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Originally Posted by Seymore CAKE
Although Illmatic has been critically acclaimed the best Hip Hop album ever by countless publications. Not saying, well Yes I Am.
Publications such as XXL, The Source, Rolling Stone? Yeah, that's exactly where I get all of my opinions from - I don't think for myself, I just readmagazines and let them decide for me.
Answer me this - exactly how much do you like every other album by Nas? I mean, It Was Written, I Am, Nastradamus, God's Son, Street Disciple, the selftitled most recent one - they're all pretty weak. I'm not saying he doesn't bring it on a single song on any of those albums, I'm just sayinthat if those albums were by anybody other than the guy that made Illmatic, they wouldn't even be in most people's collections. To me, the"Greatest Rapper Ever" had better be better than 1 for 9 in his/her album production, hence, Nas is not in the discussion of greatest rapper ever(for me). Nobody responded to anything I said about AZ. Seriously, listen to 9 Lives or Pieces of a Man - in my book these albums are easily as good asIllmatic, just that nobody really gives AZ props because they're too busy kissin Nas.
Everyone just gets on Nas' jock so bad about this one album. If you read my original post, I said that I really like this album, I just don't thinkit's the greatest album ever. Like I also said, I don't think you can nail down one album as the greatest ever. I PREFER Reasonable Doubt, Ready toDie, Southerplayalisticcadillacmusic, etc. to Illmatic. This is not to say that none of you can say Illmatic is your favorite ever, just that I don't thinkit is.
Don't be such a sheep and just follow what magazines and other 14 year old niketalkers say.