It depends on what you like in hiphop. You may never like it, but to most it's tight.
You have to remember the time period. Listen to Trap-or-Die mixtape first. If you don't like anything about it, you won' like 101.
Thug Motivation 101 is a CLASSIC album
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It depends on what you like in hiphop. You may never like it, but to most it's tight.
You have to remember the time period. Listen to Trap-or-Die mixtape first. If you don't like anything about it, you won' like 101.
Coke rap was cool in the mid late 90's....By 2005 selling drugs was an over cliche. 101 to me represented stagnation in growth because it was a hyped album in the hip hop community but it was an album filled with things we all heard before.....I just couldnt get what the hype was over this album which didnt break any new ground.
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
the album is definitely a classic....fukk any lame or cac that says otherwise......if you need someone to break this down as to why it is a classic.....get the fukk out the thread!...........
the acceptance of mediocre rap is why mediocre rap is dominant in Hip Hop mainstream today......101 was one of those albums where mediocre rap was given a pass. I dont accept the word classic being alligned with mediocrity
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
shut the fukk up lame..........
you cant truly appreciate this album to its fullest unless you got a car with a system
Did that when it came out....still dont get it. Games Documentary dropped the same year and that was booming system approved even tho the lyrics were mediocre as well. Like I said, the album sounds like No Limit 1997.......The beats on 101 sound like late 90's Beats By The Pound.
livindajetlife
Superstar
damn nikka we get it u ain't like it.. fukk u keep talkin bout something u dont like???But anyways this is definitely a classic just as much as reasonable doubt or illmatic is... Tape cool front to back
Because I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone when anyone puts the word "classic" next to the album 101.....I dont understand how mediocre lyrics and ok beats could be considered a classic.
"Grind" as in "go out and sell drugs"?? LMAO......selling drugs is not a good thing. As a Blackman who looks down on those who celebrate the destruction of the urban community......I dont co sign anything that will fuel drug dealing. If you are refering to a legal "grind" then....There are numerous 80's metal songs that srve as audio red bull
"Come On Baby" remix produced by Just Blaze. Jay Z blessed Saigon.
That 'growing up hard in the hood' shyt played out in the 90's. I dont see any innovation behind something so cliche.
I'll give u that one..
And finally, Jeezy blessed us with one of the GOAT rap singles ...
"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.
The title "best" has to be awarded to the one with the most substance......I have seen no growth from Jeezy content wise from 101 to 103.......Kanye, Nas, Canibus.....all of these rappers have displayed growth thru the years......Cant say so much for Jeezy.
SHAQAVELLI
We Are Penn State
@smokeurobinson
I never sold drugs in my life and if you listen to songs like "Let's Get It/Sky's the Limit" or any motivational song by Jeezy and hear nothing but drugs, you're doing it wrong. Jeezy is honestly the most motivational rapper in a while. And fukk I look like listening to 80s metal
"Come On Baby" remix is right. But what did it do for Saigon? "Go Crazy" truly furthered Jeezy's success and kinda put on Don Cannon as a producer.
Maybe you think the "growing up hard in the hood" phased out in the 90s, but at the time Jeezy came out, he was crafting a new lane. It goes without saying, he birthed this second generation of trap rap. But D4L and Dem Franchize Boyz were basically holding down southern radio at the time of 101.
Jeezy's music and content have ABSOLUTELY progressed over time.
I never sold drugs in my life and if you listen to songs like "Let's Get It/Sky's the Limit" or any motivational song by Jeezy and hear nothing but drugs, you're doing it wrong. Jeezy is honestly the most motivational rapper in a while. And fukk I look like listening to 80s metal
"Come On Baby" remix is right. But what did it do for Saigon? "Go Crazy" truly furthered Jeezy's success and kinda put on Don Cannon as a producer.
Maybe you think the "growing up hard in the hood" phased out in the 90s, but at the time Jeezy came out, he was crafting a new lane. It goes without saying, he birthed this second generation of trap rap. But D4L and Dem Franchize Boyz were basically holding down southern radio at the time of 101.
Not even going to address this one
Jeezy's music and content have ABSOLUTELY progressed over time.
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It would be hard for anybody to dispute it as one of the most quotable albums of all time,definitly in the past 10 yrs no question
....this is my argument when nikkas wuz speakin on Ross vs Jeezy....Ross got lyrics but Jeezy got lyrics too and tm101 or trap or die by theyself got more quotables than Ross over his entire discography....and not just Ross but probaly your favorite rapper,and he still continues to outshine nikkas favorite rappers on songs due his quotability,yeah its a word nikka
....lowkey Jeezy ripped that album lyrically,just that slow azz rhymestyle flow ANYBODY could pull off made it seem less amazing.....he really hasn't improved much lyrically at all,just switched the flow up so people could appreciate what he wuz already bringing to the table on 101....the wordplay wuz killin then and he killin now
Ronnie Lott
#49erGang
If u don't like the album then, u simply don't like the album
TM101 has always been a classic to me. I have not heard too many people who have said tht it wasn't a classic. If u don't like it, there should be no reason for people to try to explain to u why it was so great 
SuburbanPimp
Giving game to lames since the 90s
Undisputed Classic in my opinion. Even the songs I didn't listen to much when it first dropped are good. It's hard to explain to people who weren't around or listening to it when it dropped. I can't think of an album that has been more appropriately titled either.
This nikka had my whole neighborhood movitated
It was probably the last time I remember EVERYBODY in the city bumping the same album when you see them riding around.
And even to this day when I throw that intro on I'm like
This nikka had my whole neighborhood movitated
It was probably the last time I remember EVERYBODY in the city bumping the same album when you see them riding around.
And even to this day when I throw that intro on I'm like
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A song here and there is fine,I don't look to every rapper for content....its not what every rapper does and if you can't do it great stay in your lane,just like I don't want every rapper tryna make records Jeezy make,stop actin like every rapper with substance is that great at it....Killer Mike is great at it,Saigon is ehhhh and Kanye
....Nas is doing what Nas does and has been guilty of pandering to that "we want substance" crowd to the detriment of making music he actually cared about up until LIG....damn a grotwth,everybody u named has regressed quality wise from where they started and I've been a big fan of each outside of Canibus....but there wuz a point I wuz a big fan of both....It took Nas one album to start to fall off(illmatic not first nas album I heard)...And took Kanye I think just one album before I wuz through.....Jeezy never had that problem....about 10 yrs of consistent greatness,just dropped a classic mixtape and as a emcee he on point as he ever been on all fronts....his features this past approx year and a half