What is the most overrated hip-hop album of all time?

Options
13

Comments

  • BillDance
    BillDance Members Posts: 1,008 ✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    Illmatic

    All eyez on me....... < Me against the world ? all over it with just 3 or 4 of its songs

    Marshall Mathers LP is overrated as well.... < Slim Shady LP
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Dickey Simpkins
    Dickey Simpkins Members Posts: 277 ✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    Have to say Illmatic....it's a great album but it gets a lot of hype mainly because it is New Yorker's bible
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • 5th Letter
    5th Letter Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 37,068 Regulator
    edited November 2010
    Options
    a.mann wrote: »
    besides selling alot units....why is this considered a classic again???

    because its eminem's best album so they declare it a classic by default.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • wordsRweapons
    wordsRweapons Members Posts: 3,217 ✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    jamacia wrote: »
    because its eminem's best album so they declare it a classic by default.

    It's not his best album, but it is still a classic
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • darkrain
    darkrain Members Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    I think people on this board are full of ? or have no taste in music.....I started to believe in old generation because they always said "New generation music, movie or whatever aren't ? and have no soul"

    Seriously, I won' take this serious anymore.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • 5th Letter
    5th Letter Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 37,068 Regulator
    edited November 2010
    Options
    wordsRweapons wrote: »
    It's not his best album, but it is still a classic

    how is it a classic? that album didn't age well and it has no replay value. that album has 2 memorable songs (stan, the way i am) that album didn't impact anything. it was good for it's time, but like i said it didn't age well.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • BlackAX410
    BlackAX410 Members Posts: 35,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    The Carter 3 by far
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • BillDance
    BillDance Members Posts: 1,008 ✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    jamacia wrote: »
    how is it a classic? that album didn't age well and it has no replay value. that album has 2 memorable songs (stan, the way i am) that album didn't impact anything. it was good for it's time, but like i said it didn't age well.

    Well what albums are classics to you?
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • genocide_cutter
    genocide_cutter Members Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    Anything by slim ?
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • 5th Letter
    5th Letter Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 37,068 Regulator
    edited November 2010
    Options
    BillDance wrote: »
    Well what albums are classics to you?

    illmatic
    ready to die
    only built 4 cuban linx
    liquid swords
    east 1999
    me against the world
    all eyes on me
    reasonable doubt
    7th day theory
    life after death
    war report
    wu tang forever
    its dark and hell is hot
    capitol punishment
    bueprint
    stillmatic
    the fix
    get rich or die trying
    college dropout
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • musicology1985
    musicology1985 Members Posts: 4,632 ✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    ptowndonte wrote: »
    Eminem's catalog is overrated all together

    ....................
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • runningwolf1980
    runningwolf1980 Members Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    im not sure how em didnt end up like canibus...."dope mc who never says ? "
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • thingsfallapart
    thingsfallapart Members Posts: 43
    edited November 2010
    Options
    This thread was on the old IC and Speakerboxxx/Love Below got a lot of votes. I agree with the threadstarter on Aquemini though.

    I'm not an OutKast hater either. I loved ATLiens and Southerplayalistic.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • thingsfallapart
    thingsfallapart Members Posts: 43
    edited November 2010
    Options
    jamacia wrote: »
    how is it a classic? that album didn't age well and it has no replay value. that album has 2 memorable songs (stan, the way i am) that album didn't impact anything. it was good for it's time, but like i said it didn't age well.

    Drug Ballad? Marshall Mathers? ? You? Kim? ? Please 2? Under the Influence?

    The ? album were you listening to, man
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • BillDance
    BillDance Members Posts: 1,008 ✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    jamacia wrote: »
    illmatic
    ready to die
    only built 4 cuban linx
    liquid swords
    east 1999
    me against the world
    all eyes on me
    reasonable doubt
    7th day theory
    life after death
    war report
    wu tang forever
    its dark and hell is hot
    capitol punishment
    bueprint
    stillmatic
    the fix
    get rich or die trying
    college dropout

    yeah jamaica..all those albums are timeless, had a big impact on hip hop and more than 2 memorable songs .LOL i dont disasgree with list entirely .. not going to break down that whole list..but ..stilllmatic is not a classic just because of "ether" and "one mic"..dont get me wrong..i like "got yourself a gun" and "you're da man" and "the flyest" but that album has a bunch of ? songs as well.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • ShadyTeam
    ShadyTeam Members Posts: 4,894 ✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    Reasonable Doubt


    Too many weak Song's like Can I Live, Ain't No, 22 Two's, Coming Of Age, Cashmere Thoughts, Devil's & Friend Or Foe


    Rest of the Song's were average except for Brooklyn's Finest which was the only outstanding Song on the Album


    Lyrically the Album wasn't anything special with the content from start to finish being so one dimensional whole Album was based on selling drugs



    Production was decent but sounds out dated compared to modern Albums that came after
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • A$AP_A$TON
    A$AP_A$TON Members Posts: 11,691 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    Reasonable Doubt and prolly alot of albums from the 80's and early 90's
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Ibex
    Ibex Members Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    ShadyTeam wrote: »
    Reasonable Doubt


    Too many weak Song's like Can I Live, Ain't No, 22 Two's, Coming Of Age, Cashmere Thoughts, Devil's & Friend Or Foe


    Rest of the Song's were average except for Brooklyn's Finest which was the only outstanding Song on the Album


    Lyrically the Album wasn't anything special with the content from start to finish being so one dimensional whole Album was based on selling drugs



    Production was decent but sounds out dated compared to modern Albums that came after

    You would be the GOAT troll if you weren't a nut job
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • goodfella2050
    goodfella2050 Members Posts: 236
    edited November 2010
    Options
    blueprint 1
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • white715
    white715 Members Posts: 7,744 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    TM 101

    Hot beats+wack lyrics does not equal a classic album
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • goodfella2050
    goodfella2050 Members Posts: 236
    edited November 2010
    Options
    i would throw stillmatic in there too i hear some people call that a classic alot of wack ? like braveheart party, flyest and everything else that wasnt rewind one mic or ether
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Pond Scum
    Pond Scum Members Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭
    edited November 2010
    Options
    Already Home_17 wrote: »
    illmatic
    all eyes on me
    the chronic
    deeper than rap
    the Carter
    it was written
    the miseducation of Lauren Hill

    I wouldn't say overrated,but just albums I couldnt get into

    dude - you don't like hip-hop.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • thingsfallapart
    thingsfallapart Members Posts: 43
    edited November 2010
    Options
    ShadyTeam wrote: »
    Reasonable Doubt


    Too many weak Song's like Can I Live, Ain't No, 22 Two's, Coming Of Age, Cashmere Thoughts, Devil's & Friend Or Foe


    Rest of the Song's were average except for Brooklyn's Finest which was the only outstanding Song on the Album


    Lyrically the Album wasn't anything special with the content from start to finish being so one dimensional whole Album was based on selling drugs



    Production was decent but sounds out dated compared to modern Albums that came after


    The ? ? The only one of those songs you named thats actually weak is Cashmere Thoughts.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • thingsfallapart
    thingsfallapart Members Posts: 43
    edited November 2010
    Options
    tompetrez3 wrote: »
    Blueprint wasnt all that either. Too many half assed filler tracks like Takeover, Heart Of City, and Lyrical Excerize. Only bangers on the album was That ? Jigga and Hola Hovito. ? got slaughtered on his own album by Eminem. Blueprint aint no ? classic


    Classic case of an argument being DQ'd by an avi.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • thingsfallapart
    thingsfallapart Members Posts: 43
    edited November 2010
    Options
    thingsfallapart wrote: »
    Classic case of an argument being DQ'd by an avi.


    ... But ironically enough you could say the same thing about me.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories