L.P.'s Known As Classics, Which You Think Are Over Rated

[Nutty]

I can totally understand that somebody listening to The Chronic today for the first time wouldn't be into it. A whole different sound today out there. But, I'm also sure that the more you listen to it, the more it starts opening up to you and the more you'll like it. I personally can remember seeing the videos from The Chronic on MTV back when they first came out, and liking the songs then (though I didn't get into it that much at the time that I would've bought the albums.) But basically that sound doesn't come as something new to me today like to others, instead I remember the times and other music that came out during the time, and Chronic and Doggystyle really stand out.

But "overrated classics" in my opinion, hmm...

Wel Dogg Food would be one. It's an album that's dope as FUCK, don't get me wrong, I love that shit. But I feel that not all tracks on there are on the same level.

Somebody said Eazy Duz It. In my opinion it's never been a classic. There's classic cuts on there, no fucking doubt, but on the whole - well, pretty much the same shit as with Dogg Food.

Hard to come up with other ones. I've noticed recently that the more I listen to the older stuff, the more I like it each time. East, West, North, South, all the shit.

Pretty much share the same view.

[Nasty Nem]

Whether or not you like The Chronic, it is a classic because it pioneered the West Coast sound, arguably the sound for Modern Rap period.

c/s

if these albums being mentioned aren't classics or the closest thing to classic what albums are?

[Paul]

i love regulate but for me it doesnt quite live up to the reputation it has become, dont get me wrong its still a quality album,

as for dogg food its the greatest album iv ever heard and think it sould be considered up ther with chronic and doggystyle, jus my opinion

[Crip2Nite: South Central LA's HoOdSTAr]

lol @ this thread

A lot of youngins showing there age in here.... @ 'The Chronic' & 'AEOM' being overrated "classics"


Warren G's album(s) are nowhere near classic..The first album is highly overrated though

Game's album(s) aren't classic and are extremely overrated.

Jay-Z's Resonable Doubt is an overrated 'classic'

Outkast's Aquemini & ATLiens are overatted 'classics' as well..but there music was way better bacc then, then it is now.

Some of you guyz were really young when theez "classic" albums were released, so you wouldn't understand the sounds and the era in which they were released in. You guyz are judging theez albums from an 00' and beyond outlook.

[CaliKorleone]

Reasonable doubt and ready to die = the most over rated albums in history.

Both Biggie albums ready to die and life after death are super over rated.  Biggie himself is over rated as hell.  However, I have to disagree with Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt.  That and the Black Album are classics to me.

I think 2Pac's Strickly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z is over rated.  I think it's his weakest release he put out while he was still alive.  I thought 2Pacalypse was better.

ATLiens was a classic back in the day.  But listening to it now, it definitly shows it age.

I also thought Dr. Dre's 2001 was over rated a bit.  I was bumping Kurupts Streetz is a Mutha more.  Now Streetz is a Mutha is a CLASSIC.

[Lunatic]

lol @ this thread

A lot of youngins showing there age in here.... @ 'The Chronic' & 'AEOM' being overrated "classics"


Warren G's album(s) are nowhere near classic..The first album is highly overrated though

Game's album(s) aren't classic and are extremely overrated.

Jay-Z's Resonable Doubt is an overrated 'classic'

Outkast's Aquemini & ATLiens are overatted 'classics' as well..but there music was way better bacc then, then it is now.

Some of you guyz were really young when theez "classic" albums were released, so you wouldn't understand the sounds and the era in which they were released in. You guyz are judging theez albums from an 00' and beyond outlook.

yea, i'm a youngster. I was barely born when the chronic was released. but explain why I feel that both n.w.a. albums, the d.o.c.'s 1st lp are classics, but the chronic ain't.

[Styles1]

Let me say this about the original Chronic album... When it first came out in 93' there was absolutely nothing of its kind. From the moment I first heard the Intro with crazy G-Funk synthesizers and hearing a young fresh Snoop doing the "Eazy E can eat a big fat dick...Luke can eat a big fat dick"... I was like "holy shit"...

We all know the classics like G Thang and Let Me Ride, and even Dre Day... but there was some unbelievable stuff like "High Powered"... There was nothing like High Powered in Hip Hop. A fresh sounding RBX with Rage chattering in the background ..."Boom... I drop bombs like Hiroshima"...

Then of course Deez Nutz was the beginning of the explosion of Nate Dogg..."Iiiiii-Can't be faded, cuz i'm a n*gga from the muthafuckin' streets"....   

The power of "The Day The N*ggaz Took Over".... "Break em off sumthin', Break em off sumthin".... Daz and Snoop going with the reggae type chatter-rap... That song had some fuckin' power behind it....

Lil Ghetto Boy, Lyrical Gangbang, Rat-a-tat-tat...

and you can never forget ...the $20 Sack Pyramid skit with Bootney Lee & Duck Muthafuckin' Mouth, probably the best skit ever done on an album...

That album changed hip hop forever...

[d-nice]

See I have fond memories of Dogg Food the same way as The Chronic but I think it is more of a classic on the west coast. But I know alot of people on the east and all over that think that is a classic record. Alot of controversy surrounded that album with the whole C Delores Tucker thing and NY, NY video shoot. But when Kurupt kicked that Dogg Pound Gangstaz off, I was in awe man. I had heard all their earlier shit, but Kurupt lyrically slayed EVERY track on that album. He was the essential mc back then. Daz was cold too and the beats were poppin. But Kurupt man, there was not 1 mc fuckin with him back then, period. I bumped that album as much as Doggystyle because of Kurupt. He was on both of them and the Chronic but his body of work on those 3 albums was what got me into DPGC.

[israelihiphop]

2001 also was overrated as fuck I don't know how niggaz can call this classic when you got half the rappers on the album who are ass...where the fuk is Hitman and Knoc and all them other dudes who were spittin wack juice on that record...the beats were tight as a virgin tho...

[Lunatic]

2001 also was overrated as fuck I don't know how niggaz can call this classic when you got half the rappers on the album who are ass...where the fuk is Hitman and Knoc and all them other dudes who were spittin wack juice on that record...the beats were tight as a virgin tho...

 

Knoc is tight.

[3331]

2001

fugees the score(i hate that album)

spice 1 amerikkkaz nightmare(i like 187 he wrote as a complete album a lot more)

aquemini

[E. J. Rizo]

Rip me to shreds but


illmatic 

[Nutty]

Let me say this about the original Chronic album... When it first came out in 93' there was absolutely nothing of its kind. From the moment I first heard the Intro with crazy G-Funk synthesizers and hearing a young fresh Snoop doing the "Eazy E can eat a big fat dick...Luke can eat a big fat dick"... I was like "holy shit"...

We all know the classics like G Thang and Let Me Ride, and even Dre Day... but there was some unbelievable stuff like "High Powered"... There was nothing like High Powered in Hip Hop. A fresh sounding RBX with Rage chattering in the background ..."Boom... I drop bombs like Hiroshima"...

Then of course Deez Nutz was the beginning of the explosion of Nate Dogg..."Iiiiii-Can't be faded, cuz i'm a n*gga from the muthafuckin' streets"....   

The power of "The Day The N*ggaz Took Over".... "Break em off sumthin', Break em off sumthin".... Daz and Snoop going with the reggae type chatter-rap... That song had some fuckin' power behind it....

Lil Ghetto Boy, Lyrical Gangbang, Rat-a-tat-tat...

and you can never forget ...the $20 Sack Pyramid skit with Bootney Lee & Duck Muthafuckin' Mouth, probably the best skit ever done on an album...

That album changed hip hop forever...

Your dead right there......1st listen way back then, shit was mind blowing.......I think I might go blast it right now

[3331]

Rip me to shreds but


illmatic 

I agree completely.

[Styles1]

I disagree with y'all stating Illmatic, but thats cool, thats your opinion...

Now if anybody lists "The Low End Theory" by A Tribe Called Quest then I will have to strongly disagree...lol.