I would saw a lot but I’m pretty lax with what I would consider a classic. I also believe that not all classics are equal.
Fair
Q-Tip? Snoop? You putting them but not Big L, Big Pun, s*** even guys like Fab, Jada, Banks, Game, T.I., 50 are more worthy than Snoop
They dont have the catalog. I prefer pun and L, but snoop essentially gave us the chronic, reinvented westcoast flow, doggystyle, did his thing on 2001, gave us some great early 2000's classics. He has the catalog, people forget. And lets not pretend tribe aint got like the most flawless discog in the whole damn game. I love pun and L, but they died young, not leaving much material
goodbye and good riddance is def a classic for my gen ngl
He defo doesnt have a classic
i mean yh death race might eb better but GBGR has like 4 undeniable classic huge generational hit songs and is a defining record of that soundcloud era and his whole type of rap, it influenced a lot of artists that came after him, and you probably knew atleast a few people that were obsessed with juice wrld or looked up to him right? i remember he was the largest thing in the world to us at one point and so many people looked up to him and played him nonstop for years, esp goodbye good riddance. like even in 2020 and 2024 i knew guys in my hs that were obsessed with him esp that album
that album has all girls are the same, lucid dreams, wasted, armed & dangerous, and lean wit me back to back as the first quarter
It has huge songs but it doesnt make it a classic album. Similarly Scorpion by Drake isnt a classic.
i mean yh death race might eb better but GBGR has like 4 undeniable classic huge generational hit songs and is a defining record of that soundcloud era and his whole type of rap, it influenced a lot of artists that came after him, and you probably knew atleast a few people that were obsessed with juice wrld or looked up to him right? i remember he was the largest thing in the world to us at one point and so many people looked up to him and played him nonstop for years, esp goodbye good riddance. like even in 2020 and 2024 i knew guys in my hs that were obsessed with him esp that album
that album has all girls are the same, lucid dreams, wasted, armed & dangerous, and lean wit me back to back as the first quarter
I’m not denying he made a big splash in the scene, but i don’t think it’s all particulary bc of GB&GR, he just got big looks as an artist in general. There might be some big hits on there but i just don’t feel like that makes it a classic either.
And i know, it’s a whole different subgenre of hiphop but since that’s where we started off, there’s no way GB&GR comes close to any of the classics by Pac & Big
Imagine taking post malone opinion on hiphop seriously and saying this bs
I was trolling, I’ve felt terrible all day honestly joking bout this I hope it doesn’t bring me bad karma
Culturally, academically
Pac is default in the Mount Rushmore of rap I know that much. Literally rap Superman
the older you get the more you realize that the biggie and pac narrative is basically like having juice wrld or xxxtentacion in your top 5 but for oldheads
Biggie? Yeah
Pac? No
Would you say there were a lot of classic albums from 2018 to now then?
Id say astroworld, some rap songs, die lit, icedancer are p easily classics from 2018
Victory Lap, Care For me, Daytona, Tana Talk 3, maybe too but way more debatable, moreso for their scene or w/e. 2018 was a stacked year
If u mean since 2018 id say AI youngboy 2, pray for Paris, meet the woo 2, whole lotta red, E, a great chaos, my turn, wunna maybe
It has huge songs but it doesnt make it a classic album. Similarly Scorpion by Drake isnt a classic.
Scorpion by Drake isn’t a beloved and influential album
I’m not denying he made a big splash in the scene, but i don’t think it’s all particulary bc of GB&GR, he just got big looks as an artist in general. There might be some big hits on there but i just don’t feel like that makes it a classic either.
And i know, it’s a whole different subgenre of hiphop but since that’s where we started off, there’s no way GB&GR comes close to any of the classics by Pac & Big
no one saying it’s on the level of a 30 year old album yea lol
But yeah idk how this is controversial on ktt if u go to most younger rap communities it’s like universally p agreed upon that it’s THE juice wrld album and a classic
I don't think Biggie is in Tupac's league
Wayne is tho
get me off this this f***ing planet man