Dopest emcee to never have a classic album?

[surv2syn]

I think the criteria should be best rappers who were expected to deliver classic album but didn’t. Then it easily becomes a two man race between Jada and Canibus. Most of the others listed in this thread never had classic album expectations even though some of them did in fact deliver classics.

And at anyone who said It’s Dark...was not a classic. Jesus.

 

[1-8-7-Skillz]

Definetely Kurupt.
Back in the death row days he was one of the greatest rappers I have ever heard.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Bustah's first LP was/is a classic.

My answer is this cat.......



West Coast cats might have a different opinion, but the only track that got play over here was ......

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[threattonature]

Depends on if we count mixtapes or not. If we don't count mixtapes then I'd say Jadakiss, Joe Budden, Meth, Pusha T or Kurupt. .Would've included Royce but still deciding how I feel about Book of Ryan which I LOVED. If we include mixtapes then I'm taking off Jada and Budden.

 

[Champagne Kudo]

I'd argue busta has 2 maybe 3 classics fukk yall

And X has 2 for sure. What planet yall nikkas living on?

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Definetely Kurupt.
Back in the death row days he was one of the greatest rappers I have ever heard.

Streets is a mutha is a classic

 

[g-ice]

I'd argue busta has 2 maybe 3 classics fukk yall

First 3 can easily be argued for sure.

 

[Deltron]

X and Red ain't got classics?!

 

[BruhMayne]

3 stacks

 

[En Sabah Nur]

Y’all east coast nikkas don’t consider tical by method man a classic?

Classic in my book.jus wondering what the feel of it is up there

I don't. It's got banging production, but Meth was sleepwalking lyrically on Tical. I guess you can blame the rush job, since the original was lost in RZA's basement flood
On Tical 2000 Meth was in top form lyrically, but half of the production from the B team was whatever, and it was too long.

So Meth is my choice. I think he has 3 dope joints with Tical, T2000, and 4:21. But not that hands down classic

 

[1-8-7-Skillz]

Streets is a mutha is a classic

Its a strong album for sure, but the term classic gets thrown around too losely for me.
To get to that level an album has to be Doggystyle/Chronic level to me.
And whats also a problem is the fact that Kurupt himself is the weakest link on that album.

 

[letti cook]

 

[JustCKing]

Only producers doing something special were the soul heads. If Jada did a record with Just Blaze and Kanye it woulda been better then the blueprint

The "soul heads" weren't really giving Jada anything special either. "Gettin It In" is hardly Blueprint caliber and I can't really remember what songs Just did for Jada.

Jada would've fared better getting Alchemist to produce an album for him. I would say The Neptunes, but nothing outside of "Knock Yourself Out" was dope. The only other great Neptunes/Jada collabo is "I'm Not You" from Clipse's Lord Willin.

 

[filial_piety]

first name that comes to mind....Canibus

 

[JQ Legend]

IDAHIH and MMLP>> Every single hip hop album that dropped this decade