Music Debate: Other than Redman, which rapper had 3 classic in a row starting out?

[D'Evils]

Nas had 3 in a row until I Am... was bootlegged, which was a double album. I remember hearing the original in '98.

I wish Nas would re-release the album as a Special Edition or at least put out the original tracklist so his fans could hear how it was intended to be heard.

 

[jasonblacc]

Nas had 3 in a row until I Am... was bootlegged, which was a double album. I remember hearing the original in '98.

I wish Nas would re-release the album as a Special Edition or at least put out the original tracklist so his fans could hear how it was intended to be heard.

I am is the 3rd nas album

 

[Mr. Met]

Nas
EPMD
ATCQ
BDP
Run DMC
Ice Cube

Almost said LL but Panther nearly killed his career.

 

[T-bone]

Heard this on bomani...

besides Red which rapper had THREE classic albums in a row?

STRAIGHT OUT THE BOX!?!?!?!?!?​

talking DEBUT, follow up and follow up!!!!

Whut? Thee Album
Dare Iz a Darkside
Muddy Waters

You can add groups but I think the Tribe and Outkast are too easy.

and we MEAN undisputed certified classics...

not just sales!!!

I mean 9 out of 10 hip hop heads AGREE

CLASSICS

you may proceed

Game

 

[daking181]

Cube?

borderline very close...but Predator was NOT a classic.

good album yes NOT a classic.

AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Death Certificate

The Predator

I would count the ep

 

[daking181]

how I forget them!

Juvenile Hell
The Infamous
Hell on Earth

Juvenile Hell, no

 

[D'Evils]

I am is the 3rd nas album

But my point was that I Am... Was originally a double album titled, I Am...The Autobiography. It was to be released in '98 then Nas split the album up to I Am... And Nastrdumas in '99 due to bootlegging.

The Lost Tapes contains a lost of the leaked songs.

 

[nowayhozay101]

Yall niggas are just naming shit for the sake of naming shit.


Epmd
Mc hammer

 

[Teknique310]

Thank Me Later(2010)
Take Care (2011)
Nothing Was The Same (2013)

Its the vogue thing to do hating Drake. But the dude makes some dope ass records. You aint wrong!

 

[jack walsh13]

Krs 1

Criminal Minded
By Any Means Necessary
Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hiphop

Yeah. I'll go with that.

 

[dirtyrat229]

Masta Ace

Take A Look Around
Slaughtahouse
Sittin On Chrome
Disposable Arts
Long Hot Summer

 

[lazarus]

I disagree Redman had 3 in a row.

Paul's Boutique
Check Your Head
Ill Communication


Resurrection
One Day It'll All Make Sense
Like Water for Chocolate

 

[Dark19]

I Think DMX Makes It In Just Under the Wire

It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...And_Then_There_Was_X
...And Then There Was X

 

[ViCiouS]

I agree with:
Eric B Rakim
Gangstarr
RunDMC
A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
Public Enemy

I am a DIEHARD Jay Z fan and he did NOT have 3 CLASSICS in a row.

you are slipping:
Reasonable Doubt, In My Life Time 1 &2?

LL cool j

bigger and deffer
walking with a panther
mama said knock you out

nope - Walking with a panther was NOT good...
"I'm that type of guy" - only 1 good single - Cali, and needed a remix to make Jinglin Baby work

Thank Me Later(2010)
Take Care (2011)
Nothing Was The Same (2013)

please define classic ... cause all 3 of those ain't classic - maybe 2 but not all 3

 

[Give Me 3ft.]

2pac ice cube Jay-Z

2nd j album was trash!

Mobb Deep

I forgot juvenile hell I was thinking Murda music

juvenile hell not so much!

 

[playahaitian]

you are slipping:
Reasonable Doubt, In My Life Time 1 &2?

There is NO bigger Jay Z fan than me.

But In My Lifetime 1

c'mon fam you my man 100 grand fo life but it was

it DID have some of his GREATEST singles but even Jay HIMSELF says that wasn't the one.

1. "Intro / A Million And One Questions / Rhyme No More" DJ Premier 3:21
2. "The City Is Mine" (featuring Blackstreet) Teddy Riley, Chad Hugo 4:02
3. "I Know What Girls Like" (featuring Lil' Kim & Puff Daddy) Sean "Puffy" Combs, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen 4:50
4. "Imaginary Player" Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool for The Hitmen 3:57
5. "Streets Is Watching" Ski 3:58
6. "Friend or Foe '98" DJ Premier 2:09
7. "Lucky Me" Steven "Stevie J" Jordan for The Hitmen,Buckwild for D.I.T.C. 5:00
8. "(Always Be My) Sunshine" (featuring Foxy Brown & Babyface) Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool for The Hitmen 4:43
9. "Who You Wit II" Ski 4:29
10. "Face Off" (featuring Sauce Money) Poke and Tone for Trackmasters 3:31
11. "Real Niggaz" (featuring Too $hort) Anthony Dent 5:07
12. "Rap Game / Crack Game" Big Jaz 2:40
13. "Where I'm From" Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen 4:26
14. "You Must Love Me" (featuring Kelly Price)

that was way too Puffy jiggy influenced.

I LIKE that album LOVE some tracks on it but it is NOT a classic by any means.

 

[playahaitian]

I disagree Redman had 3 in a row.

Paul's Boutique
Check Your Head
Ill Communication


Resurrection
One Day It'll All Make Sense
Like Water for Chocolate

OK to be fair Beastie Boys is actually a yes

but I'm on my Kapernick.. so no go.

Common is a VERY good debate

very very good...I think I may have to agree

I gotta hear Like Water again before I co-sign fully

 

[playahaitian]

Masta Ace

Take A Look Around
Slaughtahouse
Sittin On Chrome
Disposable Arts
Long Hot Summer

Oh sh*t...

I think we have a winner!!!!!!!!!

siting on Chrone may be a little bit shaky though?

But I think I'll allow it!

 

[CPT Callamity]

I disagree Redman had 3 in a row.




Resurrection
One Day It'll All Make Sense
Like Water for Chocolate

Common's first was "Can I Borrow a Dollar?"

 

[playahaitian]

Thank Me Later(2010)
Take Care (2011)
Nothing Was The Same (2013)

Those are DOPE records with CLASSIC (for the modern age singles)

but CLASSIC top to bottom?

I can't agree with that

Not classic.

GREAT, POPULAR.....not classic

 

[playahaitian]

So I'm gonna be the first to make a case for Busta Rhymes?

I KNOW he already is disqualified

cause that FIRST album was good but was NOT a classic

(and unfortunately because of the anticipation and pressure it could have never been)

some would argue he NEVER has had a TRUE classic album

The Coming

When Disaster Strikes...

E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front

 

[Madrox]

Tha Liks

21 & Over
Coast II Coast
Likwidation

 

[ViCiouS]

There is NO bigger Jay Z fan than me.

But In My Lifetime 1

c'mon fam you my man 100 grand fo life but it was

it DID have some of his GREATEST singles but even Jay HIMSELF says that wasn't the one.

1. "Intro / A Million And One Questions / Rhyme No More" DJ Premier 3:21
2. "The City Is Mine" (featuring Blackstreet) Teddy Riley, Chad Hugo 4:02
3. "I Know What Girls Like" (featuring Lil' Kim & Puff Daddy) Sean "Puffy" Combs, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen 4:50
4. "Imaginary Player" Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool for The Hitmen 3:57
5. "Streets Is Watching" Ski 3:58
6. "Friend or Foe '98" DJ Premier 2:09
7. "Lucky Me" Steven "Stevie J" Jordan for The Hitmen,Buckwild for D.I.T.C. 5:00
8. "(Always Be My) Sunshine" (featuring Foxy Brown & Babyface) Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool for The Hitmen 4:43
9. "Who You Wit II" Ski 4:29
10. "Face Off" (featuring Sauce Money) Poke and Tone for Trackmasters 3:31
11. "Real Niggaz" (featuring Too $hort) Anthony Dent 5:07
12. "Rap Game / Crack Game" Big Jaz 2:40
13. "Where I'm From" Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen 4:26
14. "You Must Love Me" (featuring Kelly Price)

that was way too Puffy jiggy influenced.

I LIKE that album LOVE some tracks on it but it is NOT a classic by any means.

I'll agree to disagree - I know J felt it was too Puffed out -but IMO - 6 maybe 7 solid records out of 14 is good -especially if you go back and listen to Reasonable Doubt

1. "Intro / A Million And One Questions / Rhyme No More" DJ Premier 3:21
4. "Imaginary Player" Daven "Prestige" Vanderpoolfor The Hitmen 3:57
5. "Streets Is Watching" Ski 3:58
6. "Friend or Foe '98" DJ Premier 2:09
9. "Who You Wit II" Ski 4:29
13. "Where I'm From" Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen 4:26
14. "You Must Love Me"

 

[playahaitian]

Tha Liks

21 & Over
Coast II Coast
Likwidation

salute...

 

[playahaitian]

I'll agree to disagree - I know J felt it was too Puffed out -but IMO - 6 maybe 7 solid records out of 14 is good -especially if you go back and listen to Reasonable Doubt

1. "Intro / A Million And One Questions / Rhyme No More" DJ Premier 3:21
4. "Imaginary Player" Daven "Prestige" Vanderpoolfor The Hitmen 3:57
5. "Streets Is Watching" Ski 3:58
6. "Friend or Foe '98" DJ Premier 2:09
9. "Who You Wit II" Ski 4:29
13. "Where I'm From" Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen 4:26
14. "You Must Love Me"

THAT is a PERFECT album

but even SEVEN CLASSIC UNDISPUTED HITS isn't classic status...

wait a minute you know what?

let me think on something...

Cause Illmatic is the standard right?

OK...

while it is a GREAT GREAT GREAT song and especially in context is a classic addition.

Represent as a song on its on?

could we argue is 'skippable"?

Blasphemy I know...

but should a CLASSIC album have ANY skippable songs on it?

 

[TimRock]

My favorite rapper of all time. He had such a catalog of albums up until Fish Scales. The Wizardry album was dope too but wouldn't put it up there.

I think the first three were classics? Your opinion?

yes, they were classics, and i still listen to them till this day. Once i heard Wisdom Body on Raekwons OB4CL, Ghost officially became my favorite rapper of all time.

 

[swampfox]

Tribe
Mobb
Outkast

 

[Day_Carver]

I wholeheartedly disagree with 2Pac fam...his first album was NOT a classic. Even back then. It had those 3 singles maybe especially Brenda but that was it.

2Pacalypse Now

Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...

Me Against the World

Yea his first wasn't but me against world, all eyes on me, and makaveli were three in a row though

 

[ViCiouS]

THAT is a PERFECT album

but even SEVEN CLASSIC UNDISPUTED HITS isn't classic status...

wait a minute you know what?

let me think on something...

Cause Illmatic is the standard right?

OK...

while it is a GREAT GREAT GREAT song and especially in context is a classic addition.

Represent as a song on its on?

could we argue is 'skippable"?

Blasphemy I know...

but should a CLASSIC album have ANY skippable songs on it?

IMO Illmatic might be the perfect hiphop album - even with Represent....
for me a classic album is taken as a whole even with the skippable songs - Beasties RunDMC even PE had skippables on the albums
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick had 1 or 2...
In truth I can only remember listening to maybe 8 perfect albums where no song was skippable, none were rap (Miles Davis, D'angelo, Maxwell, Jill Scott, Micheal Jackson)

 

[Day_Carver]

Thank Me Later(2010)
Take Care (2011)
Nothing Was The Same (2013)

Its the vogue thing to do hating Drake. But the dude makes some dope ass records. You aint wrong!

Nothing classic about any of these albums

 

[JustChillin]

Kanye, Eminem

Busta Rhymes?

 

[Complex]

I don't think Redman had three classics

I can only think of Outkast, Public Enemy and EPMD

Ice Cube if you count, Straight Outta Compton

 

[fwillia]

It bothers me when revisionists try to label "It was written" as a classic smh.

But to the question, I too, heard this episode of Evening Jones, and I wonder if artists who started out in a group can be considered.

If so, Cubes first album would be Straight Outta Compton, and he'd definitely be on the list, as would Dre.

I've never heard an entire Too Short album, that's interesting that people say he belongs on this list.

Graduation was not a classic, in my opinion.

Kendrick might be the next to joint the list, though.

 

[Teknique310]

Nothing classic about any of these albums

I fuck with so many young broads I have a closet full of skinny jeans that came as gifts...I Cant wear that though

Its a classic in this era. Cant stop ocean tides, the moon does what it wants. I have been bamboozled by young stank

Get you a hot lil 24 year old & turn on Drake. And take a ride. Drake albums is like meshing Angela Winbush & Tribe Called Quest. It aint tradtional flame throwing hip hop. More like Kanye with more singing. Drake could have never got off if it wasnt for College Drop out.

Good company(female) & some sugar cookies(dozier) The nigga Drake is dope.





Opionions are like...I dont agree the Redman first 3 was classic. 1 most def & the 3rd joint muddy. I also think Predator by Cube just makes the cut because of all the social commentary.

Kanye first 3 joints All classics. Havent read back through the thread to see if someone mentioned him.

 

[Complex]

Drake makes music for airheaded chicks