Album Rating: 3.0

If this 15x platinum album is commercial, then so are all those underground 90s albums?



My guess is you’re trying to say that Kendrick is not any different than someone like Tupac.



It’s true that Kendrick and Tupac are similar people. But Tupac’s music was created with a lot less input from focus groups, surveys, marketers, promoters, advertisers, managers, producers, other musicians, etc. Death Row was notorious for being a bunch of thugs pretending to be businessmen. The same is true of most 90s artists: they were just broke dudes making music. They may have eventually signed with major record labels, but the creative control they lost was usually minimal.



That’s not remotely comparable to the megastars of today. Drake and Kendrick are practically bigger than every 90s rapper combined - and they got there with a billion dollar corporate marketing scheme, not primarily off their skills.



Kids tend to just want to listen to fun music and they don’t give a shit how it’s made. Older people get bitter that the art they used to love is tarnished for less serious purposes.

Album Rating: 5.0

shut up goober

Album Rating: 5.0

"Death Row was notorious for being a bunch of thugs pretending to be businessmen."

they were as much thugs as they were businessmen



"they got there with a billion dollar corporate marketing scheme, not primarily off their skills."

wouldn't disagree with Drake, but saying Kendrick is where he is today because of corporations and not because he's talented and genuine is at best goofy

"This is the best Hip Hop album of all time"

lol

Album Rating: 3.5

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Album Rating: 5.0

I think it easily is.

Illmatic comes close

Album Rating: 3.5

how robust is your hip hop pallet?

listen to n.o.d. if you haven't

Album Rating: 5.0

"how robust is your hip hop pallet?"

it's certainly not my top genre or anything, but I've tried to explore a lot of the classics as well as modern stuff. I think it's hilarious that people can say with a straight face that Ready to Die is the best hip hop album, it's so...decent. Liquid Swords is good. Madvillainy might be my 3rd favorite in the genre.

Album Rating: 5.0

obvi Wu Tang and Tribe are awesome

ready to die is great tho

Album Rating: 5.0

if it came out today sputnik would give it a 3.6 max

Album Rating: 3.5

dumb hypo if you ignore all the context of what made that album great since it came out

"if it came out today sputnik would give it a 3.6 max"

thats still fuckin good tho lmao

rtd sharts on this dude

Album Rating: 3.5

well then if you've only heard a few albums from the 90s then it would makes sense that this is your overwhelmingly fav

Album Rating: 5.0

it's been a while but isn't that the album where we get a whole skit of listening to biggie getting sucked off? yeah i mean that's like totally amazing but hip hop surely has better offerings than that



but also there's this fallacy that 90s hip hop is king no matter what and nothing from this era could ever possibly be better. booooo. fuck that noise

Album Rating: 2.5

There's quite a few hip-hop albums released in 00s that outlclass this with ease too tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

and honestly a lot of people consider this (or GKMC) to be the best of the 2000s so calling it best of all time isn't a huge stretch. obviously this is subjective so probably a futile argument altogether

Album Rating: 3.5

it's not futile when you have an argument and not merely using the fact that many people think that it's classic