Come in here and rattle off albums with a more genuine "classic' standing than Stillmatic/Blueprint

[Big Mel]

Get em' Art. But let's trend more towards the real classics that the PR game has sorta snuffed out.

Like....remember how K Solo & Special Ed's joints were waaaaay crazier than Naughty By Nature's?

 

[JuvenileHell]

Want to add Only Built For Cuban Linx as well. Also more of a classic than BP and Stillmatic. 2nd fav rap album...Illmatic and The Infamous tie for first place

 

[Big Mel]

Get em' Art. But let's trend more towards the real classics that the PR game has sorta snuffed out.

Like....remember how K Solo & Special Ed's joints were waaaaay crazier than Naughty By Nature's?

never really understood how stillmatic and blueprint could be classics

songs on the blueprint that prevent it from being a true classic:

girls, girls, girls, (seriously one of the worst jay tracks EVER recorded. song is corny in every fukking sense of the word)
also thought "song cry" was cringeworthy even though some cats like it


on stillmatic:

basically the last 4 tracks are meh.


and in my opinion if there are skippable tracks the shyt aint really CLASSIC. might be a great album, but it aint CLASSIC


of course the definition of classic changes from person to person, but i dont think either of these are truly bonafide classics.. i used to think so, but upon recent listens, nahhhhhhhhhh. some of those tracks aged horribly

i hear you and think you're a solid cat for sure. but there are classic records from my era with wack tracks. youtube 'try to do me' by Brand Nubian....the reason it didn't matter was because the GOOD STUFF WAS GENRE DEFINING.


aint shyt like that on jay's album....Nas had 4 GREAT songs on stillmatic and it caused us all to get flashbacks to illmatic.


believe me Nas is the biggest rap bust of all time. im not at all crazy.

 

[Big Mel]

Get em' Art. But let's trend more towards the real classics that the PR game has sorta snuffed out.

Like....remember how K Solo & Special Ed's joints were waaaaay crazier than Naughty By Nature's?

never really understood how stillmatic and blueprint could be classics

songs on the blueprint that prevent it from being a true classic:

girls, girls, girls, (seriously one of the worst jay tracks EVER recorded. song is corny in every fukking sense of the word)
also thought "song cry" was cringeworthy even though some cats like it


on stillmatic:

basically the last 4 tracks are meh.


and in my opinion if there are skippable tracks the shyt aint really CLASSIC. might be a great album, but it aint CLASSIC


of course the definition of classic changes from person to person, but i dont think either of these are truly bonafide classics.. i used to think so, but upon recent listens, nahhhhhhhhhh. some of those tracks aged horribly

i hear you and think you're a solid cat for sure. but there are classic records from my era with wack tracks. youtube 'try to do me' by Brand Nubian....the reason it didn't matter was because the GOOD STUFF WAS GENRE DEFINING.


aint shyt like that on jay's album....Nas had 4 GREAT songs on stillmatic and it caused us all to get flashbacks to illmatic.


believe me Nas is the biggest rap bust of all time. im not at all crazy.

 

[The Jewnited States]

Get em' Art. But let's trend more towards the real classics that the PR game has sorta snuffed out.

Like....remember how K Solo & Special Ed's joints were waaaaay crazier than Naughty By Nature's?






i hear you and think you're a solid cat for sure. but there are classic records from my era with wack tracks. youtube 'try to do me' by Brand Nubian....the reason it didn't matter was because the GOOD STUFF WAS GENRE DEFINING.


aint shyt like that on jay's album....Nas had 4 GREAT songs on stillmatic and it caused us all to get flashbacks to illmatic.


believe me Nas is the biggest rap bust of all time. im not at all crazy.

i feel u on that. i guess what i was trying to say is that, the previous classics that did have weak tracks, literally broke down barriers with what they did so they get somewhat of a pass. by the time stillmatic and BP dropped, i was expecting something practically perfect considering who they were and the budget/producers they were able to get.

i agree not all classics are 100 percent unskippable, but for the BP especially, it was a short enough album that it shoulda been perfect. wasn't like the shyt was 20 tracks

 

[Big Mel]

Word up. Lol.


But yeah...lithe towers dropping meant way more to me than a Jay record that was essentially a lite fm version of hip hop.

I recall clear as day driving around shaolin playing Rza's 'be a man' song from digital bullet amidst that chaos. I, myself..stopped my block from attacking our local bodega in Stapleton and then when we went to the city I kept my neighbor in check (who benches 400 plus).


I had other shyt on my plate. I'm also drinking whiskey right now dammit!

 

[The Jewnited States]

Word up. Lol.


But yeah...lithe towers dropping meant way more to me than a Jay record that was essentially a lite fm version of hip hop.

I recall clear as day driving around shaolin playing Rza's 'be a man' song from digital bullet amidst that chaos. I, myself..stopped my block from attacking our local bodega in Stapleton and then when we went to the city I kept my neighbor in check (who benches 400 plus).


I had other shyt on my plate. I'm also drinking whiskey right now dammit!

considering how u talk about jay-z, i gotta ask, where do u rank him? obviously most under 30 year olds got him in the top 5. personally he's maybe top 15 for me. i respect the talent, but man theres a lot of garbage he's put out. for as witty as he is? i thought he'd be redman status with at least 3 classics by now...

 

[Big Mel]

I love Jay. He kinda punctuates my coming of age...i turned 21 in like 1998....and i feel he made FANTASTIC club records. He 100% delivered in his prime more than Nas did. No question. Illmatic not included.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

The War Report

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
Biz Markie - Goin' Off
Boogiemonsters - The Underwater Album
The DOC - No One Can Do It Better
Kool G. Rap & Polo - Road to the Riches
Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Cru - Da' Dirty 30
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rudd - Girls, I Got 'Em Locked
Special Ed - Youngest In Charge
Capone n' Noreaga - The War Report
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
​

 

[Big Mel]

To me, Legal > Youngest In Charge


And I know I'm right because that is when I first sold crack. HIYOOOOOO!!!!

 

[Big Mel]

Ill spackle any crack you may have in your wall be it water damage or in SoCal, earthquake shake....

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

*Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop

* the in the know pick

ask my man Ishmael.

 

[the cac mamba]

3rd Bass - The Cactus Album

 

[skillz2]

The Main Ingredient
Moment Of Truth
Doe or Die