8 years later, damn The Documentary was overrated.

[28 Gramz]

Whoever said TM101 aint a classic needs to be slapped. shyt was/is The Chronic of the trap era.

nikkas know that entire album word for word..Game on the other hand

All he did was name drop Eazy,Dre,NWA,50 etc.. and talk about Air Forces and Chucks for 80% of the album...those beats saved that shyt.

 

[Primetime21]

Dudes shyt on Game but I like his catalog better than any new rapper post 2004 including Kanye

 

[OC's finest]

I can fukk with a lot of albums called modern-day classic albums like Food and Liquor, The Cool, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Good Kid Maad City, Life is Good, but the documentary ?? I decided to check some "old" "so-called classic albums" and damn, The Documentary is overrated as hell.

I really don't hear it that much anywhere else but I went back and listen to the Documentary again because I thought it was one of the best albums of 05 but I went back to see what all the fuss was about again.
After almost every song full of name drops..and borrowed flows...the only thing I could sum up was the fact that this album is so overrated on this board because of the beat selection(which was some of the best for a album in a longgggggg time)...Amazing beats with average lyrics..Game was real repeatitive on this album...if it isn't about the westcoast then it's a name drop of an artist or an album...then if it aint about that it's more gunplay or a nba player or team again with the name dropping...and every once n awhile he'll throw in something about his personal life.

I don't see how a album with
Lyrics:c-
Production:A
guest spots:A
overrall:B-
can be a classic...

For me Game had very little to do with me actually likeing this album but more so the production and the songs where he had guest apperences on with the exception of: "Like Father,Like Son"/"Put you on the game"...and basically those were just recycled flows and he had zero creatitivy on the album..except for the oversaturated name dropping other then that none.

living in LA i wish i could neg u to sh-t. this is a modern day classic

these songs still bump, still get the club hype

 

[Techniec]

That album is a classic to 20 yr olds, album was hella over rates

@ listening to jayceon over an entire album

 

[Techniec]

No one has ruined more beats and major label budgets than this dude

Only reason i fukk with him is cuz hes quick to punch rappers in the face

 

[Danie84]

It's his his best album

 

[Wacky D]

Whoever said TM101 aint a classic needs to be slapped. shyt was/is The Chronic of the trap era.

nikkas know that entire album word for word..Game on the other hand

All he did was name drop Eazy,Dre,NWA,50 etc.. and talk about Air Forces and Chucks for 80% of the album...those beats saved that shyt.

jeezy's album is in the same boat as game's.

dope albums, that get propped up as classic by 20 year olds.

 

[thernbroom]

No one has ruined more beats and major label budgets than this dude

Only reason i fukk with him is cuz hes quick to punch rappers in the face

Let me guess you would have given them beats 2 A bum like jadakiss

 

[Sucka Free]

Heard it at the barbershop recently and it is a very overrated album And Gamw spots struggle bars all over the album.

 

[JayBaldacci]

That what goes around reference might be the most forced rap line in ever.

 

[28 Gramz]

jeezy's album is in the same boat as game's.

dope albums, that get propped up as classic by 20 year olds.

anybody that was from the age of 17-27 in 2005 knows that album is classic. The impact alone puts it on another level.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Every verse is a combination of Compton, his chucks, dr dre, g unit, his low low (impala), Easy E and various types of guns

And jay z or nas

I just visually listened to his entire catalog.

 

[Wacky D]

anybody that was from the age of 17-27 in 2005 knows that album is classic. The impact alone puts it on another level.

lol. nobody in their 20s during that time period that actually knew their chit were calling this a classic unless they were some diehard southerners.

he made a great impact during a so-so era. actually, in terms of mainstream rap, it was a str8 up forgettable era. if TM101 dropped in the '80s or 90s, it wouldn't have made much of a splash. hell, it wouldn't have been that big of a deal in the early '00s neither.

and I like jeezy and go to bat for him all the time in here. but I enjoy that album for what it was - a 4 mic effort in the midst of a 3 1/2 mic era.

 

[Consigliere]

Powerful thread.

I wrote him off as an emcee when I read this interview back in the day. Its also his IMDB Bio:


Taylor was in a coma for two days. While recovering, he told his brother to go out and buy all of the classic hip hop albums. This included Big's "Ready To Die", Snoop's "Doggystyle", Dr. Dre's "The Chronic", Jay-Z's "Reasonable Doubt" , and albums by Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube. In the course of five months, he studied these albums in an almost scientific manner. In the beginning, his flows were weak , but Game was a quick study and eventually learned better freestyling skills. He took elements from his favorite rappers and formulized them into his own persona and style.

 

[avon barksdale]

dude name is drake555 thats all i have to say im out...