Ok so some of y'all will be familiar with a project I'm deciding to run. I made
this thread: The Official 'Classic Album' Discussion Thread, trying to reach a conclusion as to what defines a classic album. After much discussion, I am running with this definition personally, so take it as you will when you consider your classic albums. But this definition in particular was most agreed upon.
Classic:
1. An album considered by consensus of the core hip hop community to be of the highest quality (doesn't have to be perfect or flawless, just an album that the consensus deems the shyt).
2. Assuming that condition 1 is met, is this an album that has stood the test of time amongst the core hip hop community? Is that an album still held in high regard, still referenced at least ten years after its release? By a consensus of the hip hop community?
Props to
@mobbinfms for the definition and also for his help generally in helping me with ideas to create these threads.
So I'll be going through one artist per day, and I will list out all their discography or close to all of it until the year 2005, as we decided that an album needs at least
10 years of existence before it can be called a classic or not.
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To help bring even more attention to these threads, I'm gonna create a hashtag (again props to mobbinfms for the idea) and I urge you guys to click on the tag and click on the option to watch the tag.
Here it is: #coliclassics
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Today we got a bunch of artists to take advantage of their limited discographies pre-2005: Biggie Smalls, Digable Planets and Mos Def.
Get voting!
The jazz was always a staple with them, but overall I enjoyed the social commentary and liked how even through the grittiness, it was still an album I could chillax to. Just felt darker and I dug that. May not be considered a classic to the majority, but that album will always be special to me.
