![]() On AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted: “Ice Cube ultimately sounds like the Andrew Dice Clay of rap.” The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick is “a truly hateful record.” On We Can’t Be Stopped, the Geto Boys’ “hatred is their own, and it pervades the entire album.” God damn, homie. But the Rolling Stone reviews of early rap classics merit an entire page in the crucial tome ego trip’s Book Of Rap Lists. The magazine put Run-DMC on its cover in 1986, a key moment of institutional validation that clearly meant a lot for the group, right up there with their first platinum album or getting booked at Live Aid. Over the decades, Rolling Stone has had a weird off-and-on relationship with rap music, which puts it in line with a lot of legacy institutions. Electrical storms sweep into certain nodes of my brain. But when Rolling Stone takes it upon itself to rank the 200 greatest hip-hop albums of all time, my eyeballs start to itch. The 20 Worst Christmas Songs Of All Time. ![]() Rolling Stone might be the most famous and generally-respected music publication that has ever existed - the first thing that regular people bring up when they find out what I do for a living - but Rolling Stone still needs people to keep reading their shit. We at Stereogum have been known to publish a list from time to time. The listicle is one way to make that happen, and the listicle will never die. It’s hard out here for a mostly-digital music-focused publication, and you’ve got to do something to keep people coming back and clicking.
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