Thug Life LP Comes In At #11 As One Of Hip Hop's Most Underrated Classic LP's!!

[Bombsquad]

This is the Thug Life appreciation thread. Thug Life LP haters should stay out. I just don't understand why this album was so underrated. It is such a crime to me that you don't know how it eats my heart. Can anyone in here or any pac expert explain why this album is so underrated and didn't hit its full potential?

I put some of the other albums up here that made the list incase anybody was curious as to what other slept on classics made the list.


1. '93 Til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
2. Breaking Atoms - Main Source
3. Uptown Saturday Night - Camp Lo
4. No One Can Do It Better - The D.O.C.
5. I Wish My Brother George Was Here - Del the Funkee Homosapien
6. A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing - Black Sheep
7. Illadelph Halflife - The Roots
8. The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World - Keith Murray
9. Here Come the Lords - Lords of the Underground
10. Foundation - Brand Nubian
11. Thug Life - Thug Life
12. Tougher than Leather - Run DMC
13. Capital Punishment - Big Pun
14. Eyes On This - MC Lyte
15. Mecca and the Soul Brother - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
16. Comin' Out Hard - Eightball & MJG
17. Business Never Personal - EPMD
18. ATLiens - Outkast
19. Eazy Duz It - Eazy E
20. The Love Movement - A Tribe Called Quest
21. Da Art of Storytellin' - Slick Rick
22. Liquid Swords - GZA/Genius
23. The Fix - Scarface
24. Watermelon, Chicken, & Grits - Nappy Roots
25. Aziatic - AZ
26. Still Standing - Goodie MOB
27. Quik Is the Name - DJ Quik
28. Enta Da Stage - Black Moon
29. Derelicts of Dialect - 3rd Bass
30. Station Identification - Channel Live
31. Done By the Forces of Nature - Jungle Brothers
32. Poverty's Paradise - Naughty By Nature
33. Dere Iz A Dark Side - Redman
34. Sun Rises In the East - Jeru Da Damaja
35. Runaway Slave - Showbiz & A.G.
36. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
37. Soul Food - Goodie MOB
38. Dr. Octagonecologyst - Dr. Octogon
39. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
40. And the Winner Is... - Chubb Rock
41. Bacdafucup - Onyx
42. 21 and Over - Tha Alkaholiks
43. Ain't A Damn Thing Changed - Nice & Smooth
44. Lost Tapes - Nas
45. Tical - Method Man
46. A Future Without A Past - Leaders of the New School
47. Blue Funk - Heavy D and the Boyz
48. Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion
49. The Master - Rakim
50. Kollage - Bahamadia
51. Ridin' Dirty - UGK
52. War Report - Capone-N-Noreaga
53. 613: Ashy to Classy - Field Mob
54. Ironman - Ghostface Killah
55. Trap Muzik - T.I.
56. The Album - Questionmark Asylum
57. Do You Want More?!? - The Roots
58. Scorpion - Eve
59. Same As It Ever Was - House of Pain
60. Ain't No Shame In My Game - Candyman
61. The Natural - Mic Geronimo
62. Stone Cold Rhymin' - Young MC
63. No Mercy - Da Youngstas
64. Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 - Guru
65. Internal Affairs - Pharoach Monche
66. Holy Intellect - Poor Righteous Teachers
67. Kwame: The Boy Genius - Featuring A New Beginning-Kwame
68. A Prince Among Theives - Prince Paul
69. Thugs Are Us - Trick Daddy
70. The Ruler's Back - Slick Rick
71. 400 Degreez - Juvenile
72. Death Is Certain - Royce Da 5'9
73. Guerillas In the Mist - Da Lench Mob
74. Sleeping With the Enemy - Paris
75. Steal This Album - The Coup
76. Shock of the Hour - MC Ren
77. The 18th Letter - Rakim
78. Dead Serious - Das EFX
79. Home - Spearhead
80. Sons of the P - Digital Underground
81. Youngest In Charge - Special Ed
82. No Pressure - Erick Sermon
83. Fantastic, Vol. 2 - Slum Village
84. Philadelphia Freeway - Freeway
85. First Family 4 Life - M.O.P.
86. Escape - Whodini
87. Attack of the Attacking Things - Jean Grae
88. Industry Shakedown - Bumpy Knuckles (Freddie Foxxx)
89. Blowout Comb - Digable Planets
90. Behind the Front - The Black Eyed Peas
91. Fruits of Nature - U.M.C.s
92. Hello Nasty - the Beastie Boys
93. 2nd II None - 2nd II None
94. Gravity - Da Bush Babees
95. Dah Shinin' - Smif-N-Wessun
96. Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine - Cee-Lo
97. Broken Silence - Foxy Brown
98. Jealous One's Envy - Fat Joe
99. The Ecleftic: II Sides to a Book - Wyclef Jean
100. Close To You - Father MC
Here's the site i got it from if y'all wanna check it out.....1
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/page...ap-alb-un.html


Someone from another forum sent this to me and since I haven't been here consistently, I don't know if this is old news or not, but I thought I would share it.

Finally, if some of you pac fans want to overlook and sleep on the "Thug Life" LP, then I'm happy that some true hip hop fan or fans can recognize it as a classic. I'm tired of always hearing about MATW & 7 day theory. If you all in this forum can't recognize some of 2pac's other works, I'm glad someone else can.

Thug Life is my favorite Pac album by the way.

 

[BIG NASTY]

No brotha lynch hung or mc eiht and etc

 

[LesanePCrooks96]

This is one of my favorite albums also. id rate it closely after MATW/AEOM. Eazy Mo Bee did a dope job on a lot of the producing and its a solid album.

another one on the top of the list that caught my eyes was Camp Lo's. I think it was released in '97, they came with some good shit and style anybody who hasnt heard "Luchini" should check it out as well.

 

[underdog]

wheres macho man at?

 

[Think_ThuGLiFE]

This is the Thug Life appreciation thread. Thug Life LP haters should stay out. I just don't understand why this album was so underrated. It is such a crime to me that you don't know how it eats my heart. Can anyone in here or any pac expert explain why this album is so underrated and didn't hit its full potential?

.

During its release , 2pac had crazy legal problems as we all know and constantly in and out of court.So he couldnt promote it as well as he would of . Plus interscope kept gettin on his back about censoring songs , and replaceing songs ect...

It was more of the time it was release , it was kind of a bad time 4 pac... 1 of my all time fav albums

 

[PELLA]

44. Lost Tapes - Nas


is this one any good?

 

[ArtsyGirl]

PELLA that album is dope.. So is 25. Aziatic - AZ Also is this who I think it is? 60. Ain't No Shame In My Game - Candyman

Anyway Thug Life is a sick album, I think theres like one song on there I dont absolutely love.. Very much a classic imo.

 

[ElitePete4k]

44. Lost Tapes - Nas


is this one any good?

Definitely buy this one. It is worth every rupee.

 

[Saaphir]

Scarface - The Fix is not underrated,it received 5 mics by The Source.

 

[My_Dyin_Day04]

Thug life lp is by far the best group album I have heard. Brilliant lp, even the tracks without Pac are golden (Dont Get It Twisted pure fire). And it has the best Pac/Strech combo in Under Pressure

 

[FroDawgg]

yeah, the nas one is def. not underrated. i've never heard a bad thing about it...it's a great album.

 

[My_Dyin_Day04]

just think Thug Life LP (already amazing) could have been a whole lot better too with tracks like Runnin, Im Gettin Money, Is It Cool 2 Fuck, Thug 4 Life, Thugz Get Lonely Too, Hennessey, etc cut/dropped. Didnt Dante say that over 50 tracks were made for this release?

 

[Diaz]

just think Thug Life LP (already amazing) could have been a whole lot better too with tracks like Runnin, Im Gettin Money, Is It Cool 2 Fuck, Thug 4 Life, Thugz Get Lonely Too, Hennessey, etc cut/dropped. Didnt Dante say that over 50 tracks were made for this release?

I'm Gettin Money wasn't meant for THUG LIFE, why the hell would he have 2 songs with the same lyrics on the same album?

 

[My_Dyin_Day04]

it could have been the demo version of Str8 Ballin, of course both Str8 Ballin and Im Gettin Money wouldnt have made it on to the same lp.

 

[DutchMakaveli]

Thug life lp is by far the best group album I have heard. Brilliant lp, even the tracks without Pac are golden (Dont Get It Twisted pure fire). And it has the best Pac/Strech combo in Under Pressure

So you're saying that Thug Life is better than, oh I dunno, Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers?

You're on crack

 

[My_Dyin_Day04]

So you're saying that Thug Life is better than, oh I dunno, Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers?

You're on crack

it's good crack though :thumb:

 

[Bombsquad]

Scarface - The Fix is not underrated,it received 5 mics by The Source.

The Fix may be listed as underrated because just like the "Thug Life" LP, I don't think the album should have sold what it could have potentially sold and I don't think the promotion was enough to help that album get the exposure it needed. Hell, I don't even know or remember the first single off of that album.

Wasn't "Pain" suppose to be on the Thug Life LP? How about "High Till I Die"? I think if "Pain" or "High Till I Die" were on those albums and used as video singles, the album would've took off.
Anyway, I'm telling you guys that Pac in 1994 was at his best. That should've been his time to shine. I can barely think of a song from that era that I didn't like.

If he was to not be sentenced to jail and was able to continue up until 95' with his rollercoaster of good songs from 94, I think we would've had even more better songs in 95 than probably any other era.

 

[Dante]

PELLA that album is dope.. So is 25. Aziatic - AZ Also is this who I think it is? 60. Ain't No Shame In My Game - Candyman

Anyway Thug Life is a sick album, I think theres like one song on there I dont absolutely love.. Very much a classic imo.

with regard to the underrating of thug life, it's actually very simple... when the album came out 2pac had recorded two videos (cradle and pour liq) but basically his sentencing completely destroyed promo opportunities for the album. it don't stop and how long will they mourn me received minimal video play and next to zero radio play. the paramount problem, however, was that short of the people who knew what thug life was, there was no sticker of otherwise identifying sign of 2pac on the cover or back. i remember when makaveli came out there were stickers everywhere stating 2pac is... makaveli, exit 2pac enter makaveli, etc. interscope dropped the ball in marketing this cd without highlighting that it is a 2pac + these guys group effort. ...after all, do you think still i rise would have sold more than 3 dozen units if they hadn't put "2pac +" right smack dab in the upper left?

that candyman was a pretty lame rapper completely unrelated to candyman187. hit up amazon to listen to his snips.

with respect to az, e-40 said it best... "all up in your videos, champagne and coffins filled with scrill. everyone know your punk ass ain't got no mill."

 

[Hituup]

I've been saying it for years that Thug Life is pure crack. It was 100% pure classic. I put that album next to Illmatic. It was short and sweet with nothing but replay valuable songs. It's obviously my fav. pac album. That's the album that got me on to 2pac in the first place. Nobody wanted to listen in this forum or on the net period.



People just wanted to follow the same trends and talk about me against..., all eyez on....., makaveli; don... and talk down on LTTG. Hell, some people in here even said the album was trash and one of pac's worst albums ever. I was so lost for words and pissed off, I can't even tell you. But I'm glad it's finally getting it's recognition.


2 bad it's taken 12 yrs later for a list to come out and point out a classic when it was so obvious. What's sad about it is that some pac fans even sleep on it.some members in here even. I won't name names though. u people know who you are.

 

[Dante]

^^ the problem is that interscope destroyed it. they changed the name from out on bail to the generic vol 1 and remixed several tracks to be more uptempo and friendly. the remix of cradle was cool, but the og had a lot more bite to it. likewise, being that pac had recorded so much for this album, it would have been smart to add on a few more songs. ...it was almost an ep, especially if you consider just he 2pac songs. this album could have been done a lot better, but it's still a classic that in many ways began 2pac's west coast sound.