Hey folks! Little more than a week left to get your ballot in to nominate albums for the Best Album of 1989 tournament! (see link below) Anyone out there want to throw together a list of the year’s nom-worthy hiphop? That’s one big piece of the puzzle we’re missing. - ThreadSky

bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Hey folks! Little more than a week left to get your ballot in to nominate albums for the Best Album of 1989 tournament! (see link below) Anyone out there want to throw together a list of the year’s nom-worthy hiphop? That’s one big piece of the puzzle we’re missing.

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hellonfriscobay.bsky.social•2 days ago

Three albums nobody else has mentioned yet:

Esham, Boomin’ Words From Hell

L’Trimm, Drop That Bottom

Redhead Kingpin & the F.B.I., A Shade of Red

lanna.bsky.social•2 days ago

Are all of them on the list? Two don't look familiar but I lost the ability to memorize it when other people started adding.

hellonfriscobay.bsky.social•2 days ago

They appear to be now, at least. I must confess I haven’t been very good at interfacing with your list, since I no longer do much with social media on my laptop. I’ve finally opened the document on the latter device, and I’ll try to fill some gaps today if I can.

lanna.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's not my list! I just put in all of OTP's metal stuff and added upon request. If Kent doesn't NEED to do all this stuff, because there are people who want to help, why should he?

hellonfriscobay.bsky.social•2 days ago

Who gives permission to edit? Because I’ve already found several albums that should be on there, and I’m just getting started.

lanna.bsky.social•2 days ago

@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social

renamj.bsky.social•2 days ago

You can put in a request to add to the Google doc and Kent will approve you, maybe just poke him. That’s what I did.

sidneyterano.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nom-worthy ‘89 hip-hop (that I know of)

Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (duh)
Jungle Brothers: Done by the Forces of Nature
De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising
Roxanne Shante: Bad Sister
3rd Bass: The Cactus Album
LL Cool J: Walking Like a Panther
Queen Latifah: All Hail the Queen
Ice-T: The Iceberg

smarka.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’d add:

BDP: Ghetto Music
Big Daddy Kane: Its a Kane Thing
Kool G Rap: Road to the Riches
Young MC: Stone Cold Rhymin’
Gang Starr: No More Mr. nice Guy*
The DOC: No One Can Do It Better
Nice and Smooth: Nice & Smooth
2 Live Crew: As Nasty As They Wanna Be*

*don’t love but should be in the mix

savemeaseat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not a deep dive. But in the spirit of every little bit helps

https://bsky.app/profile/savemeaseat.bsky.social/post/3lmcrwpult22g

renamj.bsky.social•1 day ago

Kent, how many ballots do we have now?

dr0pk1ck-dr0pk1ck.bsky.social•2 days ago

1989 was a big year for hip hop…

onetrueposter.bsky.social•2 days ago

D.O.C.'s album is one of those I've been ambiently assuming would make it in but I'm not sure I've seen anybody mention it so it probably warrants special attention

renamj.bsky.social•2 days ago

I listened to that album the other day and it gets my vote.

renamj.bsky.social•2 days ago

Straight Outta Compton also came out in 1989 and until recently I always thought it was ‘88.

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