Redman taught a lot of people in 1992 how to roll a blunt with that joint. And this album featured some of Red’s biggest songs “Time 4 Sum Aksion”, “Tonight’s Da Night”, and notable records like “How To Roll A Blunt”. The funk doctor was approaching the funk in ways that it hadn’t been explored in Hip-Hop. The debut album from Redman ushered in the rah rah style. Talk about rhyming at a super high level. One of the real highlights from this album was to hear Redman and Busta Rhymes go for theirs on “Da Goodness”. This music video had everything from Redman working out with overweight women attempting to get back in shape to a beautiful woman riding her bike into a parked car as the homies looked on. Before the hilarity mixed with lyricism of Eminem we had Redman. The first single “I’ll Be That” is a clear indication of this effort. “Doc’s da Name 2000” is Redman in rare form in his total comedic and punchline heavy approach. Oh and they recorded this album while on tour. This album gave us arguably the duo’s biggest hit “Da Rockwilder” and countless other jammin joints. And when LL Cool J, Ja-Rule, Ghostface, and others appeared on the album the point was to out rhyme them as well. This album is basically two friends with supreme rhyming skills trying to out rhyme one another on every track.
The duo seemed to be meant for each other after their collaboration on the classic song “How High” from “The Show soundtrack. The dynamic duo of Redman and Method Man actually announce they were making an album together for the first time. It was his first album in six years which marks the longest break in his career without an album. The features on this album included Eric Sermon, Method Man, Hurricane G, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Keith Murray, Biz Markie, etc. RGW featured production from Pete Rock, Eric Sermon, Rocwilder, Scott Storch, and Timbaland among others. This action was jammed packed and we think it was Red’s best effort of the 2000’s. We are happy that we got a sequel and it cam at a great time in both Red and Meth’s career. Just straight up raw rhymes from Red and Mr. The same approach to this album was the same approach to the first. Although that is also the case in this scenario but it’s not too far off. They always say that the sequel isn’t better than the original. To make an album like this 23 years into your career is an accomplishment to any artist in any time of genre especially Hip-Hop.
Red was on a mission to show the Hip-Hop world that not only does he still have it but was showing the Hip-Hop world that he is one of the best to ever do it. So Redman made sure that he was back to the BARS that his fanbase would love on this album. Mudface was Redman’s first shot at an independent album in his career. With that certain reach for commercial success we didn’t get that raw raw Redman that we were all used to. Although “Malpractice” had some modest hit songs on it like “Let’s Get Dirty” & “Smash Something” this may be the most commercial we have ever seen Redman.
The movie “How High” was just completed and set for release and Redman had shot his classic episode of MTV’s “Cribs that people still talk about till this day. The year 2001 was a very busy year for Reggie Noble. Although this album featured Method Man, Bun B, Faith Evans, Kool Moe Dee, and Saukrates this album missed the mar and wasn’t up to Redman standards. Was signed to Def Jam during a time when Def Jam was rebuilding in 92′ and was around for the “Survival Of The Illest”, “Hardknock Life Tour”, and Jay Z’s Def Jam Presidency. Reggie was the final album that Redman released on Def Jam from whom he had spent his whole rap career with. We choose to include Red’s albums with Method Man in this countdown mostly because of how important their partnership is to both of their careers. The longevity of this artist can’t be denied. Redman’s catalog spans from 1992-2015 and is honestly still going. We got your back, we’re going to rank Redman’s albums. The interesting part about Redman is the fact that there are many Redman fans that may not be totally aware of how great Redman’s catalog is. Redman is a rare breed of raw emcee with classic albums, critical acclaimed, and a level of popular notoriety.