Top 10 Essential Hip-Hop Albums

No particular order

Atmosphere- God Love's Ugly

Aesop Rock- Labor Days

El-p -Ill Sleep When You're Dead

Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon

BTNH- E 1999 Eternal

CunninLynguists- A Peice Of Strange

Isosceles - Face The MUsic

Sage Francis - Personal Journals

Everlast - Eat At Whitey's

Glue - Catch As Catch Can

Got more but thats 10
 
Thanks for the replies. From skimming down the page it seems that "36 Chambers", "Illmatic" and Liquid Swords" seem to be the most popular so far.

I guess that's what I expected.
 
Sage francis-personal journals
Jay-z-blueprint
Nas-illmatic
Eminem-slim shady lp
Jedi mind tricks-violent by design
Deltron3030 - self titled
Immortal techniqe-revolutionary volume 2
Brother ali-shadows on the sun
Dmx-its dark n hell is hot
Masta ace-a long hot summer

Those are just my personal favs although i missed a trillion
 
lozgod said:
Too commerical to be hip hop. I added Kilo G because he was the first out of Cash Money and Cash Money started Lil Wayne and Lil Wayne has a following but he is more pop than Hip Hop. He is on the same level as Brittaney Spears and Kelly Clarkson. He is pop, not really hip hop. He is no legend of HIP HOP BUT IS A POP ICON. Not a hip hop legend like Rakim, Kool G Rap, Jay Z, Tupac, Biggy, etc. He is a pop sensation.
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LOL


you must have never listened to the carter 2 and probably have zero black friends



the carter 3 sold a million records in one week

oh ya lil wayne sux lolzz


a lot of you old fuckers are stuck in the past and holding onto nostalgia
 
melange said:
LOL


you must have never listened to the carter 2 and probably have zero black friends



the carter 3 sold a million records in one week

oh ya lil wayne sux lolzz


a lot of you old fuckers are stuck in the past and holding onto nostalgia
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yeah I have no black friends. lol. I ain't feeding in to the black friend count dick sizing but I haven't dated a white girl since I was 14 and that was 23 years ago and I will leave it there. Funny you would go there, I know how many you have by making that statement. Somewhere between 0 and 0. lol. I been listening to hip hop since the early 80s. I know the difference between hip hop and hit pop. You don't apperently. I heard The Carter 2.

Not to mention I am a rapper by hobby, was once a serious pursuer and have 7 CDs out, had a few singles played on Power 99 in Philly. You can check out my MySpace music page. All of my collabs are with some of my black friends dude. Totally gnarly, fucking A and surfs up!
 
I like Lil Wayne, and I own all of his albums (yes, even his shitty first couple of ones) and he's not hip-hip. I wouldn't classify Kid Cudi as hip-hop either (again, I love Cudi and own all his albums).
 
melange said:
or you are just one of those "rap elitist" that have to name every underground rapper you know for street cred

get over yourselves
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yeah Rakim and Kool G Rap and Nas and NWA, they are top secret UG rappers no one has heard of. I got all of their tapes. Only 300 were made because they only sold them out of the trunks of their cars. Im fucking radical dude. I got no black friends and I like surfing and cheese sandwiches because Im so gnarly and fuckin A and brah!
 
Rated E said:
I'm a sucker for "top ten" lists. I may have forgotten some.

1. Nas - Illmatic
2. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Maruaders
3. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
4. Kanye West - College Dropout
5. OutKast - Aquemini
6. The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
7. Talib Kweli - Quality
8. Common - Be
9. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol.2
10. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
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this forsureeee man good goin lmao
 
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Hey, thanks man.

melange said:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=536355


what was that?
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You posting a link to a Lounge thread?

melange said:
oh, that was you just getting shitted on
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No it was you posting a link to a Lounge thread...

melange said:
LOL


you must have never listened to the carter 2 and probably have zero black friends
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I bet your black friends laugh about you being a wigger behind your back, but kudos, bro.

melange said:
the carter 3 sold a million records in one week

oh ya lil wayne sux lolzz
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It's funny that you've been repeatedly mentioning "Tha Carter 2", but now you're citing the sales of Tha Carter 3. But funnier still:

The year’s biggest seller was Lil Wayne’s album “Tha Carter III” (Cash Money/Universal Motown), which sold 2.87 million copies, followed by Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends” (Capitol), with 2.14 million. “Fearless” (Big Machine), the second album by the 19-year-old country star Taylor Swift, was third
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melange said:
a lot of you old fuckers are stuck in the past and holding onto nostalgia
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and you're stroking it to Coldplay and letting all that pent-up heartache out to Talyor Swift when you're not increasing your IQ with some Lil Wayne.
 
I fucking knew it. You need black friends to own hip hop albums, because it makes you cooler & makes you look less of a wigger.

I better go burn my Fresh Prince & Jazzy Jeff collection then :(

BOOM SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE THE ROOM!

*white guy dance*
 
lozgod said:
DJ Clue had the larger audience by a long shot. Ice T started West Coast gangster rap but wasn't as influential as NWA. Being first doesn't make it the most influential. On my list I put Awesome Dre and the Hardcore Committee as putting Detroit on the map but after much thought they may of been first but didn't sell a lot of tapes/CDs so I may have to retract that and give it to Eminem and D12.

Common been around since 1992 but didn't really influence hip hop until after 2000. It's not about being first, it's about making an impact.
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chill bro... I never said anything about audiences and influence.. I mentioned what I liked.... then said that DJ CLue was tight...



PS.. THIS THREAD HAS TOO MUCH IMMATURE BULLSHITTING GOING ON I KNOW IM NO MOD BUT, EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT "HAVING BLACK FRIENDS" AND ANY OTHER IMMATURE BULLSHIT PNLY MAKES THIS FORUM SEEM LESS APPEALING AND CREDIBLE....

IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH THAT UNNECSSARY (IN MY OPINION) CONVERSATION, PLEASE TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT HIP-HOP ALBUMS
 
oneswtwld said:
ain't only 10 brah

Kool G Rap and DJ Polo - "Wanted Dead or Alive"
Wu-Tang - "36 Chambers"
GZA - "Liquid Swords"
Killarmy - "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars"
Outkast - "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik," ATLiens," "Aquemini," "Stankonia"
Big Boi - "Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Chico Dusty"
Biz - "Goin' Off"
NWA - "Straight Outta COmpton"
Dr. Dre - "Tha Chronic"
Black Moon - "Enta Da Stage"
Smif-n-Wessun - "Da Shinnin',"
2Pac - "2pacalypse Now," "Strictly 4 my N.I.G.G.A.Z."
*Thug Life - "T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.
AZ - "Doe or Die"
BDB - "Criminal Minded"
Cilvaringz - "I"
CNN - "The War Report"

more to come
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here they come:

Smif-n-Wessun - "Rude Awakening," "Reloaded"
Big Daddy Kane - "Long Live the Kane," "It's a Big Daddy Thing"
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - "Creepin' on a Come Up," "E. 1999 Eternal," "The Art of War"
B.O.N.E. Enterprise - "Faces of Death"
Xzibit - "At the Speed of Life," "40 Dayz & 40 Nightz"
UGK - Discography
U.N. - "UN or U Out"
Boot Camp Clik - "For the People," "Basic Training," "The Chosen Few," "The Last Stand"
Boot Camp Clik and Outlawz - "2Pac Presents: One Nation"
Too Short - Complete Discography - Especially early shit and ESPECIALLY his first three independent releases
Pharcyde - "Bizarre Ride II," "Labcabincalifornia"
The Perceptionists - "Black Dialogue"
Bronze Nazareth - "The Great Migration," "Almighty Original S.I.N.," "Food for Thought"
Canibus - "Can-I-Bus," "Mic Club: The Curriculum," "Rip the Jacker," "For Whom the Beat Tolls," "Melatonin Magik"
Canibus and Keith Murray Are the Undergods
Chubb Rock - "The One"
The Four Horsemen - "Apocalypse Now"
The Dungeon Family - "Even In Darkness"
Bubba Sparxxx - Discography
Goodie MOb - "Soul Food," "Still Standing"
Gravediggaz - "Niggamortis/6-Feet Deep," "The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel"
Gza - "Words From the Genius," "Pro-Tools," fuckit...whole discography
Handsome Boy Modeling School - Discography
Hell Razah - "Heaven Razah," "Razah's Ladder," "Freedom of Speech" (With 4th Disciple), "Renaissance Child," " Welcome to Red Hook Houses," "Ultra Sounds of a Renaissance Child," "When All Hell Breaks Loose," "Hell Hop volumes 1 and 2"
Sunz of Man - Discography
Killah Priest - Discography, especially "Heavy Mental, "The Offering," "Elizabeth," "Priesthood," "The Exorcist," "The Three day Theory," "Killah Tacticz: volumes 1 and 2"
Killarmy - Discography
Cilvaringz - "Evil Presents Have Sword Will Travel"
Cypress Hill - "Cypress Hill," "Black Sunday," "Temple of Boom," "Unreleased and Revamped"
D.I.T.C. - DISCOGRAPHY
Das Efx - "Dead Serious," "Straight Up Sewaside," "Hold It Down"
De La Soul - "3 Feet High and Rising"
Kool G Rap - Anything he touches
KRS-ONE and Buckshot - "Survival Skills"
Lord Finesse and DJ Mike Smooth (DJ Premiere) - "Funky Technician"
Lost Boyz - "Legal Drug Money," "Love, Peace and Nappiness"
Macabeez - "The Spooks That Kicked Down The Door"
Raekwon - Discography
Rakim - Anything he touches
Ras Kass - Anything he touches
Redman - "Whut? Thee Album," "Dare Iz a Darkside," " Muddy Waters," "Ill at Will Mixtapes," "Funk From Hell Mixtapes," "Redman presents... Reggie"
Red and Mef - "Blackout!"
Resident Alien and Prince Paul - "It Takes a Nation of Suckas to Let Us In"
Royal Flush - "Ghetto Millionaire"
The DOC - "No One Can Do it Better," "Helter Skelter"
Tha Dogg Pound - "Dogg Food"
Tha Alkaholiks - "21 & Over," "Coast II Coast," "Likwidation"
Strictly Roots - "Begs No Friends"
M.O.P. - "Firing Squad," "First Family 4 Life," "Warriorz," "Foundation"
Onyx - "Bacdafucup," "All We Got Iz Us," "Shut 'Em Down"
Mobb Deep - "The Infamous," "Hell on Earth," "Murda Muzik," "Amerikaz Nightmare"


more to come...
 
the people who try to hate on lil wayne are just as bad as those that use his sales to prop him up

lil wayne is the shit, and LOL @ calling him more pop than rap. so what? are the beatles more pop than rock? who gives a shit? i mean, you're beating around the bush. you want to make fun of lil wayne? do it directly. take it to the songs.

but wait, if you do that you have to listen to him! and if you listen to him then you'll have a LOT of stuff to listen to. and if you do that you'll probably find he wasn't nearly as bad as you led yourself to believe

@oneswtwul: it was top 10 albums, not top 100. plz stfu. threads are organic, they go where the posters allow them to go. trying to keep them boxed in usually results in the death of the thread.
 
KamMoye said:
the people who try to hate on lil wayne are just as bad as those that use his sales to prop him up

lil wayne is the shit, and LOL @ calling him more pop than rap. so what? are the beatles more pop than rock? who gives a shit? i mean, you're beating around the bush. you want to make fun of lil wayne? do it directly. take it to the songs.

but wait, if you do that you have to listen to him! and if you listen to him then you'll have a LOT of stuff to listen to. and if you do that you'll probably find he wasn't nearly as bad as you led yourself to believe

@oneswtwul: it was top 10 albums, not top 100. plz stfu. threads are organic, they go where the posters allow them to go. trying to keep them boxed in usually results in the death of the thread.
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I know this wasn't directed at me, but I also commented on Lil Wayne being more pop than hip-hop, just like the Beatles were more pop than rock and how Kid Cudi is more pop than hip-hop. It doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles, Kid Cudi and Lil Wayne - I fucking love them all, and own all of all 3 of their albums - but it doesn't change the fact that their pop.

I agree, keep the lists around 10 as that's what the OP asked for. Sure, you can add a couple to your list, but there's no need to post your entire library.

Having said that...

RBL Posse - A Lesson to be Learned

And all of Mac Dre and Andre Nickatina's albums, due to their influence in the Bay Area. Plus it's swaggy as fuck.
 
KamMoye said:
but wait, if you do that you have to listen to him! and if you listen to him then you'll have a LOT of stuff to listen to. and if you do that you'll probably find he wasn't nearly as bad as you led yourself to believe.
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IMO, his sound brings nothing original to the table.
 
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KamMoye said:
@oneswtwul: it was top 10 albums, not top 100. plz stfu.
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what a kind soul you are

i am not the first person to think that there are more than 10 essential hip-hop albums....

I could put much more there... and guess what....



if you are going to begin the sentence with what I think is please, what tell me to, what I think is, "shut the fuck up?"

That is just not nice.

When was I disrespectful to you? I posted tooo many albums for your eyes to bare, so, apparently, you couldn't handle it and got angry and had a hissy fit.



"plz" chill out. It is just a forum" it is here for people to express themselves and whatever you said.


ps... people talk smack about your little friend "weezy" because he sounds wheezy. As in, he sounds like a dope head.

His early years were dope like fucking heroin. Now, he is just dope, like on heroin.

And just because you leave the word "like" out of the phrase, doesn't make it a metaphor.
 
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