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Rapper with the most classics?

Started by Oldboy, Jun 24, 2015, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Narsh
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    Narsh

    Jun 24, 2015
    Tcd
    Lr
    808s
    Mbdtf
    Yeezus

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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 24, 2015
    late registration is probably not a classic.
     
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  3. Goku187
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    yep
     
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    Stahp it
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 24, 2015
    i'm trying to imagine a worse top 4 for wayn and it's very difficult.
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    this seems to suggest tribe has four classics. you think instinctive travels and b/r/l are classics?
     
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    Jun 24, 2015
    Ok what's his best in your opinion
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    well drought 3, but the first two carters are better than the third, dedication 2 is much, much better than no ceilings
     
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    Admittedly I grew up on c3 and no ceilings so I have a bias to those along with c4 but I wouldn't label it classic but it is underrated
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    Jun 24, 2015
    it probably is. lemons, glu, and lucy ford i guess are the standard top 3, but i think you can't imagine and sad clown bad II are classics as well. gun to my head i'd list them as...
    1. lemons (classic)
    2. you can't' imagine (classic)
    3. god loves ugly (classic)
    4. sad clown bad dub II (classic)
    5. lucy ford (probably not but it's close)
     
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    ghostface definitely has to be in this discussion too...iron man, supreme clientele, fischscale, and his work on both ob4cl's...truly incredible
     
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    Joshua Smoses Pink fur, looking like Cam

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    Maybe not Beats Rhymes and Life (I think it's pretty great, that might be an unpopular opinion tho), but definitely People's Instinctive Travels. Neither album is as good as the two between them, but I still hold them both in pretty high regard (my feelings on them are probably similar to how you feel about LR in Kanye's discog)
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    fair enough. i don't think you're crazy for loving beats rhymes life. in fact, i might even put it third in their catalog.
     
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    Soldier big cuntry's alias

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    808's is not a classic lol
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    i don't see how it isn't--by measure of quality and by the criteria that it defined and shifted an era. it's a popular and creative touchstone. without 808s the next ten years of rap and pop sound very different, and there's probably only been one album of its kind that approaches it.
     
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    Raziel Ice like Paul Wall but I can't take mine out

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    Cyreides gfy

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    definitely disagree
    imo, it's an amazingly moody, and beautifully crafted album. maybe you're just not in the right place in life to appreciate it
     
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    Jun 25, 2015
    Man I love People's Instinctive Travels, Phife wasn't as polished yet as he was in the upcoming albums they made but it was still a very accessible and clever record. Q-Tip is under appreciated.

    Kast, Ghost, Nas, Jay, Kanye by volume have the most. MF Doom has like 2-3 of the top of my head, DJ Quik got Quick Is The Name & Safe + Sound. Rae got 2 plus his features on the Wu-Tang albums.
     
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