3 years later: Is Teflon Don a classic?

[Long Live The Kane]

I don't think so, just a dope dope album...Deeper Than Rap is to me though

 

[Ukbrotha]

My favourite Ross album but no its not a classic.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Tears of Joy is a masterpiece

 

[King P]

His best album. Most of the tracks on that album still bang.

Not a classic though. 4/5

 

[JustCKing]

I'd say Deeper Than Rap was the real start of his run. The AA mixtape was when he really started getting hot, but DTR changed a lot of people's opinion about him. He was viewed as just another dude from the South with a popular song when Hustlin' dropped. Push It made some noise and Jay and Jeezy were even on the Hustlin' remix but he wasn't taken seriously. Trilla dropped and got him mainstream success on a higher level. He still hasn't topped The Boss chart-wise. nikkas looked at him as a dude from the South with singles at that point. He beefed with 50, who cats were pretty much done with at that point, and started dropping jazzy sounding J.U.S.T.I.C.E League joints and flowing a lot tighter. He caught the attention of those that wrote him off before that and then the album delivered. By the time AA dropped he had a considerably bigger audience waiting on it.

Deeper Than Rap was huge leap for Ross. It was the album that showcased that he did have lyrics. As great as that album was, Ross was pretty much silent after its release. He wasn't getting the big features (aside from Dirty Money's "Angels Remix") that he was getting after TD dropped. His status was still in question though. At that point, DTR was his least selling album. It had people questioning whether the whole corrections officer thing affected his career.

 

[USSInsiders]

Free Mason, Live Fast, Die Young, Tears of Joy, Aston Martin Music, Super High and All The Money in The World = personal classics.

Those are all great songs.