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Was Bone Art of War a Classic if only one disc?

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dnjp4life:
I would say Life After Death holds its own with the other double-disc albums, but All Eyez On Me will always take the crown, being the greatest album of all time (in my opinion).

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: dnjp4life on January 11, 2024, 04:35:46 AM ---Yes it absolutely would have.  There aren't really any skips for me when I listen to the Art of War which is surprising for a two-disc album, although some tracks are naturally better than others.

Like you say, Krazie Bone is the star on this thing, and you're kinda waiting for his verse everytime a new track come in, but that's not to say the others in Bone don't have standout verses, like their solo tracks on here.  It's a group effort after all and wouldn't have worked if one of them was missing.

DJ U-Neek did his thing one here, the vibe is similar to E.1999 which is why I listen to it just as much as that album.  Would have to put 'It's All Mo Thug' on the one disc version though, that song is just too smooth  8)

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yeah, there were some other great verses on here that weren't Krayzie Bone.  Like Bizzy goes off on "Thug Luv" and the story is that he's basically the one who linked with Pac and did that track and then they just added the other members later—so Bizzy deserves a ton of credit for putting that together. 

...one reason the album wasn't as good as the first two Bone albums was it was more straight forward, like—okay your turn to spit 16, now Bizzy's turn to spit 16, now Layzie spit 16... it didn't have that magic like the first two albums where it felt like they were just vibing over a burning fire in the back of an alley like the opening to "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" video or like "Take it Back" in the original Rocky movie.. that type of shit was what really made Bone special is how they were homies and could finish each others sentences when they first came up but then they started to go their seperate ways with money and fame

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: dnjp4life on January 11, 2024, 05:35:18 AM ---I would say Life After Death holds its own with the other double-disc albums, but All Eyez On Me will always take the crown, being the greatest album of all time (in my opinion).

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Even though I hate Bad Boy and still live in 96' mentally I never grew up—and so I'm still carrying out the East/West beef...

...I have to admit Biggies Life After Death was maybe the only record other than All Eyez On Me which actually deserved a double album.   Dre could've split 2001 up into a double album and added a few of the leftovers easily, but he didn't.  I mean the album was fuckin like 22 tracks or something

HighEyeCue:
totally forgot about LAD...tbh I bought it the day it came out and listened to it a lot over the 1st couple of years but haven't heard it in a long time

definitely up there as far as double albums go though

another one is Outkasts... even though I am not a huge fan of them or southern music in general I admit it was really dope 8)

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on January 11, 2024, 06:48:33 AM ---

another one is Outkasts... even though I am not a huge fan of them or southern music in general I admit it was really dope 8)

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I usually agree with everything you say on here.  But this one I can't agree with.  I never did understand what the hell was going on for most of the Andre disc, and even the Big Boi side of it there was a couple of bangers but I didn't get most of it.

And that's coming from someone who was a fan of Outkast from their first album I was in stores and bumped that album cover to cover the year it came out—and nobody in my city had even heard of the guys.  Most only became big fans when their second record came around ATLiens, which was also classic.  I thought their first 4 were all classics and played them all front to back without skips—but SpeakerBox/The Love Below was over my head, I didn't get that shit. 

And I was still a head checking for new music at the time of Speakerbox/Love Below, I didn't become ol' school till Nas officially called the death of Hip-Hop at the end of 2006 with the album Hip-Hop Is Dead.  That's when I became ol' school and stopped checking for new shit the day hip-hop went to Lil Wayne and Skinny Jeans.

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