Hip-Hop Album Survivor

**Frownland** · 01-10-2017, 12:25 PM

Anyone who votes off History Will Absolve Me should take a second look at the lyrics.

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Grave is the fertile womb
Born again through empty tomb
One prophet twelve goons
Worship suns crescent moons
The Creator at his loom
Air shimmers in sand dunes
Sunstruck
Dead dinosaurs dissolve, gassed up
The muezzin calls
1000 Israeli gunbutts arrayed on Solomon's walls
The curved blade cuts
The lamb thrashes
Steel sharpens steel, a thrown stone bashes
Bloody hands thrust skyward
The mob heaves
For debts older than fire
Niggas Bleed just like us
Tremble in the shadow of volcanoes that might bust
Everyday Struggle ten absolutes
Got A Story To Tell
The most perfect truth; Death is eternal life
Hell is to exist with his light eternal night
Cold to the bone
Copper on eyelids I'm coming home

Cruel deities, fashioned from circuits and wire
Nimrod's shimmering tower reaching higher and higher
We bent lightning and strode through the fire
Cracked the Earth, conquered the skies
Captured space and time
We headed thataway, as the crow flies
As the pilotless drone glides
Only problem with being your own god is you still gotta die
Cast spells as you might
Late nights in labs practicing animal sacrifice
All under the watchful gaze of intelligent satellites
Pull fact from fiction like light separated by a prism
Surrounded by telescreens, advanced surveillance systems
Kaczynski's in prison
Danse Macabre, entranced by Mars. Heaven, Earth, then light!
Watch nuclear fission through black goggle
Lead bunker
The King approves
Magicians peddle baubles
The High Priests deal in absolutes
Exotic theorems, equations and infinite loops

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-12-2017, 05:44 AM

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib are rightfully gone, now Frownland can stop bitching about their inclusion...

1. Billy Woods - History Will Absolve Me
2. Killer Mike - RAP Music
3. L'Orange & Kool Keith - Time? Astonishing
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
6. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
7. Death Grips - The Money Store
8. Danny Brown - XXX
10. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
11. Mick Jenkins - The Water[s]

Vote 4 off

Voting ends January 16th

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-12-2017, 05:45 AM

Killer Mike
L'Orange
Shabazz Palaces
Mick Jenkins

**Goofle** · 01-12-2017, 06:43 AM

2. Killer Mike - RAP Music
3. L'Orange & Kool Keith - Time? Astonishing
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (plz end this madness)
11. Mick Jenkins - The Water[s]

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-21-2017, 07:52 AM

mick jenkins is gonee, killer mike and l'orange were both pretty close to making their exit as well.

1. Billy Woods - History Will Absolve Me
2. Killer Mike - RAP Music
3. L'Orange & Kool Keith - Time? Astonishing
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
6. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
7. Death Grips - The Money Store
8. Danny Brown - XXX
10. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Vote 4 off

Voting ends January 25th

FaSho · 01-12-2017, 06:47 AM

Billy Woods
Killer Mike
Shabazz Palaces
Mick Jenkins

Ninetales · 01-12-2017, 08:41 AM

for me:

3. L'Orange & Kool Keith - Time? Astonishing
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
7. Death Grips - The Money Store
8. Danny Brown - XXX

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Originally Posted by FaSho

Billy Woods
Killer Mike
Shabazz Palaces
Mick Jenkins

this would probably be my list if we were voting the exact opposite way. wild times

djchameleon · 01-12-2017, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I wouldn't call it decade defining.

It has features from all these people(Raekwon, Earl Sweatshirt, Danny Brown, Domo Genesis, Scarface, BJ the Chicago Kid, Ab-Soul, Casey Veggies, Meechy Darko, Mac Miller) though and they contributed to decade defining works individually well except Raekwon since he's been around earlier that this.

FaSho · 01-12-2017, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Ninetales

this would probably be my list if we were voting the exact opposite way. wild times

well I do really like all of those albums (save mick jenkins which I would just call average) and its was VERY hard to let killer mike go this early

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

asap rocky

I'm not sure what 'decade defining' means, but as far as reflecting the changing sound of the time period, I would say long live asap definitely fits that bill. that being said, I believe it would have been voted off in the first round on this forum

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-12-2017, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

I'm not sure what 'decade defining' means, but as far as reflecting the changing sound of the time period, I would say long live asap definitely fits that bill. that being said, I believe it would have been voted off in the first round on this forum

ya this is basically my point. despite how important i would say the album is in the grand scheme of post-2010 hip-hop and the effects it has had on mainstream hip-hop and the new new york scene, i just don't think he has one project in particular that everyone on here would agree deserves to be on the list.