This album from 90>>> almost anything today

[andgar923]

Production not your A-B-C run of the mill sampling, not a simple one note synth playing. The production wipes the floor with almost anything done today (on a technical level).

Spitting is something that even some of today's top rappers will have a hard time spitting. They won't have the proper stamina, verbal dexterity to recite these lines, let alone write them. The flow, delivery, rhyming, lyrics, destroy most of today's rappers.

Ice Cube is a master storyteller that spits vivid tales with humor and great social insight. Simply a legendary album from a legendary and often underrated artist.

[Rasheed1]

Production not your A-B-C run of the mill sampling, not a simple one note synth playing. The production wipes the floor with almost anything done today (on a technical level).

Spitting is something that even some of today's top rappers will have a hard time spitting. They won't have the proper stamina, verbal dexterity to recite these lines, let alone write them. The flow, delivery, rhyming, lyrics, destroy most of today's rappers.

Ice Cube is a master storyteller that spits vivid tales with humor and great social insight. Simply a legendary album from a legendary and often underrated artist.

Bomb Squad and Cube was a really nasty combo

[ArbitraryWater]

yep, lots of the songs on this one are the BOMB.

[andgar923]

[QUOTE=Rasheed1]Bomb Squad and Cube was a really nasty combo

[Black and White]

Lupe Fiasco's the Cool?

[Jameerthefear]

rap is better now then it ever was

[Black and White]

rap is better now then it ever was

[RightToCensor]

Yeezus >

[ace23]

Um

[Jameerthefear]

smh. i'd bump ace's music before i would listen to this.



























okay maybe i wouldn't go that far...

[andgar923]

Lupe Fiasco's the Cool?

I said "almost anything", there are a few exceptions here and there. But it speaks volumes when an album 20 years old is better than damn near everything today.

One would think that as time went on rapping as an art evolved and technology made production superior.

We actually saw the art of rapping improve in the 90s and early 2k (very early). Production leveled off and perhaps dropped a bit (from a a technical standpoint that is) since this album was released.

As an example check out TI butcher this Kane classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBT2mLIsy8M

Horrible delivery, timing, flow, stamina and it wasn't even a hard song to perform.

Then Black Thought shows us how it's done.

Again, those song are from the 80s.

[ace23]

All these people taking shots at me are going to look kind of stupid when I blow up.

[fsvr54]

The ***** You Love to Hate, one of the greatest hip hop songs

I am partial to Death Certificate though and I even prefer O.G. - Original Gangster to both.

[andgar923]

rap is better now then it ever was

Aint it past your bedtime?

[Jameerthefear]

All these people taking shots at me are going to look kind of stupid when I blow up.

you know i'm playing

Aint it past your bedtime?

3:05 PM lol