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Post by PromNightCarrie on May 21, 2017 3:45:12 GMT
Chris Rock said that Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is "the best album in the history of hip hop." What do you think about that? Is it even the best Kanye album?
Personally, I prefer College Dropout and it wouldn't be my choice for best in the history of hip hop (if you know me, you'd know I would go with a Wu Tang group or solo album). However, I still recognize that MBDTF is an incredible piece of work with sounds and samples that blew me away when I first heard them. "Devil in a New Dress" might be my favorite Kanye song too (the sample and the Rick Ross verse are magic).
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on May 21, 2017 4:23:48 GMT
It's definitely in the discussion and I'd go as far as saying it's on the shortlist for best albums ever, period.
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Post by ibbi on May 21, 2017 7:55:45 GMT
What's your top 5, PQC?
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Post by mhynson27 on May 21, 2017 9:13:33 GMT
MMLP is the best in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 16:09:03 GMT
I'd say so, it's within my top 5-10 albums in general. It's pretty astounding.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 21, 2017 21:13:21 GMT
I don't get the hype
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Post by DeepArcher on May 22, 2017 0:52:59 GMT
Dark Fantasy isn't even my favorite Kanye album (though "Runaway" is, in my opinion, by far and away his best song -- and one of the overall best of the century). None of his LPs beat College Dropout for me, and I might prefer Late Registration and Graduation to MBDTF as well. Still, it's a pretty magnificent work.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on May 26, 2017 17:38:46 GMT
Tough, but for my top 5 hip hop albums right now I would go: Wu Tang Clan- Enter the Wu (36 Chambers) Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Nas- Illmatic Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Mobb Deep- The Infamous What about you, Ibbi?
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Post by ibbi on May 26, 2017 20:31:24 GMT
Tough, but for my top 5 hip hop albums right now I would go: Wu Tang Clan- Enter the Wu (36 Chambers) Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Nas- Illmatic Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Mobb Deep- The Infamous What about you, Ibbi? We share one I like 36 Chambers, but I think I preferred Wu Tang Forever, and I do love Miseducation. Not heard the other two. Tough to narrow down for, but probably... No Way Out The Blueprint Straight Outta Compton By All Means Necessary Illmatic Honourable mentions to Black on Both Sides, It Takes a Nation of Millions, 3 Feet High and Rising, and 2001!
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Post by atn on May 26, 2017 20:47:51 GMT
Tough, but for my top 5 hip hop albums right now I would go: Wu Tang Clan- Enter the Wu (36 Chambers) Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Nas- Illmatic Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Mobb Deep- The Infamous What about you, Ibbi? There's no such thing as a perfect wom-- Oh
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Post by oneflyr on May 26, 2017 20:56:28 GMT
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Or Blue Lines, Massive Attack.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 27, 2017 6:23:17 GMT
tbh Danny Brown's last album is 10 times better than anything I've heard from Kanye.
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on May 27, 2017 12:31:42 GMT
tbh Danny Brown's last album is 10 times better than anything I've heard from Kanye. Yup. I like Kanye well enough, on a song to song basis, but I never understood the hype surrounding his albums. Most are good, but not THAT good. I'd rank all of Danny Browns albums above all of Kanye's albums.
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Post by wendy on May 29, 2017 18:26:18 GMT
I don't mind 'Dark Twisted Fantasy', but it wouldn't make it on my longlist I don't think... I do prefer his first two albums (and even Graduation as far as repeat listens), but appreciate that it's a less sample-reliant effort from West than those works. The song arrangements stand on their own. Probably his most 'artistic' effort, if not his most immediate, infectious, or successful (IMO).
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Post by PromNightCarrie on May 29, 2017 19:33:58 GMT
tbh Danny Brown's last album is 10 times better than anything I've heard from Kanye. Yup. I like Kanye well enough, on a song to song basis, but I never understood the hype surrounding his albums. Most are good, but not THAT good. I'd rank all of Danny Browns albums above all of Kanye's albums. I think College Dropout would be in my top 15 rap albums of all time. Listening to it today, it's crazy how everything Kanye was rapping against he's become today! Oh and now that I look at my list I might replace one of those albums for Ghostface Killah's Fishscale or Supreme Clientele. The storytelling on Fishscale is pure brilliance.
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Post by jakesully on Jun 20, 2017 23:47:03 GMT
Its really really good but I'd go with some of the older hip hop albums as the best tbh. Outkast's Aquemini comes to mind .
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