this album was released 19 years ago, and it hasn't been topped yet...

[tirademode]

Start threads on the same topic , with slight differences in variation every week brehs.

 

[ThaRealness]

I mean can we FINALLY admit that Cuban Linx is the greatest album ever made?

 

[MINT]

did he really say grodt ?

 

[KingpinOG]

It sounds really outdated compared to other albums that came out at that time like Doggystyle.

The production doesn't hold up.

 

[mr.africa]

new album comes out, is it the new illmatic????don't hear critics comparing let's say good kid, maad city to RD,Cuban Linx, Ready to die, Atliens, etc...........just accept illmatic for what it is......HIP HOP PERFECTION.
ok i went a little overboard, because i love all those albums i named almost as much as illmatic!!

 

[mr.africa]

It sounds really outdated compared to other albums that came out at that time like Doggystyle.

The production doesn't hold up.

production is just fine. halftime, it ain't hard to tell, memory lane,ny state of mind, one love, one time for your mind all still sound dope. represent though i'll give you(though i love it)

 

[UpAndComing]

My top 5 Hip Hop albums

Illmatic
Ready To Die
ATLiens
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
It Was Written

 

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

Illmatic is the best, with OB4CL a close second.

 

[OH SOHH TRILL]

 

[intilectual recipricol]

illmatic aint fukkin with no album mentioned in this thread and i aint no fan of a lot of them shyts mentioned...

 

[Killalex]

Illmatic, RD, Ready to die and ATLiens brehs

Amazing albums, will still listen to them when i'm 50 and

 

[Billy Ocean]

Illmatic is generally looked upon as the greatest hip hop album of all time, and I don't argue with anybody who thinks it is, but I personally believe hip hop reached it's zenith with this album:

 

[vaudevillevillain]

Life After Death is better than Illmatic

 

[malbaker86]

Ready to Die is ridiculously overrated. Album sounded outdated by the time Life After Death came out lyrically & production wise.

Illmatic

 

[L. Deezy]

he beat that with IWW tho...