What Makes a Hip Hop Album A Classic
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Benny BuKu
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L. Soul said:
What's B.E.?
Vince
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Am I the only one who thinks 'Me against the world' is better than 'All eyez on me'? And that 'Slim Shady LP' is more of a classic than 'Marshall Matters LP'?
Songs like If I Die 2nite, Temptations, Me Against the World, Old School, So Many Tears, Dear Mama etc etc are classics!
and I don't really think Be deserves to be called a classic. GRODT from 50 is a classic though...
Some others that needs to be mentioned:
EPMD - Strictly Business
Large Professor - The LP
Blahzay Blahzay - Blah blah blah
Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing
Big Daddy Kane - Long live the Kane
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Black Moon - Enter Da Stage
Songs like If I Die 2nite, Temptations, Me Against the World, Old School, So Many Tears, Dear Mama etc etc are classics!
and I don't really think Be deserves to be called a classic. GRODT from 50 is a classic though...
Some others that needs to be mentioned:
EPMD - Strictly Business
Large Professor - The LP
Blahzay Blahzay - Blah blah blah
Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing
Big Daddy Kane - Long live the Kane
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Black Moon - Enter Da Stage
Benny BuKu
BAD NEWS
ill o.g.
Vince said:
I agree w/ Raekwon and Black Moon....I don't think any of Pac's albums are classic...
or Common....and 50's Get Rich or Die Tryin??? Good album...can't front...but Classic???
I don't know bout all that...again....just my opinion...
oh and the GZA's Liquid Swords....definite classic....maybe best solo album of all time....
and if you don't agree...please....go back and listen to it....verse for verse..song for song....I'm tellin you....do the knowlege
Vince said:
I'll agree with parts of this. Me Agianst The World is DEFINATELY a dope record, and possibly a classic. I just didn't want to throw a list of 50 albums out there, I more or less picked the best from each artist.
As far as 50 Cent - GRODT. I will second that motion. Definately a dope record, through and through. I think people are jaded by how commercial he is and won't agree with it, but I can easily listen to that top to bottom, multiple times. And it is 100x better than Massacre ever was or could be. Many Men?! That's a classic single, and to me makes the record. You can't deny it. The numbers show it. Massacre sold less than half of what GRODT did and he had way more promotion and recognizability on that album. But it didn't stand the test of time. Biggest first week ever, then dropped off. Don't get me wrong, 5 million copies give or take aint bad, but GRODT has diamond status. 10million+ worldwide. It's undenyable
Benny BuKu
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djswivel said:
I agree with GRODT being a good album, but not a classic...I don't care how many records it sold...numbers aint everything....
Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt's record sales don't compare to any of his following albums yet was most definitely his best.
bluchippa5
Golden Ear
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Me Against the World was definitely Pacs best album-and yes I would qualify it as a classic up there with Illmatic-both heartfelt poetry put into music, if I'm not sounding too sentimental. I know both of these cds got me through hard times when I was younger. I can listen to these cds(or tapes at the time) and relate to what each was going through. I could depict every scenairo painted on each song. I'm from Louisiana, and had never been to New York, but I could smell the "piss in the elevator" when I listened to Nas. I could feel the somberness and lonliness when Pac would spit bcuz he carried the weight of the world on his shoulders. Regardless of what the cat ended up, that cd showed how humble he really was before he was influenced and people started fuckin with him.