It's May 09, 2024, 03:17:34 PM
KUSH IS A FUCKING CLASSIC - PLAY THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW AND TELL IT DONT BUMP?
I disagree. Compton is nowhere near the level of a Chronic or 2001 - not only numerically in terms of success, but conceptually or production-wise. Standalone leftovers that didn't even make it on the album - like Music To Driveby - were better than the entire release. Compton reminds me of the Aftermath compilation that flopped right before he realized he need to get back to what he knows and made 2001. Hopefully we'll see the same thing happen again.
I still love the Aftermath Presents album and bump it to this day. I believe it was so far ahead of it's time nobody ever quite caught up to it. Shit.. one of the illest dreams I ever had was when I fell asleep one night with "Shittin On The World" playing on repeat... I ended up in some ill underworld carrying an 80's style boombox like Radio Raheem and selling old school tapes out the trunk of my car, into freaking hunnies at some underground African club, and an apartment complex that looked like Snoop's apartment in the Baby Boy movie... and the whole time that track was the one bumpin again and again and again for the 8 hours I was asleep. Have you ever been so high you felt you were actually inside of the song? Imagine that feeling but while lucid dreaming.... and that's just one song. "East/West Killaz" is the most timely hip-hop track of all time and Nas' greatest verse of all time. RBX banger "Blunt Time" I put up against any track to this day... "Been There Done That" was epic... and "St8 Gone" with King Tee was a certified banger.. That David Bowie remake "Fame" is a banger and the sleeper that flies behind the radar is the "Nationowl" joint is one of the smoothest tracks you will ever here and the lyrics are fire and introspective.I could write a whole fuckin book about this album... I even have written a lot about it... it was my favorite era in hiphop history and deepest year of my life 1996... I would say best year of my life because it was.. until 2pac got shot (so I will just say it was my best summer, and the magazine in my sig came out that summer I had it on top of my stereo next to my window all summer) and I ain't ever moved on since I been stuck in a time warp since Sept 13th.. a part of me died when Pac died...but of course all this is just subjective and in my own humble opinion cause it's personal to me. COMPTON is actually a great album OBJECTIVELY. I'm not talking about my opinion or cause of the time period or anything like that... it is a great album criticallyINFINITE TRAPPED IN 1996 HAS SPOKEN..
the aftermath compilation is severely underrated .. not classic because there is a bit of filler, but def got its share of classic joints.
Even Dres "worst" songs are way better than any other artist could hope to achieve on his best day. After all he's revolutionized the game countless times and is a true originator who is still current and can drop whenever he wishes, the whole world will sit up and listen.Aftermath presents needs a level of intelligence to be able to contextualize it with music coming out from that specific era as it represented a counter current and was a refreshing breath of fresh air in the midst of that played out E/W beef.
damn u finally catchin on, i’m proud of u
This is my favorite thread in a minute. Dre-level excellence trolling
The 2010s should also not be judged by sales or all that jazz. If the Chronic and 2001 never sold shit, we would all say the same thing, which is they are masterpieces. I don't care about album sales and all that. It's about the music and escapism for me. What hurts Dr. Dre is his perfectionism. He should have 5 or 6 albums (Chronic, Heltah Skeltah, Chronic 2, 2001, Detox, Planets).
I woke up this morning thinking 'bout the old meWhen I was feeling like, Miller Lite and OE
I get plenty of ass, so call me an ass-tronaut