STOP . TRYING . TO . PICK . THE . BALL . UP . <| sep |> I still don ' t remember it for some reason . <| sep |> I worked for big lots and quit after my first week because of how shitty they treat the employees . <| sep |> Defense was there . Y ' all just had no answer for Carolina packing the paint and took a ton of shitty threes <| sep |> You can also get prem accessory tickets , I filled my inventory of 3 items with it . <| sep |> Because it ' s one of the few albums that I like but have a very hard time describing exactly why with musical terms . Every single song on the album is great it ' s one of the few HipHop albums that doesn ' t have a single track that I even think about skipping . It ' s the lyricism and the topics , the song concepts , the instrumentals holy fuck , the instrumentals and the fact that it still sounds incredible and impresses me every single time I listen to it despite it being 17 years old , and so many minute things that I can ' t even explain . It ' s the embodiment of all the cornerstones of HipHop , condensed into one record . Every single time I start playing it , I can ' t have anything to do for the next 50 minutes . I can ' t bring myself to stop playing it in the middle of a song , and as soon as I hear the first part of the next track , I ' m already so excited to hear it that everything else can wait for another 5 minutes . I can listen to it with any of my friends , and even the ones who don ' t care for HipHop can appreciate it and find something within it that they enjoy . It ' s the album that made me personally seek out other albums that came out long before I got into the genre . It opened me up to the vast wealth of the genre ' s history that I had been ignoring , and it helped provide me with some context for the styles and techniques that were popular in HipHop ' s early days . Prior to hearing Black Star for the first time , I didn ' t enjoy oldschool HipHop because it sounded so different from the modern sound I was used to , and I wasn ' t really able to appreciate how technically amazing some of those older albums were . After hearing it , something just clicked in my brain and it all made sense . I had a better point of reference for the sound of albums like Follow the Leader or The Great Adventures of Slick Rick or Breaking Atoms , etc . etc . Mainly , I think it ' s the best because of one thing When I think about my favorite albums and try to imagine how their lyrics and instrumentals will stand the test of time , it ' s the only one that I can imagine myself being just as passionate about in another 20 years .