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Since there's always best rapper threads I decided to make a best or favorite hip-hop album thread. You don't even have to be a fan of the genre, but if you like a particular hip-hop album, post it and explain why you enjoy the album. Or just post what albums you like, whatever you feel like.

A few of my favorites:

MF Doom "Operation: Doomsday"
Count Bass D "Dwight Spitz"
Pip Skid "Friends4Ever"
Quasimoto "The Unseen"
Moves feat. Birdapres "Alleged Legends"

Classics

A Tribe Called Quest "Midnight Marauders"
Common Sense "Resurrection"
Nas "Illmatic"
Park-Like Setting "School Day 2, Garbage Day 4"
Fermented Reptile - "Let's Just Call You "quits""
Ghostface Killah "Ironman"
Farm Fresh "Played Out"


I'll post more later. Those were the first that popped in my mind.

my favorites i dunno they change alot, lately i really like, every day i like a different album more

what i've been listening to lately

Ill Bill- Whats Wrong WIth Bill
John Smith- Pinky's Laundromat
Viktor Vaughn- VV2 Venomous Villain 2

i agree with everything on your list for classics except illmatic i think its a bit overrated but thats my opinion.

i still haven't heard the Fermented Reptile album, Park like setting album and farm fresh.

ill check those out next

Classic:
John Smith "John Smith's Blunderbus (or, In Transit)"

That's cool, but IMO I think Illmatic is the most complete hip-hop album ever.

I'm feeling Pinky's Laundromat the most out of the albums you listed. I hope people will check him out becasue he's a hidden gem. It wont be long before everybody knows about him though. He just started and he's too good to go unnoticed.

If you ever get around to listening to those albums, I think they'll find their way on your classic list. They're really that good. For people who miss the golden age of hip-hop with dope lyrics and fresh beats, check those albums out.

my personal favorites are:

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II
Atmosphere - Overcast
Atmosphere - Seven's Travels
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Ice Cube - The Predator
Canibus - Rip The Jacker
Nas - Illmatic
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Mobb Deep - The Infamous

nice list but i thought u really liked cunninlynguists^

oh my god I completely forgot doh thanks!

Also:

Cunninlynguists - Will Rap For Food
Cunninlynguists - Southernunderground
Sage Francis - Personal Journals

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
The Roots- Do You Want More?
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Fugees - The Score
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Nas - Illmatic
Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt
Notorious BI.G. - Ready to Die
EPMD - Strictly Business
Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation..
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang/ 36 Chambers
Gza/Genius - Liquid Swords
Method Man - Tical
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Xecutioners - Built to Last
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
L.L. Cool J - Radio
L.L. Cool J - All World

I'm sure there are more...but the 90's were just insane times for me, music wise, and spawned some of the best, honest actual "Hip Hop", before corperate America decided to blur the lines, lumping music with a positive message with the swill produced by the materialistic club music makers.

Public Enemy - it takes a nation of millions
Ice Cube - Amerikkkas most wanted, Death Certificate & Predator
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill & Black Sunday
The Fugees - The Score
Ice T - OG & Iceberg
BDP - Edutainment, By all means, Criminal Minded & Ghetto Musik
BD Kane - Big daddy thing
Master Ace - take a look around
EPMD - strictly bussiness
The DOC - no one can do it better

I like some new stuff but my favourites are all from the above era. Amen Cinemaddiction.

well, im not really a fan of hip hop, but i do enjoy a little spot of the stuff, but i do have 3 that i listen to all the time, and they happen to be by the same artist, these albums are:

Jurrassic 5 - LP (think its called that!)
Jurrassic 5 - Quality Control
Jurrassic 5 - Power In Numbers

all class, and they incorporate my favourite rapper, charlie 2na, like a fish in sea, full deficiency, thats my mission see?

Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Clouddead - Clouddead
GZA - Liquid Swords
Gang Starr - Daily Operation
Madvillain - Madvillainy
MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday
King Geedorah - Take me to your leader
Black Star - s/t

I dunno how I forgot Cypress Hill, but you can list everything up through "Temple of Boom" as well as the Soul Assassins debut w/ DJ Muggs.

House of Pain - "Fine Malt Lyrics" and Das Efx - "Straight Up Sewaside" were both reeeeeeally important to me, as well.

i havent heard

Onyx- Bacdafucup in a long ass time

blackalicious--Blazing Arrow
John Smith--John Smith's Blunderbuss
Beastie Boys--Paul's Boutique
Aesop Rock--Labor Days

Del the Funky Homosapien- Both Sides of the Brain

Adding to my previous list

Paris - the devil made me do it (cant believe i forgot that one)
Gang starr - step in the arena

Man, I haven't heard that since I was a Freshman in High school (1994).

Onyx was more hardcore rap than Hip Hop, though. That was an awesome year for rap in general, expecially with debuts by Dre, Scarface, Nas, Biggie, Snoop, and 2Pac just a year before. Kinda put Hip Hop like Artifacts, KRS-One, Beastie Boys, Bush Babies, Lords of the Underground, Apache, Boogiemonsters, and a bunch of other great acts that never really got a chance to break out, on the backburner.

Guess it's always thrived underground, but when all those acts above were out, there wasn't a need to look elsewhere. Then Hip Hop kind of came back to the forefront in DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Mos Def, Common, Black Eyed Peas, Jurassic 5, etc..only to get lumped in with guys like Cash Money Millionaires who are nos apparently considered "Hip Hop", which couldn't be furthur from the truth.

Oh well. Thems the breaks.

7L and Esoteric- The Soul Purpose

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Ultramagnetic Mc's - Critical Beatdown

Thought id revive this thread as i've been listening to alot more up to date (sort of) hip hop. Ones that stand out are:

Immortal Technique - Revolutionary 1+2
Blackalicious - Blazing arrow
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by design
Jurassic 5 - Quality control

That all for now, but im gonna get some of the albums on this thread when i get some spare money. John Smith, Chino, Sage Francis and MF Doom are next on my list.

Deathblow named most of mine.

Obviously these also:

"Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers"-Wu-Tang Clan.
"Blackout!"-Meth and Red.
"Only Built For Cuban Linx"-Raekwon.

-AC

A lot of you guys already mentioned some of my favorites but some others that you guys should litsten to is Deltron 3030 witch was a concept album. One of my Top 5 faves is the Cannibal OX album. It is the most darkest hip hop ever. Its almost gothic hip hop. EL-P's dark beats combined with Vast Aire poetic lyrics is just so beautifil together. It might be my favorite but it always switches between thes albums.

My Top 5 (in no particular order)
1.Cannibal Ox
2.Madvilliany
3.The Unseen
4.Third Eye Vision
5. Deltron 3030

great list^

but Third Eye Vision better than Deltron 3030? i would disagree on that one.

and Cold Vein is a crazy album by Cannibal Ox. Morgul is overrated sometimes...but Vast is great.

Run-DMC - Raising hell
Wu-Tang - 36 chambers
Reakwon - Cuban links
The Liks - The X.O. Experience
Mos Def - Black on both sides
Talib Kweli - Train of thought

all 2pac albums


all biggie albums.


eminem marshal mathers lp

anything run dmc


llyod banks the hunger for more.

all dmx albums.

i can go on and on.

Most of mine have been mentioned already but...

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Immortal Technique- Revolutionary Volume 2
John Smith- Pinky's Laundromat
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Slick Rick - Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

terrible list man...except for Run DMC

terrible list my ass

My list as of today:

1) JEDI MIND TRICKS-VIOLENT BY DESIGN (love everything about this album
2) Immortal Technique-Revolutionary Volume 2
3) Immortal Technique-Silenced Revolution
4) Nas-Illmatic
5) The Streets-A Grand Don't Come For Free (i dunno if this counts but i really like it)
6) A Tribe Called Quest-Midnight Marauders
7) Mr. Metaphor-Metropolis
8) Mobb Deep-The Infamous
9) Mobb Deep-Juvenile Hell

This list changes like every month

It was in no particular order.

Have any of you guys been to any of your above mentioned favorite artists shows!? I was SO close to going to the Madvilliany release party/show. I am determined to go to at least go to one show before the end of the school year. Hopefully they will have a Quasimoto 2 release party and I'll definitley go!!!

I know this is off topic.

my bad

No Wolf I've only been to one concert in my lifetime and that was when I was little with my parents and it was classic rock bands like Jefferson Starship and Bad Company. But I plan to go to shows when I'm older.

Run DMC - Run DMC

first album I ever purchased

in no particular order...

classics
epmd-business as usual
gangstarr-hard to earn
ice cube-death certificate
nas-illmatic

recent
quasimoto-the unseen
lootpack-soundpieces:the antidote
dialated peoples-the platform
ugly duckling-all of their albums get heavy rotation
king geedorah-take me to your leader

will think of more later

Favorite Hip Hop Albums

which album do you guyz prefer

Company Flow- Funcrusher Plus or Cannibal Ox- Cold Vein

They are very different albums. It depends what you are in the mood for. Come to think of it I haven't heard Funcrusher Plus in a while. I'm gonna listen to it right now.

"terrible list my ass"

Yes, terrible list. Anyone that cites Lloyd Banks as one of the greatest albums of all time has no musical perception. You picked all 2pac and Biggie albums when both of them only ever had two that were above par. Then you didn't even pick Eminem at us most un-commercial, you picked his breakthrough album.

-AC

I heard Aesop Rock's Daylight track for the first time the other day (i know its old now) and i'm gonna get his album as soon as possible. What a great track, can anyone tell me what the rest of the album is like? Also i want to get Sage Francis "Personal Journals" soon as i've heard good things about him to. Any others i should look for?

Labor Days is a great album, you should definitely get it. If by "any others" you mean Aesop Rock albums, I would say Float is my second favorite.

Thanks man. I meant other hip hop albums in general, any opinions are welcome.

Eyedea and Abilities- First Born is a good album if you haven't already got it.

eyedea and abilities are great^

Sage Francis > Aesop Rock

anyone agree or disagree?

Do you mean they are similar?

It means Sage is better. I would have to disagree by personal preference, but I haven't heard as much of Sage as I have Aesop.

As long as both are good, i'll have no complaints. Also i have Broken Arrow by Blackalicious (great album), is Nia worth getting?

Haven't heard it.

Have you heard "Blazing Arrow"?

I haven't heard any Blackalicious albums all the way through yet, just random songs. I like the song "Brain Washers" which is on the Blazing Arrows album though.

Nia is great too. but i cant say which is better. need to give a better listen to both.

the Gift of Gab album was great too.

Sweet, i'll add that to my list then. Having 2 kids really sucks when you want to buy music for yourself, Im pretty sure my 6yr old boy would rather have the latest Optimus Prime then me get some new sounds.

What is Optimus Prime?

Are you serious? Optimus Prime is a Transformer which are toys that first came out in the 80s. I had a few myself (showing my age now), they are still going now and have cartoons, comics and anything else that takes parents money away (i'm on the other side of the coin now and can appreciate how my parents felt). My son loves them and we watch the cartoons together every Saturday morning (at his request of course, ahem). Optimus Prime is probably the most famous of the Transformers.

Transformers are awesome...i stil lgot my optimus prime toy......loved that show, and best toys ever made.

Ohh.. I thought it was a musical artist in New Zealand or something.

Well you learnt something new today.

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