Let’s goooooooo

That’s true. Should Speakerboxxx/The Love Below be in this conversation then given all of its’ accolades and influence?

I don’t think there’s any “perfect” classics but some come close

I haven’t listened to it enough to really judge it but I know it’s influence. I think so

Illmatic is perfect.
Doggystyle, The Infamous, Life After Death, all perfect.

The Chronic and 2001 are 4.5's tbh

seeing way too much rap ITT

Nah. CHWM will always be his best project....and that's a 4 mic album imo

Life after death has a few filler songs

I mean it is the greatest genre

Thread initially called the perfect hip hop classic

This is the perfect classic

Hadn’t aged a day

My fault, I meant Ready To Die

I wouldn’t call Ready to Die perfect either but it’s a great record, I can’t really argue with you

What would you say are the "imperfect" songs or skits?

hot take but i would call this a modern day classic. no skips. game changing impact. too many hits

reflections in real time 🥰

Me & my b****
Friend of Mine

All the others dope actually

I don’t F*** with him saying the F word a lot but that’s how rap was

Edit oh you said skits I ain’t trying to hear him f***

Neither of the songs you picked are bad. Actually Me & My B**** is among the standouts imo.

Respect tho.

And yeah, all the problematic lyrics were definitely symptomatic of the culture as a whole during that era.

I agree me & my b****/friend of mine aren’t up to par with the other songs but I still think you have to call it a classic. Did too much for the game

Classic yeah but not perfect

Respect is a cool song