Which Little Brother Does The Essence prefer?

[bigev240]

Damn that's a good question but I am going to give the edge to The Minstrel Show.

 

[rip.dilla]

The Minstrel Show is more or less a classic album to me

The Listening is good as well, gave it a listen over the past week

 

[traestar]

The Listening!! Monumental to Hip Hop, to know who Little Brother and the JUSTUS League are, you go to the Listening and all of the JUSTUS League material. The Minstrel Show is one of my favorites in hip hop albums, but the Listening opened ears!

 

[Lou Cypher]

 

[RuffDraft]

Personally prefer The Listening and have been inspired to listen to both because of this thread!!! I just prefer the earlier work, following that, I'm all over The Foreign Exchange.

 

[ocelot]

The Listening is a personal classic...

The Minstrel Show is a hip hop classic...

cosign The Foreign Exchange albums, especially the first...Nicks Grov stays on repeat...

 

[Lab Baby]

Minstrel Show... love the concept of it, and 9th's production stepped up crazy.

 

[traestar]

One thing about Foreign Exchange, it was definitely a hip hop classic but it was very separate from the Justus League group! Nicolay really made a sound of his own with the Foreign Exchange projects and City Lights projects.

I've yet to hear the third Foreign Exchange album, but Foreign Exchange should definitely be mentioned in hip hop history.

 

[scarfacetf]

I have to say the minstrel show. That album for me is top 5 of all time. I can just about play it through from start to finish. Only certain tracks from the listening still get play

 

[waterproof]

The Listening is a hip-hop classic period point blank and was robbed of that 1/2 mic, to me i perfer The Listening over The Minstrel Show because of the pureness of the album and the grittyness of the production. The Minstrel sound was little to polish for me but still a classic

I aint going to lie i might be a little bias of the album because at that time i was damn near done with hip-hop, i was all but finished but when i copped the album at the mom and pops store when it dropped just of the strength of the album cover and when i played it and took me back to the early-mid 90's with that autumn/winter feel to it in 2003, i damn near felt like shedding a tear the production was flawless the sequencing of the album was flawless and the lyrics was on point. and i remember why i was in love with hip-hop since mid 80's

This song sealed the deal for me it took me back to the 91-95 era

 

[ocelot]

Why do you get me hanging on a string?... Baby for you ill do anything... Just make up your mind and decide if its real what you fee ee ee ellllll....

Song was in my head...lol

 

[Meta_Conscious]

the Minstrel Show is their magnum opus...

 

[achewon87]

I will put it like this.

The Listening = The Low End Theory

The Minstrel Show = Midnight Marauders

They are both so dope it is hard to choose one, I will personally take The Minstrel Show as the concept, production and execution are near flawless on this album. Even the skits are dope and fit the concept. Great stuff.

 

[traestar]

I will put it like this.

The Listening = The Low End Theory

The Minstrel Show = Midnight Marauders

They are both so dope it is hard to choose one, I will personally take The Minstrel Show as the concept, production and execution are near flawless on this album. Even the skits are dope and fit the concept. Great stuff.

Thats a great comparison!!

 

[RuffDraft]

Good discussions… would be nice to consider other group/artists discogs in comparison…

 

[I.B. Blackman]

I will put it like this.

The Listening = The Low End Theory

The Minstrel Show = Midnight Marauders

They are both so dope it is hard to choose one, I will personally take The Minstrel Show as the concept, production and execution are near flawless on this album. Even the skits are dope and fit the concept. Great stuff.

Well no need for my $0.02.... This man summed it up right here.

Honorable personal classic mention for me tho....

.....Still can play this tape all the way thru. I love it.

 

[traestar]

I will put it like this.

The Listening = The Low End Theory

The Minstrel Show = Midnight Marauders

They are both so dope it is hard to choose one, I will personally take The Minstrel Show as the concept, production and execution are near flawless on this album. Even the skits are dope and fit the concept. Great stuff.

Well no need for my $0.02.... This man summed it up right here.

Honorable personal classic mention for me tho....

.....Still can play this tape all the way thru. I love it.

OMG I had to look for this in my library, THIS IS DEFINITELY slept on! A mixtape, but still slept on!

Alot of favorites in here:

 

[StillFaggyAF]

The Minstrel Show stay on repeat, no skips

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

So impossible for me to choose.

 

[Valentinez A. Kaiser]

both dope and c/s on the ATCQ comparison, I've always used the same comparison for the 2000s generation.

9th made a classic with the listening's production tho - nigga used fruity loops for Gawd's sake man and showed a producer's talent is his creativity and not his hardware or machinery.