Mar-q's : 5 Albums you never have to press skip

You already know I been networking, getting features, working on "Beats Bodied By Bars", which will be mixed and mastered by Djcesar, check his mixes HERE , and recently just shot a video for "Art of Ignorance". Alot has happen since my last blog, a young female caught a Zues uppercut from a bus driver, and Mitt Romney has advanced in his plans to bring back slavery. I'm not here to talk about satanic uppercuts or politics. I'm here to tell you guys to subscribe by email on the right, I'm here to tell yall get crazy with the donations to the right, but what I'm mostly here for is to talk about those rare gems in hip hop that dont just pop up everyday, those albums that make you start piping down your mate in a random bathroom, those albums that make you late for work because you gotta hear the rest of the song because thats your shit. These are albums that if I hear a complete stranger blasting these, I'm going to invite them over for dinner. Jumping right into it.


1. It's Dark and Hell is Hot

I know your like, "chill not this crack head" but this dude was THEE best in the late 90's. Not Jay-z, Not Rick Ross, Not MC Giggles, No.......it was X. This album might have one of the most hype intros ever, wayyyy before Ludacris came along and started makin hot intros. Street gritty tracks like "get at me dog" and "stop being greedy" shits on any whimsical Disney hip hop that you will hear today. The story telling is so vivid and intense with tracks like, "ATF" and "Damien". This dude changed my whole perspective on rap, he was taking time out in between tracks to say prayers, he has an introspective song where he speaks to God, and questions why has he made the choices he has. "RUFF RYDER ANTHEM"...........thats it, that in itslef is a reason to rock out with this album. Passionate, high energy, strong imagery, melodic harmony between him and the production, If your a hip hop fan DO NOT DIE with out hearing this album or your life will be incomplete.


2. The Blueprint

I guess it's not a suprise that god MC made the list. It's debated whether he's the best, it's debated whether he has the most influence, it's debated whether he has pushed the envelope of hip hop, but you CAN NOT debate if he is the most successful. I'm pretty sure this guy has a stake in making money on mars, the Illuminatti, and Olympus. This guy can simply co sign some one, who is virtually nobody and they will be on T.V. and Radio next week. Back on topic with the album though, I don't smoke weed but I could imagine that it would be equivalent to listening to this album. How do you drop such a laid back album that fucks the game up like this. "Aint no love(heart of the city)" and "Never Change" are the most laid back and trance inducing tracks I ever heard in my life. I can't explain why the songs are so good you just gotta listen and experience it. It would be like trying to explain to a virgin why sex feels good, you just gotta feel it ya self. How does this man make "Take Over" the 2nd track?????? your just gonna kill muthafuckas RIGHT AFTER THE INTRO??? thats like..... you see a female.....say hello....AND THEN YALL HAVING SEX! thats like some one in the hood grills you......and then you shoot him, his family, and the whole block up. "TakeOver" might be one of the top 2 diss tracks ever. While "Breathe easy(lyrical Exersize)" is one of the hottest tracks you will ever hear, it annoyed me cause everyone started copying the concept or trying to rap with out writing it down. He also had singles that were unconvetnional to your typical singles (like a club song or female song) he had "Girls girls girls" and "Song Cry" but them shits had personal and reflective life shit in it. I was debating whether I should speak on "renegade" but even though he got Bodied on his own track(Eminem's usual routine), it still worked in his favor, it made the album even more interesting as a whole. I didn't even like Jay-z prior to this album, now I consider him one of the best.


 3.Stillmatic

You had to know this was coming up next..... it's only right that. So many months passed and Nas never made any rebuttal to Jay, I was really thinking that he was just going to take it and then wither away and chill somewhere with Jaz-O. Naaaa not ya mans Nasty, he was just waiting for the right time to strike, he was letting the enemy get comfy before he decided to stab them in the neck with a rusty screw driver. I'm sure you already know about "Ether", so the rest is history. The rest of his album has some dark magic kind of concepts going on, it made me feel like he sold his soul to the devil for some rhymes and concepts, but he was some how preaching positive shit. On the track "Rewind he tells a story then tells the story backwards, it sounds simple but his execution was on the level of some shakespeare shit. He teaches us young ghetto people not to be stupid, he tells us the story of his hood, he tells us to grow up and then he tells a story that always stuck with me........about Ike with the Iverson jersey. If you want to hear about Ike you have to listen to "what goes around". This was some of the deepest shit I heard coming up in my late teens. You have to be from the hood and of a certain level of thinking to appreciate this, however everyone can mess with it just for the sounds.

 

 

4.Illmatic

 

What I dont understand is how are you a such a fucking legend but so low key with it. It's like Martin Luther King still being alive and just blending in at the million man march, hes not there to give any speeches hes just in the crowd, then some one in the crowd says "hey you're that guy" and then Dr King says "yeah I did that little, i have a dream thing". I'm not saying that he is Martin Luther but dude is a pioneer and legend that is still relevant to this day. The album tho, this was some.....rap will never be the same kind of shit.....this was like coming out with facebook while motherfuckers are still in AOL chat rooms typing shit like S/A/L(you either dont remember that or you are to young to know about that). This album was like giving an iphone 5 to a cave man who just invented the wheel. The production is simple but it just HITS, the shit just sounds hott. The lyrics had gritty imagery that just was not done before. this is another one of those "you have to hear it for yourself" situations, so you may feel it sounds dated BUT.....just know he influenced just about every rapper's style for atleast the next decade.

 "I had Illmatic on bootleg/ shit was so ahead thought we were all dead"-Jay z

 

 

 

5. Marshall Mathers LP





 

Most people know by now.....White boy can SPIT, but you know just being able to rap very well does not make a classic album, it takes that extra ummph. This guy put all his life and flaws into this album, his abusive and drug addict mother, his whore girl friend, his own drug addiction, he just said fuck it. Really Em?????? you just gonna kill your baby mother on the record like that, by the time you finished he done murdered several people including Dr dre and some innocent puppy. I never such madness on a record done so skillfully. He raping chicks, talking about how his daughter gonna grow up to do drugs to this shit is just out of control but in a beautiful way. You feel like son is too crazy and hes doing too much but then he has tracks like "who knew", "Marshall Mathers" and best of all "stan". This might be considered a classic due to his circumstances and controversy that surrounded him but the musical aspect is there 110%

My favorite rapper by the way.