Was trying to play it nice here, but since ya'll wanna jump on me like the shit I said was blasphemous... do u dumb fucks even know what emceeing means? fuck outta here with that bullshit.
lol, settle down dude.. i wasn't trying to jump down your throat.
last time i checked, "emceeing" as you call it, referred to the art of reciting lyrics in a rhythmic style over a beat. i don't recall the
origin of who actually wrote the lyrics having anything to do with it. not saying that it's not important, but if you wanna get all 'definition of rapping' on me...
Either some of u, have really low standards for song writing, or u guys are just on some bullshit like 'omg the chronic is a classic, how dare anybody speak about it'.
by 'songwriting', i don't mean the writing of lyrics. i mean the whole process of thinking up and executing all components which go in to making a song/album,
also, i never said Dr. Dre was a great MC, or even a good one.
the whole point of the chronic (to me) was that this guy at the peak of his production career gathered all these dope artists together and created an album which represented an entire coast, era and genre. the fact that it WASN'T your traditional rapper's album with that rapper on every song, 3 verses separated by a hook for 12 songs, is part of the reason its so good to me.
it's like a compilation yet somehow flows perfectly together. the songs sound great by themselves, yet even better altogether w/ skits and all.
it's undoubtedly the greatest produced hip hop album of all time, mixing samples and live instrumentation.
that dre didn't write his lyrics does not matter one percent to me, because the album wasn't about that. of course, if we found out cormega had wrote every word on Illmatic, it might be a different story.
like i said, hip hop fans piss me off with their whole "real hip hop" shit. their whole code of conduct and respect shit. it's not about respect, it's about music. hip hop is music and music is entertainment.