Who Had the Best 3rd Album? Isaiah Rashad Crowns the Winner | Complex Brackets

[@Complex]

Who had the best 3rd album of all time?

[@eliashamlich2246]

Hey

[@Brazzymandem01]

Eminem show easy

[@mafiosotruely]

Kanye West - Graduation no debate

[@kyleallen2344]

cole 🌎

[@dfrnt_hues]

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City

[@disrxpt1430]

I like how he was pointing out that complex was wrong with the 3rd picks😂

[@Noirlore]

Ikr like how tf is Damn kendricks third album while coloring book is chance’s third?!

[@SnookyDre]

Right!?!?!? Zay is for the ppl 😤

[@tekkadawn6685]

@@Noirlore ong he speaks for us all i saw Oxymoron vs DAMN and almost spat on my phone

[@AJShotDat]

That shit was funny asl. Tb they was all living together 🤣🤣🤣

[@joeri7130]

waaaaaay wrong, glad Zay called em out on that shit cause I was looking at it like Complex so wrong for this.

[@IchFTW]

Finally someone saying GKMC isn't Kendrick's debut album. I felt like going crazy over the years

[@tdup191]

Yea OD and Secrion 80 both were album quality but they didn't get marketed or pushed as albums normally do

[@dontaeroye9359]

Complex is so trash. How is ASTROWORLD Travis 3rd? This bracket stupid

[@barsbarsbarz]

He's been around since like 2004 but his third album was 2017? Cmon complex 😭

[@xXEliminatorXx99]

Overly Dedicated was the mixtape that put him on the map but Section80 was his debut (still wrong how Spiteful Chant is not on streaming services smh)

[@tyronebiggumsakaduke4587]

They only say the mainstream tapes/albums

[@Julio-fg9if]

Love how Isaiah sticks to his conviction, and doesn't hesitate to point out Complex wrong enumeration

[@BrandNameLess]

honestly why are they counting Schoolboy's Setbacks as first project?? Habits & Contradictions would make sense cause how big of a single Hands on the Wheel felt like. but I guess it's cause they countin' when Kendrick signed to Aftermath, but Q has only ever been signed to TDE. and cause of Kendrick TDE became a major label by the time he created Oxymoron

[@ivanmarkovic1838]

@@BrandNameLess Isaiah was right

[@9G0D]

@@BrandNameLessTDE is not a major label. Oxymoron came out on Interscope/Universal

[@dfrnt_hues]

It’s crazy because back in the day everyone loved Big Boi and Andre was weird and folks didn’t always love his verses. Now Andre can do no wrong and Big Boi is forgotten smh. Btw they’re both🔥🔥🔥

[@burger7013]

Don’t get me wrong I love them both but andre’s flow is miles better than big bois

[@omarseraj6654]

I agree the new generation made sure to give 3k the respect he deserves.

[@davidearle7209]

@@burger7013 Nigga what? Big Boi got flows for days

[@loverboyclement6767]

@@burger7013 flow is like big boi’s best element, he’s like top 5 in that category probably. coming from someone who thinks 3 stacks is the best rapper alive

[@nicholasablue]

@@burger7013 you trippin Big Boi has one of the craziest flows of all time. Andre is a lyricist

[@starrgazer9]

As someone who loves Yeezus, hearing him speak highly of it is awesome.

[@jackxavier3915]

Pablo too💯

[@humz7283]

He’s a man of culture

[@19Bishop91]

Yo was so unexpected!

[@yohan2657]

Zay based af he knows what’s real 💯

[@malikmcfadgon9233]

College Dropout Kanye best album and it’s not close

[@HenryHooverWorld]

So why is Kendrick’s 4th album on the thumbnail?

[@yamoms0919]

Zay has an incredible ear for shit that aged well. This is why THIB is so damn good i think.

[@julianclanton1204]

Naww cuz DS2 aged great

[@KAMDOLLARSIGN]

@@julianclanton1204 it did, just not better than Astroworld

[@julianclanton1204]

@@KAMDOLLARSIGN debatable but I'm not mad both are classics

[@9G0D]

Its pretty easy to tell what aged well after it’s already aged lol?

[@jerich0]

Zay speaking facts about the artists’ projects. Chance’s was still a mixtape or his “first”. Like how you count rodeo but don’t count Q’s and Dot’s? Didn’t make sense.

[@gesi6493]

I always saw oxymoron as his first project and blank face as the sophomore. Complex wilding

[@lennaymaboyyy4848]

@@gesi6493 Habits and Contradictions>Oxymoron

[@jerich0]

@@gesi6493 same. So they probably think so far gone was drakes first album too lol

[@edenleeman5004]

Mixtape or album, Chance had the whole '3' hat and concept so he pretty much called it his 3rd project before anyone could.

[@303TAG303]

@@gesi6493 Setbacks is his first

[@KwanDon22]

Yeah Zay called y’all out with how y’all counted certain rapper’s 3rd albums. Plus The Coloring Book is a mixtape. All messed up.

[@terrencerawlins6742]

Coloring books his first album no way the big day his first album acid rap and 10 day were mixtapes

[@legattacks]

@@terrencerawlins6742 coloring book is 100% a mixtape that's why it's "Chance 3" it's the 3rd tape in the series..

[@moneymantwin1267]

How you win a Grammy off a mixtape

[@user-db9vy2gh3v]

@@moneymantwin1267 that's why people had such high hopes for him because winning a Grammy off a mixtapw seemed impossible

[@monstarxl77]

@@moneymantwin1267 That’s why chance was so crazy for independent artists cuz he won the Grammy with a mixtape

[@MatheusOliveira-fy1gk]

Section .80 was an album, so... TPAB is the best 3rd, Very close with Aquemini

[@scootertotten11]

Def weird that they consider colouring book chances 3rd but not tpab as Kendricks

[@TheWutangclan1995]

If we can count mixtapes, GKMC is his best 3rd.

[@fernandoreyes680]

@@TheWutangclan1995 If we can count mixtapes, GKMC is like his fifth lol

[@MatheusOliveira-fy1gk]

@@fernandoreyes680 C4 was not a LP

[@fernandoreyes680]

@@MatheusOliveira-fy1gk Yeah it was. It’s over an hour long

[@jalencotton5577]

In what world does Graduation lose to Astroworld. Btw Me Against The World is the best 3rd album.

[@jwood8769]

Even though Graduation is my favorite Kanye album, well one of my favorite albums I can see why Astroworld would go over it. If you think about it Astroworld is Graduation in this generation. Sonically Astroworld is amazing. I wouldn’t pick it over Graduation. So I get it.

[@NewAgeSlaves]

Thank you

[@Misscirclefan928]

BIG FACTS!!

[@Alexanderthepraised9]

Kanye’s best is My Beautiful Dark twisted fantasy

[@jwood8769]

@@Alexanderthepraised9 it’s not his third though. And though I don’t disagree with you. But Late Registration is up there for me

[@Soulr]

This shit was hilarious 😂

[@Koasqk]

bless us with an isaiah rashad video

[@dimitriusanderson600]

What up tho. This was a great topic, just could've been researched more and better executed. Oxymoron being Q's first album makes it even more of a classic going against all these other 2nd, 3rd, or 4th or 5th albums.

[@BrandNameLess]

honestly why are they counting Schoolboy's Setbacks as first project?? Habits & Contradictions would make sense cause how big of a single Hands on the Wheel felt like. but I guess it's cause they countin' when Kendrick signed to Aftermath, but Q has only ever been signed to TDE. and cause of Kendrick TDE became a major label by the time he created Oxymoron

[@BAP32]

oxymoron should for sure be considered Q's first album

[@flygenyus2186]

It was. This was his mainstream debut

[@HUNGRYFLOWER98]

YALL TRIPPIN. Setbacks is crazy. The quality of rappin is just cold

[@flygenyus2186]

@@HUNGRYFLOWER98 it wasn’t a mainstream album though. Had interscope backed the album then i can agree that oxymoron is his 3rd major label album

[@ylYolk]

Nobody talks about the Blank Face LP at allll

[@ogziiink3879]

nah habits and contradictions should be his 1st

[@ill-nois2282]

Kanye’s best album production wise has to be MBDTF, man went on a run from 2010-2012

[@B.G.N.A.]

Facts

[@tdup191]

Can't sleep on Late Registration nor Graduation with the production. Those two albums along with MBDTF interchangeable to me

[@awesomebro79]

@@tdup191 MBDTF > Graduation > Late Registration

[@tdup191]

@@awesomebro79 IMO Graduation>MBDTF but not mad with other way around

[@keepitgrimeyuk55]

Gotta credit Mike Dean for that also

[@YeahBH]

Asap Rocky with At Long Last Asap definitely!

[@alimataanstudios4485]

Good catch. Loved that album

[@phillipscheid4505]

Colouring Book is a mixtape smh And Damn is Kendrick's 4th album 🤦‍♂️

[@motsapiramatlapeng7571]

You've gotta start at Habits with Q and even that is debatable, he's right. Throw Blank Face in Oxymoron's place and this gets really interesting.

[@TheCloud2012]

Blank face is the greatest album!!!

[@sphynxeastwood]

Crash talk is the third one right?

[@alexkonmv]

ZAY WAS LOWKEY TROLLING hahaha shit was dope

[@andreponder8353]

Best 3rd album ever. The Diary-Scarface.

[@barrekelly]

Nigga #Facts I thought I was by myself on that one. Oh yea ridin dirty is UGK’S 3rd album as well🔥🔥🔥

[@meccaisart1067]

That was definitely Q's first real album. Setbacks and Habits & Contradictions are like mixtapes. With yall logic GKMC is Kendricks third album. Ya'll wild.

[@junior224433]

TDE themselves said that GKMC is Kendrick’s second album though…… Section 80 was the first

[@meccaisart1067]

@@junior224433 now I know 😂 but either way this shit is waaaay off

[@Beamken]

far as the industry concerned section .80 isn’t a studio album

[@tropical9913]

@@Beamken It is a studio album and it also feels like an album.

[@MrGreatness863]

@@Beamken The Industry? Tf

[@hiphop4life351.]

Eminem's 3rd Album is The Marshall Mathers LP, his debut was Infinite

[@terrencerawlins6742]

Zay completely right I was like damn this whole time I thought coloring books was chance first album

[@Ah-ws9nm]

DS2 ain’t age well? Stick talk will fuck the club up right now 😂

[@fleewayricky]

On life 😂

[@aidanbarreraiii4705]

Then gotta finish the night with some the percocet & stripper joint🔥🔥

[@toby2861]

Graduation loses to barely any project, not to Astroworld of all projects. Astroworld I personally believe is Travis Scott's best work (My favourite Is BITTSBM) but Graduation was monumental.

[@GMIAMIHEAT77]

But come on son we know most people are picking nothing was the same. it’s a lot better.

[@Ah-ws9nm]

Graduation isn’t even a top 3 Kanye album

[@karmic2277]

@@GMIAMIHEAT77 Nothing Was the Same is nowhere near Graduation

[@sads7999]

@@karmic2277 calm cown

[@TreDoes.]

Zay said Yeezus Kanye’s best and it’s his BEST RAPS??? I’m sick

[@ineverswag]

Not his best rapping but i agree his best album

[@NunTheWiser]

@@ineverswag you are wrong

[@ineverswag]

@@NunTheWiser nah, im not

[@jimmyb272]

Over Late Registration and MBTDF.

[@bp2000k]

MBDTF >>>>> Yeezus

[@armaniedwards]

Almost threw my phone when he said DS2 ain’t a classic. Came out six years ago and still goes

[@barrekelly]

#Facts still sounds brand new on some futuristic shit🔥🔥🔥

[@ifailatblackops1]

Then He was talking shit on carter 3 wtf that album changed the game

[@airyanawaejah2323]

@@ifailatblackops1 No It Didn't.

[@AkinwoleTV]

Thank you for pointing out the Schoolboy project lol, that is definitely his first project

[@GOD_DARRYL]

For Isaiah to say The recession by jeezy didn’t age well means he didn’t listen to it . That album is a classic and I’m from the Bay Area . That album was amazing especially in that time

[@BigsmokeATL]

A lot of the songs really didn’t age well and I’m from Atlanta and grew up off that trap or die mixtape

[@richierich4330]

Facts. I go back to the recession every couple months. Literally no skips

[@quietstorm7803]

He definitely buggin saying that

[@Cdf35]

The Recession didnt age well?? Literally every song on it still hits hard today as it did in 08 lol

[@Jon804Official]

Facts ! & IMO It’s a tie between that and TM101 as his best album. The Recession was my fav album from 08 especially over C3

[@davionlowery1534]

Recession is so underrated arguably Jeezys best if not 2nd best

[@levicoker8937]

I live in the Chattanooga area and the Atlanta influence is huge

[@ROCKBETHENAME]

The fact it wasn’t forest hill drive vs HNL is mind blowing to me or the OutKast joint & how the hell does atrsoworld beat graduation

[@jamesroan]

2Pac - Me Against The World Jay Z - Vol 2. Hard Knock Life OutKast- Aquemini Kanye West - Graduation Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (Section 80. Was his first album) A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Muraders Ice Cube - The Predator Young Jeezy - The Recession T.I - Urban Legend

[@thedon0516]

An Isaiah Rashad x Travis Scott song would be insane, huge fan of both artists

[@justicebanks]

Oxymoron is one of my favourite albums of all time classic 🔥

[@brickflair8926]

I love how hard Zay rode for schoolboy so hard that his dawg! 🔥

[@MechaHood]

The way b dot swerved the age gap question 😭

[@KarateKenny]

Crash Talk is the fifth studio album by American rapper Schoolboy Q, released on April 26, 2019, through Top Dawg Entertainment and distributed by Interscope Records. The album features guest appearances from Travis Scott, 6lack, Ty Dolla Sign, YG, 21 Savage, Kid Cudi, and Lil Baby.

[@malikward5211]

Is Drake’s “So far so gone” not an album? Cause if it was Take Care would’ve taken the crown here

[@bigfeegis9955]

So many better albums here

[@malikward5211]

@@bigfeegis9955 Eh, your opinion. But Take Care did better numbers than some shit here and also “aged better”

[@hermanosfernandez1537]

So far Gone is a mixtape not album

[@malikward5211]

@@hermanosfernandez1537 they should’ve counted it by projects cause they cheated in this video with some of the works

[@ryanmack4188]

Aquemini vs. Midnight Marauders. Man they wild as hell.

[@djkurse9209]

Midnight Marauders is a top 3 on this

[@zaemiller6073]

DS2 is classic af

[@marcusmccarthy2629]

He chose Q’s first album as the best 3rd album of all time?😂😂

[@dmovie30]

IM DONE 😄

[@iamhexoronii]

Section 80 was a album , complex don’t know their shit

[@M360-w6o]

But it wasn’t on a major label it was on an independent label. They’re going off major label albums. If not then Eminem’s Infinite was his first album even though it was on an independent label

[@huz.prod01]

dude was so baked lmao zay's voice sounds like that cuz of all the shows he's been playing for THIB. can't wait to see him live myself :)

[@merick8540]

Im going inna month, so hyped

[@c.a.d.e1321]

Damn no love for Forrest Hills drive?

[@wayneman_]

Yeah y’all was trippin with what albums count as an artist’s 3rd. Great content tho 🤙🏾

[@shredmeat]

this just goes to show that your favorites are just your opinion based off of where you were at in life, how you felt when you first heard that record. for the most part, there's no right or wrong answer.

[@turtleboypurp]

"y'all got this bracked fucked up" 🤣

[@Pedroapares]

props to Isaiah Rashad for saying Yeezus is Kanye best. I think that his creative peak. Kinda cringe people in 2021 don't catch up to that album because it aged to well.

[@josephc5116]

Blood on the leaves my favorite ye song ever. Wouldn’t say it was his best but it was an amazing project.

[@victormurillo6956]

Yet Graduation lost to Astro World? Hell no

[@mattswork]

TLOP too, his best and my favourite

[@josephc5116]

@@victormurillo6956 I clicked off after that bro😂😂 I wonder better than anything on astroworld.

[@robingilbert3580]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is Kanye’s best album.

[@callmeco1603]

He’s definitely right about schoolboy q. Oxymoron definitely his first real album lol

[@mituscustoms7796]

Complex really have no idea what they’re talking about with Schoolboy Q.

[@JewmangiBK]

honorable mention TESTING by A$AP Rocky. So sick

[@chadbowen]

13:25 lol honestly how did y'all mess up ScHoolboy Q like that.. Seriously it's either Oxymoron/GKMC/Sideline Story or it's CrasH Talk/DAMN/2014 Forest Hills

[@SuperMunkeh]

Marshall Mathers was Em’s 3rd and Kendrick’s 1 was GKMC? Was Section.80 a mixtape? Wtf? Midnight Marauders destroy most the albums on these brackets - why they got it against Aquemini? Yeezus? Interesting 🤔 This was entertaining anyway - even if Complex was out of pocket with a lot of these brackets.

[@El.Numero]

This is a great Bracket topic

[@b.miller5087]

Thanks!

[@shakeedwashington6049]

Oxymoron really is Q’s real album..

[@kemdiegekeze4042]

Great video and great idea for a video!

[@hollywoodroyalt76]

They didn't even mention Nas I Am album that was a crazy album

[@ADAJ3KINGANGEL]

Graduation > NWTS Oxymoron > DAMN

[@spaceepandaa]

Hell naw on the second one

[@bundydachosen1]

Oxymoron is definitely better than Damn !

[@ADAJ3KINGANGEL]

@@spaceepandaa i just go back to Oxy way more, it’s age better though it’s been out longer

[@lakerfan1855]

@@bundydachosen1 🧢

[@spaceepandaa]

@alexander harvey respect your opinion but I’ve noticed that narrative has formed over the last two or so years .. DAMN. was pretty much universally loved when it dropped

[@HARDSTVCKSHIZZY]

The fact that drake wrote on life of Pablo

[@theebraggart]

By his logic I lowkey agree with his choice

[@getawayisland179]

Project does not equal album. Words matter.

[@owvreij]

lmao that wasn't even chance's third album. acid rap and 10 day are mixtapes. lol who was in charge for this!? but zay was right

[@littlebeesrestoration]

I’m taking recession as much as I love urban legends

[@richierich6079]

The Midnight Maurauders disrespect.. Smh

[@Liketotallydude]

They did Q so dirty. Zay was right for everything he did. That was Q’s first album. The others were mixtapes just like section 80 and OD

[@cloudkiccer4481]

I want more of this

[@mattmorgan1503]

Mmm Food MF DOOM tho is also fire.

[@dubg06]

DJ Quik - Safe + Sound

[@kings6812]

Something yo never hear correctly, I swear Isaiah spoke something new, original and detailed facts.

[@kings6812]

Oxymoron for me as well

[@randumbguy5868]

How does this conversation happen without Kanye's Graduation?

[@ronh7498]

Isaiah rashad has album of the year right now

[@inc-zb6sv]

The interviewer sucks at his research clearly oxymoron is Q's 1st ALBUM NO2: BLANK FACE NO3: CRASH TALK

[@nicholassrivas]

Isaiah is right, they are inconsistent with the album selection.

[@stevedrive8473]

lame bracket should have done best debut album 💿

[@SDPTheGhost]

How did I miss this?!

[@philjon]

He’s tripping. Nobody is beating Jay, Kanye and OutKast.

[@calibreezi5179]

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[@Misscirclefan928]

Lol

[@calibreezi5179]

@@Misscirclefan928 Hey Melba

[@murghay01]

he's sooooo right with that outkast last 3 songs. Especially on stankonia and aquemini.

[@johnwayne3566]

7:56 He pronounced “my beautiful dark twisted fantasy” wrong 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@tobiolowokure2602]

Oxymoron is Q’s first project

[@nethanlock5008]

The Game - LAX was a seriously good third album. Eminem - The Eminem show was fantastic too. I think Lloyd Banks' new album is technically only his third album so that counts too.

[@AwesomeSpidey22]

Banks had three album before he's latest album. The Hunger for More (2004) Rotten Apple (2006) The Hunger for More 2 (2010) The Course of the Inevitable (2021)

[@NewAgeRager01]

DS2 washes Astro easily

[@teazdanerdd2838]

Ion know about all that lmao

[@19Bishop91]

Bro the fact he shouted out yeezus!! I love it!

[@Tommy_Montana]

Oxymoron was a great album but in no world should it beat Forest Hills Drive. And by these measures Damn should've been counted and beat most of this shit

[@stephenbanda]

Graduation is Kanye west's best album...hands down

[@Jon804Official]

Debatable

[@nicholasablue]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

[@stephenbanda]

On graduation all the tracks were good...on the other albums, you have only like two or three good tracks

[@stephenbanda]

@@nicholasablue how many good songs on this album?

[@Jon804Official]

@@nicholasablue MBDTF definitely has more replay value TO ME more than Graduation

[@cloficc7234]

Come home with me, Midnight Marauders, and NWTS deserved to move on, also where are albums like I am..., Hell on Earth, and ...and then there was X?!

[@flygenyus2186]

Ds2 didn’t age well. He’s right. I think it was great for that time but playing it in full now, it’s hard for me

[@JayNowitzki]

You out your mind

[@flygenyus2186]

@@JayNowitzki That's fine 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@MarkHallOfFame]

I STRONGLY disagree. And I hated Future at first. But he won me over with that album.

[@flygenyus2186]

@@MarkHallOfFame i didn’t say the album was ass. I just said listening to it today in 2021 it didn’t age well. It sounds like it was made for that moment in time

[@MarkHallOfFame]

@@flygenyus2186 I don’t get how you could say that when those songs STILL get played religiously in clubs. I hear Stick Talk, Bag a Day, and “Thought It Was a Drought” as id they came out yesterday.

[@tatertots0046]

best 3rd album is The W by Wutang.

[@seanq9884]

“MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY” is Kanye’s best album.

[@HipHop226]

By far

[@beast9021]

This guy didn’t even really listen to all these projects smh 🤦🏿‍♂️ jus chatting

[@loverboyclement6767]

what made you think that?

[@brianjackson3031]

Facts

[@steve_santiago]

Midnight Marauders HANDS DOWN!

[@emirrahman2603]

I love Zay but him picking Oxymoron instead of Forest Hills Drive hurts

[@jeefneef9307]

Nah Oxy is just better

[@BigScoobJ]

How? Oxy is much better

[@kb9753]

astroworld over graduation??? is it crack?!

[@supremewunder1906]

Nas, Jeezy, Ghost face, Raekwon

[@richierich4330]

Bruh the recession is a classic. The intro alone let you know what kinda album it was gonna be

[@CheeksOfButt]

“We’ll I’m working on my 2nd album” LMAO

[@khalidmohammed8352]

LMAOOOO DAWWGGG ZAY IS ON TDE HES FUCKING RIGHT 🤣 “y’all punishin’ niggas over somethin situational.. DATS CRAASZZZYYYYY”

[@tonylamothe1395]

the last 5 songs on Cilvia is one of the best runs on a rap album ever