Hip Hop: The real, The Ill Options

[dao]

It pains me to see that the first few pages of this forum barely mentions anything about real hip hop artists. So, since the last legit thread was a couple of years ago, I thought it was time to share and discover whats good. I'm open to everything, I hope you are too.

Let's start off with one of the best hip hop album of all time:

Nas' Illmatic



This is the first major album of Nas' career. With powerful lyricism and mad flow, Illmatic could be consider his perfect album. With tracks like "Life's A B**ch" and lines like

"It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind "

- N.Y State Of Mind

this album was a breakthrough for lyrical rap.


If you were to listen to just one song I'd say "Life's A B**ch"



Please add to this list :]

[brooklyneast05]

what are we supposed to do in this topic again? the last legit hip hop topic wasn't a couple years ago, it was probably last year, but i gave up because 99% of the people here don't listen to hip hop so they aren't interested in talking about it.


i have this album. i think i always choose NY state of mind or the world is yours over lifes a bitch.

[iRapediCarly]

what are we supposed to do in this topic again? the last legit hip hop topic wasn't a couple years ago, it was probably last year, but i gave up because 99% of the people here don't listen to hip hop so they aren't interested in talking about it.

yeah but it always evolved around arguments, or at least from my experience with that little twirp asian kid, forgot his name, the dude eddie lil kept PSing photos off of