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Originally Posted by bungalow
i was going to make a post saying "there are a couple albums you could maybe argue are greater than illmatic" and then list a couple, and after about 10 minutes of thinking the only album i had on the list was enter the 36 chambers. just to be clear you are in the minority here captain awesome, there is a pretty strong sentiment that illmatic is one of (if not the) greatest hip hop albums of all time.
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I still disagree. I'd be willing to say it's one of the top five of the early-mid 90's and ONE OF the greatest of all time. But there is no way I would consider it the single greatest rap album of all time. It was a brilliant album but this has gone beyond overrating now. However Nas has always been overrated especially in the last decade or so, along with Jay-Z. They're sort of like the Tupac and Biggie for the modern rap scene in that regard.
Like I say, Illmatic was awesome. But it is not and never will be the single greatest rap album of all time.
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