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Entertainment Weekly: Eric B & Rakim's "Paid In Full" is greatest hip-hop album
Ras Kass' Toothpick:
^^^ The only westcoast album that received a 5 mic review in The Source.
Leggy Hendrix:
didnt 2001 get a 5 mic review...ok, so that wasnt the original review but they gave it an honourary 5 mics in one of their special issues...
On The Edge of Insanity:
I'n not gonna complain with this choice, it would definitely be up there in any competition for the best hiphop album ever. I was expecting them to put some Eminem shit at number 1 or something, so the top five was a pleasant suprise for me.
Kill:
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--- Quote from: Shallow on November 12, 2004, 11:12:03 AM ---^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If Ready to Die is in the top 3 then MMLP should be in the top 25. Impact means as much as quality.
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impact = sales ??
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And sales mean something, you think MJ's Thriller would make any lists if it only went 3 platinum? Also, the MMLP created a lot of contraversy and brought a lot of good attention to Rap. Well, better attention than MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice brought to it. MMLP was an MC at his finest, he played around with a lot of flows, and created a spectacilar peice of conceptual poetry with Stan. I don't know what makes anything by Biggie better than this. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; Chris Wallace was the most overrated MC in rap. He was good, even great, but he's way over praised. He very rarely expiremented, his flow and rhymes overshdowed his lyrical content. The guy basically retold gangster movies on wax. Where was the originality. I'm not saying Em is number one, or even close, but just because of Stan I place him above Biggie as far as being an artist goes.
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yeah, Biggkie is overrated. Yeah, Eminem is a better MC than he was. And MMLP was a good album (his best IMO), but it was nothing classic or flawless, production was good, rapping was entertaining, but 17th best hiphop album ever? Hell naw...as good as Ready To Die? Neither
Shallow:
--- Quote from: Kill on November 13, 2004, 09:14:10 AM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 12, 2004, 12:17:55 PM ---
--- Quote from: Kill on November 12, 2004, 12:06:02 PM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 12, 2004, 11:12:03 AM ---^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If Ready to Die is in the top 3 then MMLP should be in the top 25. Impact means as much as quality.
--- End quote ---
impact = sales ??
--- End quote ---
And sales mean something, you think MJ's Thriller would make any lists if it only went 3 platinum? Also, the MMLP created a lot of contraversy and brought a lot of good attention to Rap. Well, better attention than MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice brought to it. MMLP was an MC at his finest, he played around with a lot of flows, and created a spectacilar peice of conceptual poetry with Stan. I don't know what makes anything by Biggie better than this. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; Chris Wallace was the most overrated MC in rap. He was good, even great, but he's way over praised. He very rarely expiremented, his flow and rhymes overshdowed his lyrical content. The guy basically retold gangster movies on wax. Where was the originality. I'm not saying Em is number one, or even close, but just because of Stan I place him above Biggie as far as being an artist goes.
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yeah, Biggkie is overrated. Yeah, Eminem is a better MC than he was. And MMLP was a good album (his best IMO), but it was nothing classic or flawless, production was good, rapping was entertaining, but 17th best hiphop album ever? Hell naw...as good as Ready To Die? Neither
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Greatest and best aren't always the same thing. Thriller would make my top 20 Greatest Albums, but certainly not best. The MMLP single handedly created a new mega star in music. He was a hip hop artist and that album put him over the top. That is why I think it is on there. Personally I think just about every hip hop album sucks as far as albums go. For me to make a top 20 would be very difficult because I wouldn't know where to start.
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