If....
 

you were given 6mos paid off work and a studio in your crib with an engineer...would you be capable of making a hip hop classic?


be real

No........

Ikno i cud, but tha promotion wud have to take place out side of Detroit.

No...which is why I don't even try

I know a few round here could though.

a Hip Hop Classic? i dont know about a classic (it's be my first album).... but an album that would compete with todays ish? yeah i'm confident with 6months in a studio i could manage it....

Honestly as it stands right now yes i feel id fully be capable to EASILY compete with todays hiphop/rap society with the better production.Making a classic i feel with the time off work i could devote most if not all my time to the record so Im going to have to say yea i believe i could

to clarify...you dont need to sell millions of copies..just have the product be generally accepted as a hip hop classic..(IE. Illmatic, The Blueprint, The Fix, Ready to Die)

@AfterThought could, afterthought can do anything, afterthought could be better than Pac.

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personally I think shit like this like nas's illmatic or luda's first joint alot of classics... they dope coz shit wasn't perfect ya know? I think if I sat down with the thought of dropping a classic album it'd turn out like Budden's first cd or Jadakiss's like trying to do to much in one album...

So naw I think if I was just inspired to write an album for whatever reason it would turn out 10x better then if I was given cash an a studio an engineer dunno would almost feel manufactured

I Could Do It :D

you cant force the magic yo

All that yo and a few lbs of some haze son enough blunts to keep u content and let the weed enhance your music....#certified classic#

I've Got The Magic, I'd Just Need The TIME.

considering something a classic is stirctly an opinion...and typically opinions arent made of the unknown...youd need more than that

I'd have a good go put it that way lol

I'd LOVE To Get In The Booth For An Hour And Having It Paid For 6 Months? Smh. #OVERKILL

student, lets be real...you wouldnt go anywhere near a booth with that phoenix-whisper/verity-bedtime-story hybrid flow

Well that was rude.

damn....that was harsh lol

im sorry, let me tip-toe around feelings

I was joking lol

^Sig worthy....:high:

now hold on....

Only 1 Englishman has managed to make a hip hop classic and that was Slick Rick.

So no.

In Britain maybe. But not stateside.

My fans speak for me, @Krhyme Killz.

Lol, nah, but what is really the definition of a Hip Hop classic these days? Hip hop classics we know, were made when the whole Hip Hop society knew Hip Hop. I could throw on a Rakim-like beat on, spit the realest verses on there but nobody would fuck wit it, because people like Drake & Lil B for basically creatin a new category of Hip Hop that's reinventing the meaning of good music.

^That a good point. But see with 6months to create an album.

I'd go with proper bars touching on real subjects but i'd use a few 'dance type beats' like they ALL doing know....an have them dumb bitches in the clubs quoting your bars while half of them wouldn't even get it....the other half would.

Thats the best way to go around it tbh....have them beats for the dumb people who only wanna hear the beat nothing else.....while laying proper bars over them for the people who wanna hear proper ish.

Simple :high:

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Two birds, One stone an all that jazz.

i dont know...the same could be said about Hammer and Puff and other 'pop' rap stars back then too....but there was still Rakim Allah, and Kool G Rap that were relevant...i think its less about the whack rappers and more about the vacuum of real rappers with a story to tell.

^I agree with this guy he has a valid point

Yeah @Krhyme Killz that true yO.... :high:

which means that its not on them....its on you to make the classic.

look at it this way - how is the situation K presented any different from any other artist we listen to on a regular basis...time off from work to do music is equivalent to getting paid to do music - music is your main focus....and how many classics do we have today?

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its not as simple as just having the time

idk Freezy...i think alot of artists dont get to just chill and make an album, they have to gig, do mixtapes, promotion etc...unless you a really big artist music can become work

i agree, and its not always up to you what makes the cut, what doesnt, what gets pushed, ect..and youre right, promo, touring, appearances will take a tole on you

but im going to argue that all of that is necessary to create a classic...goes back to my original post - a classic is strictly an opinion shared by alot of people, but if you cant create the opinions, you wont create the classic

your nextdoor neighbor may be the GREATEST rapper youve ever heard - mainstream, underground, anything...but if youre the only person who knows about his talent, is he really the greatest?

Preach!!!! lool.... Boy speaks the truth.... :high:

no, but i'd make a pretty cool album

i think you all gotta lower your expectations
anyone going in there trying to recreate a classic will end up with a hot mess. the only reason those albums are classics is because they were so innovative for their time. and pure luck of the perfect storm of money ,music, hype, collaboration, and all the rest

and don't take for granted the influence your everyday life has on writing lyrics and creating powerful performances. i bet 6 months of only making music would create writer's block and a forced ass album of 90% irrelevant punchlines

in a word..yes.

i mean its not about how many people hear you...its about how many other people the person making the claim that someone is great has heard.

ex: if i was the only person to ever hear Illmatic, i'd call NaS the greatest. but if someone who never heard anyone else rap heard it and called it the greatest..they couldnt make that claim..

its not the amount of people hearing it...its the qualification of the person making the claim

how tho...

sorry..i edited my elaboration lol

ok i can see that...credibility is alot

but its still only one person thats heard you...and unless that person is someone significant in the music industry, his opinion is no different than mine or yours...its different for you to create something and consider it a classic verses someone else considering your work a classic...which are we shooting for with your original post - self satisfaction or the other

no single persons opinion of your music matters

you know if you made a hot track or not