Modern classics

There is a lot of talk of classic albums, but those always tend to be chosen from 90s (or around there). Arguably, the 90s was when hip hop was at its greatest. It is rare nowadays to find albums that resonate the same way as these classics. I am curious to know what "recent" albums would say are classics or almost classics?

I would suggest:

Blue Scholars - Blue Scholars

Little Vic - Each Dawn I Die

Fashawn - Boy Meets World

Reks - Grey Hairs

Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor

Panacea - Ink is My Drink

posting this should be illegal....just eliminates all competition

Uncut Raw's "First Toke"iHeartCali

word, I don't think I'd call it a classic, but it's a really dope album. haven't heard it in a while though.

Phi Life Cypher - Playback

I don't think this is a traditional classic, but it is pure lyricism. So I guess in my opinion a modern classic. 

No one would post this as a classic so I doubt it will cause any harm.

Zion I - Mind Over Matter

maybe not a cl.assic but i'd say it's very close

.TheHimura

posting this should be illegal....just eliminates all competition

Ryder004

posting this should be illegal....just eliminates all competition

*Wiz Khalifa*

Ryder004

Wiz Khalifa is dope IDK if that's a modern classic though lol...Kush and Oj is better 

ABN - It Is What It Is

BELOW THE HEAVENSBalimi

either way :lol:

.TheHimura

Word.

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSColt45fool

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much.  For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

[QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSa_ratchet_fan

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much.  For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

my brother tried to put me on that fashawn album from last year and I laughed...when I told him it sounded like typical backpack garbage he said he had no clue what I was talking about :|

[QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"][QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSColt45fool

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much.  For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

my brother tried to put me on that fashawn album from last year and I laughed...when I told him it sounded like typical backpack garbage he said he had no clue what I was talking about :|

lol... 

Backpack rap just sounds like its stuck in the 90's (because it is).  Give that **** a rest already and do something original already... busy acting like its 1994 and Nas is the holy grail of rap.  Seriously... backpackers are some other ****.  They never actually buy the albums they say they "support" because that would be "supporting the evil record labels" and they diss everything else. 

[QUOTE="Colt45fool"][QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"][QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSa_ratchet_fan

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much.  For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

my brother tried to put me on that fashawn album from last year and I laughed...when I told him it sounded like typical backpack garbage he said he had no clue what I was talking about :|

lol... 

Backpack rap just sounds like its stuck in the 90's (because it is).  Give that **** a rest already and do something original already... busy acting like its 1994 and Nas is the holy grail of rap.  Seriously... backpackers are some other ****.  They never actually buy the albums they say they "support" because that would be "supporting the evil record labels" and they diss everything else. 

[QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"]

lol... 

 

Backpack rap just sounds like its stuck in the 90's (because it is).  Give that **** a rest already and do something original already... busy acting like its 1994 and Nas is the holy grail of rap.  Seriously... backpackers are some other ****.  They never actually buy the albums they say they "support" because that would be "supporting the evil record labels" and they diss everything else. 

iHeartCali

lol good one

Blu is nothing like what you just indirectly described him as lol ^... ans BTH is an excellent album.

Anyway, I'd say CD, BTH, MAYBE Hell Hath No Fury, Stillmatic, Black Album, and MAYBE The Eminem Show (very big maybe lol...) are modern classics, and then others already listed like APOS... 

[QUOTE="Colt45fool"][QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"][QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSa_ratchet_fan

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much. For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

my brother tried to put me on that fashawn album from last year and I laughed...when I told him it sounded like typical backpack garbage he said he had no clue what I was talking about :|

lol...

Backpack rap just sounds like its stuck in the 90's (because it is). Give that **** a rest already and do something original already... busy acting like its 1994 and Nas is the holy grail of rap. Seriously... backpackers are some other ****. They never actually buy the albums they say they "support" because that would be "supporting the evil record labels" and they diss everything else.

my thoughts exactly....though I'd have to add in the fact that they're more obsessed with sounding like the 90's, than just sounding like the 90's.

yea boii

yea boii

Anti-Venom

tru dat Anti-Venom

[QUOTE="Colt45fool"][QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"][QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSa_ratchet_fan

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much.  For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

my brother tried to put me on that fashawn album from last year and I laughed...when I told him it sounded like typical backpack garbage he said he had no clue what I was talking about :|

lol... 

Backpack rap just sounds like its stuck in the 90's (because it is).  Give that **** a rest already and do something original already... busy acting like its 1994 and Nas is the holy grail of rap. 

I find this hilarious in regards to Fashawn cause he just dropped a tape rapping over illmatic thus proving the point you was making lol.

Edit:

As far as modern ****cs go this is one that is up there for me, still bump this on a regular basis.

^^ I still do too, that album is mad dope.  Might be my fav Ghostface record.

true, one of his best albums still

^^ I still do too, that album is mad dope. Might be my fav Ghostface record.

Apocalypse33

true, one of his best albums still

this is definitely a modern day classic

 

[QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"][QUOTE="Colt45fool"][QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"][QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSX-Fade

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much.  For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

my brother tried to put me on that fashawn album from last year and I laughed...when I told him it sounded like typical backpack garbage he said he had no clue what I was talking about :|

lol... 

Backpack rap just sounds like its stuck in the 90's (because it is).  Give that **** a rest already and do something original already... busy acting like its 1994 and Nas is the holy grail of rap. 

I find this hilarious in regards to Fashawn cause he just dropped a tape rapping over illmatic thus proving the point you was making lol.

... Really?  rofl

College Dropout

 Lord Willin or Hell Hath No Fury

Little Brother - The Listening :D

*awaits hate* 

chea!

Mkavanaugh77

slaughterhouse, no :| 

chea!

Mkavanaugh77

worst part is, he might actually be serious :lol:

i wont great MK :oops:

i bet you dont even consider that album a classic....joe budden, joell ortiz, and royce give out filler all over the album...if it was just crooked dropping verses the album would have been the GOAT

i'm owning this thread rubbersoul

Seriously. With the exception of only one or two other albums, literally every album posted in this thread that is actually a cIassic is posted by Rubbersoul.

listening to deified right now. the amount of good songs on this is ridiculous.rubbersouI

I know. I still come back around to that album all the time ... it's a shame more people don't recognize how excellent it is. As you said, the amount of great music on that disc is just staggering. I wish whoever was running Koch would go back there, because it's amazing to think that label put out both "Serve & Collect" and "Defied" (and tons of other great music) in less than a year's time.

Dude dont even start

You have the worst taste in rap music on these boards

Kanye West, Drake, Currensy lmao gtfo

Mkavanaugh77

Why you hatin on Currensy?  This Aint No Mixtape was one of the top 5 albums of 2008

[QUOTE="a_ratchet_fan"][QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

[QUOTE="Balimi"]BELOW THE HEAVENSColt45fool

either way :lol:

Thank you... I knew I couldn't be the only one who didn't like BTH that much.  For the most part its generic backpack hip hop.

my brother tried to put me on that fashawn album from last year and I laughed...when I told him it sounded like typical backpack garbage he said he had no clue what I was talking about :|

:evil:  how you gon diss two potential classics like that??