Would you say that Madvillainy is the best sampled based Hip Hop album of the post golden era of sample driven music?

Is Madvilliany is the best sampled based Hip Hop album of the post golden era of sample driven music

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    Votes: 4 44.4%
  • No

    Votes: 5 55.6%

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The Intergalactic Koala

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Ehhhh yeah and no.

Yeah as far as it being the staple of sample based hip hop on a mainstream appeal level, but nothing will ever top this:

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Mans told his illness, memories, and eventful demise all on the drum machine with this banger.

Madvillian is dope don't get me wrong, but being able to manipulate samples to mesh with the storytelling of a album, this jawn was light years and still aged so well.
 

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Best? No.

It’s a great album but there have been plenty of sample based Hip Hop albums since then that have stood the test of time and are up there quality wise and thematically.

What Madvillainy did was make it clear that lyricism that rode the line between “backpack” and gangster had a place and MCs who weren’t part of a huge machine with corporate backing could not only succeed, but be great at rap.

On paper, MF DOOM and Madlib should’ve never created a masterpiece, let alone drawn the audience they did. The average rap fan then and now had/have no idea who Lootpack, Likwit Crew, KMD or Monster Island Czars are, but somehow, the duo of Madvillain became well known through dumb luck and quality that went viral at a time when viral was just becoming a thing.

A masterpiece of an album, but I don’t know if it’s the best in the underground, sample based genre.

:manny:
 

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Ehhhh yeah and no.

Yeah as far as it being the staple of sample based hip hop on a mainstream appeal level, but nothing will ever top this:

250px-Dilladonutscover.jpg

Mans told his illness, memories, and eventful demise all on the drum machine with this banger.

Madvillian is dope don't get me wrong, but being able to manipulate samples to mesh with the storytelling of a album, this jawn was light years and still aged so well.

Endtroducing... from DJ Shadow was great as well :manny:

I felt MM..Food was better imo though but Madvilliany is still a classic.
 

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Endtroducing... from DJ Shadow was great as well :manny:

I felt MM..Food was better imo though but Madvilliany is still a classic.
Funny you mention Endtroducing, as that was the first album that pop into my head concerning sampling. Its up there, but sadly I haven't revisited the album in quite some time.

I loved MM...Food, but the problem was that the album felt lazy as hell (which DOOM was known for lol), compared to Operation Doomsday and his Viktor Vaughn jawns. Bad enough I heard some of the tracks before the actual album came out.
 

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Funny you mention Endtroducing, as that was the first album that pop into my head concerning sampling. Its up there, but sadly I haven't revisited the album in quite some time.

I loved MM...Food, but the problem was that the album felt lazy as hell (which DOOM was known for lol), compared to Operation Doomsday and his Viktor Vaughn jawns. Bad enough I heard some of the tracks before the actual album came out.

I respect that. It was more of the creative aesthetic for me. I liked the food related, 80s, cartoonish nostalgia to it. It felt liked a perfect 2004 Cartoon Network time capsule.
 

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I respect that. It was more of the creative aesthetic for me. I liked the food related, 80s, cartoonish nostalgia to it. It felt liked a perfect 2004 Cartoon Network time capsule.

NGL, I always let the instrumental parts spin. Especially Poo Putt Platter. Play that jawn while cooking like:

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