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Top 10 Hip Hop Albums?

If you had to pick your top 10 favorite hip hop albums, what would they be? Here's my list:

1. Eminem - The Eminem Show

2. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'

3. Lloyd Banks - Hunger For More

4. Notorious B.I.G. - Duets: The Final Chapter

5. Obie Trice - Cheers

6. Ludacris - Word of Mouf

7. Kanye West - College Dropout

8. Jay-Z - The Blueprint

9. MethodMan & RedMan - Blackout!

10. Chamillionaire - The Sound of Revenge

This was a hardass list to put together. Keep in mind this isn't a list of the all time best hip hop albums cause I'm definitely missing classics like Eric B. & Rakim's Paid in Full, Nas' Illmatic, and Dr. Dre's The Chronic. This is basically just your most listened to rap CDs.

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  • B.k.S.
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I gotta say, as a fan of hip hop you should really check out some more stuff from the 90s. I know its an opinion, but when the oldest album on there is from 2001 I'm sure your collection of hip hop albums is still pretty small at this point.

    My top 10 personal favourites

    Nas - Illmatic

    Common - One Day It'll All Make Sense

    Nas - The Lost Tapes

    Mos Def and Talib Kweli - Black Star

    Outkast - ATLiens

    GZA - Liquid Swords

    Eminem - Slim Shady LP

    Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor

    Fugees - The Score

    Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange

  • 5 years ago

    Too hard to make an ultimate 10, but here's 10 of my favorites 1. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde 2. A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory 3. Madvillain - Madvillainy 4. The Roots - Tipping Point 5. Common - Be 6. Del/Dan the Automator - Deltron 3030 7. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange 8. The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia 9. Living Legends - Almost Famous 10. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. . .

  • 1 decade ago

    1. Illmatic - Nas

    2. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx - Raekwon & Ghostface

    3. Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z

    4. Paid in Full - Rakim (honorary slot for its influence)

    5. Resurrection - Common

    6. Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers - Wu-Tang Clan

    7. The Score - The Fugees

    8. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli

    9. Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest

    Picking a 10th is so hard...after these 9 there are alot of albums all at around the same level

  • On any given day it can change slightly out of about 15-20. But basically this is as close as it gets:

    It Takes a Nation of Millions.....PE

    36 Chambers....Wu Tang

    Paid in Full....Eric B & Rakim

    Hard to Earn....Gang Starr

    Mama Said Knock You Out....LL

    Licensed to Ill - Beastie Boys

    Strictly Business....EPMD

    Straight Outta Compton....NWA

    Ironman....Ghostface Killah

    Ready to Die....Biggie

    The rotation:

    Jazzmatazz Vol. 1....Guru

    Illmatic....Nas

    Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde....Pharcyde

    Mecca & The Soul Brother....Pete Rock & CL Smooth

    Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time & Space)...Digable Planets

    Follow the Leader....Eric B & Rakim

    OB4CL....Raekwon

    Eazy-Duz-It....Eazy E

    Long Live the Kane....Big Daddy Kane

    Schoolly D....Schoolly D

    Gotta rep Breaking Atoms too. Main Source.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Nas -Illmatic

    Wu-Tang- Enter The Wu(36 Chambers)

    Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders

    Rakim- The 18th Letter

    Jay-Z-Hard Knock Life: Vol2

    Notorious BIG-Ready To Die

    Notorious BIG- Life After Death

    Kanye West -College DropOut

    Capone N Noreaga- The War Report

    TI-King

    Outkast-Aquemini

    Outkast-ATLiens

    Mobb Deep-The Infamous

    Snoop Dogg-DoggyStye

    Dr Dre- The Chronic

    Eminem-The Slim Shady

    Method Man-Tical

    These are some hot *** albums, offering some of the best debuts ever. Too bad many of them have not been able to recreate the magic that made me love them in the first place.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No order

    GZA - Liquid Swords

    Tonedeff - Archetype

    One Be Lo - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.

    J Dilla - Donuts

    Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

    Rugged Man - Die, Rugged Man, Die

    Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design

    The Roots - Things Fall Apart

    Mobb Deep - The Infamous

    Nas - Illmatic

  • My ten fav's?

    Nas-Illmatic

    Nas-Stillmatic

    Common-Be

    Kanye West-Late Registration

    Lupe Fiasco-The Cool

    MF DOOM-MM..FOOD

    Rakim-The 18th Letter

    Jay-Z-Reasonable Doubt

    Eminem-The Slim Shady LP

    WU Tang Clan-Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1. Biggie- Ready to die

    2. Eazy E- Eazy Duz it/ 5150 home for tha sick

    3.Ghostface killah- Supreme Clientel

    4.Mf DOOM- The mouse and the mask

    5. lil Wezzy - Drought 3

    6.Ludacris - Word of mouf

    7.Meth and REd - Blackout

    8.WC- Ghetto Heisman

    9.The Game - Doctors Advocate

    10. Gangstarr- Full Clip

  • 1 decade ago

    nas-illmatic

    nas-stillmatic

    mos def-black on both sides

    Immortal tech-rev vol 1 and 2

    gza-liquid swords

    wu tang-36 chambers

    blackstar-blackstar

    the roots-things fall apart

    nas-it was written

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Lol like 3 or 4 of those are debuts u stupid

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