What do you think? The best rap/hip-hop album of all time, isn't it?




I just love the Terminator X work here...AMAZING, he must be one of the best and most influential DJ's of all time,; Chuck D is also in top form here, his lyrics are wise, politically conscious and heartfelt, I will always respect this guy
The album production is outstanding, it hasn't dated at all, and it has no filler, 16 excellent songs; Black steel in the hour of chaos has also a nice vid, by the way
The apex of the golden age, hands down
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JoeTyler said:

IMO, the second greatest rap/hip-hop album of all time(my first is Wu-Tang's '36 Chambers').

I love 'It takes a nation'

but I prefer 'Fear of a black planet'

JoeTyler said:

Stop reporting on rap music, cuz any rap head knows Terminator X didn't do shit on this LP, it was Def Jam's inhouse DJ that did the scratches, Terminator X was the second INSTANT REPLAY DJ(first is Eric B).

qvgangsta18 said:

I knew this was going to happen...

It's a great album.

To date....there hasn't been harder a harder hitting rap 1st verse than "Black Steel"...out the gate, Chuck blazed it.

panther514 said:

I don't know about that:

Abracadabra!
Allah baby professor
All hail Funkin' Lesson
Sweet tongue, grand writer of scrolls
Now behold, let the legend unfold
Born in the cosmos where no time and space do exist
Vibe in the midst of the chaos
Mortals label me as illogical, mythological

They couldn't comprehend when I brought the word
A stick called verb, a black steel nerve
Teachin' those actors and actresses
Who write a coupla lines on what black is, really?
Then they label me a sin
As a brother just speaks what's within
I guess I'm blacker than the shadow of the darkest alley, that they're always
scared to go in - BOO!

I wear boots and beads, bags and braids, stick and scrolls, rings and
shades
Walk in the light of the moon but I've never been a Batman
African - call it Blackman
Brother extracts your African steps in your movements, enhance for
improvements
Grand funk, a new home for the phrase
Funkin' Lesson the pathways

That's about as dope as it gets, especially that bolded comment. XClan laid the fist down with that one. When you open your shit with "Abracadabra" that's some cold shit!

MuthaFunka said:

No doubt. Both PE & X-Clan definitely went toe 2 toe with skills. Each group had some serious lyricist on board along with slammin beats.

MuthaFunka said:

Right,Right....no doubt, it's giving Black Steel a run...X-Clan would take heat to ANYONE in the game! But...

I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
They wanted me for their army or whatever
Picture me given' a damn - I said NEVER!
Here is a land that never gave a damn
About a brother like me and myself
Because they never did
I wasn't wit' it, but just that very minute...
It occured to me
The suckers had authority
Cold sweatin' as I dwell in my cell
How long has it been?
They got me sittin' in the state pen
I gotta get out - but that thought was thought before
I contemplated a plan on the cell floor
I'm not a fugitive on the run
But a brother like me begun - to be another one
Public enemy servin' time - they drew the line y'all
To criticize me some crime - never the less
They could not understand that I'm a Black man
And I could never be a veteran
On the strength, the situation's unreal
I got a raw deal, so I'm goin' for the steel

panther514 said:

Chuck just made you wanna get up and "Do Somethin'!"

MuthaFunka said:

I was a pissed off militant teenager listening to him and X-Clan

panther514 said:

Join the party! - And maybe the Panther Party as well!

MuthaFunka said:

I think I still got my black and gold PE jacket and Pittsburgh Pirates hat in the closet somewhere....

panther514 said:

MuthaFunka said:

Dig it.

MuthaFunka said:

Co-sign.

here it is bam
then u say ghatdamn this is a dope jam

I love "It Takes A Nation Of Millions..." it's definitely one of ny fave albums by PE and fave hip-hop album of all time. Especially the songs "Rebel Without A Pause", "Prophets of Rage", and "Louder Than A Bomb". Those are my definite faves off this set. But the greatest hip-hop album of all time? Not quite. I would have this album 3rd behind N.W.A's "Straight Outta Compton"(2nd) and 2Pac's "All Eyez On Me"(1st).

MuthaFunka said:

Yeah, this was the rap pinnacle. I agree that the abracadabra is a good sound
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yes, it gets my vote. widely considered by critics with a clue to be the best hip-hop album ever and for so many reasons. man i was a PE head! had my plack Pirates hat, the jacket, the jersey, the whole 9. Chuck was my mans. Had a chance to meet him and he really is cool ppl. i love that brotha

I always loved this album, along with Fear Of a Black Planet (Fight the Power and Burn Hollywood Burn). Haven't heard this for ages. Need to dig it out again.

Not best.. but certainly up there.Straight out of Compton and Kurtis Blow: History of Rap V.2O

curtis, like Big Daddy Kane NEVER had a GREAT album. he'll be remembered as a pioneer, but NO ONE EVER talks about a GREAT Kurtis Blow album. i can't even NAME a Kurtis Blow album. None of his albums EVER show up on any "best of lists" either (an unlike a lot of other lists, the ppl who do those are somewhat hesistant because they KNOW they gotta know their stuff) i'll give u the NWA, one but even still its only in my top 15