During his sitdown with Kim Osorio for the cover story of The Source’s new issue, Drake lists off his top five albums of all time. And it goes a little something like this….
Black Album. Clipse, Lord Willin’. Uh, this is not an album, but The Little Brother/[Mick] Boogie mixtape, that was like pivotal in my life. And then I would have to say, uh, I say Life After Death. And then I will say a toss up between The Love Below and Aquemini.
He then proceeds to throw Tha Carter 2 and Doggystyle into the mix as runner-ups. Pretty interesting to say the least.
Wow, way to be as generic as possible
Oh sidenote: 2dopeboyz really needs to fix their comment function. Because every time I try posting a comment either my first time for the day, or a good 30min – a hour after my previous comment. I ALWAYS get the “Posting too many comments at once. Slow down”
His list is terrible and on top of the date, they tell him to name only 5 albums out of thousands, and he uses one of the slots for a mixtape?
2dopeboyz is a festering pool for haters with no lives. I don’t give a fuck what Drake’s top 5 is, but to thumb that down and comment on it?
Nahh, nahh. fuck that. fuck you. your list is probably shit too.
In his defense, that Little Brother/Mick boogie mixtape was/is the shit. But yeah, the Black Album? Meh.
regardless of any 5 albums, mixtapes or fucking 8 tracks named here, people would hate. it would either be too generic or he’d get scolded for not including the “classics”.
He’s generic because he doesn’t have your top 5? Niggas are slowly turning into bitches by the day brah.
yo drake needs to go back to hip hop school cuz with those albums. he needs to rethink that question agian!!! and just like he’s song he’s on one for real!!!! (Just like when he said rick ross new album sounds like doggy style or ready to die….???? ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!
yo drake needs to go back to hip hop school with those albums. he needs to rethink that question agian!!! and just like he’s song he’s on one for real!!!! (Just like when he said rick ross new album sounds like doggy style or ready to die….???? ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!
I don’t condone Drake in any fasion but how do you criticize a nigga’s opinion? It really makes no sense at all. Its HIS favorite shit…HIS
^Agree, i worry bout the yutes nowadays smh im not a big drake fan but how u gon hate his list? its an opinion. i bet u niggas havent even given 3 or 4 of those projects a good listen…but how u gonna compare love below wit aquemini???
Exactly @GR Niggas gettin mad over a list of an artist’s favorite albums of all time. Didn’t say it was the top 5 albums of all time but HIS favorites. Niggas only thumbed it down cause it has Drake on it lol smh. And I don’t see anything wrong with the list, it’s his opinions and what he likes. He’s said multiple times that’s he’s a fan of Clipse and why not pick their debut album? Jay is one of his most favorite of all time, right? so it’s only right that he put that on the list cause that’s what HE liked. Andre 3000 is another inspiration for him and since dude only puts out music every so often he had put those in. Little Brother is another inspiration as well as Biggie. I feel he only put Wayne on cause it’s Wayne and he had to lol but atleast he picked Wayne’s best album Carter II and Doggystyle has to be one of the greatest albums of all time. Anyways this is all opinions and it’s not like SOURCE asked for y’all for y’all opinions. Swear niggas hate for no reason these days, I don’t even like Drake like that but he does make good MUSIC (notice i said music cause that’s what y’all “real hip-hop” heads don’t understand, he makes music). No doubt in my mind that Drake knows the hip-hop culture and has respect for it, probably the reason why he got into the game in the first place. But eh Haters gone Hate, right?
These are HIS favorite albums…not in his opinion the G.O.A.T albums…its widely known hes a big Jay-Z, Clipse, and Little Brother fan..he used to spit that soulful hip hop when he first came out too
Wait… And Justus For All? of all the LB projects… THATS the one you pick? you couldnt even remember the title homie… The Minstrel Show & The Listening >> that one…
And if you were going to pick an LB mixtape… you cannot go wrong with The CHitlin Circuit 1.5
He picked the projects that are his favourite, not necessarily the best albums that each artist has released. You can’t tell me that you you’d necessarily pick the same old classics that are predictable if you were doing a list.
SMH, stupid people on this site.
Ps. That Little Brother mixtape is straight crack. I bet the haters haven’t even heard it.
any clipse album >. it aint a bad list, black album is kinda out the blue but fuck it. i get down with drake but had he not included LB or outkast yall woulda hated on not including them immediately
Okaaaay an alright list. Impressed he included Hov with all the Wayne stuff going on. Get drunk tho commenters, “The Official Rap Blog Drinking Game”: http://www.kidswastingtime.com/2011/11/official-rap-blog-drinking-game.html
1. ready to die
2. ready to die
3. ready to die
4. ready to die
5. ready to die
saying someone else’s opinion is wrong doesn’t make you a hater or a bitch. drake has the right to like whatever albums he wants. i have the right to say anyone who has a lil wayne album in their top 5 is an idiot. it’s all good.
yall know youve to shut the fuck up bout the list cuz its aight. but the fact here is we (me too) hate drake because hes not a MC indeed he can only sing like lady gaga or rihanna.
TMC
After RD, the Black Album is Jay’s best album.
Typical
A mixture of what he really wants to say, vs what he’s paid to say.
Politics my friend…
I’m surprised he didn’t name a Sugar Ray album. Drake is more suburban white then me. and i look like vanilla ice…
I’m surprised he didn’t name a Sugar Ray album. Drake is more suburban white then me. and i look like vanilla ice…
Dude said this on November 1st, 2011 at 7:53 pm
stupid of the year
We all know it’s not a question of top 5 albums of all time, the question is what are his top 5 favorite albums. Nevertheless people will bitch and cry that his selection is weak. Why? because people are bored, very opinionated, can’t get pussy or regardless of his opinion they just don’t give a fuck. They just disagree. The problem is you will be criticized. Everybody is a critic. Maybe he shouldn’t answer those questions. You will be called out on who, what, where, and when.
generic? hahaha…how is this list generic? it’s probably one of the most unique top 5s I’ve ever seen.
Ayo, Drake came to my city the other week and fucked my bitch. Me and my bitch been together 7 years and about to get married next month. Whats worse, we was about to have a kid. Damn son, every time dis dudes face pop up I get mad blue. I just put my face down to my table and start inhaling. Fuck son. My bitch came back to the house that night saying she had salad wit her friends but Ive done seen her walking crooked. Then I knelt near that pussy and smelt that dude drake all over her. Ironically…drake was performing in my city. Damn son. Im about to call fox news and leak this shit.
Wack list
Starks said it the best! Agree with you 100% brother.
He has a right on his opinion and we have have a right to judge him as a raper based on it. Nothing is going to give you a better insight into how far he can represent Hip Hop culture.
These are his picks, not yours, do you and keep it fucking moving.
Those top 5 SUCK!!!
Here’s mine… REAL TALK nigga…
5. Puff Daddy – Forever
4. Amil – All Money is Legal
3. Guerilla Black – Guerilla City
2. Lil’ Flip – U Gotta Feel Me
1. Silkk the Shocker – Charge it to the Game
REAL NIGGAS KNOW!!!!
there is a difference between top-5 list and 5 favorite albums. I love Little Brother, but I am not under the delusion that any of their shit is the best 5 albums of all time. But I’d put a couple in my top-10 FAVORITE albums of all time. Top 5 is for shit like Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt, The Infamous, etc.
Illmatic
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
Liquid Swords
Ironman
The Blueprint
Yes I am a Wu Tang Stan
LOL NO ILLMATIC ON HIS LIST?
DUDES A CLOWN. CARTER 2 A RUNNER UP FOR TOP 5??????
CARTER 2 IS NICE BUT WTF SHIT AINT EVEN TOP 20 OF THE LAST 10 YEARS
^yo calm it u lame its HIS top 5 not yours
why does everyone hate on black album that shit is a classic. every song is fuckin legit
He’s generic because he doesn’t have your top 5? Niggas are slowly turning into bitches by the day brah. –Starks
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You aint never lie. Niggas are just fucking retarted. The list aint even bad. If it was any other rappers, niggas would have been all on that list nuts.
N half of you idiots know how to formulate your own opinions. Half of your top 5 list is top 5 because someone else tells you that those albums is classic.
Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt, and Ready to Die is not everyone’s favorite albums, no matter how Hip Hop it makes your monkey see monkey do ass feel for having it on your list
5. Recovery
4. The Chronic
3. Me Against The World
2. Ready To Die
1. All Eyez on Me
^^^^^^
This.
no order to five fav. hip hop tapes….
Blu – below the heavens
Joey – MoodMuzik 2
evidence – the weatherman lp
kid cudi – man on the moon: end of day
charles hamilton – pink lava lamp
Illmatic is on my list because I play that entire album on a weekly basis. Classic, to me, is an album that has no bad songs and I can play over and over without getting tired of it.
funny how nobodys put any tupac on their list..
Clearly the kid hasn’t been listening to hip hop for too long.
Black Album before Illmatic? GTFOH
^^^^^^seeee niggas is retarted
Drake isnt gonna say Illmatic when he was only 5 years old when it came out. By the time he listened to that album the sound and vibe of hip hop had completely changed. So it wouldnt make sense if he had the same appreciation for Illmatic as somebody who was a teenager already listening to rap when that album came out. He had to go back and listen to Life After Death but that album had a more commercial sound and was Bigs last album but he still doesnt hear the full greatness of those albums because he was too young to experience them when they were relevant.
the funny thing is……. @ krow132, ark and ugktrill and whoever else. i fuccks with nas- actually was riding round bumping it was written, and i am CD’S in my whip last week. illmatic a great disc also, but i aint my fav. I also fuck with Pac, big, jay, em, even got some rakim on the ipod. but the thing is… like Drake and a bunch of comments are saying,… its YOUR favorite. its what you like. not always what others might go with at their fav’s or best evers. yall feel me
his top 5 explains aLOT
This dude is bugging Blueprint is better than the Black album checkout my website- flyguysinc.com
first of all, i fuckin HATE drake.
second of all, its his own personal top 5 albums. Not 5 greatest, most classic albums of all time. Don’t hate so much, we all got our own top 5. damn.
yo why are niggaz hating on his top 5? first off its HIS top 5. i know we get pretty opinionated but yall muhfuckas is just too egotistic for life itself. second, yall complaining bcuz he got two andre 3k albums???? hang yourself. third, the black album? i thought we all agreed that it was a hiphop classic. now cuz drake likes it its not cool no more. yall minds are THAT easily swayed? smh. damn homie. fourth, life after death isnt generic, most niggaz just say ready to die bcuz according to the 2dopeboyz commenters “all great artists first albums are classics.” -____- such a dumbass statement. fifth, why cant a mixtape be in a top 5 album list? most albums are so heavily influenced by what the label wants and thinks will sell records. mixtapes are some of the most creative and original pieces of work. albums are just simply new. pretty much.
so i say all that to say, yall niggaz need to stop hating all the damn time. its one thing to judge his music or even actions sometimes, but yall niggaz just like to knock BECAUSE of someone, instead of what it actually is. i was on drakes post earlier bashing his wackass song motto bcuz it was wack. but im not gonna bash his top 5 list ESPECIALLY when its a pretty good list. bcuz he didnt list some oldass slick rick or kurtis blow is list gotta be wack? smh. i just got one question for yall, when yall wake up in the morning, do you actually like the nigga you see in the mirror? cuz i cant see how you can even look at yourself with all the hate yall niggaz got inside you.
1. All Eyez On Me
2. Stankonia
3. The Chronic
4. GRODT
5. The Marathon
…fuk w me
Rick Ross “God Forgives, I Don’t” Tracklist:
1. God Forgives
2. I Don’t
3. Maybach Men [ft. Meek Mill, Pill, Wale, & Stalley]
4. Trophy Room
5. Cuban Cigars [ft. Jay-Z]
6. Intelligence
7. Swisher Suite [ft. Drake]
8. Heaven Or Hell
9. Melodic Murder [ft. Brian McKnight]
10. Showtime
11. Ice Cold Bottles [ft. Lil Wayne]
12. I Love My Bitches
13. Forget The Feeling [ft. Nas & Kanye West]
14. No Other Option
Bonus Cuts:
15. Miami Mami
16. I Love My Bitches [ft. Nicki Minaj]
Just to prove that tracklist is fake you threw ‘I love my bitches’ twice -.- !!!!
Life after death wasn’t a great album. At all.
Why are niggas hating that niggas hate his top 5.
If your homie listed these 5 as his top 5 you would have to ask him if he really was a rap fan.
Life after death. Please. Even the greatest biggie fan would tell you it was not that hot.
If you don;t have a Nas, KRS I or Pac album in your top 5 you don’t know rap’s history or haven’t gone back to listen. Which mean’s your totally ignorant of the rap game.
It’s like listing a top 5 in RnB without Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye on your list.
Anyone who has listened to the genre from the beginning would laugh at you. You would sound totally stupid.
See Drake.
Not a Drake fan at all…but it’s a cold world when a dude takes shots for listing HIS top 5 albums…to each his own.
Different music and happenings in people’s lives affect cats differently. Those albums helped him get through his childhood.
Which is cool by me, not my shoes.
If you don’t include Silkk the Shocker “Charge It To Da Game” in your top 5 classic albums…. do me a favor…
…SHOOT YOUR FUCKING SELF!!!
@ philly
life after death wasnt hot? stoo it.
and krs-1? really? we appreciate what he did as a pioneer and lyrist, but a MAJORITYof ppl arnt putting any of his ALBUMS in their top 5. your just talking out of your ass.
Most of yall niggaz suck. Yall complain about other peoples top 5 when 3/4ths of yall don’t buy any albums at all. Fake ass hip hop stans trying to fit everyone into your little ass box. Fuckouttahereson!
i dont even think this is his top 5 greatest albums. its just his top 5 most influential.
HATE mutherfuckers who come in here and write paragraphs.
Who the fuck is drake? and why is he famous rapper these days? he has no talent or hip hop knowledge apparently.
and he’s a FUCKING retard for saying the heat are better than the bulls in that 2k commercial. “It’ll happen” lol fag
This hurb needs to re up his SAG card.
@rapshed hating hard bro i dont listen to drake either but ur sounding like you should just kill urself. oh and the heat are better than the bulls.. smh
who tha fuck can judge his likes ?? y’all can’t say nothin bout that