Will jay-z ever top Illmatic in his life ?

[BrothaZay]

Most rappers will never make an album as good as Ready to Die, Doggystyle, or Illmatic. Those are classics in the purest form. GKMC is up there with those albums imo.

no

 

[L. Deezy]

nope.. and its gotta kill Jay that nobody how much success he had, he'll never make a more celebrated album than Nas

 

[Pop123]

RD>>>>>>>illmatic

wish i could do this to you

 

[Ineedmoney504]

The only thing Jay Z can fight Nas with at this point is who can stay relevant the longest. He's doing everything he can too. Nas on the other hand has been able to stand on his own over the long haul. He didn't need a fancy record label and chain, he didn't need to piggy back off other artists and jump on their records and he didn't need to marry a super star artists and always put her on his songs or jump on her songs. Nas has set a standard so high for quality lyrics that he's only battling himself in that regard.

nas was on damn near every ymcmb album in 2012, married a bum bytch who was a star at the time

fukk outta here

 

[How Sway?]

wish i could do this to you

reasonable doubt >illmatic

 

[atlbound]

I shouldve known that c00n Daffy would be a nas stan, im heated right now watching Looney Toons like

 

[The Ruler 09]

Reasonable Doubt is arguable, not sure about any of the others being comparable though.

 

[KeysT]

Most rappers will never make an album as good as Ready to Die, Doggystyle, or Illmatic. Those are classics in the purest form. GKMC is up there with those albums imo.

Reasonable Doubt?

 

[L. Deezy]

I shouldve known that c00n Daffy would be a nas stan, im heated right now watching Looney Toons like

lmaoooooooooooo

 

[mobbinfms]

his catalog is so boring

jay has neve been good so no, he can't even tp hip hop is dead

Jay's catalog is boring...compared to Illmatic?!

There is no Hip-Hop album on planet Earth more boring than Illmatic, whether you nerds want to admit it or not.

Every single one of Jay's albums is better than Illmatic.

A lot of dumb shyt said in this thread - on both sides.

 

[BuyandSave]

Oh boy, here come these pretentious Nas loving fakkits to neg me

 

[MINT]

reasonable doubt is classic because jay-z said so

 

[JMurder]

what does it matter if he has the better catalog though