Top 50 Albums by Region: East Day 66

The Artifacts - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Top 50, more dark production and nice wordplay, don't really hear that nowadays

Neither, this album is dope but not classic.

Neither, but, Tame One>>>>>>>>>>

Good album. Neither.

halfsharkalligatorhalfman wrote:

Top 50, more dark production and nice wordplay, don't really hear that nowadays

Yeah I can't name 10 releases I've heard this year with that exact m.o. Oh wait, yes I can.

Too many albums from the east for this one to make the cut.

Gotta go neither on this one.

Neither for me

M1dw35t3rn Rap Pr0 wrote:

halfsharkalligatorhalfman wrote:

Top 50, more dark production and nice wordplay, don't really hear that nowadays

Yeah I can't name 10 releases I've heard this year with that exact m.o. Oh wait, yes I can.

Please tell me what they are, I'd love some recs.

Oh and before you rec, make it sure it isn't any cliche JMT/Vinnie Paz or Tech N9ne/Strange Music album. Those beats are "dark" but on a superficial level only. I'm talking more atmospheric, deep dark ish like Lifestylez/Soul On Ice/Abandoned Language...

Cliche?

You're calling Stoupe's (or even Tech's producers) beats cliche?

Stoupe's beats have it all up on every album you just named.

But regardless, Chessurect, Caligula, JFK, Virtuoso, B.Dolan, Dark Time Sunshine, SCFB, Diabolic, Rhyme Asylum, June Marx, Reef The Lost Cauze, Access Immortal, Oktober Zero, Roc Marciano, M-Phazes, Blacastan, Bru Lei, Dopamine Rush, Klive Kraven, Sapient, 2mex, and Isiah Toothtaker have all dropped albums or mixtapes with those types of beats (to varying degrees of success, and no all of them with complete albums with those types of beats, but some are on each, to be sure). Really, you're splitting hairs to defend an album that no one on here is agreeing with you on. Which is fine, but don't go around dissing other shit because you prefer one thing over another. "Atmospheric" could apply to pretty much anything, it's a word like "ambiance" that has a certain conotation but really doesn't have a specific definition when pertaining to music like this. Superficiality, likewise, is another criticism that is in the eye of the beholder, you're basically saying that Stoupe's beats are amatuerish, which is exactly how some of the wackness on Lifestylez comes across.

Dope, but neither.

i gotta neither it but its damn close

Top 50. Probably number 50.

M1dw35t3rn Rap Pr0 wrote:

Cliche?

You're calling Stoupe's (or even Tech's producers) beats cliche?

Stoupe's beats have it all up on every album you just named.

But regardless, Chessurect, Caligula, JFK, Virtuoso, B.Dolan, Dark Time Sunshine, SCFB, Diabolic, Rhyme Asylum, June Marx, Reef The Lost Cauze, Access Immortal, Oktober Zero, Roc Marciano, M-Phazes, Blacastan, Bru Lei, Dopamine Rush, Klive Kraven, Sapient, 2mex, and Isiah Toothtaker have all dropped albums or mixtapes with those types of beats (to varying degrees of success, and no all of them with complete albums with those types of beats, but some are on each, to be sure). Really, you're splitting hairs to defend an album that no one on here is agreeing with you on. Which is fine, but don't go around dissing other shit because you prefer one thing over another. "Atmospheric" could apply to pretty much anything, it's a word like "ambiance" that has a certain conotation but really doesn't have a specific definition when pertaining to music like this. Superficiality, likewise, is another criticism that is in the eye of the beholder, you're basically saying that Stoupe's beats are amatuerish, which is exactly how some of the wackness on Lifestylez comes across.

A lot of good points there...I'll just keep my mouth shut and take the L on this one...