Canonical

Canonical- considered to be among the best or most important; worth studying

Ex: The seminal, canonical hip-hop album Good Kid, m.A.A.d City was robbed of the Grammy for best hip-hop album at the 2014 awards, with the honor instead being bestowed upon Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ The Heist. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy thrift shopping as much as the next John or Jane, but it can’t quite hold a candle to a Scorsese-esque tale about a young street prophet trying to dodge the influence of gang life, drug abuse, and crooked cops, while spreading a positive message so that the

“next generation maybe can sleep, with dreams of bein’ a lawyer or doctor, instead of a boy with a chopper that hold the cul-de-sac hostage, kill ‘em all if they gossip, the Children of the Corn, they vandalizing the option, of livin’ a lie, drown their body with toxins, constantly drinkin’ and drive, hit the powder, then watch this flame that arrive in his eye, listen, coward, the concept is aim and then bang it and slide, out that bitch with deposit, a price on his head, the tithes, probably go to the projects, I live inside the belly of the rough, Compton, USA, made me and angel on angel dust, what?”