Hot 97 #1GottaGo - The Chronic, 36 Chambers, Illmatic or Ready To Die?

[Kyle C. Barker]

With great pain I selected Illmatic.

For me all the other albums provided a foundation for other great music that Illmatic didn't.

Without 36 Chambers we don't get the purple tape, liquid swords, tical, etc.

Without R2D we don't get all the great bad boy music of the 90's: 112, Total, Faith Evans, Mase, Flava In Ya Ear, Lil Kim, Jr Mafia, and the No Way Out album.

Without the Chronic that means no Doggystyle, Dogg Pound, no Death Row Pac! No murder was the case soundtrack!

And while Illmatic was great what did it birth... The Firm? One fire single from AZ (Sugar Hill)? shyt, Nas's BEST SONG is on It Was Written (Take It In Blood).

Illmatic birthed the concept of recruiting a team of producers to pitch in a while album. Before that rap albums only featured one producer.

 

[mobbinfms]

if this was a national vote, Illmatic would more than likely get the most votes due to A lack of widely known songs..36 chambers at least has CREAM

And with that being said, i still picked Ready to Die

If you're not familiar with Illmatic you're not really a hip hop fan. Just a casual.

 

[Flav]

36 Chambers

The only song I fukk with off that whole album is CREAM.

Illmatic birthed the concept of recruiting a team of producers to pitch in a while album. Before that rap albums only featured one producer.

Death Row Records?

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Death Row Records?

Which albums from death row? Not even arguing just tryna peep game.

I mean daz and warren g made some beats for the chronic but they were ghost producer status in my eyes. Plus they were up and coming from what I remember.

Illmatic had the who's who of production with premo, Pete rock, large professor, and q tip.

 

[thaKEAF]

36 Chambers for me.

 

[ridedolo]

36 chambers obviously.

fukk all ya'll who voted for ready to die. why isn't there a biggie smilie on this board anyway?

 

[Zero]

Ready To Die

I dont even play it anymore

 

[MR. Conclusion]

I don't know how anyone can pick illmatic or the chronic. You can literally say hip hop was never the same after each album dropped.

It's close between the other two, but I have to go with RTD.

Think about all the Wu Albums/Solos that dropped after 36 Chambers. I'm not trying to miss any of that piff.

Man the 90's was on some shyt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[the cac mamba]

like only da 1st few songs at times (not the whole track)
give me da loot, things done changed, machine gun funk

besides dat... where is he yelling ???

plus the shyt was just ill

rolex watches, and colorful swatches,

IM DIGGIN IN POCKETS MOTHAfukkAS CANT STOP IT

 

[MikeyC]

With great pain I selected Illmatic.

For me all the other albums provided a foundation for other great music that Illmatic didn't.

Without 36 Chambers we don't get the purple tape, liquid swords, tical, etc.

Without R2D we don't get all the great bad boy music of the 90's: 112, Total, Faith Evans, Mase, Flava In Ya Ear, Lil Kim, Jr Mafia, and the No Way Out album.

Without the Chronic that means no Doggystyle, Dogg Pound, no Death Row Pac! No murder was the case soundtrack!

And while Illmatic was great what did it birth... The Firm? One fire single from AZ (Sugar Hill)? shyt, Nas's BEST SONG is on It Was Written (Take It In Blood).

Mobb Deep, Cormega, Capone n Noreaga....

Not to mention its impact in the shifting of the Hip Hop epicentre from LA back to NY
Also, just remember that before Illmatic, Jay-Z was still on his double time fast-flow.

 

[L0Qutus]

Mobb Deep, Cormega, Capone n Noreaga....

Not to mention its impact in the shifting of the Hip Hop epicentre from LA back to NY
Also, just remember that before Illmatic, Jay-Z was still on his double time fast-flow.

But I'm sayin' though; those cats weren't from from the same label/clique right? Maybe cormega can be directly tied to Nas and those Oochie Wally cats too. The other albums led to much better music.

 

[L0Qutus]

Illmatic birthed the concept of recruiting a team of producers to pitch in a while album. Before that rap albums only featured one producer.

I will say that Illmatic is considered the Genesis chapter of the Golden Era of the 90's and is a better album than 36 chambers BUT the other albums led to greater music than Illmatic.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Illmatic birthed the concept of recruiting a team of producers to pitch in a while album. Before that rap albums only featured one producer.

Was that really a good thing though?
And despite this,the production is meh

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

delete

 

[QuavoFlow]

being from cali theres no way in hell im picking chronicbased solely off of the influence it had sonically and the birth of snoop and doggystyle2 of the most important albums from the west coast.
lil ghetto boy, let me ride, the instrumental on the roach outro, nuthin but a g thang, lyrical gangbang

chose 36 chambers. tried to get into wu-tang but i just couldnt plus i love illmatic and ready to die