HIP HOP CLASSICS: Queen Latifah - All Hail The Queen Album

Good evening all. It's Sunday, so that must mean it's time for another hip hop classic. We're going back to the 80's this week and we're gonna have a look at the debut album for the woman who has gone on to do many things, but never forgotten her roots (just have a listen to her feature on the Rhapsody album from last year for proof). We are of course talking about the queen of hip hop Queen Latifah and her classic All Hail The Queen...

It's hard to argue the impact this album had for women in hip hop. It paved the way for the many female emcees after her and, along with Monnie Love and MC Lyte, that women could rock the mic just as well ( and in many cases better) than any man in the game.

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Past classics threads...

HIP HOP CLASSICS: Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Fugees - The Score • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: OutKast - Stankonia • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Madvillain - Madvillainy • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Missy Elliot - Miss E... So Addictive • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Biz Markie - The Biz Never Sleeps • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) • forum.chorus.fm
HIP HOP CLASSICS: El-P - I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead • forum.chorus.fm

 

Looking forward to digging into this. Probably the first time we've done a classics thread on an album i've never listened to.

 

Hyped to check this out.

 

Listened to this for the first time this morning. It was good, but nothing really jumped out at me. And whilst it doesn't sound too dated, there are times when you tell it was made over 30 years ago. The sound was progressing a lot at the time and this sounds like one of those albums that was straddling the line between old and new sounds without really settling on either.

Will need to give it another listen.

 

Never listened to this one.

 

QL is underrated these days. When she appeared on the last Rapsody album, my head exploded. Anyway, this is a great album, but her best one to me is Black Reign, which has this gem on it:

 

Listened to this twice today and probably will more times. The Pros is my favorite.