For the 2000s, G-Dep had the best Hip Hop debut with his "Child Of The Ghetto" album

[Obtain Knowledge]

Yup.

It's a better album than any so called great or classic Hip Hop debut album of the 2000s such as Kanye's The College Dropout, Jeezy's Thug Motivation 101, 50's GRODT, and The Game's Documentary etc.

G Dep's writing was great and the production by The Hitmen who produced the album was excellent. The singles were big when they were released but this album is now an overlooked classic:


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpwWwtHjRPs]G.Dep - Child of the Ghetto [ FULL ALBUM ].wmv - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Big Mel]

It had some great stuff and also some par for the time cheesy, generic bad boy beats.

 

[dappadonna]

Link ?

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

It had some great stuff and also some par for the time cheesy, generic bad boy beats.

Nothing cheesy sounding about those beats and they still sound great too. The album was well produced.

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

Link ?

I don't have an actual link to the album, all I have is that youtube link I posted in my first post.

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

This was around the time of the album's release:

 

[infamousred]

dep was a great lyricist. from being underground to going more maintream, he was still spittin. i still remember him destroying the "strictly business" beat on that deputy mixtape.

 

[Yoda]

Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens is my choice for "best hip hop debut of the 2000s".

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

dep was a great lyricist. from being underground to going more maintream, he was still spittin. i still remember him destroying the "strictly business" beat on that deputy mixtape.

Yup and this joint is one of my favorites by him:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTqw3KleLrw]DJ Premier - Head Over Wheels [G-Depp] - YouTube[/ame]



And this is another favorite of mine that he featured on:

 

[re'up]

Very good album, I copped it, and liked it a lot, even though everyone had that bootleg like 7 months before...but, it's too long and lacked focus, some filler tracks and questionable hooks, far better debuts in the 2000's, I was a Shyne stan, but I think his was much more cohesive, and more impressive standouts. A lot of the time, i feel like Dep didn't know what to rhyme about, he wanted to go introspective, and thats when he was at his best, but stumbled when he tried to do the Ma$e/Loon/pretty boy bad Boy type of flow/content.

 

[BlackDroog]

Loved this album...

SMH @ what happened to Black Rob and G Dep's careers...2 great MC's 2 albums...nothing else after that.

 

[the rhyme king]

classic album to be but better young jeezy first album and game first album nah lmao not imo

 

[ugksam]

FREE G-DEP

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

Loved this album...

SMH @ what happened to Black Rob and G Dep's careers...2 great MC's 2 albums...nothing else after that.

Black Rob released a really nice single a couple of years ago; this joint is nice:





I never did check out the album from which that single came from though.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Dope album.

Dep and Black Rob both dropped heavily overlooked debut joints. The production on both were serious too.