Dr Dre's - Chronic (1992)

[tmh]

how can you even compare these 2 albums?

wu-tang is NOT gangsta rap... so the decision is basically going to be your preference between the sub-genres; i personally much prefer hip hop...
dre is tite as well, dont get me wrong, its just a different type of music

talib/mos are straight up hiphop..., like myra's attemptin to point out, anything blackstar is recommended.

if you grab anythin solo by mos/talib, get their old cd's, cuz talib's latest release is wack, n mos is explorin new stylez, but still keeps some shit tite

[miss.myra]

uhh hip hop is hip hop. i really hate people trying to call stuff 'real hip hop' because it ain't gangsta rap.


rap is music


hip hop is a way of life


end of discussion.

[tmh]

that gangsta shit is a way of life for alot of people as well. we're talkin bout music here, n hip hop is a genre of music.. straight up

being a way of life aint the difference between the two...

[Pennywise]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

uhh hip hop is hip hop. i really hate people trying to call stuff 'real hip hop' because it ain't gangsta rap.


rap is music


hip hop is a way of life


end of discussion.

i like myras answer:)
shes always right

[rawb]

so how many people here 'live hiphop' just wondering where i buy the clothes thanks plz reply back

[mikey]

^^^

I hear stiches is good.... Load up on exco !!!

[Bobby_T]

The Chronic and Doggystyle.....the golden age of rap!

Dre is my favorite producer, ever.

[jono]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

I don't understand, classic hip hop albums are classic hip hop albums. I also really really don't understand how you can't respect the fact that wu tang's 36 chambers was groundbreaking. These were a bunch of kids from Staten Island who were all about shaolin and really cool stuff and as far as I know nobody else could touch that. Blackstar fit into the same category easily, because they were repping NYC as well, and also because lyrically, their shit was groundbreaking as well.

You have to respect the classics. I will make you like 36 chambers.

See the thing is it's not at all that I don't respect albums like 36 Chambers and The Chronic. I do, and I know that I should and I also know why I should. It's just that I can't get into them but I feel that I should. I wouldn't listen to an album that I don't respect 4 or 5 times.

I, for some reason, am not into it. I know why I *should* like it, I just don't. Liking something and respecting it are totally different.

The reason I said that the Blackstar album should be in a different category is that, to me, it wasn't an album that had as much widespread appeal as the other two. It also came out 5 years later than 36 Chambers and 6 years after The Chronic. I'm not saying which are better albums and I'm trying to stay as far away from the "mainstream" vs "underground" debate as possible. But the Blackstar album's influence was on a different sub-genre of rap than the other two were. All three were influential, but I would guess that the Blackstar album influenced what I listen to now a lot more.

But what do I know. I was 9 when The Chronic came out, 10 when 36 Chambers came out and 15 when Blackstar came out. I didn't listen to any of them at the time.