hip hop is dead album 10th anniversary appreciation thread

[Yoda]

10 years already!? holy fukk can't believe it, the Illmatic 10 years seemed SO long lol

i wasnt into rap in 94, but yeah i bought that 10th anniv illmatic and yeah it seems so fukkin short


and still dreaming? yeah i still love that

 

[Da_Eggman]

Ironically this was the last album I actully bought in a store

Nas was right but wasn't just hip hop that was dying

 

[FlyRy]

I'm sick of these undercover nas circle jerk threads

 

[u mad son?]

I refuse to believe its been 10 years. I remember the forums and reaction to Black Republican so clear

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Still mad he ain't make a video for black republican.

My nikka does like 2 videos and keeps it movin

That and still dreaming

 

[H.J.Duck]

holy shyt, I've never felt this old because of an album anniversary before.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

From Still Dreaming onwards, this album has some of the best Nas content since the early days

Just some laidback, introspective OG shyt

 

[Tetris v2.0]

The album title was gimmicky sure, but it was a conversation that needed to be had, and in a lot of ways still does

Hip Hop started to really diverge around this time, and that is especially pronounced now. Hip Hop music is very much alive, but it sounds very different and means very different things to different people...

 

[It is a mystery]

hip hop is dead?
Who killed it :slowpoke:

 

[We Major]

Gives me that Christmas vibe always.

 

[prophecypro]

It was a good album but first hearing it, it wasnt the home run I was hoping.
I felt he needed to be more hungry with the album cause it was the Def Jam debut, it was after Streets Disciple etc. I thought the album titled was a shot more at the state of NY hip hop with like mixtape rappers dissing legends (Uncle Murda) and people dismissing culture for a hustle (Dipset, G Unit) and the lost state of NY sound more than a diss on the South.

But the good was good:
Money over Bullshyt
Black Republicans
Where Are they Now (Remember those remixes)
Still Dreaming
Let There Be Light
Hip Hop is Dead
Hustlers

And even though people didnt fukk with the beats
Carry on Tradition
Blunt Ashes
Hold Down the Block

The rest was filler
Not Going Back
Play on Playa
Cant Kill Me
Who Killed it (I mean....I sorta dug what he was trying I mean..)

Scientist, The World and Where Y'all At should have replaced these tracks and Hope should have had the Wildfyre beat

 

[Menelik II]

Good album but I showed one of Nas major flaws again, his knack for making shyt songs as singles. hip hop is dead is meh, made worse by reusing the same beat again

He dropped the ball not having where y'all at, and the scientist on the album.

If you can get over this you still had piff, with money over bullshyt, carry on tradition, black republican. A 3.5/5 and shows how good he is as this probably wouldn't be in the top half of his catalogue