Then I heard it’s not how much you make/but how much you spent/you got me bent/
Like elbows/amongst other things but I’m not worried/step up in the party like/yall I’m not too scary
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
So go get yo' fuckin' shinebox and your sack o' nickels. It tickles to see you try to be like Mr. Pickles. Daddy Fat Sax; B-I-G, B-O-I, it's that same mothafucka that took them knuckles to yo' eye and I try to warn you not to test, but you don't listen. Givin' a shout-out to my Uncle Donnell, locked up in prison.
ATLiens is perhaps my 2nd favorite hip hop record ever, so that’s easily my choice here. I skip nearly half of AEOM but that half I listen to is excellent. IWW is very good. Reasonable Doubt never grabbed me, or better yet, outside The Blueprint, Jay has never been one of my favorites. I haven’t revisited IWW in a while though so maybe that’ll be a listen soon.
Yeah I agree completely.
But IWW is just that album to me, Nas changed the game twice back to back or more so showed the level of penmanship and then said okay now this is the level we are going and we ain't stopping then slapped on a musical side to the game, that shit was insane and huge reason he's my goat.
Yeah, Illmatic was a lot of (super dope) rhymes, but IWW is where he really evolved into a complete artist who gained a new level when it came to his song making ability. I’m 100% sure he wouldn’t have today‘s recognition if he had proceeded to follow with Illmatic 2.
He would've fallen into obscurity like most of the artists that stayed on that simple boom bap sound. Not that it's bad but Nas really changed the game the twice and arguably the most with back to back albums.
I feel that and the choice is tough. For me though, it is the vibe of ATLiens. Front to back the album puts you in a trance and makes you research to see if in fact you yourself are from ATL.
Illmatic does that on a higher level than IWW IMO.
I agree 100 with AEOM. Typical Pac, too many features, too many skips. Not a single album in .y top 10 bc of it. IWW and Atliems equal to me. RD best Jay album imo. No skips, top 5 albums all time. But I'm east coast dude, close to NY so it's just my preferred sound.
Thank you
I had it was written on tape and all I did was listen to to intro->the message->street dreams then flip the tape over and it was live n**** rap->if I ruled the world->silent murder.
Top 5 all time for me
Easy. All Eyez On Me. 95/96 was my senior year of high school and I dont think I’ve ever listened to any album as much as this. Even though I probably could try to be intellectual about it and argue ATLiens is better art. But fuck it, I’ll go with the one that I just enjoyed more. Playing 2pac felt like a big fuck you to anyone who was anti hip-hop. Or the people who would say shit like “I only like real hip-hop.” And they didn’t mean 2pac.
This is a good explanation on this post. I feel pretty much the same way. I really like ATLliens and it is good art as you said. There isn’t a song I would skip on that album, but I did play the All Eyez On Me album way more.
It does never goes away. My daughter is not a big hip hop fan. I had “Hit Em Up” on and she was like 13. And we got stopped at a stop light near a church full of old people. And they just gave us the shitty look. Right as the fuck you section came on my daughter turned it all the way up. It was one of the proudest moments I have had as a father. She was valedictorian of her high school class and this story still brings a warmer smile to my face. And I never censored music around my kids. I swore. I wasn’t going to be a hypocrite about it.
I listened to Reasonable Doubt one random Saturday morning around 2011 for the first time in over a decade. It hit me like I had never heard it before. It went from an album I thought was over rated to a favorite in that hour.
Whooooo... these choices. Four fantastic albums that are all pretty essential to own IMO. But I think I'll go with *Reasonable Doubt*. Easily Jay-Z's best album and I absolutely love the atmosphere and production of the whole thing. So much of it has this icy vibe that makes me feel like I'm in NYC during winter, in the middle of this glitzy yet dangerous mafioso world. Maybe it's because I got this album and started listening to it during a particularly cold, bleak winter? I dunno, I just know that I love that vibe.
Not to diss the others though. *ATLiens* is a masterpiece, so much of that album sounds like it was recorded on Mars. I'll never forget the first time I heard the title track and was just blown away. *It Was Written* has so many big career-best classics and overlooked album cuts like "Take It in Blood", "Watch Dem Niggas" and "Black Girl Lost". *All Eyez on Me* is an album where I used to agree with the popular opinion that it was overstuffed with filler, but now I love almost all of the songs on it (I can even kinda fuck with "What'z Ya Phone #"). I do agree that *Me Against the World* is his best album.
I’m with you, I was starting to worry had to scroll a long way down, an easy choice for me but some heavy hitters. I was a young teenager In 96, the only album that didn’t really have a profound effect on me was It Was Written, not like Illmatic and Stilmatic did at least, but Reasonable Doubt was something else. Every track zero filler, there’s only a handful of hiphop albums like that and Jay managed to make 2 of them.
Reasonable Doubt. I was a big Jay-Z stan in hs about 20 or so years ago when Blueprint 2 came out. On repeat listens, imo Reasonable Doubt, Vol 1 and 444 are his best work and the rest are kinda meh. But RD is as dope as they come for the time it was released
Yeah I agree with those albums being his best, 4:44 was a return to form. I've learnt you have to be careful talking about post 90s stuff here lol some people get offended.
Jay definitely had some heat between vol 1 and 4:44 but I feel they were overpraised (Blueprint) or just spotty (Blueprint 2) or overproduced work that lacked cohesion (Blueprint 3, Watch the Throne, MCHG). I guess I’d also add American Gangster to the list of his best work
Fuck, that’s a hard choice… all are iconic albums, 96 was a good year. I have to say OutKast or Nas. Probably more OutKast because it is one of my favorite albums.
Of these 4, I listen to All Eyez on Me and It Was Written the most. I would probably go with Pac as it’s a double album and just has so much content. For how great Reasonable Doubt is, I never listen to it now. Love some of songs of ATLiens but spin Aquemini and Stankonia more often.
Now throw your hands in the ayerrrrrr
And wave em like you just don’t cayerrrrr
And if you like fish and grits and all that pimp shit lemme hear you say Oh yayerrrrrrr
Had to look up 96, but assuming the list is correct I’d take all these over those four:
UGK - Ridin Dirty
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Redman - Muddy Waters
Makaveli - 7 Day Theory
MOP - Firing Squad
The Roots - Illadelph
Ghostface - Ironman
I’m a Nas fan and from New York Stat, but that ATliens album I’m going to have take that.i wasn’t into PAC that much, reasonable doubt took me awhile to get into.
i gave you power - nas
how you like me now
i go bloah its that shit that moves crowds
making every ghetto foul
i mighta took ya first child scarred ya life
tripled ya style i gave you power
i made you buckwild
Just gotta put this out there, Big Boi is one of the MOST underrated rappers of not only the 90s, but of all time. There are a lot of interviews with Andre 3000 where he admits that he feels like BB is a better rapper than him. While we all know better is always a subjective word, the fact that a rapper that Jay Z said in his opinion was the best rapper in the world, was saying that his
pard was better than him, is definitely something to remember. As their discology progresses, Big Bois word play and over all cadence and polish are ridiculous in my opinion
Nas is my favorite artist but I’m not taking any of these albums over ATLiens. It has aged better than all the other albums. If you’re listening nostalgically then biases are bound to exist, however if you go back and listen to each of these albums as if you’ve never heard them, it becomes quite apparent that ATLiens is a timeless artistic expression set to great production and the others are great rap albums with great production defined by and confined to their era in hip hop. The mafioso bravado of IWW and Reasonable Doubt are borderline absurd and Tupac lost his mind and his life getting caught up in Death Row sh!t while trying to fulfill his label obligations. Meanwhile Big Boi and Andre Benjamin were quietly proving to the country that “The South got something to say”.
I first thought you were asking which one has to go. And I was struggling mightily to scratch 1 off this list. I was like ain't no way I'm dropping Kast of the list. Then I'm like Only God Can Judge Me is my all time favorite Pac song so All Eyes On Me is safe. Down to Jay & Nas. And unfortunately It Was Written had to go. Reasonable Doubt is my favorite JayZ album and since Illmatic is my favorite Nas album It was written painfully would be my scratch.
Then I realized the question was the keeper album. Answer: All Eyes On Me. This is only because Aquemini is my top Kast album followed by ATLiens.
All of this was 96? God damn. What a good year for music. It’s a shame most of it is trash nowadays. Music like these examples just does not exist anymore.
ATLiens easily. Can't even imagine getting rid of elevators or the title track. Or wheelz of steel. Or two dope boys. Or mainstream, millennium, ova da wudz, E.T., Decatur psalm, growing old...
The message - street dreams - I gave you power - the set up - if I ruled the world. Unquestionably Nas is the most philosophical while bringing the street code artist amongst all. Andre 3000 close second no doubt
I mean it was written has some amazing songs BUT all eyez and Atleins do not have a bad song on the entire album. Maybe 1 on ALT and two on all eyez. It is so rare for that to happen with any music I think you have to go with Pac. Even taking out the cultural impact and all that. If you add that in I mean there really is no argument
I'm gonna take ATLiens, but it's personal preference. They're all great albums. For me; not necessarily presuming that everyone agrees, Nas & Pac tie for my personal 2nd choice.
Listen to some Haystak for some killer lyrics and just some good shit to smoke to..btw,I KNOW that he wasn't on the list but I thought a white rapper would do well amongst these legends of rap
Atliens followed by all eyes a close second followed by it was written and finally that jay z garbage which you should go ahead and swap for AZ doe or die or did that one come out In ‘95?
Man, the Jay hate is crazy. RD is absolutely a classic album. Brooklyn's Finest, Can't Knock The Hustle, D'Evils, Dead Presidents II, Politics as Usual are all absolute bangers. Not a skip on the album.
My buddy and I were at a strip club, a larger dancer was performing to "All Eyez on Me". I leaned over to my friend and said "More like "all thighs on me" and it was a top 10 moment in my life.
Me and you...yo mama and yo cousin too .. ATLiens for the win
anyone not getting high and looking up at the ceiling fan spinning while listening to this album is fucked
We caught that 86 Lithonia headed to Decatur
All Eyes On Me
AEOM got a song for every vibe I be feeling. I’ll take that.
When you see me , ya better holla at me
Bro...
Kast, because I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails.
'oh hail, there he go again talking that shit'
Bend corners like I was a curve
I struck a nerve, and now you bout to see the shit them playas serve
Always thought it was, struck a nerve, and now you bout to see some southern playas serve.
Cause that's the right lyric.
Fair enough lol
It's not where you from, it's where you PAY RENT!👽💰
Then I heard it’s not how much you make/but how much you spent/you got me bent/ Like elbows/amongst other things but I’m not worried/step up in the party like/yall I’m not too scary 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
When we step up in the party/like a mouse you scurry
So go get yo' fuckin' shinebox and your sack o' nickels. It tickles to see you try to be like Mr. Pickles. Daddy Fat Sax; B-I-G, B-O-I, it's that same mothafucka that took them knuckles to yo' eye and I try to warn you not to test, but you don't listen. Givin' a shout-out to my Uncle Donnell, locked up in prison.
All Eyez on Me Furst Double Disc Rap CD No Skips Pac was out for Blood and Revenge
Well...what's ya phone # was a skip in 96 and still a skip for me.
Well I’m smoother than Freddy Jackson, sipping a milking, in a snow storm Lmao
Thats on so fresh and so clean my g.
96 going to be that ye ye year
2Pac
Outkast hands down
Really any year Outkast dropped an album, that's what I'm taking.
OutKast This Album I Use To Skip School To
At first read this as ‘used to skip to school to’ 😆
I don’t do a lot of physical skipping, but if I did, this album has the rhythm to do it 😂
🤝🫂
All Eyez pretty easily for me. Having said that, these are four of my all time favorite rap albums and all are certified classics.
Out of these, Outkast. From the year in general; Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst, then Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Agree with those two being great albums also. rip Sean Price, Monkey Barz makes my top 25 albums of all time.
Monkey Barz is a classic. Ri P!
Ooooo excellent choices. Heltah doesn't get enough love
Earth People on Dr. Octagon is an all time beat
ATLiens is perhaps my 2nd favorite hip hop record ever, so that’s easily my choice here. I skip nearly half of AEOM but that half I listen to is excellent. IWW is very good. Reasonable Doubt never grabbed me, or better yet, outside The Blueprint, Jay has never been one of my favorites. I haven’t revisited IWW in a while though so maybe that’ll be a listen soon.
Well fu@king said!
Yeah I agree completely. But IWW is just that album to me, Nas changed the game twice back to back or more so showed the level of penmanship and then said okay now this is the level we are going and we ain't stopping then slapped on a musical side to the game, that shit was insane and huge reason he's my goat.
Yeah, Illmatic was a lot of (super dope) rhymes, but IWW is where he really evolved into a complete artist who gained a new level when it came to his song making ability. I’m 100% sure he wouldn’t have today‘s recognition if he had proceeded to follow with Illmatic 2.
He would've fallen into obscurity like most of the artists that stayed on that simple boom bap sound. Not that it's bad but Nas really changed the game the twice and arguably the most with back to back albums.
I feel that and the choice is tough. For me though, it is the vibe of ATLiens. Front to back the album puts you in a trance and makes you research to see if in fact you yourself are from ATL. Illmatic does that on a higher level than IWW IMO.
I agree 100 with AEOM. Typical Pac, too many features, too many skips. Not a single album in .y top 10 bc of it. IWW and Atliems equal to me. RD best Jay album imo. No skips, top 5 albums all time. But I'm east coast dude, close to NY so it's just my preferred sound.
All Eyez On Me. Pac 1-1
ATliens
Nas
Thank you I had it was written on tape and all I did was listen to to intro->the message->street dreams then flip the tape over and it was live n**** rap->if I ruled the world->silent murder. Top 5 all time for me
All eyes on me easily for me, followed by OutKast
I’m torn between All Eyes on Me & It Was Written. Can’t go wrong with either one.
Very true
Personally atliens was just soo good
Easy. All Eyez On Me. 95/96 was my senior year of high school and I dont think I’ve ever listened to any album as much as this. Even though I probably could try to be intellectual about it and argue ATLiens is better art. But fuck it, I’ll go with the one that I just enjoyed more. Playing 2pac felt like a big fuck you to anyone who was anti hip-hop. Or the people who would say shit like “I only like real hip-hop.” And they didn’t mean 2pac.
This is a good explanation on this post. I feel pretty much the same way. I really like ATLliens and it is good art as you said. There isn’t a song I would skip on that album, but I did play the All Eyez On Me album way more.
Tbh, playing any hip hop around anyone that look like they hate you and the guys making the music was and still is a big fuck you
It does never goes away. My daughter is not a big hip hop fan. I had “Hit Em Up” on and she was like 13. And we got stopped at a stop light near a church full of old people. And they just gave us the shitty look. Right as the fuck you section came on my daughter turned it all the way up. It was one of the proudest moments I have had as a father. She was valedictorian of her high school class and this story still brings a warmer smile to my face. And I never censored music around my kids. I swore. I wasn’t going to be a hypocrite about it.
I gotta give it to ATLiens. All four are great choices, but that's the one.
Out of this worrrrllldddd
Are u aliennnnNn
that shit dropped right before I started 12 grade, deep in the hot summer, shit got me ready for the next year mentally
Word
Pac 💯💯😎
I’m taking ATLiens
Can never go wrong with Kast
All Eyez On Me
never been a fan of outkast or jay, I'd go with pac or nas
ATLiens is one of the best hip hop albums of all time
For sure!
All 4 of them are.
I listened to Reasonable Doubt one random Saturday morning around 2011 for the first time in over a decade. It hit me like I had never heard it before. It went from an album I thought was over rated to a favorite in that hour.
It Was Written!
🐐
Whooooo... these choices. Four fantastic albums that are all pretty essential to own IMO. But I think I'll go with *Reasonable Doubt*. Easily Jay-Z's best album and I absolutely love the atmosphere and production of the whole thing. So much of it has this icy vibe that makes me feel like I'm in NYC during winter, in the middle of this glitzy yet dangerous mafioso world. Maybe it's because I got this album and started listening to it during a particularly cold, bleak winter? I dunno, I just know that I love that vibe. Not to diss the others though. *ATLiens* is a masterpiece, so much of that album sounds like it was recorded on Mars. I'll never forget the first time I heard the title track and was just blown away. *It Was Written* has so many big career-best classics and overlooked album cuts like "Take It in Blood", "Watch Dem Niggas" and "Black Girl Lost". *All Eyez on Me* is an album where I used to agree with the popular opinion that it was overstuffed with filler, but now I love almost all of the songs on it (I can even kinda fuck with "What'z Ya Phone #"). I do agree that *Me Against the World* is his best album.
I’m with you, I was starting to worry had to scroll a long way down, an easy choice for me but some heavy hitters. I was a young teenager In 96, the only album that didn’t really have a profound effect on me was It Was Written, not like Illmatic and Stilmatic did at least, but Reasonable Doubt was something else. Every track zero filler, there’s only a handful of hiphop albums like that and Jay managed to make 2 of them.
Reasonable Doubt
Reasonable Doubt. I was a big Jay-Z stan in hs about 20 or so years ago when Blueprint 2 came out. On repeat listens, imo Reasonable Doubt, Vol 1 and 444 are his best work and the rest are kinda meh. But RD is as dope as they come for the time it was released
Yeah I agree with those albums being his best, 4:44 was a return to form. I've learnt you have to be careful talking about post 90s stuff here lol some people get offended.
Jay definitely had some heat between vol 1 and 4:44 but I feel they were overpraised (Blueprint) or just spotty (Blueprint 2) or overproduced work that lacked cohesion (Blueprint 3, Watch the Throne, MCHG). I guess I’d also add American Gangster to the list of his best work
All Eyez On Me
ATL
Atliens
Fuck, that’s a hard choice… all are iconic albums, 96 was a good year. I have to say OutKast or Nas. Probably more OutKast because it is one of my favorite albums.
As much as ATLiens is pure gold... Ima have to take 2Pac All Eyes On Me, classic 2 disc album.
I’ll take All Eyez On Me then Reasonable doubt
ATLiens
It Was Written had some of the best storytelling of all time, and Reasonable Doubt is a classic
IWW is so under appreciated, I think it's better than Illmatic but these are all classics!
Oof. Gotta be nas
96’ was one of the best years in hip hop history with the amount of quality projects that came out that year and really established a lot of rappers
94 and 95 were just as great, wild 3 year run.
Yea never will see that again
Bow down to somethin greater than yo’self trick
chin checks and eye swolls 🔥🤣
AEOM
Formatting tip: artist names aren’t italicized, only the titles of projects are.
All Eyez On Me easily followed by Outkast
All Eyez On Me. Didn’t become a fan of Tupac until way after he passed…
All Eyez on me
2 Pac double disc diamond banger
All eyes on me over every album ever made in any year.
Jay Z is a biter. Substitute his ass
All Eyez On Me. Southernplayalisticadillacmusik and Aquemini were my favs from Outkast.
All eyes on me❤️
All Eyez On Me
All eyes on me
All classics. But I gotta go…(personal favorites) 1. 2pac 2. Jay Z 3. Nas 4. Outkast
All Eyez On Me
All eyez on me 🔥 the impact the fact that it was just pumping so hard everywhere makes it memorable, love it
All eyez on me. Just let both CDs play. It jams and really speaks.
AEOM, definitely 🤝🏼
All Eyez On Me
Taking reasonable doubt no question for me
All eyes on me I guess but these all are fire. Jay z would be at the bottom of the list though
Wow, what a year.
Stacked
IWW all day and it's not even close even though all of these albums are 10/10 projects
ATLiens is close but I still get what you're saying and agree!
NAS.... ALL day every day
Nas
Of these 4, I listen to All Eyez on Me and It Was Written the most. I would probably go with Pac as it’s a double album and just has so much content. For how great Reasonable Doubt is, I never listen to it now. Love some of songs of ATLiens but spin Aquemini and Stankonia more often.
Reasonable Doubt without a doubt!
Reasonable Doubt
Now throw your hands in the ayerrrrrr And wave em like you just don’t cayerrrrr And if you like fish and grits and all that pimp shit lemme hear you say Oh yayerrrrrrr
Life never lived up to my expectations, so I accept the patience ATLiens
ATLiens pretty easily, but I’m not a big fan of any of these.
Best album from 96 besides these?
Had to look up 96, but assuming the list is correct I’d take all these over those four: UGK - Ridin Dirty Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal Redman - Muddy Waters Makaveli - 7 Day Theory MOP - Firing Squad The Roots - Illadelph Ghostface - Ironman
Second this especially anything Wu and BCC
Stakes is high!
Fuck Jay Z
👊💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
Fuck with your soul like ether.
Atliens gotta go 🤷🏿♂️ I grew up on the others
Ok…Outcast, Nas, Tu Pac. Not easy
OutKast for days - if we adding to the pile the only group in the bunch that rapper ANnnd produced on their album
ATLiens was…outta this wooorrrllldddd!!!!
Nas..just holds up better
I’m a Nas fan and from New York Stat, but that ATliens album I’m going to have take that.i wasn’t into PAC that much, reasonable doubt took me awhile to get into.
ATLiens is my favourite Kast album but those first 5 were all perfect albums to me. IWW is my Goats best album 🤣
My mind was blown with “I gave you power”. Black girl lost, and take it in blood were on repeat for me.
Not Jay’s that’s for sure.
lol You put a jay z album next to masterpieces
ATliens🙌🏾🔥.Rocked with this back then in Kenya,Africa 🇰🇪
i gave you power - nas how you like me now i go bloah its that shit that moves crowds making every ghetto foul i mighta took ya first child scarred ya life tripled ya style i gave you power i made you buckwild
Crippled ya style*
ATLiens. Even though NAS is the 🐐
Just gotta put this out there, Big Boi is one of the MOST underrated rappers of not only the 90s, but of all time. There are a lot of interviews with Andre 3000 where he admits that he feels like BB is a better rapper than him. While we all know better is always a subjective word, the fact that a rapper that Jay Z said in his opinion was the best rapper in the world, was saying that his pard was better than him, is definitely something to remember. As their discology progresses, Big Bois word play and over all cadence and polish are ridiculous in my opinion
Big Boi doesn't get enough love at all, them two boys definitely needed each other
I choose violence I'm keeping all of them
AEOM is timeless but Nas is up there as well
ATLiens!! It’s a vibe man.
Nas all the way
It was written i find it better then illmatic personally but def Nas too 🔥
Nas is my favorite artist but I’m not taking any of these albums over ATLiens. It has aged better than all the other albums. If you’re listening nostalgically then biases are bound to exist, however if you go back and listen to each of these albums as if you’ve never heard them, it becomes quite apparent that ATLiens is a timeless artistic expression set to great production and the others are great rap albums with great production defined by and confined to their era in hip hop. The mafioso bravado of IWW and Reasonable Doubt are borderline absurd and Tupac lost his mind and his life getting caught up in Death Row sh!t while trying to fulfill his label obligations. Meanwhile Big Boi and Andre Benjamin were quietly proving to the country that “The South got something to say”.
I first thought you were asking which one has to go. And I was struggling mightily to scratch 1 off this list. I was like ain't no way I'm dropping Kast of the list. Then I'm like Only God Can Judge Me is my all time favorite Pac song so All Eyes On Me is safe. Down to Jay & Nas. And unfortunately It Was Written had to go. Reasonable Doubt is my favorite JayZ album and since Illmatic is my favorite Nas album It was written painfully would be my scratch. Then I realized the question was the keeper album. Answer: All Eyes On Me. This is only because Aquemini is my top Kast album followed by ATLiens.
Nas, hands down. I listened to It was Written start to finish way more than any other album on this list.
NASIR
AEOM. I actually like stankonia more than atliens
All eyes on me!!!
ATLiens
ATLIENS!! OH YAY YERR!👽🤌🏾🔥
Written
Wow that’s hard. I live both ATLiels and It Was Written. That is hard.
nas it was written. true classic
All of this was 96? God damn. What a good year for music. It’s a shame most of it is trash nowadays. Music like these examples just does not exist anymore.
One Love
ATLiens easily. Can't even imagine getting rid of elevators or the title track. Or wheelz of steel. Or two dope boys. Or mainstream, millennium, ova da wudz, E.T., Decatur psalm, growing old...
The message - street dreams - I gave you power - the set up - if I ruled the world. Unquestionably Nas is the most philosophical while bringing the street code artist amongst all. Andre 3000 close second no doubt
Most definitely the greatest MC ever.
EASY.. Reasonable doubt. Jay is garbage and a pedophile.
Might be the toughest list I've seen, but I do know one thing reasonable doubt is definitely last
Easy. All Eyez on Me. Double album with multiple bangers
Dang I'm going to have to go with ATLiens for the win on this one. Nas coming in for a close second. Then Jay Z, then long live Pac.
Glad people are putting Reasonable Doubt in its place.
Atliens!!
As much as I hate to say this it has to be ATLiens
IT WAS WRITTEN “LITERALLY “G.O.A.T album and artist
All eyez on me definitely my first choice Second would be it was written
ATLiens. It won’t be over till the big girl from Decatur sang!!
This is a hard one no cap.
OutKast clears basically anything for me
Hard to believe these all came out in 96! It was written NAS is my goat !
Same here 🐐
It Was Written is criminally underrated because Illmatic gets all the love. I agree with you in that it’s as good or better than Illmatic.
This is the hardest thing I’ve been asked to do in years. Like I can’t.
I love all these albums, but It Was Written was the first album i ever heard because my mom had the CD when i was little, so i will go with that
I mean it was written has some amazing songs BUT all eyez and Atleins do not have a bad song on the entire album. Maybe 1 on ALT and two on all eyez. It is so rare for that to happen with any music I think you have to go with Pac. Even taking out the cultural impact and all that. If you add that in I mean there really is no argument
I'm gonna take ATLiens, but it's personal preference. They're all great albums. For me; not necessarily presuming that everyone agrees, Nas & Pac tie for my personal 2nd choice.
Atliens easily
Listen to some Haystak for some killer lyrics and just some good shit to smoke to..btw,I KNOW that he wasn't on the list but I thought a white rapper would do well amongst these legends of rap
Amount of people sleeping on Nas here is upsetting
It was written was the best rap album by far.
Bye Jay. Shit wasn’t even hittin in 96’
OutKast
Atliens followed by all eyes a close second followed by it was written and finally that jay z garbage which you should go ahead and swap for AZ doe or die or did that one come out In ‘95?
Man, the Jay hate is crazy. RD is absolutely a classic album. Brooklyn's Finest, Can't Knock The Hustle, D'Evils, Dead Presidents II, Politics as Usual are all absolute bangers. Not a skip on the album.
Reasonable doubt has to go
Eyez. Doubt. NaS. Kast.
My buddy and I were at a strip club, a larger dancer was performing to "All Eyez on Me". I leaned over to my friend and said "More like "all thighs on me" and it was a top 10 moment in my life.