I consider it a perfect rap album front to back, everything flows on it

Not mad at this but this is part of why albums be getting forgotten

The new gen actually judges albums on their covers more and prioritizes “aesthetic” over everything, so if a rap album doesn’t have a minimalist aesthetic album art it doesn’t have as good a chance at living on in the new space

Still I Rise has some of his best records too his Outlawz group album that was stuck in label shelf hell forever but thanfully it got released post in 99 even tho it was suppose come out years prior

Thug Life is better to me overall than AEOM but AEOM of course has higher highs and iconic status

Nah there was a few threads of niggas arguing that its not a classic and that the songs were weak outside the 50 ones - it happened during Covid and last year

Lotta niggas are OD dumb on here when something is talked about that isnt 90s Eastcoast or 2010s south

Baby Don’t Cry (Keep Ya Head Up 2) used to play on the radio constantly where I’m from, was the first Pac song along with changes that I knew around 2000

It’s weird to me that the song doesn’t seem like it was ever that big and definitely isn’t remembered now

Was it just my local station spamming this song

it being a 3peat makes it even crazier for me and they all had major hits and were huge

AND they released one year after another - the literal blueprint of 2010s south

Street classic

Album as a whole might feel a but outdated, but the title track is pretty much timeless

FAXX, And LDB is a deep cut

And yeah The Fix is lower for me too, something about the mixing (and other early 2000s Rap) im not a fan of overall although i dont hate. I think its the mix mash of still hardware but mixed with early software that give a lot of rap albums drom 2000 to like 2003 (although not all) a very distinct mix sound

Kingdom Come from Jay (although being from 2006) has a similar weird mixing of that era too but worst and one of the reason i dont like most of KC. If I had to guess, he was prob still using the same equipment of that weird time period of mixing since he was gone for like 3 years solo.

But anyways, my favs:

Untouchable > Diary > My Homies 1 > The World is Yours > The Fix

HM to Dying Breed

One of the most consistent discogs ever. And Scar also floats back n forth of my top 10 to top 20 depending on day.

Renaissance is such a good album, Dilla as a producer really understood complex melodies/instrumentation

Deltron, Moment of Truth & Jeru i def agree

Rap albums for Rappers type ish that had massive impact in that way as well

Moment was always my fav too over Gangstars more talked about classic Hard to Earn

A lot of the b sides got a Houston influence

a lot of west coasts more "non stereotype" (to the general mainstream) rap albums and artists are left in the past too much outside of hiphop heads and muscians

such as LA's Pharcyde or Bayarea's Del/Deltron 3030, Hieroglyphics & them etc. but they had a major impact in a whole different way which was more so towards sound/style design and artist inspo

that part, history and group of both bay n LA got done wrong overall in modern times

I feel like Paper Trails doesn't get enough love today for being a pop rap classic

I would say word of mouf is

That heltah skeltah album is insane

Pharcyde are legends too me, their first 2 albums are great.

Cheers Obie Trice

alright i got one more

That was guy was fire asf

Sad that bruh was swagless. Had potential.