Poll Goat Label Tournament (Rd1): Loud Records vs Ruff Ryders

[Goldie]

Criteria:


- Album quality/Classics
- Sales
- Impact



Loud Records (1995-1999)

1995[edit]​

• The Alkaholiks — Coast II Coast
• Funkmaster Flex — The Mix Tape Volume 1 (60 Minutes of Funk)
• Mobb Deep — The Infamous
• Raekwon — Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

1996[edit]​

• All That: The Album (Nick)
• Cella Dwellas — Realms 'n Reality
• Delinquent Habits — Delinquent Habits
• Mobb Deep — Hell on Earth
• Off Da Hook — Off Da Hook[2]
• Sadat X — Wild Cowboys
• Xzibit — At the Speed of Life

1997[edit]​

• The Alkaholiks — Likwidation
• Bring Da Ruckus/A Loud Story[3]
• Adriana Evans — Adriana Evans
• Funkmaster Flex — The Mix Tape Volume II (60 Minutes of Funk)
• Hoodlum (Music Inspired by the Motion Picture) (Interscope)
• Yvette Michele — My Dream
• Soul in the Hole (Relativity)
• Wu-Tang Clan — Wu-Tang Forever

1998[edit]​

• Big Pun — Capital Punishment (Terror Squad)
• Davina — Best of Both Worlds
• Delinquent Habits — Here Come the Horns
• Funkmaster Flex — 60 Minutes of Funk (The Mixtape Volume III: The Final Chapter)
• Pete Rock — Soul Survivor
• Xzibit — 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz

1999[edit]​

• The Beatnuts — A Musical Massacre (Relativity/Epic)
• Inspectah Deck — Uncontrolled Substance (Relativity)
• Mobb Deep — Murda Muzik
• No Good — Lizard Lizard
• Project Pat — Ghetty Green (Hypnotize Minds)
• Raekwon — Immobilarity
• Tash — Rap Life

vs




Ruff Ryders (1998-2002)

Artist	Album	Details
DMX	It's Dark And Hell Is Hot	Released: May 12, 1998 Chart position: #1 U.S. RIAA certification: 4× Platinum
Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood	Released: December 22, 1998 Chart position: #1 U.S. RIAA certification: 3× Platinum
Eve	Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady	Released: September 14, 1999 Chart position: #1 U.S. RIAA certification: 2× Platinum
DMX	...And Then There Was X	Released: December 21, 1999 Chart position: #1 U.S. RIAA certification: 5× Platinum
The Lox	We Are the Streets	Released: January 25, 2000 Chart position: #5 U.S. RIAA certification: Gold
Drag-On	Opposite of H2O	Released: March 28, 2000 Chart position: #5 U.S. RIAA certification: Gold
Eve	Scorpion	Released: March 6, 2001 Chart position: #4 U.S. RIAA certification: Platinum
Jadakiss	Kiss tha Game Goodbye	Released: August 7, 2001 Chart position: #5 U.S. RIAA certification: Gold
DMX	The Great Depression	Released: October 23, 2001 Chart position: #1 U.S. RIAA certification: Platinum
Styles P	A Gangster and a Gentleman	Released: July 9, 2002 Chart position: #6 U.S. RIAA certification: Gold
Eve	Eve-Olution

Artist	Album	Details
Ruff Ryders	Ryde or Die Vol. 1	Released: April 27, 1999 Chart position: #1 U.S. RIAA certification: Platinum
Ruff Ryders	Ryde or Die Vol. 2	Released: July 4, 2000 Chart position: #2 U.S. RIAA certification: Platinum
Ruff Ryders	Ryde or Die Vol. 3: In the "R" We Trust	Released: December 18, 2001 Chart position: #34 U.S.[12]

 

[Norrin_Radd]

RR will probably win but I enjoyed more albums from Loud than RR.

 

[Water Ur Seeds]

Both had an incredible run looking at that line up but Im rolling with Loud on this one...

I would say Ruff Ryders had more of an impact but thats because everyone on RR were in the Ruff Ryders clique... and the label became a huge brand as a result and a had huge cultural movement... Whereas Loud had everyone from Mobb Deep and Pun to Xzibit and The Liks, all who represented their own cliques...

 

[AllElite617]

Loud wins with Wu, Mobb, Pun and Xzibit alone.

 

[Goldie]

Based on the criteria Ruff Ryders should win.

The classics/album quality is neck and neck.

Impact and Sales is pretty clear for RR.

 

[5th Letter]

Cuban Links alone.

 

[Goldie]

We might as well remove the criteria


If your favorite rapper is on the label vote for it

 

[BDBOULIBALY]

According to criteria, I’m gonna drop a score each one of these threads

Album quality/Classics 1-10
Loud 9
RR 8

Sales 1-10
RR 9
Loud 7

Impact 1-10
RR 9.5
Loud 9.5

Loud 25.5

RR 26.5

 

[5th Letter]

Cuban Links had impact. Sold records and is a classic. Criteria fulfilled

 

[Norrin_Radd]

Cuban Links had impact. Sold records and is a classic. Criteria fulfilled

Same could be said about Capital Punishment too

 

[genocide_cutter]

Gotta go with loud

 

[SeaSnake]

Wu Tang Forever! But damn that Ruff Ryders era was crazy

 

[Water Ur Seeds]

Loud should had won this pretty handily tbh they had far more classic albums...

 

[AllElite617]

Why isn't 36 chambers on the Loud list?

 

[Water Ur Seeds]

Why isn't 36 chambers on the Loud list?

That was '93...