Vinyl Me Please Rap & Hip Hop

I'd take G Rap over Gangstarr if it's going to be No More Mr Nice Guy, I don't even think that's a top 5 Gangstarr album!

Looking at 89 the choices are narrowed down to:
G Rap and Polo
Gangstarr
Nice and Smooth
Shit 3rd Bass is 3 guys but it wouldn't be the first time they messed up a clue... I think that's it...

For 94 it's the Gravediggaz or there may be a riot!!

And 2005:

MIKE JONES STILL ON THE TABLE!!
 
I'm a DJ Premier completist, I wouldn't mind the 1st Gang Starr album, even if it's not their best. I have been asking for Kool G to be a choice for a long time. I'd prefer KGR so there would be a possibility of getting Daily Operation in the future. It's hard to find and the 3D cover is $$$. If the others are Gravediggaz and the Game, I'd say it's one of the strongest HH quarters I can remember (maybe PE and ATLiens -but the screwed the pooch on that one). It would give me hope the selections for HH are looking at important albums that are harder to find.
 
So we confirming Gang Starr, Gravediggaz and The Game then?

I'm so in for the later two. Out for Gang Starr and that's simply because I don't care for that particular album.
 
I'm only looking forward to the Gravediggaz!

I listened to the Gang Starr record this week and it's ok but honestly it's never going to be the first, or second third fourth or fifth for that matter, Gang Starr record I'm going to spin so it's not worth it for what they charge! (If it pops up for half the price on black I might cop) If they have some store exclusives then that's a different story!

Never was a big fan of The Game but I'll check the record again, lots of time to make a call on that!
 
4080 said:
I'm only looking forward to the Gravediggaz!

I listened to the Gang Starr record this week and it's ok but honestly it's never going to be the first, or second third fourth or fifth for that matter, Gang Starr record I'm going to spin so it's not worth it for what they charge! (If it pops up for half the price on black I might cop) If they have some store exclusives then that's a different story!

Never was a big fan of The Game but I'll check the record again, lots of time to make a call on that!
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I love Gang Starr and I'm still not really tempted by this one. It's a completionist pick in a body of work where I feel confident in saying every other album is better. And they all need a repress too!
 
I'm definitely in for 6ft deep and The Game. The Documentary definitely has a few big misses, but the highs on that album so outweigh the lows. Hopefully the track layout works in easily skipping those lows. 6ft Deep speaks for itself and like others here have espoused the Gangstarr album just doesn't do it for me as much as I love them. Late 80's hip hop just doesn't do a lot for me even though that's when I fell in love with Hip-Hop. But overall in the bigger picture it is a really strong quarter.
 
walkingdogs said:
Late 80's hip hop just doesn't do a lot for me even though that's when I fell in love with Hip-Hop.
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It definitely is a mixed bag. Hip hop IMO definitely grew stronger in the 90s. Late 80s were still trying to really figure everything out, but you definitely had some stone cold classics, but they were fewer and farther in between.

EDIT: Going through my collection I think I only have Straight Outta Compton, Paul's Boutique, Fear of a Black Planet, Yo...Bum Rush the Show and The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - which is not to say that's all there was, just most of my hip hop collection is 90s and early 2000s.

EDIT 2: Forgot a whole lot of albums I had.
 
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To add: for me I think the game-changer was the rise of West Coast rap, which created some insane competition with the east and drove hip hop to a whole new level. Once NWA hit the scene that was it, you had to bring your A game. Then you started getting some god level producers and it was a whole new level from there on out.

You really started hooking the white kids in the very late 80s with Public Enemy and Beastie Boys and hip hop was pretty much mainstream.
 
bdrummond said:
To add: for me I think the game-changer was the rise of West Coast rap, which created some insane competition with the east and drove hip hop to a whole new level. Once NWA hit the scene that was it, you had to bring your A game. Then you started getting some god level producers and it was a whole new level from there on out.

You really started hooking the white kids in the very late 80s with Public Enemy and Beastie Boys and hip hop was pretty much mainstream.
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De La 3ft is what hooked me along with ATCQ right after. I wore out a couple 3ft tapes while mowing lawns over that summer. Definitely had a PE phase (Apocalypse 91 was my shit). Beastie Boys never hooked this white kid, and then I was all in on Wu, Red, Boot Camp, etc after that. But it's crazy how the genre just exploded coming out of the 80's into the first half of the 90's.
 
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