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Originally Posted by Merrycaaant
Illmatic is still the benchmark for hip-hop. It's as near to perfect as a record can be, and I know people will try to speak ill of it (pun intended) because it gets a lot of praise but sometimes you just have to sit back and say yeah, it's worthy of it.
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Agreed. I saw a quote once that said something like, if Hip-Hop were destroyed tomorrow, you could reconstruct the whole genre from Illmatic and I thought it summed the album up perfectly.