Why hasn't Rap had a Classic album in the last 10 years?

[mobbinfms]

This era's only classic

Spoiler

What is the connection between these two songs? :pdahellclean:

 

[mobbinfms]

Ghostface Killah 12 reasons to Die. Ghostface can easily be argued as the greatest rapper of all time, better than Hov, Nas and even Pac.

I like that album, but what do you think makes it a classic?

 

[mobbinfms]

Modern classics aren’t for old nikkas to decide

What is the cut off?

 

[panopticon]

 

[panopticon]

What is the connection between these two songs? :pdahellclean:

That shyt FLAMES breh

for puttin me on the shyt, never heard it before

Mobb got all kinda hidden gems

 

[panopticon]

I remember when I came across this shyt a few years back...



Shyt is so smooth brehs

That lo-fi takin u back to the essence

Nas singin a hook

And he wasn't fukkin around either...life really is like a dice game brehs

Queensbridge hip-hop...timeless shyt

 

[Metal Face]

What is the connection between these two songs? :pdahellclean:

Clams Casino's biggest influence is Mobb Deep and...
The sound at 0:17 on "Bass" reminds me of the beginning sound on "The Money".

 

[NoHalfWay]

1999 a classic mixtape from this gen

How Sway?

It’s a dope mixtape but I’d pick Rich Forever as a classic before it.

And that MIGHT also be a stretch

 

[DANJ!]

Modern classics aren’t for old nikkas to decide

Kinda true here...

I know we don't acknowledge thisoften, but there's definitely a generation of hip-hop that had checked out on this shyt during the mid/late-90s and 2000s. They had no bearing on any of the shyt we call classic. You always got your older heads who stayed close to hip-hop thru all the eras but that wasnt everybody. Most of the Kurtis Blow/Melle Mel era ain't really give no fukks about Jay or Dipset or G-Unit whomever. But it's also not them that deemed that shyt classic either. It's the MFs that grew up with it, listened to it, partied to it, whatever. We're the ones who cared the most about that era.

 

[ISO]

What is the cut off?

I don't know prob late 20's

 

[qnsfinest]

9 pages in and not one mention of Life is Good



This is why I try my hardest to stay out the booth. People throwing around the word classic to just throw it around. People saying future and migos lol. Its hard to go through my mental rolodex but there have been maybe 5-10 classics in my opinion.

Good kid madd city
My beautiful twisted dark fantasy
Piñata
Life is Good
Tetso and youth
Forest hills drive

Man on the moon 2- personal classic to me
Albert Einstein- personal classic to me
Channel orange- another classic of mine

 

[mobbinfms]

I don't know prob late 20's

Good thing I’m 21 tomorrow

 

[the cac mamba]

you know what i forgot. anyone post this?

 

[NoHalfWay]

Dirty Sprite 2 has had an undeniable impact on rap that is still felt. I'm not a big Future fan so I'd let someone else explain, but this is definitely an album where there its importance was pretty clear right away.

I feel where you are coming from, but using this argument can’t one also argue that Chief Keef has a classic rap album with Finally Rich?

Here’s a teenager that spearheaded his way into the mainstream and became the face of an entire sub-genre of rap, drill music, that took the game by storm. He broadcasted the environment of Chicago in a pretty unique (and counterproductive ) way, dropped singles from it (I Don’t Like and Love Sosa) that became anthems not only in Chicago but pretty much the whole U.S. for a good minute.

Kanye felt so compelled by his shyt that he felt he needed to ride the wave, these lil nikkas like Lil Pump and 69 or whatever are pretty much the offspring of Keef. 2012-2013 Keef is easily one of the most impactful and influential artists this decade.

Y’all willing to accept Keef having a classic album under this criteria?

And in turn, wouldn’t this make Waka’s Flockaveli a classic album as well?

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

Good Kid Maad city is a classic bruh.