@ Non East Coast Posters, Do You Have TM101 Ranked Over..

Baltimore checking in ..

TM 101 got a heavier personal rotation from me.

Love both albums, but I guess I'm in the demographic that preferred 101
 
AP4.0 said:
I'll agree

I'm not sure why they are even being compared

BUT

That's not what you posted initially
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it’s because what these folks are doing is they’re taking a very extensively, genius album and comparing it to a barebones, black and white, basic album that Young Jeezy made. Young Jeezy and Raekwon are in two completely different schools bare rap. The problem with a lot of conversations is that people don’t wanna come out and just say that a lot of the rap discussions are what they are because you’re asking a specific coast to go up against another one where lyrics and being not just technically good, and lyrically good, you had to be almost genius level intellect to structure your bars. Then you get folks from the south, who let because they like the album and it’s simplistic and basic rhyme scheme, make them think that a basic rapper making the album you enjoy is better than a lyrical rapper making the album that you enjoy.
 
RandomNegro said:
it’s because what these folks are doing is they’re taking a very extensively, genius album and comparing it to a barebones, black and white, basic album that Young Jeezy made. Young Jeezy and Raekwon are in two completely different schools bare rap. The problem with a lot of conversations is that people don’t wanna come out and just say that a lot of the rap discussions are what they are because you’re asking a specific coast to go up against another one where lyrics and being not just technically good, and lyrically good, you had to be almost genius level intellect to structure your bars. Then you get folks from the south, who let because they like the album and it’s simplistic and basic rhyme scheme, make them think that a basic rapper making the album you enjoy is better than a lyrical rapper making the album that you enjoy.
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Valid points

Or niggas need to stop making everything a comparison as it starts to make people think you can only enjoy one instead of both
 
AP4.0 said:
I'll agree

I'm not sure why they are even being compared

BUT

That's not what you posted initially
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RandomNegro said:
it’s because what these folks are doing is they’re taking a very extensively, genius album and comparing it to a barebones, black and white, basic album that Young Jeezy made. Young Jeezy and Raekwon are in two completely different schools bare rap. The problem with a lot of conversations is that people don’t wanna come out and just say that a lot of the rap discussions are what they are because you’re asking a specific coast to go up against another one where lyrics and being not just technically good, and lyrically good, you had to be almost genius level intellect to structure your bars. Then you get folks from the south, who let because they like the album and it’s simplistic and basic rhyme scheme, make them think that a basic rapper making the album you enjoy is better than a lyrical rapper making the album that you enjoy.
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The albums are being compared because due to 50 and TI back and forth, the old NY vs the South argument came to Twitter again and somebody randomly threw Jeezy and Raekwon names in it. Also because of people saying shit like "needing genius level intellect to structure your bars" when talking about NY when that ain't the case for most NY rappers.

And yes, a rapper with a basic rhyme scheme can and have made better albums than rappers who are more lyrical.
 
Who still really is out here from NY claiming shit like “you need genius intelligence to structure yours bars”

Sure a rapper with a basic rhyme scheme can make a better album than a lyrical rapper. But this isn’t the case here. Then again this should have never been a comparison
 
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I've listened to TM101 exactly twice. The second time was to make sure I heard it right the first time.

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Meanwhile, OB4CL is in weekly rotation in my ride.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
OB4CL is my favorite album in any genre and I can't listen to it in its entirety all at once more than two or three times a year. How do ya'll listen 30 year old albums that frequently? lol
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Prolly 'cause I don't care for the overwhelming majority of new shit. Shits is hard as hell to listen to.

OB4CL puts me in that mental space I was in when I first picked it up back in '95. Issa whole ass vibe right there.
 
In 1995 in the South, (What was going on)

This album got no play in the South (in real time) not sure why we are asking folks this question in 2026, when most of the folks weren't listening to rap music in 1995


I never heard that other album 5 times anywhere in the South. I've never heard any soul in the south requesting this album or recommending anybody to go cop this album from your Circuit City, or Walmart, or any record shop


I know a very few people (at that time) in the South didn't even knew who Raekon was, put it like this, Raekon was more known by most niggas in the south when he jumped on Rick Ross song.

No Diss, I just like to live in the moment and I think that's why the tweet/question was asked to see how the temp was when that album dropped, unless he's talking about present time. idk

In 1995, that shit got no play in the South by nobody other than a nigga who was visiting a HBCU from NY or the tri-state area. And even then, that nigga was called weird for listening to that.

That shit in the tri-state just didn't get any run down here.
 
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