Underground Vol. 1 is as good as any UGK or OutKast album

what was the impact of Run DMC? I never really bothered going thru their music cuz s*** kinda boring to me

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One of the greatest for sure

I didn't say they didn't have good albums. They just don't have 3+ classic albums. Their best work is on their mixtapes. It's scattered around.

Run DMC lifted hip hop out of the disco/electro rap era and birthed both the sound and lyrical approach of hardcore hip hop. They learned a lot from Caz and Grandmaster Flash, but they were the first to connect the dots sonically and lyrically for a whole album. The rugged, percussive, raw sound that hip hop to this day uses, and any kind of hardcore lyricism at all, even rugged s*** in trap rap, all comes from Run DMC's debut album. They also helped popularize the use of 808s in hip hop, if you go back to their early work, a lot of it sounds like very primitive versions of trap beats.

G-Unit

Yeah I'll give you that. They def have 2 classics, but probably not 3, unless you count Smoked Out Loced Out, but I think that's a mixtape.

But like I said, if you just compare like their top 100 songs to any group, they can hang

The definition of the parts being better than the sum. They never coalesced into a truly incredible group, but individually spawned three legends.

Beg For Mercy was dope tho. And they all dropped nice solos. I even liked Yayo's album.

respects

I'm def gon have to give some attention to that debut. Didn't know they were that important in the history of all this s***

Yeah Run DMC basically future proofed the genre and lifted it out of being perceived as a mostly novel style of music.

peep this song, uses hihat rolls and 808s drums mixed with breakbeats, back in 1988. sounds a lot like trap in many ways

nOtHiNg bEaTs tHe wu

They goats definitely but the Wu and Tribe are the ones b, Sorry

I agree

They all did their thing solo, and 50/Game/Banks are easily legends. But their discography overall, imo, doesn't go to bat with other better groups, i.e. Public Enemy, Three 6, Beastie Boys, OutKast, Tribe, UGK, etc

If not the greatest then the most influential. More consistent than nwa, tribe and wu

You can’t be serious lmao

Yeah, they fell off when Buck left. That second album was weak.

Gotta be Wu then. Even though I don't like a bunch of their projects.

damn this really is ahead of its time for '88

heard that sample in a couple trap songs too thats crazy