Do you consider Ruff Ryders Vol.1 a classic album?

[360dagod]

Hell nah...

To be honest, I liked Vol 2 more than Vol 1.


I still have Twisted Heat and Stomp on repeat.


Unpopular Opinion but Vol 3 was actually decent.

Stomp was the trick daddy/Yung wun joint right?

The Swizz and Busta joint was mean

 

[Mac Ten]

Stomp was the trick daddy/Yung wun joint right?

The Swizz and Busta joint was mean

It was...


The Drag-On joints weren't bad either. The Parle track should have been left in the vault though.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

It crazy how Rap journalism and culture redefines the meaning of Classic to mean perfect quality instead of just really old or genre defining.

Drake in a Rap Radar interview said something interesting to me that We may have to redefine what classic means in this era in terms of impact on a moment in the culture.

I’ve always differentiated between “critical” classics and “impact” classics…and IMO, impact was always more important

 

[Formerly known as...]

Definitely a classic to me.

 

[sayyestothis]

Loved this album. Lox joint. Jadas single..

Down bottom...

This one of my fav tracks. Sigeal set it off and Mysone kilt it.

 

[BulletProof]

Bruh..

The DVD was at best 20 cash and even less if you got it on bootleg...

No one said real gym options didnt exist..I said they weren't accessible to the average person in the hood which is part of the reason why the nyc Street/calisthenics culture is so popular...

Your clearly trolling, so I'm gonna go about my way..

You forgot the price of stamps.

And I'm dead fukking serious about how profoundly stupid that VHS collection is for so many reason.

But I have belabored the point.

Ol' have the last word ass...

 

[Alvin]

My 1999 Summer was ran by this album and Guerilla Warfare, I ran it back last night and only skipped one or two joints, personal classic for me.

yep, this both DMX albums, The LOX all dropped back to back, great run if not short Double R had. Also the only RR compilation I listen to, the rest got worse and worse.

 

[Alvin]

Hard body logo. Did they sell merch like Bandanas and Jerseys. They didn't or wouldn't sell as much as Rap merch now imo because the collector culture wasn't really a thing I believe in the late 90s like it is now. Could be wrong because no social media back then and very early internet era only being 3 years old basically

they def sold that, supreme actually rereleased them a couple of years ago.

 

[Alvin]

Love that DMX verse at 3:40 mark in 'The Ruff Ryders' video and the way he kicks it off.That is cool how Drag bumps into him on some telekinesis shyt, hardest shyt ever.

Sheek Louch best verse too, great example of a posse cut.

 

[Alvin]

Yeah.

Especially bandanas. It was Ruff Ryders after all.

They even tried to sell some dumbass "hood" fitness videos trying to get dudes to do pull ups on street lights and how to have crack heads spot you.

All through the mail.

 

[Food Mane]

Barely even worth bringing up especially with no disses from Cam. More of a very short span comment from listeners early on.

I always thought Cam was addressing him on Let me Know

 

[Newark88]

This album ran the Summer of 99. Also, Jigga My nikka and Down Bottom were the hottest songs that summer.

 

[28 Gramz]

This album ran the Summer of 99. Also, Jigga My nikka and Down Bottom were the hottest songs that summer.

Back Dat Azz Up was bigger than both.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Not with them casio preset swizz beats.