However I think that this is more beneficial to listen to. I’m not bashing on other forms of hip hop or rap, or other genres. He’s someone who is aware and has a talent, he puts his consciousness into music. He wrote these songs over a decade ago and they are still relevant today, probably 10 times worse. That inspires knowledge and there is nothing wrong with what. Could you imagine someone who is down listening to this and thinking that now they want to do something with their lives and they want to learn about current evens and social issues.
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We already know how to party, drink, have sex and do drugs, talk about something with some depth and meaning, something to stimulate the brain and make you think. They add a balance to our, as some people like to call it, ignorant music. Some people aren’t too fond of conscious rappers but I think we need them. If I wasn’t hyped from the sick bars, I was like “Woah, that is deep.” I constantly found myself saying “OHHH!!! HE KILLED IT!!!” throughout the album. Each time I listen to it I find something else that impresses me. Each song had something new to offer and something new to teach me, something new for me to look up. If someone like that could get more air play it could change how people think since the media influences society. He is a lyrical genius who uses his voice for something positive. He brings up so many different topics and presents them in a very beautiful way. To a fan coming up in the era of Cardi or Tyler or Polo G or Playboi Carti, the golden age is now.I absolutely loved this album and If I could just end it with that I would!
One of the incredible things about hip-hop is that it evolves and expands faster than any other genre in music history.
to Houston to Chicago, and beyond.Īs we dug and listened, we found ourselves a little less swayed by “golden age” mystique than we might’ve been had we done this list 10 or 15 years ago. and Rakim and others, through the gangsta era, the rise of the South, the ascendance of larger-than-life aughts superstars like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and on and on into more recent moments like blog-rap, emo-rap, and drill, from New York to L.A. The result was a list that touches on every important moment in the genre’s evolution - from compilations that honor the music’s paleo old-school days, to its artistic flourishing in the late Eighties and early Nineties with Public Enemy, De La Soul, Eric B. When confronted with a choice between the third (or fourth or fifth) record by a classic artist (Outkast, for instance, or A Tribe Called Quest) and an album from an artist who would make the list more interesting (The Jacka or Saba or Camp Lo), we tended to go with the latter option. Relatedly, a list of hip-hop-adjacent albums from the worlds of dancehall or reggaeton or grime would be fun and fascinating, and something for us to revisit down the road. That’s one reason we limited our scope to English language hip-hop. But the history of rap LPs is so rich and varied, we were forced to make some painful choices - there are so many iconic artists with deep catalogs, so many constantly evolving sounds and regional scenes. Two hundred seems like an almost luxuriantly expansive number when you’re making an albums list, and in any other genre, maybe it would be.
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