Best Ever Albums

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

cartoken — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:53:26 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 10/19/2011 21:53

not that great, but a solid 75/100 😄

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

Hayden — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:39:28 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/19/2011 21:39

purple wrote:

Hayden wrote:

Kanye, Nas, B.I.G. & Outkast were all hip-hop ever needed 8)

Wu-Tang? Beastie Boys? De la Soul? Tribe Called Quest? Public Enemy? Dre? Eric B. and Rakim? c'mon Hayden

Oh 🫢 Ya. Add Wu-Tang to that list. Agreed.

I do respect A Tribe Called Quest & Public Enemy, but they're not in the best-list.

And De La Soul isn't my cup of tea 🙁

As for Dr. Dre, Rakim & The Beastie Boys, I have a list of better rappers/groups. Dre has the Chronic (which is pretty much 1/2 Snoop Dogg), which is a good album. But he doesn't have any other good material except for that. Rakim is an ok rapper, nothing special when it comes down to it (Eric B. is a good producer though, but I would prefer to leave him out of this). And the Beastie Boys are white-ass-hip-hop 🤣 Ya, they're fun, and parties are great for them, but they aren't quality hip-hop 😐

All of this, is of course, just my opinion. Also, my original comment wasn't to be taken as 'ONLY' those. Of course we need other rappers and producers to listen to, but I'm just saying I could probably live off those 4.

itsit wrote:

Eminem ain't that bad... or at least he wasn't.

EDIT: I've noticed, Tupac dosen't get a lot of love on this site, he only has one album in the top 500 and it's in the 400's, I expected him to rank hiher considering how highly he's ranked

Ya. Eminem has his moments. But, again, I would put him under the same category as Public Enemy & ATCQ. The Slim Shady LP is a hair away from my top 100.

And Tupac is pretty useless 🫢 Lol, I feel like such a troll right now 🤣 I'm just shooting you guys down.

Tupac NEVER did anything good. I honestly don't understand how he even got famous. 🤡 All Eyez On Me is quite lame, and that's pretty much his best.

Considering I'm not going to be very popular after this post ( 😨 ),here's a list of rappers that I recommend people listen to 😜 :

Kanye, Nas, Wu-Tang (+members solo), outkast, & BIG, etc...
Deltron 3030
Elzhi
P.O.S.
MF Doom
Mos Def (& Black Star)
The Roots
Gang Starr

I also think that Jay-Z can have his moments, and he's pretty high up their on my hip-hop list. It just felt wrong not to mention him in this post.

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

alelsupreme — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:04:02 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 10/19/2011 21:04

Eminem ain't that bad... or at least he wasn't.

EDIT: I've noticed, Tupac dosen't get a lot of love on this site, he only has one album in the top 500 and it's in the 400's, I expected him to rank hiher considering how highly he's ranked.

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:01:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/19/2011 21:01

Hayden wrote:

Kanye, Nas, B.I.G. & Outkast were all hip-hop ever needed 8)

Wu-Tang? Beastie Boys? De la Soul? Tribe Called Quest? Public Enemy? Dre? Eric B. and Rakim? c'mon Hayden

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

19loveless91 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:40:14 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 10/19/2011 20:40

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Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

Hayden — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:37:26 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/19/2011 20:37

Le_Samurai wrote:

One of my favorite albums and easily one of the best hip hop albums. For me, it's in the class of Pauls Boutique and It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. It's too bad he never made anything remotely as good as this since.

Paul's Boutique is under Illmatic by a long shot. Sorry 🤣

And I think Nas only really needed this album...it was the prime of the hip-hop era, and he was a person who really understood what hip-hop was. Most people say he had a big ego and stuff cause he said 'hip-hop's dead'...if anyone else said that, I probably would have shrugged it off (If Lil Wayne said that, he'd be dead cause I would have shot him .. 😨 ). But considering Nas said it, you kinda saw the movement happen.

His other stuff is fairly good (mostly 7/10, 6/10 albums), and his recent effort with Damian Marley is quite good.

Kanye, Nas, B.I.G. & Outkast were all hip-hop ever needed 😎

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:54:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/19/2011 19:54

One of my favorite albums and easily one of the best hip hop albums. For me, it's in the class of Pauls Boutique and It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. It's too bad he never made anything remotely as good as this since.

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

Hayden — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:46:31 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/19/2011 19:46

19loveless91 wrote:

the best hip hop albums of all time for sure

😉

100/100 for me.

Re: Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

19loveless91 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:39:24 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 10/19/2011 19:39

One of the best hip hop albums of all time for sure

Album of the day (#342): Illmatic by Nas

BestEverAlbums — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:00:14 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 10/19/2011 19:00

Today's album of the day

Illmatic by Nas (View album)

Year: 1994.
Overall rank: 146.
Average rating: 82/100 (from 117 votes).

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Tracks:
1. The Genesis
2. N.Y. State Of Mind
3. Life's a Bitch
4. The World Is Yours
5. Halftime
6. Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)
7. One Love
8. One Time 4 Your Mind
9. Represent
10. It Ain't Hard to Tell

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.