Nas really got 5 classics. Name which other rapper that got 5 classic rap albums. Honestly.

[kuts]

So you're saying Kanye's discography is better than Ice Cube's

This sounds like a trap



Nah, but I'm not really a Cube fan.

Kanye changed the game up, though (mainstream status); plus added high fashion, MBDTF/Watch the Throne, and a general acceptance of masculine ego to the equation.

I don't agree with most of Kanye after he shacked up with Kim K (because WTT was supposed to be the revolution), but at the same time you can't dismiss what that man did for mainstream hip-hop.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

how did Kanye change the game? Cube was going platinum in 1990(yes 1990) with no radio play, videos, or singles. Think about that for a moment. I know you younger guys are used to hip hop in the mainstream and on the grammys, but this album dropped at a time when only 2 rap grammys had ever been given out(Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince and Young MC) and the only time to hear rap in most areas was on college radio late night saturdays. If going platinum with no radio/video in a time when it was rare to even see a rapper in a movie isn't a game changer, then I don't know what is. Then he released ANOTHER project the same year 8 years before DMX did it.

 

[SNG]

LL Cool J

Bigger and Deffer
Walking with a panther
Mama Said knock you out
Mr Smith
G.O.A.T

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

LL Cool J

Bigger and Deffer
Walking with a panther
Mama Said knock you out
Mr Smith
G.O.A.T

yall just throwing out albums now. Walking with a Panther almost ruined LL's career haha. Had he not got with Marley(the hottest hip hop producer at the time) LL would have been done. GOAT, no haha. I'll give you Mr Smith cuz that really was a dope album

 

[SNG]

yall just throwing out albums now. Walking with a Panther almost ruined LL's career haha. Had he not got with Marley(the hottest hip hop producer at the time) LL would have been done. GOAT, no haha. I'll give you Mr Smith cuz that really was a dope album

To each his own

 

[Majestic]

how did Kanye change the game? Cube was going platinum in 1990(yes 1990) with no radio play, videos, or singles. Think about that for a moment. I know you younger guys are used to hip hop in the mainstream and on the grammys, but this album dropped at a time when only 2 rap grammys had ever been given out(Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince and Young MC) and the only time to hear rap in most areas was on college radio late night saturdays. If going platinum with no radio/video in a time when it was rare to even see a rapper in a movie isn't a game changer, then I don't know what is. Then he released ANOTHER project the same year 8 years before DMX did it.

Thr college dropout and 808sandheartbreaks.

 

[mobbinfms]

He's the highest selling Emcee of all time. We're not doing this, I don't argue subjectivity, numbers don't lie. But the opinion that Em has 0 classic albums is just bait at this point.

Sales don't matter.
But if you're a numbers guy than your classics are Eminem, Hammer, Nelly etc.

 

[mobbinfms]

Yo..

Do you have a Note with all these user names or did you actually at these manually? In both cases:

Only the first twenty actually work and show up as an alert.
@Majestic you need to spread that over multiple posts.
Also, many of them aren't underlined which I think means they aren't going to result in a notification either.

 

[mobbinfms]

Kanye changed the game up, though (mainstream status); plus added high fashion, MBDTF/Watch the Throne, and a general acceptance of masculine ego to the equation.

You're crediting Kanye with ushering in the general acceptance of masculine ego?

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

Nas aint got 5 classics. Neither him or Jay got 5 classics. No way!!! I'll tell you who does have 5 classics

Dre - SOC, 100 Miles and Running, NFL, Chronic, Chronic 2001
Cube - SOC, AMW, KAW, DC, Predator
Common - Ressurection, One day it;ll all make sense, LWFC, BE, The Dreamer , the Believer

Eric B/Rakim and EPMD got 4 classics as their first 4 albums were flawless.

and that's just off the top of my head.

 

[head shots101]

If the op feels that Nas have 5 classic albums how can y'all tell him he's wrong?

It's homies opinion

 

[mobbinfms]

how did Kanye change the game? Cube was going platinum in 1990(yes 1990) with no radio play, videos, or singles. Think about that for a moment. I know you younger guys are used to hip hop in the mainstream and on the grammys, but this album dropped at a time when only 2 rap grammys had ever been given out(Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince and Young MC) and the only time to hear rap in most areas was on college radio late night saturdays. If going platinum with no radio/video in a time when it was rare to even see a rapper in a movie isn't a game changer, then I don't know what is. Then he released ANOTHER project the same year 8 years before DMX did it.

He wasn't the first rapper to go Platinum.

 

[Preach Jackson]

Nas
Illmatic, Stillmatic, It Was Written

Jay
Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint,
The Black Album, American Gangster
(4:44 potential classic we’ll see down the line)

Cube
Amerikkka Most Wanted, Death Certificate, The Predator

Outkast
Southernplaya, Atliens, Aquemini
(personally The Love Below)

Tupac
All Eyez On Me, Me Against The World, Makeveli

Kanye
The College Dropout, Late Registration, MBDTF
(Graduation is a near classic)

Mobb Deep
Murda Muzik, Hell On Earth

Scarface
The Fix, Diary

The Roots
Illadelph Halflife, Things Fall Apart, Game Theory, How I Got Over

 

[mobbinfms]

Mobb Deep
Murda Muzik, Hell On Earth

You forgot The Infamous

 

[kuts]

You're crediting Kanye with ushering in the general acceptance of masculine ego?

What did Kanye represent before marrying Kim K? A super talented producer/rapper that could get away with many things because he was so grand. His obnoxious character always had the green light to show out.

And like Jeezy said, "Errtime I go out, you know I gotta show out."

What does a man like more than to shine? (I mean p*ssy, yeah, but that typically comes with shine.)