9th Wonder Picks Four Classic Hip Hop Albums For Harvard’s Archives

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Four classic Hip Hop albums will be entering Harvard’s archives, and 9th Wonder is directly responsible for it.

Five years ago, the former Little Brother member became a fellow of the Ivy League institution after screening his film The Wonder Years there.

As part of his responsibilities, 9th will be selecting the 196 rap albums that have had the most impact on the genre. It’s for a project called These are the Breaks, after Kurtis Blow’s 1980 tune “The Breaks.”

Wonder just selected the first four, and they are:

A Tribe Called Quest’s Low End Theory, Nas’ Illmatic, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.



You can see a post about the project below.
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9th Wonder Picks Four Classic Hip Hop Albums For Harvard's Archives - hiphopearly

 

[OfTheCross]

Good picks

 

[swerve]

TPAB?

GKMC is much better

 

[70s movie blood]

TPAB?

GKMC is much better

I couldn't finish tpab, the funny voices started and that was it for me

Gkmc is def a fine album.


Should we even care about this though? They are saying the albums will now 'live forever'

They were always gonna live forever.

 

[Jim Cornette]

Tpab?

Cmon 9th foh man

 

[WhoShotCha]

Damn right he picked TPAB

 

[Love Sosa]

What impact did tpab have in the genre

 

[Piff Perkins]

Nice

 

[4Eyez]

TPAB?

GKMC is much better

GKMC was his breakthrough album...it was the album that gave him a big big name. But of course...this was intentional. The album wreaked super commercial appeal.
Just look at the singles. Dude made a video with Drake...without Drake really in it for Christ sakes lol

GKMC kind of came and went for me. While everyone was praising it as the next Illmatic, I remember telling everyone I was more excited to hear what he had planned next. Cause I knew his next project was going to be MUCH more personal and realer. That's exactly what TPAB is for me. A much more honest, creative, and mature album.

 

[LoMax30]

I couldn't finish tpab, the funny voices started and that was it for me

Almost spit up the water I'm drinking while reading this.