Rolling Stone Names Its 20 Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2013

[VINTAGƎ]

Eh, it was amusing while it lasted.
@Vintage agree 100%.

[Just Silver]

Not exactly sure what's trying to be dissected but Vin had a nice post

[VINTAGƎ]

Not exactly sure what's trying to be dissected but Vin had a nice post

Thanks. My overall point is that the reason "stans" on here can sometimes go overboard when criticizing Ye and Jay is because they bring it upon themselves. If they stopped telling us how awesome they are, and if their fans stopped believing every album cycle is a musical watershed moment, then we wouldn't dog them as hard. Most of us are tired of hearing how next level these guys are -- especially since the bulk of it is coming from the fucking artists themselves.

People don't get up in arms when Nas gets high marks for albums like Distant Relatives or Life Is Good or whatever. He drops his shit, people like it or don't, and move on. And it's not because he's not as big commercially and therefore not a threat to Eminem. I'm sure most here would very much like to see Nas become a bigger player commercially. It's because he's down to Earth. He's not trying to sell you anything other than an album. He's not out here proclaiming he's a supreme being and his genius cannot be disputed. Jay and Kanye open themselves up to harsher criticisms because they promote their albums as something more than a fucking album.

When the one man who can claim such a distinction, the one man who actually has dropped an album that can be considered an event, doesn't.

[kkaniff]

@Vintage
Pretty much.
Em has the hip-hop album with the most cultural impact and the most sales, yet the MMLP isn't given as much praise as MBDTF.
It's even considered over-rated in some areas(AbsolutePunk).
Is MMLP considered and I quote "the greatest album of the century"?
Fuck no.
Is it bigger and better(subjective, obviously) than MBDTF?
Fuck yes.
Then y'all try to tell me 'Ye isn't critic's golden child. Get the entire fuck outta here.

[yoda you can call me]

This list and many other hiphop lists, clearly don't value the art of emceeing anymore, don't care what they think of MMLP2, but it just seems that lyricism has been forgotten when it comes to rating hiphop lately.
No wonder people think hiphop is dead now, when these weak lyricists are being touted as the games best it has to offer.

[Raul]

[classthe_king]

o wow

[yoda you can call me]

^Yep, piss poor list, i agree

[dead prez]

Like what are the point of these lists, we already know which albums are gonna make it's just a matter of what order it's gonna be in.... :/

[__EWF]

Yeezus deserves all the praise it's getting, and I'm not even much of a Kanye fan. People here need to stop being so bitter. If Em is as great as you all make out, then these lists, Kanye and Jay, shouldn't matter.

[kkaniff]

"If Em is as great as
you all make out, then these lists,
Kanye and Jay, shouldn't matter."
Sooo, if Em is as great as we say, then official lists/rankings claiming that he's not that great shouldn't matter?
Riight.

[OutlawƎ]

#2 & #1 are a joke

[yoda you can call me]

The whole list is a joke tbh. The people involved have no business judging hiphop

[S.T.A.N.]

You ain't got the answers TR

[TranSlucEnt]

Although I am not surprised to see those two faggots at the top, I'm happy that Danny Brown took 3rd. The fact that he's placed that high is satisfying. OLD was FIRE!