Reddits HipHopHeads Essential Albums

Kylo Ren

The Current HipHopHeads Essentials Listening list.

2Pac - All Eyez on Me / Me Against The World
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique / Licensed to Ill
Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
Binary Star - Masters Of The Universe
Blackstar - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Common - Be
De La Soul - Stakes is High / 3 Feet High and Rising
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Dr. Dre - The Chronic / 2001
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP / Marshall Mathers LP
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full / Follow the Leader
The Fugees - The Score
Gang Starr - Daily Operation / Moment of Truth
Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
GZA - Liquid Swords
J Dilla - Donuts
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt / The Blueprint / Black Album
Kanye West - College Dropout / Late Registration / My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor / The Cool
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Nas - Illmatic
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die / Life After Death
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
OutKast - Aquemini / ATLiens / Southernplayalisticadillacmusik
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
Pharcyde- Bizarre Ride II
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Redman - Muddy Waters
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife / Things Fall Apart
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders / Low End Theory
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
Ultramagnetic Mc's - Critical Beatdown
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers / Wu-Tang Forever

Recently Added
Clipse- Hell Hath No Fury
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

RECENTLY REMOVED
Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens

Thoughts?

Gramsey

I reckon these albums should be included

Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Outkast - Stankonia
Clipse - Lord Willin
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Wu Tang Clan - The W
Kendrick Lamar - good kid,m.A.A.d city
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
2Pac - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
DangerDoom - The Mouse & The Mask
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
Organized Konfusion - Stress (The Extinction Agenda)
Danny Brown - XXX
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

These should be taken out

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
Dr. Dre - 2001
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP / Marshall Mathers LP
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Redman - Muddy Waters

LUPE

Gramsey wrote: »

I reckon these albums should be included

Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Outkast - Stankonia
Clipse - Lord Willin
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Wu Tang Clan - The W
Kendrick Lamar - good kid,m.A.A.d city
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
2Pac - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
DangerDoom - The Mouse & The Mask
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
Organized Konfusion - Stress (The Extinction Agenda)
Danny Brown - XXX
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

These should be taken out

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
Dr. Dre - 2001
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP / Marshall Mathers LP
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Redman - Muddy Waters

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

GiftofGab

No Nas- It was written or 2Pac - The 7 day theory???

It's still a pretty good list. I have most of the albums on the list.

floggg

Gramsey wrote: »

I reckon these albums should be included

Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Outkast - Stankonia
Clipse - Lord Willin
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Wu Tang Clan - The W
Kendrick Lamar - good kid,m.A.A.d city
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
2Pac - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
DangerDoom - The Mouse & The Mask
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
Organized Konfusion - Stress (The Extinction Agenda)
Danny Brown - XXX
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

These should be taken out

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
Dr. Dre - 2001
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP / Marshall Mathers LP
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Redman - Muddy Waters

I love how you tried to slip in Wacka Flocka Flame as a joke to see if anybody would notice!

Mikeyt086

Gramsey wrote: »

These should be taken out

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
Dr. Dre - 2001
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP / Marshall Mathers LP
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Redman - Muddy Waters

Makaveli

No Big Daddy Kane is poor but it's not a bad list. No Kool G Rap either though.

floggg

floggg wrote: »

I love how you tried to slip in Wacka Flocka Flame as a joke to see if anybody would notice!

Actually I just saw that album on a complex list of classic albums from the last decade.

WTF? Is it actually meant to be good or something?

Wacka Flocka is just one of those rappers I instinctively knew to avoid so I'm barely sure if I even know what he sounds like.

Bobby Baccala

Speakerboxxx/The love below isn't on that list, it's now lost all its credibility.

mufcboy1999

Pretty bad list to be fair.

Gramsey

A lot of what i posted was personal preference,but when it come to 'Flockaveli' I do believe all "HipHopHeads" should at least give it a listen.I think it's a classic and I give it a 10/10.First off as has been indicated by this thread is that it divides opinion and that is always a good thing,a 'HipHopHead' would surely have to have strong and well thought out opinions and an album like 'Flockaveli allows you to debate and form unique opinions.The timing and impact of this album far exceeds any other hip hop album of the last decade.The sheer energy and aggression Waka displays from start to finish is unparallelled in any other hip hop album ever.The production of Lex Luger shaped mainstream hip hop for the 12 months after it dropped,surely that means it is essential listening for the 'HipHopHeads'.It's cohesive,dark and portrays the street in a manner I've personally never experienced before,it's vivid and intense without ever being lyrical.Okay I'll admit,he's never gonna come close to Nas or GZA when it comes to being a lyrical heavyweight but if you compare him to them you're really missing the point of the album.Another reason is it's the best trap album ever,TM 101 could be debated,but for me I give it to 'Floackaveli'.To round it all off,it brought back gangster rap to the forefront of a genre that had long dismissed and forgotten about it.If you don't think it's a classic all well and good,but it should be an essential listen for all lovers of the genre and that cannot be debated.

GiftofGab

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Pretty bad list to be fair.

That has to be a joke.........it's clearly a list of all the best m.c's and albums. Any list that doesn't compile of these artists is a pretty bad list.