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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2017, 11:49:19 AM »
Classic, without a doubt. And it was clear at the time of its release. Plus it had the commercial appeal from stuff like Who Ride Wit Us and Girls All Pause. Bangers for the car. Stuff for the hip-hop heads too. Good production all around. Maybe it's just me, but even though he went hard at DMX, the song was a little underwhelming to me from a lyrical standpoint since we got the Xxplosive type Kurupt on that one. But now that I think about it, I recall even doing a Spanish presentation on this album.

Kuruption was an interesting concept with the two discs but it had too much filler. He was a little ambitious with the double disc thing for a solo debut - I remember Krayzie Bone getting criticized for the same thing when he put out Thug Mentality 1999. But I rarely played the second disc, and I think I only cared to listen to that bonus track with Noreaga.

I always loved "The Life" track off the East Coast disc.  I remember being in some thick ass depression during 98' and I'd spending a lot of time just staring out my bedroom window with that track on repeat and it'd take my mind to some far off place.

Bad Azz album came out around the same time and "The Last Time" was another sentimental track for me.

East Coast Disc is slept on...definitely some bangers on there just wish he could have got Pete Rock to at least give him one beat

Your right I mean if he wanted to go out East then fine, but he should've hooked up with the right production and done it to the fullest.  At some points the East West theme felt gimmicky like he was just doin it to do it
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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2017, 12:56:06 PM »
Better than any daz album. Except for R.A.W. which is a classic for me.
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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2017, 01:09:15 AM »
It's a Personal classic because like every one in his thread, I'm a westcoast head but I dont think people consider this album a Hip-Hop Classic.
RAW was a personal classic as well and my favorite Daz solo over RR&GB!
 

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2017, 06:43:46 AM »
Westcoast Classic.
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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2017, 12:25:54 AM »
It's a classic .. Some1 mentioned bad azz. His first album was a classic too.

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #20 on: February 17, 2017, 07:20:29 AM »
Bad Azz's first album was good but it wasn't a classic.
 

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2017, 09:34:35 AM »
I'd say Streetz Iz A Mutha is the equivalent to Daz's RR&BB

Kurupt's Space Boogie is equivalent to Daz's RAW.

That's the DPGs solo best works. 
 

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #22 on: February 17, 2017, 10:31:38 AM »
I'd say Streetz Iz A Mutha is the equivalent to Daz's RR&BB

Kurupt's Space Boogie is equivalent to Daz's RAW.

That's the DPGs solo best works. 

Don't forget "Dat Whoopty Whoop", it's up there as well 8)
 

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2017, 10:46:43 AM »
Bad Azz's first album was good but it wasn't a classic.


Classic to me

Soopafly first album too

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2017, 01:14:39 PM »
Bad Azz's first album was good but it wasn't a classic.


Classic to me

Soopafly first album too

I'd love to see your classics list. I wrote one, I was very tough, and I still had like 60 albums. And I didn't put in a lot of ones you thought I should, which would have put it at like 100. So I'd like to see yours.
 

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #25 on: February 17, 2017, 03:36:25 PM »
Bad Azz's first album was good but it wasn't a classic.


Classic to me

Soopafly first album too

I'd love to see your classics list. I wrote one, I was very tough, and I still had like 60 albums. And I didn't put in a lot of ones you thought I should, which would have put it at like 100. So I'd like to see yours.

If you had 60 classic albums than your grading scale is to easy
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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #26 on: February 17, 2017, 09:03:20 PM »
To me, classic is only about quality of music .. Impact etc doesn't mean shit to me, because I don't give a shit what other people think. Most people are stupid as fuck. If it slaps front to back with no filler and I can play it every day of my life, it's a classic.

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #27 on: February 18, 2017, 01:28:51 AM »
To me, classic is only about quality of music .. Impact etc doesn't mean shit to me, because I don't give a shit what other people think. Most people are stupid as fuck. If it slaps front to back with no filler and I can play it every day of my life, it's a classic.

Exactly how i feel.
 

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #28 on: February 20, 2017, 07:24:06 AM »
Bad Azz's first album was good but it wasn't a classic.


Classic to me

Soopafly first album too

I'd love to see your classics list. I wrote one, I was very tough, and I still had like 60 albums. And I didn't put in a lot of ones you thought I should, which would have put it at like 100. So I'd like to see yours.

If you had 60 classic albums than your grading scale is to easy

I got shit for being too hard and leaving out a number of albums. Honestly, I think Hip-Hop's grading scale is too easy. People are like, they need 3 classics before they get GOAT conversations. Like seriously, 3 classics! Hip-Hop gives out classic labels too easy. Almost every mainstream rapper that is somewhat big gets a classic album. Maybe we need to stop using the word classic and start talking about how artist have their trademark album, or they have their own masterpiece album. Because the word classic gets thrown around a lot. Looking at the list, it's actually 58, I could take out a lot and be happy with the list, the more I think about it. Like here would be the list....

1.   Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Blow - 1980
2.   Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message -1982
3.   Wild Style Original Soundtrack - 1983
4.   Run-DMC - Run DMC - 1984
5.   Boogie Down Production - Criminal Minded - 1987
6.   Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full - 1987
7.   Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - 1988
8.   N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton - 1988
9.   A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory - 1991
10.   Dr. Dre - The Chronic - 1992
11.   Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - 1993
12.   Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle - 1993
13.   Nas - Illmatic - 1994
14.   The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die - 1994
15.   2Pac - Me Against the World - 1995
16.   Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - 1998
17.   Dr. Dre - 2001 - 1999
18.   Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP - 2000
19.   Jay-Z - The Blueprint - 2001
20.   Nas - Stillmatic - 2001
21.   Kanye West - College Dropout - 2004
22.   Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City - 2012
23.   Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly - 2015

Forget what I'm missing, what else can we cut.


To me, classic is only about quality of music .. Impact etc doesn't mean shit to me, because I don't give a shit what other people think. Most people are stupid as fuck. If it slaps front to back with no filler and I can play it every day of my life, it's a classic.

The what are classic albums to you. Like to me, I have Streetz Iz A Mutha as a personal and street classic. But I don't consider it a straight Hip-Hop classic because I can argue about it's weak points and weak songs. Like Represent That GC, which honestly is one of my favorite songs to listen to, even to this day, where he raps the same words over and over and has maybe the most simple bars I've heard from Kurupt. So to me, it's a solid album, but not really a classic.
 

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Re: Was Streetz is a Mutha a near Classic?
« Reply #29 on: February 20, 2017, 05:25:23 PM »
The what are classic albums to you. Like to me, I have Streetz Iz A Mutha as a personal and street classic. But I don't consider it a straight Hip-Hop classic because I can argue about it's weak points and weak songs. Like Represent That GC, which honestly is one of my favorite songs to listen to, even to this day, where he raps the same words over and over and has maybe the most simple bars I've heard from Kurupt. So to me, it's a solid album, but not really a classic.
I'd argue that simple is perfectly acceptable if it's done effectively.  People don't gravitate to complex, they jump at what is memorable and catchy.  Context is important too.  Some lyrics are comprised of simple words but form a far deeper or more clever meaning. On the reverse end, there are a plenty of artists who spit stuff that has a lot of big words and rhymes but doesn't resonate or paint a picture at all.