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Best hip hop albums of all time?

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Here's my top 5 -

1) Nas - Illmatic
2) Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
3) Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers
4) Mobb Deep - Infamous
5) Outkast - Aquemini
 
I don't think there's any qestion that Motown's 1991 release of Another Bad Creation's "Coolin' at the Playground Ya' Know!" pioneered rap as we know it today. Had it not been for Michael Bivins' vision, the world might not have never heard the innovative and bumptastic beats that came out of this Atlanta hiphop quintet.
 
ABC (another bad creation) had a song called Aiesha. you remember it? i think the chorus went something like, "Aieshaaaaa, you were the girl that i never had...."

i shit you not i sent ABC a blank cassette tape along with a hand written letter asking if they could record the song on that tape but i wanted them to replace the name Aiesha, with jill. jill was my 2nd grade crush and i was willing to do anything to win her over.


ABC never sent the tape, or an explanation for that matter. i'm guessing it was cuz jill only has 1 syllable and aiesha has 3.
 
I'll chime in:

1. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
2. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
3. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
4. Warren G - Regulate... The G Funk Era
5. Busta Rhymes - The Coming
 
Nas - Illmatic
2Pac - All eyez on me
Public Enemy - Fear of a black planet
Biggie - Ready to die
Wu Tang - 36 chambers
BDP - Edutainment
ATCQ - Midnight Marauders
Snoop - Doggystyle
Run DMC - Tougher than leather
 
Hulk you are right about Tougher Than Leather... all I have is the tape from wayyy back... how could I have forgotten :confused:
 
Tougher than Leather over Raising Hell??

Raising Hell was the pinnacle of RUN DMC's career. I did like Tougher than Leather, but it just didn't have the commercial success that RH did.
 
Black Moon - Enta da stage
Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Path of Rhythm
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Group Home - Livin' Proof
Del the Funkee Homosapien - I Wish my Brother George was Here
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
GZA - Liquid Swords
Common Sense - Resurrection
Black Star - Black Star
Souls of Mischief - 93 till Infinity
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
KRS - Criminal Minded
EPMD - Strictly Business
Nas - Illmatic
Gang Starr - Full Clip (a decade of Gang Starr)
Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
Digable Planets - Reachin
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Anything when the RZA rhymes except Bobby Digi's crap. peace
 
#1 for me is Niggaz4life by N.W.A that bumps just a much as anything today. And that was the 1st CD where Dr. Dre took it to another level with beats.

2. 2pac - Better Dayz
3. Snoop Dogg - Doggie Style
4. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready 2 Die
5. Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
6. Nice N Smooth - self title. Back in 88' they dropped one of the best ones I ever heard but just worse and worse until they just dispeared. Pisses me off because I can't find the CD in stores or online.
 
1. Chronic
2. Makaveli 7 Day Theory
3. Ready to Die
4. Doggystyle
5. Illmatic
6. 36 Chambers
7. Autobiography of Kirk Jones (Sticky's shit always gets slept on)
8. License to Ill
9. Marshell Mathers LP
10. Straigh Outta Compton
 
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
NWA - Niggaz for life
Dr. Dre - The Chronic

Those three albums are the blueprint for all of hip hop. And they still sound good today.
 
NO ONE else enjoyed jay-z reasonable doubt as much as me i take it?

how could you not? anyone listened to this album from start to finish? the lyrics are amazing, beats are refreshing, and the whole album carries 3 themes. focus, determination, and justice.
 
MrMakaveli said:
Jay bites too many of BIG's lyrics for my taste, although that album was dope.
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true. he acknowledges that fact though. "you made it a hot line, i made it a hot song"

brooklyn's finest feat. biggie off Reasonable Doubt flows pretty nicely as well. you could say that's when big passed the torch, so to speak.
 
havoc said:
Black Moon - Enta da stage
Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Path of Rhythm
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Group Home - Livin' Proof
Del the Funkee Homosapien - I Wish my Brother George was Here
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
GZA - Liquid Swords
Common Sense - Resurrection
Black Star - Black Star
Souls of Mischief - 93 till Infinity
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
KRS - Criminal Minded
EPMD - Strictly Business
Nas - Illmatic
Gang Starr - Full Clip (a decade of Gang Starr)
Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
Digable Planets - Reachin
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Anything when the RZA rhymes except Bobby Digi's crap. peace
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Bump because this guy has incredible taste. Hats off to you. I would add Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious, and a couple others.
 
ExtermiN8r said:
I'll chime in:

1. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
2. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
3. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
4. Warren G - Regulate... The G Funk Era
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I'll would have to agree with this, except my # 5 would The Marshall Mathers LP
 
Dr. Dre - "The Chronic"
Dr. Dre - "Chronic 2001"
Wu-Tang Clan - "Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers"
Wu-Tang Clan - "Wu-Tang Forever"
Eazy-E - "Eternal E"
N.W.A. - "Straight Outta Compton"
Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Doggystyle"
Nappy Roots - "Watermelon, Chicken, & Gritz"
Lil Flip - "Undaground Legend"
Various Artists - "Friday" Soundtrack
Tech N9ne - "Anghellic"
Tech N9ne - "Absolute Power"
Eminem - "The Marshall Mathers LP"
Eminem - "The Eminem Show"
 
I'll make a twist-list. Here are the best Rap Albums for white people, who want to get into rap.

Eminem- Marshall Mathers/Eminem Show
50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Trying
Tupac- Greatest Hits
Biggie- Life After Death
Dre- Chronic, 2001
Jay-Z- Blueprint
Wu-Tang- 36 Chambers
Nas- Illmatic
DMX- Hell is Hot
Run DMC- GH
Beastie Boys- Sounds of Science

That is pretty much the white guy rap starter kit.
 
some of you true hip hop heads named good albums....havoc, mylife

some of the other tracks listed are embarrassing. Lil flip as classic? come on

Big L - lifestyles of the poor and dangerous
Jay z- reasonable doubt
Nas- illmatic
Cormega - The realness
Wu Tang - 36 chambers

Ghostface killah - ironman
Raekwon - only built for cuban linx Tribe Called Quest - almost any of their albums
de la soul - 6 feet and rising
gravediggaz - 6 feet deep
mobb deep - the infamous
Pete Rock and CL smooth - Mecca and the Soul brother
Kool G Rap - road to the riches
Ras Kass - Soul on ice
Beatnuts - "The Beanuts"
 
A lot of albums have came out in the last 8 months, anyone got any new picks they might add to tha list?


Too bad Dre isnt planning to release Detox anytime soon (it was supposed to be late 2004), it would make the list
 
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