Best HipHop song of all time

[classthe_king]

For some reason him picking Madvillainy made me think my era was 2003-2013

[Accor]

class leaving out 1 of my favs

[classthe_king]

American Gangster

[Troll]

Well I'll start with your two

Madvillainy, good kid mad city, section 80, by the throat, food & liquor, the cool, when life gives you lemons, you can't imagine how much fun we're having, strictly leakage, flowers for my father & the balancing act, college dropout, late registration, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, drawn with an eraser, below the heavens, the undisputed truth, us, together/apart, 88 keys & counting, running on air, friday night lights, the warm up, XXX, how I got over, undun, game theory, rising down, beauty & the beat, run the jewels, donuts, oneirology, a piece of strange, MOTM, a healthy distrust, human the death dance… the list goes on

You really compare these album to classics like Illmatic, Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, All Eyes On Me, Enter the 36 Chambers, Aquemini, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Chronic, Doggystyle, The Slim Shady LP, ATLienz,Me Against the World, Life After Death, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Straight Outta Compton, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, The Diary, Supreme Clientele, Capital Punishment, Follow the Leader, Paid in Full, Stankonia, The Blueprint, Get Rich or Die Tryin, The Black Album, the Eminem Show, Liquid Swords?

[Accor]

American Gangster

[classthe_king]

Well I'll start with your two

Madvillainy, good kid mad city, section 80, by the throat, food & liquor, the cool, when life gives you lemons, you can't imagine how much fun we're having, strictly leakage, flowers for my father & the balancing act, college dropout, late registration, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, drawn with an eraser, below the heavens, the undisputed truth, us, together/apart, 88 keys & counting, running on air, friday night lights, the warm up, XXX, how I got over, undun, game theory, rising down, beauty & the beat, run the jewels, donuts, oneirology, a piece of strange, MOTM, a healthy distrust, human the death dance… the list goes on

You really compare these album to classics like Illmatic, Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, All Eyes On Me, Enter the 36 Chambers, Aquemini, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Chronic, Doggystyle, The Slim Shady LP, ATLienz,Me Against the World, Life After Death, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Straight Outta Compton, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, The Diary, Supreme Clientele, Capital Punishment, Follow the Leader, Paid in Full, Stankonia, The Blueprint, Get Rich or Die Tryin, The Black Album, the Eminem Show, Liquid Swords?

Yes?

[classthe_king]

Well you're picking out of 15 years of albums while I only get 8 years to pick mine so of course you're going to have more. My point is that just as much good music has come out per year in the last 8 years than any other time period. A lot of the albums you listed I don't even think are good and most of them are overrated simply because of the fact that they're older.

And you not bolding an album because you don't like it literally means nothing to me. I could do the same with your lists.

[King Lance]

thing is, the classics of our era are way more appreciated by the new generation of listeners and the classic albums of the 90's are way more appreciated by the og

it’s quite natural that new hiphop listeners might enjoy recent "classics" more than these old albums that they call dust. For better or worse, Hip hop isn't the exact same culture as it was 15 years ago and the music isn't the same either. albums like GRODT aren't considered as classic albums by the OG but it's way more praised than illmatic by the new generation

[classthe_king]

I'm not sure about 8 years but my favorite 10 years would definitely be 2003-2012 even tho 2011 is kinda weak

[King Lance]

I remember that Kanye & kendrick were embarassed when niggas were comparing their albums to illmatic and they said something like " Illmatic is for the 90's, our albums are for the 2010-2019"
the culture is different, hip hop is different & new fans don't have the same tastes.

there was a "Illmatic vs Old" thread yesterday on ktt and they were like: "yeah ok.. illmatic had the biggest impact but what makes illmatic better than Danny Brown - XXX ? what makes the music on illmatic better than the music on xxx?"

Ask a teenager who is better between Snoop Dogg and Drake... I'm pretty sure he'll say that Take Care > Doggystyle

thing is, the classics of our era are way more appreciated by the new generation of listeners and the classic albums of the 90's are way more appreciated by the og

it’s quite natural that new hiphop listeners might enjoy recent "classics" more than these old albums that they call dust. For better or worse, Hip hop isn't the exact same culture as it was 15 years ago and the music isn't the same either.

if an album like ready to die was released today, I'd call it mediocre at best but I still consider it as a classic because it influenced a lot of east coast rappers. Tupac albums are some of my favorite albums of all time but most of them contain a lot of fillers

All Eyez On Me was a double album, so it was bound to have some filler.... but rap albums tend to be longer when you go that far back.... Ready to Die - 17 tracks, Doggystyle - 19 tracks, The Chronic - 16 tracks, Cuban Linx - 18 tracks, etc..

Compared to Be, GKMC, and MBDTF... which are 11, 12, and 13

except that albums like mbdtf or gkmc are longer than a lot of albums released in the 90's... some songs are 2 songs in one

[classthe_king]

The GOAT DMX song was 03 tho

[classthe_king]

ummmmm X Gon Give It To Ya?

[King Lance]

[King Lance]

90's boiiiii

In terms of quality, I love the 90's as much as the 2000s & 2010's but yeah, we had way more classic shit back in the days. (quantity)

[King Lance]