Word...Life is one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever made. It's my top 10. It has everything - message and lyrics are timeless, production is smooth, jazzy and multi-layered, perfectly matched to O.C. not so-agressive delivery. Listened to this album yesterday and I love it just as much as 20...
I always liked this single. Despite some commercial appeal, Nas spits fire. The rest of the album is even greater. One of his best in entire catalogue.
That's not the stretch. Big had only 2 albums - you guys don't remember, but Life After Death has been widely recognized as disappointment when it first came out. To Pimp a Butterfly is already heralded one of the best albums released this year and it's status is still rising. Kendrick...
Great thread. Both albums are indisputable classics, but It Takes a Nation completely chaanged the course of hip-hop into social-political movement. Plus the album is simply better - beats are sparser, more tense and chaotic (Bomb Squad yo) , wordplay is more complex and clever and Chuck D's...
Quit hating on bro. Janet acts like selfish bitch. Talking about song being too nasty when she made album (Damita Jo) dedicated to her nastiness. Her career is dead anyway.
Most of people hate it, because they disliked characters which is stupid, since movie is satire both on whites and blacks and relations between them. I liked it very much. It reminded me of School Daze, which of course was better and dealt with different type of racism. Actually I liked presence...