Top 5 Hip-Hop albums

[Liam92]

Listening to a lot of hip-hop today, got me thinking, what's your favourite ever hip-hop albums?











Struggled not putting anything by DOOM or any Wu-Tang!

[murky21]

Nice selection! Gang Starr are a tough one as i dont think they really made one standout, more just lots of amazing albums on the same level. hard to pick one for me

Some of mine might seem a bit bait, but i'd just be lying to myself if I didnt pick them in favour of something a bit less well known >>>

Nas - Illmatic
People Under The Stairs - OST
Mobb Deep - the Infamous
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
MF Doom - Doomsday.

These would also be my 5 favourite albums of any genre

[Johoosh]

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The 36 Chambers
Mobb Deep - The Infamous<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<(Can't not include those 3)
DJ Krush - Meiso
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

[Atticus]

36 chambers
madvillainy
the infamous
aquemini
the unseen

the 5 ive rinsed the most

[Liam92]

Nice selection! Gang Starr are a tough one as i dont think they really made one standout, more just lots of amazing albums on the same level. hard to pick one for me

Some of mine might seem a bit bait, but i'd just be lying to myself if I didnt pick them in favour of something a bit less well known >>>

Nas - Illmatic
People Under The Stairs - OST
Mobb Deep - the Infamous
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
MF Doom - Doomsday.

These would also be my 5 favourite albums of any genre

Really struggled not to stick Illmatic in there, but couldn't know anything out my top 5!

Yeah, I know what you mean about Gang Starr, but with tunes like Form of Intellect, Check the Technique, Lovesick, etc, Step in the Arena just kills it for me.

Nice to see a lot of different selections in here, I really like the Infamous, just found it got a bit tedious imo

[AxeD]

Same as in that best hip hop albums ever thread.

[SCope13]

Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez
36 Chambers
Liquid Swords
Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs
Pretty much anything by Tommy Wright - yeah, I realize it's probably not like "best ever" material, but I love him too much to not include him

[Kochari]

People Under The Stairs - OST

Forgive my ignorance, but I'd never ehard of these guys before. This might be the best thing I've ever heard. Thread delivers

[constrobuz]

big l - lifestylez ov da poor and dangerous
showbiz and a.g. - goodfellas
uhh......
camp lo - uptown saturday night
roc marciano - marcberg
atcq - midnight marauders

[dickman69]

GZA - Liquid Swords
Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2
De La Soul - Stakes is High
Madvillainy
Nas - Illmatic

I guess those are top 5? everything after the Fantastic is just picking from like a pool of like 20 albums I love so...

[Genevieve]

Tha Alkaholiks - Coast II Coast
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
Digable Planets - Reachin'
Ras Kass - Soul On Ice

Some honorable mentions;

Jigmastas - Infectious
Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce
Xzibit - 40 Dayz
The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better

[fractal]

cannibal ox - cold vein

[BaronVon]

[Func]

Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team
Nas - Illmatic

[Mammoth]

Nas - illmatic
Jeru the damaja - the sun rises in the east
Outkast - southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Big l - lifestyles of the poor and dangerous
Brotha lynch hung - 24 deep or season of da siccness (can't decide)

[fractal]

[Shum]

No particular order:

GZA - Liquid Swords
Sensational Meets Koyxeи (definite outsider but i listen to this loads)
Madlib ft. Frank Nitt - Madlib Medicine Show No. 9: Channel 85 Presents Nittyville (anyone got the 3LP version for sale? hit me up. )
Clipse - Exclusive Audio Footage (only just edging out Lord Willin)
De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising

[__________]

Something like

Illmatic
The Unseen
Liquid Swords
Black Bastards
Then it gets difficult...either The Sun Rises in the East, Champion Sound, maybe Whut? Thee Album, 36 Chambers, Cypress Hill's self titled...ahhh actually I don't know.

[volcanogeorge]

Something like

Illmatic
The Unseen
Liquid Swords
Black Bastards
Then it gets difficult...either The Sun Rises in the East, Champion Sound, maybe Whut? Thee Album, 36 Chambers, Cypress Hill's self titled...ahhh actually I don't know.

you, my man, have some seriously good taste.

i'd go with those 4, and then throw in either Vaudeville Villain or Busta Rhymes -The Coming i think

[Shum]

Then it gets difficult...either The Sun Rises in the East, Champion Sound, maybe Whut? Thee Album, 36 Chambers, Cypress Hill's self titled...ahhh actually I don't know.

The truth of it, you think of 4 or 5, next thing you know you have 10.