00:02Alright, it's your boy KFC and today I'll be blind ranking some of my favorite albums.
00:05I'm almost like nervous to see what you got, bro.
00:08Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:10Bro, we are starting, starting with the score.
00:15I was gonna, I was, I was gonna say my approach to this is like,
00:18no matter what comes out, I'm gonna put it three,
00:20cause I just need the wiggle room.
00:22I mean the score, how many mics, ready or not, zealous, the beast,
00:25Fuji La, family, killing them softly, no woman, no cry.
00:29I think this sold like 15 million records.
00:32It was also at a very formative time in my life as far as what my musical taste was gonna
00:37be.
00:40I, I, I gotta put this two.
00:41And I almost could put this one safely and confidently,
00:45but just because I don't know what else is in that bag of tricks, I'll go number two.
00:49Hard to top the score though.
00:52Oh man, that's gonna, and I can't move them around, right?
00:57I'm locked in. Jesus Christ.
00:59Ooh, a total, total different genre, a total different vibe here.
01:06Appetite for Destruction is early.
01:07I think this is almost in like 1989 almost.
01:10So it's a little bit before my time.
01:12Guns N' Roses for me was more November Rain, Use Your Illusion 1 and 2.
01:16That's when I like really got into Guns N' Roses.
01:19And then kind of went back to Appetite for Destruction.
01:22I can't claim to be like the biggest Guns N' Roses fan.
01:27Uh, but, but straight, just Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child of Mine alone
01:30is enough to get me going.
01:32But I will, I am more of a hip hop head, but as far as like my other genres that
01:36I like,
01:37early nineties rock like that is up there.
01:39But I will, I still gotta put this lower on the list.
01:41Yeah, I'll go six here.
01:44Who tipped you off?
01:44Right there.
01:45Yeah.
01:46He's like, people don't know.
01:48Yeah, I do.
01:48I do like that stuff.
01:49I mean, the early nineties, man, is like death row records and west coast hip hop.
01:55East coast hip hop is about to come.
01:56But then there's like the grunge rock type movement.
02:00And I was like a free agent music wise.
02:02I could go this direction or that direction.
02:05Dude, you are.
02:06Did you pick this?
02:08No.
02:08Are you getting tips for me?
02:09I got tips.
02:09Big pun, uh, while a very acclaimed rapper,
02:15I still think is maybe one of the most underrated rappers of all time,
02:18at least as far as lyricism flow.
02:22Uh, and this album, man.
02:24So when this album came out, there was like a gorilla marketing movement.
02:29And you know, when you see those stickers all over the city, those posters,
02:32it was everywhere, dude, big pun everywhere.
02:35And I had no idea who he was, but I remember seeing that all over in the Bronx.
02:40And then this album comes out.
02:42It's one of the most underrated albums of all time.
02:45It's got the weird, like, I'm not a player, still not a player.
02:48Like I'm this incredibly fat guy, but I'm having a ton of sex.
02:51But then just like bars and lyrics, beware, black thoughts on the album.
02:58Like, you came up, you got Nori, like a really unbelievable first effort.
03:03I could put this anywhere from, I could go three, four or five.
03:10I'll go four, I'll go four.
03:13Great pick though, great pick.
03:16I mean, Life After Death is, is a real, uh, for me, an album like,
03:23Ready To Die, I am nine years old.
03:27That's young, you know?
03:28And I'm not much older, just a few years later, but I think this was 97 into 98.
03:32And at that point, I'm in like sixth, seventh grade and starting to like,
03:37really listen to my own music.
03:39And the fact that it comes out like after his death,
03:42the double disc, all the nineties rappers almost had to have a double disc to their name.
03:47And this is obviously Biggie's big effort.
03:52I mean, you can easily put this number one if you wanted.
03:55Hypnotize, my money, my problems,
03:56Notorious Thugs, Sky's the Limit, Going Back to Cali,
03:59Ten Crack Commandments, all on there.
04:00My personal favorite song off this album is the Ten Crack Commandments.
04:03I, which is very funny to say.
04:06But when you get, when you get Biggie and DJ Premier together, it's unreal.
04:11I got a story to tell.
04:12It's one of my favorite beats in the history of music.
04:14Notorious Thugs, when, you know, all of a sudden,
04:17Biggie can spit the same way Bone Thugs can.
04:20I'm trying to think of what you might have in there that would be number one.
04:29That could have gone anywhere on the board, bro.
04:31That could have gone absolutely anywhere.
04:33That is that, it's that kind of album.
04:39So, I mean, Jay-Z is, in my opinion, he's my favorite rapper of all time.
04:44I believe the best rapper of all time in terms of actual, like, MC rapping ability,
04:50but also the commercial success.
04:52He balanced it perfectly.
04:53And I think I would say Blueprint is his best album.
04:57Reasonable Doubt Blueprint, Black Album to me, can kind of all, on any given day,
05:01might be my favorite.
05:01But Blueprint, again, was 2001.
05:05The lore behind it, dropping on 9-11, and he still sells like a million in the first week.
05:11Like, the biggest, most horrific tragedy didn't even slow Jay-Z down.
05:16By the way, I believe we will get Jay-Z's new album at this 25th anniversary in 9-11.
05:22You know, you're killing me, Hamilton.
05:26Because, like, the score is probably a more impactful musical album.
05:35That group, Lauryn Hill, goes on to become, like, a music icon.
05:41Wyclef is, like, this genre-bending, innovative genius.
05:46And it's sold, like, 15 million records with an amazing list of singles.
05:50But as far as what I like, and what is more important to me, and memorable to me,
05:56and hits that I, that are a part of, like me, I gotta put Jay-Z at the top.
06:01Almost no matter what album it was.
06:03If you picked out Black Album, if you picked out Reasonable Doubt,
06:06I probably would have had to put Jay-Z number one.
06:10But, I'll take that top three, bro.
06:12In any order, the top three of the Fugees, Jay-Z, and Biggie, I'm good to go.
06:16Final one, though.
06:17Is this gonna, am I gonna be upset, or is this gonna fit in perfectly at number five?
06:23This one, you definitely got help.
06:25This one, you for sure got help.
06:27Lost Boys, Legal Drug Money, the first album I ever bought.
06:32First rap album I ever bought.
06:33I think my first album was the cassette of Dookie, Green Day.
06:37Because, again, I go both ways.
06:39But, Lost Boys, it's so ridiculous to think of me being, like, I don't know,
06:4610, 9, 8, 9, 10 years old.
06:48I'm in, like, elementary school.
06:50And I'm buying legal drug money from the Lost Boys.
06:53I'm singing along with Mr. Cheeks and Freaky Pa.
06:56I mean, Renee, if you don't know the song Renee,
06:59Renee is the most, like, romantic rap song of all time.
07:02It's the most tragic song of all time.
07:04And it's about this guy, and he meets this girl, and she ends up dying.
07:07And I'm, like, 10, and I'm rapping along to this guy,
07:10talking about how he's smoking blunts with the new girl that he met.
07:13But now, all of a sudden, she's dead.
07:14There's a run of this album from Music Makes Me High,
07:18Jeeps, Lexi, Coos, Beamers, and the Benz, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,
07:21into Renee is, like, a pretty unstoppable run on this record right here.
07:29I'm okay with this at five.
07:30I am okay with this at five.
07:32Personally speaking, I could put this higher.
07:35But in terms of this list, like, Jay-Z, the Fugees, Biggie, Pun, Lost Boys,
07:41I'm cool with that.
07:43But one of the better, more underrated groups in music.
07:48Like, they were awesome in a very special part of my elementary school life.
07:53I'll take it, though, man.
07:56The only thing, so now we can do a little rearranging if I needed to?
07:59You want to rearrange.
07:59Okay.
08:02But I don't know if I would.
08:04I don't know if I would.
08:05I would say this.
08:06Jay-Z, I think, needs to be number one.
08:08But I think the score is a better album, more impactful album.
08:14So those two could maybe flip, but I think I'm going to leave it alone.
08:17Biggie, I think, is perfect right there.
08:19I could maybe swap Big Pun and the Lost Boys for, like, the important.
08:25I can't say that Capital Punishment was, like, an important album to me.
08:28Legal Drug Money is.
08:29But as far as just, like, the better rap album,
08:32I think Big Pun probably wins that battle.
08:35Edges out the Lost Boys and Mr. Cheeks.
08:37I'm good.
08:38I'm good.
08:39I think I nailed it.
08:40For me, personally, I think this, other than maybe flopping the score,
08:43but I think, personally speaking, this is exactly how I would do it.
08:47I'm KFC, and this was me blind ranking my favorite albums.
08:51Make sure you like and subscribe to see who's up next
08:53and which albums they're going to pick.
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