can’t be the only one that notices this, or am I?

People be hating on some of the best 90’s, 00’s & 10’s, hip hop albums in other rap communities just because the s*** ain’t experimental or abstract

These people will really try to convince you that 90’s albums like Funcrusher Plus Blowout Comb, Stress The Extinction Agenda, Dr. Octagon (which are all cool albums,) are better than Ready to Die, Ridin' Dirty, The Infamous, Life After Death, It Was Written, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Ironman, and even on some cases I’ve seen people rank all those albums ahead of Illmatic too. And that albums like Illmatic and Ready to Die, etc. were never top tier albums to begin with when they weren’t even there to witness it.

Rateyourmusic.com is a good example of how this bias is although at times not as extreme as I’ve seen in other places, especially throughout all of hip hop history let alone just the 90’s. In fact, the new school biased Experimental/Abstract stan base might be more delusional than anything on the internet in terms of hip hop stanbases. (Albums like Reasonable Doubt and Ridin Dirty, RD hardly in the top 50 and Ridin Dirty isn’t, Flowerboy surpassed The Infamous, there’s like 6 Kanye albums in the top 30, Death Grips almost has two top 10 albums ever, Atrocity Exhibition is ahead of ATLiens, and Aquemini, no trap albums ranked high, etc.)
They’ll be quick to praise TPAB, MBDTF/Yeezus/TLOP/KSG (pick one Ye album from the 2010’s bonus points if they hate on Graduation), The Money Store, Atrocity Exhibition, Madvillainy, and Some Rap Songs, as the best rap albums of all-time, think Run The Jewels, Brockhampton, and Death Grips are all top 10 or even top 5 hip hop groups of all-time, have Kendrick, DOOM, El-P, Earl, and Danny Brown as their top 5 rappers ever yet they’ll jump down your throat if you think Freddie Gibbs has good projects outside the Madlib collabs, have Mobb Deep, UGK, Nas, Jay Z, B.I.G, Prodigy, Wayne, T.I, Cam’Ron, Beanie, Redman, any Wu Rapper that isn’t Ghost, etc. on your GOAT list.
It’s beyond me.

Don’t get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking Experimental/Abstract/Alternative hip hop at all. As myself I definitely like a few of the albums that I’m “criticizing” in the OP.**
I just feel that some of these fans need to realize that chances are they are ranking certain albums higher than others just because of the fact that they are Experimental and Abstract rather than just looking at the bigger picture and knowing that there are more than just two sub genres in hip hop. A hip hop album doesn’t have to be groundbreaking and thought provoking to be dope.

Discuss this fact. I already made this thread somewhere else before. But I wanna hear more peoples opinions here

u expect me to read all that

tldr rym is trash and sonemic is a scam

white

baella said Kids See Ghost, All heroes are cornballs, and w.e. the f*** lil uglymane dropped years ago are better than the blueprint, reasonable doubt, and ready to die

are you trolling

Never understood how people could seriously care about music review websites

wasnt baella the same one on ktt1 that took a pic of another dude from KTT while hiding behind a tree instead of walking up to him

I would include AMHAC in this but I made this thread on Genius back in July.

"experimental hipsters"

jesus christ shut up lmao

Instagram rap community is a prime example of what I’m talkin about btw

never heard about this but im not surprised

Internet music hipsters known to do weird s*** irl. Idk these users since I’m new here but can’t say I’m shocked

This is Chi City mf how u forget

Oh lmao you got a different username on here

Rate your music's top 10 trap albums is one of the worst lists oat.

dmwr stands for cantknockthehustle?

I would’ve changed my name on Genius to CantKnockTheHustle long ago if Genius wasn’t so dead

Good choice man, Jay over Kanye.

At the end of the day RYM isn’t what the actual culture is listening to. That’s not to say they don’t prop up some great albums/artists

sonemic was supposed to be done like 5 years ago

please tell me ur joking

.JPGMAFIA > Big Nas