The Greatest Rap Album Ever

[Monoblock]

Still got a sealed OG vinyl copy in my crates

Still got my vinyl Illmatic sealed.

 

[Monoblock]

funny thing is on oversees versions of the album Silent Murder is on the tacklist not as a bonus

I think it was also on the US cassette just not on the US CD release

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Man if I was young I would been all over this thread. But the last rap album to make me be like WOAH. was

AT THE TIME that shyt blew me completely away in College.

 

[num123]

Off of the top my head, my be different later:

 

[Artfull Dodger]

Still got a sealed OG vinyl copy in my crates

Got the cassette ...The Goat blessed my childhood

 

[JMD]

Nope.
Hip hop heads in real time in 1996 hated this sellout album.

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.hip-hop/c/k5Li9c1HjVQ/m/s4a51Xj2I9EJ

Spot on review, even though I fw Take It In Blood & Live N***a Rap

review is trash

how can someone not like “Take It In Blood”?

 

[King Kai]

Get mad at ya mama not me

 

[Apollo Creed]

eh. Brooklyns finest is amazing but outside of that, RD didnt invoke the emotions that IWW did for me

 

[Conscious Pilot]

eh. Brooklyns finest is amazing but outside of that, RD didnt invoke the emotions that IWW did for me

I love IWW and even these days I prefer it over Illmatic ...but the opening song technically being Street Dreams though

 

[Apollo Creed]

I love IWW and even these days I prefer it over Illmatic ...but the opening song technically being Street Dreams though

I think IWW shines because it is a great balance of commercial and authenticity if that makes sense. Illmatic is more raw than Stillmatic, where for purist that is great but IWW is more 'well rounded' if you ask me. In retro spect I have come to appreciate 90s commercial or Jiggy tracks simply because the negativity is lower, I'm grown with money, and I get fly lol.

In general my steeze when it came to NYC rap was more on the Nas, AZ, Cam,Mase, Raekwon type stuff.

 

[Jerz-2]

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

 

[Kool Kitty Kat]

but the opening song technically being Street Dreams though

Say what now? How does that work?

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Say what now? How does that work?

Intro wasn’t a song... The Message was essentially the Opening Track, Street Dreams was the 2nd actual song on the album. Dont act obtuse.

 

[Cadillac]

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