Best Produced Hip Hop Album - 1997

[Waterproof]

Life After Death, Fantastic Vol 1, Soul Assassins Chapter 1

 

[jelanitsunami]

Life After Death had the most diverse production out of all of them. Album felt like a movie, 3 singles charted it could've easily been 5 or 6 had Biggie stayed alive. Uptown Saturday Night and Wu Tang Forever would be the other contenders.

 

[ISO]

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Chap.2 is one of the only albums named in this thread that had the staying power and lasting impact to still get regularly sampled in the 2010's.

This definitely gotta be considered. Influence.

 

[mobbinfms]

This definitely gotta be considered. Influence.

36 is a really interesting group. There is a big disconnect between older people who were cognizant in 97 when they went nationwide, and younger people.

At the time, they were a C level group.
They just didn't matter like that.
Really didn't until 2005.
That's why that album was called "the most known unknowns".

But you got teenagers on the internet hyping up Mystic Styles like it was Doggystyle in real time.

I'm talking outside of the South of course.

 

[ISO]

36 is a really interesting group. There is a big disconnect between older people who were cognizant in 97 when they went nationwide, and younger people.

At the time, they were a C level group.
They just didn't matter like that.
Really didn't until 2005.
That's why that album was called "the most known unknowns".

But you got teenagers on the internet hyping up Mystic Styles like it was Doggystyle in real time.

I'm talking outside of the South of course.

Some things get underappreciated in real time but build influence over time.

Those cult classic movies what did Scarface do box office what did critics think? Today considered one of the greatest gangster movies ever. Same goes for novels and other shyt too. Seems like 3-6 style is like that. You can't always look at real time but instead look at years down the line.

It's like the cats that say Illmatic flopped but today it's a super classic.

 

[mobbinfms]

Some things get underapprecisted in real time but build influence over time.

Those cult classic movies what did Scarface do box office what did critics think? Today considered one of the greatest gangster movies ever. Same goes for novels and other shyt too. Seems like 3-6 style is like that. You can't always look at real time but instead look at years down the line.

It's like the cats that say Illmatic flopped.

I hear you. Illmatic didn't flop though. It went gold.
At the end of the day, the people who crafted the mainstream sound of hip hop were influenced by 36.

 

[ISO]

I hear you. Illmatic didn't flop though. It went gold.

Yeah I know but you know how certain posters roll

 

[Nero Christ]

had to go with Uptown Saturday Night...shyt was just too smoove :jamesbanderas:

 

[H.I.M.]

Some things get underapprecisted in real time but build influence over time.

Those cult classic movies what did Scarface do box office what did critics think? Today considered one of the greatest gangster movies ever. Same goes for novels and other shyt too. Seems like 3-6 style is like that. You can't always look at real time but instead look at years down the line.

The dumb cracker you're replying to, IS and WAS nowhere near "our" community to even properly gauge 3-6's impact or offer up a valid opinion on what they were or weren't in those days.

It's like the cats that say Illmatic flopped.

Speaking of which...here's an interesting fact. Illmatic, with major label promotion, nationwide radio/video play, songs played on a primetime TV show (NY Undercover) and a ridiculous amount of hype from the hip-hop media... only did slightly better 1st year numbers than Mystic Styles, a album with no nationwide radio/video play and released on a indie label...LOL

But no nothing culture vultures like caccinfms will claim nobody heard Mystic Styles when it dropped...but Illmatic was some larger than life album that everybody and they momma was bumpin that changed the whole ENTIRE industry ...because of some shyt they read, written by other no nothing culture vultures that typically write for these hip-hop publications that dumb crackers like him get all his info from.

 

[Threnody]

Camp Lo....It ain't even nothing else close....1997 was a bad year for production 90% of that shyt didn't age well at all

LAD is an amazing album because of Biggie....The OG versions production was way better...the shyt on the album was TOO clean to the point where it sounds watered the fukk down...compare the OG Long Kiss to the album version

 

[OHSNAP!]

All these beats are trash.
36 was a C Level group outside of the south.

all World Domination beats are harder than Triumph. Miss me with that revisionist bullshyt you piece of trash

 

[Edub]

Don't have to skip a track on the CNN war report album ......can't say the same for any of the others as nice as the others are......the war report was special








Common album was crazy too....honorable mention

 

[JustCKing]

I hear you. Illmatic didn't flop though. It went gold.
At the end of the day, the people who crafted the mainstream sound of hip hop were influenced by 36.

Illmatic didn't go gold until the top of 1996. It was far more of a critical success than a commercial one. Out of the major albums that were acclaimed during that time, it didn't do as well.

 

[JustCKing]

Not saying that nobody was on Mystic Stylez when it dropped, but there's a lot of badwagon fans now that became fans when Juicy J's solo career took off. They looked at his longevity, saw magazine write ups of how he was able to stay relevant due to the current production styles sounding like what he did decades ago as a member of 3-6. So a lot of them went back through 3-6's catalog and latched onto Mystic Stylez as if to say they were fans from day one.

 

[mobbinfms]

all World Domination beats are harder than Triumph. Miss me with that revisionist bullshyt you piece of trash