J Cole Says 50 Cent's GRODT Is The BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME

[Ohene]

its in my top 10 albums, funny enough so is diplomatic immunity which i may like more as a whole body of work

Cole being extra though

 

[Silver Surfer]

he was living in queens at the time, what are you talking about

This goofy conscious nikka put 50 cent over Michael Jackson

What are you talking about

 

[Po pimp]

Not true. And I don’t get why people online keep saying this.

In '96, all of the Hip Hop magazines were going crazy for RD with the reviews. XXL and The Source loved it. By '97, everyone considered RD to be a classic. Back then, you didn't call something a "classic" the same day it dropped, like the weirdos do today. You let it cook. Even the non-Hip Hop spots like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone gave it near perfect scores. It's always been universally loved, by both the streets and mainstream media.

You couldn't go anywhere in NYC during that era without people quoting lines from the album, or hearing cars blasting tracks from it. The impact was crazy. Kendrick said when RD dropped, his crew couldn't stop playing the album. And when he was working on Section 80, he tweeted that he felt it was better than Illmatic. Wayne said he would study RD when it came out because he was trying to come up with a style for himself. Crazily impactful album. Not just for fans when it dropped, but also for future legend MC's.

I was around in 1996, and maybe outside of NY, that album made no noise. I remember “Ain’t No N****” getting some play on the radio and the video, but for the most part, Jay was just another rapper.

 

[I'm Blackman]

it's j Cole...so I can't even blame this shyt on drugs.

 

[Knucklehead]

GRODT is not the best rapping anybody ever heard. Production is good but its not the best production anybody ever heard. So logically, how does an album without the best rapping or the best production become the best album ever?

We gotta stop giving a pass to this "opinion" shyt too. Poeple just use that as an excuse to say dumb shyt lol. Somebody will say some clear BS and you ask them to explain and its: "It's my opinion! It's my opinion! You can't question my opinion!" GTFOHWTBS

So what’s your take that everyone should agree with what you think the best album is?
What if an Asian thinks Jins album is the best ever or some midget thinks it’s a Bushwick Bill album? Are they not entitled to think that because ReDefinition on the internet can’t stamp his seal of approval?

 

[FS4LFE]

Not even the greatest New York album by a queens artist

 

[Awesome Wells]

I was around in 1996, and maybe outside of NY, that album made no noise. I remember “Ain’t No N****” getting some play on the radio and the video, but for the most part, Jay was just another rapper.

Not sure when that narrative started online, but that's far from what I saw, at the time.

Ras Kass just told a story recently about being on a promo tour with Jay for Priority Records that summer, and how everywhere they went, crowds were going crazy for Jay and knew all the words to the songs on RD. He literally said speaking about Jay, "He was a star already, and the album had just come out. The label needed to catch up to where he was".

 

[SunZoo]

To get mad at/attack someone for their personal opinion is always hilarious man, . Disagreeing with someone’s opinion is something else, that’s fine and normal…but to wild out over it? Lol.

He’s at a sold out 50 Cent concert in NYC in front of an electric audience who loves 50…I’m sure he does love the album like all of us do but don’t hold him to what he said, lol, he’s just showing love man, caught up in the moment. Y’all crazy

How dare you be reasonable lol

 

[ISO]

GRODT is not the best rapping anybody ever heard. Production is good but its not the best production anybody ever heard. So logically, how does an album without the best rapping or the best production become the best album ever?

We gotta stop giving a pass to this "opinion" shyt too. Poeple just use that as an excuse to say dumb shyt lol. Somebody will say some clear BS and you ask them to explain and its: "It's my opinion! It's my opinion! You can't question my opinion!" GTFOHWTBS

There is no “best”.

That’s his opinion and there’s nothing dumb about it most people in real life have no problem giving 50 his flowers and this album routinely ranks highly in top albums of All-Time lists so I don’t know why on here y’all act like this.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Funny enough I think GRODT is better than the massacre

But I like the massacre more

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Breh I swear J Cole is that guy who tries to be different on purpose. Dude would gloat about Menace being the "Citizen Kane of cinema" just to get browny points from the jocks that would give him a swirly in an instant.

I never understood the Cole hype anyway, while we are on the subject.

• He's really not saying shyt on wax
• You don't have to curse a lot to make a point (which tends to be his aura that drowns out his overall message he's trying to say)
• He's basically the hip hop Daria

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Def influential af, but I can’t front, while GRODT is a dope album but NO WHERE near true classics.

It’s brehs opinion, I just think it’s stupid af, especially compared to true ten top caliber albums.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Not true. And I don’t get why people online keep saying this.

In '96, all of the Hip Hop magazines were going crazy for RD with the reviews. XXL and The Source loved it. By '97, everyone considered RD to be a classic. Back then, you didn't call something a "classic" the same day it dropped, like the weirdos do today. You let it cook. Even the non-Hip Hop spots like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone gave it near perfect scores. It's always been universally loved, by both the streets and mainstream media.

You couldn't go anywhere in NYC during that era without people quoting lines from the album, or hearing cars blasting tracks from it. The impact was crazy. Kendrick said when RD dropped, his crew couldn't stop playing the album. And when he was working on Section 80, he tweeted that he felt it was better than Illmatic. Wayne said he would study RD when it came out because he was trying to come up with a style for himself. Crazily impactful album. Not just for fans when it dropped, but also for future legend MC's.

I always wondered about this. I'm in Alabama so I always wondered (in retrospect) how NYC and media received that album. The online narrative has always been that Jay spoke that album into classic status by continually saying it. I think its a brilliant album, a classic. I just always wondered if it went under the radar in real time.

I fell in love with Jay off vol 1. I remember like it was yesterday. I was 14 and saw The city is mine vid on bet. I hadn't seen usual suspects at the point so I didn't get the video reference, I just thought it was funny and I liked the song. I asked my mom to take me to Cocanuts (cd store) and I bought the album. shyt was like 18 dollars! Got home heard the intro alone and was like this shyt different!

Going back to coles opinion...while I disagree I can understand if its an album he fell in love with in real time like I did with vol. 1.

 

[Canada Goose]

Cole wildin' claiming this was Get Rich is better than Thriller



Also LOL at Cole saying this when he's a super Nas stan.... even made a song about letting Nas down, nikka ain't ever make a song about letting 50 down Get Rich better than every Nas album

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Not even the greatest New York album by a queens artist

Not Even top 5 by Queens artists, borderline top 10

illmatic
Infamous
IWW
Hell on Earth
Low End Theory
Midnight Marauders
War Report

fukk it, I like HNIC more than GRODT