- Vinyl (27 Nov 2000)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Rawkus
- ASIN: B000050XH4
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 368,045 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Biggie is back again--freestyling like only a dead man can on the intro to this second volume culled from the archives of NYC's Lyricist Lounge. You have to wonder why hip-hop can't let the man rest in peace. Must be something to do with the papers. Same could be said of this record's transparent attempt to keep a franchise alive and help push Rawkus further into mainstream consciousness. Aside from the aforementioned intro and Q-Tip's "live" outro, there is precious little evidence that the Lyricist Lounge is, in actuality, a freestyle forum with a monthly live event in New York City. The pairings of established and lesser MCs are suitably uninspired: Big Noyd and Prodigy's "The Grimy Way" and Royce Da 5'9's "Let's Grow" even sound as if they are retreading 1980s retro-synth soundtracks. And, predictably, Mos Def (Rawkus's would-be prophet and biggest seller) is all over the record. He pairs up first with Ghostface Killah (on the previously released "Ms Fat Booty" remix), then with Pharoah Monch and Nate Dogg (on "Oh No"), and cameos on the Gang Starr remix of Macy Gray's "I've Committed Murder"). It seems that the only people that really get it are Last Emperor and RZA, whose resurrected creature feature "He Lives" performs radical psychic surgery on this comp's rotting corpse. --Chris Campion
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Lyricist Lounge was the name of an originally illegal New York hip hop event that launched the careers of artists such as Notorious big, p Diddy, mop, Eminem, Mobb Deep, Mos Def and Foxy Brown amongst many others. Following on from the success of Volume 1 of the compilation, the creme de la creme of Rawkus's roster bring you the second edition, including the massive Oh No from Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch and Nate Dogg alongside contributions from Biggie, Royce Da 5'9", Kool g Rap, Erick Sermon and Big l
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
dont get me wrong, this is a good album, and im sure most hip hop fans will like it, but for me I was chasing after the dirty raw sound that the first album provided. This album sounds a lot cleaner and more produced. A couple of really good tracks on here, but mostly I was left largely uninspired by it on the whole.
Format:Audio CD
This CD, consisting of possibly the best rap/hip-hop artists, is one of the most pure albums I have heard (apart from Restless by xzbit). All the songs are amazing except for track 17 by Macy Gray. Although it contains the skills and sounds of Gang Starr and the DJing skills of DJ Quik, I have never liked her music and Iam not planning on starting because she has Gang Starr company. Apart form this misfortune the rest of the CD is pure quality. Check it out!
Format:Audio CD
This is an album with phat beats and a few dope lyrics even though the intro is a bit weak it soon picks up with artists such as mos def, dilated peoples and talib kweli, my favourite tunes include: 2, 15 and 17, Check it out!!!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
A collection of hot lyricists!!!
This album is a hip-hop classic. There are 18 tracks including an outro by Q-tip & an intro as a live performance by biggie. All the other trax are hot!! Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2003
wack-tactics now played by rawkus as they go commercial
Compared to soundbombing 1 and 2 and lyricist lounge 1 this is low grade ish and steadily dipping darkly into the no-limit function of sound = cash. Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2001
Better than Vol.1
Now must of the other reviews have been saying how the first Lyricist Lounge album is better due to it being more of a live version, but i think the effect is better in the new... Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2001
It don't get any better than this.....
Full respect to Rawkus for another Fat album...Although some tracks could be better, and even with an awful Biggie Intro Mos Def comes out with Oh No with Pharoah and Nate... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2001
Lyricist Lounge Vol. 2 Is DOPE!!!
The second release from Rawkus in the Lyricist Lounge tradition builds on the former and although isn't a revolution is just a natural evolution of the series, a natural... Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2000
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