Jan 9, 2019

I think it lacks charisma. Game tries really hard, but like you can hear it that he is trying to be interesting. Production is f---ing perfect though. I feel like Game really found himself and is being himself, and has fun being himself on Documentary 2/2.5. Here he tries to be cool, name drops everyone. You can hear his passion, but you cant get rid of the feeling that he is trying to appeal, not that he is appealing. At least for me.
7/10

 

Jan 8, 2019

8.5/10

I would have called this an insta-classic years ago, but Game's worst traits that stem from this album have further annoyed me as time went on. But it doesn't detract all of the merit he had on the Documentary, Game is a true student of hip-hop and channeled his idols when it came to painting a crisp and grim image of his Compton upbringing. With the help of 50 and Dre, there is a rich palette of flows & hooks that still keep your head nodding, as it's been said this was one of the West Coast's biggest mainstream albums of the decade and it sure sounded like it.

I think we can all agree the production on this is nothing short of sublime, I mean just look at the producer credits and it's an all-star guest list. In a vacuum I still really like the Documentary, even with Game's bad habits it's still very accessible and the best songs on here are all rap essentials if you ask me (Dreams, Hate It Or Love It).

 

Dec 19, 2018

9/10

Bear in mind once more that this rating isn't indicative to how much I love this tape, it's easily my favorite mixtape of this decade and maybe all-time. I was starting college and about to DJ my first school party on Halloween, I was patiently waiting for this s--- to come out since all the leaks were amazing so far. My first listen of this was inside my car with some loud, and when the Palace beat dropped, it deadass sounded like the gates of Heaven opened up and what not I was blown away. For that memory alone I'll always be fond of LLA and Rocky in general even though he stopped giving a s--- about rap in recent times.

Most of rap was divided regionally but slowly leading into the 2010's the lines were starting to blur little by little--in particular for NY rappers we already had artists rapping over vintage Dre instrumentals (50 Cent) and others collaborating with the South for a minute (Dipset, Hov)--but this to me was the landmark moment where stylistic influences didn't require a state line anymore. Rocky's homage to Houston & Bone Thugs felt so natural, it also helped he had Clams Casino handing out some of the most extraterrestrial production rap had ever seen up to that point, that Demons beat is a trip. What's best about it is that it's Rocky at his most simplest, most of the time I felt he was being experimental for the sake of experimental on later projects, on LLA it just flows effortlessly but still has that extra element of hedonism that makes this for me timeless.

 

Dec 19, 2018

d---, it’s been 7 years

Absolutely his best project, one of my favorite tapes of all time. 9/10

 

Dec 18, 2018

10/10, this is important album.

 

Dec 18, 2018

Just wanna get my rating in before we move on to the next album.

10/10 for so many different reasons. If/when I have time I'll edit this post with a quick little explanation.

 

Dec 17, 2018

It surprises me that Ben hates it so much as a New Yorker tbh

 

Dec 17, 2018

 

Dec 17, 2018

Well, considering it’s one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, it gets a 10

 

Dec 17, 2018

f--- this album, karate and chess df am I 100 shove this s--- up some loser’s a--- that still plays Mario kart

0/10

 

Dec 17, 2018

Scorpion gets a 5.4/10 from 10 ratings

Next up…

RATING 14: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Release Date: 9 November 1993
Label: Loud



Tracklist

01. Bring da Ruckus
02. Shame on a n-----
03. Clan in da Front
04. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
05. Can It Be All So Simple
06. Day Mystery of Chessboxin
07. Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin ta f--- Wit
08. C.R.E.A.M.
09. Method Man
10. Protect Ya Neck
11. Tears
12. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber - Part II

I was 3 years old when this album dropped. Which makes it kinda weird that its my favourite album ever. 9 emcees, 1 producer, just under 1 hour of unbridled, raw, uncut, chaos. RZA’s production is total anarchy, melding together clips from old Kung Fu movies, absolutely filthy instrumentals that conjures of up imagery of getting stomped out on the curb, all with a psychotic, haphazard twist, that makes you feel like you’re dangling off a cliff shrouded in PCP smoke. Wu-Tang is basically the Avengers; 9 superheroes with unrivalled superpowers joining forces to take on the universe. Ol’ Dirty b------ screeching like a demented crack-head, while Rae and Ghost trade street tales and the Rebel INS drops in for an occasional tongue-twisting slaughter. GZA and RZA’s voices boom with authority while m---’s there to add in the smoked-out finishing touches. Even the gravelly “raw I’mma give it to ya” U-God’s power is undeniable (and s---, don’t forget Wu’s best kept secret, Masta Killa, who drops one of the best verse of the album on Da Mystery of Chessboxin). This album is perfect, in every way. There is so much energy, so much raw, talent, world’s colliding and exploding outwards in pandemonium on wax. 36 Chambers revolutionised hip hop in every way imaginable and brought to The Wu to the fore, one of the most important hip hop movements in hip hop history. 25 odd years later and you can still hear the aftershocks reverberating through the very fiber of rap music. Its true what they say, Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nuthin ta f--- wit. I give it a perfect 10/10.

@RateThisAlbum

 

Dec 16, 2018

d--- Aubrey getting ethered in here. Where the Drizzy stans at come defend your mans

 

Dec 15, 2018

Cringe post

 

Dec 14, 2018

Its his best project by miles. I mean DS2 was great too, but feels like it was made more for the fans, kinda to capitlise on his hype at the time, give everyone what they wanted. Monster was just plain raw, made for no one but Fewtch himself.