Best Debut Album From The New School (Wale, Drake, Big Sean, J. Cole, Kendrick, Meek)

[Pool_Shark]

Kendrick
Big KRIT
Cole
Meek
Drake
Wale

 

[strawburry]

man on the moon

 

[patscorpio]

the only albums i liked from first listen were the wale and j cole joints

 

[502Nels]

GKMC
Cole World
Finally Famous
Attention Deficient
Dreams & Nightmares
Thank Me Later

That's how I'd rank them with GKMC being far above the rest

 

[45123]

Notable exclusions:
Man on The Moon - Not rappity rap enough, never held the belief to be the next king of hip-hop
Food & Liquor - Not exactly the new school
Below The Heavens - Blu AND Exile
Live From The Underground - Flopped
The Greatest Story Never Told - Nothing commercially

Other debuts that just weren't up to par:

Careless World: Rise of the Last King (Tyga)
Based On A T.R.U. Story (2 Chainz)
Rolling Papers (Wiz Khalifa)
Follow Me Home (Jay Rock)
Radioactive (Yelawolf)
B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray (B.o.B.)
Pink Friday (Nicki Minaj)
Asleep In The Bread Aisle (Asher Roth)

Plus these 6 rappers were supposed to be "legends" or have been hailed as "saviors of hip hop" at one point in their career

 

[BlackZilla]

Lmfaooo I guess there aren't that many Drake stans on here lol. Son has 8 votes

Nice to see Kendrick Lamar in the lead, sounds about right

 

[JulesWinfield]

good kid mAAd city

 

[KeysT]

Sophmore albums >>>>>>

 

[Roxx the King]

take care wouldve stood up better to gkmc but alas...

 

[Reggie]

Kendrick has got this on lock followd by Drake and J. Cole. Kendrick is the only one who surpassed expectations but Drakes debut album was ok too. Since we know what kind of rapper he really is we can't really be surprised at some of the music on TML. And some of the songs are actually damn good. What hurt Drake is not releasing his album til 2010 after all the hype in 09.

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

If Drakes album dropped when it was supposed to have I would have put it above J. Cole but I got Kendrick, Cole, Drake, Meek, Big Sean I wasn't feeling Wale's debut really at all

 

[Rominati]

IMO

Man On The Moon
Good Kid Mad City
Take Care
Ambition
Side Line Story
Finally Famous
Dreams & Nightmares
Rolling Papers




You gotta count Cudi as new school. And ironically enough. Kid Cudi has been the most influential out of the new school bunch. nikkas influence even impacted Kanye West himself.

Depending on the next couple of years. I think Kendrick has caused a paradigm shift as well. We may be seeing a whole lot more concious rappers in the mainstream, if labels follow suit.

 

[x2y]

Kdot has the best one Finally Famous was trash.

 

[Loose]

MOTM is the best debate out of them.

 

[Jone2three45]

Replace Attention Deficit with Ambition and we got a winner.

I would say Cuddi and Kendrick are the true winners.