Best Rap Cd Ever!!!???
When someone asks you what is the best Rap CD ever you prolly say the the newest CD that you got or downloaded. But think deeper and if your the true Rap fan then you know The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory is prolly the top rap CD of all time. All eyez on me is 2pac's 2nd best CD but you could put it in front because it is a double disc. All the songs on here and really deep and show the best side of tupac ever. Hail Mary is a classic as is bomb first. This is a rare Cd where you can listen to every song and not skip songs. All in all this is a great CD. This is a true piece of history, but the question is still up, is this the best rap CD of all time, Nas's Illmatic is a sicc CD, but there is a CD not a lot of people know about and that is, Brotha Lynch Hung Season Of Da Siccness which is a tie with tupacs 7 day theory CD. Check out the Season of da Siccness and you will be blown away, in my oppinion BLH is the best rapper out period, he is underground, but get his CD off amazon right now, what are you waiting for go and get it
Best hip-hop album, ever. Period.
Some people will say Nas's "Illmatic" is the best hip-hop album, or NWA, or something along that line. Even though those were good albums and raised the game up for its time - Nothing has made a more serious change to the rap game then this album here.
But you know why this album is special? Because it can't be copied. No other raper has tried to in ANY way reproduce/copy/expand anthing in this album. Because they can't. Not even Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem.. no rapper can even reach this level that this album stands on. People often refer to this album as "its own pedistool" - it's just ranked in its own leauge, and it will always be there.
Heres a few reasons why, in my opinion:
1. This is the best production I have ever heard in any rap album. Period. Not even Dre could come close to something like this. The beats are raw - not overley done - not overley mastered and loud - and are just... raw. Hard. Eerie. Spooky. (Bomb First, Hail Mary, Life of an Outlaw, Against all Odds)
2. The lyrics are just awesome. Imagine "Illmatic" but at a whole new different level. The metaphors in this album are just incrediable (Me and my Girlfriend, Blasphemy). There intese, angry, and poetic at the same time. Makaveli in this first track, our-right calls out rappers. Saying they are phoney, and just need to leave the rap game before he puts them out. This man had honestly no fear. He would go at anyone - they were all fake in his eyes.
3. Like I said earlier in my review - nothing in this album can be reproduced. I have yet to hear any other rapper try to put out something this deep. Oh sure... there are some pretty intelligent rappers out there - but they are not emotionally deep like Pac was. This album was (and probably still is) WAY beyond its time. It was beyonds it time for 2pac, and beyonds it time for hip-hop in general. It's not a popular album. Its not a commercialised album either - Because this is an album that is way ahead of that. It's a personal album, that you have to listen to.
2 good
this album is dope period its probably pacs 2nd or 3rd best cd all the tracks are hot this is definitely a classic rap album if you dont even like pac that much you should still go cop this album then you will love him!
Buy this album
I could not disagree more with my man that said the songs on this album are "shoddy". If you are a true 2pac fan then you will love this album. It is more "street" than the others, but still has the catchy hooks like his songs that were liked by the masses. "To live and die in LA", "Hail Mary", and "Me and my girlfriend" are the top songs on this album and are regarded as some of pac's best. Buy this album,only, (yes only) if you are a true pac fan.
The greatest album ever
I know its a far out claim to call it the greatest album ever, but thats how I feel for a few reasons, any one of which alone would make this an amazing album.
Firstly, the production is the best Ive heard on any album - rap or not. The beats are raw when needed (Life of an Outlaw), and yet can be touching (Hold ya head is a good example, and one of my favourite tracks ever). To qualify the production, it'd be safe to say its better than anything DJ Premier's ever done and Dre has never come close to tracks like Bomb First and Against All Odds.
Asides from the melody of the beats, this album was produced very - read VERY - thoroughly. I didn't know that there was a remastered version out, but now that I do, you can bet Im buying that too, if only for the slightly improved sound quality. Each track fades into the next as if the whole album was done live, with sound effects (like the car starting on against all odds) that make you think you're there with Tupac, just before he was shot.
Lyrically, this is Pac at his best too. He goes all sentimental when the soft strings on Hold Ya Head require it, but also shows his venomous side when the memories of beating shot and slightly-out-of-key piano loops on Bomb First get him vexed. Aside from the stunning beats and lyrics, the 7 Day Theory also offers something unique in a sea of mediocre rap albums: it was made just before Tupac was shot dead in Vegas in September of 1996. It was also released less than two months later amidst conspiracy theories and speculation that he was alive, hiding somewhere. Then the autopsy photos came, and as time passed it became more and more obvious that the greatest of all time wasn't coming back. Five years on from his death, it still hasn't been touched. Trust me. You need this. Now.
