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5 Grand

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This album was released on my 18th birthday. I had heard their first album, which had dope beats, but I wasn't sure what they were rapping about. In the summer of 91 Niggaz4life was the hottest album. O.P.P. and My Mind's Playin Tricks On Me were the two hottest songs. Gangsta Rap was in full effect.

I had graduated from high school and wanted to get into DJing and producing. Low End Theory made me look at Hip Hop from a different perspective. While most Hip Hop producers (including Dr Dre on Niggaz4life) were using breakbeats and P-Funk/James Brown samples, ATCQ were sampling jazz records from obscure sources.

I must have kept this tape in my walkman for a good 6 months.

It got a 5 mic rating in The Source and went platinum.



 
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Bought this album off of Columbia House back in '95 (yes nigga Columbia House. 10 albums for 1 cent ). Album top to bottom was exactly what the album title was, "Soul Food". It was music that I could vibe to and receive a message. For some odd reason I didn't gravitate to Outkast like all my boys did until I got to college. Back then, I wanted to know when the new Goodie Mob album was dropping.

I still put this album on every now and again and it hasn't aged a bit
 
RodyRod said:
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Bought this album off of Columbia House back in '95 (yes nigga Columbia House. 10 albums for 1 cent ). Album top to bottom was exactly what the album title was, "Soul Food". It was music that I could vibe to and receive a message. For some odd reason I didn't gravitate to Outkast like all my boys did until I got to college. Back then, I wanted to know when the new Goodie Mob album was dropping.

I still put this album on every now and again and it hasn't aged a bit
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I put all my exes up no Goodie Mob.

You wanna hear something sad? There are people out there who have no idea that Ceelo is really a RAPPER. Like...never heard a single bar from the nigga and just know him from his solo pop career and with Gnarles Barkley. SMH.
 
mryounggun said:
I put all my exes up no Goodie Mob.

You wanna hear something sad? There are people out there who have no idea that Ceelo is really a RAPPER. Like...never heard a single bar from the nigga and just know him from his solo pop career and with Gnarles Barkley. SMH.
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There was a time when I was comin’ up that tha only 5 albums from southern hip-hop artists I listened to were Kast’s 1st 3 and Goodie Mobs 1st 2....wit’ Southernplayastic and Soul Food bein’ my 2 favorites out tha 5
 
Prolly ready to die... First serious rap album of my life
 
I'm sure I'll get alot of flack for this but MMLP

I was just a 12 year old living in the suburbs. I wasn't into hip hop at the time and then this dude came out and was saying wild shit on the radio

He got me to check out his album and then I fell in love with other hip hop albums soon after and then I never looked back
 
L3NU said:
I'm sure I'll get alot of flack for this but MMLP

I was just a 12 year old living in the suburbs. I wasn't into hip hop at the time and then this dude came out and was saying wild shit on the radio

He got me to check out his album and then I fell in love with other hip hop albums soon after and then I never looked back
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Classic album. Some of the illest wordplay, rhyme schemes, etc, ever.
 
How exactly did all the albums listed change your life tho? Did they inspire yall to start rapping and dj'ing which led to financial stability or neighborhood rep? Did they give you courage to holla at women which led to marriage and kids? Did they make you more aware of your blackness which led to you changing how you carry yourself? Did they save you from depression?
 
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How exactly did all the albums listed change your life tho? Did they inspire yall to start rapping and dj'ing which led to financial stability or neighborhood rep? Did they give you courage to holla at women which led to marriage and kids? Did they make you more aware of your blackness which led to you changing how you carry yourself? Did they save you from depression?
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Low End Theory had a lot of jazz samples. As I was trying to get into producing, Low End Theory led me to jazz music. I started buying jazz records to sample. In fact, there was a time where The East Coast was experiencing a drought (92/93) and the West was putting out the hottest music. I kinda stopped listening to Hip Hop altogether and branched out into other forms of music. I got into John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and several other classic jazz artists like Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and of course Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Jazz is the polar opposite of Hip Hop. I had been listening to Hip Hop basically for my entire life. Since Rapper's Delight came out when I was six that's pretty much all I listened to. All through junior high and high school I'd tape the college radio shows and when Yo! MTV Raps came out I'd sit in front of the TV and tape videos. So when I discovered jazz and started to understand what Bebop is and how jazz songs are composed, it opened a whole new dimension for my taste in music.
 
5 Grand said:
Low End Theory had a lot of jazz samples. As I was trying to get into producing, Low End Theory led me to jazz music. I started buying jazz records to sample. In fact, there was a time where The East Coast was experiencing a drought (92/93) and the West was putting out the hottest music. I kinda stopped listening to Hip Hop altogether and branched out into other forms of music. I got into John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and several other classic jazz artists like Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and of course Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Jazz is the polar opposite of Hip Hop. I had been listening to Hip Hop basically for my entire life. Since Rapper's Delight came out when I was six that's pretty much all I listened to. All through junior high and high school I'd tape the college radio shows and when Yo! MTV Raps came out I'd sit in front of the TV and tape videos. So when I discovered jazz and started to understand what Bebop is and how jazz songs are composed, it opened a whole new dimension for my taste in music.
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Cool story bro. How is listening to other genres of music life changing tho?
 
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