Insane Clown Posse eventually released a 60-minute version in tribute and even that seemed insufficient. In corporeal measurement, it runs for nine-and-a-half minutes, but really it is a vision of the infinite. "Partytime," "Mack Attack" and "Dope Fiend Beat" are the subwoofer's aphrodisiac.Īs much as it seems useless to isolate tracks from an album that is so sonically unified, "Freaky Tales" towers above the rest, a sparse epic within a sparse epic. His rhymes are as insidiously catchy as they are unrepentantly filthy, and he makes that drum machine sing and groan and wheeze like an apocalyptic oracle. The eight songs on Born To Mack present a duet between a young man and his drum machine. At 21, his aesthetic was more than fully formed-it was idealized. Although Todd Shaw had already produced and distributed a string of successful independent albums within the Bay Area, this full-length was his first introduction on the national stage. Label: Dangerous Music/Jive/RCA Release Date: Along with the paintings of Barnett Newman and the prose of Jim Thompson, Too Short's 1987 debut Born To Mackis one of the great minimalist expressions of American art. RELATED: 40 Albums That Were Unfairly Hated On RELATED: 50 Unreleased Albums We'd Kill to Hear RELATED: The 25 Best Crew Albums in Hip-Hop History RELATED: Green Label - 10 Most Classic Hip-Hop Albums of All Time These are The 50 Greatest Debut Albums in Hip-Hop History. 1? Which artists who dropped their first LP in the past decade made the cut? Read on to find out all of that, and more. We decided to get to the bottom of the never-ending discussion about rap's greatest debuts. It was tough, like any list of this scope, but we got it down to 50 surefire classics, from past and present, and we've ranked them as well. Is Illmatic No. Rappers essentially have their entire lives to make their first album, and it shows-in some releases more than others. There's a reason why Jay-Z calls Reasonable Doubt his "baby." There's a reason why Raekwon still can't escape the shadow of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. If it seems like the scales of appreciation are tipped in favor of debuts, it's because they are. A rapper's initial offering can often have a massive influence on subsequent releases, and culture in general. Sometimes that first album is the most significant of an artist's career. Dre changing the sound of hip-hop production with The Chronic or Clipse ushering in a new era of urgent lyricism on Lord Willin' two decades later, time has shown that many do, in fact, live up to these pressures. Historically, so many rap debuts are so damn good, and anyone looking to make their first foray into a career within the genre has a lot to live up to. But there's also an unspoken pressure here.
First impressions are everything and few have greater impact than a hip-hop artist's debut album. Part of the reason why rap debuts are so revered is because they present the first opportunity to judge an artist's singular body of work.
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