I know there are a few heads on here so give us your personal top 10 hip hop albums. @Xplosive and @George Crowcroft?
#10. Liquid Swords #09. Makaveli #08. Life After Death #07. The Chronic #06. Infamous #05. Madvilliainy #04. Paid in Full #03. 36 Chambers #02. All Eyez on Me #01. Illmatic Idk, somet like that. So many others that could be on here. Can't not mention Low End Theory, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx and Straight Outta Compton, though. They're honourable mentions.
Just off the top of the head some albums i liked and still listen to illadelph Halflife- Roots Jewelz - OC Ridin Dirty- UGK Moment of Truth- Gangstarr Bizarre Ride II the > Pharcyde 4, 5, 6 - G Rap Street Level - Beatnuts Capitol Punishment - Pun Innercity Griots- Freestyle Fellowship PTSD- Pharoahe Monch Solitary Confinement- K-Rino
10. Mobb Deep - The Infamous 9. Main Source - Breaking Atoms 8. Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown 7. Gang Starr - Step in the Arena 6. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ryde to the Pharcyde 5. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising 4. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 3. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders 2. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang 1. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
top ten is difficult. i have CD covers of classic albums on my wall and looking at them i see (among albums not yet named) Black on both sides- Mos def King Tee > IV Life A wolf in sheeps clothing- Black Sheep The Sun rises in the east- Jeru Coast 2 Coast- Alkaholiks 93 til Infinity - Souls of mischief Muddy Waters- Redman
Some honourable mentions: KMD - Mr Hood Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded Run DMC - Raising Hell Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane As you can see, I'm clearly stuck in an 80s/90s timewarp.
its hard to say what the definition of a favorite is? an album you listened to the most, or an album you still enjoy listening to? some older albums from the 80s i liked a lot are dated to me, production wise. then you have an album like illmatic that i simply listened to too much so its less appealing for me to play now.
Notorious BIG- Ready to Die Snoop Doggy Dogg- Doggystyle Nas- Illmatic Outlast- Southernplayasticcadillacmusik Dr. Dre- The Chronic Mobb Deep- The Infamous Ice Cube- Death Certificate 2Pac- Me Against the World
For me it's ones you listened to a lot. Now I barely listen to hip hop but I'd still class those albums as my favourites.
I don’t do top ten lists but here in no particular order are some that may not be all time greats. What makes them special to me is they’re all albums where I liked nearly every song and listened to them several times. These are kinda all old school, 90’s and early 00’s. I tried to avoid some of the obvious ones. Heavy D - Water Bed Heav Bone Thugs In Harmony - The Art of War (1st disc only) Ice Cube - Amerikkka’s Most Wanted & Death Certificate Wyclef - The Carnival Wu Tang - 36 Chambers Kokane - Funk Upon A Rhyme Nate Dogg - G Funk Classics Vol 1 & 2 Parental Advisory - Ghetto Street Funk Snoop Dogg - Tha Dogg Father Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity MC Eiht - We Come Strapped The Nonce - World Ultimate Cam’ron - Confessions Of Fire & S.D.E Nine - Cloud 9
In NO Particular Order... Redman - Dare Iz a Darkside Biggie - Ready To Die Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II That Pharcyde NWA - Straight Outta Compton Tribe - Midnight Marauders Souls of Mischief - '93 til Infinity Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers Roots - Things Fall Apart Blackstar - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar As Undeniably DOPE as This List Is, REED Would Be Remiss w/Out Mentioning Redman's "Muddy Waters", @ Least 3-4 Other Jay-Z Albums, "Amerikkka's Most Wanted" and "Death Certificate" by Cube... "Low End Theory" and "Beat Rhymes and Life" by Tribe, Several of the Wu-Tang Solo Joints, "Do You Want More" and "Game Theory" by the Roots and COUNTLESS Ol' School Joints Like BDP "By Any Means Necessary", Big Daddy Kane's 1st Album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Others That Will Jump Out @ REED AFTER He Hits "Post Reply"... REED's Most Recent Favorite Album was "ATM" by J-Cole...Damn Near PERFECTION... REED
Ready to Die & Doggystyle are my 2 favorite albums Unfortunately they don’t have a good quality version of the original The Next Episode, which was supposed to be on Doggystyle. They made a different version for 2001, but I prefer the original unreleased one. This is the best I can find: Some other favorite unreleased tracks from Doggystyle. They used a couple of the verses for other songs on the album. 92-93 Snoop was a beast on the mic
Let’s see… 1- Enter The Wu (36 Chambers)- Wu Tang Clan 2- Looks Like A Job For.. Big Daddy Kane 3- Let The Rhythm Hit Em- Eric B & Rakim 4- Illmatic- Nas 5- Wanted Dead or Alive- Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 6- Liquid Swords- GZA 7- Word, Life… O.C. 8- Only Built 4 Cuban Links- Raekwon 9- Innercity Griots- Freeatyle Fellowship 10- Bizarre Ride II The.. Pharcyde Honorables Low End Theory- ATCQ ATliens- OutKast 93 Till Infinity- Souls of Mischief Dare Iz a Dark Side- Redman Ready to Die- Biggie East 99 Eternal- Bone Thugs Illadelf Half Life- Roots Capital Punishment- Big Pun Lifestyles of the Po & Dangerous- Big L Reasonable Doubt- Jay- Z Supreme Clientele- Ghostface Killah Albums within the last 15 years I’ve enjoyed Reloaded- Roc Marciano Czarface- Inspectah Deck w/7L & Esoteric All The Brilliant Things- Skyzoo
oh shit, puerto rock knows bout freestyle fellowship. shout out project blowed few weeks ago i saw Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief and alkaholiks. mikah 9 came out at the end with pharcyde
