No 90s Hip Hop Album has Stood The Test of Time Quite Like Mobb Deep’s The Infamous - GOAT Album
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Album probably gets more streams off of “Shook Ones” alone. Also, Mobb Deep and the Infamous got that whiteboy stimmy off the strength of “Shook Ones” and “Survival of the fittest” being featured on 8 Mile. I’m surprised Infamous didn’t go platinum after that because white Eminem stans gravitated towards anything he co-signed in the early 2000’s.
And Infamous going only Gold in the 90’s was actually a feat back in then. Cuban Linx only went Gold back then too. Reasonable Doubt only went Gold in 96’ too, didn’t go plat until years later. Illmatic didn’t go gold until the It Was Written era two years later. Hip Hop was still very much an underground phenomenon in the 90’s. Only rap dudes moving heavy units in 95-96’ was Biggie, Pac and Nas once he traded his army suit for a pink suit.
If we being honest, albums like Reasonable Doubt stood the test of time better than Infamous because no one is on that “fukk looking cute I’m strictly Timb boots and army certified suits” wave anymore.That shyt died literally the next year in 96’.
By 96’, everyone was on some flexing shyt. Even Pac and Nas. nikkas try to look cuter than ever now wearing “designer” brands traditionally worn by women and wearing purses and shyt. San Quinn and Messy Marv Explosive Mode matches the themes of this current era more than the Infamous. They rapping about Gucci, Versace, breaking bytches and flexing.
Run DMC
Beastie Boys
LL Cool J
Whodini
Salt N Pepa
Fat Boys
Kool Moe Dee
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Public Enemy
Slick Rick
2 Live Crew
De La Soul
All went platinum in the 80s, some multi-platinum
Many went platinum in the early 90s as well.
Serious breh? U think party overs the weakest? I love that track the weakest track to me is probably drink away the pain or cradle to the grave (for how minimalistic the production is) there still good thoI won't argue it's my 2nd favorite behind Illmatic 3rd is the Purple Tape
41st side get bent, run wild
41st side get bent, run wild
The 41st side get bent, run wild
Some of Ya'll nikkaz is weird shyttin' on @mobbinfms opinion The Infamous definitely up there for Greatest album of all time. The weak track on there is Party's Over every other song is all time classic. Not many albums compare
Air Nikes N Hats
Poor mans Johnny Football Lifestyle!
Hell on Earth, The Infamous, and Murda Muzak…..I really can’t think of any group/duo who had a three run album that good.
Straight Outta Compton
100 Miles and Runnin
nikkaz 4 Life
Grip it on the other level
We Can’t Be Stopped
Till Death Do Us Part
I don’t think hip hop became the most popular genre until 98, so I see his point.
P’s last verse on that
What do you mean aged bad as fukk?
There is a difference between "most popular genre" and "was still very much underground" as he stated. Run DMC was played on MTV in 84, years before "Walk This Way" made them household names. Hip hop was very much a popular genre long before 98, and before 1990. They even added a rap grammy in 89.
You don't have numerous artists going platinum and multi-platinum in an "very much underground" genre.
He got his history wrong.
I agree with you. I’m just saying that the mainstream reach of hip hop through the mid 90s was much smaller than the late 90s and on. But you are right that he grossly exaggerated by calling it “very much underground”
For your daps,
The infamous mobb, and Das son now listen
Stick you for the only pot you got to piss in
Rappin school keep the key in the ignition
When we get back n we shine and glisten
Your seven do his thing with precision
No time for broke livin, I'm trying to see addition
With food to fill my kitchen
So f kids snitchin givin info
We do a drive by in a stolen black pinto
With tinted windows, bullets'll flurry through your system
Your man ran lucky for him because we missed him
Big Willie Style 
I have no idea who is still listening to that, or Gangsta’s Paradise in 2022, but they both do numbersBig Willie Style
