Greatest hip-hop albums of all time; the only hip-hop albums

>>53008882
>inb4 LE MEME STORE xD

Is Pauls Boutique really that good?

Anyways I'd probably add Endtroducing, It's Dark And Hell Is Hot, and Midnight Marauders.

>>53009129
Not op, but Paul's Boutique is pretty great.

seconding
>It's Dark And Hell Is Hot

>>53008882
Wrong, it's MM... FOOD, Deltron 3030, HISS vol 1+2, Temporary Forever, and 36 chambers.

>>53008882
Hip hop is a 0/10

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May ot be everyones cup of tea, but Danger Doom is 10/10 imo.

>>53009129

paul's boutique is a fucking masterpiece

>>53009792
Fuck yeah

Madvilliany, Deltron 3030, Donuts, and Midnight marauders. That's mine

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/thread

>>53009889
Only the memeiest for you I see

>>53009908
shit taste/10

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This is the best Wu Tang affiliated album of all time and a personal 10/10

>>53009016
Only faggots insult death grips on this board. Death grips are a pretty good band, and Money Store is a great album. The only people who post "le meme grips xddd" are the ones who haven't actually heard their discography.

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Obviosuly Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is one of the best hip-hop albums.

>>53009908
For all the good things about that record there is also a lot of bad. It's like a 7/10 but in a very different way than Doris was a 7/10. Earl is like a bunch of 10's and 5's. Doris is all 6's and 7's.

>>53010160
Oh boy, have you got some things to learn

>>53010193
Earl is like 6/10, that's when he was trying to copy Tyler and shit. Doris in my opinion is at least 8/10. I think his next album will be godsend, it's a time where is his style has matured and his rhymes have gotten even more complex.

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I'm comfortable giving this a 10

>>53010193
Hive, Centurion, and Whoa are not 6s or 7s

>>53009129
yes, pauls boutique is the greatest produced hip hop album

>>53010265
Meme kids please leave

>>53009004
sorry but this is easiest top 3 best hip hop albums of all time
also underrated post

>>53008882
Enter the Wu Tang is better than Illmatic as the 90s rep, and Paul's Boutique is dated as fuck.

>>53010160
the money store is shit, fuck you.
GP was when they really started being good.
NLDW has improved production, GP has improved lyricism and NOTM was both at the same time, noice.

TMS and exmil are their worst albums.

>>53009908
It's only a 6/10 but it's a 10/10 competing against other 16-year-old rappers

>>53010983
good opinions although I think exmil and TMS (esp the latter) are worth listening to

>>53011071
Yeah, I do like a few songs on both but dislike how they are the most popular.
I liked punk weight and a few others on tms and klink and culture shock on exmil.

I'm a big DG fan, but I really don't think TMS is that good...

also, I don't mean to insult but based on your top 4 you haven't gone very deep into hip hop

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this right here

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>>53010689
>Paul's Boutique
>dated

>>53008882
>white boy-core
Still, these are great

>>53010983
Aren't you a special little snowflake with special little snowflake opinions.

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Blowout comb

The score

Prince among thieves

...these are all really great albums that No one knows about

Straight outta compton

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Obligatory

>>53011556
Tell me why it's better than their later albums faggot.

>>53010188
I know everyone here considers this memerap, but I love it. I can easily just listen to this whole album in one sitting smoking weed and chilling.

>Illmatic
>Ready To Die
>MBDTF

The only rap albums I can think of off the top of my head I'd give a 10/10

>>53011617
blowout comb is overrated, they are all so shitty and boring at rapping

also
>great albums that no one knows about
You know The Score went 6x platinum right?

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Fear of a Black Planet
Paul's Boutique
ATLiens
Aquemini
Moment of Truth
The Main Ingredient
Illmatic
Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
The Low End Theory
Midnight Marauders
Resurrection
The Chronic
Doggystyle
Liquid Swords
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
The Infamous
Madvillainy
Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
93 til Infinity
Things Fall Apart
Ridin' Dirty

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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on /mu/ who thinks pic related is GOAT. Please tell me I'm not alone.

>>53011664
>I can easily just listen to this whole album in one sitting

Friendly reminder that if listening to a whole album is any sort of accomplishment for you, you should get the fuck off this board.

>>53010983
>GP had improved lyricism
what lyrics?

>>53010983
>GP
>Improved lyricism
Wtf are you talking about? Give any specific example...

>>53008882
>mentioning Paul's Boutique and The Money Store at the same time.

>>53013450
>>53011960
Not talking about the sex and da epik drugs like exmil and tms.

It's more paranoid and about alchemy lots of lyrics with more than one meaning, far more cryptic than the shit on exmil.

Seriously the lyrics on exmil were ass, at least tms had some weirdness.

The most obvious would be beware on exmilitary where mc ride smokes a joint and fucks a bitch.
So deep lyrics.

Compare that to birds or two heavens on gp, quite a lot of the songs on gp are about shit going on in real life plus paranoia from drugs.
It's better.

>>53009571
SWEET THANKS FOR THE INPUT BRO

E-40 - In A Major Way
E-40 - Hall Of Game
E-40 - Charlie Hustle The Blueprint of a Self-Made Millionaire

>>53009539
I've never understood why people like Deltron 3030 so much

J-Zone- Pimp's Don't Pay Taxes

>>53008882
I don't disagree but I would exclude Illmatic. Just my personal opinion

>>53010134
>>53010188
These are pretty on par as well

>>53009004
>>53011213
>>53011647
and while I do like these, they just don't cut it for me.

>>53008882
No one has mentioned Cannibal Ox?

main source breaking atoms
brand nubian one for all
eric b and rakim
pete rock and cl smooth
a bunch of stuff that's already been mentioned ITT

>>53011893
great list, i think you need ghostface's solo debut on there though
big daddy kane - long live the kane
boogie down productions - criminal minded

>>53009004
maybe
>>53009792
no
>>53009908
pleb
>>53010134
yes
>>53010188
its good but no
>>53010356
fuck off
>>53011213
eh
>>53011647
yes

>>53013450
I hover above you
Life pulled out your mouth
I become you
Opening of the mouth
Unlawful possession
Jellyfish in cold sweat deep end
Hollow shell twitch disconnection
Pupils swell
My entrance
Hijacked no questions asked
Stretch you on like latex mask
My sigils your epitaph

this verse might be one of the best in the history of hip hop.

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Hell yeah.

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My TOP 3.

>>53008882
>mfw no eyedea

>>53011664

how in the world is it memerap. Jesus. If people can't recognize this as talented, well-considered and crafted music then damn, idk what to say

why does everyone on this board have the same rolling stone magazine-approved rockist taste in hip hop

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>>53008882
The GOAT album

>>53008882
Madvillainy isn't even DOOM's best album... I think MM... FOOD is way better.

Wu Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein
Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill
Mos Def: Black on Both Sides
A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory
Aesop Rock: Float
GZA/Genius: Liquid Swords
El-P: Fantastic Damage
Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus

Are some of my favourites.

>>53010193
>>53010279
Earl and Doris are both just as good. 7/10.
Doris can be more depressing, but we get to listen to Earl's psyche than on EARL. EARL maybe 2edgy4U, but it the whole album is pretty uplifting with it's production, clever word play, and his flow from a young age.

>>53014729
ATCQ aged horribly

GKMC is undeniably one of the greats.

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Fixed it.

>>53014755
I'll deny it

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Why put The Money Store when this is arguably better?

>>53014791
>arguably
Wow how convincing! Like seriously, though, you know how stupid you worded that, right

>>53014781
Why?To only be contarian? In ten years,People will look back at it as fondly as people do illmatic.Everything about that album is exceptional.The way the story is told,The lyrics,The emotion in Kendrick's voice,It just all comes together and it's one of the few albums were I know every word in every song because I've played it so much

>>53014819

How so? No one called upon me to provide an argument. It's an invitation to do so.

>>53014840
No, because it's not that great. It's great, but do you really think it's as good as illmatic? The more I play GKMC the less I like it.

>>53014819
stop meme-ing on him

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step it the fuck up guys.

>>53014894
But it's really great.Super grear,Greater than any other great album ever in the great world
Come on nigga,WHY do you refute my claim,Bullet points or something.
And yeah,I do.It's an amazing album with no bad tracks on it.Even if the illmatic comparison isn't too held together,I would put it on the same level as mbdtf

>>53014840
>Kendrick
White boi detected.

Shit will probably reach Get Rich or Die Tryin levels of classic. Illmatic? No.

>>53014948

filtered

>>53010983
Nice ad hominem faggot

also
>improved lyricism on GP

lol

>>53014948

you've been filtered by anonymous

>>53014964
Supreme Clientele was much better.

>>53011649
You're so fucking retarded, "this album is good" doesn't mean "it's better than their later albums" you moron

>>53014991

nice ad hominem and fallacy fallacy faggot

>>53015000
Nice trips. Completely disagree tho

>>53015012
>implying i said you were wrong because of your ad hominem

nice misuse of a fallacy, faggot

>>53014997
>>53014975
Too stupid to argue?
Lame as fuck

>>53015029

>falling for the ruse

filtered

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Not sure if I like Nia or Blazing Arrow more. Right now I think Arrow is slightly better. But they're both amazing albums.

danny - xxx

>>53015050
>le filtered meme

filtered

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>>53015038

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>>53014948

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Fucking classic in my opinion

>>53015061

>le "le" meme

>"g"

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>>53015063

>>53014837
>>53015038
>>53015046
>>53015063
yes.

>>53015038
>the album's original name was The Chronic 2000
>it set the sound for early 2000's west coast hip hop
>The Chronic did the same with the G-Funk sound in the early 90's
Damn, Dre

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>>53014729
Labor Days > Float

>>53008882
you're so fucking white/asian

>>53014948

w/e you're right and they're wrong. too stupid to realize the layers in the album.

>mfw they probably don't realize it starts in medias res and the sherane theme at the beginning of the album and the end of poetic justice signals that we're back to events that happen right after the beginning of the album and everything before that was in the past.

>>53015103
>"g"

f

wow great picks in this thread actually

someone cares to make a chart? would be appreciated

>>53015064
>>53015050
>>53015061
>>53014997
>>53014975

could this be the start of the meme to end all memes?

>>53015114
I read that Suge Knight took the name "Chronic 2000" for his compilation album as a shot against Dre. Dre changed to 2001 to backfire

>>53015180
you're a fucking meme, slut

>>53015195

epic!

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>>53015106

>>53014729
very good list, hip hop patrician

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>>53015228

>>53010134
Agreed. True masterpiece.

>>53014382
You fuck off

>>53015228
Best 2Pac album

>>53015254
Dre pretty much made Snoop's entire career. Everything after Doggystyle has been awful.

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>>53015254
How can this be not posted yet?

>>53015287
Blue Carpet Treatment was pretty good

>>53015287
Snoop is before your time nephew

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>>53015287
Blue Carpet Treatment was alright. Doggfather was not bad either.
>>53015299

>>53010134
That movie this is referencing is the shit too.

>>53015202

wow, calling someone a slut on the internet. So "epic." what is this 2010? Epic's still a thing?

>>53015287
most of his albums have a couple of good tracks and imo No Limit Top Dogg is a p great album... not Doggystyle level but its not shit..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3HWWMiJw6U

>>53015038
this is a 6/10 at best
weedcarriers & filler galore

>>53015381
>this is a 6/10 at best
That production tho

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>>53015383
but that's Soul/RnB nigga

>>53015365
we've come full circle I don't even know what this is called anymore... meta self referential post post ironic new sincerity?

>>53015401
Meta self-ref double post-ironic nu-since sounds really rolls off the tongue.

NY wins

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>>53015383
Oh yeah, if you like D'Angelo, you'll like Lauryn Hill

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It counts

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>>53015205

>>53015205
>>53015488
Is Jay-Z one of the most overrated hip-hop artists of all time?

>>53015488
Nice dubs but no way black album is better

>>53015521
Media makes him out to be a god nowadays. It wasnt always like that

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>>53015480
People get confused what exact genre is Gorillaz, but I just put it as Alternative. I liked their debut better

>>53015564
>>53015480
what's confusing? both of these albums are obviously trip-hop, its not even questionable

>>53015521
Well ya gotta hand it to Jay, he still forces himself to stay current for over 20 years. In the early 2000's the best thing he put out was Blueprint and Black Album. In the early 2010's it was only Watch The Throne

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Not necessarily a 10, but one of the best hip-hop albums ever made

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i listened to death grips once man i better stick to the usual YU HEARD!! -C murder

>>53010188
I liked section.80 better but good kid is like a solid 9

Deep Puddle Dynamics - The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel?
OutKast - Aquemini
Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement (I'm not even sure if you can call this hip-hop, but fuck it)
Both of cLOUDDEAD's albums
Busdriver - Fear of a Black Tangent (I really like Perfect Hair, Temporary Forever and Cosmic Cleavage, too)
Open Mike Eagle - Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes (Dark Comedy and Unapologetic Art Rap aren't that much worse)
Serengeti has at least a couple.

>>53009016
LE MEME STORE xD

>>53009004
>>53014919
>>53015046
>>53015106
>>53015136

I can agree with these.

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>>53016299
Funny guy

>>53016351
looks like a vag lol

>>53016351
looks infected

Kendrick's new album dropping next week?

>>53014729
I think Midnight Marauders is better than Low End Theory
>>53015564
>>53015524
>>53015480
>>53015470
>>53015400
>>53015383
>>53015338
>>53015299
>>53015254
>>53015228
>>53015136
>>53015106
>>53015059
>>53014964
>>53014919
>>53014914
>>53014770
>>53014729
>>53014755
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>>53011893
>>53011213
>>53010356
>>53010134
>>53010188
>>53009004
>>53008882 (cept Money Store)

good taste

these do it for me:
Enter the Wu-Tang
The Score
Liquid Swords
Deltron 3030
MBDTF
Black on both sides
The Infamous
Illmatic
Aquemini
ATLiens
Labor Days
Moment of Truth
gkmc
Soundpieces: Da Antidote
Black Star

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I can't fucking believe no one has posted this yet, easily one of the greatest albums since 2000.

>>53016820
was at least mentioned twice before

>>53016820
even the guy just above you mentioned it. did you even read the thread?

>>53013735
I'm on the same boat, man. I tried to, but I just can't.

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My go-to 10/10 Hip Hop album.

>>53011294
Pauls Boutique is dated and you're diluted if you think otherwise. It's the best 80's rap album period, but it's still dated.

Also check your head is way better.

>>53008882
It's like you've literally only heard the Hip-Hop from /mu/s essential list

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>>53015136
Labor Days is amazing... but I've always preferred None Shall Pass.

>>53015068
Easily this.

>>53008882
What album is it on the top left corner?

people pls do a chart I wanna get more into rap and I've hear maybe 10 albums posted here

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Fresh to this day

>>53017377
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

>>53015299

I think you mean the Slim Shady LP

>>53016881
Check Your Head is the ultimate party record, I'd say Paul's Boutique is a better album but CYH is just so much fun to blast

no Aquemini or ATliens?

Exmilitary > TMS

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>>53014716
>>53014666

Yeee

>>53013871

YEEEEEEEEEEE

>>53017491
listening to this now give me some album to listen to next pls

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