may need to give I Am another spin but this is likely lol had Streets Disciple been condensed to all the best songs on a single disc album it would have been great but unfortunately there's too much filler on there (the Sekou story tracks, the Rakim tribute, and some other weird segways)

Jay is a bigger figure for hip hop overall but musically I don't see that much difference between them. Jay has a LOT of meh/trash albums

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Kings Disease>>IWW

yo chill nerd

Most people LOVE Stillmatic and everybody likes God's Son.. and where is The Lost Tapes? That and Stillmatic are classics. Also everybody loves the new album.

2 bad albums, 2 goated albums, 8 okay (not bad but not great) albums

thats pretty much the definition of mid. mid does not mean BAD it means middle of the road.

Illmatic - classic

It Was Written - classic

I Am - meh

Nastradamus - trash

Stillmatic - classic

God's Son - decent

Streets Disciple - decent

Hip Hop Is Dead - meh

Untitled - decent

Life Is Good - classic

Nasir - underrated

King's Disease - classic

I havent even listened to kings disease but I already call it a classic just like any decent s***poster would

Dis but never been much a fan of stillmatic
Mix the highs of god'son and the highs of stillmatic and there is a good album tho

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Did you not enjoy King's Disease very much? Rap AOTY by a long shot. I still have IWW above it but that's a top 10 album oat so.

King's Disease is AOTY, period.

Illmatic - classic

It Was Written - classic

I Am - decent

Nastradamus - trash

Stillmatic - good

God's Son - classic

Streets Disciple - trash

Hip Hop Is Dead - trash

Untitled - good

Life Is Good - good

Nasir - trash

Stillmatic is an easy 9/10+ tbh

What a powerful album.

"I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky"

Stillmatic isn't a classic? I forgot to add his other classic and that's the lost tapes

That dude is a Nas hater just like SBMike lol, always gets mad and talks mad s***

ktt might be the only place where that's even debatable. Stillmatic is a classic. The only song that's trash was that mary j blige song with swizz and that was removed from the album shortly after its release. nobody even has the early version of the album that includes that s***

KTT is full of redditors (25% of r/hiphopheads voted that they post on KTT) so I'm not surprised they don't know about Stillmatic.

They really need to go back and delve deeper into that album tho. It's the type of album where if you don't give it your full attention it won't click. It's not meant for skimming.

So in other words nerdy white suburbanites that didn't witness any of this in real time and barely got into Hip-Hop a few years ago? That sounds about right.

I agree. I think we can say that about most of Nas' discography, tbh. I didn't even get half of the things he was saying in his music until I became an adult. These kids have a long way to go.

Yeah bro, when I got older his music really spoke to me on a higher level. The energy Nas had on that album man, his pen, the concepts he tackled successfully.. true goosebumps.

Went from being angry that ppl wanted to step on him and get him outta here, to turning the hottest rapper in the game into a punching bag and taking down his whole record label with him, to reflecting on that s*** retrospectively as if he already won (which is legit how it went down in reality), to talking about how being a rap star is poisonous and calling for world peace. In 2001 Nas was far more mature and forward thinking than Jay, people are too focused on chopped soul samples to see it.