Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

one of the best hip hop records ever

Album Rating: 3.5

oh man this shit is nostalgia for me

can't decide between this and madvillainy for my favourite hip hop record ever

Album Rating: 3.5

i like madvillainy more, but this has such good sampling and is just so fun

Album Rating: 4.0

my man ryus has got a beard like a billy goat

Album Rating: 5.0

Johnny ryall is my jam

Album Rating: 5.0

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RIDDLE ME THIS MY BROTHA

Album Rating: 5.0

CAN YOU HANDLE IT?

Album Rating: 3.5

ive got more hits than sadaharu oh

Album Rating: 5.0

He asks for a doller



You know what its for



Man bottle after bottle



HE ALWAYS NEEDS MORE!

Album Rating: 5.0

does this even age

Album Rating: 3.5

it doesnt





i jammed this when i was like 10 and then i forgot about it for a while. when i got back to it last year i assumed it was released in the mid- or late-90s but when i saw 1989 i was like wtf wow

Album Rating: 3.5

wow the remaster sounds so damn good

doris the finkasaurus

Album Rating: 5.0

timeless

Honestly I never got into this one as much

Album Rating: 5.0

This isn't as infectious as Licensed to Ill, but it is rediculously nuanced with thousands of samples. An album like this could never be made again.

Yeah I respect the hell out of its technicality and that makes me enjoy it more because I too have a great interest in sampling and hip-hop production. But in terms of casual listener enjoyment, I can live without this.

Album Rating: 5.0

I feel ya'. If I hadn't fallen asleep to this hundreds of times as a pre-teen (on a duped cassette) it probably wouldn't be my go-to Beastie's album.