what was the last truly classic album?
 

bona fide, if it's not a consensus it's pretty fucking close kinda classic I mean. Anything since The Blueprint?

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Was gonna say blueprint too ha

I'm sure there's been something else tho

An 2pab isn't considered classic....as a consensus

Foreign Exchange - connected

that's what I was thinking. I'd call it a classic, but people don't see it like they do Blueprint or even College Dropout.


@Diode I love Royce but no way is Rock City in that orbit of a classic album.

Game - The Documentary
one of the best produced albums ever

Blueprint was 01
the fix was 02
Em show was 02
An college drop out was 04
Documentary was 05 (an debatable)


But I consider that Kindve the same Era

There's got to be something from 2010 forward

Gkmc may be the closest thing we have I think

It was a classic an better received then 2pab

I thought drakes take care was a classic too honestly but he will never have an album considered classic by consensus lol

Documenatary makes it imo


Cole. Born sinner is real close imo.
tbh honest. Post 2010 is tough.
Have to brb onbthis

College dropout is classic. Gkmc blows

Documentary is good not classic.

Nothing i can think of but im delusional when it comes to mainstream music post being 16

To Pimp a Butterfly was named album of the year by like 30 publications, rap-specific and otherwise. In 30 years, way more people are going to be talking about To Pimp a Butterfly than The Documentary, whether you agree with it or not.

The same is true of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I like three of Kanye West's albums more, but that's the one that garnered classic status from the critical and cultural hive that determines these things.

Mumford and Sons - Sigh no More

Yeah to pimp a butterfly will go down as a classic, I know people who don't like most albums that are considered classic. The only album I have never heard anyone say they don't like is Illmatic.

i hope they never find the body of that dirt person.

Lmao

Classic rap albums of the 2000s:

Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele
Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
Jay Z, The Blueprint
50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Jay Z, The Black Album
Kanye West, The College Dropout and/or Late Registration
Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly

Near-classic rap albums of the 2000s:

OutKast, Stankonia
Reflection Eternal, Train of Thought
Madvillain, Madvillainy
Scarface, The Fix
Eminem, The Eminem Show
OutKast, Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2

A reasonable argument could be made that all of Kanye's discography is going to be looked back upon like a rap David Bowie.

The Eminem Show was surely a classic?

I'd also personally have T.I - Trap Musik at least in the near classics. As well as Graduation by Kanye. Common - Be, was one of my favourites but by no means a consensus I guess.

An the fix isn't a classic?

Smh. Blasphemer.

@Witty, I love Be, but I think Common's only "classic" is Resurrection. I meant to put The Eminem Show on the near-classics list and forgot. @Bags, The Fix got five mics from The Source, so I'll put it on there. The Diary seems like the most highly regarded Scarface album, but The Fix was better. Deeply Rooted low-key might be better than either.