Run-D.M.C.

Albums like Paid In Full and Criminal Minded are always credited as being some of the biggest game changing projects in hip hop, but don't forget about the album that influenced those! This album was the birth of hardcore hip hop, introduced styles of rapping that weren't seen before, and pretty much ended the Sugarhill Gang/Kurtis Blow era. Although I don’t personally agree, this album is also seen by many as the first classic hip hop LP. Regardless of if you think it’s a classic ... read more

The first two songs had me happily bobbing my head to the rhythm, but yeah, it becomes apparent pretty quickly that this project is very one-dimensional and dated - which is to be expected, of course.

Still though, it's really fun to look at hip-hop in its embryo, and some lines here are unintentionally hilarious lol

"Nothing too deep and nothing dense
And all our rhymes make a lot of sense" - Poetic!

There is nothing notable about this album. I'm not a fan of the sparse instrumentation, and the vocals don't compensate for it. I know it was groundbreaking at the time, but I don't like it.

I understand I am just a zoomer picking on low hanging fruit, but like c'mon man we are ever coming back to this. Generally when I get birthday gifts from friends my parents just tell them I like rap music, and while the older taste of them has helped me out with listening sometimes like with E.P.M.D, the Low-End Theory, or 3 feet high and risinng I've been duplicate gifted this 3 times, and I'm like thank you, knowing it's not getting listened to. The only song on this ... read more