sleepy jack

I more meant in terms of greatness.

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boo boo

And in terms of music.

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TheBig3

Which point?

And Boo boo, please explain how they aren't related musically.

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boo boo

Not as in not related, as in not equal.

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MURDER JUNKIE

This list is shit. I almost stopped reading when I saw that 1 and 2 were Led Zeppelin and the Beatles, then I saw that someone had the audacity to rate the king of rock and roll at #23.

Get Bent Fuck Eyes, you might just be qualified for an internship at Rolling Stone

i get high sometimes

So 'Duane Allman had a small influence on rock guitar players' and Eric B and Rakim influenced nearly the entire genre of Alternative hip hop along with KRS-One and A Tribe Called Quest. And what do you mean which genre is more significant? Alt Rap music has only been around for about 20 years, as opposed to rock music which is nearly 60 years old. You don't think that the rap movement will become one of the most significant events in music history? It already has become that, along with rock music in the late 40s and 50s, pop-rock in the 60s, punk in the 70s, hair metal/stadium rock on the 80s, and undoubtedly, the most important musical movement of the 90s was the rap movement. The Allman Brothers Band were a footnote, Eric B and Rakim along with the Native Tounge Collective influenced an entire genre. They were pioneers.

MURDER JUNKIE

The 90's was when rap became less exciting, in the 80's when sampling was public domain hip-hop was far more exciting and innovative

My 2 cents for what it's worth

i get high sometimes

The real big movement towards defining rap as a serious genre, I think, was in 1988.
That was such a great year for rap music

it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
three feet high and rising
straight outta compton

three classic albums right there, but the influence that these albums had, and their follow ups, reverberated throughout the 90's.

next, i really think that you're talking really mainstream rap during the 90s (even though there was some great, mainstream rap in the 90s) i'm talking alternative rap when i talk about eric b and rakim. That is really what they had a great influence on. I mean, you have A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Blackstar, some real great Public Enemy (fear of a black planet), The Fugees, Jurrasic 5, Pharoahe Monche, Mos Def, Common.

if you've lost faith in hip hop just because it has progressed since 1988, give those artists a chance.

listen to low-end theory by a tribe called quest, illmatic by nas, Blackstar by Talib Kweli and Mos Def, the score by the fugees, internal affairs by pharoahe monche, black on both sides by mos def, like water for chocolate by common.

give those albums a chance.

MURDER JUNKIE

I am 32 years old and I have given those artists a chance, I don't rate it half as high as the things going on in the eighties.

Now it's time for me to stir the pot:

Straight Outta Compton as amazing as that album is, set the genre back. All of these thug artists started coming out of the woodwork and doing the same thing, I liken it to Pearl Jam and Korn creating a genre that is being exploited and sold to the masses as original

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Straigh Outta Compton is an incredible album, its unfair to discredit it just because it influenced terrible artists, and the gangsta rap genre WAS original when NWA started doing it.

Thats like faulting the Beatles because Justim Timberlake lists them as an influence.