They've been used in some really cool ways by some people too, for example: /watch?v=PKvHz7eHr_Y Some DJ you can find on YouTube isolated as many instrumentals as he possibly could from these albums and made the cleanest instrumental loops I've ever heard. Very pop-like sound? Think when Triple 6 Mafia went from Horrorcore to Crunk in "The End."Ģ016 Viper Beat Loops: Not released by Viper, but INCREDIBLY important. Maybe One Day She'll See Me Again is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard even to this day.Ģ010 These Rappers Claim They Hard When Them F**s Never Even Seen The Pen: The Beginning of Viper's transition in sound. This is the album I like to listen to when I'm having an anxiety attack and need to be reminded of how simple the pleasures in life are. It's My favorite album in his discography and deserves a chance. This album will carry you through every emotional state Viper ever toyed with. It includes the best of his emotional cloud rap and the peak of his G-Funk. "Motherfuck your record label, trick."Ģ008 The Hiram Clarke Hustler: This is Viper's Magnum Opus. I love a lot of these tracks for the same reasons why I love Southwest Hooligan.Ģ008 The Paper Man: A B-Sides Album, a pretty great one at that. It's greatĢ008 You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack: Not a lot to say about this one. This album has some of the most stripped down songs of all time that'll make you feel like you have a single brain cell. In fact, looking back and only one song has a sample. Whatever led him to this sound is one of a kind.Ģ006 Heartless Hoodlum: A continuation of what Ready and Willing was doing with even more emotional cuts, including the saddest one I've ever heard in my life, Clip In.Ģ006 Southwest Hooligan: A more laid-back album, with more midi-driven beats than sample-driven ones. Incredibly out there production that would put even Clams Casino to shame. (Think The Simpsons and then Zombie Simpsons if you understand that)Ģ006 Ready and Willing: The Most Underrated album in his discography. This is considered the complete discography because while he did continue to release music and still does after this, his focus and idea of making music has changed so incredibly drastically to the point that he's essentially a completely different artist now. It ends up capping at 320kbps, but I did obtain a FLAC copy of his very first album, Hustlin Thick, from a CD copy I got that was originally released as a Self-Titled album under the moniker "Lee Dogg" I've had to look through many, many CDBaby archive links to find the first releases since Viper never seems to keep the originals. Here's a track that surfaced from 1999: youtu.be/7J6icndqSB8įinding the highest quality versions of everything has taken months. I say over a decade because he has a rap history pre-dating his first release, going by names like Lee Dogg and J-Ride. Talent that's he's unfortunately lost touch with, but talent that was utilized to an incredible extent for over a decade. Viper's meme status makes people way too skeptical, but he has talent. ![]() He pretty much did cloud rap before anyone, even lil B did. It's REALLY disheartening that people think he is nothing but a joke artist, because his 2003-2010 run has some of the most interesting and honest work that anyone has done in his style. It did, but not the way he likely intended, and it's cast a shadow over his original work. His rise to fame coincided with what fans like to call the beginning of his "recycle era", where because of his newfound fame the cogs in his brain churned out the idea of making as many albums as possible by reusing the same tracks over and over and over again, likely because he thought that'd boost his popularity. Viper is an anomaly of an artist that's never been taken seriously.
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