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Originally Posted by noisereductions
It is 2nd tier
But Lifetimes and Dynasty are 3rd tier
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See, I was thinking:
Tier 1: (The perfect and near-perfect records. All of them rank among the best of all time.)
• WTT
• Reasonable Doubt
• Black Album
• Blueprint
• Blueprint III
• American Gangster
Tier 2: (The good to great albums, mostly. Starting out with Great, moving to good, ending with a couple genuinely fun and worth-having albums that are about 45% good, 30% middle of the road: not offensively bad, but definitely not truly
good; 15% terrible & 10% brilliant... like "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)"
• Magna Carta Holy Grail
• Kingdom Come (hated by many, including Jay; loved by me)
• In My Lifetime: Vol.1 (overlooked by mainstream audiences; slammed by the "serious" fans except for me)
• Vol.2 Hard Knock Life
• Vol.3 Life & Times of S. Carter
• The Dynasty: Rock La Familia 2000
Tier 3: (the downright shitty ones. HUGE DIFFERENCE in quality between even the lower-raking Tier 2 records and the absolute best of this bunch... Makes me want to consider placing MCHG and Kingdom Come in #1)
• Blueprint 2/Blueprint 2.1
• MTV Unplugged
• Collision Course (W/ Linkin Park)
• Best of Both Worlds & Unfinished Business (w/ R. Kelly)
But... y'know... just one man's opinion. Those R. Kelly collabs could have been GREAT. Just think about "To The World" from Cruel Summer... One of the best Kanye tracks ever, even if it is a bit dumb. I'm sure HOV and Kelly could have made something more substantive than a two-part tribute to fucking dumb drunk bitches...
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