Now that time has passed, do we consider "Compton" to be a classic?

Started by jjtreach90, Aug 20, 2021, in Music Add to Reading List

Is "Compton" a classic?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

    79.5%
  1. joeyp363
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    Aug 21, 2021
    100% f---ing classic.
     
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  2. Michael Myers
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    Aug 21, 2021
    Yeah exactly. To you. And I agree btw w good kid and mbdtf. But personally yeezus is just a good album for me where others would laugh at that and say its a classic (or some losers even insult me for it). Thats why I said its hard to really define a classic still so short after its release.
     
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  3. Michael Myers
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    His voice on medicine man and talk about it definitely not for me either but he sounds fine on the rest of the album imo. Especially my diary, all on me, deep water, all in a days work.

    Man mentioning these songs want to make me relisten already
     
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  4. Yeez
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    Yeez Speak a little Chinese for 'Em Derek!

    Aug 21, 2021
    Classic without a doubt
     
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  5. Oldboy
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    Aug 21, 2021
    Listening to 2001 today was mind blowing

    my god. Might be the greatest hip hop album of all time.
     
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  6. Rodamon
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    As discussed, not a classic but a surprisingly good album in a very late period of Dre career. It sounded exactly like it was supposed to be, I dont know how else can i explain it.

    However, much like 2001, the album drags on the second half

    As for his voice, I think he mimicked Kendrick weird cadences, since he was a huge influence around that time
     
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  7. Raziel
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    Aug 21, 2021
    Nah, haven't listened to it since its release
     
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  8. BIGFOOT
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    Aug 21, 2021
    Idk… his voice just doesn’t hit the same I guess. It’s very noticeable for my ears, if it wasn’t, I’d probably like the album a bit more.
     
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  9. Spider Man
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    Spider Man With the hyphen

    Aug 21, 2021
    Yes. It's my favorite album of the 2010s.
     
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    Aug 21, 2021
     
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    Good album. I was happy when Dre finally let his stuff onto Spotify. We throwing the word classic around too often.
     
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    Aug 21, 2021
    d--- spider man how you typin this post with your sticky fingers?
     
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  14. joeyp363
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    Nah, too many throwaway tracks imo
     
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    Aug 21, 2021
    Good album. Not a classic.

    To be a classic, an album has to be highly influential to the culture.
     
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  16. dkdnfbdjdkdddjdjfvcgfl
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    Nah classic is like if it's on a whole nother level, nobody else is doing this, forces everyone to stop in their tracks, and still constantly gets talked about and put on a pedestal with other artists "whoa this is like his ______" etc.

    Compton's a hella good closing album from Dre, all the room in the world for it to be a letdown after the long Detox hype, and it resisted that pretty successfully. But outside of here, no one's rly talking about it or playing it much anymore.
     
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