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

[MisterMajesty]

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.

huh? wouldn't kendrick be like...3 years old or some shyt?

 

[Awesome Wells]

huh? wouldn't kendrick be like...3 years old or some shyt?

Pretty sure he was around most of our ages when RD dropped, lol.

Dude is almost 40, in a few years.

 

[jensyao]

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

yeah...nas is basically following j cole's blueprint recently by saying mostly nothing on records and people are eating it up, double standard

 

[ISO]

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

He’s a fan of Nas and respects him but he’s probably not even a top 3 influence for him

He’s much more Kanye/Pac/Andre 3000 inspired

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

yeah...nas is basically following j cole's blueprint recently by saying mostly nothing on records and people are eating it up, double standard

I mean KD3 kinda slams. But I'll bite my tongue at this post and just keep my thoughts on the low. Nas is the GOAT, but.....*crawls back into tree*

 

[FeverPitch2]

According to you. It might be different to Cole. Don't know why Nikkas get so offended when all Cole did was give his own opinion on a subjective topic.

Sometimes opinions are wrong. Even on subjective topics.
There are things that I like that I know are not good or great.
Me liking it doesn't make it good or great.
Kinda like being attracted to someone who's not conventionally attractive.
You'll be fine.

 

[Awesome Wells]

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.

It was kinda like how Soul on Ice was, which is wild because they dropped on the same label, just months apart. Critically acclaimed, but at the time, it wasn't selling that much.

I bought RD the same day it dropped, because they were promoting like crazy on the underground college radio shows way before. So we all knew the date. A lot of the album tracks were already being played on the shows, so we kinda had an idea of what was already on there. We used to go up to the Rucker, and all summer, you would hear tracks from RD, Nas "Street Dreams" and "If I Ruled The World" and a lot of Pac. It was being played everywhere in the city. But from the stories Ras Kass was telling recently, in other states, people had the album too and knew all the damn words to the songs, lol. It sold mad slowly, but I think that's because everyone was making copies of sh*t back then, unless it was some super known artist.

BTW, Coconuts was the sh*t! I used to find a lot of rare Hip Hop posters in there back in the day. They always had the mad high prices though, lol.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Cole was in college and living in Queens when GRODT came out

I think Cole was a senior in HS when GRODT dropped (the album came out in Feb 2003). Isn't he class of 03?

 

[BigTyme Records]

Nah and it’s Not even close

Wayyy better shyt came out in the 90s

 

[bigdaddy88]

Really?? cole??? i mean jermaine??? that is not even the best album the year it was released on lol ...well this nikka makes terrible albums so it makes sense he has bad taste

***black album was the best album that year

 

[melraH]

Cole was in college and living in Queens when GRODT came out

I had just moved out of Southside when it dropped but I always came through on the weekends, and them parties @ Saint Johns (not very far from southside) was craaazy. So I completely understand Cole's statement. He probably bagged his first dime at a party while listening to this.

I personally like Fif's mixtape stuff better but this album was flames and played everywhere, probably not @ Murda inc.'s offices tho

 

[Illmagic]

Its one of those albums where you just had to be there. I never thought it was a 10/10 album quality wise but it terms of impact its as classic as any album Ive ever been around for.

 

[Illmagic]

Really?? cole??? i mean jermaine??? that is not even the best album the year it was released on lol ...well this nikka makes terrible albums so it makes sense he has bad taste

***black album was the best album that year

Black album musta come out late 03 cause Ive always associated that album with 04. I graduated high school in 04 and was bumping black album heavy during that time. 03 was 50's year.

 

[raoulduke187]

I can respect that if he's honest

DMX debut is the best in my opinion but a lot of people think otherwise we can't say what is objectively best because this is art

I just know it aint no Drake shyt

 

[JealousOnesEn_V]

Really?? cole??? i mean jermaine??? that is not even the best album the year it was released on lol ...well this nikka makes terrible albums so it makes sense he has bad taste

***black album was the best album that year

Yeah right