this than the Lou Reed song it’s sampled from. I hope this means Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders are on this list too. (3.5/5)
Rated 4/10
Kinda boring to be honest (2.5/5)
Rated 4/10
A Short Review About An Ok Album (2.5/5)
Rated 6/10
Always thought Sade would be neo soul Erykah Badu-esque but this had an older soul sound to it. Good voice and made me want to listen to more
Rated 6/10
Not bad, reminded me of some Elton John
Rated 8/10
Peak Yes (+ Fragile). Great prog rock that inspired a lot of my favorites and an amazing template for how epics should be structured.
Rated 6/10
Cool mix of genres, the sitar version of Light My Fire was awesome. (3.5/5)
Rated 6/10
Solid album, and Take Me Out is an all time banger
Rated 6/10
Brown rat gang gang. I liked this one a good bit, the bass lines were great
Rated 8/10
Already familiar with that bad mother… song and Isaac Hayes but this was my first time listening to the album. The music is just so fucking cool man. An obvious comparison is Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly and this album hit me in a very similar way. Last little thing, the small organ sting on Bumpy’s Lament is the same as the guitar on Xplosive by Dr. Dre, I’ve heard that little melody on so many songs and it just hits every time I hear it
Rated 6/10
Y’all ain’t slick the drums in Skies Over Cairo are from Donkey Kong Country. I wish the rest of the music was as good as DKC but this was fine (2.5/5)
Rated 6/10
A lot of this sounded very familiar but confirmed not my new favorite band
