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so, straight bangin’ put out a call to list the greatest 25 hip hop records of all time. i’m pretty sure i’ve missed the cutoff point for submissions, but it’s a slow(er) workday and i put in some work at organizing my list.

as much as i respect kane, ll, fresh prince, bdp, etc… i only want to list albums that i own and have had the ability to bang over and over again through the years. now i recognize the greatness of momma said & criminal minded, but i never bought ‘em, and because of that, neither holds the same place in my heart as my scratchless boogiemonsters disk. honeydips in gotham isn’t the same anthem as jimmy, but it certainly got more spins in my house.

the first cd(s) i ever bought was epmd’s business never personal and pete rock & cl smooth’s mecca & the soul brother. it doesn’t take a mcScholar to tell you which one of those two have stood the test of times. i had tapes before then, but most of those were dubs from friends & family. the best part about dubs was that you only had to get the tracks you liked. so when i started to look back at some of the “albums” that i thought i remembered, i was a bit off — basically, if somebody had two good albums, i would grab all the songs i liked and throw them together. in modern terms, itunes & playlists are causing this same problem.

UPDATED. work is still slow and i’ve been able to add commentary to the list.

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the singlemost greatiest pick-churr of all times, period

this can not be debated. i have held onto this pic for longer than i can remember. jayde nicole steele. jade steele. whatever her club name is. this pic was lifted from an open directory on the gamecrib website. i snatched a couple others, made some desktops, etc… but, this has always been my favorite picture of them all. this pic sent me on a hunt for everything jade steele related.

upcoming: i saw a .jpg of another model wearing a similar bikini recently. that model will be entered into these same hallowed halls of fame. so, i guess this is a third in the series of “category ideas masquerading as posts,” but, before we could do the category any justice at all, we needed the first, the goat, jade5.jpg.