Is Drake the first mainstream rapper to never drop a true masterpiece?

[derro13]

Serious question...Even J.Cole has classic mixtapes


When Take Care dropped it was generally considered as a solid 6-7/10, but considering his level of fame, Drake fans started calling it a classic by default few years later because they thought it was normal for an artist with that level of fame to have a reference album.


Besides Drake, I legit can't think of another artist that never really dropped a certified masterpiece, except Nicki Minaj.

Is this a first in hip hop?

 

[Deltron]

eminem?

 

[Revolutionary]

The whole YMCMB crew


You don't even see Wayne albums on all time lists anymore. Same shyt will happen to Drake in a few years...right now you only see Take Care being mentionned at the bottom of these lists and the explanation them publications give you is that "he's hot right now so he must have an album on the list".


You already know it's a charity placement since his peers have multiple albums being acclaimed

 

[Po pimp]

eminem?

I’ll say at the time MMLP was considered great and SSLP and TES were considered good albums, but they didn’t age well.

 

[Patrick Kane]

I would say so. He doesn’t have a definitive timeless classic although Take Care and Nothing Was the Same come close. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is one of his best projects but not a classic hip hop album.

Thing is, he has so much music, so many hit records and legit classic features that it doesn’t really hurt him. None of his albums are straight up trash, they’re just too bulky and he tries to appeal to multiple audiences and experiments too much on his albums instead of focusing of delivering a clearer vision of what he’s capable of making.

 

[Revolutionary]

eminem?

Eminem has 2-3 albums that are often discussed as classics. I don't like them, but he got multiple albums being discussed as "great records".

MMLP was never in consideration because of how hot Eminem was, but because of how good people thought it was. I'm not one of those people, but the discussions were always about the quality of the music

 

[WaveGang]

Flo rida

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

What? There are plenty of mainstream rappers without classics

Just say you hate drake

 

[Jigganaut]

This nikka one of them kendrick bots

 

[NZA]

to be honest, ive never considered whole LL Cool J albums to be masterpieces, just iconic singles

 

[Deltron]

Eminem has 2-3 albums that are often discussed as classics. I don't like them, but he got multiple albums being discussed as "great records".

MMLP was never in consideration because of how hot Eminem was, but because of how good people thought it was. I'm not one of those people, but the discussions were always about the quality of the music

i think em show is his only classic

but based off OP's thread premise, couldn't Em fit in that bucket?

 

[thaKEAF]

Ja rule? Nelly?

 

[WaveGang]

to be honest, ive never considered whole LL Cool J albums to be masterpieces, just iconic singles

Imma hear you out if you was a teenager in the 80s

 

[CM_Burns]

Ja rule? Nelly?

If you really stretch the term, Country Grammar, VVV, and Take Care are classics

 

[bigde09]

eminem?

MMLP. Lyrics didn't age well but it's easily his best and closest to a masterpiece