There will never be another Hip Hop album like The Chronic.

[Hugs]

Chronic aged horribly

Doggystyle aged much better

 

[thewiseman]

Doggystyle aged much better

I agree

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

One of the few rap albums I can sit through entirely.

The Diary, Illmatic, Me Against the World, Ready to Die & Doggystyle are the others

 

[eastsideTT]

Chronic aged horribly

come on man, u serious???

MOST g-funk era stuff aged horribly, i'll give you that.

but The Chronic is probably the blueprint of a rap album being timeless. just the engineering alone...that shyt STILL sounds so clean and dynamic today. it was one of a kind for its time. held up against other releases that came out before or during its release its insane to think about how advanced the engineering and production was. it set a new standard.

on top of that, Dre stretched out singles from that album for almost 2 full years. compare that to the average run of a single today being like less than 6 months

the only thing on there that literally aged was the skit parodying the $25,000 pyramid game show and some of the 92 Riot references. everything else you could play now or 20 years from now and it'll hold up

 

[shopthatwrecks]

All drake makes is chronic albums

2001 n Compton both are the chronic with updated equipment

 

[shopthatwrecks]

come on man, u serious???

MOST g-funk era stuff aged horribly, i'll give you that.

but The Chronic is probably the blueprint of a rap album being timeless. just the engineering alone...that shyt STILL sounds so clean and dynamic today. it was one of a kind for its time. held up against other releases that came out before or during its release its insane to think about how advanced the engineering and production was. it set a new standard.

on top of that, Dre stretched out singles from that album for almost 2 full years. compare that to the average run of a single today being like less than 6 months

the only thing on there that literally aged was the skit parodying the $25,000 pyramid game show and some of the 92 Riot references. everything else you could play now or 20 years from now and it'll hold up

Shiiid regulator safe n sound take a look over ya shoulder

Dogg food all have stood the test of time

 

[Taadow]

well a "hit" today is classified as songs that are played repeatedly. Not necessarily good songs because they come and go. they're played constatnly for 3 or 4 months and never heard from again. I can sit here and write a 10 page paper why things are like that but I aint go the time so I'll try to sum it up as quickly as possible with what I'm always saying. Labels sell artists today, not music. What you guys think is a "hit" , you have labels, magazines, and radio all working together to present something to the public as great. There are really only 6 record labels in music and to get a sample cleared you must clear it with the publishing owner and copyright owner. Being that damn near all of these labels own the masters to the songs that their artists are sometimes sampling there is no reason that fee shouldn't be waived but it's just a way to keep artists broke. An example is Nas clearing "human nature" for "it aint hard to tell" and how easy it was being that his label Columbia and Epic were under the same Sony umbrella. shyt is designed the way it is to b*stardize hip hop music because it was getting too powerful. It's really that simple.

Chronic used a lot of samples but it didn't do Public Enemy type shyt. Bomb Squad were using 15-20 samples per song on some joints. That's ridiculous.

Everything you said here is true, but imma isolate a couple of your ideas here.

1. A good number of the samples on The Chronic were replayed, so they were able to sidestep a lot of the sample laws BS. And that's how you can make another album like that.

2. It could be argued that The Chronic is also a case where the artist was sold in front of the music.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Everything you said here is true, but imma isolate a couple of your ideas here.

1. A good number of the samples on The Chronic were replayed, so they were able to sidestep a lot of the sample laws BS. And that's how you can make another album like that.

2. It could be argued that The Chronic is also a case where the artist was sold in front of the music.

i agree. replaying the sample eliminates the copyright holder(label) and then u negotiate straight with the publisher. And of course Dre was sold before the music, but his album was hot. Cardi B and these other trash ass rappers coming out aren't producing hot music.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

One of the few rap albums I can sit through entirely.

The Diary, Illmatic, Me Against the World, Ready to Die & Doggystyle are the others

I can name about 30-40 instantly I can sit thru entirely. I had no choice really because I had no cd player until 1991 so it was all cassettes and vinyl. I could skip quickly with vinyl but I couldn't take vinyl with me like a walkman adn I loved tape inserts better. So I bought more tapes than vinyl until I started upgrading everything around the late 90s

 

[MR. Conclusion]

Lil ghetto boy still sounds fresh as fukk today. Also top 5 posse cut Stranded on Deathrow.