Whats your favourite hip hop album of all time?

Bobby Baccala

I couldn't find a thread for this so thought i'd be the first to start it.
You can only pick one album and thats it.
My favourite would have to be Illmatic by Nas.
It was his first and best album by far and just had track after track of greatness.
Feel free to post away.
Please no 50 v game arguments or tupac v biggie or vanilla ice versus mc hammer:D:D

mufcboy1999

I couldn't give you my number 1 of all time because I dont have one.

But I have favorites mostly the usual suspects in illmatic, ready to die, doggystyle, chronic and 2001, me against the world, 36 chambers Marshall mathers lp, get rich or die tryin etc etc there's loads more i could mention.

I defiantly couldn't pick a number 1 though.:)

S*it I just coped there you said only 1 album!! ah i cant pick man!

PrettyBoy

Illmatic is flawless IMO, the perfect hip-hop album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UfAzKSEFSg

Not sure if it's my favourite album of all time but I'm going to go with it for now...might change my mind tomorrow :P

Da Shins Kelly

Toss up between Illmatic and The Score by The Fugees.

Mickolution

Illmatic for me. Was a toss-up between that and Liquid Swords, but there are a couple of tracks on there I'm not mad on (Labels, for one), whereas Illmatic is flawless.

Bobby Baccala

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Toss up between Illmatic and The Score by The Fugees.

What an album.

zx complex

Jam on Revenge- Newcleus 1983
LL Cool J- Bigger and Deffer 1986
Run Dmc- Raising Hell 1986
Always count on the classics lads.

HalloweenJack

So many classics but one I always go back to is Aquemini. It's just an amazing album from start to finish. Listened to it earlier on today, it's still a cracker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbqhRkG-NH4

MoyVilla9

Me Against The World is up there, but I'd go for Illmatic myself. People think you are copping out if you name the usual suspects but there really isn't a stronger album around.

PTO

Rza as Bobby Digital (in stereo)

Used to be a big fan of rap and hip hop as a kid. Completely off it now but I still love and listen to this!! Brilliant album!

fullysooted

Living Legends - Almost Famous
MF Doom / Madlib - Madvillainy
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

Couple of my fav's personally, if you haven't heard of them, I highly reccomend all 3...

Flesh Gorden

spotted this thread on the main page a few hours ago

Critical Beatdown - Ultramagnetic Mcs

Found it while looking into what samples Liam Howlett had used on various Prodigy songs, played it to death since

Liquidswords

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Seaneh

illmatic.

Dude was what, 21 when it dropped and 19 when he recorded most of the tracks on the album.
Mind boggling.

winston82

Chronic 2001.

Sh1t was tight, Yo.

Nolanger

Main source - Splitting atoms.

pragmatic1

Cypress Hill black Sunday or 36 chambers.

kevinbreslin

Doom and Jay-z probably the best rappers out there but I'd have to go with Illmatic. Couple of contenders tho; enter the 36 chambers, takes a nation of millions to hold us back, champion sound, blueprint, striahgt outa compton

Bobby Baccala

kevinbreslin wrote: »

Doom and Jay-z probably the best rappers out there but I'd have to go with Illmatic. Couple of contenders tho; enter the 36 chambers, takes a nation of millions to hold us back, champion sound, blueprint, striahgt outa compton

1?

Jimmy Iovine

Illmatic will crop up so many times I'm not gonna bother mentioning it again. It's nearly flawless though.

Endtroducing.... - it's different to every other album above this post I think but it's pure quality from start to finish.

Fishscale - Ghostface Killah was on form on this album. Could listen to this all day long. Features the only song I know of that has all 9 members of the Wu Tang Clan on it as well.

Finally Big Boi's "Sir Lucious Left Foot" is probably my favourite of all. Could listen to this album all year long. Everything about it is of the highest quality.

weemcd

Ready to Die

Honourable mentions - Illmatic, Liquid Swords, College Dropout and 36 chambers, they would probably make up my top 5. B.I is out in front though

evil_seed

+1 on Aquemini. If I'm in doubt as to what to listen to it's my go to

HATCHET IRL

Brother Ali-Shadows on the sun..

Sl!mCharles

Not very original perhaps but 36 Chambers probably. Only listened to it for the first time over the summer (:O !) but its fast become my favourite HipHop album. That said, I have yet to delve deeper into the world of hiphop!

Its really enjoyable when listened to from top to bottom, a very cohesive sum of (fantastic) parts IMO. I love RZAs production in particular. Sounds like its being played on an old cassette player or something!

PEACE

Micklaus

Masta Ace- Disposable Arts.

JohnFalstaff

Seeing as it's favourite album I'm gonna go for Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

clig

Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep is amazing. The lyrics are funny and acidic at times and the beats are fantastic, just a great album

charlemont

clig wrote: »

Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep is amazing. The lyrics are funny and acidic at times and the beats are fantastic, just a great album

That's one of my favourite too.


My all time favourite is 36 Chambers as I bought it in 94 and it was so raw, Liquid Swords come a close second.

bigwormbundoran

I used to listen to Hip Hop way more than anything else, but over the past 2-3 years ive drifted away to almost listening to virtually none whatsoever. Whilst I agree with most of the posts above, my favourite, at the moment, and for the past couple of years anyway is Moment of Truth by Gang Starr. (Dont know if it will be a Bret Hart best there is, best there was, best there ever will be to me)

I just love basically everything about it, not one song on it springs to mind that I would skip through, and aside from some Tribe and De la Soul, its about the only Hip Hop I've really listened to in the past year so it wins by default in that sense I suppose!

holystungun9

Sun rises in the east by Jeru da damaja

36 chambers

Liquid Swordz

Hard to Earn

Ready to die

Shapey Fiend

The Assassin - Lights, Camera, Assassin.

tdv123

Dre 2001

Oleg Luzhny

Mine is also Moment of Truth.

Trademark

Torn between 3,

2001
Doggystyle
At the Speed of Life

It could change in the morning though, unlike my underpants

callaway92

A Grand Don't Come For Me - The Streets

spacecoyote

probably Cunninlynguists - A Piece Of Strange

If you're feeling like you're starting to outgrow, Biggie, 2Pac, etc... and are looking for something new, you can't go wrong with this album, superb from start to finish. One of those rare things, a hip-hop album that can be listened to start to finish

Custardpi

So many great albums to choose from. That Nas one is something I haven't listened to in years, will have to check it out again. Here's two of my favourites anyway: Black on Both Sides by Mos Def & Game Theory by The Roots. Both with fantastic beats & bass lines & socially conscious lyrics. Classics that really should be better known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ihRbPtfmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5vw4ajnWGA

horsebox09

If I had to choose one album, I'd have to say Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

Way too many albums are right up there with it though

PrettyBoy

callaway92 wrote: »

A Grand Don't Come For Me - The Streets

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dave3004

The Cool - Lupe Fiasco is the best of the modern stuff IMO.

The Chronic was/is/always will be the best.

Hip Hop apotamus - My lyrics are bottomless ........

bc dub

Illmatic, Aquemini, Labcabincalifornia...

Honourable mentions:
College dropout, probably never listen again but it was insane when i was younger 2Pacalypse now, released when he was 20, debut album. Unreal talent.
The Predator - Ice cubes finest imo
The Chronic 2001 - Again, a good time in my life when this came out.

conor.hogan.2

2Pacalypse now, great album. Even the tracks that did not make the cut were amazing.

bc dub

Yeah Trapped is probably my favourite track off it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDBx7F-dCs

MidnightQueen

Tupac Shakur - All Eyez On Me.

baddebt

just my own opinion
but my fav albums would be something like

Death Certificate ...............Ice cube
Only built for cuben linx ......Raekwon
music to drive by ..............Compton's most wanted
Liquid swords.....................Gza
Mobb Deep.......................Hell on Earth

other's have already been mentioned in the thread

Bobby Baccala

baddebt wrote: »

just my own opinion
but my fav albums would be something like

Death Certificate ...............Ice cube
Only built for cuben linx ......Raekwon
music to drive by ..............Compton's most wanted
Liquid swords.....................Gza
Mobb Deep.......................Hell on Earth

other's have already been mentioned in the thread

Only built for cuban links is classic, listening to it right now and death cert, unbelievable, cubes best album Imo

Otis Driftwood

In no particular order

Necro - The Pre-Fix for Death
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Snoop - Doggystyle
Ice Cube - Predator
Ice T - Home Invasion
Twizted - Freek Show

Honourable mention for The Marshall Mathers LP

ru437z9t8fidq2

The Marshall Mathers LP
Illmatic
2001
Ready to die

baddebt

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

In no particular order

Necro - The Pre-Fix for Death
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Snoop - Doggystyle
Ice Cube - Predator
Ice T - Home Invasion
Twizted - Freek Show

Honourable mention for The Marshall Mathers LP

I think Ice-t Home invasion is one of the most underrated albums ..........its brilliant

beano345

this..worth every penny never get tired of listening to it the first soundbombing was a classic too.

Boom_Bap

beano345 wrote: »

this..worth every penny never get tired of listening to it the first soundbombing was a classic too.

I much prefer the first one. There are probably some individually stronger songs on II, but the feel of the first, the mix and probably the time it was released all make I #1 for me.