Top 10 Best Hip Hop Albums of All Time
These albums are albums that you must listen to in order for you to have a conversation with me. Honorable mention to T.I.’s Urban Legend and Hov’s Blueprint. Ladies get your listen on.
10. Noreaga -N.O.R.E.
This was just a fun album that had some of the best production of the new era ever. It also helped propel The Neptunes into the cool nerds they are today.
9. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin
An album that culminates everything before it with the simple phrase “GO GO GO SHAWTY..”
8. Capone-N-Noreaga - The War Report
This is the last classic album from New York from the Golden Era, CNN was on some IRAQ shit back then. I doubt they would be as pro-Islamic as they once were today.
7. Outkast - ATLiens
This is before Outkast went too left field for my taste.
6. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
The most colorful album ever. Remember the purple tape? The production on here coupled the sampling age with a more cinematic experience. Not to mention everyone became Italian mobsters after this. I know it sounds corny, it was the mid-90s. Nas’s guest appearance here is insane.
5. Method Man - Tical
This is when Meth wasn’t Hollywood and his flow was in another world, plus he made no damn sense, which was great.
4. Tupac - All Eyez on Me
This album is pretty much the blueprint for all the good artist from the South. This is album was the beginning of Pac’s end as he had just come out of jail and was signed to Death Row and the rest, well you know the rest.
3. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
The album that pretty much changed the world, but no one cared until Volume 2 came out.
2. Nas - It Was Written
The intro on this album is enough to call this classic as this album introduced the new age of hip hop away from the “break beats” and “dusty samples” of Illmatic.
1. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die: The Remaster
Greatest rap album of all time. This album is the blueprint of everything. This was also the prologue to the “shiny suit” era.
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nigga you a dumb ass retard, how tha fuck you gonna go from nas, jay and biggie to 2 nore albums and fifty? bitch ass
are u 14 years old?this list is appalling. There are no albums from before 1994. novice ass motherfucker
No, I’m 22. If I was 14, Soulja Boy would be on this list. You old ass fools are just that, old ass fools. Unlike Lupe I actually own Midnight Marauders, PE’s Fear of a Black Planet, Eric B & Rakim’ s Paid in Full, KRS-One’s Return of the Boom Bap. But not being born in the early 70s like you old timers, I went to those albums later on in life. Those albums shaped the sound of the 90’s, but the albums I list shaped the sound of today.