The wording of your last sentence made me think about Tribe's debut album which I have some nostalgia for due to my dad.

How do you feel about Utopia personally?

real s***

my family and i are real music heads. especoally rap, and so in turn most of my friends too

cant pin it down to a singular album in totality with how much music has played in the background of my life. it really does depend on context and specifics.

if thread was just about childhood, just about parents or just about friends or first girlfriend etc. by indivdually itself then i would have a more straight forward answer

its ok - only a couple tracks a revisit

i do think astroworld is better and a lot more tracks have stuck with me than utopia

i have three, moodymann - black mahogani, s***pistols -never mind the blocks and eduardo mateo - solo bien se lame.

Carter3 maybe as it really introduced me to hiphop.

Carter 3 and Graduation if I had to pick. Both instantly take me back to middle school. I can still remember the very first time listening to certain songs. Just reminds me of simpler times always puts me in a good mood

Stoned Immaculate hard af you real for that @op

Life Is Good is top 3 Nas to me

I remember hearing both albums constantly and listening to them all the time. Grad used to play on the radio constantly and A Milli even had casuals dissecting bars like crazy.

I remember this one Haitian girl in my old school said that Wayne wasn't the best rapper alive in October of 2008 and me and my friends were so mad af at her lol. In hindsight, it didn't warrant that response but the fact that simply saying that could trigger people was a testament to how dominant he was then.

Wouldn’t even be mad. It’s such a good late career album (or would it be a mid career album).

The production being consistently great was much needed at that point for Nas. It’s a pivotal album

Probably GKMC. I was late to the party on that album by almost a year, I heard it for the first time in full in September 2013. I had heard Swimming Pools prior and all the praise he was receiving, but I just thought he was cool, if a little overhyped.

I couldn’t afford an IPod for listening in school so I had to make do with a s***ty mp3 player. I copped a CD from the library and burned it to my computer at home and then moved the songs onto the MP3 to bump out and about. I listened to GKMC for the first time in a very boring math class in 10th grade and I’ll never forget the feeling of hearing a classic like that for the first time and understanding what the praise was all about. It was a beautiful awakening.

I couldn’t necessarily relate to the struggles of living in a community like Compton and dealing with the same issues he was going through, but I did connect with his honesty and vulnerability in the work. Very impactful.

Rodeo, Some Rap Songs and TLOP4 have been soundtracks to different emotional parts of my life

And I’d usually just have memories of events or where I was at when playing each and every song off those 3 albums especially

No other albums have captured specific moments for me like these

not the most sentimental but this one is up there, i dont even think it's that good or anything but it takes me back like nothing else

Some Rap Songs dropped right before my best friend died. That one got me through it. If there’s any answer, it’s that album.

Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux

Yeezus I guess
But I relistened to it last night for the first time in maybe a year, and the production feels uncomfortably prescient of rage music and even hyperpop in places to the point I can't enjoy it anymore. I hate to think that it could have contributed to that wave of utter garbage music

Blonde i was in highschool first love nd everything.

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