OP you had me in the first half, was about to spam thread with

KD1 not a classic btw.

Distant Relatives s***s on KD1 and KD2 lmao

He sure did a lot of times but he still made classics out of them which raises his bar even more

I don’t think you know what the word classic means

They’re potential classics, too early to be actual classics, but the quality is there and in the case of KD1 the impact as well

a good/great album ≠ a classic but if it‘s a personal classic for you then it‘s cool

I literally just explained… I’m aware they’re not actual classics because they’ve not been out long enough, but what I’m saying is they have the qualities to potentially be classics. KD 1 brought Nas back to the forefront and won a Grammy and KD2 improved further on the concept, but has literally been out 2 days so it’s impossible to know the impact, but the acclaim has been pretty universal

I think you are very deep into the Nas stan spectrum brother, with all due respect

Which doesn’t invalidate your personal ranking, but I was trying to speak from a more neutral observer perspective. I don’t think Stillmatic is a 9.5 to a good bit of folks. I think IWW is that

So one classic? Yeah exactly

grammy's again

Nastradamus has some great songs too

Nas picks bad beats

Ive literally not heard a single album in OP

How can you be a hiphop fan and not at least of heard illmatic

I like interesting hip hop

Never understood the Nas only has one classic argument. He had duds like most artists but his discography is also better than moats.

His best selection hate is also exaggerated

Aren’t you a carti Stan?

Case in point

So you like rappers that don’t actually rap

you 12yo ?