The Smarks Hip Hop Album of the Week Club

[Jimmy King]

I wasn’t familiar with The Goats before this but this was pretty solid. I dug the beats a lot and I like that the album tells a story with skits. I can also hear the Beastie comparisons, Typical American was the standout track for me.

B rating from me.

 

[Professor Booty]

I wasn’t familiar with The Goats before this but this was pretty solid. I dug the beats a lot and I like that the album tells a story with skits. I can also hear the Beastie comparisons, Typical American was the standout track for me.

B rating from me.

Typical American and Dugs Dig were the singles from this album and they are my personal favorites

 

[Jimmy King]

Typical American and Dugs Dig were the singles from this album and they are my personal favorites

I liked Dugs Dig as well and R U Down with Da Goats too

 

[Professor Booty]

Juice has asked to join the rotation of professors so after Hoss shares his thoughts Juice will be up

 

[Chris]

I thought typical American was an early peak and nothing really lived up to that after but still a solid full album the rest of the way

 

[Professor Booty]

I thought typical American was an early peak and nothing really lived up to that after but still a solid full album the rest of the way

I’d agree it being the peak but there’s not any song I’d say is bad

 

[Just Juice]

My first contribution will be American. I'll save the British one for a future lecture

 

[Hoss]

I had a good time chilling and listening to this album. It's amazing an album this well produced and this lyrically dense exists out there on Spotify and the group is getting like less than 10,000 listeners monthly. Wild. It would seem at the time that their name was a little more widespread but I read about how they ended up disbanding, essentially right after this album. Crazy to think what coulda been because I found their music to be on par with other popular groups of the time. The one dude sounded like he shoulda been in Tribe but the album as a whole gave me a little more Public Enemy vibes. I think I liked Oatie most out of all the members on first listen. My favorite songs were probably Typical American (for the beat especially), Do The Digs Dug, TV Cops and Burn The Flag.

 

[Professor Booty]

Glad everyone seemed to dig it. Really is to bad they didn’t last long but I’d definitely love to see what an album from them in this climate would sound like.
@Just Juice you are up to share your album

 

[Just Juice]

My pick is an album that is filled with nostalgia. When I first got into music in high school, I was more into Dance Music and Grime. However, from memory this was the first American Hip Hop album that I remember listening too after being given a burned CD by a friend and adding it to my iPod very soon afterwards. I remember it being a complete new sound to my ears. Like an awakening, ​

 

[Professor Booty]

Talib is good it’s been awhile since I’ve listened To this one looking forward to a replay

 

[Chris]

Aware of the artist but don't think I've listened to this so should be fun

 

[Professor Booty]

the big hit off this album is I Try with Mary J and it’s easy to see why definitely one of my favorite tracks along with Broken Glass, A Game, and We Got the Beat. The only two tracks that I really disliked are Work it out & Ghetto Slow the beats and flow in those two tracks feels disjointed and really don’t mesh together at all. All in all it’s a damn good album that you can breeze through with relative ease. I say it’s a solid B