The Best Comeback Album Ever is.....
- Thread starter King Harlem
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Clapsteel O'Neal
put a red dot on your head like a hindu
It's Stillmatic
Clapsteel O'Neal
put a red dot on your head like a hindu
The Score and Infamous shouldn't really count because the vast majority of people did at the time and still think those albums are both groups debut albums.
King Harlem
Superstar
Similar to Mobb Deep and The Fugees, this doesn't really count.
There has to be a rise, a fall and then the 'comeback' album.
Controversy
Superstar
The answer is Stillmatic
The world thought Nas fell off
Nas placements on mixtapes used to be at the front end...by early to mid 01, his records were sandwiched in the middle of mixtapes
Rocafella buried Stillmatic Freestyle
It took nearly 5 months to release Ether after Summer Jam...the industry moved on and crowned Jigga as their king
If Stillmatic flopped, Nas career was essentially over
Nas was already preparing for life after rap prior to Stillmatic
Stillmatic is my GOAT rap album bc of what it represents...rebirth, renewal, coming back from adversity against all odds
The world thought Nas fell off
Nas placements on mixtapes used to be at the front end...by early to mid 01, his records were sandwiched in the middle of mixtapes
Rocafella buried Stillmatic Freestyle
It took nearly 5 months to release Ether after Summer Jam...the industry moved on and crowned Jigga as their king
If Stillmatic flopped, Nas career was essentially over
Nas was already preparing for life after rap prior to Stillmatic
Stillmatic is my GOAT rap album bc of what it represents...rebirth, renewal, coming back from adversity against all odds
Redwood
Superstar
Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
You got to have multiple duds for it to be a comeback. Nas had an average album with Nastradamus. Imagine if Cormega or AZ has dropped that same exact album, it would be fine. And was still in that phase where nikkas was made he couldn’t make another illmatic
I don’t even know about Mariah because it was the Glitter movie that bombed and then the TRL appearance with the ice cream that made her look crazy. Her music was doing fine, she had hits with Cam and Jay at that time. All she did was focus exclusively on that instead of other stuff and she was back on top.
Aftermath was a compilation. He was telling the truth when he said his last album was the Chronic.
Mama Said Knock You Out might be the answer here. LL had no motion.
I don’t even know about Mariah because it was the Glitter movie that bombed and then the TRL appearance with the ice cream that made her look crazy. Her music was doing fine, she had hits with Cam and Jay at that time. All she did was focus exclusively on that instead of other stuff and she was back on top.
Aftermath was a compilation. He was telling the truth when he said his last album was the Chronic.
Mama Said Knock You Out might be the answer here. LL had no motion.
King Harlem
Superstar
Not necessarily. It's more about how the general public perceives you.
No matter what people think about their previous albums, the general public fell like Dr. Dre, Nas and LL Cool J had fell off. Mariah Carey had more than fell off, she had become a joke.
Artfull Dodger
All Star
That's what makes it not a comeback. Thoughts and ifs are not reality.
He certainly wasn't coming back from a sales point...maybe from perception (for which there is no unbiased metric)
TheAlbionist
Superstar
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Rick Rubin stripped his sound down to bare bones and reinvented him for a new generation... went on to do 5 albums and more successful than ever until he died and they released another.
Rick Rubin stripped his sound down to bare bones and reinvented him for a new generation... went on to do 5 albums and more successful than ever until he died and they released another.
Controversy
Superstar
No one had Nas in their top 5 from Jan to Nov 2001
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
IMO for it to be a "comeback" you needed to have actually been on, then had a fall off... Thus, by this rationale, The Infamous, and Liquid Swords wouldn't qualify b/c they weren't really "on."
The answer is 2001... The Chronic is one of the biggest, most impactful, albums of all time, and Dre had his post-DR struggles, only to finally return with an absolute, instant-classic in 2001, with a whole new sound that kept it's momentum going til about 2005.
The answer is 2001... The Chronic is one of the biggest, most impactful, albums of all time, and Dre had his post-DR struggles, only to finally return with an absolute, instant-classic in 2001, with a whole new sound that kept it's momentum going til about 2005.
