classic albums // basick, what do you think are classic albums? Options

[*basick*]

what do you consider to be classics?

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Blackalicious - NIA
Cunninlynguistics - Southerundergeround
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
D`angelo - Brown Sugar
Eminem - Infinite
Jay-Z - Resonable Doubt
John Legend - Get Lifted
LAURYN HILL - THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL
Nas - Illmatic
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Stop Us
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

[WTFwasIthinking]

what do you consider to be classics?

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Blackalicious - NIA
Cunninlynguistics - Southerundergeround
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
D`angelo - Brown Sugar
Eminem - Infinite
Jay-Z - Resonable Doubt
John Legend - Get Lifted
LAURYN HILL -  THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL
Nas - Illmatic
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Stop Us
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

wow, can't believe you named Infinite a classic... it's a lyrical classic but it's not a CLASSIC in general because beats and flow was off... lyrically, that's one of the greatest albums ever though

some of mine:
John Legend - Get Lifted
Eminem - Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers LP
Common - Ressurection and Like Water for Chocolate
The Roots - Phrenology
Kanye West - College Dropout (every track is fire)
Nas - Illmatic (even though I don't consider It Was Written a classic but think it's better)
Biggie - Life After Death (though he's the most overrated MC of all-time)
Talib Kweli - Reflection Eternal, Blackstar (with Mos Def), and Beautiful Struggle
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides and Blackstar (with Talib Kweli)
Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs
Mariah Carey - Number 1's (lmfao - that's cheatin' but it is)
Janet Jackson - I forget the name of the album but her first one I believe... SICK ALBUM
Michael Jackson - Thriller
TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool
Boys II Men - a few of their albums
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint, and Black Album
Dr. Dre - The Chronic and Chronic 2001
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

that's all for now............

[*basick*]

Jay-Z - Blueprint, and Black Album

please and im out for today 1

[WTFwasIthinking]

please  and im out for today 1

no, not please... every track on those two albums were FIRE

and I haven't listened to all of Grey Album but I doubt the versions of Lucifer, Encore, Public Service Announcement, and Moment of Clarity are gon' be better cuz I can't see how a beat could fit better to how and what he spit.........

[hi-C]

and I haven't listened to all of Grey Album but I doubt the versions of Lucifer, Encore, Public Service Announcement, and Moment of Clarity are gon' be better cuz I can't see how a beat could fit better to how and what he spit.........

But the beat makes all the difference. While not messing anything up contentwise, the beat determines how the words are to flow, or how they should flow. You know when someone is just off rythmically, when they say a word at the wrong time, or say it in a wrong way? That's just from lack of listening to the beat.

That and a beat makes or breaks a song. Look at Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life." Lyrically not all that but the Annie sample, that bass line made that damn song.