Welcome to the Afterfuture

Bof bof. Pas atroce mais rien d'incroyable.

Zeer meh album voelde het niet zo

This is very stereotypical and boring of me but: I don't really listen to rap. I quite like the Beastie Boys and I can still remember all the words to some Cypress Hill tracks (Tip for white people: "Neighbour" is a perfectly good substitute for the n-word. As in "I got to roll with the self control / in the green tank when the shit unfolds / hold up. I got it sewn up / me and my [NEIGHBOURS] are about to blow up") So, anyway, I like some of the music and samples here, the strings especially. I like some of the sci-fi Blade Runner references. I think I probably like the political angle of the lyrics but it's hard to tell because I'm not sure what the lyrics are and, although this album is in the 1001 to listen to, there aren't lyrics on Spotify or any of the lyric transcribing websites. So, I dunno. I would have to spend time working them out to really gauge if I was into it or not. It's not really my sort of thing but it's good to be made to listen to something different.

Like sand in your vegan burrito

As a whole not really my thing, but the last track was pretty great

I appreciate the ambition here, but man, this didn't grab me. It's not off-putting - the production is pretty tastefully done. It just floated off into the background.

Does very, very little for me. The best, most immersive moment was the lengthy instrumental break on 'To the Moon's Contractor'. Otherwise, this barely left an impression. I don't aggressively dislike it though, so two stars.

Samesies. I played it, music happened, no emotional connection was made one way or the other.

As much as I like hip-hop I really didn’t like this. The beats were not great. I get they were trying a futuristic theme but the instrumentals just weren’t good. Planet 10 sounded like people using Voice Mask on Xbox when I was a kid. The raping didn’t have a great flow to it. “Watch me as I go pee-pee” was a solid rap lyric. “The moon’s Contractor” had a cool soundtrack for 10 minutes with 1 minute of rap. Really wasn’t feeling this one 3/10

Man I really wanna like this one. I'm a huge rap/hip hop fan and understand that this is a rough concept album but even going in with that there's too many flaws. You gotta have a combination of fire beats, good flow, and/or meaningful lyrics. I don't think a single track on this album combines the three to standout. Do you know how irritating it is to hear him rap over an awful beat with decent lyrics then the next track is an amazing beat but NO LYRICS AT ALL? Overall the sound is ALMOST there and some songs are frustratingly close to great like Bladerunners, The Animist, and Feb. 4 '99 but randomly have major flaws. 4/10

I tend to listen to the music/beats rather than lyrics so I feel like I tend to be biased on these more lyrically based hip-hop artists. There was definitely some cool production choices I enjoyed throughout this record. But overall wouldn't revisit.

5,000 miles west into the future slapped, didn't super feel any of the others though

Feel like the guy is barely riding the beat, his flow sucks and the beats are boring as hell. Ok, 'To the Moon's Contractor' is pretty cool. PS2 era chillwave Red Eye to Jupiter is also good. Overall bad but not 1/5 worthy

Cool beats on a dull record.

I could barely listen to it.

Experimental albums can be hit or miss and this is no exception. I enjoyed parts of it but it never really kept my attention. Felt a little too much like I was being lectured at. 2.5 stars

Meh

Ei mun kirjoissa ihmeellinen

Poor

Hip hop. Futurista, apocalíptico. Rollo.

The last track is pretty good, but the rest was not really my cup of tea.

Given this one a few listens, but really not doing it for me.

A fascinating listen., though I will say that calling this a Hip Hop album is wildly misleading. Only one track on here (Bladerunners) would I say even is close to fitting into the Hip-Hop genre. The rest fee like an avant-garde experimental beat tape with some ambient and grungy synthwave and distorted freeverse/spoken word vocals as opposed to rap verses. Regardless, even though I didn't really enjoy many of these songs nor would I listen to them again for pleasure, it was fascinating to listen to a well-made album that basically said "let's get weird". Worth the listen despite I probably wouldn't listen to again.

More like Mike Badd. First two verses of Bladerunner sound like El-P. Idc about this.

more like mike badd. I was the first to say this, anyone else who says that stole it and is a bt

Mike Ladd? More like Mike isn't good.

Rating: 5/10

I didn't like it. My hopes were high at the beginning but that didn't last long.

Cool concepts but I didn't care for the music that much

Just found this a bit boring. Jazzy but dull. Started skipping tracks to make it to the end.

Some VERY annoying samples on this, and other than that, it sounds like an unremarkable rap record. A long, dragging one.

Pretty cool production style but not really feeling the vibe.

Not a fan of this one.

No, I'm pretty sure if you were Christian, your name might have still been Michael.

Hip hop. Futurista, apocalíptico. Rollo.

Only notable for having Company Flow on track 5. Every other contribution is frankly pathetic. Production is alright, but there's a lot of elements here that make the album come across as half-hearted. It's hard to believe it got so much praise from reviewers at the time. While Welcome to the Afterfuture explores some unique ideas, it's mostly aimless and poorly executed.

There are some interesting rhythms and tunes but most of the songs aren't my cup of tea at all. It also doesn't feel like a coherent album, rather than different songs put together one after each other.

Not good, but not shitty enough. Also, this dude went to Hampshire College so that should explain some things.

Having also gone to school in Western Massachusetts, you can tell he's a Hampshire College graduate.

What an odd pick for the list. Good beats, but Ladds flows aren't exactly awe-inspiring. Should just have Company Flow on here instead, or better yet, RTJ! 👉🤛

Didn't really grab me - not very melodic.

Probably influential but a bit too edgy for me to get into

Certainly a vibe here, but not my vibe. Irritated by some of the vulgar lyrics. 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding

Just not very good...

eh

not my jam.

Another album I wasn't really looking forward to once I'd opened the site. The start was a real surprise - really interesting, great sound. Then it slowly morphed into boring hip hop albeit with some musical interludes though all basic repetitive phrases.

Nice production, crap vocals.

Interesting sounds used. Didn’t stick with me tho. 2/5

Mi rimane poco o nulla

A puzzling inclusion, neither the best of any particular hip hop sub genre nor distinctive enough to make a significant mark. A few gems are scattered throughout but the album takes a long time to get going and by the time it does interest has waned. Ladd is no doubt an interesting, smart artist and is worth a listen but I can think of hundreds of rap albums to include here over this.

Started off ok but started to drag.

Awful

Pretty weird

Difficult to find

a very interesting album, half rap half kind of spoken word over music. i can’t say i really enjoyed it but it also wasn’t bad

Just not a sound for me.

That was more or less a waste of space and time. Some weird electronic rap, not sure what this even was

I like the beats. The rhymes not so much.

2/5 A nicer person might call this a soundscape. Yea, a soundscape of hell. It just sounded like someone got a new music editing program and put every sound effect on one track at the same time. Or, alternatively, leaned on the whole keyboard and called it done. This a cacophony of voices and noises and samples. Just. Ugh. Just not my thing.

Some very interesting sounds & lyrical themes here, but overall a mixed bag. 2.5 stars

À jour pile pour le tiers de la liste 🥹

No one should have to work so hard to find shit like this on a streaming service in 2022.

Pas trippé honnêtement

As an entire album, "enjoy" is a strong word. However I hope to find more albums like this: hard-to-define, experimental pieces by artists I'm unfamiliar with. The track I was dreading listening to (an over 10 minutes-long "To the Moon's Contractor") ended up being one of the highlights for me. Then there's a song like "The Animist", which wears out its welcome about 2 minutes too soon. HL: "Planet 10", "Bladerunners", "Moon's Contractor", "Wipe Out" December 12, 2022 (late)

Liked the almost easy melody done by a trumpet but otherwise not really super enthusiastic besides a couple cool bits

Interesting, a bit different.......but then the almost inevitable rant on the last track which lost me completely ! 2*?

Not great but was half asleep.

Can't get access to the album so I'm going with 2 stars

Not on amazon music.

Rap not really my thing but these instrumentals and vintage lyrics were kinda cool.

It's got the spirit 2

It's everything I like about electronic and rap but this just doesn't hit for me... Interesting project and nice to see Mike Ladd is still making music.

Helemaal niet mijn ding. Er zitten wel enkele atypische nummers in, wat ik wel apprecieer

2.5. It has its moments

Meh, nothing memorable. The variety of sounds was nice. Standouts: wipeouts on the wave of Armageddon

Decent rapper but the mix is so busy it's pretty irritating to actually listen to.

Can’t listen to. Not available on Spotify

Average late 90s indie hip hop. Really doesn't do much for me. 1.5/5

p867. 2000. 2 stars Rap. Well done of its type - I like the Indian samples and jazz influences - but otherwise, not my thing at all. Would not listen to it again.

fucking boring

pretty boring and honestly I don't get what's so special about this album especially for 2k hip hop

Instrumentally it's fine but something about it rubs me the wrong way, lyrics are pretty dumb.

I normally love rap but I'm so far not enjoying this album thus far. I'm not a fan of the beats, the flow, or the weird vocal modifications. I really like the Bladerunners song. Love the El-P cameo. Too experimental for my tastes.

This is new to me. It completely passed me by when released. It started promising, but then I got a little bored tbh. UK trip hop does the slowed down beats far better. This just reminded me of dull late nights in over-priced Shoreditch bars over 20 years ago.

Again, not my favourite genre.

This album is all about space but unlike it, this shit is boring. So before I start tearing into this album, I might as well start off with some positives about it, first one is the production. It has a very spacey vibe about it which is expected, I mean it is an album that takes place in space. The scratches are also cool but that is of course a given. Another positive about this album is the title name. I don't know why but the name WELCOME TO THE AFTERFUTRE just sounds so cool, like if all the humans had just died out. So to be negative, when the fuck did this album come out. It says here that it came out in 2000, but it says 2015 on Spotify. Maybe it was just added to Spotify in 2015, but it's weird that they did that. This is by far the most confusing cover art that I've ever seen. What I can see is that it looks like it takes place on some space station. I have no idea if this is true and I'd love if someone could confirm it for me, but I don't think that anyone would ever see this review. Also, I'm just tired of these "rap albums" getting recommended. Don't get me wrong, they mostly sounds good to me. I gave Drunk a 7/10 despite saying that it wasn't really a rap album. Here, most of the tracks don't even have any vocals in them. Just because an album has like two fucking rap verses doesn't make it a rap album. That would be like if I claimed to have made a country album just by rapping over a country beat, it makes no fucking sense. Some albums that I think are good like Goblin do have tracks where it's just an instrumental playing, but that was just for two short tracks. One last complaint is the theme of the album. I don't blame Mike Ladd for making an album about space since I think that space is pretty cool, but I'm just tired of hearing it. The album where the cover art was the moon was about space and The Incredible True Story is also about space, but they at least have cool ideas. Favourite track would have to be "Red Eye to Jupiter (Starship N#gga). Mike Ladd sounds hungry as fuck on the track, and the horns on the track just sound so satisfying. Least favourite track would have to be "To The Moon's Contractor". It’s just long, boring and tedious. Yeah, this was just a waste of my fucking time. 4/10

Sci-fi trance rap and beat poetry, like a Grandaddy and Gil Scott-Heron collaboration. Good idea, disappointing rendering.

Those "deep thoughts" you have when you're high aren't actually that profound, and you definitely shouldn't build an entire album around them. Best track: 5,000 Miles West of the Future

Interesting for about 5 minutes then dull and repetitive with no discernible difference between tracks. 2/5

Primera noticia de este disco y de su autor. Aburrido y monótono. No le doy 1 estrella porque eso lo reservo para los realmente malos. Pero es totalmente prescindible.

It was fine. I didn't connect with it. Seemed long.

Meh. I didn't activly hate it, but it didn't have anything I really liked, either.

I listened. I couldn't tell you anything about it.

not my total bag baby

The Animist was pretty good track. The rest of it was interesting. I would never set this as playlist material, but if it were on, I don't think I'd mind too much.

Das ist so schlecht nicht, es ist aber auch nicht gut. Ich habe mit mir gerungen, ob das schon drei Sterne sind, kann aber nur zwei geben, dafür finde ich es nicht interessant genug.

A 2000 hip hop album, mostly spoken word with techno synth keyboards and what sounds like a drum machine, plus other interesting futuristic sound effects/samples. Despite the album cover Mike Ladd is American and based in the Bronx. There is some mild nods to Japanese music riffs (verging on racist tbh) and in the lyrics. The overall mood is future dystopia, but with a beat you can dance too. Interesting and well made, but doesn't really speak to me personally, although I did like certain bits quite a lot. No. 1 St. in particular reminded me a bit of Cantaloop clever and bouncy.

Borrrrrrrrrring

Very Interstellar!!! Right??

This was odd, I felt like I should have enjoyed this but I didn't. It makes me wonder why/hope we get names like scroobius pip on here but I somehow doubt it

Clearly Mike Ladd has a message and there are certainly some interesting experiments here, but I definitely not compelled to listen to it repeatedly. Definitely interesting, just not enjoyable.

31. Welcome to the Afterfuture - Mike Ladd 13 Tracks It was all a bit..... wishy washy as if he couldn't decide whether he was going to go full scale hip-hop or something else. As a result it couldn't hold my interest. 2/5

Yawn, but it’s ok

Hip hop album, beats seem to have an Industrial slant to them. First few songs were pretty good and tied into the "Afterfuture" theme with some sci-fi and futuristic lyricism. The DJ work throughout the album is solid but the rapping is hit or miss. Didn't like Bladerunners, juvenile overly sexual lyrics. Red Eye to Jupiter also terrible. Best song was Wipeout on the wave of Armageddon On the plus side, this is the first album where absolutely none of the videos had ads playing in front of them on Youtube.

Pretty decent, versatile album. Not likely to put it back on, but I didn't hate it.

This album was my introduction to experimental hip hop and this album hasn’t convinced me on the genre. The flow and bars were good and the production was interesting at the very least with its Asian influences, but none of it really stood out. It was also a bizarre choice to have jazz tracks seemingly randomly inserted in between hip hop songs

Brian Whitener of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, writing, "Welcome to the Afterfuture is a blender of sounds and styles and epitomizes the search that is leading cutting-edge hip-hop further into avant-garde and non-Western musical traditions."[1] Jon Caramanica of CMJ New Music Monthly commented that "Ladd's futurism is merely a mask for his very tangible discontent with the present."[2] He added, "References to the police state permeate the album, arguing that the new world order and newspeak are more than just things weeded street-corner bards philosophize on; they're integral to maintaining the power status quo."[2]

I had no idea what to expect from this album - new artist and new music to me. This album was a mix of okay tracks, tracks with good music but lyrics that I didn't like, a couple tracks I didn't like at all, and a couple tracks that I'd listen to again ("Wipe Out on the Wave of Armageddon", and "To the Moon's Contractor"). With only a first listen, this album feels like 2 stars.

Straight garbage. Really? A top album?

I was fairly excited prior to listening - just not my thing

This has all the elements that made me love the DJ Shadow album, but I just don't like Ladd's vocals. They're tiring and drawn-out, and I'm unable to enjoy the atmosphere of the beats like I want to

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: 5000 Miles West of the Future Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Kind of a harsh 2, there was the concepts of a plan for a sick album here but it didn't stick the landing for me. Shocked this man hasn't featured on a Gorillaz track.

Hip-hop. Creative tracks. Religiones

1/5

<heavy sigh> I really appreciate this project. Listening, reflecting on the experience, trying to reduce it to words, and reading about others’ experiences has made me a more open-minded and attentive music fan. But there are days when I realize how much happier I'd be if Dimery had even a modicum of taste in music to compliment his cultural curiosity. This is definitely one of those days. If this qualifies as music it is objectively terrible music.

terrible.

Really not my thing - generated no response in me on any level

Never heard of the so called 'King of the Hip Hop concept' and couldn't really come to terms with the mass of sound effects and relatively characterless grooves with not exactly electrifying rhymes. Another one to put in the 'why this one?'category.....

nope

My patience was already tested due to the current heatwave but this really pushed it.

trap-rap estadounidense del malo, muy malo.

Really disliked

I was hoping that whatever Abstract Hip Hop project The 1001 albums to hear before you die list would include some heat since they famously omitted Madvillany, but this is some straight garbage. There are some moments that should have came out beautiful or other parts that really should have elevated the rapping but I feel like Mike Ladd was really trying to juggle a bit more than he could handle because this project has problems in all fields. Even with El-P of Run The Jewels fame helping out with the production here, it just feels so misguided and like the ideas and execution are on two separate plains of existence. Nothing here works and it feels like you are listening to the instrumental beats of one project mixed with the entirely wrong rapper. The longer it goes on the more the hole is dug for Mike Ladd and company until it is too late and past the point of return. I honestly can't remember a single thing about this project and I finished it not even 10 minutes ago. Maybe some of the more knowledgable Hip-Hop heads will enjoy this but I found this to be an utter mess.

Not really feeling anything here. The music is happening. I am aware I am being musiced at. But it has no effect on me. I find it a bit annoying to be honest. The first few songs are so... nothing. They're mellow enough but, like, yeah I got nothing. Planet 10 is fucking irritating to listen to. Bladerunners is quite good, but that's due to the guest artist. There's a 10 minute instrumental. It's fine, nothing amazing. Followed by another little instrumental, which is again fine, but again, nothing special. I don't want to listen to this anymore. It's tedious. I'm not really into rap and hiphop and all of that kind of stuff at the best of times. So maybe it's good for people who do like it, but for me it's very unimpressive and tiresome. It's not completely without merit, but I gained no enjoyment from this at all.

DOn't like it. It began wearing on me half way through. One star.

Rap branco de gente branca, coloca umas batidas eletrônicas e manda um flow pior que o outro. Muito ruim.

Mike Badd

Jeezuz! This was horrible.

The fact that it was labeled as hip-hop put me off right away. As usual, though, I gave the album a chance and listened to it. I was also motivated by a few reviews. I found the first track quite interesting, but by the second track at the latest, the album’s heavy focus on hip-hop became all too clear to me. After listening to a few more tracks and finding that they all seemed to be the same, I gave up. Hip-hop isn’t music. 1/5

WTF is this album? Hated this “trip hop” “music”. DNF (1)

2/10 I fail to see why this was on the list.

Oof. That was bad. Another $1 bargain bin find at Tower Records for sure. Remember, be very suspicious of any album on there where the only accolade in Wikipedia is “included in the 1001 albums you must hear book”

That was definitely an album. Regarding why it is on this list, I have no idea. Bad beat poetry over ambient sounds and no clear indication of an impact on any genre or lasting legacy.

A notch above Rap. Not my kind of 'music'. Partially listened and as expected, I didn't like it.

I gave this a second listen to be completely fair to it but I just sadly detested this. I’m sure this was incredibly important and influential but it pales in comparison to all of its spiritual successors. Hundreds of newer artists have done what Welcome to the Afterfuture is doing in a far more cohesive and compelling manner. Every time a track started getting me on board there would, without fail, be some element (instrumental or vocal) that would be brought in that ruined the whole vibe for me. First album I’m rating a 1/5 on here though in retrospect maybe I should have been a bit meaner to some others rather than being generous and giving them a 2/5.

That was one of the worst hip-hop albums I ever heard, all they did was put a random ass beat on and started speaking nonsense. If I were to rated this I rated a 0 but that not allowed so I have to give it a 1

Shocked at how bad this is. I like this style of Hip Hop, but this is not it. I think it's a combination of boring rhymes and a forced flow. I think I'd like it more without the rapping

what a load of bilge.

I didn’t like.

*No music, just rap and some foul language

3/28 Shitty rap trash

Aldrig hørt om det her, virker som et dybt bizart valg til listen. Han rappede fint og sådan men de instrumentale dele varede for eeeevigt.

Wtf did i just hear? I don't want any more of that, ever, please.

This was fine. It's telling that my favorite part of the album was El-P's verse on "Bladerunners." I don't think I'll be listening to this again.

Abstract hip-hop and experimental spoken word built on sparse beats, ambient textures, and dragging, half-spoken vocals unfolds with deliberate, heavy pacing. Listening feels like wading through thick mud where each step takes effort and momentum never fully arrives. The concept might be intriguing and texturally rich for some, but the sluggish flow and vocals just feel annoyingly slow.

Awful!

I had no idea what to expect, but this was really unique!! Not really my vibe though, too slow for my liking. Fav song is ‘Airwave Hysteria’.

Doido, por bem e por mal. A estética futurista já está bem datada, e o álbum tem apenas 26 anos. Muitos dos instrumentais são bem interessantes, com aquela mistura de rap experimental com trip hop. O ponto fraco do disco são os vocais. O MC não é dos melhores, sendo gentil com ele. Mas pelo menos é algo diferente, em um gênero que desesperadamente precisa de coisas diferentes. Entendo a inclusão do disco na lista, pra tentar diluir a mesmice do Rap na representação aqui. É legal ver algo diferenciado, que busca ritmos diferentes e aborda temáticas fantasiosas. Mas nem sempre o resultado é inteiramente alegre. Vou voltar atrás e deixar de ser gentil, os vocais aqui são péssimos. Se esse fosse um disco instrumental, ele passaria, seria uma experiência OK. Mas os vocais estragam bastante a experiência. Os versos de Rap são medíocres e as sessões de canto são ridículas. E pra piorar, possui uma duração interminável. Depois de um tempo o disco perde todo o seu charme e fica bem chato. A capa é legal pelo menos. 1.5

Wouldn't something that is after the future still be the future? This is just another stupid album title. I didn't enjoy a single minute of this.

Don't remember it from last week.

Wow this was painful. No business being on this, or any list.

Nah, elevator hip hop music.

Some songs are just a pain to listen to. Didn’t like the production vocals and lyrics on this album. I’ve got to give it a harsh rating because this rating expresses how much I enjoyed the album afterall.

Dziwne dziwne, jakby pomiedzy wszystkim i jakby było niczym

Did not like

i wanted to like it i swear

Couldn't get past 3 songs, what the actual is this. RYM: N Saved a song: N

The first time around I gave this a 2 because the beats were interesting and I appreciated the social commentary. Those are still positives but this album just doesn't work for me.

Just get into this at alll - not for me

Trash

First impression: overly stylized, pseudo rap something. It's not horrible, but it's also not revolutionary or all that good or enjoyable. Bland, and just too much digital modification. I have no idea what any song is about. Rapping is also very monotonous and dull. I'd guess East Coast. Songs are too long. They often start one way and end another, but not in a pleasing way. Each track comes with a realization by the listener like "oh, I'm still listening to this song?" It's not a great album. It's not the worst music that I've ever heard, but I can't give this good marks. I don't care to ever listen to it again.

Awful. Not my thing at all.

Poor sludge

Nope just didn’t like this

"These goldfish know jujitsu, better watch yo'self"

I actually wanted to like this one

Didn't land at all. Gimmicky, sprawling, really boring rapping. Don't know how it found its way into this list. I enjoyed the sample on Bladerunners, couldn't work out whether it was an oboe, or something more sinister.

I thought this was very boring, very hard to get all the way through.

Shite.

Hier schrik ik van

Mike Ladd ist ein US-amerikanischer Rapper und Produzent aus Boston, dessen Arbeit im Bereich des alternativen Hip-Hop angesiedelt ist. Welcome To The Afterfuture wurde 2000 veröffentlicht und in mehreren Studios erarbeitet, darunter Mike’s 4Track in Brighton (Massachusetts) und Mischungen bei TME Studios in New York; weitere Arbeiten fanden in UWMSC Studios statt. Die Produktion nutzt sparsame Beats, elektronische Texturen und freie Songstrukturen. Das Album bewegt sich im Genre Hip-Hop mit experimentellen Einflüssen und lyrisch dichten Texten. Zu den bekanntesten Stücken zählen „5000 Miles West Of The Future“, „Airwave Hysteria“, „Planet 10“ und „Bladerunners“, die thematisch dystopische, gesellschaftliche und technologische Fragestellungen berühren. Ladds Stil verzichtet weitgehend auf eingängige Refrains und setzt mehr auf narrative und klangliche Vielfalt. In seiner Wirkung richtet sich Welcome To The Afterfuture an Hörer mit Interesse an unkonventionellen Beats und Texten im Hip-Hop; das Album entfaltet seine dichte Atmosphäre besonders bei wiederholtem Hören. Bewertung: ein konzentrierter, eigenständiger Beitrag zum alternativen Hip-Hop.

Doesn’t grip me but I get where it’s good, two stars.

This is in the running for the worst album on this list.

Альбом не перейшов перевірку часом. Допускаю, що в 2000 він звучав цікаво порівняно з клубною лихоманкою від Джей Зі, Мейса з Дідді та компанії. Якщо хотілось показати щось цікаве та підземне з того часу, то є дуже очевидні круті варіанти: Company Flow, Cannibal Ox чи Operation: Doomsday МФ ДУМА. Скоріше за все укладачі просто не шарять)

The second song reminded me this is truly an album from the year 2000!

It tries to be hip hop and electronic at once. For me it's more of a background noise album.

So glad music didn’t go in this direction

1/5

Absolute shit

2 in a row , unable to listen to whole album, just not my taste

Not for me. Raps weren’t the best and the flow and the beats never worked for me. Wasn’t a lot of or entertainment value.

not my thing 1/5

I think the creator of this list should have stuck to genres that they were familiar with. Maybe stay away from hip hop.

No thanks

Mike Badd

How does stuff like this even get made? Nobody thought to tell this dude that it was ass before he released it?

Just didn't enjoy this. It was just a mess of bad flows with no continuity. The quality of the recording was ok, but there was no production value. It seemed like a really well mixed demo tape of random songs.

😭😭😭😭💀💀💀

Neo American experimental hip-hop with a Gallic twist. Not for me though.

Klipp og lim. De klarer ikke å gjøre det bra en gang 😞👎🏻

One of the only albums I didn't manage to push through. -5

Couple of decent songs, but not enough to save this album. it's a no for me.

Sadly terrible.

Just no.

Never heard about this artist before the book, but it's rap so maybe it's because I just don't inhabit those circles. However, after a quick search, it seems this album and artist are only ever discussed in the context of the 1001 albums book. This type of artsy hip-hop can either be very cool and engaging and result in the best records the genre has to offer, or it can be aimless and a slog to get through. This one is the latter. Such a random inclusion.

Meh

Wack

I really, really dont think this is even in the list of 1001 rap albums you need to hear before you die

A shitty hip hop album. 1*

Wonder if they were high when they made this. Might be better if you're high when listening to it. :/

Seems like an album that was in the first edition of the book but should be removed now.

There's so many great hip hop artists around the world, and this shit is what the author thinks we need to listen too. Honestly, they should be embarrassed with themselves. Maybe in the next edition of the book replace this with Bliss n Esso.

Random collection of noises and some shouty rap

This was awful. Wish I could give zero stars.

Terrible

I didn't need to listen to this. Top 3 worst albums on this list so far? Don't tell me this was experimental, this is just throwing shit at the wall and seeing if it stops stinking. Still stinks.

I honestly listened to it while doing other things, and nothing profound stuck out for me to even comment on. Already completely forgotten the next day.

Listened to the first few tracks, and it wasn’t my thing. Really didn’t see too much artistry in this.

Not really something I want to listen to again. 1/5

Not for me sorry.

Reminds me of dad

I don't usually like hip-hop. There have been some great albums on this list that challenged that notion and convinced me by being fantastic enough to transcend genre preferences. This is not one of those albums. I don't know why this one would deserve to be on this list and I stopped listening after a couple tracks.

Album 883 of 1089 Mike Ladd - Welcome to the Afterfuture (200) Rating : 1.5 / 5 This one just didn’t connect with me at all. I always try to find something positive to take away from each listen, but in this case, nothing really landed. It’s not the worst I’ve heard by any means, but it also did absolutely nothing for me. Sometimes albums just miss their mark, and for me, this was one of them.

Utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter utter rubbish. That's an hour of my life totally wasted

Mir zu abstrakt, ohne grosse Linie.

Too weird

If this is the afterfuture, I'd rather stay in the present. 0.0

Wow, how the hell does this belong to the list? Now, I'm not into hip hop but I'm not even sure you'll have to, to appreciate this album. I don't. Totally unlistenable. 20.000 plays on Spotify says it all. 1/1

mehhh

When this started I quite enjoyed the lofi beats, I was hopefully... But then it carried on. Gah, the lofi never stopped and just got more boring and monotonous. His rapping sounded like someone who was convinced of their own genius and just trying to show everyone how clever he was, look at all the long words I know. There was one song that I guess was trying to be sexy in a futuristic way, but the wording came across like the sort of people who call women "females". And then it just went on. Every so often there was a cool riff but it wasn't enough. It went on again. Why do people make these long albums. Even the most boring sounds can be tolerable for 25-40 mins, but for an hour, no way.

This was a frustrating listen. The lad(d) seems like a thoughtful lyricist, attempting to do something a bit innovative, and there’s enough interesting production going on (at times) that my cursor should be nowhere near the one star button. And yet, particularly from the 10-minute instrumental track onwards, the album seems to lose all focus and often descends into maddeningly repetitive loops or ambient lift music. 1.5

Not for me. 1/5

ha die erste 3 songs glost und finds mad nervig eigentli. tönt noch production wo meh id 80er passt für hiphop als i die früene 2000er. boah find ich das nervig. aso so planet 10? im ernst? takes more than 41 ischer afoch am falsch singe. bladerunners coole kontrabass i guess? aber vo was reeeedet de siech. was meint er mit to the moons contractor? sochli en gran turismo beat und so. hä. ich ha würklich keei spass. titletrack beidruckendi reimketti und so cool. okay hiphop album glost wo sehr bitter und so tönt woni nöd d energie gha han zum uf de text lose.

No. Just no.

говно

Super boring hip hop crap, guy can’t rap for shit, almost fell asleep

Boring beats, minimal skill, and excessive bloat combine to make a bad album.

Pretty uninspiring. I like new experimental things but I don't really get what was trying to be achieved here. Will never revisit and would never recommend this. 1/5.

Pretty flat sounding with raunchy lyrics. Tracks to Track: 5000 Miles West of the Future

There's probably a reason I've never heard of him before....

I'm not OK with this Gil Scott-Heron wannabe

Gear: Sennheiser MOMENTUM TW 4 Artwork: 🚧👨‍🔧⚡ Production: 👊😎👍 Music: 💡🔮🔜 Rating: ️🚀(🚀)/5

snoozer

Suena a Gorillaz pero si fuese tremendamente aburrido

man i really don't know what to do with this one. sometimes the tracks are really mediocre. sounds amateurish. sometimes it is genuinely unlistenable. awful to listen to. and then, there are moments where it hits pretty well (my favorite moment is 'red eye to jupiter' which is really great production-wise and flow wise). just a really confusing album when the vast majority of it is really not great at best, and genuinely awful to listen to at worst.

Good god, what an awful album. I swear to god every track was cobbled together with basic Garageband loops, and whenever he does throw in something original, I found myself wondering if he was actually tone deaf. Added to that, his rapping just has nothing interesting or charasmatic about it, and on some tracks it sounds like he was half asleep while recording vocals. It's boring as hell at best and borderline unlistenable at worst, i absolutely hated it.

An album that aims to be futuristic and intellectual but ends up feeling monotonous, directionless, and frankly boring. Mike Ladd delivers his lyrics in a droning, spoken-word style that quickly wears thin, and the abstract beats never really take off or provide any sense of cohesion. There are clearly big ideas at play, sci-fi themes, political undertones, and experimental soundscapes, but they remain more theoretical than impactful. The album lacks emotional depth, energy, and melodic variation. It quickly becomes a slog to get through, and while some might call it “visionary,” it doesn’t leave much of an impression unless you’re already tuned in to its frequency. 1/5

I get where Mike was going sonically- abstract, spoken word, hip-hop soundscapes. The execution sounded disjointed and amateurish to me. Where is the flow? Overall: 1/10

nope, didn't need to hear a lyrical miracle. strong 1/5, won't ever listen to any of this again

Started off OK By track 4 I'm thinking why am I listening to this shit Persevere for long enough and there are some interesting tracks but not enough to redeem this as an album

Hip hop. Really not my jam. Not bad for what it is but not for me at all. 1 star.

I wanna know how much he paid to be in this

Не самый ужасный хип-хоп альбом, но слишком долгий. А сначала неплохо идёт фоном. 2 из 10. Если бы рэп-альбомов было в 3 раза меньше, на качестве сборки "1001 альбом..." это оказало бы самое наилучшее действие.

No interest in this.

Really truly quite bad

Oh boy, I have never heard of this album or the artist. Yeah not digging this.

1 - Más Basura de Hip Hop

Not a fan

While Mike Ladd can certainly write good lyrics, and can create very ambitious and moving music (To the moon's contractor), the album wasn't really that enjoyable. I get the experimental spirit, but the production felt lacking to me. The flows of Ladd also weren't my cup of tea, and there slightly off tune singing moments felt so jarring (Takes more than 41) that I just couldn't really get into the album. The best track for me is Airwave Hysteria, with ambitious but tight production, great verses from Ladd and just enough experimentation to push the genre but at the same time create a good song. EDIT: Over time, I've reflected on my initial review, and frankly, this record is a one star. There's very little that's salvageable here and with time it's just gotten worse. To add insult to injury, I've become aware that while this album is included, "Madvillainy" is not, which feels criminal to say the least. To be honest, off the top of my head I can think of 20 Hip Hop albums better than Mike Ladd's. I therefore retroactively adhere to the french theory: "Mike Ladd est le fils de Robert Dimery".

1. future - 1 2. hyzteria - 1.5 3. planet - 0 4. more - 1 5. blade - 1 6. no 1 - 0 7. moonz - 1 8. feel - 0 9. animizt - 1 10. red - 1 11. after - 1.5 12. uuave - 1.5 13. february - 1

Kun räppi lähtee käyntiin, se lähtee käyntiin. Muuten tämä on kai "progressiivista" - ja sen kuuloista, että miksaajana olisi ollut koksupäinen Iggy Pop. Hyvät hetket eivät korvaa laahustamista. 1+

jesus christ what the fuck is this garbage

The best hip-hop has a lot going on while sounding simple and effortless. This is the opposite. It feels crowded and badly processed. No space for any character to come through at all. Too much head and not enough heart. Oh and it’s at least twice as long as it needs to be. Wasting such cool samples should be a crime. Just nah.

I don’t think I really like most hip hop

I'd never heard of Mike Ladd and I'll be happy if I never hear of him again.

I can’t give it any time with those chipmunk voices all over it Shame Sounds were interesting but genuinely were ruined

It did nothing for me.

Lame and stupid

This started okay. Some potential. But very quickly just got boring and repetitive.

There was one goodish song in this album, it was the on with El-P. Otherwise I didn't like.

Boring yet somehow annoying at the same time

This album was a challenging listen. It felt like staring at a modern art piece, unsure of how to interpret it. On-top of the unconventional musical choices, the lowfi production adds another layer of bewilderment.

Nee. Gewoon nee.

not my style of music ... however, not as bad as some albums of this type I have been served

Didn’t really like it at all, interesting concept but struggled to get through it

I almost fell asleep.

This album sounds like the soundtrack to an edgy tech thriller from 2000/

Some albums are bad, and then there’s Welcome to the Afterfuture, which isn’t necessarily bad—just aggressively, relentlessly annoying. The production alone might have scraped a 2/5—some half-decent beats, a few atmospheric moments—but the second Mike Ladd starts rapping, it’s like being trapped in a explicit lecture from someone reading out the urban dictionary and these lyrics are a hastily thrown together word salad and pointless swearing that feels less rebellious and more like filler because he ran out of things to say. The worst part is it never lets up. Every track is another round of forced edginess, scattered thoughts, and clunky delivery, all stretched over beats that deserve better. The only truly listenable track is “To the Moon’s Contractor”—an instrumental, because of course the best moment on the album is the one where Mike Ladd shuts up. And yet, somehow, despite having no lyrics, it’s still rated Explicit. Without the rapping, this could maybe be a tolerable 2/5, but with it, I’m struggling to even call it a 1. Less an album, more an endurance test. Still better than some of that Steely Dan I had to listen to, though.

Not my kind

Lipstick on a pig.

It's (c)rap. That's a form that I do not understand or appreciate. It may be really good in terms of its genre. I have no benchmark to judge it by. I'm scoring on whether I like something or not, consequently this gets 1/5.

Dog shit

Shit 1001 album worthy: No - 37/64

Nothing to see here…….move along….

Unlustiges Rappen ohne Sinn und Verstand.

not interested

Didn’t care for this one

Not my cup of tea. Didn't make it through the whole album.

Müll!

My goodness, I appreciate people's hard work and everything, but this is one of the top 1000 albums? By whose metrics?

I'm sure one of the tracks featured fart noises, which is very appropriate as the entire album is shit. One star!

While some of the beats were great this is not an album I enjoyed at all. Maybe I'm not in to hip-hop enough but I need something more when listening to the genre.

# Album Name: Welcome to the AfterFuture # Artist: Mike Ladd # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Mike ladd? Who is that?! sounds like the local hard case from the council estate. Thats who. Anyway, im not a rap fan so the only thing worse than that to me is alternative rap. Which this album apparently is. Theres some interesting sounds. I'll give it that. Almost feels experimental to me. But it just isnt my thing. ANother album which doesnt deserve to be on the list imo. # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? no.

Nah

Didn't click with me, maybe if I dug into the lyrics more it would improve but I don't have a desire to

Not a fan

Yeah, no

Day263 - lyrics are corny, the concept doesn’t work and just because you can use samples doesn’t mean you have to

Vad är skillnaden mellan den här plattan och bajs? Egentligen ingen skillnad alls mer än att jag hellre trampar i bajs än lyssnar på den här skiten.

The first hip hop album that I didn’t like in the slightest.

The trouble I have with hip hop music is that it's JUST the beat. There's no riffs, licks, instrumental sections, solos, fills, nothing. So if that main beat that will repeat throughout the whole song is weak then you only have the rapping to save the song. And if the rapping is weak, or in this album's case, doesn't appear that often, then you aren't left with a lot to like. I do like that it sounds slightly experimental, like you're in a trance in space a lot of the time - 'To The Moon's Contractor' and 'Airwave Hysteria' are the best examples - but it can't save this album. The beats aren't that interesting, the rapping isn't that good and overall it's a bit all over the place.

scuffeddd

This sounds like someone wanted to make a hip hop record, but didn't have a bakers fuck of an idea how.... It's apparently experimental hip hop, so it experiments with trip hop by times, but not in a good way. Super juvinile, and super lame. Definately not required listening Favourite songs: Bladerunners Least favourite songs: Planet 10, To the Moon's Contractor, Feb. 4 '99 (For All Those Killed By Cops) 1/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture is a studio album from Mike Ladd. The album is a strange mix, from not-so-danceable hip hop, like "Airwave Hysteria," to near ambient, like "Planet 10," then dissonant electronic, "I feel like $100," to spoken word, "Feb 4, 99." This isn't an album of any particular genre. The majority of the track are rap, and they're not noteworthy. There are a few tracks that seem to be responses to pop samples, like "5000 West of the Future," that have a melodic hook. Here, the lyrics fail in a few verses; he has a decent chorus, but doesn't go anywhere with it.

Ya, no.

Bad. Why is this on the list?

Kind of liked the first track, then yikes. Incredibly uneven and incoherent in its terribleness.

Who? Why are there so many hip-hop albums in the list? Hip-Hop meets dystopia - depressing.

Didn’t even make it through 2 songs. Not my jam