One catalog has to go forever. 2pac, Nas, Jay Z, Ice cube

[Turbulent]

Jay. i won't go as far as to say it's an easy choice cause their are some songs from him i fukk with. but it's a pretty clear choice for me.

 

[G-Zeus]

So many Jay votes.... He has my second favorite catalogue

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

I really can only listen to two pac albums.

There rest of the guys have at least 6 joints I bump from time to time.

Cube dropped like 5 straight classics if you include his ep and the nwa album.
Plus that west side connection shyt was great. 5 peat has never been repeated in HipHop.
Except maybe by outkast if you feel them.

Nas I can listen to any of his albums whenever I feel chill. I like the maturity of his content.
Jay got like 4 classics imo, rd, black , blue, and ag.

Pac got the best collection of singles out of all three but also the most filler by far.

Cube's been all filler since like '97

Jay's music has the least amount of substance

I can throw a random Pac song out there that'll shyt on Jay's whole catalog, substance wise

In fact

Here's a "filler" track off the Makaveli album


Another filler track off the same album


Yet another one, same album


All that filler shyts on most other rappers so called "substance" tracks.


You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm amazed that you can say Pac has the most filler tracks.He was damn near allergic to filler

 

[Danny Up]

Ice Cube. He was great in his day, but his music didn't hold up and his newer stuff is basura.

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

wow @ all the hova hate. i was just going through his catalog from the very beginning the other night and it truly is an amazing display of lyricism and picture painting. for me it'd be ice cube for sure. nikkas really need to listen to reasonable doubt, in my lifetime volume 1 and volume 2 and tell me they'd want to delete that catalog from the hip hop history books. i been a fan of jay for a long time, but i hadn't listened to the classics back to back in a minute. it had to have been over 2 years since i've done that. i really forgot how nice dude is.

 

[hex]

I'm at throwing Cube under the bus. Especially for Jay. "Death Certificate" alone makes it damn near impossible to vote him off.

Fred.

 

[Luke Cage]

Cube's been all filler since like '97

Jay's music has the least amount of substance

I can throw a random Pac song out there that'll shyt on Jay's whole catalog, substance wise

In fact

Here's a "filler" track off the Makaveli album


Another filler track off the same album


Yet another one, same album


All that filler shyts on most other rappers so called "substance" tracks.


You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm amazed that you can say Pac has the most filler tracks.He was damn near allergic to filler

this is one of the only two albums i listen to from pac.

 

[Sauce Dab]

Pac

 

[Art Barr]

wow @ all the hova hate. i was just going through his catalog from the very beginning the other night and it truly is an amazing display of lyricism and picture painting. for me it'd be ice cube for sure. nikkas really need to listen to reasonable doubt, in my lifetime volume 1 and volume 2 and tell me they'd want to delete that catalog from the hip hop history books. i been a fan of jay for a long time, but i hadn't listened to the classics back to back in a minute. it had to have been over 2 years since i've done that. i really forgot how nice dude is.

all four artist are heinous sellouts of the highest order.
so, all of them have something someone will find undesireable.
as far as I am concerned all four are long term nostalgia artist
I moved on from listening as a favorite artist except pac.
where Pac was never my fav listen, ever.
as I moved on from cliche me and my dead homies gangsta rap as early as the predator.

Nas ushered in the technical revolution rhyme wise and sold it out for dollars in less than two years on the one luv remix single.
then, sold out solidly in iww.
forever ruining rap and providing the most damaging blow cultural to rap as a business.
until puff came and COMpLETELY destroyed the cultural mechanism.
then, nas gave hip hop the same queens borough jam that killed boots the cat and firmly killed the culture on hate me now.
so, it could never recover and it hasn't.
coupled that with the prison economy public grade marketing of commercial gangsta rap.
Coupled, with priority and interscope as the main marketers and cube and pac completely followed suit and completely sold out.
so, really I would.not have much fun listening to any of these guys consistently.
as neither were long term technical marvels, including nas.
plus, none of them made long term quality music.
after culturally ruining and damaging the business of rap altogether.

it has been quite sometime since I blew the actual dust off these guys material and I already revisited nostalgia a few times after they sold out discography wise.
that I probably won't spin their shyt.
unless, I take a walk down the sellout memory lane.
which usually doesn't happen and typically won't.
after giving a sellout their nostalgia laden runs out of my record collection.



Art Barr

 

[Columbo]

Lice pubes

 

[Edub]

I can't do this

 

[Hugs]

nikkas choosing Jay-Z

 

[director_of_bands]

Jay Z easy

 

[YeLovesBoston]

Can we really say Ice Cube's solo career has had the same as Tupac's, Nas', or Jay's?

If we're including Straight Outta Compton into this i might have to select Jigga just because hip hop really needs that album

 

[Osmosis]

Jay without hesitation