Is it a such thing as a rapper having an album with no skippable tracks, but.....

[King Sun]

I admit I skip halftime alot

 

[DarkmanX]

1) The Booth is highly biased against much of anything that is successful regardless of how it sounds. This board will make a concerted effort to downplay and discredit anything that is popular or successful.

2) Because some of the production on it isn't outdated. Much of it still holds up. This again speaks to the bias in The Booth. There are albums from that era that definitely have production that is dated, but The Booth would praise said albums and call the production timeless. For example, IDAHIH is a great album from that era, but that album is sonically dated. A lot of the production definitely sounds of that era.

Also, Jay didn't ride the Ruff Ryder wave. That was a mutually beneficial situation and they benefited from that partnership more so than he did. He had like 3 Swizzy joints and by that time Jay already had like 2-3 big singles already in rotation. When the Ruff Ryders compilation dropped, Jay had the biggest song on it and helped that album be as successful as it was.

Okay so we disagree on that. Thats fine. I'd say Flesh Of My Fleshs production is outdated. So is Vol 2 tho Imo. But not IDAHIH Imo.

But your opinion is your opinion. Im not here calling you a hater or make general claims about The Booth cuz of it.

You say it was equally as benefitial but then say they (Ruff Ryders) benefitted more.

 

[JustCKing]

Okay so we disagree on that. Thats fine. I'd say Flesh Of My Fleshs production is outdated. So is Vol 2 tho Imo. But not IDAHIH Imo.

But your opinion is your opinion. Im not here calling you a hater or make general claims about The Booth cuz of it.

You say it was equally as benefitial but then say they (Ruff Ryders) benefitted more.

When I say outdated, I'm meaning that it sounds old in comparison to today's production like someone just now discovering IDAHIH would know it was from the 90's. And yeah FOMFBOMB suffers grom being outdated too. There's songs on Vol. 2 that sound outdated, but not many.

Mutually beneficial as in both benefited, not equally.

 

[DarkmanX]

When I say outdated, I'm meaning that it sounds old in comparison to today's production like someone just now discovering IDAHIH would know it was from the 90's. And yeah FOMFBOMB suffers grom being outdated too. There's songs on Vol. 2 that sound outdated, but not many.

Mutually beneficial as in both benefited, not equally.

Ok but thats your opinion and i can respect that even tho i disagree (about IDAHIH sounding outdated).

Im making a point here.

Why is it not cool when people in The Booth have theirs about Jay-Z? Why is it such a conspiracy then?

 

[JustCKing]

Ok but thats your opinion and i can respect that even tho i disagree (about IDAHIH sounding outdated).

Im making a point here.

Why is it not cool when people in The Booth have theirs about Jay-Z? Why is it such a conspiracy then?

It's not a conspiracy theory. I've seen posters try to write the narrative that "du rag" Jay was Jay at his worst, which pretty much says that Vol. 2, Vol. 3, and The Dynasty are Jay's worst albums. It isn't a coincidence that those are Jay's most successful albums commercially. And this was a legit thread on here about a month or two ago.

 

[DarkmanX]

It's not a conspiracy theory. I've seen posters try to write the narrative that "du rag" Jay was Jay at his worst, which pretty much says that Vol. 2, Vol. 3, and The Dynasty are Jay's worst albums. It isn't a coincidence that those are Jay's most successful albums commercially. And this was a legit thread on here about a month or two ago.

Thats like me saying your opinon about IDAHIH "coincidentally" is about X's most commercially succesful album.

Im not saying those dont exist. But they arent specific to Jay. 99,9% have those critics, especially if they had a fanbase before they blew.
So to act like its specific to Jay or making general statements about ppl in the Booth with opinions about Jay & his albums is ridiculous imo.