Jay-Z Vs Outkast Vs Black Star - Who Dropped the Best Album on 9/29/98?

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  • dwade206
    dwade206 Members Posts: 11,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outkast - Aquemini
    A muhfuckin classic
  • JaDaDon
    JaDaDon Members Posts: 879 ✭✭✭✭
    Outkast - Aquemini
    Return of the G, Rosa Parks, and West Savannah were enough for me. Not gonna lie at first glance Vol 2 looked out of place but it is worth real consideration
  • GunTown
    GunTown Members Posts: 3,489
    Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
    All 3 albums are execptional grade A as far as straight up MC-ing, technical Lyricisim and Rhyming

    Volume 2 is the best though as far as straight up MC-ing and technical Lyricisim
  • Siqnih Da Trapper
    Siqnih Da Trapper Members Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outkast - Aquemini
    The kast
  • nawledge_god
    nawledge_god Members Posts: 5,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outkast - Aquemini
    Vol.2 Was Jigga Mans Decline Into Mainstream...Less Primos And Clark Kents And More Swizz Beatz And Timbalands...RD And Vol.1 Hov>>>>>>Anything After
  • _God_
    _God_ Members Posts: 6,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jay-Z Vol. 2
    Outlast is overrated
  • Like Water
    Like Water Members Posts: 5,265 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outkast - Aquemini
    I listen to Black Star more, but Aquemini was earth shattering back when it dropped.
  • MECCA1000
    MECCA1000 Members Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
    Already knew I was copping vol.2 1st day and when I heard redefinition I was all in. for black star....picked up aquemini at the same time just as an after thought and was pleasantly surprised by just how dope it was..... All three got heavy spins but black star got just that much more air time for the lyrical jewelry

    Wish I had aquemini instrumental
  • supergangster
    supergangster Members Posts: 8,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2015
    Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
    Since I am on my meds I can be honest all the albums are great but if we talk quality, lyrics and impact it's between Black Star and Outkast. I don't wanna take anything from Jay it was not a bad album but Aquemini and Black Star is on another level.

    Mos Def got a top 10 GOAT verse on that album if not a top 5. ? it may even be the best verse ever!
    Lyrically Blackstar was the best album that year.

    Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listening agree
    That everything you see ain't really how it be
    A lot of jokers out running in place, chasing the style
    Be a lot going on beneath the empty smile
    Most cats in my area be loving the hysteria
    Synthesized surface conceals the interior
    America, land of opportunity, mirages and camouflages
    More than usually, speaking loudly
    Saying nothing, you confusing me, you losing me
    Your game is twisted, want me enlisted in your usury
    Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly
    Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception
    Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the looking glass
    Walking the street, wondering who they be looking past
    Looking gassed with them imported designer shades on
    Stars shine bright, but the light rarely stays on
    Same song, just remixed, different arrangement
    Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slave ship
    Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this
    Screaming "brand new", when they just sanitized the old ?
    Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick
    That they been running across stars through all the time with
    I find it's distressing, there's never no in-between
    We either ? or Kings, we either ? or Queens
    The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse
    Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
    Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
    The length of black life is treated with short worth
    Get yours first, them other ? secondary
    That type of illing that be filling up the cemetery
    This life is temporary but the soul is eternal
    Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you
    Not strong, only aggressive cause the power ain't directed
    That's why we are subjected to the will of the oppressive
    Not free, we only licensed, not live, we just exciting
    Cause the captors own the masters to what we writing
    Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained
    Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game
    Not good, but well behaved cause the camera survey
    Most of the things that we think, do or say
    We chasing after death just to call ourselves brave
    But everyday, next man meet with the grave/Great
    I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy
    I'm trying to live life in the sight of ? 's memory like that y'all

  • supergangster
    supergangster Members Posts: 8,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
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  • Stew
    Stew Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 52,234 Regulator
    Outkast - Aquemini
    ^^stop typing b this ? been in the bag.
  • soulfulcat
    soulfulcat Members Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outkast - Aquemini
    I was 13 when these albums came out. I bought vol 2 and aquemini. Vol 2 had them bigger impact records that year... but that aquemini painted a story from beginning to end. That might be my fav album of all time
  • supergangster
    supergangster Members Posts: 8,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
    Stew wrote: »
    ^^stop typing b this ? been in the bag.

    you talking with me?
  • dalyricalbandit
    dalyricalbandit Members, Moderators Posts: 67,918 Regulator
    edited October 2015
    Jay-Z Vol. 2
    Sleep all ya want on Vol 2 but the ? goes


    Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - classic single

    If I Should Die - hood ?

    Ride Or Die - come on dude ? on Betha

    ? What, ? Who (Originator 99) - u want flow? Well jigga and jazo killed this ? with flow

    Money, Cash, Hoes - the 2 biggest rappers at the time on a track street single

    A Week Ago - classic ? u still could drop/listen to today

    Can I Get A... - rush hour and the hoes loved it

    Reservoir Dogs - hood ?

    It's Alright - ill ? even bleek did him

    Money Ain't A Thang - that money ? u think jay ? on ? now days with his money talk well jigga from 98 was crushing ? 100 times harder

    "? wanna rub shoulders, your money's too young
    See me when it gets older, ya bank account grow up"

  • BobOblah
    BobOblah Members Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
    Black Star and Aquemini both in my top 10 albums all time
  • unspoken_respect
    unspoken_respect Members Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Outkast - Aquemini
    The other 2 didn't age as well.