spin: life after death is a masterpiece

[I love Latina women]

@Love Sosa got a great thread speakin' on all eyez on me and i agree with him. of course that album is a certified classic

the same goes for life after death
it wasn't until i got online that i started seein' people say life after death ain't a classic because of this song or that song and vice versa for all eyez on me
biggie came through stompin' on that album and the production on that muthafukka was top notch
as did pac with all eyez on me, who led the way with the 1st double hip hop album too
both life after death and all eyez on me forever are 2 double disc albums that are classics though

 

[I love Latina women]

@JustCKing made a great point in that all eyez on me thread too

Filler doesn't necessarily mean it's a wack song. It's a song that just doesn't hold up. It's a song that's just kind of there. On an album like AEOM, it's going to have filler. Not because there's 20+ songs, but because there's songs on that album that are classic and some of the songs in comparisons don't hold up as well. That's why it's a filler track. That doesn't take away from the album being classic. Most albums have filler even classics. Not being able to skip a song is subjective.

i'd like to add that a lot of times sometimes there's levels to it. like for instance, a song might not be wack but just not as strong as the next one before it or after; wherever it is on the album's track listin'

nikkas might not fukk with "another" off of life after death like they do "nikkas bleed" obviously, but that don't take away from "another" still bein' a great song

same goes for "what'z ya phone #" (which i like too). just because it ain't "all eyez on me" (the title track) don't mean it's wack. both are great songs

 

[ciubaca]

Ppl talking about and listening to the album after 18 years, damn right it's a classics. An album does not need to be perfect to be a classic but it does need to be perfect to be a masterpiece so

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

Nothing but a classic

Sky's the limit

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

i dont really mess with Big like that but Life After Death is a great album. I cant think of what song or songs could take that away from classic status.

everything from the beats to the rhymes to the mixing to the interludes was top notch. it was a movie.

 

[Mess World]

It's one of those albums during that shyt show the jiggy era that ruined hip hop. Biggie should of left bad boy after his first album and signed to a real hip hop label like Jive

 

[The Ruler 09]

It's classic no doubt.

 

[Nat King Coleslaw]

IDK where you been breh, but the album been certified.... for a while now too.

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[I love Latina women]

IDK where you been breh, but the album been certified.... for a while now too.

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i know that but i made this post because every now and then you get some muthafukka who claims otherwise

 

[Nat King Coleslaw]

Trolls will be trolls but to everyone else with the knowledge, LAD is essential hiphop listening.

i know that but i made this post because every now and then you get some muthafukka who claims otherwise

 

[I love Latina women]

Trolls will be trolls but to everyone else with the knowledge, LAD is essential hiphop listening.

this is true

 

[JayBaldacci]

LAD has a lot of classic biggie songs, but a classic album in whole? IWW wasnt nearly as all over the place and took more heat.

 

[Mr. Negative]

It's a classic.

It's the epitome.... like a distillation of that ultra glossy lush sounding rap that people were saying Bad Boy was known for.

It's like the Studio 54 of Rap music. Perfect representation of a now hated but oft imitated bygone era.

It's Biggie on the verge of.... look, man. I'm not gonna say Biggie is the GOAT. But lyrically, that nikka touched NIRVANA on this album. His verse on Victory is (IMHO) STILL the most perfectly crafted, most technically sound and airtight singe verse of All Time. Killing it with the storytelling raps.

This isn't a knock to anybody else when I say this. But when cats talk about "Greatness cut off before it's time", I think of Big before I think about anybody else. He went from Dolly Me Baby screaming and horrorcore to gangsta posturing to flossed out witty to Life After Death to.... death. We watched him and his style evolve, got of glimpse of the greatness he was about to be lyrically to being cut off and sent back.

It's a classic album for all the right reasons.


And while I'm here.... I hate how nikkas will pick one song- breh, it's one song you don't like out of like 30 songs, so it ain't a classic?

 

[Dirty D]

Victory isn't on LAD

 

[UpAndComing]

In this album you saw Biggie's legendary flow take leaps and bounds. Imagine if he was alive to expand more on it... I told myself I wasn't gonna do this