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Illmatic connects jazz to hip hop much more organically than TPAB

illmatic

Cmon man

IMO gkmc more impactful tbh

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As much as I love tpab, Illmatic is more important. May change in another 20 years

Today, Illmatic. Idk if that will change but right now it's not especially close.

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As other have said though, right now Illmatic by a large margin, but who knows in the future

For the culture itself, I'd probably go with illmatic for setting that standard at the time for lyrical ability and storytelling.

TPAB I would argue is more important for individual growth, in terms of hearing and discovering things about situations from a different POV. I'd say Mr. Morale is the same in this regard.

Feel like there’s a hip-hop pre-Illmatic and after

illmatic but tpab is like right there

both overrated but illmatic extremely influential down to the album cover so yeah

F*** off

Illmatic

Dumbass question. Illmatic literally changed how people rapped on a song TPAB is entertaining not groundbreaking

Ready to die the same year too. Both changed the game forever

It’s not even close lol

it’s Illmatic. I don’t like this question though cause the two shouldn’t be compared

TPAB had no impact on music let's be real

If I were to choose a single hip hop album to send to space to show aliens wtf it is id choose illmatic

TPAB doesn’t even come into consideration there