Your favorite summertime albums.

Any albums you seem to listen to more in the summer than anytime else? I've got 2 off the top of my head that will be getting some spins soon:

Justice System "Rooftop Soundcheck"
P.U.T.S. "Fun Dmc"

These 2 albums sound great while i'm firing up the grill on the deck and drinking a cold Budweiser.

Warren G-Regulate...G Funk Era
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Nice picks Myers. Them 2 work for me as well.

Kooley High - The Summer Sessions EP
2nd II None - 2nd II None
Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food
The Roots - Do You Want More
Sound Providers - An Evening With The Sound Providers
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave (It's not hip-hop, but a great bossa nova album)
Anything by People Under The Stairs

Anything by DJ Quik, P.U.T.S., Jurassic 5

Warren G's debut and Dogg Food from the Dogg Pound...I can definitely agree with those 2 choices.

Nas- It Was Written
Goodie Mob- Soul Food
Lost Boyz- Legal Drug Money
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince- Homebase

How is IWW a summertime album? lol

Shaun wrote:

How is IWW a summertime album? lol

It dropped in July of 1996, and I remember that it was bumpin out of most people cars and cribs throughout that entire summer, many still do to this day.

So albums that are made in the summer are summertime albums?

apparently... this is the guy who says halftime is a club anthem... so take it with a grain of salt..

Southern Rap Pro wrote:

apparently... this is the guy who says halftime is a club anthem... so take it with a grain of salt..

There you go hatin on Nas again, jackass!

And IWW is no less of a summer album than anything else listed in this thread. I listed it because I have summer memories of that album. I bump it all year round but especially in the summertime.

IWW is NOT a summertime album. Summertime albums light and breezy type of albums.

KJ Styles wrote:

Southern Rap Pro wrote:

apparently... this is the guy who says halftime is a club anthem... so take it with a grain of salt..

There you go hatin on Nas again, jackass!

And IWW is no less of a summer album than anything else listed in this thread. I listed it because I have summer memories of that album. I bump it all year round but especially in the summertime.

Pointing out that nothing on Illmatic should ever be played in a dance club is not hating on nas, KJ. If you tell me "You Owe Me" or even "Ether" or "Street Dreams" are club anthems I have no problem with that.

IWW is a summer album the same way Lupe Fiasco's The Cool is the perfect Christmas album.

I'd say If I Ruled The World, The Message, Nas Is Coming, Affirmative Action, and Take It In Blood are pretty chill, laid back tracks.

If only the Street Dreams remix were on the album, that'd even strenghten my case.

lmao....whatever you say KJ - but the hip-hop nation as a whole says this is NOT a summertime album...

Whatever Pedro, You think Cormega is a Top 5 rapper from NYC which most people would disagree with but opinions are like buttholes, everybody has them.

I think most people who ever heard Cormega would agree with it. So he is a consensus NYC GOAT.

Southern Rap Pro wrote:

I think most people who ever heard Cormega would agree with it. So he is a consensus NYC GOAT.

Hell Naw!!!

Nas, LL Cool J, Kool G Rap, Q-Tip, and Prodigy are 5 MC's from QUEENS that are better than Mega. So he doesn't even make the Top 5 from that borough. Then when you throw Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten "Shaolin" Island into the mix, he's buried big time.

LOL @ Take It In Blood being a laid back track

T. Myers wrote:

Warren G-Regulate...G Funk Era
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T. how are you gonna list those two and not throw in This Is The Shack, Summertime In The LBC is one of the best summer tracks. I'll add Safe & Sound, because of Summer Breeze & Domino's 1st disc is also a good one.

RompedOutCutthoat wrote:

T. Myers wrote:

Warren G-Regulate...G Funk Era
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T. how are you gonna list those two and not throw in This Is The Shack, Summertime In The LBC is one of the best summer tracks. I'll add Safe & Sound, because of Summer Breeze & Domino's 1st disc is also a good one.

LOL, i wasn't trying to be greedy. I wanted to leave some other albums for others to choose

Whatever. When IWW dropped it was hot as fuck. I remember smoking out in the backyard with that shit. I side with KJ on this. It might not be what most folks think of as a summer album, but association is a strong phenomenon. I love this album in the summer. Coast II Coast, too.

Manhattan? Aren't the Beastie Boys the only emcees from Manhattan?

I agree we (my crew) use to bump IWW in the summertime also that album is chill as fuck. Of course not west coast/southern type of chill but I can see it being good for the summer. Now that Lost Boys first album I don't know about that one but their 2nd one is a summer banger also.

But the west coast and south rule for summer point blank.

It's the heat. Summer's 20 degrees hotter and 3 months longer.

Big Ups to Parker Lewis and K. Rob for seeing the point that the ignorant jabronies that questioned my pick couldn't.

I'm with you on this one KJ, summer of '96 I played this disc out.

RompedOutCutthoat wrote:

I'm with you on this one KJ, summer of '96 I played this disc out.

And Shaw makes 3 co-signs. So the baby (Shaun) the immigrant (SRP) and the sasquatch (Terry) are outnumbered.

IWW is a good choice for you KJ, good job! You shouldn't be racist though, that is not nice.