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Could Rap Fan's 100 Favourite Albums List Be Finished Today?
Yes, yes it could very well be, and it is. As I've said, it's not a list of the best albums of all time, it's a list of my 100 favourite albums. In case you didn't see before, brace yourself for a shameful lack of gangster albums. But, other than that, let me know what you think. You can completely disagree with everything about the list, and that's OK, because this is entirely subjective.
1. Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030
2. Black Star – Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
3. Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
4. Nas – Illmatic
5. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
6. The Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
7. Binary Star – Masters of the Universe
8. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
9. CunninLynguists – Oneirology
10. Madvillain – Madvillainy
11. GZA – Liquid Swords
12. Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
13. The Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
14. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
15. Eric B & Rakim – Paid In Full
16. El-P – Fantastic Damage
17. Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves
18. Common – Like Water For Chocolate
19. De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising
20. Souls of Mischief – 93 ‘Til Infinity
21. Kool Keith – Dr Octagonecologyst
22. CunninLynguists – A Piece of Strange
23. The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready To Die
24. Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt
25. Aesop Rock – Labor Days
26. 2Pac – Me Against The World
27. The Roots – Illadelph Halflife
28. OutKast – ATLiens
29. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Road to Riches
30. Gravediggaz – 6 Feet Under
31. Hieroglyphics – 3rd Eye Vision
32. Fugees – The Score
33. Aceyalone – All Balls Don’t Bounce
34. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
35. Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Mecca And The Soul Brother
36. Ghostface Killah – Ironman
37. Gang Starr – Moment of Truth
38. Masta Ace – Disposable Arts
39. Pharoahe Monch – Internal Affairs
40. 2Pac – Makaveli: The 7 Day Theory
41. A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
42. Common – Resurrection
43. De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead
44. Eminem – The Eminem Show
45. Scarface – The Fix
46. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
47. Slick Rick – The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
48. Nas – It Was Written
49. MF Doom – Operation: Doomsday
50. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Live And Let Die
51. Mos Def – Black On Both Sides
52. OutKast – Aquemini
53. Redman – Whut? Thee Album
54. Blackalicious – Nia
55. Blu & Exile – Below The Heavens
56. Big Daddy Kane – Long Live The Kane
57. Eric B. & Rakim – The 18th Letter
58. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
59. Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
60. Main Source – Breaking Atoms
61. Little Brother – The Listening
62. Big L – Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
63. Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus
64. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
65. Showbiz & A.G. – Runaway Slave
66. Gang Starr – Step In The Arena
67. CYNE – Evolution Fight
68. Nas – The Lost Tapes
69. Kno – Death Is Silent
70. Reflection Eternal – Train of Thought
71. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
72. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Wanted: Dead or Alive
73. Mobb Deep – The Infamous
74. Big Pun – Capital Punishment
75. LL Cool J – Radio
76. Talib Kweli – Quality
77. Ultramagnetic MCs – Critical Beatdown
78. Dead Prez – Let’s Get Free
79. Organized Konfusion – Stress: The Extinction Agenda
80. Brotha Lynch Hung – Season Of Da Siccness
81. Slum Village – Fantastic Vol. 2
82. Jeru the Damaja – The Sun Rises In the East
83. Freestyle Fellowship – Innercity Griots
84. CunninLynguists – Will Rap For Food
85. The Roots – Game Theory
86. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
87. Nas & Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
88. Canibus – Rip The Jacker
89. Del The Funky Homosapien – No Need For Alarm
90. Jedi Mind Tricks – Violent By Design
91. Cage – Hell’s Winter
92. The Coup – Genocide And Juice
93. The Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death
94. Chino XL – Here To Save You All
95. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
96. AZ – Doe Or Die
97. Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
98. K-Otix – Universal
99. Jurassic 5 – Quality Control
100. Ganksta N-I-P – The South Park Psycho
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BQ: What are your 3 favourite albums on the list?
BQ2: What album would you, judging from my taste, think I'd like?
@Dave: Lol I'm not a Bone-Thugs stan.
@K-Dot: Marcberg would probably earn a place in my top 150, maybe 200 albums or so. I like it, but it's not a top 100 album for me.
@White Tiger: I have Below the Heavens (no. 55).
@Known2Mi: Yes, it is in order. And I have the Slim Shady LP there (no. 71).
@Dick B: I think I just prefer The Low End Theory. Maybe Midnight Marauders should be a bit higher, and I knew from the start that the order might be a little out of whack, but this is pretty much in the right order for me.
@Common Ice Cube: Thank you. If you've never heard no. 100 on my list, check it out. I view it as a horrorcore/southern classic personally.
@NoOfffense: Thanks. It's really just my favourites though, I think. If I took influence and originality into account, I'd be missing stuff like Criminal Minded, and a lot of G-funk. But thanks again.
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments.
@The Co_oL: Sorry mate. I sort of wanted to include The Cool, but I wanted to get my horrorcore stuff in there, and there were too many other albums I really wanted to include. But thanks for the kind comment.
@NoOffense: About Deltron, I'm not sure if it's technically the best album of all time (there are definitely better lyrical efforts) but the beats are amazing, and the lyrics craft a story that I really got into. It's like a rap opera (as many reviewers said).
And I'll definitely check out that German rap group and Latryx, thanks for the recs.
@Chris: Thanks for the comment. I actually have both of those albums that you rec'd, but thanks anyway.
@Trylemma: Blunt as always lol. But I appreciate the comment, and I understand where you're coming from.
27 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
It seems as if Deltron 3030 has been in everyone's list. Does that make it the
best album of all time? It seems to be as highly regarded in this section as
Illmatic, even more universally loved.
Anyways, I still don't understand your love for Onerology.
WRFF>
APOS>
Dirty Acres>
Sure Kno's production was epic, but WRFF was a great blend of battle
raps and introspective sh*t. Whatever, it is one of the best of 2011.
Innercity Griots!!! ABDB!!! Your favorite albums by a lot of artists are
the same as mine, which I like. It's a little weird how great a list this is,
if you took into consideration influence and originality. But if these are
just your favorites then that's cool too. I think The Infamous is way too low
considering the ones above it. Sorry, but I just have a newfound respect for it,
seeing how far Mobb has fallen.
BQ: 3 Favorites are probably Innercity Griots, De La Soul is Dead,
and Internal Affairs.
BQ2: You seem to like your abstract hip hop. I would recommend Latryx
if you haven't heard it, great concept album.
Also this German hip hop group...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDHrPLmftys
^^^^ if you listen to this album, you're my new favorite reg. And Astronautalis has
a few good albums.
- SonoLv 69 years ago
That's a Pretty Dope List there.
Are they in Order? How long did this take you?
BQ:
1. The Lost Tapes- Nas
2. Illadelph Halflife- The Roots
3. 93 Til Infinity
It's Hard to select just 3; The list has lots of my favorites
BQ2: The Slim Shady LP?
- VALv 69 years ago
Nice list. Is it in order? I'd have The Main Ingredient over Mecca & The Soul Brother, but that's just an opinion. Props on including The Listening and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
BQ: Midnight Marauders, ATLiens, and The Infamous. There's a lot of great albums on there, though. Those are just 3 that stuck out.
BQ2: idk...seems like you've got a lot of artists covered tbh. lol.
- Space CadetLv 69 years ago
Congrats on finishing It, looks dope
BQ: Big L – Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
Brotha Lynch Hung – Season Of Da Siccness/Gravediggaz – 6 Feet Deep
The Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
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- ??Lv 69 years ago
Overall it looks nice. I would definitely have "The Main Ingredient" in there, that is just as good, if not, better than "Mecca and the Soul Brother" imo. And where's "The Ugly Truth"? or "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"? No "Eastern Philosophy"? And I really like where "Masters of the Universe" lands, not many here would have it that high.
BQ: Right now my favs would be Illmatic, ATLiens, MBDTF
- 9 years ago
You had me at Deltron 3030 haha. Lost Tapes wasn't that great of an album all in all, but Purple is my favorite song in the history of songs so fair enough haha dope list
Q1: Deltron 3030, Aquemeni, and either Violent By Design or Quality Control.
Q2: Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor / The Cool. Tech N9ne's Sickology 101, People Under The Stairs 'O.S.T', Thurz's LA Riot.
- DoriyanLv 69 years ago
This is the rap-rec list of my dreams.
BQ: 3 OF them are Death Is Silent, The Low End Theory and Aquemini. You have a lot of my favorites.
BQ2: You've got everything i've ever heard pretty much.
- Anonymous9 years ago
I love it
BQ: OB4CL, 36 Chambers & Me Against the World
BQ2: Method Man - Tical or Method Man - Tical 2000: Judgement Day. Take your pick
- Anonymous9 years ago
Nice
BQ:
Blackstar
Will rap for food
Doe or die
BQ2:you kinda have everything down
Where's marcberg
