life after death is too skippable to be a classic

[JayStarwind]

And can the folks saying "a lot" of skips list them? I'll give you Another, Nasty Boy, Playa Hater, Miss U, B.I.G Interlude, and The World is Filled. After that...

If I'm listening to the album in full I still play Playa Hater, because it's a personal fav lol, and The World is Filled.

 

[papertrail08]

there are no skips on the chronic

Spoiler

maybe the doctors office

When an RBX verse comes on

 

[GeeEffKay]

it has a couple skips but its still def a classic

 

[ShaDynasty]

I haven't played the track with R Kelly for years, but thats not BIG's fault.

Biggie X El-P Tape:

I made this with mostly LAD joints.

 

[Complexion]

Single disc mightve been the greatest rap album of all time.

 

[HARLEM AL]

Your mother should have skipped her pregnancy. Your father should have took her to 6 flags.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I do think LAD is overrated and I’ll take RTD over it any day, but it’s still classic.

Classic =/= flawless…there’s no perfection in humanity.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

There isn't one Hip Hop classic without skippable tracks.

Even the most revered albums that I personally love, have sh*t that I don’t f*ck with on them. Life After Death is no different. Still one of Hip Hop's best albums of all-time, but there's a few tracks on there I never got into.

There are some with no skips…

What’s a skip on OB4CL, or The Chronic, or The Infamous, or Liquid Swords? What Y'all skipping on Doggystyle or illmatic? (skits don’t count, talking about songs)

Now, me personally, there are times where I skip the played out commercial hits. I might skip "what's my name" on doggystyle or "Ice Cream" on Cuban Linx, but that doesn't mean they're lesser songs worthy of being skipped, I've just heard them a billion times.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

there are no skips on the chronic

Spoiler

maybe the doctors office

"Ya like that?!! Ahhrrgghhhh!!!!!"

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I personally always preferred Ready To Die.

LAD is good. You could argue it's a straight classic too but it felt slightly bloated and the heavy Bad Boy influence on the album made it feel thematically convoluted. Almost like an identity crisis between the Grimy/Old Biggie and the Flashy/New Biggie.

Ready To Die was more cohesive and had more of a narrative to follow. LAD damn near feels like a Biggie's Greatest Hits album put together by Diddy even though it was thematically supposed to be a sequel to RTD.

That said, if you only have a couple of skips on a double album, that's not enough to remove its classic status.

100% agree. The grittiness of RTD will always trump LAD for me.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

It’s not quite of classic for me either. If you take the best 10 songs it would be easily. But it’s not better than Ready to Die and I don’t revisit it nearly as often as RTD

LAD would be an amazing album if it were a single disc. The cut tracks could’ve easily been tossed to No Way Out.

Playa Hater is just another Jealous Guy — which itself was beyond horrible. Going Back To Cali leaned on a lazy sample and after mans gets killed you wonder WTF was he thinking going to Cali in the first place.

RTD sounds completely different from LAD (even his voice) and I prefer it even tho the mixing could’ve been a of tighter. And if we are keeping it 100, RTD “feels” a lot like Me Against The World in hindsight, but not as mature.

LAD is just too bloated and coming from a time when folks thought the double album thing was a good idea since it worked (in Hip Hop) for AEOM even tho other non rap artists already did it before.

 

[Heavy_Handz]

Since we talking what tracks y’all skipping….


BIG was way ahead of his time. All this sexualized shyt out now all over the internet with hoe babble rappers everywhere. BIG was talking to them hoes back in 97 & the beat is slick. BIG the GOAT

Plus the hilarious skit

 

[Sauce Dab]

Not mad at OP

I ain’t either. I completely see where OP is coming from and I don’t consider it a classic either. It’s a great album but not a classic. BIG was doing too much goofy shyt on there trying to sing and shyt

 

[Elim Garak]

1 star neg rep.

 

[Sauce Dab]

Life After Death is the greatest album ever made.

GREATEST RAP ALBUM

It’s insane calling that album the GOAT album. LAD ain’t nowhere near Stevie Wonder’s songs in the key of life album