coogar:


i would have to disagree with this.
RTD was everything - it was my favourite album that era. juicy & gimme the loot are 1/10th of the story.

"warning" nko? "the what" featuring method man? then you have....

•everyday struggle
•one more chance
•respect
•unbelievable
•ready to die(title track)

biggie's story telling was unique. he wasn't a lyricist or a classic poet like nas but he had this street vibe about him that had nuccas on the block feel relevant. he spoke about the struggle of the common man. you need to redownload RTD. you are not a hip-hop fan if you don't have RTD.

i'm listening to "gimme the loot" now with biggie robbing pregnant women off their baby rings & mom pendants.

FOREXMARTS:


Lol I am an audiophile, also a professional sound engineer, asides the fact that Bigie was unnecessary violent and dirty The sound quality was damn below par. Legends handled Nas's illmatic album. Illmatic didn't make platinum, RTD did. Sales ain't a criteria in My kind of hiphop. I still got RTD in my laptop just not on my phone. Don't be biassed lol you know RTD's production was poor and unnecessarily long. Illmatic was short always leaving me saying let's do it again.

Biggie is among the legends true dat but I will always put Nas'illmatic before RTD. 1994 is revered as the golden era of hip hop and 4 classic albums of that year were Dr. Dre's The chronic, Nas's Illmatic, Biggie's RTD and Snoop's debut album(with "the shiznit" as my favourite). Just my preference lol. Of all these albums RTD had the poorest production.

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coogar:


the production wasn't poor - the street feel was deliberate. it was recorded in the same studio nas did illmatic. DJ premier blessed both albums. actually, it's the street feel that made it the most influential rap album in that era. biggie became the king of NY on the back of the success of that album & nas was nowhere to be found.



RTD was a better album than illmatic.
illmatic was too short - it's the kinda album you just listen to & nod your head cos it's deep & highly intellectual.

RTD was just pure entertainment. it's a story book. the intro was about how biggie was born & the last track was how he committed suicide. it's a documentary of a drug dealer - alcoholism, sëx, drugs, robbery, etc. it had it all. biggie was more personal, nas used a 3rd person narrative in illmatic.

RTD>>>>>>>illmatic.

valmunich:
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FOREXMARTS:


This debate has been on ever since both albums came out lol. I respect your opinion but disagree totally. Quoting you " cos it's deep & highly intellectual." That's what hip hop is about to me, deep and highly intellectual, get the listener to think. Don't forget hip hop sprung up from stand up poetry which were later accompanied by background music. Once again "Deep and intellectual". Just my opinion.

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