is your issue with the album or the qualification of a classic?
should an album stand the test of time before you can consider it a classic???
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is your issue with the album or the qualification of a classic?
should an album stand the test of time before you can consider it a classic???
Illmatic was considered a classic BEFORE it came out. Writers had to listen to albums for a few days and write their review to turn it in before albums were released so it would make the monthly issue of the mag on the same month the album was going to drop. This is not a new album thing.
Joshie Kahn
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so writers have a few days to review and album and that makes it a classic?
how many other albums have they deemed a classic using this same criteria?
if we are using a magazine like the source as a credible opinion, in the first 10 years of their history, they had only given 15 albums initial 5 mic reviews
15 in ten years!!!
according to Kendrick's cult in here, every album he's released has been a classic
in comparison, these notable albums werent rated 5 mics until 2002
- Run-D.M.C. – Run-D.M.C.
- Radio – LL Cool J
- Raising Hell – Run-D.M.C.
- Paid in Full – Eric B. & Rakim
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemy
- Long Live the Kane – Big Daddy Kane
- Strictly Business – EPMD
- The Great Adventures of Slick Rick – Slick Rick
- Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A
- No One Can Do It Better – The D.O.C.
- All Eyez on Me – 2Pac
but somehow, Kendrick batting 1.000 with each release?
miss me with that
ya'll just prisoners of the moment...just own the shit
NO....ya'll calling it a classic after two days of it being released
ya'll would be giving the source all kinds of shit if they said Illmatic was a classic and the shit sucked
again, being prisoners of the moment
the latter
my bad, i thought i answered that
my point is, let the album be out for a while
if you rocking with it initially, then cool. If you have the same opinion 3 years from now, it might be a classic...10 years from now? there is no doubt
People are consuming music at a rate like never before. There is SOOOO much music out. If you playing this in heavy rotation among other new and old music, then ok...it might just be that good
If i have a choice be/t 400 degreez and a lot of these albums that come out today that people regard as classics, i'm picking 400 EVERYDAY b/c of its replay value and not a few songs on the album i kinda fuck with and can do w/o some other ones
What are you talking about?
You said that it wasn't done back in the day and it was. Illmatic was considered a classic before it even came out and is still considered a classic. So your point of it being too early is negated.
so
so to goldies point, do you disagree with the source naming albums 5 mics AS THEY WERE RELEASED????
i'm not talking about the ones they went back and changed.. i'm talked the ones that were ranked 5 mics originally?
so to goldies point, do you disagree with the source naming albums 5 mics AS THEY WERE RELEASED????
i'm not talking about the ones they went back and changed.. i'm talked the ones that were ranked 5 mics originally?
the music was consumed much differently than it is now
people used to get copies of the album a couple of weeks ahead of release schedule in order to give a review for a monthly publication
my point about the source was that in 10 years, out of the hundreds and hundreds of albums that were released, only 15 got an initial 5 mic rating. THAT was my point. They werent just going around calling shit classic albums after a weekend listen.
If you are going to use that as ammunition against my earlier points, then so be it. But I will say that i am a more conscious consumer of music at 34 vs when i was say 21. I am more careful of just throwing out the word classic around.
hell im even surprised MBTDF got 5 mics vs College Dropout, but thats another discussion for another day
i just addressed that
Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
I enjoy this album very much after 3 listens. Tbh, this is the first Kendrick album i like soon after hearing it. Section 80, GKMC, and TPAB were all sitting in my phone for months after the first listen, then i would re listen after some time and ended up loving them. Great work.
That Duckworth song though.. 9th Wonder went full on "Walk Like a Man" on that beat. Shit was fire.
That Duckworth song though.. 9th Wonder went full on "Walk Like a Man" on that beat. Shit was fire.
Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
I wonder why Kendrick and Dr. Dre barely make music together anymore. Dre aint produced shit since GKMC and Kendrick only had that one feature on Compton.
Ironman
Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist
Chemistry. Sometimes you just don't have that like a Rapsody/9th wonder or Royce da 5'9 and Premo