In 2018, someone in hip-hop HAS to drop a classic album. It's time.

Started by DEXPER, Nov 27, 2017, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Fazers
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    Nov 27, 2017
    didn't read OP or any of the thread but kanye already dropped yeezus
     
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    You really love yeezus
     
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    EBBTG and Painting Pictures came out this year.
     
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    Neon Icon dropped in 2014 so.......
     
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  6. The Lyricvore
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    Isn’t RA the rugged man putting out a album next year?

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    This has been an amazing year for rap.
     
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    well it's very clearly a classic and better than GKMC
     
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    But I mean lots of albums that are gonna be entered into the hip-hop canon as classics have dropped since then. lol
     
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    Butterfly, like I said in the OP, has too much controversy around it. I personally think it's an instant classic. Kendrick's best and most complex album. Recently, Charlemagne also revealed that he thinks the album is indeed incredible and ahead of it's time. But the impact wasn't as receptive as GKMC. GKMC put the entire game on watch. People tried to make their own versions of it and everything. Impact. Kendrick literally shot into Top 3 rapper because of this album. Even was being put into the GOAT conversation as well as being compared to Illmatic. INSTANTLY.



    I remember so many people who weren't even into rap telling me "HEY, you heard that Kendrick album?" I even put people who hated Kendrick onto him because of that album. Drake coming out saying it was the "last great concept album" , major praise from legends etc.
    It was just so much going on around this time man lmao. It was incredible. Feels dope even discussing it.



    Nobody has came out with anything this strong since then. The only other recent album that did this same thing was MBDTF. Which came out like, 2 years prior. Something like a moment in time. For everybody.

    I want a lot of artists to achieve this, but I'm genuinely taking out any bias and looking at this objectively. Who really has what it takes to ascend to this level? It's been 5 d--- years. It's time.
     
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    Definitely disagree
     
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    Future, YG, & Tiller already blessed us with classics since GKMC tho ?
     
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    Can't believe there are still people who haven't accepted the fact that Yeezus is the greatest album oat in any genre
     
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    gkmc is his least complex album by far lol. That's not a knock on it, but TPAB, d---, and S80 all deal with more abstract and complicated concepts. GKMC is pretty straightforward, and that's not necessarily a bad thing...but I dunno why it's painted as this ultra-complex album.
     
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    future
     
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    what the f--- are you smoking
     
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  18. Sqrt Sqrt
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    Why he look like if the that dude from Hunger Games was homeless
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    depends if revival drops in 2017 or 18
     
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    TPAB is considered more classic than GKMC though
     
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