Best Album Of 1994 Pre List

1994!!!!!!!! I have a feeling this one will not be predictable. There are plenty high level fan fav's in this year. So who U wit?

Illmatic
Super Tight
Ass Gas Or Cash
IV Life
Street Level
Explicit Game
Hard To Earn
N Gatz We Trust
Ready To Die
Wegonefunk
Regulate
Resurrection
Bootlegs & B-Sides
Breakin' Combs
Stress
Mad At The World
Secret of the Hidden Temple
The Sun Rises
Kickin Game
Reality Check
Creepin' On Ah Come Up
We Come Strapped
6 Feet Deep
Rooftop Soundcheck
Things in Tha Hood
Southernplayalistic
Genocide & Juice
Tical
The Mailman
Blowout Comb
The Diary
Up 4 Parole


Ghetto's Tryin to Kill Me
III Communication
Between A Rock
A Constipated Monkey
It Takes a Thief
Somethin Serious
Black Bastards
Main Ingredient
On The Outside Looking In
Keepers of the Funk
Thug Life Vol. 1
Do You Want More?!!?
Zingalamaduni
Nuttin But Love
Flatlinerz
Dare Iz A Darkside
Uncle Sam's Curse
Word Life
Like It Should Be
Fadanuf Fa Erybody
Riders of the Storm
Criminal
Controlled Dangerous Substance
Guerrilla Funk
View to a Kill
Play Witcha Mama
Aka the Rugged Child
Nervous Breakdown
Muse Sick-N-Hour
Fear Itself
No Mercy
To The Death

As usual let me know who's missing, any mistakes, and who has to be represented on this list.

TicNitty706 wrote:

1994!!!!!!!! I have a feeling this one will not be predictable. There are plenty high level fan fav's in this year. So who U wit?

Illmatic
Super Tight
Ass Gas Or Cash
IV Life
Street Level
Explicit Game
Hard To Earn
N Gatz We Trust
Ready To Die
Wegonefunk
Regulate
Resurrection
Bootlegs & B-Sides
Breakin' Combs
Stress
Mad At The World
Secret of the Hidden Temple
The Sun Rises
Kickin Game
Reality Check
Creepin' On Ah Come Up
We Come Strapped
6 Feet Deep
Rooftop Soundcheck
Things in Tha Hood
Southernplayalistic
Genocide & Juice
Tical
The Mailman
Blowout Comb
The Diary
Up 4 Parole


Ghetto's Tryin to Kill Me
III Communication
Between A Rock
A Constipated Monkey
It Takes a Thief
Somethin Serious
Black Bastards
Main Ingredient
On The Outside Looking In
Keepers of the Funk
Thug Life Vol. 1
Do You Want More?!!?
Zingalamaduni
Nuttin But Love
Flatlinerz
Dare Iz A Darkside
Uncle Sam's Curse
Word Life
Like It Should Be
Fadanuf Fa Erybody
Riders of the Storm
Criminal
Controlled Dangerous Substance
Guerrilla Funk
View to a Kill
Play Witcha Mama
Aka the Rugged Child
Nervous Breakdown
Muse Sick-N-Hour
Fear Itself
No Mercy
To The Death

As usual let me know who's missing, any mistakes, and who has to be represented on this list.

My 4 Favorites...

I would say hey where's DJ Krush - Krush but nobody would vote for that except myself and J.Harris. Melodica by Blackalicious is dope too....EP, but I've seen EPs in this.

Great job with the list though.

EDIT: Strictly Turntablized also came out in 94...Krush these cats!

1994 is probably my favorite year in hip hop history as two of my top 3 albums of all time were released in 94, and a lot of my Top 100 albums as well. Illmatic SHOULD win this tournament, but you never know with this forum. It'll be getting my vote throughout as it's my GOAT.

My Top 10 of 1994....

Illmatic
Ready To Die
The Diary
The Sun Rises To The East
Southernplayalistic
Resurrection
Hard To Earn
Do You Want More
Six Feet Deep
Word...Life

KJ Styles wrote:

1994 is probably my favorite year in hip hop history as two of my top 3 albums of all time were released in 94, and a lot of my Top 100 albums as well. Illmatic SHOULD win this tournament, but you never know with this forum. It'll be getting my vote throughout as it's my GOAT.

My Top 10 of 1994....

Illmatic
Ready To Die
The Diary
The Sun Rises To The East
Southernplayalistic
Resurrection
Hard To Earn
Do You Want More
Six Feet Deep
Word...Life

Illmatic shouldn't win if people don't like the album as much as you do. Illmatic is my number 1 album too for this year but if people prefer Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, The Diary, etc., then it is what it is...

illmatic wins

Xcel wrote:

KJ Styles wrote:

1994 is probably my favorite year in hip hop history as two of my top 3 albums of all time were released in 94, and a lot of my Top 100 albums as well. Illmatic SHOULD win this tournament, but you never know with this forum. It'll be getting my vote throughout as it's my GOAT.

My Top 10 of 1994....

Illmatic
Ready To Die
The Diary
The Sun Rises To The East
Southernplayalistic
Resurrection
Hard To Earn
Do You Want More
Six Feet Deep
Word...Life

Illmatic shouldn't win if people don't like the album as much as you do. Illmatic is my number 1 album too for this year but if people prefer Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, The Diary, etc., then it is what it is...

I'm just saying that Illmatic is the best album of 1994 IMO so it deserves to win. What's wrong with that statement?

hmmm my top 10 from that great year are: (in no particular order)


Southernplayalistic
The Sun Rises In The East
Hard To Earn
Illmatic
Ready To Die
Main Ingredient
Blowout Comb
The Diary
Nuttin But Love
Do You Want More?!!?

Those are my top 10 from '94........
On this forum I have a pretty good idea which one is going to win, but we shall see.....thats what makes it interesting right???

esg - ocean of funk
lil half dead - dead has arisen

i think it reasonable for these 2 to be added

My top 10 picks:

Illmatic
The Diary
Ready To Die
The Sun Rises
Super Tight
Southernplaya
Somethin Serious
Thug Life Vol. 1
Play Witcha Mama
Dare Iz A Darkside

And than there's a 2nd string but i'll keep that to myself.

down south - lost in brooklyn

saafir - boxcar sessions

Lounge wrote:

esg - ocean of funk
lil half dead - dead has arisen

i think it reasonable for these 2 to be added

Ocean of Funk is listed on some sites for 1993. But either way it missed that so I agree it should be on this one.

Need another cosign for Half Dead.

4-tay - dont fight the feelin
c-bo - autopsy
rbl - ruthless by law
spice 1 - amerikaz nightmare
kokane - funk upon a rhyme
black sheep - nonfiction
pko - tha good, bad, ugly

Damn.... Slippin', KRob

Murder Was The Case and Amerikkka's Nightmare

Amerikkka's Nightmare? Or was that in 1995? I see a few sites saying '94.

Only ones I can think of right now are the above, and House of Pain's "Same As It Ever Was".

T. Myers wrote:

Murder Was The Case and Amerikkka's Nightmare

Read my mind!

Lounge posted it first

I may be in the minority, but Funkdafied belongs here too.

I co-sign Non-Fiction.

Keith Murray - The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World
Brand Nubian - Everything Is Everything

Shaun wrote:

Lounge posted it first

I saw that after I posted. Still, three mentions in the span of a few seconds...

Shaun wrote:

Lounge posted it first

haha I win !! I was just quickly looking thru some cds I have around and also my unfinished collection catalogue on discogs.com and got those.. there's a lot of others I would list but I tried to pick a few that peoples will have heard

I cosign all of the suggestions so far... especially Little Half Dead

How the hell that Spice and Brat got omitted is beyond me. And i'm increasing the list, so most of those can be added.

Lounge i'm surprised you did not mention Sho "Troubled Man". I took it off the list because I knew I may be the only who would vote for it.

Lounge wrote:

4-tay - dont fight the feelin
c-bo - autopsy
rbl - ruthless by law
spice 1 - amerikaz nightmare
kokane - funk upon a rhyme
black sheep - nonfiction
pko - tha good, bad, ugly

2 of my all time fav's, good job there Lounge, I still haven't even looked at K. Rob's original list yet.

TicNitty706 wrote:

How the hell that Spice and Brat got omitted is beyond me. And i'm increasing the list, so most of those can be added.

Lounge i'm surprised you did not mention Sho "Troubled Man". I took it off the list because I knew I may be the only who would vote for it.

Naa actually I have slept on that cd! I have put off buying it for a long time, I know it used to be real cheap too... Now that you have reminded me I plan to pick that up soon.

K. Rob have you never heard Ruthless By Law? That's top 5 all time to me, the only reason that I can think that you didn't include it is because you've never heard it.

I think D.Powell's super awesome favourite rap group of all time has been forgotten by even him...

Ghetto Mafia - Draw The Line, that's gotta be in it

actually I just realised that C-Bo's Gas Chamber had dropped in 1994, I had thought it was 95 but looks like 1994 so if you plan to include him that will be better than Autopsy

Deanie O'Banion wrote:

Lounge wrote:

4-tay - dont fight the feelin
c-bo - autopsy
rbl - ruthless by law
spice 1 - amerikaz nightmare
kokane - funk upon a rhyme
black sheep - nonfiction
pko - tha good, bad, ugly

2 of my all time fav's, good job there Lounge, I still haven't even looked at K. Rob's original list yet.

thanks mayne, I'm at home with some flu type thing today so I got nothin better to do !

lil ric - deep n tha game

KJ Styles wrote:

Xcel wrote:

KJ Styles wrote:

1994 is probably my favorite year in hip hop history as two of my top 3 albums of all time were released in 94, and a lot of my Top 100 albums as well. Illmatic SHOULD win this tournament, but you never know with this forum. It'll be getting my vote throughout as it's my GOAT.

My Top 10 of 1994....

Illmatic
Ready To Die
The Diary
The Sun Rises To The East
Southernplayalistic
Resurrection
Hard To Earn
Do You Want More
Six Feet Deep
Word...Life

Illmatic shouldn't win if people don't like the album as much as you do. Illmatic is my number 1 album too for this year but if people prefer Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, The Diary, etc., then it is what it is...

I'm just saying that Illmatic is the best album of 1994 IMO so it deserves to win. What's wrong with that statement?

Nothing wrong with that statement actually. I misinterpreted what you said. My bad...

Deanie O'Banion wrote:

K. Rob have you never heard Ruthless By Law? That's top 5 all time to me, the only reason that I can think that you didn't include it is because you've never heard it.

I had the tape back when it dropped. And I did not really like it then. But I haven't heard it since then either.

And thanks for the help everyone that is why I put up these pre list. I cannot cover everything on my own. Fresh eyes are needed at times.

On a side note I wish some of you had listamania list by year on Amazon. I check those for albums also. For an example go look at my profile or Pounds.

Lounge wrote:

I think D.Powell's super awesome favourite rap group of all time has been forgotten by even him...

Ghetto Mafia - Draw The Line, that's gotta be in it

LOL.....yeah throw that one in as well....although it won't get past the first round, but the ones that I'm really feeling from these guys are Straight From The Dec, and my favorite one from them On The Grind....those are two legit albums from them....

TicNitty706 wrote:

Deanie O'Banion wrote:

K. Rob have you never heard Ruthless By Law? That's top 5 all time to me, the only reason that I can think that you didn't include it is because you've never heard it.

I had the tape back when it dropped. And I did not really like it then. But I haven't heard it since then either.

And thanks for the help everyone that is why I put up these pre list. I cannot cover everything on my own. Fresh eyes are needed at times.

On a side note I wish some of you had listamania list by year on Amazon. I check those for albums also. For an example go look at my profile or Pounds.

Trip out, I thought our taste in 90's was parallel for the most. Love every track, can't get better than that.

T. Myers wrote:

I may be in the minority, but Funkdafied belongs here too.

Yes it does!! I love that album.

So to keep this tournament correct without increasing it to 128.

What would be a closer number to keep both sides even where it all would pan out evenly?

84?

TicNitty706 wrote:

So to keep this tournament correct without increasing it to 128.

What would be a closer number to keep both sides even where it all would pan out evenly?

84?

Yeah that sounds good

KJ Styles wrote:

TicNitty706 wrote:

So to keep this tournament correct without increasing it to 128.

What would be a closer number to keep both sides even where it all would pan out evenly?

84?

Yeah that sounds good

Nah I mean mathmatically correct. For example I do not want to get in the later rounds and the match ups are uneven.

It has to 64 or 128. Any other amount won't be even unless you build in some byes. For tourneys to work it would have to be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc.......

TicNitty706 wrote:

KJ Styles wrote:

TicNitty706 wrote:

So to keep this tournament correct without increasing it to 128.

What would be a closer number to keep both sides even where it all would pan out evenly?

84?

Yeah that sounds good

Nah I mean mathmatically correct. For example I do not want to get in the later rounds and the match ups are uneven.

Well then 64 would be the best number under those conditions. If you need help narrowing down the field then holla.

If you did 96 you could have two brackets of 48

The only problem would be that at the very very end of each bracket you would be left with 3 albums instead of two, but you could just do a vs. vs. vs. and we vote on which one out of those three we want to win that bracket.

Good idea SRP and thanks for the help Myers & KJ.

Honestly i'm already adding a LOT of filler in this. If I go to 96 I can only imagine the waste of time on that one.

It may ruffle some feathers but i'm going to have to narrow this down to 64. SRP your idea will work better in the later yrs when there are more albums on the same level of fanfare.

Yeah man, I figured even 84 is a bit of a reach maybe, but between 64 and 128 I think 96 is the only number that works.

64 sounds about right to me.

Illmatic
Super Tight
IV Life
Street Level
Hard To Earn
N Gatz We Trust
Ready To Die
Wegonefunk
Regulate
Resurrection
Bootlegs & B-Sides
Breakin' Combs
Stress
Mad At The World
Secret of the Hidden Temple
The Sun Rises
Reality Check
Creepin' On Ah Come Up
We Come Strapped
6 Feet Deep
Rooftop Soundcheck
Things in Tha Hood
Southernplayalistic
Genocide & Juice
Tical
Blowout Comb
The Diary
III Communication
Between A Rock
It Takes a Thief
Somethin Serious
Main Ingredient

On The Outside Looking In
Keepers of the Funk
Thug Life Vol. 1
Do You Want More?!!?
Zingalamaduni
Nuttin But Love
Flatlinerz
Dare Iz A Darkside
Uncle Sam's Curse
Word Life
Fadanuf Fa Erybody
Criminal
Guerrilla Funk
Play Witcha Mama
Aka the Rugged Child
Nervous Breakdown
Muse Sick-N-Hour
Fear Itself
To The Death
Don't Fight The Feelin
Ruthless By law
Funk Upon A Rhythm
Nonfiction
Murder Was The Case
Same As It Ever Was
Amerikkka's Nightmare
Ocean Of Funk
The Autopsy
Dead has Arisen
Funkdafied
The Most Beautifullest Thing
Everything Is Everything

Here's a revised list at 64.

pretty good looking list Kev... thats a lot of good albums. I will miss up 4 parole tho

Lounge wrote:

pretty good looking list Kev... thats a lot of good albums. I will miss up 4 parole tho

Yeah man but I know only 3 of us on this whole forum probably heard it. I'm hurt I removed Uncontrolled Dangerous Substance. But no one on this forum really knows about that album either. I removed Kickin Game but that shit may get back added. Take that Shyheim off.

Good list, but make sure that you don't put all of the heavyweights in the same bracket just so we can be assured a good finals matchup.

I would like to see Ready To Die and Illmatic in different brackets. I think that would be a very interesting finals matchup around here.

T. Myers wrote:

I would like to see Ready To Die and Illmatic in different brackets. I think that would be a very interesting finals matchup around here.

They are. Here's the brackets as of now (subject to change)

A
Illmatic
IV Life
Hard To Earn
Ruthless By law
Regulate
Breakin' Combs
Mad At The World
Reality Check
Creepin' On Ah Come Up
Rooftop Soundcheck
Things in Tha Hood
Genocide & Juice
Blowout Comb
The Diary
Between A Rock
Main Ingredient
On The Outside Looking In
Do You Want More?!!?
Zingalamaduni
Dare Iz A Darkside
Fadanuf Fa Erybody
Guerrilla Funk
Play Witcha Mama
Aka the Rugged Child
Muse Sick-N-Hour
Fear Itself
To The Death
Funk Upon A Rhythm
Murder Was The Case
Amerikkka's Nightmare
Kickin Game
The Most Beautifullest Thing


B
Street Level
Bootlegs & B-Sides
Nuttin But Love
Resurrection
Wegonefunk
6 Feet Deep
Nonfiction
Ocean Of Funk
Stress
Same As It Ever Was
Funkdafied
Criminal
Ready To Die
Super Tight
We Come Strapped
The Sun Rises
Keepers of the Funk
Somethin Serious
Dead has Arisen
III Communication
Thug Life Vol. 1
N Gatz We Trust
Tical
Don't Fight The Feelin
Nervous Breakdown
Secret of the Hidden Temple
Everything Is Everything
Flatlinerz
Southernplayalistic
Word Life
Uncle Sam's Curse
It Takes a Thief