"Life After Death is the greatest rap album ever" - Lupe Fiasco (And Royce)

[DaveyDave]

To those in here talking shyt about Pac :

If LAD didn’t have filler tracks, then why the fukk did they release it as a 1 disc album as well as a double?.

I never knew they did that I thought that only happened to BP2

 

[PHamm]

I don’t know about ever.

But Life after Death is the best double disc hip-hop/rap album.

Lol no

 

[InstantKlassik]

and 6 months from now they'll claim a different album is GOAT

Both dudes are so inconsistent

 

[Bondye Vodou]

and 6 months from now they'll claim a different album is GOAT

Both dudes are so inconsistent

I'm pretty sure Lupe said this on twitter some years back.

 

[Formerly known as...]

Wu Forever>AEOM>LAD

Nah.

I just spent time yesterday listening to LAD and AEOM and AEOM > LAD.....Slightly to me.

I mean Pac recorded this in like 2 weeks right? And it is so damn good. Production is better all round too.

 

[Curufinwe]

No.

 

[28 Gramz]

There was no girl song, pop song, street song, introspective song, regional song approach to making albums before LAD...

None!

All Eyez On Me

 

[28 Gramz]

I’m really at a lost as to why people keep bringing up AEOM. By definition Pac checked a lot of the boxes I mentioned but where is his Going Back To Cali? Notorious Thugs? AEOM was a west coast album through & through which is fine. It was great for many reasons. If 2Pac had a double time song or a song that actually sounded like it came from another region then that would be different. He didn’t have an “Old School” or something like that on that album

Why these nikkax loveeeeee making everything about Pac?

No More Pain was a southern bounce track and My Mind Made Up is a classic boom bap posse cut.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

No More Pain was a southern bounce track

You know what? I could see this...I’m not rolling on Got My Mind Made Up. That is simply not a clear cut “east coast song” especially of the time. The synths really give it a west coast feel. If that’s the case you could easily say Deep Cover, Lil Ghetto Boy or bytches Ain’t shyt were east coast records and I don’t recall many arguments for it. Got My Mind Made Up is like a hybrid song no different than Winter Warz

Going Back To Cali was a clear cut West Coast song
The World Is Filled...does not sound like a East Coast song at all
Notorious Thugs was clearly a Midwest bounce song

 

[Stuckinthe90s]

My Mind Made Up is a classic boom bap posse cut.

It could have been if 2Pac was removed instead of Inspectah Deck.

 

[Rapmastermind]

RTD made Big a Legend off one album for sure. But LAD is why I feel he remains in GOAT contention. Crazy today is 24 years later since the album dropped. It's been copied, sampled, bitten, the whole 9. I'm not shocked a lyricist like Lupe goes back to this LP to study. This is why Big's bars are so bitten. It's not just what he said, it's how he said it. What I enjoy about LAD most is it literally like a Time capsule of Hip Hop History. Biggie pays homage to the generation before him by sampling Slick Rick on "Hypnotize", Schoolly D on "Interlude". Chuck D on "10 Crack Commandments" and featuring DMC of Run DMC himself on "My downfall". He floated across multiple Regions on the album. "Going back to Cali" and "The World is Filled" had West coast vibes. "Notorious Thugs" though produced by Stevie J and Puff sounds like it could of been a Bone song not a Biggie record so that's a Midwest track. It even had some southern vibes. Big made sure to have that NY Sound as well.

Premo did beats (Gang starr), Kay Gee did a beat (Naughty by Nature), RZA did a beat (Wu Tang Clan), Havoc did a beat (Mobb Deep) Buckwild did a beat (D.I.T.C.). Easy Mo Bee came back strong again. Of course the Hitmen went in (Puff, Stevie J, D. Dot, Carlos, Nashiem etc). Obviously Big was aware and I'm sure inspired by the Success Pac had with AEOM but they were both in different spaces. Pac was on his 4th LP already had 3 LP's and was coming off "Me against the World" his first #1 album. Big was in a harder spot especially with the Beef, Pac's Death and coming off a Legendary Debut and trying to avoid the Sophomore Slump/Jinx. The album endures because Big left it all on the table on that LP. I still feel the album would have been bigger had Big lived. It's 11x Platinum (The Highest certified Solo LP in Hip Hop History) even though he passed (It's still selling till this day). I think if more videos and touring happen along with the Bad Boy wave, who knows. 15x Platinum? It was possible, this album had singles for years on it. "F U Tonite", "Notorious Thugs", "Nasty Boy" etc. Matter of fact, those 3 songs all charted on the "Airplay" Charts even though they weren't officially singles. Honestly I don't see how this album ever falls off at this point. The Vinyl remains one of the longest selling in Rap History. Greatest? Well that's debatable but Big has a case for two of the greatest rap albums ever created.

 

[The War Report]

Album aged gracefully. Like fine wine.


Only album I physically own.

 

[DANJ!]

It's my favorite album ever...

Of course, everyone's not gonna agree, but there's not any album everyone's gonna agree about when it comes to that topic.

 

[OHSNAP!]

What does that have to do with me?

Because Pac did have that "formula" before Biggie. Admit it you dumbfukk

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Because Pac did have that "formula" before Biggie. Admit it you dumbfukk

Nothing to admit honestly. I’m sorry about that