Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Fine. I love Illmatic but this isn't on that level.
This just sounded like if you asked AI to create an album of every single 90s rap album combined. Only good thing about it was that it was only 39 minutes long rather than an hour plus. Incredibly low 2
A rap album released in 1994 thats deemed something you must listen to before you die? Illmatic by Nas (had that a few days ago and it still hits), Ready To Die by Notorious B.I.G. (all time classic), Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik by OutKast (the south got something to say), and this aint it... It aint even at the level of Regulate... G Funk Era by Warren G or Tical by Method Man or Ill Communication by Beastie Boys or even 6 Feet Deep by Gravediggaz and Funkdafied by Da Brat, so what are we even doing here? Really?
Still great technicality wise, but its overall theme and messaging have overstayed their welcome.
Not my kind I'm afraid. Crap rap. Nothing new.
i feel kind of unfair giving this a two because he has better underlying beats than Ice Cube and perhaps better lyricism and i gave that album a three. i’m only comparing the two because they were assigned to me two days in a row. i just can’t give this more than a two because it was so difficult and tedious to finish. i also don’t think he’s as good a rapper as Ice even if the rap lyrics themselves are better. wouldnt listen again and didn’t download anything. but he seems like a cool guy.
1 added to my favorites. Would not listen again.
Not too intrigued by this album, some good beats, a few decent track mostly stock tropes and rhymes
Old ass hip hop. Just rapping in a straightforward flow over a monotonous beat. Boring. What's up with the album cover tho?
Not a hip-hop fan but this seems fine
Not for me, there have been some enjoyable hip-hop/rap albums on the list, but this is not one of them.
Another forgettable rap album.
Not for me
"I'm not a misogynist." Like hell you are. You just made an entire song called 'Da Bichez' for God's sake. I mean Jesus Christ no other subculture cranks out as many misogynists as rap/hip hop.
not my vibe but rly cool music still
I love the kung fu elements, but it wasn’t enough to carry the record.
Another rapping album. It's hard to relate to this genre when your life and perspective and experience differs as greatly as mine. Lacking the draw and hook of music I like, it fails to draw my interest. Certainly the creativity of multiple rappers proves interesting, but the subject matter - the same base subject as all of this genre - appeals to the school yard basketball court rather than the suburban angst of my youth.
Meh, pretty average as far as hip hop goes. Can't see why it's hyped.
Dated and misogynistic. It just doesn’t do it for me.
I was hoping it would be better
Das Album hani widermal gekonnt geskippedi-skippedi-skipped.
Was für e klassische fall vu old school hiphop. Besser und weniger nervös als anderi. Aber langeds für 3 kid straight outa hood?? Hmm knapp nöd maybe
Dum-da-di-dum-dum-da. Dum-da-di-dum-dum-da. Dum-da-di-dum-dum-da. Dum-da-di-dum-dum-da. Dum-da-di-dum-dum-da. Dum-da-di-dum-dum-da. Dum-da-di-dum-dum-da
The only thing this album does is mess with my Spotify.
Liked it more than I thought I would.
Boom bap? More like boom crap.
Meh
I find the beats on most of these old school rap albums to be super annoying. They just spam the same sound ad nauseum.
It was alright, not sure the hype. Hated the piano on the first track
Early 90s rap has to be really good for me to enjoy it. This wasn't bad, but it didn't do anything great. I got bored of it early on. I wouldn't have finished it if it wasn't on the list.
Some run of the mill 90's hip hop. Definitely prefer the other bigger names that we've had on the list.
It’s hard to rate this objectively when there are kids today making music identical in quality if not better alone in their bedrooms. It’s great boom bap but it’s such an oversaturated market now that this wouldn’t stand out against anything coming out right now, which seemed to be the problem when this came out too. Mental stamina was the worst example of lyrical miracle ever. Da bichez is also stupid as shit, I hate when people try to validate calling women dumb whores by saying shit like “not all of em!!! Just these ones! And I really hate them!!” Such misogynistic shit. This was a full album of a man bragging about how great of a rapper he is, which he is skilled but the lyrical content seems to be focused solely on how good he is, and when he moves away from bragging it’s very forgettable or misogynistic. Feeling a light 2 overall and mainly just for the instrumentals, which are incredible.
Has a golden-era-of-rap sound to it but fell flat for me. There were two songs that I might listen to again.
This one was alright. I liked a lot of the mixing and instruments used but nothing grabbed me except You Can't Stop the Prophet. It was like a while movie pitch in a song.
This album has an interesting stripped-down sound that's unique to my experience. Still not my bag, but easy to see why it receives praise.
matige rap
Surprised by the release year on this album. It sounded like 80s hip-hop, but with contemporary references. Nice flow and beats, to be honest. But there wasn't much beyond that, I couldn't enjoy the sketches in the album experience, and he was in fact misogynistic.
Hippety hop... niet de favoriet van mij, maar wel uit de jaren 90! Dat is vaak een stuk behapbaarder. Dus ik ben toch wel benieuwd ergens. Oke nee, eerste nummer is schrikbarend vervelend, meine gute. Zit een piano rif in, waar het lijkt alsof een kleuter random noten heeft ingespeeld en dat wordt herhaald. De tandjes. Oke, het 6e nummer is de eerste die mij echte 90's hiphop vibes geeft. En dat is prima te nassen. Maar wat een eikengezeik hiervoor zeg. 2e deel van het album was echt stukke beter, geen gekke herhalende irritante geluiden, maar gwn beats en lyrics. Toch komt idt voor mij niet verder dan een 2.
Very repetitive
I love the vibe of 90s hip hop, but this one is not doing much for me.
very ordinary macho hip hop - "Da Bitchez"
While hip hop is not my favorite genre, I can appreciate its high points - the goofiness of De La Soul, the emotional depth of Kendrick Llamar, the soul-shattering lyricism of Public Enemy, heck, I even like Outkast. Jeru was someone I was not familiar with, and I was a bit puzzled as to why this album is regarded as one of the best of the genre. Maybe it's because of the production, because DJ Premier is on fire here. The dissonant blocks of piano in "D. Original" are as experimental as something by Dälek, the beat in "My Mind Spray" is amazing. But I was not too keen on Jeru's verses, especially in "Da Bichez", which has not aged well. So, this is a mixed bag for me, but ultimately, I didn't find it too interesting or engaging. Just a typical 90s hip hop record, apart from said highlights when it got a little more experimental.
Oh my, is this list "1001 hip-hop albums you must hear before you die"? I like the general sound of this album but there's better (NAS etc.)
Nice vinyl old school beats in this but not feeling much otherwise. Not bad but I don’t think this is very memorable or worth revisiting. Da Bichez has aged poorly
Boring as fuck
Overall: 4/10 My rating would truly be higher if it wasn't for his lyrics cause the beats and flow are actually pretty entertaining and remind me of Wu-Tang a bit. Unfortunately, I find him to be an abysmal lyricist. I don't understand misogyny in any capacity and there's lots of it here. I just don't think he has the talent to pull it off and I found myself getting uncomfortable on multiple occasions. Fav Song: Brooklyn Took It
Pretty good. Catchy hooks and performance.
2.5 A bit disappointed by this tbh. It’s something that should be right up my alley - 90s NYC rap with thoughtful lyrics - and I’ve heard of this MC before, as someone who was influential but I hadn’t ever really heard much of him. I was ready to like this! But even tho it’s certainly not BAD (it’s well produced, Jeru has a solid flow) it just never got GREAT to me. Lacking in hooks, it all kinda sucked a together at a certain point.
I think Jeru the Damaja was on the committee because that's the only way this album makes this list.
I started listening to this album a few times while working but I never made it past a couple songs. Too distracting. That can happen to me when listening to rap (too close to talking to concentrate) but I think it's more than that. It's the spastic and off-kilter beats, like repeated flat or sharp piano strokes in D. Original or Brooklyn Took It. Ugh. It also made it hard to focus on the lyrics, which apparently is what makes this album special. It got easier in the middle of the album, but he rotated between intelligent lyrical wordplay and juvenile topics or silly sidebars, including within songs like on You Can't Stop the Prophet. It would've been better if he stayed on the high road the whole time, like on Ain't the Devil Happy. I not so patiently waited for the big single Come Clean (track 11) and wasn't moved by it. So, struggling to see what made this one of the last albums I had to hear before I die.
This really hasn't aged well. The production is great, the number of skits is manageable, and the flow is fine. Nothing really stands out as interesting though.
Rapping is pretty good but the beats are incredibly inconsistent in quality, with most being off in some way.
East coast rapper, collaborated with Gang Starr. Eh.
A while ago I started saying "damage" instead of "cringe". This won't stop me
Standard 90s hip hop. Nothing about it stands out in a way.
I've given up trying to listen to the words of hip hop albums. I mean who gives a fuck what they think anyway. And I can't take anyone calling themselves 'The Damaja' seriously. It's like at school when the kid-with-no-mates tries to give themself a "cool" nickname. Mate, you're still a cock. This has some foot tapping beats (Come Clean is great). But some stuff gets repetitive. I've heard worse though. 2½
He says he's not a misogynist then says a bunch of misogynist stuff. Me: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
No se porque está en los 1001 discos
Not my cup of tea.
Not for me
It's OK, but didn't hold my interest enough to keep listening.
Whatever ass album
Idk how to judge hip hop albums. This one was a bit sexist and dated at times. 2*
This bored me. Which is surprising because I used to love a bit of Gang Starr et al back in the day. Never heard of this dude before and now I know why
40 minute Rap album…favorite minutes were at 41 minutes plus.
It's...not for me. I mean, it's not totally dreadful or anything, just distinctly not up my street. I do quite like the front cover, if only because it would be a superb game of 'bad film, bad album or bad video game from 1994'. Not a game with loads of scope, but still, this would be a good entry.
Thanks. I hate it. It was probably not cutting edge "hip" in 1994, but 41 years on... basic novelty beats with random noises added. And uninspired potty-mouth rap over it. Nope. Take this CD outside and shoot it.
steady beat
I didn't connect with it that much. I really like Wu-Tang, so was sorta hoping it would be more like that (with them being from the same wave and all)
No, just no
Not a vital album.
I did not listen to the entire album. It wasn’t great but I think it deserves another listen.
Good flow but not much head-bopping production
ive been thinking a lot about ending my own life
Eh it was fine. Not really my style. Best song: Ain't The Devil Happy Notable(s): Jungle Music
Almost made it through a rap album in the 90's without using faggot. Almost. I assume this was the thinking man's rap? He calls women bitches but only the "bad ones". Ugh. I've been getting a lot of early 90's rap and it's a little exhausting. Beats are fine. Got a bit jazzy. That's about it.
Good 90s beats Lyrics just leave way to much to be desired
I didn't like most songs, the lyrics were not great.
This was good enough but the lyrics were needlessly dirty, not something that I'd seek out as lyrically valuable
Not for me
Listened in the truck via YouTube music. Very much in the same ilk as all the 90’s boom bap sample rap. Not sure this was a definitive album of any kind.
Far out, man.
The beats, while hypnotizing, were incredibly repetitive. The flows were nice, but I’m not sure it offered more than others of this era.
This is very much an album of its time, but lacks anything to lift it over and above in a crowded hip-hop field of the mid-nineties. Solid but nothing to excite or endear which results in a largely forgettable listening experience
I was clearly spoiled with having Run DMC in this project previously, because it has all just been downhill on the hip-hop front since. I had never heard of this artist before, and I’ll not be running to catch his other work.
zwei bis drei
Factual album name. Pretty generic sounding music
This debut from Brooklyn MC Jeru the Damaja plants itself firmly in the gritty soil of '90s New York boom bap, but despite DJ Premier's name on the boards, The Sun Rises in the East never quite catches fire. The production is unmistakably Primo—chopped jazz loops, tough drums, stripped-down menace—but it often feels like leftovers from Gang Starr’s kitchen. Jeru spits with confidence, occasionally channeling a Guru-esque calm on standout cuts like “My Mind Spray” and the haunting, water-drip beat of “Come Clean,” but most of the record blurs into a monochrome of earnest, mid-tier mic work. “Jungle Music” holds its own with a tight flow, but elsewhere things falter—whether it’s the grating beep on “Mental Stamina,” the wasted potential of “Perverted Monks,” or the problematic bars of “Da Bichez.” Jeru wants to school you with righteous wisdom, but on tracks like “Ain’t the Devil Happy,” the message is undercut by clunky execution. A couple flashes of brilliance, but the rest of the album never rises above the shadows of its peers.
This is a strong cup of black coffee. No cream, no sugar. The beats hit hard in that signature DJ Premier way, and the rhymes are sharp and focused. But man, it’s also a little preachy, and not exactly what I’m craving from ‘94 rap. Respect where it’s due, but this didn’t quite grab me. Spins: 2 Playlist Additions: - D. Original - You Can't Stop The Prophet - Come Clean - E New Y Radio
Not my style of rap
Listened to this album back to back with “Straight Outta Compton” and despite only a short period of time between the two, this album sounded a lot less dated. That being said, I don’t think I would repeat listen to this one.
Fine album, not much else to say high 2/5
Boring
When I first saw this, I thought, "Oh great, not another American hip-hop album." But honestly, it was better than I thought it would be. Still, after checking out over 400 albums, I've realised that the whole record-scratching thing really annoys me!
Not a huge fan, but I can respect this.
Never heard of this but it was ok.
everything kinda sounds the same. i cant recognize anything groundbreaking in this bc it feels like the people who came after just did it...better
Op zich een lekkere flow, maar is op de achtergrond in zijn geheel aan mijn voorbij gegaan. Deels mijn fout natuurlijk en ik kan de plaat nog een keer aanzetten. Echt zin heb ik daar ook niet in gekregen. NY-hiphop toch ook niet echt mijn ding. 6/10
Not my vibe.
Good. Didn't feel like it stands out though. Enjoyable listen but nothing special
Meh. Not my thing.
It falls into the category of old school hip hop I can tolerate, but I would never put this on freely
I feel like this guy loved Dragonball Z. Decent flow and some okay lyrics but he comes off as a nerd.
If the audio quality was better maybe but its dated and you can tell, honestly might be a 1
Not bad musically, and better than some of the others I have heard on here. But still not for me.
Jeru The Damaja's album 'The Sun Rises In The East' is a relatively straightforward rap album, using a consistent beat or cadence throughout, which can become somewhat repetitive. However, the incorporation of samples and unconventional rap instruments such as the piano and jazz saxophone adds variety and alleviates some of the monotony. It is worth noting that declaring oneself as non-sexist while the lyrics suggest otherwise undermines the overall lyrical message and credibility. In summary, the album is decent but does not stand out as exceptional.
Just not my taste, sounds like a lot of the other 90s hip hop albums out there.
Proof that 99% of the time, ✨Conscious Hip-Hop✨ is filled with more backwards, problematic, hateful worldviews than any gangsta rap Tipper Gore wanted banned from your ears. And I’m not even talking about the obvious, strangely-date, outwardly chauvinistic if not misogynistic “Da Bitchez.” Songs like “Jungle Music” and “You Can’t Stop The Prophet” reveal a type of self-hatred/community-hatred that feels its time for so-called “conscious” rappers, where systemic oppression is more a failure of individual virtues and this ~enlightened~ rapper is not going to be a victim of your system, man, while also being very open to aligning with capitalism and patriarchy when it benefits him. And look, I’m a white trans woman, I’m maybe coming at this from a very different angle, but there’s just something about Jeru’s energy that throws me off and feels so gross. On top of that, he also has the other fatal flaw of conscious rappers, where he thinks his pseudo-intellectual understanding of life makes him a genius, and, like all pseudo-intellectuals, will not shut the fuck up about it. When he isn’t bashing everyone else for not being as enlightened as him, he’s just talking about esoteric bullshit as if it’s the most earth-shattering revelations ever put to a mic. The ego is insane! I’m not averse to Five Percent Nation “mathematics” in my hip-hop, but here, it really takes over. The final nail in the coffin for me is that, ironically, Jeru’s only really interesting topic is that he’s from Brooklyn, and like….baby girl, 1) so are a ton of hip-hop artists in ’94, many of them more talented than you as rappers, let alone artists, and 2) you just spent 16 bars shitting on your community, you can’t now represent your borough or even your neighborhood if you hate the people within it! Beyond these three things, Jeru really has nothing interesting to say. Like, at all. Classic rappers who stand the test of time have a personality; you might not like that personality, but you still walk away knowing who that rapper is at the end of every song. You don’t get that with Jeru. And frankly, you don’t get anything sonically interesting to make up for his lack of personality– his voice isn’t unique, his flow is pretty of-its-time, his bars are not memorable, his rhymes are predictable. He is a bland rapper, even if what he was saying wasn’t weird and difficult to listen to. The only thing that makes The Sun Rises in the East listenable is the beats. Because it’s DJ fucking Premier. So like, yeah, all of these beats are insanely good and very well-produced. Now, I don’t like all of them, and I would argue that the majority of these are B-tier Premier beats at best, but they’re good beats. If I was not actively listening to the rapper on the fucking cover of this record and the words he was saying, I would say this is a fine, listenable, though inessential record. But I listen to hip-hop because I love the lyrics and the flow, because I love RAPPERS! The production comes second for me. And not only does Jeru not add anything there, but what he is trying to add is so off-putting. I hate that I have to write this because it makes me sound like every other popular negative review of a hip-hop album on this website where they rant about how rappers swear too much and hate women and do crimes, which, 99.9% of the time, is a problematic worldview, and frequently crosses over into implied racism, if it isn’t explicitly racist. My critiques of Jeru The Damaja are more nuanced than that, though, at least I hope so. To me, this is the opposite of consciousness, the opposite of “wokeness” or even progressivism. I’m not sure if Jeru has retroactively called himself out– I hope he has, but rappers of his generation tend to double-down on their conservatism with age, unfortunately– because a lot of his lyrics on paper are directly against consciousness. It may have influenced backpack rap for years to come, sure, but that isn’t a good thing, because it left a lot of gross bullshit in the water as a result. That makes this album worse today, but even ignoring all of that, there’s so little of substance here to actually entertain anyone who enjoys hip-hop who wasn’t literally living in Brooklyn in ’94. What is good here, though, can be found in other places, in much better condition, and with more interesting things to say. The Sun Rises in the East is uninteresting in passing, and actively radioactive upon inspection.
Forgettable hip hop and rap
More Public Enemy than Run DMC. Rawer and more stripped down sound. Interesting lyrics as well but not something I’d probably listen to
Just a 2. Maybe a 2.5 but OK
90's Rap, in general, just isn't my genre... but I've heard worse. Can I talk about the guy's name, though? Damaja? Damager? Was this supposed to be badass? It sounds like someone who's gonna scratch your car or put a hole in your drywall. Sure, it's aggravating, but you can fix that. Ooooooh... scary.
I can appreciate this isn’t to my taste, but I’m also not sure that it’s very interesting anyway
I found this to be pretty standard hip hop. Not bad but nothing really popped for me
didn't know Jeru before this album was introduced to me, has a lot of the crumbling that make the NY boom boom bap sounds so iconic from the burrows.
90s hip-hop is usually the only one I can stomach, but this wasn't my thing. The drum samples sound very acoustic, and I must say that it makes it loose quite a lot of punch. It just sounds weak compared to Dre, for example. In addition, there just weren't any interesting hooks to me in any of the songs. The out-of-key piano in 'D.Original', for example, is more annoying than it is cool. And I didn't find any interesting melody in the other tracks either, really. My self introspection from this is also that I probably should find another way to listen to this album than when working. I feel like I sometimes miss quite a lot of the tracks when focusing on code. On the other hand, it's a good filter because if something is really good it usually catches my attention anyways.
I don't think I was in the mood for this album today. The flows were good when I focused but it didn't really stick. Maybe I should've listened to this when I was at the gym. The beats themselves were not interesting enough to grab my attention. When I focused on the music the flows were good but I was doing other things at the same time. All in all it just felt generic. Strong 2. Should maybe give it another go next workout.
I like this more than a lot of 90s rap, but I still didn't get into it. The lack of musical hooks really holds me back from getting too into any of these tracks. Musically, Da Bichez was my favorite song, but the lyrics are pretty tough to enjoy.
2 out of 5. Just like yesterday's album by Public Enemy it's again, solid, but nothing stands out.
Sure. Give or take. Have basically zero opinion about this one.
Some more 90s hip-hop, this time from someone I wasn't at all familiar with. It was okay, but definitely wasn't blown away by this. He may have just been part of a big wave of hip-hop change but got drowned out by other big names. Ultimately, I thought this album was just okay, though.
2.7
Honestly, I enjoyed this more than I enjoyed yesterday's Slim Shady LP. Not enough to give it a higher score, but I felt the difference: the beats are less goofy and more groovy and it comes closer to the sci-fi promise of sampling culture. The piano on D. Original is fun for a bit and I liked You Can't Stop the Prophet, but I wonder why, when Straight Outta Compton surely comes upon us, I will accept "life ain't nothing but bitches and money" from Eazy-E when I find Da Bichez from Jeru so embarrassing. He says he's not a misogynist. He says he can't be sexist or racist. I guess it's just as embarrassing when Lupe Fiasco points out that 'bitch' is bad and 'woman' is good ('lady' is better, by the way). Maybe it has something to do with conviction. I really don't know. 1.5 It was illuminating to hear this next to The Slim Shady LP. Here I appreciated both the more interesting samples, the more absorbing beats, and the clean, uncluttered delivery of the lyrics. It was 20 minutes shorter. I laughed out loud at least once (possibly not on cue). The hideous cover art was less hideous than the Eminem album’s. So many advantages and yet only half a star more? It seems unjust but sadly there are other albums available for comparison and Jeru the Damajah, like Eminem, made a profoundly dull record. Every track is one bar going round and round and round and the lyrics, regardless of their moral character relative even to Eminem, are, like Eminem’s, just rubbish. 1.5/5
Another relict of hip hop past in the US. Honestly, it's hard to tell a difference between all those albums. Not much interesting music in here, unfortunately.
2 stars - lyrics meh, production mostly meh except I like the dissonant piano on track 1
Dude spits slow and over articulates while still managing to mumble. The beats are mediocre and there’s not an identifiable flow. Production is worse than most homemade cassettes.
Look - it wasn't the worst thing I heard today, and it sounds better (or maybe just less offensive) than most of the hiphop I've had so far.
Never grabbed me. One and done.
It was okay
Didn’t do much for me.
There's some beats and some flow here that tug at my interest, but not enough to justify repeated listening.
Sounds like any other 90's rapper to me. Some good songs, a lot of okay ones, and a few that were extremely annoying
🎧Kind of mid tbh
3/10 - idk it was just kind of bad. It was rap but it didn’t have anything that I really liked. His name is pretty funny tho
It's good, but he's not the most charismatic MC and these beats aren't very interesting. C
Fyrir rappplötu er þetta áhlustanlegt en samt ekkert sésrstaklega skemmtilegt. Ég mun mjög fljótlega gleyma Jeru og aldrei hlusta á tónlistina hans aftur. Sem er kannski bara allt í lagi.
Good beats. Can't do the vocals or some of the lyrics.
not for me
No es el álbum de hip-hop/rap que volvería a escuchar. No tiene ese atractivo masivo que tienen otros discos del género que sí traspasan las fronteras de la idiosincrasia gringa.
I understand why this is here but is not my thing
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Come Clean - E New Y Radio, Jungle Music Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Didn't really do anything for me. Wasn't a bad listen, just meh.
so many swears
wieder einmal spärlich möbiliert: die meisten tracks bestehen aus beats , mit sehr wenig melodie angereichert - sogar der darübergerapte text ist eher eintönig. verstehe dass dieses album damals inpiration lieferte, aber heute eher nicht mehr.
213/1001 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
Hip Hop luminaries in 1994: Warren G, Snoop Doggy Dogg (sic), Craig Mack, Biggie, Tupac, Bones Thugs-n-Harmony, Queen Latifah, The Brat, Nas… Nah. Jeru didn’t cut it then. Still doesn’t.
Just not very good
I mean, it's nice to hear a hip-hop record from this time that isn't an hour or longer. The beats are strong and his flows are good. So I was enjoying it, but then I was grinding my teeth through all of "Da Bichez" and couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for the rest of the album. Why would I listen to someone that raps about women this way? The more of these older rock and hip-hop albums I hear, the less tolerance I have for them. "I'd body slam her, but I'm not a misogynist." You absolutely are. Fuck you, man.
Average hip hop. Not notable.
This album was ok. I like the sounds better than the songs.
The music/samples on this album are not good just like the lyrical content.
Pretty standard 90s rap with very repetitive beats. 4/10
Tout est très moyen: les paroles volent pas hauts, les beats sont affreux et le cover est dégueu. C'est vraiment juste pas bon
One Certainty: The sun rises in the east and this kind of hip-hop holds nothing for me!
He looks so serious
I can live with the lack of a fuck filter, but not the misogyny. This has aged appallingly. Tight beats, dumb ass lyrics.
Liked it. Sort of hypnotic. Lyrics are fairly uninteresting.
of the multitudes of rap albums i've heard at this point in my life, this is one of the ones i like the least
Pretty forgettable 90's east coast gangster rap
Forgettable. It wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t care to listen to it again.
Niet mijn smaak rap
I don’t see this as anything particularly notable. And some lyrics have dated terribly.
meh.
Day214 - maybe because i’ve never heard of this guy but it sounds like craig mac or the wu tang clan and that’s not bad but it’s not original sounding
# 292 : Meh! Rap is still not my thing.
Not really my thing but I did nod my head a few times
Ook
Meh.
I keep skipping Hip-Hop albums because outside of Public Enemy, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest and some others, I rarely hear originality or innovation. So I thought I had better give this one a go just to make sure I wasn't missing some originality and innovation. I wasn't. This sounds exactly like early 90s hip-hop and seems to be totally generic. Gave up after the (to underline my point) one with the boring jazz trumpet sample called... I kid you not "Da Biches". And that is just after "Mental Stamina" which is trying oh so hard to be "How I could just kill a man" by Cypress Hill. Is the album title trolling? Because yes, this is the essence of predictable.
I'm not a fan of rap, but as far as rap goes, this wasn't terrible. 2/5
Freaky Flow
2/10
this lowkey aged really fucking bad… also ok just forever be a west coast rap girly i have never really liked east coast / NY rap. I did appreciate when he appreciated black women tho that was cool. mostly not great tho. Didn’t like the F slur. 1.) ain’t the devil happy 2.) da bitchez (cannot believe this is this high) 3.) you can’t stop the prophet
Oh no!! Hip hop! I cannot relate to or much connect with this genre as "music." I can call it poetry set to rhythm, but this is just juvenile rhyming, so if I judge it as poetry, it's bad. Really bad.
Album 427 of 1001 Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East Rating : 2 / 5 I listened all the way through. Just not for me. I like tunes.
It's a rap album from 1994. I'm not sure why this is on the list. To his credit, a bit of the lyrics are: We be on the microphone, doin' lyrical king fu. So, there's that.
rapsy w klasycznym oldschoolowym stylu, ciekawe utwory ale nic na playliste, gosciu brzmi troche jak ice cube
Another rap record that sounds like the other rap records from the nineties. Maybe I’m missing something.
Seemed long.
Oh obscure 90s hip hop. *farts*
Gave it a quick listen. Two stars.
Meh 2/5
Jeru the Demaja - The Sun Rises In The East 90s hip hop album from one of the members of Gang Starr Foundation. From what I read it helped receive the East coast hip hop scene, along with Wu-Tang, Nas, Biggie. I didn't hear anything special on this album, but I also didn't know who Jeru was. 2/5
alright
Can’t get into this type of music. I do have a couple albums I like very much. Unfortunately i reference my rating off them and this is far from being equal.
This guy thinks he’s descended from Egyptian royalty and his words transcend space and time, but this is just another ‘90s rap album, probably here to have some east coast representation. Not much new, misogyny and racism, despite him specifically denying both. There are some good beats here though.
Appreciate the attempts at positivity and consciousness, but he just doesn't have the lyrical chops.
1 or two good tracks, I thought the backing tracks were a bit rubbish
Rating: 5/10 Meh.
Rap/Hip Hop is really just not my thing. Definitely better than other rap that I’ve heard, but still only one or two songs I consider redeemable.
I’m not the demographic. I enjoy the rhythm and the rhyme but the content is not on my radar.
Even though this is the kind of hip hop that I tend to enjoy this album has no energy to it.
OK, I’m not sure about this but I really don’t remember anything about this after listening. With albums like this I always wonder if a re-listen or two would completely change my opinion, but I already have a lot of albums to catch up on. This at least isn’t the really dated 1980s rap that has popped up strangely frequently on the list.
Couldn’t do it, but seemed sound lyrically.
32/100 Based on this scale: 1 star - 0 to 19 2 stars - 20 to 39 3 stars - 40 to 59 4 stars - 60 to 79 5 stars - 80 to 100 Generic 90s rap with a couple of quasi-moments.
Not bad for explicit lyrics. I liked the beat.
It wasn't until I left my wallet in Al Segundo came on that I realised that this album has no hook tracks.
You know, It Takes A Million of Nations of Public Enemy sets the standard, and this is for me a weak rip-off. Not bad, but lyrics are bit more "Look at Me, how bad or important I am". Feels like 2 stars, so I give it 2 stars.
Sounds like every other old school hip-hop album to me. Not necessarily bad I'm sure I haven't heard anything on this record that I hadn't heard before.
Really boring. Repetitive loops and samples only occasionally broken up with brief flashes of something approaching a good flow. I love 90s hip hop but this doesn't quite reach the heights that other artists of the time were offering
Started ok but was pretty boring
oh god
honestly, not as bad as I thought it would be. It’s definitely not my favourite type of music and I don’t really see how influential it was. However, I did find myself nodding along to some of the beats. Overall, I just think that it was a little too long, and I got distracted along the way, and it lost my attention. If it was shorter, I could consider giving a higher rating however, all in all, not bad.
Envie d'en finir
2/5 not my cup of tea
Crazy cluster dissonance. Favorite song: Jungle music?
Album is alright when it's not one of the worst mixed albums I've ever listened to (Brooklyn Took It). Pretty much just Dollar-Tree Illmatic
Paikoittain ihan svengaavaa räbäytystä muttei silti mitään asiaa jatkossa omille listoille. Olisin pärjännyt elämässä varsin hyvin ilman tätä(kin) levyä.
Nothing here excites me at all.
Not great. I wonder if it’d be in the book if it didn’t have a picture of the twin towers burning on the cover
This album is alright. Nothing to write home about. I'm not a big fan of the beats, as the producer seems to like to lay discordant samples over what is otherwise a decent beat. The lyrics are okay, but not great. It's listenable is about all I can say. Tracks I liked: Perverted Monds In Tha House (Theme) Ain't the Devil Happy Jungle Music
Maybe it's a difference of East coast vs West coast or old school vs new, but this is not the style of rap I care for. Every song sounds somewhat similar.
Too old school. Production flat.
I don't know, man. It's not the worst, but this is not for me.
I bought this on vinyl and never really got into it. I put Come Clean on a fair few mixtapes, but nothing else really hooked me in. A disappointed 2 stars.
Gangster rap had a short time in the sun. That's good. A bit too strongly worded for current times.
A bit too angry and mean spirited for me
Es un rap muy crudo, muy yankee, del que no me llega tanto. Pero no es malo, se rescata algo
Was just alright. There’s much better east coast hip hop. 4/10
ok hip hop
Whilst important at its time, I don’t think that it’s held up particularly well. More a museum piece than essential listening, and that’s coming from someone who was deep into the gangsta rap scene in the ‘90s.
I’ll be honest, never heard of Jeru before this, maybe if I did I’d rate the album higher, but judging it by today’s standards it sounds very “regular”
I do like his voice, but few rap albums hold my attention the entire length.
Cat: I listened to 2 songs. I liked it!
Nothing special
Pointsit omaperäisemmistä taustoista kuin monilla saman ajan raplevyillä. Kylmä tyyli, enteilee 2000-lukua paikoin. Ihanhan tämä rullaa.
It was OK 90's rap, but one star less for Da Bichez - a bit over this stuff
Yawn.
This might have suffered from coming a day after a much more interesting hip hop record. It certainly didn't feel "must hear before you die" worthy. I didn't enjoy it, bichez. Next!
This was ok, but I found the music would get kind of tedious by the end of most of the songs. I was looking for a little more happening on that end of things. I listened to this a few times but remained underwhelmed with each listen.
Biiiitch! That is all.
Not a big fan of hip hop, but this was okay as far as that genre goes. 2 stars.
Hip hop. Coñazo
Qu'est ce que c'est nul le ice cub rap sans déconner
I am of the opinion that rap is perhaps the hardest genre of music to adequately judge once it has aged and once the music no longer is "current." Sure, there are undeniable classics of every era that stand above. This is not it. This sounds horribly dated, particularly when compared to the classics that are contemporaries. Jeru is a talented rapper for sure, but the production is so-so and the lyrical content is dated and contains slurs that just don't fly in 2023. I get why this is on the list and I didn't necessarily dislike anything here, but on the other hand, I didn't really want to hit repeat on any of the tracks either. An album I doubt I return to.
...Are there any hip hop albums from this era/on this list that don't have a song/verse/etc on them about how women are "bitches"? I'm very tired of it. The rest of this album was...fine. I will get off my soapbox now, lol.
No
Escucho muy poco rap por lo general, asi q esta bueno q toquen discos asi por aca asi escucho algo 👍👍. Igual no me gusto mucho ajajaj fue divertido yo q se 4/10
Escuche la intro y pensé uhhhh se viene, this shit popping. Escuche 3 temas y me aburrió, este estilo de rap de brooklyn por lo general no me gusta tanto.
Memorable name. Forgettable album.
Dessa vez foi mais tranquilo a audição de mais um disco de hip hop por motivos que durou pouco mais de trinta minutos.
The sun does rise in the East. And it sets in the west. This music was unexceptional So not really the best. Jeru who? I hate when songs refer to women as Da Bichez. The cause was pretty much lost there.
I tend to like this era of hip hop more than modern rap. So I thought this might fit the sweet spot for me. It did not.
2.25
2.5 New to me. I think I can get into it.
An overall ok hip-hop album that helped with the revival of East Coast Hip-Hop. The album cover is evocative with it's use of the burning World Trade Centres from only one year prior, with it so fresh in the minds of the public - it might draw you towards the album or you may feel outrage. Best: D. Original Worst: Come Clean - E New Y Radio
I prefer a lot more catchy hooks and melodical sections in my hip hop and I find this kind of very sparse beats and rap harder on my ears. I am also lacking the humorous/emotional interludes that I LOVE about a good 90s hip hop album. I guess this album was a large part of a huge hip hop revival and the music I love wouldn't be around if it weren't for albums like this but I wouldn't choose to listen to it again. The overall sound it stressful to my ears. The one track that sounds nicer to my ears, Da Bichez is horrible for a woman to listen to and hugely problematic in my opinion. "But I'm not a misogynist" LOL... Love the catchy horns on that track though.
Wasn't a fan of this at all.
Una altra suposada obra clau del hip hop dels '90. Un altre debut presuntament brillant. Un altre disc aparentment cru i combatiu. Una altra crida a la justícia social sembla ser que feta de manera apabullant. Meh
Meh
Meh. Da Bitchez has the best groove but I hate all the lyrics. You Can't Stop the Prophet is a great song. In general there are a lot of other, better rap albums of the era out there.
Beuh, dit is echt niet voor mij!
Tot 2 nummers van het einde gekomen met dit album. Hoeveel 90's rappers passen er in een dozijn? Jeru is in ieder geval nummer 13.
Hiphop clásico sin destacar especialmente. Ritmos y voces normales. No destaca.
Aningen bättre än SZA men fortfarande plastigt och lite väl skräningt suck
A bit crap 90s rap. At least there weren't any poorly-aged or downright bad skits
ist ganz gut so kann man hören, aber uff da bichez ist der lameste uncoolste dümmste track ever
Not terrible, not amazing - some very 90's references and attitudes. Clearly very proud of Brooklyn. Will not be listening again
A second hip hop album that pretty much underwhelmed me. It was the first genre I fell for but I guess I'm happy just listening to the hip hop I know, and not too hot on looking for something new.
meh
90s hip hop. Not great overall
Nope
It was OK for what it was. Not really my thing but I didn't actively hate it.
2.5
I find myself not particularly liking the subject matter of this album this morning, which despite the good beats and rapping ability, drops my rating to a 2-star level.
meh
best Tracks: D. Original, Brooklyn Took It, Da Bichez, Come Clean Worst Tracks: Ain't the Devil Happy, My Mind Spray Can't stop the prophet (pete rock remix) is way better than this version., gets grating , got bored and wanted it to end so I can listen to a more fun rap album.
ожидал от диджея примьера большего
I tried. Never found a way to grab me. Admittedly the genre has never been in my wheelhouse completely. Would ordinarily give it a repeat listen, but it's almost like one complete listen told me everything I needed to know.
Not really feeling some of the lyrics here from Jeru. The beats and atmosphere of the songs are pretty much on par with some of the Wu Tang Clan's albums, he's got a great gritty voice, but the lyrics seem to let down the rest of the record. Maybe I'm missing something, but some of the songs felt really hollow. Fav Tracks: D. Original
More authentic than fun loving criminals, less fun.
Best track: Jungle Music
Inte min grej, liksom inget speciellt, känns som jag hört det förr. Hade satt 2,5
Pretty much what you would imagine if you were asked to picture generic 90s Gangsta Rap.
I just like beats and backing tracks on hip hop. Lyrics and the rap pass me by.
More 90s rap. Seems fine. Not exciting.
Not for me - Da Bitches is alright though
Vielleicht hätte das Buch eher 808 alben geheißen, das würde alles etwas konzentrieren. Nichts gegen Jeru, aber für den Nichtspezialisten ist es in meinen Ohren nicht speziell genug.
Rap der alten Schule, eigentlich gut, musste ich dennoch gegen Ende abschalten, aber nicht weil so schlimm, sondern weil schon nach 3, 4 Stücken klar wird das „Abwechslungsreichtum“ nicht auf der Karte steht. Albumcover hat doch schon das SEGA Mega Drive Spiel „Shinobi“ geziert, oder? Punkte: 1.6
2/5 May have been more noteworthy and original in its initial conception, however feels like ground that has been trodden so many times that it feels somewhat pastiche.
Del Hip Hop, al no entender las letras, me quedo con lo buenas o malas que sean sus bases. En este caso, no me ha enganchado.
It was a fine record, didn't grab me for the most part.
An eerie album art
Cool but nothin crazy
awesome flow and grooves. 2.5
Average hip hop / rap
Standard hip hop. Nothing special
It's all same
Not for me, I get it, just don't like it.
was okay
1994: You Can't Stop The Prophet, Come Clean - E New Y Radio
9. There's a jump in the intro? Someone didn't edit this properly 💀 The piano is literally terrible It just sounds incomplete and messy They need a proper pianist so bad 😭 Vocally completely fine! Mental Stamina could have been good if not for the weird high pitched sound throughout, makes it almost unlistenable. It also stutters a bit and it just sounds wrong??? Faves - Da Bichez, You Can't Stop The Prophet, Ain't The Devil Happy Overall - I had to listen to half this album before getting to something even somewhat listenable... Lyrics/vocals fine, music BAD Rating - 2/5
Бляяя
It's just not very good. Average listenable beats and no flow. The usual "I'm the best and will shoot you" nonsense. He rhymes sister with histor y. Maybe that's one of the "rhymes like semen" he later mentions, whatever that means. The lyrics on that last song Statik dropped its final star.
Misogynistic and mid
Not for me. Solid musically though.
Just no.
I think a good update to this generator would be that when you make your account, you have one genre you can skip over and get a different group of albums swapped in. Call it the 'What Genre Do You Never Want To Hear Again' box. Hip hop would be mine for sure. And as of today this album has a 2.9 cumulative rating so I am 100% positive I am going to loathe this already without having even started it. I don't even need to listen, I can tell you exactly what this is going to be - homophobia, misogyny, violence, self aggrandizing set to programmed beats and samples from older music. The thing about all these hip hop records is that they're all pretty much exactly the same. I don't get why you would need more than one on the list anyway? I feel like that's the only genre where you can say that. I mean sure there are other genres I don't really care for but at least the music is different from one album to the next. Maybe I'm just grumpy today. Well, let's jump in, shall we? Yep, I was right. Please no more. I hate this kind of music. 1/5
I'm guessing the guy was doing this before anyone else? I don't otherwise see its place in the list. Anyhow, not very interesting hip-hop. 3/10
Why ? Same old same old
I keep trying, but this just isn't music for me. 1