feelosofer
#ninergang
De La Soul Stakes is High
best album of 1996
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Tha Carter isn't even a classic - let alone a GOAT contender.
Check out WCBB - the best thing Master P was ever involved in.
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.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
96 was the beginning of the huff album release schedule from majors.
as, they were gearing up to market rap to the mainstream as an exact science for the prison economy system.
Art Barr
as, they were gearing up to market rap to the mainstream as an exact science for the prison economy system.
Art Barr
feelosofer
#ninergang
In the short of it 96 was the equivalent of an exploding star, it was sort of the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning depending on how you look it, because it was basically the back door to the shiny suit era and the end of the boom bap (east coast) and the g-funk era (west coast). Even as dope as many of those albums are many of them smecked of a certain commercialism to appeal to a wider/whiter audience, but the music was still solid enough to stand on its own. Maybe more so since the years that followed also saw a significant drop off in quality. I mean no one even talked about how Jeru the Damaga predicted this sort of downfall back in 95-96.
feelosofer
#ninergang
Even if I concede, for the purpose of argument, that it's a classic, it's not on the same plane as GOAT contenders like the Chronic.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Haha we typed that shyt almost the same time
96, was the start of the beginning of the end as far as consistent culturally enriched and skilled submissions album wise in rap.
real talk,...
after 96, excluding a few great mix tape years from 02-09.
rap has been on one of the worst skill based declines in all of music history.
Rap, right now is the equivalent of the huffest trumpet player alive with a busted lip.
saying he is miles Davis, in general.
Art Barr
I'll give you that becuz The Chronic is basically where I started 1st hearing album material I was 11 or 12 about that time. So The Chronic is a special album in my life as far as hip hop is concerned.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
the chronic is not a goat contender, nor is it a perfect classic.
it is the sonic litmus test for MTV.
that said, this rap sonically is polished and perfect to start marketing the prison economy system to black folks.
the chronic, real talk...
Is the gateway release of the prison economy system.
regardless, of how much we like dre and snoop or not.
it is completely overrated after being judged realistically for its sonic submissions.
lyrically, we don't even wanna get Into that against the carter.
as both are ghostwritten albums, with what would become the production/rhyme template for that period, and moving forward.
so, both records are kinda similar in that they ushered in semantics that have nuffin to do with culturally being all the way live or real.
Art Barr
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
god shamgod
Veteran
7 day theory
Atliens
It Was Written
All eyez on me and hell on earth are garbage
Atliens
It Was Written
All eyez on me and hell on earth are garbage
Cloud McFly
All Star
Reasonable Doubt
List all of the GOAT contender albums breh.
