90s albums that were better than Illmatic & RD

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Seems like once messageboards and blogging became big people started rewriting hip hop history. First off I wasn't born in 1990s so I'm not some new dude listening to hip hop. I actually listened to the music when it was coming out back then. Illmatic got praise out the door and is a classic that can stand on its own but lets be real around 94-95 people won't putting that album ahead of Doggystyle, The Chronic, 36 Chambers, Ready 2 Die. etc. To be honest people were like the album is amazing but real short and left you wanting more. If he can keep this up he'll be one of the greatest ever (and they were right). Now Reasonable Doubt is different people weren't calling that a classic fresh out like that. And the album wasn't better than Cuban Linx or even Ironman. Because people won't saying RD was a classic when it dropped. It got a lot of good reviews I and enjoy the album and it grew well with time but instant classic? Now whats the point of this thread? People need to stop treating these 2 albums like it was the only good or classic albums out. Because when they dropped people weren't really gravitating toward them like that.

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

For me, the only album that may surpass illmatic is soul on ice, I'm still catching wordplay to this day

 

[Ghostdog36]

Rd is not up there with illmatic.

 

[Da King]

Reasonable Doubt isn't a top 10 album. A gang of albums are better from the 90s


Caclling Stone thinking its the #3 debut hip hop album of all time is a joke, that list had Drakes thank me later on it on but not chronic or doggystyle

 

[intilectual recipricol]

Illmatic is ass, lyrically. Im still catchin dumb ass shyt naS said on it today...

Reasonable Doubt is Im still catching wordplay today

 

[Da King]

Illmatic is ass, lyrically. Im still catchin dumb ass shyt naS said on it today...

Reasonable Doubt is Im still catching wordplay today

If you still catching wordplay today on RD then you a retarded slow ass nikka

 

[Lord Scion]

Not many albums I'll put ahead of Illmatic.

RD on the other hand....


Anyway, nikkas stay sleepin on The Sun Rises in the East.

 

[JasonSJackson]

....but lets be real around 94-95 people won't putting that album ahead of Doggystyle, The Chronic, 36 Chambers, Ready 2 Die. etc. To be honest people were like the album is amazing but real short and left you wanting more. If he can keep this up he'll be one of the greatest ever (and they were right).....

ur credibility is toast.........

When Illmatic dropped EVERRRRRRRRRRRRYBODY was fukking with it........hip hop heads, street nikkas....... fukin EVERYBODY.

You're either from some bullshyt town with no idea of what real nikkas was listening to back then or you fronting like u was in the mix and really werent.

either way, 1 star neg rep

 

[Mak]

@ the Nas stans in the thread already doing damage control .

Bak on topic though,ya'll n!ggas think 2 much. Every album you named in this thread is classic and im not bout to sit here with ya'll and debate which album is more classic.....Plus there is this thing called personal opinion...... google it

 

[International Playa]

I love Illmatic, but when I first heard it,I thought some of the beats were asss, I still think some of the illmatic beats could have been better

 

[DStyles]

RD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.illmatic

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

ur credibility is toast.........

When Illmatic dropped EVERRRRRRRRRRRRYBODY was fukking with it........hip hop heads, street nikkas....... fukin EVERYBODY.

You're either from some bullshyt town with no idea of what real nikkas was listening to back then or you fronting like u was in the mix and really werent.

either way, 1 star neg rep

Now you go back and reread what I said.. I never said people didn't get with Illmatic. The main problem people had with it was its length.. It was 40 minutes of perfection. But people wanted more thats why people even say Nas didn't reach BIG's status until IWW. Believe it or not at one point in 95 Az was bigger than Nas.

@ the Nas stans in the thread already doing damage control .

Bak on topic though,ya'll n!ggas think 2 much. Every album you named in this thread is classic and im not bout to sit here with ya'll and debate which album is more classic.....Plus there is this thing called personal opinion...... google it

its a matter of opinion but no denying the fact people act like those albums was hip hop bread and it wasn't even a full slice.

 

[AlphaOne]

RD=IWW>Illmatic.

 

[Emperor Sol]

Illmatic is ass, lyrically. Im still catchin dumb ass shyt naS said on it today...

Reasonable Doubt is Im still catching wordplay today

 

[blackslash]

Illmatic is pretty meh lyrically..all Nas does is just say alot of sht and words..dat hardly mean much
RD>>>>>Illmatic