Hip-Hop Thread Genre • Page 1059

No Alchemist? C'mon

 

goddamn, end of an era

 

I still have the app on my phone is it now considers rare

 

this was posted like it was specific to datpiff, but I'm not sure

The 100 Most Downloaded Hip Hop Mixtapes of All Time - Beats, Rhymes & Lists

 

phew

 

blaring Gambino Royalty in celebration

 

Losing Datpiff would have been losing hundreds of hours of music forever, so glad they're not going anywhere. That site is genuinely a hip-hop institution at this point

 

There are people out there who have never heard any of the Dedication, Da Drought, or We Got It 4 Cheap tapes because they’re not streaming and they can’t bother to download mp3s, and that’s a bummer

 

Don't recal TA13OO being for me, but I listened to Melt My Eyez this morning and it was very good

Continuing my Jay journey with Vol. 2 now

 

Taboo is really good, give it another shot if you like Melt

 

Is it a hot take to prefer Stillmatic over Blueprint?

 

Not a hot take to me

 

My hot take is Stillmatic over…













…illmatic

 

Now THIS is hot

 

my take is that The Lost Tapes is the real Stillmatic and his best album

 

I think Illmatic is objectively better as a whole, but I probably prefer listening to more of the songs on Stillmatic (if that makes sense)

 

The Lost Tapes is technically what was supposed to be I am… and Nastradamous.

 

That is what I meant as well. I would never argue Stillmatic is the better record, but I find Stillmatic much more enjoyable and replayable. It also came out during my high school years when I was most active in listening to music/buying albums.

I was 8 when Illmatic came out so never had the attachment to it as I did for his later records.

 

some of it is, not all. there are songs on it from pretty much every era, and a looot of stuff that leaked from the original I Am double album didn't make it on there and still hasn't been officially released

I also just think Lost Tapes works better as an album than most Nas albums

 

Like 50% of essential 00s rap will never be officially released. There really should be a stable archive for all that.

 

Loving the wild takes guys but

 

Illmatic is definitely better, It Was Written might even be, but I listened to it back to back with The Blueprint and as much as I've been loving some of those classic Jay albums, I think I prefer his voice and his flow. Even the production tbh.

Still, it's fuck Nas for what he did to Kelis

 

I definitely strongly prefer The Blueprint to Stillmatic but I also haven’t listened to Stillmatic nearly as much and haven’t listened to either one in like ten years. maybe I should re-visit

I pretty much only listen to modern hip hop these days, and very selectively at that

 

Blueprint is amazing