Kick, Push is one of those story songs you never forget. It doesn't even have a shocking ending, it's just the picture he paints throughout that makes it so special.

I gave you power then Stan then dr Carter

Throw in Biggies N words bleed

I Gave You Power
Dr. Carter
Stan
How Much a Dollar Cost

I always personally felt like the technical rhyme schemes took away from the storytelling on HMADC. It’s too wordy

I gave you power
Beat and flow are timeless
but all except Dr. Carter I rate highly

Stan is the one for me. i still get goosebumps every time i hear it

I might create another thread similar to this.

Lupe's def gonna get a mention.

same honestly

stan even my mom knows

dr carter is just a really good song

Damn this tough

Dr Carter has the least interesting concept but it’s the most playable

I like the concept of I Gave You Power but it’s probably my least played of these

Stan and HMADC are 2 of the best story tracks oat

This a good discussion tho

I Gave You Power or HMADC

Kick Push 2

Stan

also wanna show love to When Sparks Fly. for Vince to do a concept that’s already been done hella times, he did a good job making it his own

I only know one of them

Never mind i know stan too.

I honestly love discussing this

What y’all think about these 3

Dr Carter and it’s not close

Gotta go with Stan, love everything about that song from the sample to the scribbles in the background. Masterpiece

How much a dollar cost
Dr carter
Stan
I gave you power

i sat on this question since the thread was created

How Much A Dollar Cost.

Dr Carter is probably the most interesting concept to me, it’s the most unique. It’s very MF DOOM like tbh, taking the classic rap braggadocio style and superimposing a doctor on top of that.

HMADC as a top storytelling cut is insane to me, I can’t imagine thinking that. Every story from Big, Scarface, ice cube and Nas is better.

The Cool and many early Lupe tracks are up there

The other two are classic songs but not top top tier stories for me. Kendrick does too much weird rhyming vocabulary stuff to tell a story effectively most of the time. Duckworth is the definition of overwrought

i gave you power

hated that nas gave up the whole concept of the song in the intro tho

I kinda agree.

The idea of Wayne being a doctor using different procedures to save hip hop from dying was a super clever concept and he executed it well without being too heavy handed with it imho.

Nas tried a somewhat similar concept with "Who Killed It?" on HHID but the accent just hurts the song so much lol.

lol facts

But yeah I feel like people will say the others are better conceptually just because the concepts are “deeper” or more “serious” but Dr. Carter is one of the best pure concept tracks ever to me. It kind of stands out from the others too because it’s just a concept but the others are more stories, even though they’re conceptual stories.

Dr. Carter also can double as a legit instruction on how to rap. I can’t think of any other rappers who broke down the art of rapping so clearly

And it got the message across, had a dope unique beat, but still was a fun song. That and Let the Beat Build were what really made C3 a classic tbh