May 9, 2020

guys... 50 is a great rapper and get rich is a classic debut, but it’s a classic in part because of how big it was; it doesn’t have like half of the best songs 50 had made to that point in his career and doesn’t really showcase the side of him everyone loved before “in da club,” the side you get on “life’s on the line.” it has a handful of mediocre songs. doggystyle is the absolute apex of a subgenre that changed rap forever.

 

May 9, 2020

Doggystyle isnt better than get rich. This is a fact

and em features on get rich is masterful

 

May 7, 2020

like i get what your saying by calling them analogues, but one is named after a sex position and the other is like the entirety of gangsta rap summed up in 5 words

 

May 6, 2020

Also if GRODT isn't the best debut album of all time, name a better/more successful single than In Da Club. That 1 fucken song was 50's debut it was so f---ing succesful

 

May 6, 2020

Illmatic used to be my favorite, but I really have to be in the mood to sit down and listen to it nowadays. Ready to die gets 5 timbs up from me

 

May 6, 2020

Hopsin RAW

 

May 4, 2020

 

May 10, 2020

the influence isn't as obvious as wayne's, but off the top: doesn't this hook remind you of 50?

idk, i often hear 50's nonchalant yet melodic flow in some of Kendrick's 09-12 music, but maybe it's just me

 

May 10, 2020

I revisited doggystyle due to this thread. I admit its better than I remembered. But i would still edge it to get rich

 

May 9, 2020

Apart from gold digger/jesus walks Kanye wasn't globally recognized like 50 till late registration.

50 definitely did run the early 00's your insane to think otherwise. Influence isn't apart of the discussion at present.

Yeah because they couldn't afford Scott storch/Dre/Focuz beats etc

 

May 9, 2020

I remember E-40’s Tell Me When To Go got everyone off their seats in my 8th Grade dance

I miss Ring-tone/Snap, a lot of fun records came out from that

 

May 6, 2020

I don’t know for certain but on some songs Obie sounds identical to 2003 em in flow and rhyme scheme so it’s my assumption

 

May 6, 2020

 

May 5, 2020

2 classic songs. Those are not underwhelming at all.

 

May 5, 2020

Rodeo

 

May 4, 2020

look, get rich was one of the first rap albums i bought on the day of release, i love 50. when you take into account the moment that was, it's definitely a classic. but no album with, like, "poor lil rich," "like my style," "don't push me," and "patiently waiting" is the best rap debut of all time. it doesn't even have most of 50's best songs!