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Reddits HipHopHeads Essential Albums

  • 03-12-2012 6:52pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭


    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?


Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 18 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


  • Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,404 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,342 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,970 ✭✭✭mufcboy1999


    Pretty bad list to be fair.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18 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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,404 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    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.


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