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HipHopHeads: Your best Hip Hop Albums ever!

Postby Thorsten Hasenkamm » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:46 am

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

Mine:

Gang Starr "Moment Of Truth", 1998
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Dr. Dre "2001", 1999
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Dr. Dre "The Chronic", 1992
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Snoop Doggy Dogg "Doggystyle", 1994
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Notoriou B.I.G. "Ready To Die", 1994
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Pete Rock & CL Smooth "The Main Ingredient", 1994
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NAS "Illmatic", 1994
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Pete Rock "Soul Survivor", 1998
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Gang Starr "The Ownerz", 2003
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Eminem "The Slim Shady LP", 1999
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Eminem "The MArshall MAthers LP", 2000
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2Pac "All Eyez On Me", 1996
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Freddie Foxxx aka Bumpy Knuckels "The Industry Shakedown", 2000
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GZA / Genius "Beneath The Surface", 1999
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50 Cent "Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ", 2003
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Wu-Tang Clan "Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)", 1993
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Postby tylerdurden » Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:04 am

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.
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Postby Dvontu » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:00 am

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
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Postby Vinny K. Krotchy » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:42 am

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...
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mine

Postby JuggaloJoe69 » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:47 am

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Criminal Minded-Boogie Down Productions
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N.W.A.-Straight Outta Compton
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Ice Cube-AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
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Public Enemy-Fear of a Black Planet
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Ghostface Killah-Iron Man
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Method Man-Tical
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KRS ONE-I Got Next
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Wu-Tang Clan-Iron Flag
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Anthrax-I'm the Man (single...this was just a funny Hip-Hop track)
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five-The Message
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Big Daddy Kane-Looks Like a Job for...


That's part of my list. Mostly all the others were already on here.
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Postby drugmassacre » Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:45 pm

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Postby spacesick » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:08 am

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

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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.
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Postby HellboyOne » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:48 am

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And a few dozen others...
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Postby Dvontu » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:43 pm

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.
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Postby HellboyOne » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:46 pm

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

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Postby emceeONE » Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:14 pm

I agree with the ones above but gotta add

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DJ Quik - Quik is the Name

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DJ Quik - Safe & Sound

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Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era

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Bone Thugs and Harmony - Art of War

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2Pac - Me Against The World

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2Pac - Thug Life Vol 1

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Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
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Postby HellboyOne » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:38 am

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

A few more...

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Nice...

Postby JuggaloJoe69 » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:09 am

Wow...I actually have most of these albums. Here's some more from me.
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KRS One-Return of the Boom Bap
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Eazy E-Eazy Duz It
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MF Doom-Viktor Vaughn
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MF Doom-Venomous Villain
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DJ Danger Mouse-The Grey Album
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Cypress Hill-Temples of Boom
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Kool Moe Dee-I'm Kool Moe Dee
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Ghostface Killah-Shaolin's Finest
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GZA-Legend of the Liquid Sword
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Masta Killa-No Said Date
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Inspectah Deck-Uncontrolled Substance
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DJ Muggs and GZA-Grandmasters
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Das EFX-Straight Up Sewaside
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RZA-The World According to RZA
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RZA-Bobby Digital In Stereo

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

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Postby HellboyOne » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:25 am

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...
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Postby JuggaloJoe69 » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:40 am

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.
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