best album of 1996

[Ohene]

My top 5 for '96:

Bow Down
All Eyez
Makaveli
Muddy Waters
ATLiens

Honorable Mentions:

Hall of Game
Untouchable
Hemp Museum
Autobiography of Mistachuck
Illadelph Halflife
Dubee AKA Suga Wolf
Ridin' Dirty
Stakes is High

had to neg breh. dont take it personal

 

[Ohene]

96 was one of the weaker(if not the weakest) years of the Golden Era(87-96)...yeah we were DEF spoiled.

in retrospect it isnt the best year? What is then?

95 oughta be the only other acceptable answer

 

[Ohene]

Went to youtube and checked this album out last night off the strength of nikkas in this thread gassin...had to cut it off a quarter way thru

it grows on you to be honest. also I hope you were listening with headphones

i didnt get the hype at first either but its certainly a great album

 

[big bun]

had to neg breh. dont take it personal

 

[Techniec]

All eyez on me
Makaveli
Atliens or Bow Down

 

[Ohene]

Hell on

earth should be on every list

 

[big bun]

Hell on

earth should be on every list

You's a bytch for that.

Besides I thought that shyt came out in '97.

fukk Ya momma in her mouth though.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Hell on earth is so many levels under The infamous. I didnt think it was dope at all

 

[Wacky D]

I beg to differ on Tha Carter. Wayne switched his flow on this shyt and became more relevant in the structure of hip hop with this album. He had already had some good moments like Tha Block Is Hot and Lights Out but Tha Carter was different, it was better, it was classic.

i liked the carter 1 alot but it isnt a classic. it was one of the IT albums of its time but its levels to this. not to mention, its a fraud album. gillie wrote alot of it and he was the one that switched wayne's flow. not wayne himself.

"lights out" was all about the beats.

 

[Tha_Mac]

i liked the carter 1 alot but it isnt a classic. it was one of the IT albums of its time but its levels to this. not to mention, its a fraud album. gillie wrote alot of it and he was the one that switched wayne's flow. not wayne himself.

"lights out" was all about the beats.

I've heard about the Gillie da Kid writing Tha Carter and my only argument for that is that Wayne maintained that style atfer Gillie and Cash Money parted ways.

 

[Wacky D]

I've heard about the Gillie da Kid writing Tha Carter and my only argument for that is that Wayne maintained that style atfer Gillie and Cash Money parted ways.

of course he maintained the style afterwards. thats what blew him up.

but where was the style beforehand? and why did his bars drop drastically after gillie left?

if youre familiar with gillie outside of just this scandal, then you should know the answer to this. i knew gillie wrote most of C1 just by the 3rd listen. long before gillie and cmr parted ways.

 

[aboss4real24]

The south has no classics outside face