GKMC being a top 10 album of all time is genuinely out-fukking-rageous.
Media publications and Kendrick man... make it stop.
An album that hasn't left the charts since it's inception is a media creation?
Apple Music Top 100 Best Albums Of All Time
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An album that hasn't left the charts since it's inception is a media creation?
This is the streaming era my guy lol yall gotta cut this shyt out
Kendrick is a legit all time great but he’s also an industry manufactured monster, both things can be true.
If Get Rich Or Die Tryin or Tha Carter 3 didn’t have that level of longevity on the charts then it’s up to you read between the lines. Those albums were monumental, on a scale above gkmc as far as range & impact
That’s not to take away anything from gkmc which is a classic
Piff Perkins
Veteran
The album has been on the charts since it came out in...2012, before the streaming era. It's been (consecutively) on the Billboard 200 longer than any rap album. Ever.
gkmc inception isn’t that many years out from the streaming era
It’s going to have more legs than older monumental albums. That being said, can’t take anything away from the album itself
DaveyDave
Superstar
Wayne doesn’t have an album that belongs in a Hip Hop top 20 let alone a top 100 across all genres
DaveyDave
Superstar
The difference is, with streaming it counts all the plays, back when you bought an album they couldn’t track how many times you played it or played any song off it. I’m willing to bet if GRODT or Doggystyle came out with streaming available they would have charted for a long ass time as well.
spliz
SplizThaDon
Tried to tell nikkas. Lol
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Why give it credence...
I've seen arguments about racial bias on the list and while there was clearly a dismissal of r&b for much of the list, there's also a pretty stark dismissal of a lot of white rock and pop artists from various eras. Which tells me the issue was less about racial bias and more about this being a collection of voters who simply don't listen to a lot of music beyond a mixture of obvious classics and new "classics" - both of which boil down to albums that sold a lot. I'd bet that 97% of the voters never listened to an Anita Baker album in their life. At the same time it's clearly the vast majority never listened to a Fiona Apple, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, or even White Stripes album. Which makes sense when many of the artists who voted were infants or kids in the early 2000s lol.
Entire decades, movements, and genres of music were overlooked because the voters were focusing on the most obvious albums that sold a lot of tend to be on older lists.
Lil Bape the PostGod
Can’t talk to broke boys
Lauryn hill has the most overrated album of all time
It’s cool…but greatest ever is laughable
Literally nobody cares about any of the songs besides the first 5 (and everything is everything which is near the end)
The other 13-14 songs you never hear people talk about how great they are, how much of a masterpiece they are etc…you hear about the 3-4 singles and the Zion song which may or may not have officially been a single .. don’t remember
It’s cool…but greatest ever is laughable
Literally nobody cares about any of the songs besides the first 5 (and everything is everything which is near the end)
The other 13-14 songs you never hear people talk about how great they are, how much of a masterpiece they are etc…you hear about the 3-4 singles and the Zion song which may or may not have officially been a single .. don’t remember
Not lyrics but the label billed her as the sole producer of the album on some Prince shyt when the band New Ark helped her with production. They sued for proper credit because they were only credited as basically studio musicians when they in fact helped her craft the sound of the album.
They were adamant she wrote all of her lyrics however.
