Coop Ranks Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Album As The 2nd Greatest Hip-Hop Album Of All-Time

[@trizzmatic413]

Purple Tape should’ve gotten 5 mics! It’s a timeless classic masterpiece! 👐🏾 #StudentOfTheWu

[@clarkkent52]

testimony how much great material was out i the 90s

[@trizzmatic413]

@@clarkkent52 Facts though! 💯 We had a lot of heat back in the mid-90s! ✌🏾

[@PeterBagjuice]

They revised the review and gave it 5 mics

[@trizzmatic413]

@@PeterBagjuice Yeah, I know but, it should’ve got it when it was initially released.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

​@@trizzmatic413enter the wu..ob4cl...liquid swords...ironman..Supreme clientele all 5 mics...ret of 36 & forever 4 1/2..mics

[@damienwyche2105]

That cd is perfect, from top to bottom, best ever!

[@nigelchapman9310]

I agree with Coup...I always say Illmatic and Cuban Linx are the 2 greatest rap albums ever! Nas best solo performance and Cuban Linx best produced album!

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Liquid swords > ob4cl

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Chronic > ob4cl

[@luddman77]

​​@jamaaldavis7907 not all the way through. It's some skips on the chronic, ob4cl has no skips

[@jamaaldavis7907]

@@luddman77 ob4cl ain't even best wu cd.. I put 36 chambers n liquid swords ova it

[@jamaaldavis7907]

@@luddman77 bar 4 bar ob4cl > chronic. But chronic n doggystyle way more impact ful

[@dr.gionetcooper6508]

Rainy Days+ Ice Water+ Glaciers of Ice= Dopeness

[@lovememoremeticulous4378]

Exactly Coop. Hip-Hop is the STREETS. We don’t give a fuck about what the Suburbs think or say or even the bourgeois black folk.

[@lovememoremeticulous4378]

Top 5/6 album to me. Yes OBFCL made you realize WU-TANG was different on a higher level and they spoke that 5% language.

[@ericanderson7059]

My dumbass gave one of my boys my purple Purple Tape , now Im ganna have to drop a couple hundred to replace it .

[@MLDoomsday]

Not sure I have it that high personally but it’s top 10 for sure.

[@21Invincible259]

Doggystyle and Cuban Linx made made me fall in love with hip hop. Before that I was listening to what my Mom listened to(Chaka Kahn, Anita Baker, Luther Vandross,etc.) I had the actual purple tape, I put clear scotch tape over the words so they wouldn’t smear off. I never heard anything like it and it confused me at first… by that 3rd listen I wanted a Hilfiger Shirt,a Helly Hansen Jacket and some Walabees…that’s another crazy thing about OB4CL…it influenced culture and style. N!gga I grew up in South Carolina and me and my friends were dressed like fly N!ggas from Staten Island. Wu Tang and later Kanye for better or worse raised me

[@errolholmes3838]

1996 was 17 ,,we fast forward the first song back then . Remember like yesterday .my folks Terry brought it first and we went to my others man’s house who moms had the best system .. we lost are mind . Yes this is the second best album to illmatic . Then maybe chronic or doggystyle

[@c.christopher6115]

My top 5 1. OB4CL 2. Illmatic 3. 36 Chambers 4. The infamous 5. Doggystyle This is my first time listening to this channel and I swear this dude Coop thinks exactly like me lol. My top 3 could have changed if they had more songs because all the songs on all 3 of them are classics to me.

[@Dondawda]

I’m just going say my favorite is Ghostface Killa’s Supreme Clientele…Purple Tape is a classic too…but that SC hit me different. I just love Ghosts style was more my lane…that thing is a masterpiece.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Liquid swords > s.c n ob4cl

[@airpegasus5167]

Ima Say Life After Death Is Better Than OB4CL. Rae’s Bars On The Purple Tape Isn’t Better Than BIG’s On LAD … Simple

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Ob4cl > l.a.d..

[@SD-vf1er]

Do a Cuban Linx vs Infamous breakdown. It’s closer than you think. I got it 8-8 and I’m essentially giving Cuban Linx 3 points.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Infamous > ob4cl 4 me...prodigy meant more 2 my hip hop den rae..ijs

[@ZYaKnoe249]

Infamous falls off in the second half

[@jamaaldavis7907]

@@ZYaKnoe249 b s. 🤣🤣

[@SD-vf1er]

⁠@@ZYaKnoe249I agree the first half is better but the second isn’t far off. And you know what Ice Cream has to match up with… Shook Ones and Ice Cream isn’t winning that. Drink Away The Pain beats Spot Rusherz and Cradle To The Grave and Wisdom Body is a toss up as they’re probably the weakest two from their respective albums. The first half is a problem though. Start of Your Ending is beating Knuckleheadz, Survival of the Fittest is beating Knowledge God, Eye For An Eye is beating Criminology, Incarcerated Scarface beats the Interlude which is a give me, Give Up The Goods is beating Rainy Dayz, Guillotine wins against Temperature’s Rising, Up North Trip beats Can It Be Remix and then Cuban Linx goes on its run winning with Ice Water, Glaciers of Ice and Verbal Intercourse against Trife Life, QU Hectic and Right Back At You. Cuban Linx also gets 3 at the end with Gambinios beating Party Over and getting +2 for Heaven and Hell and North Star not having match ups. Anyway you look at it, those albums are pretty damn even based on how you slice some of those match ups.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

@@SD-vf1er exactly Cuban Lin ain't lapping no infamous ..hysterical....Cuban link ain't lapping hell on earth either n honestly hell on earth > infamous imo..

[@bowling4clarity817]

The Purple Tape kinda shifted NY hip hop in the 95 . Things was grimy before Rae and Ghost dropped. Illmatic was beautiful but grimy, Ready To Die is grimy mostly . Now notice the street aesthetic and presentation of the albums by the aforementioned, It Was Written is a suddenly mafioso alias drug-caper narratives are reflective of what albums ? Life After Death, with the Frank White alias, and the several drug caper stories , Spanish drug connect talk, all this is Purple Tape influenced . Suddenly a whole slew of street rappers from NY are mafioso alias or twists on real or fictional notorious figures Capone N Noriega and several other examples.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

The Infamous was out b4 a purple tape n betta imo...in '95

[@bowling4clarity817]

@@jamaaldavis7907 I'm not mad at that take . I love Infamous , it's a masterpiece, I always say The Infamous is the raw close-up look of QB that Illmatic was more of an overview of . If Purple Tape is fly ass movie, Infamous was raw documentary footage .

[@jamaaldavis7907]

@@bowling4clarity817 mobb deep in the 90s...period was the raw n.y minus wu tang..& underrated m.o.p ..

[@jamaaldavis7907]

@@bowling4clarity817 in da 90s I got p > rae n ghost...career wise..all time rankings ghost > p. & rae....

[@AntiRevisionistHHH818]

Ice cream isn’t BIGGER than any song on Illmatic, but the albums are pretty neck and neck. But if I’m forced to pick one, I’d probably go with Rae cause the album is longer and still perfect. Also, the album is arguably the best produced ever, and certainly RZA’s best moment. Aquemini vs Cuban Linx? 🥶 too hard to call. It’s like splitting hairs tbh. Both on my top 10.

[@bundydachosen1]

Ice cream got way more radio play than ANY song on Illmatic … i dont think they mean it’s a better song but just more popular even to casuals who weren’t into hip hop like that !

[@dukenewcomb5470]

Everybody want's to sat Public Enemy TANOMTHUB as the joint, but the real measurement is Fear of A Black Planet. The best produced album through and through in Hiphop history. The Bomb Squads Magnum Opus. Mixed through and through, the album never stops

[@dukenewcomb5470]

@According 2 Hip Hop

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Fear of a black planet > It takes a nation..I always felt that way

[@Rob2380]

​@@jamaaldavis7907 I don't think any of their albums even come close It takes A Nation. The album had 5 incredible singles, which was rare in 88. Plus songs like She Watch Channel Zero etc. The discordant pause tape production resonates with me I guess, lol. I will say that as a kid the videos to Fight The Power and Brothers Gonna Work it Out changed me and taught me more about Black history and the Black struggle than what I was learning in elementary school. PE and KRS-One--I would be in awe when I saw them and wanted to learn more about what they were talking about.

[@dukenewcomb5470]

@@Rob2380 You talking about singles. You really think an album called Fear Of A Black Planet is going to get major commercial backing. Anyway, Fight the Power, 911 is a Joke, Welcome to the Terrordome, Burn Hollywood Burn, Can't do Nothin for ya Man, Who Stole the Soul

[@dukenewcomb5470]

@@Rob2380 Go back listen to it as a whole project, immerse yourself. It's mixed through and through. A seamless tapestry of sounds, the album is mixed like a DJ set that never stops. Masterpiece

[@Brandonn_fit]

36:30 supreme clientele

[@Yoda35421]

Andre 3000 verses on Aquemini title track is on par with whatever you wanna bring.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Prodigy verses on hell on earth in '96 were betta den 3k..

[@MAXIMA347]

I brought the purple tape and the cd at the same time, still have the purple tape till this day never opened

[@dreday99]

That's got a lot of value, never open it. I wish I had the foresight to buy two at the time

[@MAXIMA347]

@@dreday99 Yeah the idea came from my dad, though he didn't like rap, he collected albums, which i now have. When people started buying CDs I just started buying both, still wrapped I got Redman Dare iz a darkside remember the tape is Red, also Doggie Style, The Chronic, Biggie frist and second, Mobb Deep The infamous and Hell on Earth, with hell on earth this time brought the CD twice because it was an enhanced CD pop it in the computer it had extra stuff 1st of it kind, Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt this like the mobb the CD twice that CD had like a hologram of a .380 pistol on it, if you wasn't a first listener of Jay Z you wouldn't know that. And still I'm not sure if too many people know that. A few other I didn't mention.

[@dreday99]

@@MAXIMA347 yeah that's dope... And smart. I think I did it for Wu Tang forever, but my copy that I play got so scratched I ended up opening the second one😣. Currently only have the last Wu album(CD) unopened.

[@MAXIMA347]

@@dreday99 Yeah I have all the Wu up to Wu-Tang Forever like, The 36 chambers CD is different when they started with CDs they were in a long box like thing instead of the CD case we know now, I got illmatic like that and Mary j blige 411 and 411 the remix like that. And everybody else like Tribe, Rakim, slick rick, da la, I have the records but those are open of course

[@rashaanlemell7974]

Illmatic is MORE important tape but Only Built 4 Cuban linx is a better tape. They are my 1 and 2

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Ob4cl ain't I my top 5 all time it's not #1 in '95 I got liquid swords n infamous ova ob4cl..

[@bowling4clarity817]

Ice Cream was a bigger "hit" than anything on Illmatic, guys . In '95 that song was regularly on the radio rotation and I'm from Philly . Illmatic had no radio rotation, It Ain't Hard to Tell only played in mix shows. The video got burn more the single . Also, as far as street approved Incarcerated Scarfaces dominated as far as defining tracks of the year, with the likes of O.C's Time's Up, Shook Ones pt 2, etc . I was 20 when Purple Tape dropped, every fly whip having young nigga bumped that fresh off the carwash.

[@bigzizzo]

It Takes A Nation is the greatest album

[@MAXIMA347]

Wu-Tang wasn't nothing to fuk with (no pun intended) at one time, They St. Ides commercial could of been a hit.

[@Rob2380]

I'm not sure how you can scoff at the idea of The Infamous being on par with or better than the Purple Tape, but suggest that It Takes A Nation is a close contender for the greatest album. Chuck D and Flava Flav ain't rappin' like Wu or Mobb--if lyrics are that important to you. Yes it's 88 vs. 95, but guess what Chuck D and Flav in 1995 sound like they did in 88. Personally, I have all 3 albums in my top 10, but will admit I have the Infamous higher than both. The Infamous is a top 3 album for me along with Illmatic and Midnight Marauders. I love the evil, grimey sound of the Infamous + Havoc was working with Tip, even on the tracks that Tip didn't produce you can hear the influence of Q-tip on those drums. There is very little difference between albums in my top 10 I think they are all pretty awesome. I don't have a set ranking and go back and forth on where exactly I should place them, but my list would be something akin to the following: 1. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders, 2. Mobb Deep - The Infamous, 3. Illmatic, 4. Common - Be, 5. The Roots - Illadelphalflife, 6. GZA - Liquid Swords, 7. Raekwon - OB4CL, 8. Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth, 9. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2, 10 PE - It Takes a Nation. Clearly I think very highly of prime Q-Tip, Havoc and RZA production and fucks with Dilla.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

I have hell on earth > infamous..darker beats n prodigy lyrically was even betta....in '96

[@Rob2380]

@@jamaaldavis7907 Fair enough. The production on hell on earth is more cinematic and darker. I suppose I prefer the more jazzy grittiness of the infamous. You are right about P. The verse on Apostle's Warning is one of my favorites in hip-hop history. Havoc starts that shit off and P bodies it for a couple of minutes with the snake/leadership references sprinkled throughout. That's a banger too. Prime Mobb is some of the best music ever created. Incredible sample flips for the time, banging beats and bars.

[@chenault15]

Not number 2 for me but it’s definitely top 15 I can’t put it over the Chronic, Doggy Style, Ready to Die, Life After Death, Enter the Wu Tang, or the Infamous.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Infamous > ob4cl. Def

[@gboogie360]

#1 & #2 all time

[@zncuentertainment712]

For me, ATLiens is better than Aquemini. OB4CL is fair to be at #2, it's a true classic.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Nah n def not

[@sethbradley3203]

I like you fellas and will give you a pass because of your ages...Respectfully you are wrong!!! I'm a Nas fan and a Wu-Tang fan and came up in the '90's but to say Illmatic & OB4CL is #1 & #2 can definitely raise an objection.... Paid in Full is the standard. I'd also argue The Chronic and Criminal Minded. The records from those albums completely changed EVERYTHING until this current day. Those albums named are also timeless as your two choices. Those records are being played more now than the other 2 in the streets of Philly and I believe that Wu & Nas work is of that high standard. You can argue top 5 or 10, but that Paid in Full movement is still full steam ahead. Peace to Eric B. & Rakim. Oh and by the way, ICE CREAM was a street banger in 1995 and the Wu was promoting skills and true hip-hop and not the flashy watered beats. Ice Cream and was a hit, we don't care about Billboard numbers. Those are masterful albums that the Source magazine f'd up and gave them 4.5 and later went back to give them their props. Criminal Minded and Paid in Full and The Chronic still bang in the streets. The other 2 do as well and they are both masterpiece albums, but the other 3 are very strong.

[@froml.a.1760]

OB4CL is different. Aquemini is amazing but no way u can put those raps up against OB4CL under any microscope

[@froml.a.1760]

this album is more progressive and wildly innovative than all other albums mentioned in this video that’s just a fact

[@alantoler8266]

Why y'all sleep on one time for your mind by NAS ain't nothing bout that lacking illmatic has no FLAWS period

[@SoundMind.]

A lot of people dont like one time for your mind and represent honestly both those songs are skips

[@RASHONBOND973]

​@@SoundMind.represent is a skip? wow

[@jalalcunningham1305]

Let's be serious ghost &.rae was just hating on biggie didn't have nothing to do nas album cover raekwon album didn't feel like solo album more like group album ghost outshine rae thru out the album still love the album can't put outkast against Ob4cl two different album's good chat tho

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Ghost did outshine rae on Cuban link n vice versa on ironman

[@larryscott8423]

Ice Cream was better, more of a mainstream hit too…

[@killabee4realg]

is this a crazy take. I feel as though Raekwon had the best verse on the entire Aquimini album am I wrong

[@jkbzz]

It is not the 2nd greatest hip hop album of all time. Stop it coop, you buggin. But i have it in my Top 20 all time.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Top 20 yes

[@djtimspaceking8306]

Method Man album is better to me the first album people keep getting mad at me it's my favorite album

[@MAXIMA347]

To each his own that 1st Wu run up to Wu-Tang forever is flawless

[@TheLWebb100]

Tical ain't better than OB4CL!

[@djtimspaceking8306]

@@TheLWebb100 I'm sorry but that's just how I feel my childhood when that album came out I remember when I was a little kid my brother he was older than me and he pop that cassette tape in it was like a earthquake I mean picture falling down on the wall I'm talking about them big tall speakers in the 90s it was done storming outside that's why I love Method Man first album it means a lot to me you know Raekwon it's a classic 2 but I heard that album so many times I got tired of it plus I'm more a fan of the early work Darden dark sound gritty that's the type of music I like rats underneath the tunnel rza the same thing with ODB first album nobody don't talk about those album gravediggaz 6 feet deep nobody don't talk about that album either

[@djtimspaceking8306]

method man release yo delf that beat is so fire and the rhymes it's fire the video I only don't like two songs on tical all I need the original I Love the remix they should put that on the album not the puffy and that M.e.t.h.o.d d Man remix but the rest of the songs are fire y'all better stop playing with Method Man I even like the second album minus the skits and blackout the first album classic

[@jamaaldavis7907]

@@TheLWebb100 it's not

[@ryno6040]

Foh

[@junestevens5123]

Hell no as many albums better than that album raekwon to me is overrated he didn't do anything until part 2 of that album and the wild was good can we say a little injection doggy style The chronic dog food me against the world aliens the diary come on now tribe call quest

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Chronic > ob4cl

[@lovememoremeticulous4378]

Life After Death > OBFCL

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Debateable

[@show305time4]

I like this album, but it will never be the 2nd best album of all time to ME. I’m going to always listen to GRODT over the Purple tape and Illmatic. But I’ll listen to Purple tape before Illmatic.

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Grodt stop 🤣

[@larryscott8423]

OBFCL>Illmatic

[@jaythawriter4940]

So the Makaveli album just don’t exist anymore huh

[@jamaaldavis7907]

Ob4cl > 7 day theory