Hip Hop's Most Wanted
Track Listings
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1. One More Chance - The Notorious B.I.G.
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2. So Many Tears - 2Pac
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3. Ice Cream
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4. Keep Their Heads Ringin' - Dr. Dre
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5. Survival of the Fittest - Mobb Deep
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6. MC's Act Like They Don't Know - KRS-One
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7. Foe Life - Mack 10
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8. 1st of tha Month - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
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9. Pimp of the Year - Dru Down
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10. Making Moves With Puff - Craig Mack
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11. Next Level - Tha Alkaholiks
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12. West Up! - WC and the Maad Circle
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13. What Can I Do? [Remix] - Ice Cube
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Average customer rating:
- A great, if imperfect, blast from the past
- You'll never catch him!
- One of Six Seminal Hip Hop Records Panned By Rolling Stone
- Gangsta then.Even more Now!!!!!!!!!!
- low price gangsta masterpiece 4,5 stars
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AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
Manufacturer: Priority Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Gangsta & Hardcore
| Rap & Hip-Hop
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General
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- Niggaz4life
ASIN: B00008BL44
Release Date: 2003-02-25 |
Tracks:
- Better Off Dead
- The Nigga Ya Love To Hate
- Amerikka's Most Wanted
- What They Hittin' Foe?
- You Can't Fade Me
- Once Upon A Time In The Projects
- Turn Off The Radio
- Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside)
- A Gangsta's Fariytale
- I'm Only Out For One Thang
- Get Off My D*** And Tell Yo B**** To Come Here
- The Drive By
- Rollin' Wit The Lench Mob
- Who's The Mack?
- It's A Man's World
- The Bomb
- Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) [Remix]
- Jackin' For Beats
- Get Off My D*** And Tell Yo B**** To Come Here [Remix]
- The Product
- Dead Homiez
- JD's Gaffilin' (Part 2)
- I Gotta Say What Up!!!
Customer Reviews:
A great, if imperfect, blast from the past.......2007-05-12
'AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted' by Ice Cube is one of the most highly regarded hip-hop albums of all time. Unlike some of the overrated hip-hop albums I've heard that are supposed to be legendary, 'AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted's' praise is (mostly) warranted, though it should be known that there are a few weak spots on Ice Cube's solo debut.
Ice Cube's delivery is ace and his flow is spot-on, and on here he goes from serious ('AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted', 'Endangered Species') to silly ('A Gangsta's Fairytale' and 'I'm Only Out For One Thang'). Due to the Bomb Squad's "bomb" production (ha ha, a pun), this album - relased way back in 1990 - sounds better production-wise than some albums I've heard just eight years ago. Most the album is good, humorous, gangsta (and, sometimes, even sexist and racist, though I feel that it is not to be taken seriously here and if you don't look for it you wont be offended). Ice Cube is an excellent lyricist and story-teller, but there were a few tracks I wasn't really feeling. 'Get Off My... And Tell Yo... To Come Here' is a waste, and 'It's A Man's World' is boring and repetitive. The vast majority of this album is good stuff though, so cop this one if you haven't already. It's been out for over 17 years, after all, so what are you waiting for?
You'll never catch him!.......2007-02-23
Ice Cube leaving NWA was the best move because mentally he was light years ahead of them. This album is more gangsta than conscious but it still has its gems like THE N***A YA LOVE TO HATE, AMERIKKKA'S MOST WANTED, YOU CANT FADE ME, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE PROJECTS, TURN OF THE RADIO(this song inspired Dead Prez's mixtape), A GANGSTA'S FAIRYTALE, ROLLIN WITH THE LENCH MOB, WHO'S THE MACK, JACKIN FOR BEATS, THE PRODUCT and DEAD HOMIEZ. Filler: Im Only Out For One Thang(featuring Flava Flav or Slava Slave)is the only track that is weak. Bottom Line: Amerikkka's Most Wanted is a magnificent debut by one of the most important emcee of our time. Its a must have for any rap fan who remembers what Ice Cube was.
One of Six Seminal Hip Hop Records Panned By Rolling Stone.......2006-08-22
As a big fan of the book, "Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists", there was a section where certain seminal hip hop records were bashed by Rolling Stones. Ice Cube's monumental gangsta rap debut was one of them. Critics said, "the relentless profanity grows wearisome, bombsquads production loses steam, and Cube's attitude towards women are simply despicable". However, "Amerikkka's Most Wanted" (A suberbly provacative title) is criticized for all the wrong reasons. Most critics based assumptions on shock value and profanity but Cube's message was loud and clear. He was going to shut down racist white Amerikkka with one of the most visceral and revolutionary records that I have ever heard.
Straight out the box, Ice Cube is not out to make friends with, "The N***** Ya Love To Hate". Reality is a hard thing to digest and he let people know by dropping jewels like, "When I'm shootin let's see who drop/ The police, the media, and suckers that went pop/ And mother******* that say they too black/ Put 'em overseas they be beggin to come back/ They say we promote gangs and drugs/ You wanna sweep a n***** like me up under the rug/ Kickin s*** called street knowledge/ Why more n****** in the pen than in college. It was like Huey Newton speaking from a gangsta figures perspective and collaborating with Public Enemy... he became the black CNN. Songs such as "Turn Off The Radio" could never happen on a major label again. He was saying, "Program directors and dj's ignore me/ because I simply said F*** top forty/ Top thirty, top twenty, and top ten/ Until you put more hip hop in/". Most happy songs didn't make much sense on radio (still don't) and Cube knew hip hop was a weapon that people could see in the broad.
"Amerikkka's Most Wanted" also cemented Ice Cube as one of the genres greatest storytellers. The way he freaked nursery rhymes, for the kids, on "A Gangsta's Fairtale" was unbelievable. It was informing kids to watch out for scandolous women and stds. "Once Upon A Time In The Projects" was so vivid, it brought you straight to Compton, as if Ice Cube was saying his rhymes right beside you with an angry expression on his face. "Endangered Species" is one of the most politically intense charged rap songs ever on wax. "Every cop killer goes ignored/ They'll just send another n***** to the morgue/ A point scored; they could give a f*** about us/ They rather catch us with guns, and white powder/ - If I was old, they'd probably be a friend of me/ Since I'm young, they consider me the enemy/ You should listen to me cause there's more to see/ Call my neighborhood a ghetto cause it houses minorities/".
Overall, it's easy to see why hip hop purists say hip hop today just isn't good as that old school s***. Hell, even Rolling Stones, who dismissed this record, realized the records greatness and later gave this debut a 5 out of 5 stars rating. What's more amazing is the aforementioned songs aren't even my top two favorites. The title track and "Who's The Mack" knocked me off the edge of my seat. You can find gangsta rap anywhere today but this had such a powerful message with such proper beats, that unlike its modern day contemporaries, stands the test of time. Like rapreviews.com said, "One of the most important records ever made...if someone says to you rap is simple, throw this on and dare them to write something better - - none of them ever will".
Gangsta then.Even more Now!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-07-28
Cube was kickin' that gangsta s**t then.Still today.But he bursted on the solo scene.He didn't need NWA they needed him.
This is the many examples of how a gangsta album should be done.
Drugs,hoes.gangs,crime,projects,ghetto,guns,jail,money,ruff,toughrugged and raw.His best argubably.The raps,rhymes,and subjects
still are goin' on and make sense today.
low price gangsta masterpiece 4,5 stars.......2006-07-06
I highly recommend this album to all of you real hip-hop heads out there, especially the ones who like the west-coast.
Here you can find Cube in the peak of condition, rapping on the incredible Bomb Squad beats.
If you consider that here you got 23 tracks and not only Amerikkka's Most Wanted but also the very rare Kill at Will EP, you'll surely understand that $13 is a very low price. Ice Cube is extremely powerful on the mic and high-level apparences by Public Enemy and Lench Mob will only make this sound better to you.
You heard? I bet now you know what to do! Peace y'all
Average customer rating:
- One of the Best Albums Ever
- Odd
- Cube's Best!
- TOP 5 ALBUM OF ALL TIME
- Come On Now
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AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
Manufacturer: Priority Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Gangsta & Hardcore
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
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General
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West Coast
| Rap & Hip-Hop
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ASIN: B000003B6X
Release Date: 1990-05-16 |
Tracks:
- Better Off Dead
- The Nigga Ya Love To Hate
- AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
- What They Hittin' Foe?
- You Can't Fade Me/JD's Gaffilin'
- Once Upon A Time In The Projects
- Turn Off The Radio
- Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside)
- A Gangsta's Fairytale
- I'm Only Out For One Thang
- Get Off My And Tell Yo To Come Here
- The Drive-By
- Rollin' Wit The Lench Mob
- Who's The Mack?
- It's A Man's World
- The Bomb
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Cube took a lot of the heat for N.W.A's more excessive moments, maybe because he was the best rapper in the group, and his solo debut reacts by pushing the envelope even further. To the strains of a carpet-bombing Bomb Squad soundtrack, he adopts a way-over-the-top persona: an amoral, sawed-off-shotgun-wielding, 40-ounce-swilling, gang-banging, reflexively defiant ball of rage. If you can't see the funny side, it can be tough to take--"You Can't Fade Me" is especially loathsome taken at face value--but it's pretty clear that he's got some perspective (see "It's A Man's World," his wry head-to-head with Yo-Yo). Also, his indictments of institutionalized racism are tart, savage, and dead on the mark. --Douglas Wolk
Customer Reviews:
One of the Best Albums Ever.......2007-01-19
Plain and simple, when this came out, it was pure fire. Cube was doing things no one else was doing, and this came at a time when Hip-Hop was in it's hey day! Dope beats, dope rhymes, crazy creativity...this album is genius work. Is in my list of Top 10 Hip-Hop albums of all time. This is a must have for your collection.
Odd.......2005-02-11
This album is kinda odd, but I like it, Cube's my favorite rapper. This is his solo debut album after leaving Niggaz with Attitude (N.W.A)
BETTER OFF DEAD
Well it's just an intro
THE NIGGA YA LOVE TO HATE +5/5
AMERIKKKA'S MOST WANTED +5/5
WHAT THEY HITTIN' FOE? +5/5
YOU CAN'T FADE ME +5/5
JD'S GAFFILIN'
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE PROJECTS +5/5
TURN OFF THE RADIO 2/5
ENDANGERED SPECIES (Tales From The Darkside) +5/5
A GANGSTA'S FAIRYTALE +5/5
I'M ONLY OUT FOR ONE THANG 5/5
GET OFF MY D*CK AND TELL YO B*TCH TO COME HERE +5/5
THE DRIVE-BY
ROLLIN' WIT THE LENCH MOB +5/5
WHO'S THE MACK? 4/5
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD 5/5
THE BOMB 4/5
Cube's Best!.......2004-07-18
This is a must have album! It's Cube's best, and one of my favorite gangsta rap albums ever!
It has many classic cuts such as: One Upon A Time In The Projects, Nigga Ya Love To Hate, and Amerikkka's Most Wanted, and has guests like Yo-Yo, Chuck D, ect. This is a great album, you can't have a good music collection without it!
TOP 5 ALBUM OF ALL TIME.......2004-05-24
This is one of the few albums that I can remember the first time I heard it like it was this morning. im only writing this review because I saw that the average rank of this album is only 4. Then I read the negative reviews and came to only one simple conclusion, only young kids could not appreciate this album. Anyone who grew up during this era thats into hip hop will absolutely love it. Ice Cube is at his angriest best on this album. The newer Ice Cube (after Predator) is half rate material at best to me. Theres no flossy computerized syntesized beats on this one..Thats why its not liked by the younger generation.
THIS ALBUM IS ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE AND IF YOU CAN FIND IT HOLD ONTO IT..CLASSIC MATERIAL TO THE FULLEST..EVERY SINGLE TRACK AND SKIT ARE GREAT.
Come On Now.......2004-02-22
Ok now, I've been reading the reviews and for a real true Ice Cube musical fan, you would have to be kidding yourself if you are gonna say this is his best album ever. Please!!! Not to say this album stinks, but I look at this album as his groundbreaking, leaving NWA and need to get my feet wet on my own album; as this helped propel him to bigger and better things, including much better music and albums. Let's face facts Cube fans, though the lyrics are very good, (because Cube is a great rap writer along with rhyming) the beats are weak and lame, especially in contrast to his future albums as he got more popular and was able to make much better beats and sounds. Don't get me wrong though, there are a lot of good songs on this album. If you are a Cube fan, you must have this album since it was "the beginning of his era" in a way, as he was seperating himself from being just a member of N.W.A. to being known as Ice Cube the rapper, producer, businessman, actor, ........ICON.
Average customer rating:
- Serious Game Poppin' Off From The CPT
- OFFICAL HIP-HOP REVIEWER
- Compton 4 life
- cpt's most wanted
- Maybe the best Gangsta rap album ever...
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Music to Driveby
Compton's Most Wanted
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0000028SB
Release Date: 1992-09-29 |
Tracks:
- Intro
- Hit The Floor
- Hood Took Me Under
- Jack Mode
- Compton 4 Life
- 8 Iz Enough
- Duck Sick II
- Dead Men Tell No Lies
- N 2 Deep
- Who's Xxxxing Who
- This Is A Gang
- Hoodrat
- Niggaz Strugglin
- I Gots Ta Get Over
- U's A Bitch
- Another Victim
- Def Wish II
- Music To Driveby
Customer Reviews:
Serious Game Poppin' Off From The CPT.......2007-04-13
CMDubb's 3rd album, Music To Driveby is easily one of the top albums of the early 90's, thumpin beats and awesome rhymes. DJ Slip, Unknown, and DJ Mike T serve the beats in different flavas, raw, smooth, funky, melodic , jazzy (at times), and hella funky! Productionwise, this is one of the best albums of 1992, in my opinion. All three layer soul and funk samples one on top of another and Mike T dices and scratches them up with precision. Musically, this album resembles a West Coast DJ Premier of Gangstarr. Here in 1992, West Coast and East Coast beats diverge musically, and G-Funk was starting to pop up in West Coast albums. This album shows those tendencies while remaining raw at the same time. MC Eiht is game tight throughout the album. He can hold his own, and he gets hard on DJ Quik (who to be fair, I am a big fan of too)on the short "Who's Xxxxing Who?" and "Duck Sick 2," the latter is a funky classic. I love the Issac Hayes "Walk On By" sample by Slip on the melodic "Hood Took Me Under," an absolute classic where CMW shoots game about the trappings of the hood. Another classic is "N 2 Deep" with Mr. Scarface, another one of my favorite rappers; they both serve heat over a soulful funky beat. I love "This Is A Gang" which beautifully samples the beat sequence and hook of NWA's 1988 classic "Compton's In The House," and Slip adds a soft funky flute to add to the effect. This album sets a high standard for West Coast rap and often takes a back seat to other West Coast albums like The Chronic. It should not be overlooked.
OFFICAL HIP-HOP REVIEWER.......2006-12-12
hello crazy hip hop fans. im so glad to read these comments left about this wonderfull album. i'd like to say "DJ MIKE J" has left a brilliant review and has said all that needs to be said about this album. to be blunt * * * GO BUY IT * * * *
Compton 4 life.......2006-06-20
I hooked up this cd after playing GTA San Andreas, when hearing one of their songs "Hood Took Me Under" on Radio Los Santos, I went simply crazy and butt-Wild. The Album has the most powerful beats ewer made out westcoast. If you planing to look foe some real gangsta, this is it right here.
Review`ed by: S.A.G rapper from Norway, Bergen.
cpt's most wanted.......2004-07-25
it's a good album, it has some nice songs like def wish 2 and n 2 deep, but if you want cmw's best then i suggest you pick up it's a compton thang or straight checkn em
Maybe the best Gangsta rap album ever..........2004-03-29
Say what you will about the obvious choices of "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle", my choice will always be Music to Driveby. This album exemplifies what not only great Gangsta rap should sound like but what good hip-hop should sound like as well.
First and foremost, Eiht is an emcee, not just a rapper. This performance is the pinacle of his rhyme ability before he became known to the public as "the guy who says geeyah". He battles ("Dead Men Tell No Lies", "Duck Sick II", "Def Wish II", and "Who's ****ing Who?"), he paints big lyrical hood murals ("Hood Took Me Under" & "Jack Mode"), he constantly reps his hood ("Compton 4 Life"), experiments ("N*ggaz Strugglin" & "U's a B*tch"), and destroys with rapid fire delivery ("Hit the Floor"). He may be the only artist to ever hold his own on a track with the great Brad Jordan a.k.a. Scarface ("N 2 Deep").
Production is cutting edge as well and again. After the slightly uninspired Staight Checkn'em album, this album returns to the original formula that made It's a Compton Thang so great - creative use of samples. "Hood Done Took Me Under" is the classic example. Eiht rips the Isaac Hayes sample used by Easy Mo B for Notorious BIG a few years later for "Warning", and a good decade before Ludacris used it again on his "Chicken & Beer" album. To top it all off, the loop was vastly superior to either of these uses or numerous others. Or better yet, check the clever use of scratches and snippets on "Who's ****ing Who?" where Tim Dog's voice is used to scorch himself. The complete bastardization of BDP's classic "South Bronx" was even a bold manuver with, to my surprise, absolutely no response from Krs-ONE. And to wrap it all up, you get the smooth instrumental "Music To Driveby" to round it all out.
Yeah sure, Eiht didn't get the national recognition until We Come Strapped a few years later. But that album, in my opinon, pales in comparison to the overuse of the same production used on Driveby's "Hood Rat" and waaaaaaay to many "Geeyah's". Driveby's way more diverse in both production and lyrics and does not suffer from any overused topics that Eiht would later be forced to employ from the overabundance of other Gangsta rappers and their albums.
If you're even a mild fan of gangsta rap or even hip hop in general, do yourself a favor and pick up this classic.
Average customer rating:
- Tap...tap-a-taaay-ooohhhh yeaaah
- We got that Tapatio...Tap..Tap...a tio
- Phenomenal as always!
- WOW! I haven't heard nothing better!
- Instant Classic!!!
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Hawthorne's Most Wanted
Manufacturer: Syntax Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000OCZBXA
Release Date: 2007-05-22 |
Tracks:
- Deep Thoughts
- Welcome All
- Guns & Roses (feat. Jayo Felony, Eek-A-Mouse, & Tonéx)
- Boulevard Knights
- 405 (feat. Lord Zen & Dannu of Visionaries)
- Tapatio (feat. Pigeon John)
- Hawthorne's Most Wanted (feat. Kurupt of Tha Dogg Pound)
- The Boombox Saints
- Krylon Teardrops
- The Time Has Come
- Battle of Little Bighorn (feat. Def Shepard)
- My People
- Songs They Sang
- Death of a Salesman (feat. Pigeon John)
Customer Reviews:
Tap...tap-a-taaay-ooohhhh yeaaah.......2007-06-02
Hotter than the 4th of July....
What else is there to say??
See ya at JF, Bro...
We got that Tapatio...Tap..Tap...a tio.......2007-05-28
Man...this album is sick. Lately, with cats like Pigeon John, The Procussions, and Red Cloud in the mix...hip hop is looking much brighter. I love it. This is some real hip hop. Track 13...man....that is reason enough to own the album. Dude spits with a flow like none other. Believe that.
Phenomenal as always!.......2007-05-26
RedCloud alway drops the clean beats that tell it like it is without the unnecessary language. Gotta love his Hip-Hop style that is so unique and one of the best i've heard. HMW a must have in your hip-hop library not to mention "Is This Thing On" and "Traveling Circus".
WOW! I haven't heard nothing better!.......2007-05-24
I got this album today and it suprised me! It was soooooo good!!! This is a must buy record yall!
Instant Classic!!!.......2007-05-24
Redcloud has been putting it down on the west coast underground circuit for years. His time has finally come with this album. Forget the fact that he has San Diego native Jayo Felony and DPG Kurupt on here flowin without any profantiy, Cloud holds this album down on his own. The guest appearences are just a added bonus.
I have all of Clouds albums and would have to say that this is his best work yet. The true hip hop enthusiast would apreciate the west coast style beats with lyrics that would make Rakim's jaw drop. On top of that this album boasts the work of one of the most underated DJ's in the game, DJ Wise. Wise's scratches are drop dead amazing. Your jaw will hit the ground when you hear scratches of Hulk Hogan, yes THAT Hulk Hogan.
If your reading this, it means your interested in the album. All I can say is that this ranks up there as an instant classic. I'm talking "Bizzare Ride" style classic.
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Texas Most Wanted
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Release Date: 2006-06-27 |
Tracks:
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Product Description
From the label that brought you the hit Yo Cadillac, Big Wheel Records is back with a huge collabo album with Texas supergroup, DSR. This new CD features the entire Big Wheel camp: Froze Ony, Rizzo, Young Tay, Doughboy, O2, and Lil Richard. Included are new flows from the DSR/T-Town family; Big Tuck, Tum-Tum, Addiction, Lil Ronnie, Big Tite, Fat B, and Double T. This 2 disc set features tracks Screwed & Chopped by DJ Cap @ Tha Bomb.
Average customer rating:
- THIS MAN IS RAW!!!!!!!.........TO ME THA MOST FEARED MC,ON THA WEST!!!!
- YOU'VE SLEPT FAR TOO LONG
- I tried hard to love this album...
- CLASSIC HARDCORE GANGSTA RAP AT IT'S BEST !!!
- geeah growin up n da hood
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Straight Checkn 'Em
Compton's Most Wanted
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ASIN: B0000027S9
Release Date: 1991-07-16 |
Tracks:
- Intro
- They Still Gafflin'
- Growin' Up In The Hood
- Wanted
- Straight Checki 'Em
- I Don't Dance
- Raised In Compton
- Driveby Miss Daisy
- Def Wish
- Compton's Lynchin
- Mike T's Funky Scratch
- Can I Kill It?
- Gangsta Shot Out
Customer Reviews:
THIS MAN IS RAW!!!!!!!.........TO ME THA MOST FEARED MC,ON THA WEST!!!!.......2005-12-15
MC EIGHT HAD A GOOD RUN....BACK IN THA DAYZ....I'LL NEVER FORGET HIS HARDCORE CLASSICS.MUST TRY MUST BUY.
YOU'VE SLEPT FAR TOO LONG.......2005-10-26
CMT's straight checkin em is one of the best albums to come out of the west coast.Its the gangstarr of compton.It consist of beats,rhymes(1 mc),scratching.Sounds like hip hop to me.The production on this album is sick.Its so different than the other westcoast cats from this time.If you are a fan of GSTARRS Take It Personal album then you will enjoy this.If you are a fan of the east coast sound of the early 9ds then you will like this.YOU'VE SLEPT FOR FAR TOO LONG.GRAB IT.A CLASSIC.
I tried hard to love this album..........2005-04-07
but I was really disappointed with it when it came out. Being a huge fan of It's A Compton Thang, I immediately went out and purchased Straight Checkn 'Em. I was expecting more of the same: original hardcore and humourous lyrics, great beats, and CMW's unique style. What I got was a mixed bag with flashes of brilliance but mostly uninspired songs.
After a pointless intro, the album starts off nicely with "They Still Gafflin". Good hardcore ruff stuff I'd come to expect from CMW. The undisputed classic "Growin' Up in the Hood" from the Boyz In The Hood soundtrack pops up next. If you have somehow managed to miss this track in your travels, just know that this was the song that made CMW's career. It is the beginning of their recognition outside of California and easily one of the most influential songs in all Gangsta rapdom. Unfortunately, after this track the album starts to slip.
Part of the strength of Compton Thang was the creative samples and loops that Unknown had hooked up. For most of the remainder of Checkn 'Em, beats appeared that had been used only a year or two before by greats like Big Daddy Kane (see "Straight Checkn 'Em") and others. I got the feeling that this album may have been done as some sort of rush job to keep up with the tidal wave that "Growin' Up in the Hood" had created. Let it suffice to say that the beats sound very formulaic and few risks were taken with production.
That doesn't mean that there are not some gems here. To this day I find "I Don't Dance" a hysterical dedication to those of us that were and are too cool to do the running man. A glimmer of the old CMW production brilliance is here when Eiht becomes exasperated when a club DJ "threw on the 'Ice Ice Baby'". The notorious sample of "Under Pressure" by Queen pops up momentarily and Eiht deadpans that "that !*%? don't faze me". The DJ work on the hook is also brilliant: Zapp "I can make you dance" followed by LL Cool J "I don't think so". Also, despite it's poor sound quality, it is difficult not to be impressed by the ambition of "Driveby Miss Daisy" where Eiht successfully paints a vivid lyrical motion picture of a gangster tale gone wrong.
A final disappointment was a decided lack of Chill aka Tha Chill aka Tha Chill M.C. I know that Chill had run into some legal trouble between "Growin' Up in the Hood" and Checkn' Em and that he eventually did a bid for whatever it was, (hence his complete disappearance from the music scene until '97 or '98). If I had to guess, I'd say he had a lot of legal battles and other troubles on his mind while the rest of CMW must have been struggling to focus on this album.
While it is far from garbage, this album remains to me as a blemish on the recording career of CMW. Despite my disappointment, it remains an album worth checking out as it is better than a lot of other garbage out there today and back then as well. I consider it a slight misstep before the greatness to come on the follow-up classic Music To Driveby.
CLASSIC HARDCORE GANGSTA RAP AT IT'S BEST !!!.......2004-01-07
I HAVE GOT TO ADMIT IT. A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WHERE LISTENING TO GANGSTA RAP BACK IN THE DAY SLEPT ON THIS ALBUM. HELL, I DIDN'T BUY IT UNTIL 1994. IT CAME OUT IN 1991. BUT AS I REMEMBER THE ONLY SONG I EVER HEARD WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT WAS "GROWING UP IN THE HOOD". WHICH WAS FEATURED ON THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE MOVIE "BOYZ IN THE HOOD". MAN IF I KNEW THAT THE WHOLE ALBUM WAS THAT GOOD WHEN I FINALLY BOUGHT IT IN 1994. I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT IT IN 1991, WHEN IT WAS FIRST RELEASED. COMPTON'S MOST WANTED ORIGINALLY HAD FOUR MEMBERS. MC EIHT,MC CHILL,DJ MIKE T, AND ANOTHER GUY NAMED UNKNOWN. BUT THE ONLY PEOPLE YOU HEAR ON THIS ALBUM IS MC EIHT AN DJ MIKE T. MC CHILL ONLY RAPS ON ONE SONG AND THAT'S "GROWING UP IN THE HOOD". I BELIEVE UNKNOWN IS THE GUY WHO MADE UP MOST OF THE BEATS. BOY,DID HE EVER DO A GOOD JOB. THIS ALBUM HAS SOME OF THE TIGHTEST AND MOST HAUNTING BEATS I'VE EVER HEARD. BUT IT'S MY MAN MC EIHT WHO GET'S ALL THE GLORY WITH HIS TRADEMARK CALL "JEAH". IF YOU LIKE HARD ASS BEATS AND HARD ASS RHYMES. YOU LOVE THIS CD. THERE ARE NO WEAK MOMENTS ON THIS CD.MY FAVORITE SONG IS "DEF WISH". A DISS SONG TO DJ QUIK. ALL THE OTHER SONGS ARE ALSO TOP NOTCH. INCLUDING "I DON'T DANCE" "RAISED IN COMPTON" AND "CAN I KILL IT" . THE LATTER SAMPLES THE SONG "LOVE T.K.O." BY TEDDY PENDERGRASS. COME TO THINK OF IT , ALMOST ALL OF THE BEATS ON THIS ALBUM ARE SAMPLES. THAT'S HOW THE RAP GAME WAS BACK IN 1991.EVERYBODY WAS SAMPLING BEATS FROM OLD RECORDS.BUT C.M.W. DOES'NT USE A LOT OF JAMES BROWN AND PARLIAMENT. LIKE MOST RAPPERS BACK IN THOSE DAYS WHERE DOING.IF YOU LIKE OTHER CLASSIC WEST COAST HARDCORE RAPPERS SUCH AS N.W.A , ICE-T AND SPICE-1. YOU'LL LOVE MC EIHT AND COMPTON'S MOST WANTED. WHAT REALLY MADE ME GO BUY THIS CD THREE YEARS AFTER IT'S RELEASE WAS THE ALBUM THAT THEY RELEASED AFTER THIS "MUSIC TO DRIVEBY".I BOUGHT THAT ONE AND I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT HOW THE PREVIOUS ALBUM SOUNDED.AS THE YEARS PASSED "STRAIGHT CHECK'EN EM" HAS WENT ON TO BECOME ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE RAP ALBUMS.MAN, I CAN LISTEN TO THIS CD ALL DAY WITHOUT EVER GETTING TIRED OF HEARING IT. CHECK IT OUT. DON'T SLEEP.
geeah growin up n da hood.......2002-11-02
this was bumping back in 91 and i will bump this now mc eiht always hel;d his own from his debut these songs are street jams and hit hard and dj mike t ain't bad either on turntables. faves are compton's lynchin, def wish, driveby miss daisy.
Average customer rating:
- I LOVE THIS ALBUM!!
- 4.5 star Near classic Debut album
- Nice One
- Formulaic Yet Fresh
- Not great, but a good start...
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Get Down or Lay Down
Philly's Most Wanted
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
East Coast
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rap
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B00005CCVQ
Release Date: 2001-08-07 |
Tracks:
- Radikal
- Y'all Can't Never Hurt Us
- Suckas
- Pretty Tony
- Please Don't Mind (featuring Andre Wilson)
- Philly Celebrities
- Ladies Choice
- The Question
- Cross The Border
- Dream Car (Do You Wanna Ride)
- The Reason
- What Makes Me
- Suckas Pt. 2 (For Da Gangstas)
- The Game
- Piece Of The Pie
- Street Taz (featuring The Clipse)
- This B***h
- Cross The Border (J.B.M. Remix)
Customer Reviews:
I LOVE THIS ALBUM!!.......2007-06-21
man this will be my second time around getting this album, i love it. i cracked up when i heard the one skit with the fake gameshow and the square dude..."this is stanley, b* a** n*ga"...then the one dude was tellin the host.."i cant call u stay hard"...haha!!! i thought it was so funny but i used to listen to this cd in college and after all the time i had it like the 3rd month after released in 2001. Ofcourse I lost it but i'm gettn another all over to bang in my whip.
4.5 star Near classic Debut album.......2005-09-07
Mr. Man & Boobonic bring a very tight album for their debut. After basically coming from nowhere, I never heard them on another song before this album or after this until their 2nd album dropped 3 years later. The Philly natives bring 14 songs, with the Neptunes providing beats for 10 of them (and actually they're for the most part very nicely produced even though I usually can't stand more then 2 or 3 of their beats on 1 album), T-Mix of Suave House nicely does 2 songs, and Epitome & Just Blaze each do 1. Of the 14 songs on here, 3 are classics, another 2-5 are near classics, 4 are ok and the rest are good, none I really skip over. Guests are minimal, rapping on 3 songs and doing hooks on a couple others. A must have album for rap fans.
#1 - 9.5 (tight beat)
#2 - 9
#3 - 8
#5 - 9.5 (f/ Andre Wilson -- nice relaxing ebat)
#6 - 10 (CLASSIC -- tight beat)
#7 - 9 (f/ Tammy Lucas -- nice beat)
#9 - 6.5
#10 - 7.5 (f/ Neptunes)
#12 - 10 (CLASSIC -- tight beat)
#13 - 10 (CLASSIC -- great beat -- f/ Beanie Sigel & Roscoe P Goldchain)
#14 - 9 (nice beat)
#16 - 6.5 (f/ Clipse)
#17 - 7
#18 - 8 (f/ Pusha T & Fabolous)
Mr. Man & Boobonic -- Philadelphia, PA
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Nice One.......2004-09-27
Philly's Most Wanted did a great job on their new album. they came much better than their last album. This one is bangin from the beginning to the end.
Formulaic Yet Fresh.......2004-04-05
The recipe for successful commercial hip-hop seems to be overly thuggish rapping over bright and bouncy club-style beats. Everyone from Jay-Z to N.O.R.E. to P. Diddy has repeated this formula time and time again. Enter Philly's Most Wanted. This young duo from Philadelphia released "Get Down or Lay Down" in 2001. The vast majority of the record was produced by The Neptunes, who, after crafting hits for Mystikal, Jay-Z, and Beenie Man the year before, were on the verge of huge success that they are currently enjoying, making songs for every popular act in the music business.
The Neptunes created beats for a large number of the songs here. This makes them sound very interesting. The two rappers, Boo-Bonic and Mr. Man, constantly rap about nothing but beautiful women, getting respect from the haters, packing heat, and selling drugs. Sound familiar? Of course. But how can you be mad when they are presented over such a lush soundscape? The line-trading of "Philly Celebrities" has such a bouncy beat that you cannot help but think of riding with the top down in the summertime. And the verses spit on "Cross the Border" and "Please Don't Mind" sound so slick that the average lyricism and tired subject matter (pushing drugs and picking up girls at the club, respectively) doesn't even phase you.
Of course, there are a few weak points. By the end of the CD, the trademark Neptunes beats sound a little boring and the lyrics become a little predictable. But still, you can't get mad when The Neptunes produce great music and the few other guest producers (including Just Blaze) fare just as well. Congratulations to Most Wanted AND The Neptunes for creating a rap album that although based on what has been done and will be done many more times, still manages to sound fresh, giving you beats to nod your head to, ride to, and quick lyrics you won't need to decipher but rather just listen and enjoy for music's sake.
Not great, but a good start..........2001-12-03
This album would've probably done alot better in the times of Mase and Puffy. (...) Almost every song is good or desent, but it still needs alot of work. My favorite song is Dream Car (Do You Wanna Ride). This song would've dominated in the times of Rolleys and shiny suits.
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Gangsta's Most Wanted
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Eureka
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Gangsta & Hardcore
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
West Coast
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
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General
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Pop Rap
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
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| Indie Music
| Stores
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ASIN: B00005LN6C
Release Date: 2001-07-31 |
Tracks:
- 11350
- Raised In Tha Hood - Volume 10
- Rhyme Slow
- Three Dollar Bill
- M.O.B.
- Mad Man - Lunisicc/Killa Tay/Dosia Clice
- Smiling Faces
- Breakout
- 1999
- All Day All Night - Jayo Felony
- Every Single Day - Baby S/MG/King Lou/Andre Wilson
- 4 In Tha Mornin
- My Name In Yo Mouth - Money Green
- Pomona 2 Compton - Kokane/KCavie
- That's On My Mama
- That's On Me - Jayo Felony
Average customer rating:
- One of the best debuts ever
- I love this cd
- the best westcoast album ever
- 1990 RELEASE FROM COMPTONS-MC EIHT
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It's a Compton Thang
Compton's Most Wanted
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
Gangsta & Hardcore
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
West Coast
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rap
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
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- Straight Checkn 'Em
- Black 9
- Tha Triflin' Album
- Runaway Slave
- Shock of the Hour
ASIN: B00000DR3Y
Release Date: 1990-05-25 |
Tracks:
- One Time Gaffled Em Up
- I'm Wit Dat
- Final Chapter
- I Give Up Nuthin
- This Is compton
- Rhymes Too Funky Pt. 1 (Live At Lonzo's 1988)
- Duck Sick
- Give It Up
- Late Night Hype
- I Mean Biznez
- It's A Compton Thang
Customer Reviews:
One of the best debuts ever.......2005-06-16
Compton's Most Wanted's CD It's A Compton Thing is one of the best debut rap albums to ever grace the rap industry. I remember when the tv channel The Box was just hitting the airway's back in '90, the Compton's Most Wanted video "One Time Gafflin' Up" was one of the videos that I could identify on that channel. MC Eiht & Chill MC made a great dynamic duo even though Chill MC was heard on half of the CD. As one writer said, this was the alternative to NWA at that time. My favorite song on here is "It's Compton Thang" the title track with "Late Night Hype" in second by a hair. This CD did not really have a lot of explicit lyrics in it for a group from Compton. Live at Lonzo's is short but dope rhyming from Chill & Eiht. It's a shame that Chill MC did not rap on Staight Check'em or Music to Driveby because I think from a lyrical standpoint, he was better than Eiht(No offense). Overall, an outstanding debut and this is their second best one after Music to Driveby. One final thing, what ever happened to Chill MC? Peace!!
I love this cd.......2003-11-02
mc eiht was tight and this was his first joint back in the day featurex the chill mc who somehow fell off after this first release anyway cmw was like nwa's flipside and if eazy and the ruthless posse was'nt so mainstream they would have probaly sounded liuke this but still I love eiht's rhymeflow like in the final chapter with about 4 james brown samples keeping it ghetto, and late nite hype which uses anita baker's angel very nicely while eiht and chill describe the hood and what can happen if you're caught slipping at night and it's a compton thing is my favorite I miss the good old days.
the best westcoast album ever.......2002-06-18
this album has it all great lyrics by eiht and tha chill great beats by dj slip and dj unknown this is my most played cd can wait for tha chill solo album
1990 RELEASE FROM COMPTONS-MC EIHT.......1999-11-22
YO.THIS CD IZ OLDE SCHOOL THE RHYMES ARE RUFF BEATS ARE SLAMMING.UNFORTUANATLY.MY CD ONLY HAD 10 TRACKS COMPARED TO 11 THAT THIS CD CARRIES 46:09 DJ ANT-C PRODUCES THIS RARIETY
Average customer rating:
- cmw 4 life
- GOOD but not enough
- the bomb
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Represent
Compton's Most Wanted
Manufacturer: Half Ounce
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Gangsta & Hardcore
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
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General
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Styles
| Music
West Coast
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| Rap & Hip-Hop
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| Funk
| R&B
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| Rap & Hip-Hop
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| Stores
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Gangsta & Hardcore
| Rap & Hip-Hop
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
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- Death Threatz
ASIN: B000050I57
Release Date: 2000-11-21 |
Tracks:
- Intro
- This Is Compton 2000
- Some May Know
- Get Money
- What U Like It Like
- 100%
- Then U Gone
- All Around The Hood
- Endolude - 'Welcome To Los Angeles'
- Them Niggaz
- So Don't Go There
- Represent
- Like Me
- Pull The Trigger
- Slang My Keys
- Front Page
Customer Reviews:
cmw 4 life.......2002-03-25
Well unlike the other reviewer this cd is tight, the beats were tight keep in mind that when cmw came out back in the day the beats were different, and rap music came a long way from james brown-pfunk samples. the beats are still ghetto and hardcore and it's still eiht saying geeah, so i see no problem with i. this is for mc eiht fans really cauise we only heard chill on the first cd anyway, If you feeling this pick up eiht's tha8t'z gangsta for more of that compton thang.
GOOD but not enough.......2001-03-20
I have to disagree with the guy above, although i am a massive CMW fan, this album compared with their previous joints was quite a let down, i mean it is still woth buying but it does not stand up against music to drive by or any other of thier older albums. A few tracks were taken off mc eihts "n my neighbourhood" album and put straight on here, which is also annoying. In case you didnt notice the cover is remnisent of another group from compton (NWA) but the album is not quite so ground breaking. Unless you are a hardcore CMW fan you would be better off getting the greatest hits album "1989-99 when we wuz bangin"
the bomb.......2000-11-22
this cmw album is the best to date. i like how the guy's came back together after seven years .i have been following cmw since there first album It's a compton thang eiht bam and chill are the bomb Dj slip's production is like he never left it's the same old school flavor that a lot of atrist don't generate these days i would advise all real hardcore hip hop fans who like scarface master p three six mafia snoop dogg etc. to pick up this hot new release from cmw it's all good "REPRESENT"s the S--t
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