All imma say is, you steady running your mouth about an album that's extremely important to the genre, and claiming that you never even listened to the album or artist is wack as s***.

Just sit this one out.

Cacs start listening to hip-hop in the 2010s and have the audacity to speak on the genre and its pioneers without even having knowledge on them. Even going so far as to mock them.

Watch them have a fit whenever someone speaks bad on The Beatles though.

never spoke on the album.... and the beatles are trash

i mean there has been some fans from those genres who do disavow those older acts but not as much as hip hop. it’s cos hip hop is a young man’s game and also it evolves all the time so expecting someone to like some s*** from 30 years ago is hard when hip hop changes so much each decade that people will find rap way before their time kinda obsolete. hip hop is a very ageist genre too u get constant jokes online rn about how rappers should be jazz artists if they’re 40 etc.

paid in full influenced some of the realest rawest most legendary MC's while 808's influenced some emo meatballs hmm

808s did more than that and u know it a lot of modern r&b and pop is inspired by it directly or indirectly and is the reason why mainstream music is a lot more moodier than before. i still think paid in full more influential but respect 808s

rock fans def do it all the time lol and dedicated pop fans are mad disrespectful too if you've browsed any forums

C'mon bro

what the f***. i am in tears right now.

808s

paid in full

paid in full

It's really corny as hell you got people who are damn near proud to proclaim they've never listened to a prolific artist who was important to the growth of the genre. Swear it's bozos like that who got the most to say about the genre and they have very little knowledge and insight on as they probably only recently got into it.

You never listened to that artist who's an important figure in the genre you claim to be a fan of? You should probably get on that, because it's pretty damn sad. Especially when that artist influenced your favorites.

paid in full is one of the most foundational albums to the genre

eric b and rakim influenced kanye west and pretty much damn near every artist that came after them in the 90s

This is actually pretty tough

Paid in full started the shift from the simplistic rhymes to an increase focus on lyricism in rap

While 808s started the shift from gangster rap to more moody feeling based rap with an addition of singing and autotune

808s duh wtf

Rakim don't meant have one song as powerful as " Coldest Winter"

808s

nope. i just like listening to stuff that sounds good to my ears (which is mostly s*** pre-2010)

THINKING OF A MASTER PLAN

Both some f***ing dust

well i'm a young nigga and i choose rakim and eric b

ayoo

We gone start giving the credit to Miseducation and The Love Below for this new era emo sound idc