To be sure, there’s a few less-than-menacing tracks, like “Feels So Good” and “Get It Wet,” which, on a scale from Lil Zane to Lil Fame, register somewhere between Lil Twist and a post- Love and Hip Hop Lil Scrappy. What results is arguably the wordiest album to ever be tailored for subwoofers rather than earbuds. The production slinks with the grace of a jungle cat, and Twista, true to his moniker, barrels through each track at a Tasmanian pace. Entirely produced by The Legendary Traxstar, the album bears his slow, booming signature sound. It’s the terrifying whoosh you hear just before being sucked down the gravitational well of a black hole. Twista’s 1997 album, Adrenaline Rush, is precisely that.
The bleak worldview of the majority of the album, exacerbated by Smalls blowing his own brains out on “Suicidal Thoughts,” with all its abject poverty and nihilism and the idea that its author does not believe in the sanctity of human life, proves one theory about hardness that cannot be disputed: There’s nothing scarier than going up against somebody who feels they have nothing to lose. (If the song had just the indelibly delivered line “I’ve been robbing motherfuckers since the slave ships” over and over, it would have been just as good.) “Warning” not only gets a Lil’ Fame shout-out onto MTV, but finds Biggie threatening to explode his potential robbers Boyd Crowder style. The album’s funniest song, “Gimmie the Loot,” includes shooting cops and the infamous line of pregnant women getting held at gunpoint for their #1 Mom pendants.
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“Things Done Changed” flipped around the romantic worldview of New York as a modern Wild West movie and showed its grisly side he warns, “Step away with your fist-fight ways” while painting the city’s metamorphosis into a maze of cold brick buildings riddled with bullet holes.
(Eternal house party staple “ Big Poppa” and life-affirming rags-to-riches story “Juicy” are songs that will exist as long as people like listening to things that make people feel good, which in our think-piece-obsessed social climate, might not be for very much longer.) Ready to Die was, and still is, hard as an iron curtain, as you might expect from an album that contains a song called “Machine Gun Funk.”Ī testament to Christopher Wallace’s gifts as a writer, his debut album created a variety of rough tones. The struggles, both interpersonal and existential. Harold Stallworthįorget about all the other factors for a second. Outside of its lead single, “Ill Street Blues,” Live and Let Die is rarely canonized, but its influence casts a long shadow over both the horrorcore and mafioso subgenres, the latter being a conduit for several of the greatest rap albums of all time. Sir Jinx, best known for his production on Ice Cube’s early solo work, provides a largely dark, clamoring backdrop, over which G Rap marries the hardboiled quality of the title track from his previous album, Wanted Dead or Alive, with a thoroughly disturbing thirst for blood and debauchery. And what it lacks in mass appeal it more than makes up for in novelty. Its a grim, cinematic listen that plays out like an anthology of crime fiction-a much harder, less accessible take on The Great Adventures of Slick Rick. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – “Live and Let Die”Īt face value, Kool G Rap’s 1992 album, Live and Let Die, is the hardest in his entire discography, literally-its cover art depicts upward of a dozen felonies, including kidnapping, conspiracy, murder and even what appears to be animal cruelty. R.I.P.The Hardest Albums Already Eliminated, Reviewed Parish: Afeni's lover in jail, while pregnant with Tupac, Carol Crooks gave him the name Parish ** - Tupac's birth name, Lesane Parish Crooks, came from : Lesane: Afeni's borther-in-law's name, Billy Lesane Movies:Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim, Gridlock'd, Gang Related, Bullet Group Albums: Volume 1, This Is An EP Relase Solo Albums: 2Pacalypse Now, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., Me Against the World, All Eyez On Me, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, R U Still Down? Rap Aliases: MC New York, 2Pac, & Makaveli the Don Marital Status: Divorced: Keisha Morris Engaged: Engaged: Kidada Jones
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