Best hip Hop Album(s)

[Amir]

How did I forget Black Star- Black Star?? Put that somewhere on that list.

[D Dub]

Hey, JR, you should check out
the following albums:

Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique
A Tribe Called Quest: Midnight Marauders
De La Soul: De La Soul is Dead
            Buhloone Mindstate
Brand Nubian: One for All
Black Sheep: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

I'll get back to this thread
when I think of more albums
to recommend to you 

Now that's what I am talking about.

A couple more-

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
RUN DMC - King of Rock
Public Enemy - Apocolipse 91'


I really dig on the Jazzamataz stuff too.

[D Dub]

Another great album to listen to straight through is Beastie Boys - Check Your Head.  Especially when you realize they didn't sample anything on that album - they played every cut themselves...


Maybe I'm a little old school - but what ever happened to the Run DMC/B Boys style of finishing each others sentences within a verse?  Its so tight to be able to pull that off; I think J5 are the only ones who still do that...

[cool breeze]

[Womialas]

Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow

one of my favorite CDs (not just hip hop) of all time

[ACF]

Beautiful cover.
And a great album, too.

[MattG12]

no particular order:
eminem - the marshall mathers LP
eminem - the slim shady LP
the game - the documentary
the game - the doctors advocate
50 cent - get rich or die tryin
mobb deep - the infamous
wu-tang clan - 36 chambers
BIG - ready to die
BIG - life after death
NWA - straight outta compton
dr. dre - 2001
jayz - the black album
the beastie boys - licensed to ill
black star - black star
outkast - stankonia
outkast - speakerboxxx, the love below
nas - stillmatic
dmx - its dark and hell is hot
dmx - and then there was x
westside connection - terrorist threats
tupac - all eyez on me
kanye west - the college dropout
kanye west - late registration
pharoahe monch - internal affairs
pharoahe monch - desire
the roots - the tipping point
lupe fiasco - food and liquor
lupe fiasco - the cool

[AINGE44]

Goodie Mob (Soul Food) and E40 w/ The Click (Game Related) got to be on that list to

[miraclejohan]

1. Nas - illmatic
2. Jeru the damaja - the sun rises in the east
3. blackstar
4. the roots - things fall apart

[Levis107]

1. Nas- Illmatic
2. A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory
3. Wu-Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers
4. Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
5. Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
6. Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
7. Notorious B.I.G- Ready to Die
8. GZA- Liquid Swords
9. Common- Resurrection
10. Madvillain- Madvillainy

[connerhenry43]

Hey, JR, you should check out
the following albums:

Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique
A Tribe Called Quest: Midnight Marauders
De La Soul: De La Soul is Dead
            Buhloone Mindstate
Brand Nubian: One for All
Black Sheep: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

I'll get back to this thread
when I think of more albums
to recommend to you 

Now that's what I am talking about.

A couple more-

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
RUN DMC - King of Rock
Public Enemy - Apocolipse 91'


I really dig on the Jazzamataz stuff too.

to me, you cannnot put midnight marauders above low end theory, or even people's instinctive travels and the paths of rhythm. And you absolutelly cannot put apocolypse 91 above it takes a nation of millions to hold us back, the best hip hop cd of all time, IMHO.

EPMD, strictly business
dr dre the chronic
NWA straight outta compton

so many more, have to go to work, love this topic.

[bucknersrevenge]

in no order:

wu-tang- 36 chambers
wu-tang- wu tang forever
public enemy- nation of millions
nwa- str8 outta compton
eminem- marshall mathers lp
run dmc- raising hell
eric b and rakim- paid in full
biggie- ready to die
tribe called quest-  low end theory
pharcyde- bizarre ride
mary j blige-  my life (yea i said it, mary j blige!)

Major TP dark_lord for reppin the Pharcyde. I loved that album!! Definitely not your average west coast rap group. While during that time most people were bumpin Dre, gettin into Snoop, Warren G and Too Short, the Pharcyde snuck right in the back door. They weren't hardcore gangstas. They just loved to crack jokes, smoke weed and just generally act like retards for the fun of it. I loved them.

Also was big on the Hieroglyphics as far as west coast groups in the mid-90's. Del the Funkee Homosapien, Casual, Souls of Mischief(this is how we chill from '93 til...), Domino. Loved Hiero.

As for the Pharcyde I love the Soulflower remix "I got more flava than 7-11 slurpees/if Magic can admit he got AIDS F it I got herpes". You cant beat the Pharcyde.

[bucknersrevenge]

Another great album to listen to straight through is Beastie Boys - Check Your Head.  Especially when you realize they didn't sample anything on that album - they played every cut themselves...


Maybe I'm a little old school - but what ever happened to the Run DMC/B Boys style of finishing each others sentences within a verse?  Its so tight to be able to pull that off; I think J5 are the only ones who still do that...

M.O.P. still does it. I love that style too. "Ante Up" is just pure adrenaline. Get too close to me after I hear that song and I might rip your arm off.

[bucknersrevenge]

Love the Low End Theory. Is there a track on that album that ISN'T hott? How about Mecca & the Soul Brother? No mentions for that yet. Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth. They Reminisce. Who WASN'T bumpin that in '92?? Nobody.

Tough to say all-time but right now I'm diggin on that Fort Minor project. Mike Shinoda's bringin that heat right now. Every track is original completely not at all like anything you hear these days. Call a doctor. That kid is sick!

[eat ur wheaties]

diggin those sounds!!  can't forget Kool G Rap-4,5,6; ras kass-soul on ice