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  1. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Jan 11, 2020
    I was having fun with this Revisiting series but seems a bit like overkill since we're now doing the best albums of the decade thread.

    2014
    2015
    2016
    2017
    2018

    So thought it would be interesting to go further back in time to what started now 2 full decades ago. I'm picking 2001 because I think this was around the time I first really became interested in hip hop. Thats where the whole journey started for me.

    Anyways 2001 was a wild a--- year for hip hop. The memory of 'East vs. West' and the Shiny Suit Era that followed was beginning to fade, and what used to be very much strictly regional sub-genres and trends in the South and Midwest started to get a lot more exposure. T.I. and Ludacris' names popped up for the first time. Juvenile continued on his hot streak. The underground scene (and especially Def Jux) boomed - Aesop Rock, Cunninglynguists, Dilated Peoples, Cannibal Ox, Immortal Technique. Movie soundtracks were a f---in huge thing.

    The truth is in 2001, NY was still the mecca. Albums from Busta Rhymes, DMX, Jadakiss, MOP, Mobb Deep, and Wu-Tang, debuts from Ja Rule, Beanie Sigel and Fabolous. And who could forget? The tension between the 2 biggest names in the game had been brewing for years and finally exploded into an all out war, resulting in some of the best hip hop music ever made, bar none (and in the process introducing the world to the producer that would just a few years later change the game for good). And though he didn't drop any solo albums in 01, all the while that crazy white boy from Detroit had somehow snuck up and threatened to just take the throne for himself.













     
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  2. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Jan 11, 2020
    Shoutout Aaliyah, Craig David, and Usher for the dope RnB projects in '01 :wow5:
     
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    Enez Purple Heats Forever

    Jan 11, 2020
    shoutout the strokes, radiohead and the b------s over at gorillaz for timeless s---
     
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  4. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Jan 11, 2020
    oh and s---, so underrated I forgot it in my own d--- post. Cormega's The Realness. One of the last truly great classic 90's (even though it dropped in 01) NY albums ever made.

     
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  5. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Jan 12, 2020

    :banderas:



    :banderas::banderas:

    2001 was different man
     
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  6. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    Jan 12, 2020
    classic album tbh
     
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  7. Michael Myers
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    Jan 11, 2020


    ^ Top 10 em verses.. he made in 2001

    I've been praised and labeled as crazed
    My mother was unable to raise me, full of crazy rage
    An angry teenager, nothing can change me back
    Gangsta rap made me act like a maniac
    I was boosting, so influenced by music I used it
    As an excuse to do s---, ooh, I was stupid
    No one can tell me nothing, hip-hop overwhelmed me
    To the point where it had me in a whole 'nother realm
    It was like isolating myself was healthy
    It felt like we was on welfare but wealthy
    Compelled me to excel when school had failed me
    Expelled me and when the principal would tell me
    I was nothing, and I wouldn't amount to s---
    I made my first million and counted it
    Now look at, a f---ing drop-out that quit
    Stupid as s---, rich as f---, and proud of it
    That's why.

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
     
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  8. Buddha
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    Buddha

    Jan 11, 2020
    100% facts, Cormega The Realness is a cult classic. Also, regarding the NY underground, don’t forget Masta Ace’s Disposable Arts which also came out that year.
     
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    Fire Squad Boss Don Biggavel

    Jan 12, 2020
    Also, a certain electronic album that revolutionized pop and revitalized interest in funk/disco. Love love Daft Punk :emoji_heart:, goat year in every respect I can think of

     
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