The Album That Changed Your Life

[genocide_cutter]

Love this album. But if we're being honest, Chat and Fly carried this album.

Naw that was Lord Infamous

 

[GOAT]

First time hearing Devin

First time hearing chopped & screwed

 

[IP360]

This...



Been a fan of this muthafucca since day 1. Alot of folks say his break out moment was on Arsenio Hall performing "Scenario"...naw.

For me it was on "Pump It Up" when D-Barnes was interviewing LONS. As she's talking to the crew, that nigga was sittin on the floor and just started freestylin outta nowhere. The camera slowly panned away from D-Barnes and LONS and focused solely on him. That's when I knew that nigga was blow up.

When the album dropped...game changer for me. If you don't get animated af like him when "Whoo Ha" and "I Remain Raw" comes on, then something is wrong wit you.

 

[IP360]

One more...


I just happened to see this album in Best Buy when it came out. I thought it was just more advertising from "Its Dark and Hell Is Hot". Mainly b/c it just dropped a couple of months ago.

Walked over to the rack, picked it up, and when I saw it was a brand new album...


Bought that shyt wit the quickness. In my eyes, that nigga broke the 4th wall. To drop TWO albums only months apart was unheard of imo. Changed the way I looked labels and how they release albums.

And we talk about how a nigga went Plat+ from an album where he's standing in a tub covered in blood, and received NO backlash?? Lol

 

[south4life]

This album made me proud to be from The South.

 

[Suckio Andretti]

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?

Lol right

Nothing changed my life at all

 

[L3NU]

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?

Yea I used to rap and make beats, i wouldnt have done that if i didnt get into hip hop. It entirley changed the type of music i listen to on a daily basis. Im not sure if youre implying that an album cant change someones life...just having an impact on how you listen to music or changing your standards for music alone makes it life changing

 

[Goldie]

When I was at my darkest times running the street, facing jail time etc, this was the album I kept on repeat and got me through the bs

 

[Qawshun]

I'd say doggy style

 

[mryounggun]

Love this album. But if we're being honest, Chat and Fly carried this album.

All my favorite verses were Chat and Fly. Mostly.

 

[ATLien]

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Self-explanatory. A top 10 album in hip hop history. Don't argue. Just go with it.

Turned 21 yesterday. GOAT album






Not only did it change my life at 11 yrs old but it changed music.

 

[MallyG]

I'd say doggy style

You from NY right??

 

[OGDirtyD]

Defind the style of music I would be deep in to for the next decade.

 

[Silverfoxx]

The education and lyrical storytelling plus the Sonic expirence graduated my young ear (was just a Wayne head before) to having more pride in being educated and exploring more of imaginative senses. Then I went back and Discovered Kid Cudi, Graduation by Kanye, and Nas and felt in love with It Was Written over Ilmatic. Atliens, Soul Food, Aquemeni fucked me up next....

 

[Natural Born Sinners]

DMX- Is dark and hell is hot

Before this came out I was into pop commercial rap and wasn't really taking life seriously.

This album came out my first year of high school. My older cousin was at the school already n they were playing this shit non stop. I started hanging out w them niggas and this album changed my outlook on rap music and how it can help a mothafucka deal wit emotions. I would say this is the most powerful and impactful album of my life. I was writing raps prior to hearing this, but most my raps were about jewelry, cars and bitches...this shit changed the whole content matter and shit stopped being jokes. DMX also made me look at some of my own personal issues/demons that i was ignoring.

 

[Norrin_Radd]

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.

Gotta co-sign this. This is the first real hip hop album moms let me buy with my own money. She wasnt letting me buy nwa or anything like that. Before this it was all Kid N Play, MC Hammer, The Fatboys and such. The first time I heard ...back in the days when I was a teenager, before I had status and before I had a pager/ You can find The Abstract listening to hip hop/ My pops used to say it reminded him of be bop...

I was hooked after that. Me and my pops had a similar conversation. He loved the album just as much as I did. Loved Busta on Scenario. That album will always hold a special place for me because I loved hanging out and listening to it with my pops.

 

[T. Sanford]

Straight facts this album alone changed my life. The very first album that put me on to their music. Remember one of my home boys used to have the red light to drive his mother's car. As some super young niggas, we used to be everyone bumping this album with no license because we were too young for them. I asked that nigga "man!!! who are these niggas? This sh%t bumping out of the frame"............."Three 6 Mafia"........."Oh they from Tennessee too? They from the set? I really gotta get their albums now". Grab everything that they had. Also, that album inspired me to want to get into music production.

My brother is 10 years older than me and he had an old school, baby blue 1985 Buick Lesabre with 15s in it. Whenever he came to pick me up, I'll eject any cd (more than likely it was a 2pac cd since my brother was/is a big 2pac fan) in his cd player and put that prime Hypnotize Camp on. I remember when I had to go to summer school one year. First day of summer school and it seem like it was about 100 niggas outside the school, waiting to go into the building. My brother pulled up to the front of the school, bumping that When The Smoke Clears album. If I can remember I think it was the 44 Killers song. That Juicy J part played at the perfect time. " Everybody was looking. I swear I took advantage of that moment lol. I stepped out the car in slow motion, rubbing my hands like Birdman like "yeahhhhhhh nigga that's my big brother, Yes I did stepped out of that car that's bumping those loud 15s". That sh%t felt like a red carpet moment lol. Man, fun fun times back then.

 

[Water Ur Seeds]

I guess you could say as a kid, Will Smith and Coolio sent me on path to being a hip hop head...

This was the first hip hop album (maybe even album, not counting singles) that I bought and it was with a gift voucher that I got for my 12th birthday, think it cost me £16.99... I literally played constantly in my bedroom, in my parents car, in my cd walkman... I knew every word on every track...

What I would give to hear these two album for the first time again too...









All 3 albums blew my mind and had major impacts on my life...

 

[Water Ur Seeds]

How incredible was it listening to all the classics for the first time though???

We still get dope music that you can get hype about but hearing masterpieces for the first time from the likes of Pac, BIG, Snoop, Nas, Wu, Dre, Mobb Deep etc nothing compares, its literally like get high on dope then trying catch that high again...