If the thread title is true, than this is a trash year in Hip Hop 
Mastermind Is The Closest Thing We Got To A Classic This Year So Far
- Thread starter Trillion
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Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
Album of the year so far
Illuminatos
#OVOXO
Album was mediocre tbh. My least favorite Rick Ross album. 
Big Mel
@bigboss
^^^^ Disc 1 is crazy too.
kermit da hustla
Banned
Guess we have completely different tastes homie. I think Teflon Don and Rich Forever are his best two. Deeper Than Rap after that. GFID and Mastermind are close to me - Mastermind is definitely more consistent, but, GFID had 4-5 songs that I bumped every damn day for the rest of that year, even though it had a lot more trash. Mastermind is an easier listen, but it's also easier to ignore.
It's all subjective though
mastermind is his most consistent and best produced album, imo. teflon don had some great highs, but some of those r&b tracks ruined the album. GFID was dope, but a few of the joints were lazy. DTR and mastermind are almost tied, but mastermind is more consistent. it's his most perfect album. rich forever is great, but you can tell it's a mixtape.
but like you said, it's all subjective. at the very least, i think an argument can definitely be made that ross has the most impressive discography of any rapper right now in the past decade. the only two artists that might be up there with him are jeezy and ye. nobody else has a discography as good as ross.
See I thought the R&B tracks on Teflon Don helped balance it out - the sequencing, IMO, made it so much more digestible. Plus, they were actually good songs. I wasn't in love with GFID as a whole, but my favorite songs on it, I bumped more than anything else that year. I'll give you that Mastermind is pretty consistent throughout, but it's a gift and a curse to me - it's solid from beginning to end, but there aren't any highs that really get me as excited as the highs on his other albums.
I definitely think Ross and Ye have the most impressive discographies over the past decade as far as mainstream rap goes, but Drake is on his way there too to me. I didn't like Thank Me Later that much, but I'll put So Far Gone, Take Care and NWTS up there too
Kill Dat Noize
Banned
I consider myself a pretty big Ross fan and even I haven't fukked wit it after those first 2 weeks.
Far from classic.
Far from classic.
Kill Dat Noize
Banned
There's some wack shyt on that album but if you take the deluxe edition you could make a 12-13 track album that's near classic.
Actually that album has some of my favorite Ross joints period.
So Sophisticated is one of the hardest tracks of all time. Ross SWALLOWS that beat.
Big Mel
@bigboss
Pause.
idk if I'd say 12-13. But MMIV, Sixteen, Amsterdam, So Sophisticated, Presidential, Ten Jesus Pieces, Triple Beam Dreams, Ashamed, and *maybe* Pirates or 3 Kings. Those two aren't great for me personally, but I wouldn't mind them. I think that would be closer to Teflon Don level
The_Third_Man
Superstar
Not true
The closest album to a classic this year is freddie gibbs and madlib's "Piñata"
The closest album to a classic this year is freddie gibbs and madlib's "Piñata"
