Classic Album Debate #17: Hardcore

Time to say goodbye to season 2!

We're going to remember the highs, the lows, and most importantly...the classics.

Enjoy and we'll see you soon!

- The Liner Notes Crew

"Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube

From the gang called Niggaz With Attitudes

When I'm called off, I got a sawed off

Squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off"

- Straight Outta Compton

Final album review of season 2. NWA changed the game with Straight Outta Compton. This put the west coast on the map and the rest of Hip-Hop on notice.

Is it a Classic?

"I know you want lots a jewels and stuff

Backyards with swimming pools, bars with stools and stuff

Fancy foods - Lobster, Sushi

Gear - Versace, Gucci, crazy Lucci"

- Nuttin' But Love

Next album up: Nuttin' But Love by Heavy D. Dropped in 1994, this album contained some of Hev's biggest hits.  

Is it a classic?

I got bass, tone, I use cologne

And then I rock the funky rhyme on the microphone

- Perfection

Next album up: Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C. This was the first platinum Hip-Hop record and sent the group to super stardom.

Is it a classic?

"Real ass bitch, give a fuck 'bout a nigga

Big Birkin bag, hold five, six figures"

- Act Up 

Next album up: Girl Code by the City Girls. The City Girls dropped their debut album in 2018 and it put the girls on a national stage. 

Is it a classic?

"Need to know, I'm a product of a dead poet rhyming at his low

Equals Maya Angelou, my emphatic flow can rise the status quo"

- Outside

Next album up: Book of Ryan by Royce Da 5'9.  Dropped in 2018, This  is seen as Royce's most introspective album.

Is it a classic?

"Yeah, this shit way too formal, y'all know I don't follow suit

Stacey Dash, most of these girls ain't got a clue"

- Sicko Mode

Next album up: Astroworld by Travis Scott. Travis dropped this in 2018 to critical acclaim and commercial success.

Is it a classic?

"Y'all can have the bars, nigga, I spit hard metal gates

Henry Louis Gates when I cop me some new estate"

- Nina

Next album up: Eve by Rapsody. Rapsody dropped her 3rd album in 2019 and it received widespread critical acclaim.

Is it a classic?

"Virginia's for lovers, but trust there's hate here

For out-of-towners, who think that they gon' move weight here

Ironic, the same place I'm makin' figures at

That there's the same land they used to hang niggas at"

- Virginia 

Next album up: Lord Willin' by the Clipse.  Their major label debut dropped in 2002 and was entirely produced by the Neptunes.

Is it a classic?

"Said lil' bitch, you can't fuck with me if you wanted to

These expensive, these is red bottoms, these is bloody shoes"

- Bodak Yellow

Next album up: Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B.  Cardi's debut took the music game by storm and was a massive commercial success.

Is it a classic?