DOES LENGTH MATTER?!

[.: God Is One :.]

It doesnt matter 2 me

[DJ_Jay_Deee]

Illmatic is short. And its one of the best hip hop albums ever made.

Less guest apperences the better. I buy an album to hear that artist. Not 20 guests on the album. I wanna hear the atist express himself. I wanna see if he can pull a whole album off, by himself.

[T-Dogg]

I know I'd choose an album with just 5 bangin' tracks than an album with 15 boring ones. But like it was said, albums like The Chronic are the best, since they straight bang and the only skit there has been thought about and pondered than just have niggaz giggle over some ho to the mic. The 20 Dollar Sack Pyramid has got to be the best skit on any album.

Oh yeah, there's Deeez Nuts too... But it's a classic skit too.

[Lord Funk]

Apologies for bumping this shit back up, but I didn't have time to check the board yesterday - threads get old so quick huh?  

Anyway, I just wanted to finish what I stated by laying the blame somewhere for over-long albums, and That Cracka J got it in one - our old friend Percy Miller bka Master P.

Every album that No Limit dropped at its peak was as long as it could possibly be - remember all those tracks that had just two 16 bar verses, and the shit would fade during the second chorus, just so they could fit more on the CD?? In my opinion that fucked up the game - too many rappers now think they have to keep going for 70 minutes.

Admittedly, No Limit did some good stuff - Ghetto Dope and Only God Can Judge Me are tight albums that I can still play today, but when I see a C-Murder CD with 25 (yes, 25) tracks, it makes me shake my head in shame.

Want proof? Just look at Snoop - Dogystyle only had 13 tracks if you exclude skits and Gz Up Hoes Down.

But after chilling out in the dirty-dirty with P and the gang, Snoop got suckered in - the 20 tracks on Deuces and Trays had so much filler that I can't even listen to it anymore.

So there ya go, fuck P for that. Oh, and just for fun, let me end on something controversial - I thought 2001 was waaay too long. I don't want to hear skits about fucking car bombs or porno stars. In fact, I think Dre could have cut straight from Bitch Niggas to The Message and the CD would have been tighter. Ackrite ain't exactly classic to me.

But I'm probably in the minority there, and it's another thread really... Peace all.

[PLANT]

MethodMan really fucked up Tical 2 with 26 tracks...WTF???
He could have made the album out of the 12-15 best songs and had a decent album.  But with 26 songs, that album really sucks.

[Juice]

Makaveli is 60 mins.

[Banjo]

On 4 out of 5 cd's the skits suck...

I really want a cd where you don't have to skip any tracks!

I just can't see the idea of putting on some tracks that's just there to fill out the album.

Most of the albums that we call classics are albums without any skip-over tracks and boring skits - And that's how it's supposed to be!!!

[Lord Funk]

On 4 out of 5 cd's the skits suck...

With you 100% dude. There are some good - even great - albums out there that are totally let down by skits. I mean, what is the real point of them anyway?! Just so the rapper and his homies have some outlet for a wack in-joke that isn't even funny if you weren't in the studio at the time?

As I said in my last post, the skits on Dre's 2001 really fuck up the continuity of the CD's second half for me. Other examples of wack skits:

Quik's Balance & Options,
The Hova interludes on Jay's Volume 3,
Any Redman skit on any of his albums ever (I love Reggie, but his interludes give my "skipping" finger great exercise)

If rappers find it necessary to fill out a CD with skits, they should sequence them as the END of the previous track, as on Under Tha Influence or Space Boogie, giving the rest of us a chance to get to the thing that matters the most...

THE MUSIC.

[ImmortalOne]

Length shouldnt matter, as long as the quality is good.

Illmatic is short as hell [40 minutes], but its one of the greatest albums ever.

All Eyez On Me, at 132 minutes, is one of the longest albums ever, but also one of the greatest.

Some of my fav albums ever.........

Chronic - 62 minutes
Doggystyle - 53 minutes
Liquid Swords - 55 minutes
E.1999 Eternal - 69 minutes
Creepin On Ah Come Up - 30 minutes
ATLiens - 57 minutes
36 Chambers - 58 minutes
The Diary - 45 minutes
Makaveli - 59 minutes
Aquemini - 75 minutes
Cuban Linx - 74 minutes
Me Against The World - 66 minutes
Ready To Die - 69 minutes
The Infamous - 67 minutes
Live And Let Die - 63 minutes
Dare Iz A Darkside - 64 minutes
Art Of War - 125 minutes
Ironman - 63 minutes
Hell On Earth - 58 minutes [i think]
Wu Tang Forever - 112 minutes
Stillmatic - 56 minutes [minus braveheart party version]
Death Certificate - 60 minutes
Fear Of A Black Planet - 61 minutes
Southernplayalistic - 64 minutes
The Score - 74 minutes
Moment Of Truth - 78 minutes
Midnight Marauders - 57 minutes