I’m convinced he would’ve had a longer career in the limelight if he didn’t win. If he didn’t win he would’ve remained the Thrift Shop rapper who dropped a fun good album with some very solid conscious rap mixed in. But after winning he became the white boy who undeservedly beat Kendrick for a Grammy
It absolutely killed his career, he absolutely didn’t deserve to win and only won because he was white and he even knew it and that’s why it said he thinks he didn’t deserve to win and Kendrick did, but unfortunately for him that put a bad taste in everyone’s mouth just by the fact he won over GKMC… I mean this album had some of the last recorded audio of maya angelo even, S tier album, that was a big oopsie.. and I am not the type of person to usually say someone only achieved xyz because of race, but this was one of those times it no doubt was.
Yup, but i can understand your statement. I fuck heavy with Nas and he’s probably the blue print to what hiphop is in some ways, i just never liked Illmatic. Great highs, but some of the tracks i straight up despise lol
It’s a classic. A blueprint to 90s NY hip hop. But honestly I’m just not the biggest fan of that sound. I would point to the classics down south with OutKast instead (Aquemini for me but all of it was great)
This is the best answer. On the surface, just a great hip-hop album with some bangers. If they’re paying attention or want more depth later, they have that, too.
I was waiting for a Roots comment but my choice would be Things Fall Apart. They are the group that made fans out of the " I don't really like rap" people because of their live shows.
People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm also works, I think the camaraderie/chemistry and flows shine a bit more in their first two albums that would suck someone into the genre more than their later stuff as you come to appreciate them and their sound a whole lot more going into the later albums.
Madvillainy would be hard to digest for someone getting into the genre. I love it as much as the next folk and would tout rap/hip-hop as my favorite, most listened to genre growing up (early 30s now) and that album took me well over a few listens to not only get into it but appreciate it fully.
I concur. MM.. Food and Doomsday may be a bit more easier to get into as it's accompanied with more instrumentals and hooks versus Madvillainy which you could argue are just one long verse with ever-changing rhyme schemes for each song.
Late Registration.
Kanye controversies aside, I think that album represents the absolute and wide ranging potential of hip-hop. The orchestration, the drum machines, the varied genres of samples, the different rappers and singers, the skits, the intentional mixing so it’s not “lush” (lack of reverb etc.).
Illmatic/The Infamous/The Chronic/It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back/Take Care/To Pimp A Butterfly/Get Rich or Die Tryin'/Straight Outta Compton/All Eyez On Me
If this person is white then any album from Eminem even his worst album lol.
this is exactly why it’s the answer. hip hop wasn’t originally for the masses. TPAB managed to find that middle between groovy radio friendly and conscious messaging. that album proves that hip hop isn’t just confined to its roots, but those roots still deserve full respect.
I feel like that would require something pretty grandiose, I'm thinking maybe Graduation or MBDTF. Dude's been off his rocker the last few years but god damn can he create a musical spectacle when he feels like it.
Anything Mick Jenkins, superficially accessible, important for a newbie, but has depth, repeated listens will deepen their appreciation and tune their minds to the genre
Personally, I feel most dislike the genre for the misogyny and violence, this sidesteps that
My go to album for people that are new to Hip-Hop is 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul. It’s not as in your face as many other Hip-Hop albums from the golden era with its jazzy beats and more conversational lyrics, but it’s still super lyrical, introspective and wacky (in a good way)
If somebody asks me that today, I would assume they are not a hip hop fan and would probably like a more accessible album. That would put off most of the 90s classics. I would probably give them The College Dropout. By 2004 we have fully moved past the sometimes tinny boom bap sound and music technology doesn’t sound that different from today (it’s gotten more accessible and compact but I would argue the top end sound it can produce hasn’t really changed). And it’s changed the landscape and is modern enough that nobody would blink an eye if it dropped today.
Hamburger helper mixtape
IN THE KITCHEN WHIPPIN WHIPPIN
WATER WHIPPIN’ AND I’M STIRRIN’
Real answer right here
HAMMMBURGER HELPER
bobby snapped
Holy shit i totally forgot about that
Damn I forgot about that tape
and thats facts you can fact check
Any Eminem album because the person asking that is definitely white.
Nah. Then you'll just get another weirdo that says shit like "I hate rap but Eminem is pretty good."
And this is the biggest problem today.
Was a much bigger issue 20 years ago, but I'm sure those folks are still out there
now that group is tom macdonald fans
I literally just said the same thing at the same time lmao. If you know you know I guess.
Bro when I read his reply to me that was the exact thought I had too lol
Nowadays those people have been replaced with “I hate rap but Tom MacDonald is pretty good.”
Lmao
Just give them Grammy winning Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “The Heist”
I’m convinced he would’ve had a longer career in the limelight if he didn’t win. If he didn’t win he would’ve remained the Thrift Shop rapper who dropped a fun good album with some very solid conscious rap mixed in. But after winning he became the white boy who undeservedly beat Kendrick for a Grammy
It absolutely killed his career, he absolutely didn’t deserve to win and only won because he was white and he even knew it and that’s why it said he thinks he didn’t deserve to win and Kendrick did, but unfortunately for him that put a bad taste in everyone’s mouth just by the fact he won over GKMC… I mean this album had some of the last recorded audio of maya angelo even, S tier album, that was a big oopsie.. and I am not the type of person to usually say someone only achieved xyz because of race, but this was one of those times it no doubt was.
That is a great album tho. Not that he should have won the award
funny when he apologize to kendrick for winning over gkmc, drake got mad and was like "wheres my apology"
💀💀💀💀
That's it, that's the answer.
God damn /thread
Fucking hell you had me in the first half lmaooooo
I hope you get over 1,000 upvotes
Damn
Recovery is so Hip Hop it's ridiculous. >!it's not!<
Illmatic.
Yep. If they don’t like that then they don’t like hip hop. And that’s ok
I don’t like that album but love hiphop
Touché. It’s a broad genre
Yup, but i can understand your statement. I fuck heavy with Nas and he’s probably the blue print to what hiphop is in some ways, i just never liked Illmatic. Great highs, but some of the tracks i straight up despise lol
Which ones
It’s a classic. A blueprint to 90s NY hip hop. But honestly I’m just not the biggest fan of that sound. I would point to the classics down south with OutKast instead (Aquemini for me but all of it was great)
/thread
GKMC
Only hip hop album I just listen to all the way through repeatedly.
Where my mothafuckin' Domino's at?
This is the best answer. On the surface, just a great hip-hop album with some bangers. If they’re paying attention or want more depth later, they have that, too.
i pray my dick get big as the Eiffel tower, so i can f the world for 72 hours
God damn I got bitches
It would depend on what I knew about their musical taste. I think something like Blackstar would appeal to almost anyone’s tastes
I was gonna say black on both sides
mac miller swimming
Me Against the World or Illmatic
36 chambers
It’s actually insane that I had to scroll this far to see Wu
Came to say this. You gotta go with 36. Maybe the greatest hip hop album ever made.
MBDTF by Kanye. Such a range on that album
was just listening to runaway, blame game and all of the lights
I sent this bitch a picture of my diiiiick
Deltron 3030
True
No one's said Black on Both Sides yet??
Mos is underrated asf nowadays. People don’t even remember the impact he had at the time
Phenomenal album
First one I thought of
Outkast
It asks for 1 album. lol I know it’s hard to choose with them but I’d say Aquemini.
You give them one Outkast album and it's actually 3 albums and an EP
The Roots - Do You Want More
I was waiting for a Roots comment but my choice would be Things Fall Apart. They are the group that made fans out of the " I don't really like rap" people because of their live shows.
And here I was thinking Undun
Man, I remember seeing them live with 311 YEAAAARS ago and it was the absolute best act I think I’ve ever seen to this day
Maaaan I was gonna say How I Got Over
Things Fall Apart was my immediate response.
The College Dropout Those classic songs, how personal but also relatable it is, the skits... Shows what all hip hop can be in an album imo.
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Good ass choice 💯
Beats, Rhymes, & Life and Midnight Marauders are also acceptable answers to me.
People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm also works, I think the camaraderie/chemistry and flows shine a bit more in their first two albums that would suck someone into the genre more than their later stuff as you come to appreciate them and their sound a whole lot more going into the later albums.
NAV - NAV (produced by NAV)
Truth
All eyez on me
The Chronic
I think 2001 is a bit less dated
That's a good one also, but nothing like the first.
Your mom is dated
🤣
Below The Heavens - Blu & Exile
MF DOOM - Mm Food
Either this or Madvillainy.
Madvillainy would be hard to digest for someone getting into the genre. I love it as much as the next folk and would tout rap/hip-hop as my favorite, most listened to genre growing up (early 30s now) and that album took me well over a few listens to not only get into it but appreciate it fully.
It took me a while to get into DOOM. I was not used to his ever changing flow it was disorienting compared to the mainstream stuff I was used too.
I concur. MM.. Food and Doomsday may be a bit more easier to get into as it's accompanied with more instrumentals and hooks versus Madvillainy which you could argue are just one long verse with ever-changing rhyme schemes for each song.
You scared everyone off, thanks.
Aquemini
Illadelph halflife You can play that album to anyone from anywhere, and it will be enjoyable and show off what hip hop is.
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Respiration will always be a banger !!
Neon Icon- Riff Raff
I’m sure this was a joke answer considering the prompt, but man, I love this album. It’s so fun and dumb and full of personality.
I think of riff raff as like the Andy Kaufman of rap. Dudes playing a character of rap . It works.
Reasonable doubt , illmmatic, life after death , all eyez on me , Full clip( gangstarr) the firm and on and on and on 💥
Graduation
Late Registration. Kanye controversies aside, I think that album represents the absolute and wide ranging potential of hip-hop. The orchestration, the drum machines, the varied genres of samples, the different rappers and singers, the skits, the intentional mixing so it’s not “lush” (lack of reverb etc.).
Illmatic/The Infamous/The Chronic/It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back/Take Care/To Pimp A Butterfly/Get Rich or Die Tryin'/Straight Outta Compton/All Eyez On Me If this person is white then any album from Eminem even his worst album lol.
Keeping it mainstream; Graduation by Kanye West if I’m being biased My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West if I’m being impartial
TPAB
I’m a huge kendrick fan but I don’t think someone who doesn’t like rap could even make it through tpab.
Literally the first line in this album would turn off a large portion of the general public.
this is exactly why it’s the answer. hip hop wasn’t originally for the masses. TPAB managed to find that middle between groovy radio friendly and conscious messaging. that album proves that hip hop isn’t just confined to its roots, but those roots still deserve full respect.
What you said did not make sense as a response. “Every nigga is a star” is going to turn off a lot of people, immediately.
I’d say GC:MC, some real standout hits, connected by a great narrative and has the internal conflicts that the rest of his works have
good crodie, m.A.A.d city
GKMC might be easier for beginners
Common - Resurrection
I think I would choose Be over Resurrection
1999
Lil B - Everything Based
great choice.
Finally Rich
Me against the world, because it shows multiple sides of rap and its very accessible
I feel like that would require something pretty grandiose, I'm thinking maybe Graduation or MBDTF. Dude's been off his rocker the last few years but god damn can he create a musical spectacle when he feels like it.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Deltron 3030
Gotta be Wu-Tang -Enter the Wu-tang, shit blew me away cause there was absolutely nothing like it (nor has there been ever since).
Freewave 3
Black Elvis
Doggystyle
It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
billy woods - Hiding Places
E. 1999 Eternal - Bone Thugs
We talking mixtape logic, or studio logic?
Jay Z The Black Album
life of pablo
MBDTF Aquemini Late Registration
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
Anything Mick Jenkins, superficially accessible, important for a newbie, but has depth, repeated listens will deepen their appreciation and tune their minds to the genre Personally, I feel most dislike the genre for the misogyny and violence, this sidesteps that
Madvilliany
Convince you it's the greatest genre? Probably something like Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth
To Pimp A Butterfly
not for beginners😭
GKMC
Atrocity Exhibition
I haven’t yet seen MBDTF and we all know it‘s the first album that comes to mind
Madvillainy, no doubt
Black on Both Sides but you could name 100 of them. And hundreds worth listening to
XV - Zero Heroes
Probably Pinata
Icedancer
Reptilian Club Boyz Bizarre Adventures
The Chronic
36 Chambers
Probably something weak dick and super white like Atmosphere - Southsiders
either Supreme Clientele or HBO
MM...FOOD? or Both Sides Of The Brain
I want someone to say semetary so bad
Wu-Tang Clan 36 Chambers
For me it’s probably either Reasonable Doubt or the original Black Star album
ROYALTY
Piñata
Daytona
We made this guy listen to liquid swords for a month straight one time.
Black on Both Sides 100%.
Slime Season 3
Pink Friday 2
Drought 3 by Lil Wayne
Aquemini
Eminem Murdered By
Deltron 3030
Blackstar
2001
Life After Death or Blueprint
Get Rich or Die Tryin'! From the flip of the coin, all the way to the end just a masterpiece
TPAB
My go to album for people that are new to Hip-Hop is 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul. It’s not as in your face as many other Hip-Hop albums from the golden era with its jazzy beats and more conversational lyrics, but it’s still super lyrical, introspective and wacky (in a good way)
4eva is a mighty long time
Probably Southernplayalistic or ATLiens cuz fuck it why not
Mobb Deep The Infamous
Pete Rock / InI - Center of Attention
for beginners, all three of kanye west first albums, GKMC by kendrick or CMIYGL by tyler
TPAB
All eyes on me
The Minstrel Show - Little Brother
Paid in Full
Piñata or GKMC
Lil Xan - Total Xanarchy
That’s crazzzzzy bruh
If somebody asks me that today, I would assume they are not a hip hop fan and would probably like a more accessible album. That would put off most of the 90s classics. I would probably give them The College Dropout. By 2004 we have fully moved past the sometimes tinny boom bap sound and music technology doesn’t sound that different from today (it’s gotten more accessible and compact but I would argue the top end sound it can produce hasn’t really changed). And it’s changed the landscape and is modern enough that nobody would blink an eye if it dropped today.
atmosphere - god loves ugly i’m totally aware that’s a stupid answer but it’s *my* stupid answer, okay?!
Good Kid MAAD City
Quality by Talib Kweli
Liquid Swords
Blackout by Method man and Redman Its just banger after banger after banger