power_wisdom;c-9880823 said:bck145;c-9879481 said:power_wisdom;c-9878763 said:What makes God Son a classic? It bangs from all the way through. It took us on a journey of what he was going through after the battle with Jay and the passing of his mother. He had bangers like Made you look, Masterminds and Revolutionary Warfare. Classic stories like Get Down, Last Real Nigga Alive. Inspirational songs like I can, Thugz Mansion, Heaven and Warriors Song. It was a complete album. The production was great and of course it was lyrically tight. I can't see how people say TBA was classic. and this wasn't.. God Son shits all on that album.
bck145;c-9878498 said:power_wisdom;c-9878128 said:bck145;c-9877988 said:power_wisdom;c-9877938 said:Lefty_;c-9877844 said:power_wisdom;c-9877726 said:Lefty_;c-9876142 said:genocidecutter;c-9876008 said:Tupac. After going and discovering more hiphop he just doesn't stack up. Also after discovering Necro Eminem just comes off as corny.
If a nigga don't have pac in his top 10 ain't bein honest with himself. If we basin it on classic albums, and influence Pac is in the top 5 convo everytime, he's top 10 solid though.
How do influence make you the best rapper? Lil Wayne got niggas dressing like weirdos and Young Thug got niggas dressing like girls. Migos got everyone sounding like them. Are they the best rappers? And Wayne got a classic. Influence just mean you're a leader and niggas are dick riders. Has very little to do with being the best. Niggas wasn't sounding and looking like Pac till he was dead too.
Pacs influence is deeper than that. Either you young, or you got your head in the sand. Been dead 20 years, and died before 26. He had the world in his hand. You talkin about dreads, double time rap, i'm talkin niggas actually hittin the liquor store and grieving like they lost a close cousin when pac died. It's levels to this.
Pac got classic songs, classic albums, classic movie roles, classic hip hop events, classic rants, classic quotes(behind the mic and in front of an interviewer), classic everything, he even got classic jail letters B. Eminem is the biggest hip hop artist to live, and he still hasn't sold more, or has more of a following than pac has, and this nigga been dead for 2 decades. Pacs verses still stick today because he kept it real.
My nigga I won't lie, i'm not even a pac fan, everything ain't for everybody, but bruh... recognize the greatness. That dude was from another planet. That energy still hasn't been matched.
It's a difference between greatness and being the best. No one said he was the best when he was living. Facts. He was an icon. He made great music. He was exciting. I'm not taking that from him. But he wasn't the best at rapping. " You're nobody till somebody kills you. " Big said that. I like Pac too. But I'm not going to act like he was the best out in the 90s. Hip-Hop still went on strong after he died. He wasn't Jay-z top 3. And that's from an artist perspective. But my point was and still is influence doesn't make you a better mc. It just mean you touch more people. Whether by marketing and promotion, your antiques or your actual music. Iverson influenced the whole culture of basketball players under him. But he was never the best. Same thing applies here.
All eyez on me was the most anticipated album of my life time and delivered...he was by far the biggest thing in hip hop after doggystyle and chronic dies down
He has more classic albums in a row than big, Jay-Z and nas have in their entire catalog
And you are overlooking the Score that came out that same year. And Lauryn Hill album. Nas It was written was highly anticipated aswell as Biggie second album and Wu-tang forever. The Chronic 2001 was just as anticipated if not more. Nas had 3 classic in a row too. Stillmatic, Lost Tapes, God son.
None of those were close to the buzz all eyez on me had....the only thing that came close was grodt
I don't count lost tapes but gods son is not a classic
How you know? You measured it with your buzz meter? You don't to count Lost Tapes. It had a bar code and it wasn't a mix tape. People been waiting on DR Dre album for years at that point how wasn't it more anticipated than AEOM? Pac had only been out of Prison a month of two. And People was fiending for L Booggie album. You bugging.
Yeah...you know ppl eagerly waiting for an album...ive never seen ppl that hyped for an album before or since....pac was coming off of the greatest rap album ever made and just signed to death row
Chronic 2001 was anticipated but after the first aftermath album not as much as it could of been
Lost tapes is a thrown together project...similar to r u still down....i don't count that as part of pac's classics
Me against the World was not the Greatest Rap album ever. Who you think you are the official Hip-Hop Critic?
Nope....but you ain't either....plus it's hard to argue against it....no hip hop album is as complete