Bad Opinions II • Page 13

Jay-Z would be the only hip hop artist that comes close. I have him with 3 "classics"

 

i would give hova 5 in reasonable doubt, blueprint, black album, american gangster, and 4:44

also feel like outkasts first 5 are in the discussion

 

Kendrick has 1 but I am being forced to include GKMC so 2
Drake has 1
Nas has 1.5
Ghostface has 2

 

American Gangster is great, but I don't think it is a classic. I'm out on 4:44

 

4:44 is pretty solid for late career but idk if I’d say classic

 

i feel like time has been very kind reputationally to 4:44 vs when it was released because its such an archetypal dad rap album for the mainstream

and then subjectively it also i think has his best set of songs lol

 

I’m guessing take care for drake?

 

I'd give Outkast the middle 3 as classics.
Wayne has 2 (maybe 3 if i'm giving it to Carter II as well but I don't think I am)
Tribe has 3

 

Yeah even if I prefer So Far Gone

 

how are we feeling about the roots in this discussion

 

I haven't done a Roots listen in a long time but they at the very least have 1 in Things Fall Apart.

 

I think they have 3 if you include Do You Want More and Phrenology but that’s just me. I’m sure people would consider Game Theory in there.

 

me personally id go things fall apart / game theory / undun which gives em 1 in each decade of activity but ik people rank illadelph halflife and do you want more up there similarly

 

The two most recent Roots albums are actually my favorites, I like the whole genre-less experimental phase they got to

 

undun is great

 

i actually agree with this lol, i only wouldnt raise and then you shoot your cousin as a classic because it reputation is so polarizing, but its personally an all timer for me

 

Same. Though I’d say the Beastie Boys probably have 3 too?

 

I think the Roots has many amazing albums but they’re not all classics

 

The Beatles have plenty to fit the prompt, if you're looking outside hip hop

 

The Cure are a pretty obvious answer. Minus The Bear are pretty close, if not there already, depending on the length requirement of an album haha

 

heres one

u2 - boy, war, the unforgettable fire, the joshua tree, achtung baby

reputationally you could also say all that you cant leave behind but that album is pretty bad lol

 

Miles has about 15

 

Rank them please

 

sticking to “studio” (most of the electric era ones are hybrid):

Live-Evil
In a Silent Way
Jack Johnson
Bitches Brew
E.S.P.
Nefertiti
Sketches of Spain
Porgy & Bess
Miles in the Sky
On the Corner
Kind of Blue
Files de Kilimanjaro
Sorcerer
Get Up With It
Milestones
Miles Ahead
Birth of the Cool

could comfortably claim several more as classics tbh

 

Talking Heads maybe , for sure if you include Tom Tom Club and David solo