Classics Discussion: Masta Ace & Masta Ace Incorporated

Which of these Masta Ace and Masta Ace Incorporated albums are classic?


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Ok so some of y'all will be familiar with a project I'm deciding to run. I made this thread: The Official 'Classic Album' Discussion Thread, trying to reach a conclusion as to what defines a classic album. After much discussion, I am running with this definition personally, so take it as you will when you consider your classic albums. But this definition in particular was most agreed upon.

Classic: 1. An album considered by consensus of the core hip hop community to be of the highest quality (doesn't have to be perfect or flawless, just an album that the consensus deems the shyt).
2. Assuming that condition 1 is met, is this an album that has stood the test of time amongst the core hip hop community? Is that an album still held in high regard, still referenced at least ten years after its release? By a consensus of the hip hop community?


Props to @mobbinfms for the definition and also for his help generally in helping me with ideas to create these threads.

So I'll be going through one artist per day, and I will list out all their discography or close to all of it until the year 2005, as we decided that an album needs at least 10 years of existence before it can be called a classic or not.

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To help bring even more attention to these threads, I'm gonna create a hashtag (again props to mobbinfms for the idea) and I urge you guys to click on the tag and click on the option to watch the tag.

Here it is: #coliclassics

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Today we have Masta Ace and Incorporated up for contention!

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Get voting!

I will be making a POLL. For each album I will present a YES or NO option so if you think that particular album is a classic, you click 'yes' on the poll for THAT album and vice-versa. The acceptance rate for an album to be deemed a CERTIFIED classic is 80%.

If you don't think an album is a classic, DO NOT LEAVE THE POLL BLANK. You vote NO for that album instead so at least we register your vote.

I will NOT count any comments in the thread as votes, you must use the poll. The comments section should be used for discussion only.


Tagging some mods:

@FreshAIG @That Singer Guy... @hustlemania @houston911 @SoulController
 

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I went with SlaughtaHouse, Disposable Arts, and A Long Hot Summer
 

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Just Slaughterhouse and even that is borderline :yeshrug:
I went ahead and gave it the yes vote on the strength of the Juice Crew :wow:
 

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no to all. i rate ace very highly. hes one of the rare artists whose discography got better and better imo, and the most consistent ever. never had a heard a wack project from him in a career that spans nearly 30 years now

take a look around was decent, slaughterhouse was dope, i used to bump sittin on chrome on the regular for years. i wanted to give disposable arts a classic, but if that is then so is long hot summer so i voted no for all:sadbron:

the stuff he did with emc, ed og and doom were very solid too. ace definetly deserves more mention among the greats
 

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"Take a Look Around" is a LOST classic.... (and much better than the album KANE put out that year :scust:)

this and DEF JEF first LP was classics from that time nobody talks about.......Nothing wack, weak, average on this album at all












 
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