Whenever this album is brought up The Booth never fails to act disgusted, as if daring to compare it to the Illmatics and Supreme Clientele's and Reasonable Doubts and Reasonable Doubts and 2001's is somehow the equivalent of throwing a baby out often story building 
Hell you people refuse to give Kanye any classics, and if you do it's generally only the first two.
Only Kanye can give you an amazing debut that helped start or was apart of a major shift in Hip Hop, a follow up album that took his content from the previous album to the next level on every level and was innovative with the usage of the orchestra, and then follow that up with the definitive greatest stadium rap album of all time in Graduation, and the amazingly produced album 808's that had massive influence on artists going forwards with amazing songs like Say You Will, Paranoid, and Street Lights, as well as classic singles in Heartless and Love Lockdown, and still get pushed down this much by people.
What's the issue? Is it because Kanye isn't dropping triple entendres and Eminem style multis? Is it because white people like the album (just like all of Kanye's albums) and that makes you insecure/believe that they're trying to dictate something for "the culture" that black people didn't decide even though it got universal love? Is it because you kind stand the fact that Kanye made a pop hip hop album? Is it because somehow this album is too "artsy" for you? Can't expand your taste palate?
The album came out 6 years ago, firmly established Kanye as a premiere pop/hip hop star/rock star/superstar, got absolutely incredible reviews all around, solidified his comeback and his legacy, and still gets the same praise years after.
It has two of the best posse cuts in rap, classic hits in All Of The Light's and Power, an epic/theatrical sound unmatched by any hip hop project, some of Kanye's best rapping and storytelling, top quality production, excellent guest features all around, and all of this isn't even touching on how thematically tight, cohesive, and put together it was
Seems to me that you all just have a bone against the praise Kanye gets so you won't admit it's a classic or you won't let a "newer" album stack up against older classics for legacy purpose/don't want to let hip hop evolve as an art
Also it's just as good as Thriller for extra salt
Hell you people refuse to give Kanye any classics, and if you do it's generally only the first two.
Only Kanye can give you an amazing debut that helped start or was apart of a major shift in Hip Hop, a follow up album that took his content from the previous album to the next level on every level and was innovative with the usage of the orchestra, and then follow that up with the definitive greatest stadium rap album of all time in Graduation, and the amazingly produced album 808's that had massive influence on artists going forwards with amazing songs like Say You Will, Paranoid, and Street Lights, as well as classic singles in Heartless and Love Lockdown, and still get pushed down this much by people.
What's the issue? Is it because Kanye isn't dropping triple entendres and Eminem style multis? Is it because white people like the album (just like all of Kanye's albums) and that makes you insecure/believe that they're trying to dictate something for "the culture" that black people didn't decide even though it got universal love? Is it because you kind stand the fact that Kanye made a pop hip hop album? Is it because somehow this album is too "artsy" for you? Can't expand your taste palate?
The album came out 6 years ago, firmly established Kanye as a premiere pop/hip hop star/rock star/superstar, got absolutely incredible reviews all around, solidified his comeback and his legacy, and still gets the same praise years after.
It has two of the best posse cuts in rap, classic hits in All Of The Light's and Power, an epic/theatrical sound unmatched by any hip hop project, some of Kanye's best rapping and storytelling, top quality production, excellent guest features all around, and all of this isn't even touching on how thematically tight, cohesive, and put together it was
Seems to me that you all just have a bone against the praise Kanye gets so you won't admit it's a classic or you won't let a "newer" album stack up against older classics for legacy purpose/don't want to let hip hop evolve as an art
Also it's just as good as Thriller for extra salt
