As much as I want Black Thought to do a solo album with all the dopest producers on the planet, I have accepted it's never going to happen. Especially now that they're getting that Jimmy Fallon money. All I can say, at age 32 is, "whatever". Although this album, "Illadelph Halflife" is on my top 10, I still am disappointed to never hear a solo. This album did a lot for me as an mc because it meant a lot to me that one of the dopest lyricist, and albums came out of Philadelphia. To this day with his features on Saigon's album, Raekwon's newest album , and Ghostface's album, he has proved he is still amongst the dopest mc's in the game.It seems like he doesn't even try and still baffles me with every line. When this album came out, I was fresh out of High School starting my road to the rap world. This is when me and Crypt got real serious with our rap careers. I like to always say I was Nas until Black Thought came around. In that this is who I studied , and tried to duplicate. I learned a lot about not saying the biggest words in the world but using a lot of words in a line and being on beat without it sounding like a struggle. Which I feel Black Thought has perfected. I remember first hearing the song "Section" and he said "I'm known to par-lay with Gar-cia Vega cigar" I was like WOAH! This was definitely a new style, a new way of spittin' and amazing to me. I listened to this album all day, every day. Literally.The reason this goes ahead of "Let the rhythm hit'em" is because my focus was a career at this point in my life. It WAS 1996 and I had been writin' and been gettin' heavy influences already but this one hit home, and I still study Thought to improve MY game. Hope you give this a listen if you're new to the culture and missed out. For the record, "Do you want more" was a top album for me but this one i would say did more because the band sound strayed on this one and went more b-boy. This was more hard body. He started saying more shit I wanted to hear on songs. Listen to his wordplay on this shit, seriously...
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Top 10 Hip Hop albums of all time. # 9
As much as I want Black Thought to do a solo album with all the dopest producers on the planet, I have accepted it's never going to happen. Especially now that they're getting that Jimmy Fallon money. All I can say, at age 32 is, "whatever". Although this album, "Illadelph Halflife" is on my top 10, I still am disappointed to never hear a solo. This album did a lot for me as an mc because it meant a lot to me that one of the dopest lyricist, and albums came out of Philadelphia. To this day with his features on Saigon's album, Raekwon's newest album , and Ghostface's album, he has proved he is still amongst the dopest mc's in the game.It seems like he doesn't even try and still baffles me with every line. When this album came out, I was fresh out of High School starting my road to the rap world. This is when me and Crypt got real serious with our rap careers. I like to always say I was Nas until Black Thought came around. In that this is who I studied , and tried to duplicate. I learned a lot about not saying the biggest words in the world but using a lot of words in a line and being on beat without it sounding like a struggle. Which I feel Black Thought has perfected. I remember first hearing the song "Section" and he said "I'm known to par-lay with Gar-cia Vega cigar" I was like WOAH! This was definitely a new style, a new way of spittin' and amazing to me. I listened to this album all day, every day. Literally.The reason this goes ahead of "Let the rhythm hit'em" is because my focus was a career at this point in my life. It WAS 1996 and I had been writin' and been gettin' heavy influences already but this one hit home, and I still study Thought to improve MY game. Hope you give this a listen if you're new to the culture and missed out. For the record, "Do you want more" was a top album for me but this one i would say did more because the band sound strayed on this one and went more b-boy. This was more hard body. He started saying more shit I wanted to hear on songs. Listen to his wordplay on this shit, seriously...
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