can somebody slap me with some knowledge on why this is called the greatest hip hop/rap album? i always though ready to die and to a nation were better, and illmatic felt like its little brother, i know all of this is subjective, but i want to hear from /mu/ since you guys are like one person.
(insults will be ignored)
>>60972619
*it takes a nation
Tighter rhymes than Ready to Die and no padding with the word motherfucking.
A Nation of Millions is a very different album with different production style, so they aren't really comparable.
>>60972619
Lyrical content, rhyme schemes, heavy beats, it's impossible not to love it.
it's an exhibition of the most technically talented hip-hop MC of all time in his prime
nas' diverse and densely layered combinations of different flows and rhyme schemes is so smooth and effortless that it sounds like he's not even trying, when he's actually displaying a frankly incredible knowledge of the rhythms and cadences that make rapping so much more than just speaking over instrumentals, even moreso given his age at the time
and that's not even mentioning the fact that he's able to pull all of this off so effortlessly that he can even maintain constantly engaging, thought-provoking lyricism and even tell entirely coherent stories and narratives without once breaking flow
apologize if i sound a bit like a fanboy but that's why it's my favourite hip-hop album
>>60972702
beautiful....
>>60972702
this, is nonsense.
Not that its not true, you just say it as if nas is the only rapper to whom this applies. I think Illmatic has to be one of the best hip hop debut albums ever. But like OP I think Ready to Die is better. Illmactic is a perfect expression of Nas, but Ready to Die is truer to the soul of hip hop. Feel free to disagree with me on this, I'd say Machine Gun Funk is the best hip hop song ever made. It's got great verses and a great beat, but what really sets it apart is that it's a lament. The hip hop lifestyle, gangsta and whatever, is fucking cruel. It's not something to celebrate. Illmatic is too often jovial whereas ready to die is a statement of fact: if you're a hip hopper, gangsta rapper, whatever, you've given up on life. There is no bright side. There is only rhythm and beat to accompany the fact that you will die, stupidly, tragically for the sake of what you will never have, and that is peace. So you live for the funk and you die for the funk, because at least there is rhythm where this is no peace.
inb4 this is all BS. obvy it is but I'm drunk so fu
>>60972998
OP here
are you me?
>>60972998
i'm gonna be gentle here and just say that for the sake of your integrity, you shouldn't try to make serious posts while drunk in future
>>60973069
I will not do a goddamn thing for the sake of my integrity.
>>60973113
you did this!
>>60973131
ok at least now I know you have no taste in music. opinion discarded.
>>60973159
you know
swans > hip hoppy hop
Nah bro Goblin is the best rap album in the past 15 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEySJnqJbRY
>>60973193
opinion discarded.
>>60972998
Warning and Ready to Die are the best songs on the album though senpai
>>60973205
GOLF WANG
GOLF WANG
>>60973277
Haha just relistened to that suite. Warning and Ready to Die are great. Machine gun funk is untouchable.
ayyy lets make this a OF thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evFc-ZghWME
>>60973348
Just got a new supreme hoodie senpai
To be a classic and considered a GOAT is 20% skills/rhymes/beats/production/flow and 80% timing.
Nas had the perfect timing, just a moment before hip hop music was about to go full boom
>hiphop room
>no mainstream hiphop
get in here if you want.
>dubtrack.fm/join/shaolin-temple
>>60973193
I like both tbqh.
>>60973867
>>60972637
does flavor flav ruin tracks as much as sean combs ruins biggie albums? I could never get into p.e.
>>60972702
>rapping about rapping
new at the time, but wordplay alone is not enough. only the stories are really the only thing worth the praise
>>60972619
It's not my favorite hip hop album.
Reasonable Doubt is, and even then I have multiple albums before Illmatic in terms of personal enjoyment.
But the album is just to fucking strong, I don't see how someone can't just put it on and see how high quality it is and be blown away on a song to song basis.
It's earned the title.
