No one has started a top 10 topic for fuck knows how long so I searched for the closest thing lol.
I highly doubt the dude is actually as "old" and "experienced" in Hip Hop as he says he is. He gradually got better but when he first started posting here what he typed was vaguely reminiscent of the English language. All of his 'facts' seems like they're copy-pasted straight from Youtube comments.
1st point, being that it probably sold the most worldwide, which coincides with his belief of sales=greatness.
I get why he said it, but it's just blatantly retarded. It's like he convinces himself to like something because the general public used to love it yet is still stuck on the "Hip Hop is dead" shit. He's failure to evolve, he's corny. Love Below was a good album for what it was but the thing is I highly doubt he even listened to it, and if he did listen to OutKast's discography he probably treated it like ambiance and doesn't even stop to realize what makes the group great in the first place. Ever notice how he never says anything about flow, multis, beats, or any actual aspect of an artist other than sales and how the public views them?
2nd point-he was a point somewhat and if he clarified it, it might be legitimate. Basically he's saying that along the road MOST people (you know 30 years from now) will only remember guys like Pac, Eminem, Jay z, Bigge etc. Hell even Nas might be hardpressed to be remembered.
I could give a fuck if Nas or Copywrite are remembered as long as they keep putting out quality music. That's what makes them great in my eyes. Drake is going to have a bigger impact on this earth than Atmosphere ever will, but I'm not going to say he's "greater" than them.
I guess it means how you define "great", but the way he played it off is that someone can't pick an artist over a "Greater" one because they haven't made an impact in the mainstream, because "even greats like Nas have sales".
How long did it take for Illmatic to go platinum? Yeah.
7th point- Don't agree with this at all, but some classic classic albums are only considered that because of the general consensus surronding them (illmatic, R2D,OB4CL, Liquid Swords, etc.), where other classics have too much of a varying opinion to be considered a classic classic (stillmatic, hell on earth, Doe or Die, IWW)
Em1973 says "I don't even like Michael Jackson, but I recognize that he's still my favorite pop artist". How does that make
ANY SENSE?. He's a steering wheel that has the industry's cock wrapped around it while it fucks him into whatever direction that he crashes into.