the coast with the most

you know in all honesty i don't think there are that many classic southern hip-hop albums. at least not in comparison to the east coast. but even then there is a east coast bias when carefully placing albums with the certification of being "classic". i'm sure if you asked an east coast person what they think a classic album from the south is, they'll probably say something from OutKast over 50% of the time. shit, even then you have people debate which Kast album is the best. when i read interviews with southern artists or artists from other coasts i really don't hear a specific album mentioned from the dirty (Ridin' Dirty might be the exception). my brother told me one of the members from d4l said Goodie Mob's masterpiece Soul Food is one of their favorite albums. you know, for some reason, i find that hard to believe (now if they said ying yang i would be like "OK", now we're getting somewhere). but maybe i'm being hard on them. i like many different types of music, it ain't like i'll cater to one and stick to that particular one. all in all hearing my bro. tell me that shit was funny. so in conclusion, while on my continuing discovery of classic albums, instead of the old guaranteed, on every body's top ten list or whatever, i'm gonna try and dig deep and find the lost classics of yesteryear. these are the ones seldom heard and never really mentioned in current hip-hop circles. damn, maybe it all started for me with my recent discovery of Cru's lost one.