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I have a theorum that states that almost every hip-hop group ever with 4 plus albums got better with the 2nd release and then got much worse with each subsquent album. Outkast potentially being the only exception.

What about Run-D.M.C. ?

I think their albums just better and better.

RIP Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay

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I like Death Certificate considerably better than Predator FWIW.

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There are peopel that don't?

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OK scrolled up.

WHAT THE [censored] JOKER THAT IS THE WORST OPINION EVER.

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Not really. I think cases can be made for both. I'd say "Wrong Ni**a to F*ck Wit" off DC is the best track on either record, but I just love "When Will They Shoot?" and "We Had To Tear This Mothafu**a Up" not to mention "Wicked," "It Was a Good Day," and "Check Yoself"

I mean come on.

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Not guilty the filthy devils tried ta kill me
When the news get to the hood then [censored] will be
hotter than cayenne pepper, cuss, bust
Kickin up dust is a must
I can't trust a cracker in a blue uniform
Stick a [censored] like a unicorn
Vaugn, wicked, Lawrence Powell, foul
Cut his [censored] throat and I smile
Go to Simi Valley and surely
somebody knows the address of the jury
Pay a little visit, "Who is it?" (Who is Ice Cube?)
"Can I talk to the grand wizard?" then boom
Make him eat the barrel, modern day feral
Now he's zipped up like leather tuscadero
Pretty soon we'll catch Sergeant Coon
Shoot him in the face, run up in him witta broom
Stick prick, devils ain't [censored]
Introduce his ass to the AK40 dick
Two dazed [censored] layin in the cut
To get some respect we had to tear this [censored] up

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The production on Predator makes the discussion a non starter in the first place, but Death Certificate is a top 10 all time classic to me. Predator isn't close in any way shape or form.

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Not guilty the filthy devils tried ta kill me

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I opened the back room to our classroom in high school to find my best friend tearing down a storage cabinet while chanting this lyric. He was pissed that he got a B in newspaper staff. Cube knows how to reach his audience.

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Not guilty the filthy devils tried ta kill me

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I opened the back room to our classroom in high school to find my best friend tearing down a storage cabinet while chanting this lyric. He was pissed that he got a B in newspaper staff. Cube knows how to reach his audience.

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Awesome.

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Lunch, punch, Hawaiin lyin
[censored] ain't buyin
ya story bore me
Tearin up [censored] with fire, shooters, looters
Now I got a lap-top computer
I told you all what happened and you heard it, read it
but all you could call me was anti-Semitic
Regret it-nope, said it-yep
Listen to my big black boots as I step
[censored] had to break you off somethin, give Bush a push
But your National Guard ain't hard
You had to get Rodney to stop me cos you know what?
We woulda teared this [censored] up

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I mean COME ON! Nobody writes like this anymore in rap. Nobody.

By the way, this is so NT doesn't get pissed.

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PE sucks.

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Hey look a bunch of white guys with black dudes as avatars arguing about rap.

Sweeeeeeet.

Predator FTW

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FWIW on the hip-hop board I reader they're having a classic album tournament.

The finals:

Midnight Marauders vs. DEATH CERTIFICATE

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Lunch, punch, Hawaiin lyin
[censored] ain't buyin
ya story bore me
Tearin up [censored] with fire, shooters, looters
Now I got a lap-top computer
I told you all what happened and you heard it, read it
but all you could call me was anti-Semitic
Regret it-nope, said it-yep
Listen to my big black boots as I step
[censored] had to break you off somethin, give Bush a push
But your National Guard ain't hard
You had to get Rodney to stop me cos you know what?
We woulda teared this [censored] up

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"I mean COME ON! Nobody writes like this anymore in rap. Nobody."

Ice Cube doesn't even write like this anymore... Hasn't for a long time. He was so great and fell off so hard.

So hard.

Love the old stuff though. My Summer Vacation has a great flow.

"I'm a goner Black, St. Louis [censored] want they corner back..."

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Also people do write like that still, you just don't hear them on MTV anymore.

/me throw Brother Ali's entire catalog at Private Joker.