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**Notorious** · 10-18-2012, 08:14 PM

We should, doubt it will get as much support as this one's gotten though.

NoGimmicksNeeded · 10-18-2012, 08:14 PM

I'd probably have Liquid Swords as my favourite hip hop album. I'd also have Lifestyles Ov Da Poor And Dangerous above a whole lot of albums.

Clearly I'm not seeing the Supreme Clientele hype so I need to give that another spin.

LBGetBack · 10-18-2012, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Ether

With all of this album talk, we should do a best rap album ever tournament sometime

Word, good idea.

And if it comes out that anyone casts a vote when they haven't even heard one of the albums they are voting on(which you know half these herbs will do), ban them!

Zankman Jack · 10-18-2012, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by shutupchico

zank is like 16, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Ignorance is bliss, continue living in it.

PunkSE316 · 10-18-2012, 08:40 PM

Illmatic and It was Written are great albums but man, for a while there...Nas went through a weird type of slump because he was better then all the stuff that he was writing. Hip Hop was a pretty chaotic place back in 97 to 99 though.

Ether · 10-18-2012, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by PunkSE316

Illmatic and It was Written are great albums but man, for a while there...Nas went through a weird type of slump because he was better then all the stuff that he was writing. Hip Hop was a pretty chaotic place back in 97 to 99 though.

Yeah, The Firm's album flopped, and I am and Nastradamus were

LBGetBack · 10-18-2012, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by PunkSE316

Illmatic and It was Written are great albums but man, for a while there...Nas went through a weird type of slump because he was better then all the stuff that he was writing. Hip Hop was a pretty chaotic place back in 97 to 99 though.

Not all his fault. The original I Am...double album would've been an incredible album. Not his fault it got bootlegged heavily and the record label made him scrap a lot of songs, record new ones, etc. leaving us with a slightly disappointing I Am... and a very disappointing Nastradamus.

If you take all his best songs from 98-99, off of I Am..., Nastradamus, and what ended up on Lost Tapes, you would basically have the intended I Am... album.

He didn't really fall off at all in terms of what he actually recorded at that time.

HeartBreak&Triumph · 10-18-2012, 08:46 PM

(1) 2Pac vs. (4) Notorious B.I.G.
(2) Nas vs. (3) Eminem

Nas vs Eminem was like the easiest choice in the entire tournament so far.

LBGetBack · 10-18-2012, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Ether

Yeah, The Firm's album flopped, and I am and Nastradamus were

Dre was kind've a bitch for bailing on "The Firm" album a few years later like that because it was the cool thing to say. Shit's better than most of the albums he's been involved with since.

Phone Tap >>>> 99.9% of Dre produced songs since.

Oh, and this is damn near the best Nas song ever.

Ether · 10-18-2012, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by LBGetBack

Not all his fault. The original I Am...double album would've been an incredible album. Not his fault it got bootlegged heavily and the record label made him scrap a lot of songs, record new ones, etc. leaving us with a slightly disappointing I Am... and a very disappointing Nastradamus.

If you take all his best songs from 98-99, off of I Am..., Nastradamus, and what ended up on Lost Tapes, you would basically have the intended I Am... album.

He didn't really fall off at all in terms of what he actually recorded at that time.

Yeah, Nastradamus and I Am both had some gems

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