be.

The "Rotten ass milk" to me is more outdated. So if somebody came out with a R&B song today that sounded just like "Sittin on top of the world" that would sound outdated. But hearing a song from that year would be "dated" because it has all the same elements that were typical of that time period.

>To me, "Illmatic" is timeless and classic but never "dated."
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>To me, "dated" is Bobby Brown ruining a perfectly dope
>soundtrack song by referencing "The Ghostbusters" and "Vigo."
>It's still a good and fun song, but the timelessness and
>universality of it gets overshadowed by the specificity of the
>movie title and the plot of said film.

I always say that Doggystyle doesn't sound dated, but the album fillers on the 2nd half of Chronic like "High Powered" sound dated to me. And it is probably because I started listening RIGHT before Doggystyle, and never even heard those Chronic songs til like 4-5 years later. But even on Doggystyle, if somebody said "To all my" sounded dated, I wouldn't be mad.

>Somebody mentioned Rakim. His classic cuts are timeless, but
>those Eric B scratch songs definitely have a "dated" sound to
>them. They just do.

Man, those Eric B songs SUCK, LOL.