HipHopHeads: Your best Hip Hop Albums ever!

[Thorsten Hasenkamm]

Plain & simple: Post your best Hip Hop Albums ever, "Hip Hop Classics" so to speak...

Mine:

Gang Starr "Moment Of Truth", 1998


Dr. Dre "2001", 1999


Dr. Dre "The Chronic", 1992


Snoop Doggy Dogg "Doggystyle", 1994


Notoriou B.I.G. "Ready To Die", 1994


Pete Rock & CL Smooth "The Main Ingredient", 1994


NAS "Illmatic", 1994


Pete Rock "Soul Survivor", 1998


Gang Starr "The Ownerz", 2003


Eminem "The Slim Shady LP", 1999


Eminem "The MArshall MAthers LP", 2000


2Pac "All Eyez On Me", 1996


Freddie Foxxx aka Bumpy Knuckels "The Industry Shakedown", 2000


GZA / Genius "Beneath The Surface", 1999


50 Cent "Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ", 2003


Wu-Tang Clan "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)", 1993

[tylerdurden]

Don't have much in the ways of hip hop in my collection, but here's what I recommend, in no particular order:

Jay-Z: MTV2 Unplugged (featuring The Roots)
Eric B. and Rakim: Paid In Full
Afrika Bambaataa: In Search of the Perfect Beat
The Fugees: Blunted On Reality
The Roots: Phrenology

Mostly old-skool, as you might have guessed.

[Dvontu]

Counting down to Number 1:

5. Death Certificate - Ice Cube

4. Mecca And The Soul Brother - Pete Rock & CL Smooth

3. The Chronic - Dr. Dre / Illmatic - Nas

2. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

1. Paid In Full - Eric B. & Rakim

Honorable Mentions:
By Any Means Necessary - Boogie Down Productions
One For All - Brand Nubian
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
De La Soul Is Dead - De La Soul
Whut? The Album - Redman
Long Live The Kane - Big Daddy Kane

[Vinny K. Krotchy]

When I need my old school fix I dig out:

Fugees - The Score
Tribe Called Quest - The Anthology

Or Beastie Boys, but those go without listing I think...

[JuggaloJoe69]

Criminal Minded-Boogie Down Productions

N.W.A.-Straight Outta Compton

Ice Cube-AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Public Enemy-Fear of a Black Planet

Ghostface Killah-Iron Man

Method Man-Tical

KRS ONE-I Got Next

Wu-Tang Clan-Iron Flag

Anthrax-I'm the Man (single...this was just a funny Hip-Hop track)

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five-The Message

Big Daddy Kane-Looks Like a Job for...


That's part of my list. Mostly all the others were already on here.
Peace,
~*~Seppe~*~

[drugmassacre]

[spacesick]

Almost everything from the early days of Sugar Hill Records and Def Jam.











Other than that, I would not be considered a big hip-hop guy. That was fun!

[+] and don't get me started on Electro. I'm a sucker for that stuff.

[HellboyOne]

And a few dozen others...

[Dvontu]

It's so hard narrowing down the best Hip-Hop albums! I can tell you this, just about any thing released in the Golden Era (1986-1993) deserves a nod! That period is simply untouchable... With Run-DMC rockin' the world, LL Cool J becoming Hip-Hops first "Sex Symbol", West Coast Hip-Hop blowing up the map, and a man by the name of Rakim, who to this very day, every rapper has patterned their style after.... those were the days. I had to add more, along with everything else on the list.

[HellboyOne]

Oh yeah....how can I forget Ra?

[emceeONE]

I agree with the ones above but gotta add


DJ Quik - Quik is the Name


DJ Quik - Safe & Sound


Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era


Bone Thugs and Harmony - Art of War


2Pac - Me Against The World


2Pac - Thug Life Vol 1


Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

[HellboyOne]

Mos Def's Black On Both Sides is, indeed, a classic. I wish his follow up was better...

A few more...

[JuggaloJoe69]

Wow...I actually have most of these albums. Here's some more from me.

KRS One-Return of the Boom Bap

Eazy E-Eazy Duz It

MF Doom-Viktor Vaughn

MF Doom-Venomous Villain

DJ Danger Mouse-The Grey Album

Cypress Hill-Temples of Boom

Kool Moe Dee-I'm Kool Moe Dee

Ghostface Killah-Shaolin's Finest

GZA-Legend of the Liquid Sword

Masta Killa-No Said Date

Inspectah Deck-Uncontrolled Substance

DJ Muggs and GZA-Grandmasters

Das EFX-Straight Up Sewaside

RZA-The World According to RZA

RZA-Bobby Digital In Stereo

More to come...unless someone else lists them first.

~*~Seppe~*~

[HellboyOne]

I wouldn't call some of those Wu-Tang releases "classics" although they do have some gems on them.

I was just listening to Eazy Duz It the other day. I'm 14 again when I put that cd on...

[JuggaloJoe69]

I don't know...I consider pretty much any Wu-Tang album is a classic. Lyrically, Wu probably cannot be touched. But there are exceptions though *Cough*Tical 2000*Cough*Tical 0:The Prequel*Cough*Golden Arms Redemption*Cough* I have a lot of respect for all Wu-Tang. I've been jamming Wu since probably 1994. They are just personal favorites. I wouldn't quite consider Stankonia (by Outkast) a classic, so this list is more personally-considered-classics anyway.

Damn...I was barely alive to see the release of a lot of the albums on this list. I'm glad I'm a Hiphoppa. I mean, I was 1 when Eazy Duz It came out...ridiculous.