Thug Motivation 101 is a CLASSIC album

[SHAQAVELLI]

Yes, we, as a hip hop community, overuse the term "classic." But there is no denying that if there's anything that's come out in recent years being worthy of billed "classic", TM101 fits the bill as well as anything.

I dare you to find a song that makes you wanna get on your grind more than ...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBI2MoKzwjY[/ame]



I dare you to find a better verse -- in recent years -- that Jay-Z gave to (as what was, at the time) a newcomer than ...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAE5KhQQzd4[/ame]
(especially over that beautiful Don Cannon beat :wow;)

I dare you to find me an album that has opening lines as memorable and hard as: "I used to hit the kitchen lights -- cockroaches everywhere, now I hit the kitchen lights -- marble floors everywhere"
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-afrR24mqMQ[/ame]

I dare you to find a mixtape banger-turned-single that took off more in the time period than ...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CfPOqRA9E[/ame]

And finally, Jeezy blessed us with one of the GOAT rap singles ...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gczBgNB-p1w[/ame]
"A hundred grand on my wrist, yeah, life sucks
Fukk the club, dog, I'd rather count a million bucks"

The best mainstream rapper of my, and depending our your age, our, age.

 

[Charly Wingate]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHjwd1C1FzM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHjwd1C1FzM[/ame]

 

[Mandarin Duck]

I can't even lie. This was one of my favorite albums growing up but I never wanted to call it a classic out of fear of the face when I did. But now I can say it. Everything about TM 101 is a classic southern hiphop album IMO.

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHjwd1C1FzM

The most underappreciated song on the album, by far, in my opinion. Great imagery in those verses, man

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

I can't even lie. This was one of my favorite albums growing up but I never wanted to call it a classic out of fear of the face when I did. But now I can say it. Everything about TM 101 is a classic southern hiphop album IMO.

No shame in it, breh. On the opposite side, growing up, when this came out, I was one of those nerd as5 14-year-old "you ain't real hip hop if you don't listen to Planet Asia and El-P" nerds

No disrespect to dudes like Planet Asia or El-P, but I ignored the mainstream hip hop lane ... like some message board fool. But depending where you look, like Jeezy, mainstream hip hop has really held it down in certain areas

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

@Awesome Wells you, sir, can fukk right off

(can I get some goons in here to give this thread its deserving five-star #tpc )

 

[Still Benefited]

I only seen this well known fact disputed on the internet.

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Yea thats exactly what I meant. Not so much for music that was "mainstream" but nikkas gave you that face if you didnt namedrop a stereotypical album when you said it was a classic in your eyes. (Blueprint, Illmatic, Ready to Die etc).

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

Yea thats exactly what I meant. Not so much for music that was "mainstream" but nikkas gave you that face if you didnt namedrop a stereotypical album when you said it was a classic in your eyes. (Blueprint, Illmatic, Ready to Die etc).

Lol I got you, breh. When given its time to ... well, grow, with listeners, it'll be one of the few classic albums of the past few years.

All things considered: Single popularity, records sold, trend-setting, sustainability, feedback from critics, etc. All those things considered? Gotta be top three. At worst, it's top five, and at best, the No. 1 (that's what I have it at for the time being).

 

[mobbinfms]

Lyrics is weak...like clock radio speakers.

Singles was ehh.

Production didn't appeal to me.

Go Crazy was great though. That record may be classic. Not the album.

 

[Street Knowledge]

It was a solid album

 

[smokeurobinson]

album was and always will be wack to me...

My boy put me on to that 101 album back in 2005.....I didnt even know who Jeezy was......Dude was bigging up Z ro and Slim Thug at the time and Jeezy was new on the scene.....we both concluded 101 was weak.....This was before it really took off.....To me it sounded like something that should have came out in 1997 on No Limit. Months later Jeezy started to get bigger and I couldnt understand it....so I went back and listened thinking I missed something...Nope...album is weak on the 2nd spin just like the 1st.....I recently downloaded the album on my laptop....threw it on while smoking bud and concluded again that the album is garbage.....aside for a few cool songs I till this day will never understand the hype behind such a wack album.

 

[cleanface coney]

"tryna get Boston George n Diego money...n stack it all up like Lego money"

 

[smokeurobinson]

I would like for someone to please breakdown what is so special about that 101 album.....Th beats were eh!...and the lyrics mediocre.......what was it about this album that was so special?? Or was it just the street affiliation. I say it was the street affiliation that hyped that album to be what it was and not the actual contenet.

 

[SummerNights]

Most quotable rap album ever