Top 10 Best hip-hop albums EVER

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What's up guys. I was refreshing my quite big cd's collections ( over 1500 ) and I did my Top 10 Best hip-hop albums EVER ...


1. Nas - Illmatic
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
3. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
4. Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers (Enter The Wu-Tang)
5. Common - Like Water for Chocolate
6. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
7. M.O.P - Warriorz
8. UGK - 'Ridin' Dirty
9. 2 Pac - Me Against The World
10. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

What abut YOU ?
 
i could go with 1, 3, 4, and 10 for top 10 all time. i'm not even gonna try to make my own list there's too many good albums.
 
I can't make a list either.. It would take all day to get down to 10. Some of yours would be on my list. I'd probably add Ice Cube's Predator... and The Chronic.
 
No particular order and subject to change at any time I so choose

Public enemy - Takes a Nation of Millions
Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Nas - Illmatic
EPMD - Strictly Business
Ice Cube - Amerikkkas Most Wanted
Gangstarr - Step in the Arena
Blackstar (Mos Def and Talib Kweli)
X-Clan - To the East Blackwards
De La Soul - Is Dead

Only reason I will give that covers them all is they were defining turning points in hip hop for me for various reasons and have shaped what I listen to and what I create today.
 
Thought this up kinda quick, so...

1. B.I.G. - Life After Death
2. Jay-Z - Blueprint
3. Nas - It Was Written
4. Eminem - Slim Shady LP
5. Dre - 2001
6. DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot
7. Fugees - The Score
8. Redman - Dare is a Darkside
9. Heltah Skeltah - Magnum Force
10. Dipset - Diplomatic Immunity


Honorable mention :
Kanye - College Dropout
Nas - Illmatic and I am
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Snoop - Doggy Style
Yukmouth - Thugged Out Albulation
Lox - We Are the Streets
Brat - Anuthatantrum


In 5 minutes I'll think of 5 albums I left out and remember one of the albums lower down was hotter than I gave it credit for being and wanna redo my list.
 
1. PUBLIC ENEMY - IT TAKES A NATION
2. N.W.A.- Straight outta Compton
3. ICE CUBE - Death Certificate
4. TUPAC - ME AGAINST THE WORLD
5. TUPAC - Killumanti 7day theory
6. UGK - RIDIN DIRTY
7. E-40 - Loyalty and Betrayal
8. EightBall -LOST
9. Geto Boyz - We Can't Be Stopped
10.Scarface - Last of a Dying Breed
 
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i like nightshade and dereanged and phukdup lists so far.

although deranged did you put that da brat album there because you felt obliged to list a female mc or do you really like it?
 
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I personally wouldn't put no 80's album in my top 10. cause i like the newer hip-hop much better cause its more evolved.
 
mark1234 said:
I personally wouldn't put no 80's album in my top 10. cause i like the newer hip-hop much better cause its more evolved.
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i agree with 80s but not 90s, although there were a few in the 80s that were more advanced then others.

while the beats today are more ear-candy type shit they are less soulful in general. and i don't prefer one or the other i bump both.
 
mark1234 said:
I personally wouldn't put no 80's album in my top 10. cause i like the newer hip-hop much better cause its more evolved.
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Production dont get more involved, than >PE"s IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS>
YOU HAD 20 DIFFERENT KNOWN SAMPLES IN ONE SONG AT TIMES

BOMB SQUAD INFLUENCED SO MUCH AFTER THAT 1988 ALBUM

I feel bad for this generation, who didn't get to expeirence the new, you are only listening to the recreations of the past.
 
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Mark Kenneth Jr. said:
Production dont get more involved, than >PE"s IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS>
YOU HAD 20 DIFFERENT KNOWN SAMPLES IN ONE SONG AT TIMES

BOMB SQUAD INFLUENCED SO MUCH AFTER THAT 1988 ALBUM

I feel bad for this generation, who didn't get to expeirence the new, you are only listening to the recreations of the past.
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No doubt, that album was not just a strong statement but sonically it was miles ahead of anything else. Same for Pauls Boutique it broke so much ground and the sonic landscape it created was untouchable. These were both next level albums that still hold up today.
 
paul's boutique is the ****, public enemy i don't disagree on the production being well ahead of it's time (even up to today it's not really outdated as far as sampled goes) but their stuff was always too discordant for me.
 
Whodini - Escape

Outkast - Stankonia

Goodie Mobb - Soul Food

DJ Quik - Safe + Sound

Dr.Dre - The Chronic

Snoop - Doggystlye

Eightball and MJG - On Top Of The World

Ice Cube - Amerikka's Most Wanted

Twista - adrenalin Rush

Bone - E 1999 Eternal

Best list in this thread.
 
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1. 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin

2. Dr.Dre The Chronic

3. The Eminem Show

4. Lil Wayne The Carter 3

5. 50 Cent The Massacre

6. Ludacris- Red Light District

7. Biggie - Ready to Die

8. Tupac - All Eyez on me

9. Rick Ross - Maybach Music

10. DRAKE - SO far gone
 
Hard to make a top ten as there are so many classics. 1985 - 1995 has produced the most groundbreaking and greatest hip hop albums to date.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message


Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full


Marley Marl - In Control (Vol 1)


The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die

Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin


Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions


Nas - Illmatic


Wild Style Soundtrack


Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded


Dr.Dre - The Chronic
 
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Sorry yall! I ain't respekkin anybody's top 10 that has 80's albums minus Escape. IDK, maybe the most reused album of all times as far as rap music.....next to Beastie Boys License To Kill....maybe...IDK. Friends...........Freaks Come Out At Night........Big Mouth..........Five Minutes Of Funk........fresh drums from a drum machine. Drums that have been reused for every era of hip hop after it.



Boom bap.....da hell is that?

 
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