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You're misunderstanding. Which is understandable since I switched from talking about classics to GOAT contender albums. The South has plenty of classic albums, but no real GOAT contender albums. A GOAT contender is the best of the best. The Chronic. Doggystyle.
You mean to tell me the albums you listed are considered on the same plane?

And I've never heard Ice Cream Man, but let me ask you this: where does it rank in comparison to 99 Ways to Die, True and Ghetto D? 99 was about 4 mics to me. True and Ghetto D were 3. The first West Coast Bad Boyz is a Bay classic. 4.5 mics to me.
I think Ice cream man is his best solo
 

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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.


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List all of the GOAT contender albums breh.


criminal minded = goat album

nuffin from a high quality rap.album perspective exists if it is not created.
you nikkaz keep wanting to move the goalposts and deny krs.

YOU CAN'T,...
KRS = GOAT
CRIMINAL MINDED = GOAT ALBUM
A MAN AND HIS MUSIC = GOAT MIXTAPE


it is that simple.

nikkaz want it the other way, but it is only that one way.


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Ironman - Initially seen as merely a plateau in the Rza's sonic wave of the first run. Aged well. I also think fans were sorta Rae & Ghosted out given that Cuban Linx had just happened.

It Was Written - The most polarizing, sellout move ever

Firing Squad - Adding Premier and not delivering a classic haunts this album

Hell On Earth - Simply not as good as The Infamous. Sounds completely different too. Aged Well.

Nocturnal - I was a Heltah Skeltah super stan and really enjoyed this album but over time, having minimal Beatminerz contributions has exposed the albums weaknesses.

Da Storm - I saw a friend Frisbee this album from a moving car. Seriously. I liked it well enough.

Wrath Of The Math - Jeru was a mess flow wise and Preemo's beats were hit or miss.

AEOM - Pac had finally made a legit great album the year before with MATW and then he went and dropped this big, puffed up grandiose party album.

Beats, Rhymes & Life - Everyone knows the knocks here.

Enigma - Not as good as the most beautifullest.

Stakes Is High - No real complaints other than Prince Paul's exclusion.

ATLiens - Arguably better than the debut.

Illadelph Halflife - Better than the debut but Roots gon' Root.

At The Speed Of Life - Xzibit always been kinda corny.

Wild Cowboys - This is the sleeper album of the year. Fantastic production.

Soul On Ice - I always liked the beats, many people didn't.

Makaveli - Only complaint is how annoying Pac stans are and this album being bolstered by death and strange circumstances.

Reasonable Doubt - I love this album.

Kim & Foxy - trash

Fugees - lol

Mad Skillz - Always been kinda lame. Some dope early Jay Dee beats.

Geto Boys Resurrection - I hate the production on this. Never understood the praise.

Bow Down - Absolute garbage album. That makes people from California upset.

Ridin' Dirty - People from NYC didn't know about this album until Jay Z told us to. I hear they consider it a classic down south.

Master P - be for real.

Smoothe Da Hustler - Album didn't match the single.

Muddy Waters - One of the more genuinely enjoyable releases of the year.

Doggfather - lol

Lost Boyz - fun album but the bootleg kinda killed the album for me.

Dr Dre presents The Aftermath - Borderline unlistenable. Shockingly bad. I was ready to put a fork in Dre. No homo.
 
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criminal minded = goat album

nuffin from a high quality rap.album perspective exists if it is not created.
you nikkaz keep wanting to move the goalposts and deny krs.

YOU CAN'T,...
KRS = GOAT
CRIMINAL MINDED = GOAT ALBUM
A MAN AND HIS MUSIC = GOAT MIXTAPE


it is that simple.

nikkaz want it the other way, but it is only that one way.


Art Barr

Definite a top 5 of all time album. I wish I could still find the a fan made version with all the demo cuts from 85-86. I used to have it it till my old computer crashed. :sadcam:
But its no accident De La started Stakes is high album with 'Where were you when you 1st heard Criminal Minded?' when you could argue the artform was at its purest.
 

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criminal minded = goat album

nuffin from a high quality rap.album perspective exists if it is not created.
you nikkaz keep wanting to move the goalposts and deny krs.

YOU CAN'T,...
KRS = GOAT
CRIMINAL MINDED = GOAT ALBUM
A MAN AND HIS MUSIC = GOAT MIXTAPE


it is that simple.

nikkaz want it the other way, but it is only that one way.


Art Barr
What makes Criminal Minded the Goat album to you?
 

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Based on what though?


it created and ushered in the new school way of thought culturally as an actual high quality sellable commodity.
plus, ushered in the slow flow. The beginning building block of what constitutes a quality flow for the duration of an entire rap album. Create the rubrick of content, that resonated and solidified the cultural movement of the hardcore bboy in the new school way of thought.


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criminal minded is in my top 10-15.

KRS' voice and sometime stagnant flow always took away from his albums.

but yea, if somebody lists it as their goat lp, i can respect it.

the '80s gets thrown in the bushes too much. people on here stay acting like rap only existed from '91-96 and was solely located in new york.
 

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Create the rubrick of content, that resonated and solidified the cultural movement of the hardcore bboy in the new school way of thought.


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it was the first album with quality subject matter instead of rapping about RAPPING or broads or just clowning around etc?
 
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