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Greatest debut album in rap/hip-hop history?
NEsnake12
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With us running out of rock albums I figured I'd get the ball rolling on hip-hop. No "major record label debut" shit, so the Slim Shady LP and others like that will come next round.
Greatest debut album in rap/hip-hop history? 38 votes
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
23%
9 votes
Kanye West - The College Dropout
5%
2 votes
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang
7%
3 votes
Nas - The Illmatic
10%
4 votes
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
5%
2 votes
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
26%
10 votes
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
7%
3 votes
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
5%
2 votes
Write-In
7%
3 votes
Comments
3 Feet High and Rising might warrant some consideration as well.
DoggyStyle was sort of the Chronic II, but also excellent.
In terms of societal impact (for better or worse), I’m not sure anything piece of art has changed our culture more than Straight Outta Compton.
It was the most outlandish, over the top record ever when it came out. Now every fucking 10 year old talks about shooting people like it’s nothing.
It’s unreal how much that record changed everything. It was a bit of a slow burn, but that really was the Meet the Beatles of gangsta rap. Now basically all rap is gangsta rap
Fuck you guys. Chronic isn't even a debut album.
With no real influences to guide me in that direction, I gravitated toward hip hop from an early age and have never liked the sound of distortiony guitars and dudes "singing"/screaming/whining 12 word songs. Always preferred the east coast sound to the west coast sound, but there's good shit all around.
I was already hip hop obsessed when the 36 chambers was released, but nothing blew me away like that before or since. The other debuts that left the biggest mark were pretty much every single Wu-Tang solo album (they're all soooooo fucking good), Busta Rhymes' The Coming, Outkast's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik had heavy rotation for a while and was a totally different sound to me at the time (although I think ATLiens was better). Somewhat later, I was floored by the originality and quality of Quasimoto (Madlib)'s The Unseen.
Better album than The Chronic, hands down. Chronic has a few great songs, but lots of shit tracks. Not even a contest between these two albums. Beastie Boys and 50 Cent having entries over Snoop is the crime of the century.
I don't actually believe this album is the greatest, just there was a mythical hype to 50cent and it reminds me of driving around with my douchebag friends sophomore year of high school blasting two kicker 12s in Mommy's 4Runner.
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