Who in rap in the next 5 years do you think has the best potential to release a classic?
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Who in rap in the next 5 years do you think has the best potential to release a classic?
Woodwerkz
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By your very definition either Jeezy, Gucci or Ross got it on lock [esp. in the south] because that's all you were hearing at a time. You like to go by youtube views... honestly go tell me that Jeezy "Trap or Die" wasn't that popular nor a classic because it doesn't even have 1mil views. Yet tell me that Gucci Mane having like 25mil views for Lemonade made that his most popular song in the club or whip to play. Pop wise...sure...but club and in the whip...hell nah.
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
nikka trap or die came out 10 years ago,wtf. This shyt you're trying ot do is apples and oranges. ANd you're comparing a mixtape to a commercially marketed album. GTFOH.
I'm comparing kendrick to nikkas playing in the same game ,at the same time as kendrick
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
Did i overlook what the new certifications were?
Wouldnt this new development help my argument,being that there's other artists like drake whom kendrick is supposedly on the same level as,that stream waaaaaaaaaaay more than him?
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Good lord this thread got pathetic. I like kendrick a lot but the dikkwagging in here makes me want to log off and never come back - both the stans and the haters.
It's like people can't just listen to music any more
It's like people can't just listen to music any more
So that's what I'm saying. You're just picking what you want to be a classic. I don't even like drake but he would be considered a legend with multiple classics by your criteria. He has numbers. He has the backing of "heads", damn near everybody in the rap game gives him props or wants a feature, he's made an impact in the culture.
Kendrick doesn't have the hits drake does but he gets the same respect or arguably more from "heads" being that now he has even older musicians like prince and George Clinton talking him up. His album went plat. He sells out shows worldwide. Atleast half of the current generation that is into hip hop thinks he is the best rapper, and his album is one of the most widely accepted and celebrated in recent hip hop history. He threw an album without a cover, title or track list and it jumped to number one on iTunes off pre orders.
You and your peers not feeling the album has no bearing on its place in history other than your own personal history of what the classics are.
What was the last classic hip hop album?
Y'all really arguing with this old ass nikka 
who claims himself a street nikka. fukk his opinion on ANYTHING pertaining to music. nikka bytches about Plant accounts in here but he spends ever second he can on here just to tell us how much Kendrick isn't popping in the streets.
nikka we don't give a fukk. Music is music, you either fukk with it or you dont. Obviously you dont, as apparent from you keep repeating yourself in every fukking Kendrick Lamar related thread. For a artist you don't like so much, you devote alot of attention to him. I'm started to get suspicious
who claims himself a street nikka. fukk his opinion on ANYTHING pertaining to music. nikka bytches about Plant accounts in here but he spends ever second he can on here just to tell us how much Kendrick isn't popping in the streets.
nikka we don't give a fukk. Music is music, you either fukk with it or you dont. Obviously you dont, as apparent from you keep repeating yourself in every fukking Kendrick Lamar related thread. For a artist you don't like so much, you devote alot of attention to him. I'm started to get suspicious
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
Me personally,i'd never call an album a classic or dismiss it from being one based off if I like it or not.
I'm going to base it off performance.
And how i see people react to it. Rather it's my everyday places or places i venture to.
I dont know how old you are. But being old enough to watch classics happen organically,it's easy to know when IT'S NOT HAPPENING LIKE THAT.
When 50 rose to power,you couldnt go anywhere without hearing wanksta,in da club,pimp,many men,21 questions etc,even the non singles like blodd hound and heat
Kdot shyt was nothing like that,i've literally heard people bumping rich homie quan and young thug more than him and by a large margin.
Take a look at Nelly Country Grammar.
I dont think that's a classic quality wise but it definitely is a commercial classic off impact alone.
WHen that was popping,E.I,country grammar and ride with me were huge,people were bumping heavy.
Back in the days people didnt even come out there mouth calling albums classic soon as they dropped,for the most part. People would say this nad that were dope and later on someone might bring it up and say that if its impact was that great.
nikkas acting like kdot having a classic is a birth right and automatic just cause it's him but he really aint popping like that at all.
If a nikka drops a true world recognized classic,it will be reflected in nearly every possible aspect. Kendrick is lacking
Foxmulder
Superstar
And it's just the album announcement with no cover or tracklisting. Imagine when the album leaks.Good lord this thread got pathetic. I like kendrick a lot but the dikkwagging in here makes me want to log off and never come back - both the stans and the haters.
It's like people can't just listen to music any more
blockboy504
LSU Tigers
fukk these opinions yall nikkas got Ive been eating well these past couple of months drizzy,Cole,wayne,sean,and now kendrick it's so good to not be a hater 
True story. I was in college when Get Rich came out. If you even looked like 50 you got p*ssy, lol. I was dating a girl at the time who thought he was the finest thing walking.
Wanksta had New York going berserk. And when "In Da Club" came out, it was game over.
edit: You know what's funny when I think about it? Despite hearing Get Rich or Die Tryin EVERYWHERE, nobody around my way called it a classic. They just said it was a dope ass album.
Another true story. Even though I've been listening to rap since the late 90s, I didn't hear Illmatic in full till 2003. (I really thought It Was Written was Nas's first album when I heard it in '98) In 03, my boy gave me Illmatic and said, "yo check it out. You might like it. It's a great album. It's really street." That's it. I heard it, and some tracks blew my mind. I kept listening to it, and within a couple months, I realized just how superb the album was.
There was no "yo this is classic. You have to like this album or you don't know hip hop blah blah blah"
Classics speak for themselves. If you have to cram a classic down my throat and keep telling me it's classic, chances are it's not.
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Good lord this thread got pathetic. I like kendrick a lot but the dikkwagging in here makes me want to log off and never come back - both the stans and the haters.
It's like people can't just listen to music any more
The Booth is terrible for things like this. There is literally no such thing as middle ground.
meh. albums like gkmc and mbdtf have the universal acclaim, and objectively speaking, I can't think of a single bad song on these albums. Would even say that these albums are better than A LOT OF classics from the 90s. It's not manufactured, its just that it's impossible to give a bad score to these albums, specially if you're a professional critic because you have to put your bias aside. (personal tastes and all that stuff)
i'd even go as far as to say that gkmc and mbdf are both better than a lot of my favorite albums... yeah, I can make the differenc ebetween "what I htink is good" and "what I enjoy listnening to"
