Alright Beehaw, try to sell me on your favorite album (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by dawt@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

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I'm going to listen to the top 3 upvoted albums and give you my honest unfiltered thoughts.

Please explain what makes the album special to you. For context, lyrics are very important to me, so I gravitate to music with good storytelling.

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[-] lackthought 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not sure what kind of genres you are into, but for hip-hop I’ll recommend “illmatic” by Nas

my GOAT in the rap game, the best lyricist and storyteller

I didn’t live in NYC during the 80s/90s but the way he paints a picture with his words makes me feel like I’m really there experiencing it all

here’s a video with the lyrics to the opening song NY State of Mind

there can be quite a bit of slang or inside references used in hip-hop, so for anyone who feels overwhelmed when trying to parse the meaning of some lyrics I’d recommend looking up the songs on genius.com which always has great explanations and breakdowns

(explicit lyrics warning)

https://youtu.be/vni9Gt6CIXc

https://genius.com/albums/Nas/Illmatic