The article has one accurate point: Before Illmatic, nearly every legendary rap album was produced by one or two people/production teams. But it fails to contextualize the era. 2Pac's All Eyez on Me works much better as a turning point —it showed that rap fans would accept a watered-down product as long as the bangers banged and the jams jammed. Also, the rap LP went downhill after 1996 in very obvious ways.
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