Album of the day "2001" Dr. Dre

[the best 1]

Overrated ass album if you ask me....

only dope songs are "Fuck You", "House Wife", "Some LA niggas", "Still Dre" and "Xxpolsive"...

The album is a solid 3 out of 5.

C/S...............

 

[TheGOAT]

Bump

Released 16yrs ago 2day

 

[5 Grand]

2001 > The Chronic....

Hell Naw!!!!

2001 is wack compared to The Chronic.

Real talk... 2001 ain't even better than "Doggystyle".

I remember when 2001 first came out... First the single "Still Dre" came out and everybody was bangin that shit and waiting on the CD to drop. So then 2001 comes out and from what I remember most of the cats I knew said it was "Alright" or "They didn't really like it".

The one song everybody liked was "Still Dre"... but by the time the CD came out that song kinda was played-out... so after listening to the CD most niggas were like "This shit aint all that". It was like we were expecting that same "Magic/Dopeness" that "The Chronic" had and 2001 just didn't have it.

IMHO there's not one song on 2001 that's fucking with "Nuthin' But A G Thang ", "Dre Day", "Let me Ride", "Stranded on Death Row" or "Bitches aint shit"... It's like the songs on 2001 had to grow on you... after hearing "Forgot about Dre" 200 times a day on the radio and seeing the video every 30 minutes on Mtv... you started to kinda like the song and think it was "ok" but it still wasn't "The Shit".

But the songs on "The Chronic" were the shit after the first time you heard them... you didn't have listen to "Let Me Ride" 100 times to finally say "I kinda like that song". lol

2001 is a classic album I just don't think it was all that dope.. and compared to "The Chronic" or "Doggystyle" is was like 2001 was kinda wack... that just shows you how dope "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle" were when they came out.

I think it's a generational gap thing also... older cats like myself who came up on "The Chronic" seem to be the ones who think 2001 is overrated were as that next generation that came up on 2001 say it's better than "The Chronic".

But it still is considered a classic album just like "The Chronic" so Dre still won.....

The difference is there was a lull on the East coast when The Chronic came out. New York had A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Black Sheep, Brand Nubian, Onyx and Naughty By Nature but none of those groups were really moving units, not platinum anyway. The door was wide open and Dre had a new sound. Dre's style was clearly more polished and had an altogether different vibe. Even his music videos had a different look.

When 2001 came out you had Jay Z, DMX, Nas, Black Rob, Blackstarr, The Roots, Common, No Limit, Cash Money. 2001 was just another album in a year where there was at least a dozen albums that were 4 mics or better.

There might have even been a few 5 mic classics in 1999, I'd have to go back and check.

Having said that, the beat to XXXplosive is GOAT.

Also, a lot of people don't know but Lord Finesse produced the last song on 2001, The Message.

 

[Tsotsi Cape Town]

Are we forgetting what state the West was in, in '99? Shit was looking bleak to say the least....

Then this dropped and it was a wrap up til' The Documentary

 

[natural born sinners]

Great album, truly amazing. I was in a bar about a year ago and they played the whole album. Genius from start to finish, he had amazing features, but he held it down by himself on The Watcher:

[video=youtube;aNLpeF9iDVI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNLpeF9iDVI[/video]

This album had some of jay-z's best work

 

[natural born sinners]

2001 > The Chronic....

Hell Naw!!!!

2001 is wack compared to The Chronic.

Real talk... 2001 ain't even better than "Doggystyle".

I remember when 2001 first came out... First the single "Still Dre" came out and everybody was bangin that shit and waiting on the CD to drop. So then 2001 comes out and from what I remember most of the cats I knew said it was "Alright" or "They didn't really like it".

The one song everybody liked was "Still Dre"... but by the time the CD came out that song kinda was played-out... so after listening to the CD most niggas were like "This shit aint all that". It was like we were expecting that same "Magic/Dopeness" that "The Chronic" had and 2001 just didn't have it.

IMHO there's not one song on 2001 that's fucking with "Nuthin' But A G Thang ", "Dre Day", "Let me Ride", "Stranded on Death Row" or "Bitches aint shit"... It's like the songs on 2001 had to grow on you... after hearing "Forgot about Dre" 200 times a day on the radio and seeing the video every 30 minutes on Mtv... you started to kinda like the song and think it was "ok" but it still wasn't "The Shit".

But the songs on "The Chronic" were the shit after the first time you heard them... you didn't have listen to "Let Me Ride" 100 times to finally say "I kinda like that song". lol

2001 is a classic album I just don't think it was all that dope.. and compared to "The Chronic" or "Doggystyle" is was like 2001 was kinda wack... that just shows you how dope "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle" were when they came out.

I think it's a generational gap thing also... older cats like myself who came up on "The Chronic" seem to be the ones who think 2001 is overrated were as that next generation that came up on 2001 say it's better than "The Chronic".

But it still is considered a classic album just like "The Chronic" so Dre still won.....

I can see your point, first time I heard 2001 my cousin played it for me n I was like "cool" now put that Biggie "born again" shit on n pump that "notorious" track lol...album def had to grow on me. But yea it's a classic, chronic had "better" singles as far as classic joints go

 

[natural born sinners]

Funny story, I remember this girl I was messing with told me she bought me the instrumental CD cause she used to hear me n my boys freestyling or whatever. Long story short I stopped messing w her b4 I got it, then had my boy over one day n this nigga like "yo I got that new chronic instrumentals" lol. N that's how I found out bout that lol, nigga was fronting hard

 

[emaculate]

I was thinking bout this album earlier today...

Xxxplosive