Essential Hip Hop Albums

Great lists you guys. I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned that are essential:

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
Brand Nubian - One For All
Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
Slick Rick - Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Redman - Whut? Thee Album
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
Gang Starr - Daily Operation
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Run DMC - S/T
EPMD - Strictly Business
Showbiz and A.G. - Goodfellas
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Showbiz and A.G. - Runaway Slave
BDP - By All Means Necessary
X-Clan - To the East, Blackwards
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Park-Like Setting - School Day 2, Garbage Day 4
Artifacts - Between a Rock & a Hard Place
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
The Roots - Do You Want More ?!
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
O.C. - Word... Life
John Smith - John Smith's Blunderbus or, "in transit"
Ghostface Killah - Ironman

All of these albums are Truly essential.

P.S.

Blackalicious - Melodica
Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
Kool G Rap - Road to the Riches
Jungle Brothers - Done By the Forces of Nature
The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

Originally posted by Eraserhead
Great lists you guys. I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned that are essential:

Slick Rick - Great Adventures of Slick Rick

I mentioned that sir 😎

oops 😮

STILL, MY LIST IS BETTER 😛

What took you so long Eraserhead?
Jungle Brothers, i used to love those cats. GangStar - Step in the arena warrants a place on the list. I dont know if any of you like Cypress Hill but i just about played Black Sunday and their self titled album to death back in the day. 😮‍💨

^^Those Cypress albums belong on the list. Mainly their self titled. hmmm, I know I left off some essential albums... let me think.

Needs Stetasonic, Killarmy, Biz Markie and Prince Paul's hip-hopera ✅

Lord Finesse - Funky Technician
Gang Starr - Step in the Arena (thanks Kool)
Common Sense - One Day It'll All Make Sense
Snoop Doggy Dog - Doggystyle
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Blahzay Blahzay - Blah Blah Blah
Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Fermented Reptile - Lets Just Call You Quits
KMD - Mr. Hood
J-Live - The Best part

Originally posted by Deathblow
Stetasonic

Turning the clock waaaaaaaaaaay back! wheelchair

Originally posted by koolruningz
Turning the clock waaaaaaaaaaay back! wheelchair

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Mm...Food

Oliver Hart (Eyedea)- The many faces of Oliver Hart
El-P- Fantastic Damage
Viktor Vaughn- Vaudeville Villian
Mos Def- Black on Both Sides
Any Blackalicious album
JMT- Violent by Design
Aesop Rock- Labor Days
illogic- Celestial clockwork

Originally posted by Eraserhead

classic DJ Shadow

Speaking of DJ Shadow, has anyone heard the album he did with Cut Chemist - Product Placement? Amazing what you can do with some turntables. dj

Originally posted by koolruningz
Speaking of DJ Shadow, has anyone heard the album he did with Cut Chemist - Product Placement? Amazing what you can do with some turntables. dj

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i also liked Cut Chemist- The Litmus Test

Havent heard it. 🙁

Originally posted by koolruningz
Havent heard it. 🙁

🙁 it's a good album, but i dont consider it essential hip hop.

whodini - back in black

cypress hill - skull and bones
cypress hill - black sunday