Albums That Changed Your Life, Pt2
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Guy - 1988: A long with the EMPD cassett I mentioned in the first post, these were the first tapes I’d ever gotten. This was an album fused with soul and energy - it was the start of the New Jack Swing era engineered by Teddy Riely.
I didn’t understand just quiet how good it was at the time. Then after I had put it a side for about four years, and pulled it to listen to it again, I realized it was some damn good music. I didn’t have anything to compare it to before, but after about 100 albums later, I realized that everyone doesn’t make good albums front to back. It’s still the benchmark for a good soul album for me. It’s always great to pull out to listen to, take you back and here that classic 80s sound.
KRS One - Boom Bap - 1994: This album articulated hip hop for me and why I loved it. It also laid out a great great black empowerment foundation that you can see reflected in this very blog.
It provided the lyricism I had been missing as Hip Hop had fallen into a commercial drudge, and just really spoke to me. Great concepts, great rhymes and great production provided by the like of Kid Capri and my now all time favorite produce Dj Premier.
I have to put this one as a package deal - Wu Tang’s 36 chambers in 1994 and the first group of solos right after it (particularly Meths, ODB, GZA & Raekwan): This wave changed the sound of music and brought back the bare knuckles, ruff rugged and raw Hip Hop.
It’s hard to quantify. They brought great energy and excitement to the game and just reflected my grim attitude at the time. Also their music had a depth of substance and ideology, that harkened back to Rakim, that was largely missing in the game at that time.
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