No 90s Hip Hop Album has Stood The Test of Time Quite Like Mobb Deep’s The Infamous - GOAT Album

[mobbinfms]

To the thread starter, do you really think this is the ONLY 90s album in that 10 years that was great and still great today? .Especially considering that wasn't even the best album of 1995

No. I’m saying of the top 15 streaming albums on Spotify it was the least commercially successful (you could argue Illmatic) which speaks to its unique status as a legendary album today.

 

[mson]

About 41.5 million streams for Dah Shinin. Biggest song is Bucktown with about 20. Sound Bwoy Bureill has 9.5.
Wreckonize Remix is their biggest song with 23.5 million.

Meaning what?

 

[mobbinfms]

Meaning what?

No meaning. Just sharing information. I find this kind of shyt interesting.

 

[JMD]

even though I prefer HOE (P was a monster on there) I have to say The Infamous is an all around better album

its similar to the Illmatic/It Was Written comparisons where Nas stepped up his rapping on the latter but Illmatic remains the standard

 

[mson]

No meaning. Just sharing information. I find this kind of shyt interesting.

Got you

 

[mobbinfms]

Got you

So I just looked up Black Moon and they have lower numbers than Smif N Wessun. I would have thought it would be the other way around
That’s why this shyt is so interesting to me

 

[mson]

So I just looked up Black Moon and they have lower numbers than Smif N Wessun. I would have thought it would be the other way around
That’s why this shyt is so interesting to me

Why is that?

 

[mobbinfms]

Why is that?

In real time the Black Moon singles felt massive. To me they are some of the best hip hop songs ever. Buckshot was considered one of the best for a short period of time around 93-94.
Smif N Wessun didn’t seem to have the same impact to me.
What was your take in real time? Maybe it felt different in NY.

 

[mson]

In real time the Black Moon singles felt massive. To me they are some of the best hip hop songs ever. Buckshot was considered one of the best for a short period of time around 93-94.
Smif N Wessun didn’t seem to have the same impact to me.
What was your take in real time? Maybe it felt different in NY.

Although I was a young buck during those days. I thought Smiff n Wessun took what BM did and took it a level higher. They carried Duck Down for years.

 

[mobbinfms]

Although I was a young buck during those days. I thought Smiff n Wessun took what BM did and took it a level higher. They carried Duck Down for years.

 

[Young Scrap]

Great thread sir, I couldn't agree more

 

[Controversy]

My quintessential 90s albums are

IWW
The Purple Tape
It's Dark & Hell Is Hot
The Infamous
Illmatic
RTD
AEOM
LAD
Doggystyle
Low End Theory

Depending on the day, my opinion on what's the best album from back then changes

 

[Fresh]

I like Hell On Earth better, that's my go to Mobb Deep album for me

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

My quintessential 90s albums are

IWW
The Purple Tape
It's Dark & Hell Is Hot
The Infamous
Illmatic
RTD
AEOM
LAD
Doggystyle
Low End Theory

Depending on the day, my opinion on what's the best album from back then changes

Decent list, but I’m taking off the infamous, purple tape and LAD, adding RD, atliens, and e. 1999

 

[imfromthesouthside]

It is a special album. Front to the back. The middle is the best part with up north trip and temperature rising. I have the cd in my car. Big Noyd is the man too. If you hate on this it’s the start of your ending boy.