Album Rating: 4.5
Life's a Bitch is one of my fave songs ever.
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Album Rating: 4.5
my fav is sittin in da park
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Album Rating: 5.0
not a bad review, but you could've easily avoided 99% of the negs with a different summary
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Album Rating: 5.0
that summary is a bit strange to me, considering you gave it a 5. It doesn't fit in with the review to be honest man. Also that second paragraph, the part where you talked about the flaws of the album, if you're gonna mention that, certainly it wouldn't justify the rating?
I mean I can understand where you're getting at in terms of it being an 'introductory album' to those who aren't into the genre, and the reasons why it managed to reach so many and how it became a classic, but you criticized it a bit more in which made me wonder how this gets a 5 yet its considered an 'overrated classic'? It completely throws me off. Btw the replay value, and that's just me, but it isn't that low. I've jammed songs like The World Is Yours, Ain't Hard To Tell, and One Time immensely: this album does have pretty solid replay value.
I'm really sorry man, and I didn't want to but I neg'd this review. Not because you neg'd my Lupe review btw, because I appreciated your criticism and I embrace it, but I just can't wrap my mind on how this gets a 5 but the review sounds more like a 3. That baffles me to be quite honest.
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Yeah lots of replay value, the more you listen the more you understand how it's such a classic
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Theres just something about this album that transcends the music.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yep, for me this is the greatest.
My main criticism with this review is that it seems preoccupied with challenging the belief that Illmatic is 'the magnus opus of hip hop', rather than actually focusing on the album itself.
While I agree that lyricism is an important, and fundamental, part of hip-hop (for what it's worth I think Illmatic is pretty strong in this area), I do think we should also place emphasis on other aspects such as flow and beat/sampling etc (which the review praises). I mean, if hip-hop is just about lyricism, why don't we all just go and listen to spoken-word then?
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This album just takes you away mannn
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
i ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin, give me a smith and west and i'll have niggas undressin
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I feel like this was written just to spite the bloke who gave it a 1
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Album Rating: 5.0
" ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin, give me a smith and west and i'll have niggas undressin"
the term is "Smith and Wesson",
as in this thing:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Smith_wesson-m29.jpg
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
ouch. "wesson" sounded like "west and" to me lol. but yeah great album
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Album Rating: 5.0
@let
being a hip hop great in 94 and being a poor Negro with limited access to technology aren't mutually
exclusive. the point is they aren't cigar smoking Jewish billionaires like the other review said.
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Album Rating: 5.0
that summary is a bit strange to me, considering you gave it a 5...you criticized it a bit more in which made me wonder how this gets a 5 yet its considered an 'overrated classic'? It completely throws me off.
I don't see whats so strange about this, you can only rate in increments of 5, its not like giving something a 5 means you think it is perfect. It's closer to 5 than 4.5 though. Im probably just not using the word overrated correctly, I mean to convey that this album just isn't the best hip hop, meaning it is, literally, over rated.
I mean, if hip-hop is just about lyricism, why don't we all just go and listen to spoken-word then? Thats wasn't my point, the point was other hip hop classics succeed in every aspect whereas this one is sometimes lacking lyrically.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Lambs list some rap albums you prefer to this"
Ellay Khule Holy Scriptures
AZ Doe or Die
A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe
Black Star Black Star
Common Resurrection
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music
KRS-One KRS-One
KRS-One Meta-Historical
KRS-One Return of the BOOM BAP
KRS-One Adventures in Emceein
KRS-One & Showbiz - Godsville
Boogie Down Productions - Sex and Violence
Boogie Down Productions - Edutainment
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
MF Grimm American Hunger
The Game Doctor's Advocate
Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Eminem - 8 Mile Soundtrack
Nas - It Was Written
Eligh - Grey Crow
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Album Rating: 5.0
it seems you wrote this review just to put across the point that you think there are better hip-hop albums than this. why don't you just review the album on its merits, instead of how it fares relative to other albums? also,
"It excels in every tenet of the genre"
then you go on to criticize the lyricism
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lackluster lyricism indeed: "Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined", "No sign of the beast in a blue chrysler, I guess that means peace", "I'm takin' rappers to a new plateau - through rap slow / my rhymin' is a vitamin held without a capsule"
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It Ain't Hard to Tell
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Re: your list
Fair enough, opinions and all that. I'm pretty sure Binary Star was like the second rap artist/group I ever got into actually after CYNE with that album. Wasn't into hip hop back then but just listened to those artists sometimes (getting into CYNE after enjoying Nujabes)
I'd be interested to see you argue why you think the 8 Mile Soundtrack is better than Illmatic
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Album Rating: 5.0
"It excels in every tenet of the genre"
then you go on to criticize the lyricism
again, the album excels in lyricism but still has some faults in lyricism that other albums don't
have.
@manfromspace
the lyrics on 8 mile soundtrack have more substance than Illmatic. They tell a
better story. A lot of illmatic is saying somewhat mundane things in complex catchy ways, look at
the quotes of supposed great lyrics just posted:
"Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined", "No sign of the beast in a blue chrysler, I
guess that means peace", "I'm takin' rappers to a new plateau - through rap slow / my rhymin' is a
vitamin held without a capsule"
that first quote is just 20 year old Nas trying to sound smart, that doesn't mean anything 'life is
defined breh'
the second quote is cool imagery but still an example of what im saying
the third quote is 'im the shit, my rhymin is the shit'
... you see what i mean? its not that this sucks, at all, its just a lot of these rhymes are really
overrated, they sound good, especially at first, but really, relatively, they aren't exceptionally
skilled, like Big L or Eminem, or meaningful like KRS, or impressive-on-their-own like Immortal
Technique. its still classic hip hop though. I don't see what's contradictory about this review.
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