(What else can be number 1?)
My mans Joey and them over at Straight Bangin' are bringing the entire Internet together for the Top 25 Rap Albums of all time.
I'm still perfecting my list but I already know what number one will be.
Damn you Joey, I had shit to do this weekend. I can't fight the lure of a list though.
I'll post my mine on Monday.
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The first 10 shouldnt be too hard. It would be the last 15 that would difficult assuming you automatically discount Tupac's incredibley overrated catalogue and the Biggie's overhyped Life After Death
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1) Illmatic Nas
ReplyDelete2) Ready To Die Biggie
3) Midnight Maruders ATCQ
4) Reasonable Doubt Jay-Z
5) All Eyes On Me 2Pac
6) Life After Death Biggie
7) Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life Jay-Z
8) The Chronic Dr. Dre
9) Paid In Full Eric B & Rakim
10) Enter The 36 Chambers Wu Tang Clan
11) The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem
12) The Score Fugees
13) The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse Jay-Z
14) Straight Outta Compton N.W.A.
15) Low End Theory A Tribe Called Quest
16) The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory Makaveli/2Pac
17) Doggystyle Snoop
18) Muddy Waters Redman
19) Strickly Buisness EPMD
20) College Dropout Kayne West
21) It Was Written Nas
22) Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J
23) Raising Hell Run DMC
24) Atliens Outkast
25) Hard To Earn Gangstarr
I respect that list, but Kanye West did not make one of the Top 25 albums of all time.
ReplyDeleteThat is the only thing keeping me from cosigning.
No Criminal Minded?
I dont agree with 60% of that list.
ReplyDeleteI will post mine tomorrow. Im still trying to cut down from 45 to 25.
I know you hate Kayne for his massive ego, but College Dropout was good, to me its one of the few listenable non Nas/Jigga albums of the last 3 years or so. Never could get around KRS-One.
ReplyDeleteIn comparison to "Criminal Minded" and "By Any Means Necessary" "College Dropout" is the coaster you put your drink on while listening to "Criminal Minded" and "By Any Means Necessary"
ReplyDeletemore than one of the albums listed by jp are marked with the "oh hell no," and kanye's is not one of them. the blueprint² immediately stands out: "oh hell no".
ReplyDeleteI didn't see that he listed Blueprint 2 and not Blueprint 1 which could be considered worthy. Blueprint 2 is trash.
ReplyDeleteKanye's making a good album in the last 3 years doesn't mean it's Top 25 of all time.
I only glanced at it because I've been madly going over my own list.
jp - Jay, Big, Nas and Pac have 10 of the top 25 in your list. Damn dude.
Share the wealth.
If I really wanted to make life hard for everyone, I'd ask for your picks of the 25 top rap SINGLES of all time.
ReplyDeleteViolette, you trying to cause a revolution with that question.
ReplyDeleteI will start the fire and say I think that "TROY (They Reminisce Over You)" is the greatest song ever.
I see I started a little discussion. I hope everyone is coming through with their lists soon, so I can critique :). Re: KRS-One, I can't think of a signature song from him partically from those BDP albums. You guys maybe right re him. Re: Blueprint vs. Blueprint 2. I actually was lucky enough to avoid buying the original Blueprint 2 double album and bought 2.1, which was the pared down version where he dropped all of the worse songs from the original Blueprint 2, so I made that judgment call that I liked that a little better than Blueprint. Re: the domination of the 4, I think a lot of people are going to have that problem. Jay and Nas have had probably the most long term success rapping and putting out good to great work. And the dead rappers society are going dominate any list just from how much they meant to the music. It also probably shows my age. Older folks may rate rappers that I am too young to hear a little higher. One vivid memory of my freshman year in college was going to the record store to buy life After Death and watching the Hypnotize video in my dorm room.
ReplyDeletecosign on need of a singles list. this is much more fun than an album list.
ReplyDeleteI can't decide which should be the number one single. I'm torn between:
ReplyDeleteWelcome To The Terrordome -Public Enemy
Criminal Minded -BDP
TROY -Pete Rock & CL Smooth
I can't even move on to the rest of the list until this matter is settled. UGH!
Go with TROY.
ReplyDeleteIt's really unbeatable.
Really hard to put these albums in order:
ReplyDeleteEric B. and Rakim Follow the leader
Nas Illmatic
BDP Criminal Minded
RunDmc Raising Hell
Big Daddy Kane Long Live the Kane
Brand Nubian One for All
Outkast Atleins
Da La Soul 3ft. High and Raising
Slick Rick The Great Adventures of
MC LYTE LYTE as a rock
Queen Latifah All Hail the Queen
NWA SOC
Jay Z Reasonable Doubt
Pete Rock CL T.R.O.Y
Biggie Ready to die
Big Pun Capital Punishment
Black Moon Enter tha Stage
Dead Prez Let's get free
Tupac All eyez on me
Jeru the Damaja The Sun rises East
Snoop Dog Doggy Style
UGK Riding Dirty
Tribe Midnight...
Gang Star Hard to Earn
Public Enemy Nation on Millions....