Greatest Rap Album of all Time?

am0n otm although I've always struggled with how nihilistic All Eyez is - Shock G had a great line on "Fear of a Mixed Planet" that ran "his special special gift was his love side/so many tryin' to be 'Pac, but only copped the thug side" but All Eyez is pretty short on the "love side" - there's "Life Goes On" and "I Ain't Mad Atcha" but these are a long way from the "conscious" stuff he'd done before, that political passion took a back seat to G stuff although it's fair to ask "isn't that where your head might be at if you'd just gotten out of prison?"

It's an uneven record but that's some of its strength for me, it's like this huge uncontrollable avalanche of creative energy. Some days though I think "Ready to Die" is better, but I am emo and R2D even when it's pissed off unhinged is pretty tightly controlled, while "All Eyez" is more raw imo and that's what I favor at the end of the day.

I'll second Tuomas [...]

-- Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan)

never thought i'd see the day

(also the DOC getting in that car accident and losing his voice is one of the great tragedies in rap imo)

i agree. he was great.

there is more than one greatest rap album of all time. there are a bunch.

Just reading about that in Third Coast, shit was fuckin tragic. How is his most recent record? I hear the voice is coming back a little? xxpost

Scott - agreed. Especially since 'rap' covers such a broad spectrum of styles, but I love arguing over this.