What hip hop albums should I get?

[ambchang]

Thanks guys.

Now I’m gonna go broke buying albums again (yes I still buy albums)

[DJR210]

Pfft, check out Tim Dog son

Tim MUT.. back then I don't know anybody that listened to NY music tbh.. it was all West Coast for us in the early 90's

[baseline bum]

Tim MUT.. back then I don't know anybody that listened to NY music tbh.. it was all West Coast for us in the early 90's

East Coast has always put out much better hip hop than West Coast IMO.

[Bynumite]

[DJR210]

East Coast has always put out much better hip hop than West Coast IMO.

I don't consider anything the West Coast made to even be "hip hop" thats an east coast term in itself.. and I think it's all trash

[benefactor]

Here ya go OP. Myself, benefactor, baseline bum, and DJR210 saved this thread. Just push play on anything the before mentioned posters put in the thread. You can't go wrong.

Ignore the JaRule, Sisqo, and DMX at the beginning. The rest is all good.

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=252478

Good times tbh

[Chucho]

idk much about new rap other than Kendrick Lamar, but here are some of my favorites in particular order

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang Forever (my favorite producer)
GZA - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1 and 2
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Living Legends - Classic
Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design (my 2nd favorite producer)
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth, Hard to Earn
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly

Stoupe is dope.

Also, cant go wrong with anything De La Soul. Art Official Intelligence is an under rated classic for turn-of-the-century.

[baseline bum]

Also, cant go wrong with anything De La Soul. Art Official Intelligence is an under rated classic for turn-of-the-century.

Damn can't believe I forgot De La, though I gotta go with 3 Feet High & Rising as my favorite from them.

[baseline bum]

I don't consider anything the West Coast made to even be "hip hop" thats an east coast term in itself.. and I think it's all trash

I loved West Coast hip hop up to The Chronic, but everyone biting Dre's style got old fast.

[Chucho]

Just avoid ty hyphee. Hyphee is like the stale fat of antiquated West Coast rap. Worst than the worst screwed album.

[Chucho]

Stale fart.*

[dirk4mvp]

Ch.2 World Domination

[cd021]

You are missing Ice Cube. Get Death Certificate and Amerikkka's Most Wanted.

Throw away Puff Daddy.

The Predator too.

[cd021]

Another great album I forgot to mention was Naughty By Nature. Whole album is fire:

Tretch is one of the more underrated rappers tbh

[cd021]

If I had to pick a top 10 I think I'd rank them:

1. Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
2. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
3. Nas - Illmatic
4. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
5. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
6. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
7. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
8. Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
9. Eazy E - Eazy Duz It
10. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show

I've always thought NWA was overrated, once Ice Cube left, it was downhill fast. Even on SOC the only tracks I love are Express Yourself, Gangsta, Gangsta, and tha Police. Illmatic is still number 1

[cd021]

Need some help on this as I know most of you guys are big hip hop fans.

I have a few hip hop albums but wouldn’t say a huge selection. I’m looking to expand in this genre and would like to get some recommendations. Looking to stuff that’s easy to get into as you can tell from what I have that most of my stuff are easy to access.

What I have:
- a few jay z (black album, those mashups with Radiohead and the Beatles, blueprint)
- Eminem show, Marshall mathers ep, slim shady
- aquemini, stankonia, speakeboxx/love below
- roots (forgot which ones, but I really like them
- rage against the machine (all of them, big fan)
- nwa
- public enemy
- illmatic
- linkin park
- limp bizkit (horrible, just horrible)
- paid the cost to be the boss
- miseducation of lauryn hill
- fugees best of
- Kendrick Lamar (one of them, forgot which one)
- beastie boys (a few, but forgot exactly which one)
- puff daddy (the one after big died)
- a best or of big
- a few Tupac


I’m looking to getting some a tribe called quest and some Rahim. Want to get some snoop and cypress hill but not sure which ones.



Any other recommendations?

Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt, Blueprint, Black Album, American Gangster (shockingly slept on)

NaS-Illmatic, It Was Written, Stillmatic, Lost Tapes.

Biggie-The Greatest hits is a bit of a cash in, I would just get Ready to Die

Fugees- Same with the greatest hits, The Score is all you need.

ATCQ-Their first 3 and last album (People's instinctive travels..., Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Thank You For Your Service)

Outkast-ATLiens, Aquienmi, Stankonia

Wu Tang- 36 Chambers, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (Raekwon), Iron Man, Supreme Clientele (Ghost Face), Liquid Swords ( GZA)

Big L- Lifestyles ov da Poor and Dangerous

2pac-I'd settle for his Greatest hits (the double disc from from a couple of years after he died), its missing "Holla If You Hear Me"- his best song but its gets it mostly right, plus has "Changes" and three other good previously unreleased tracks.

Ice Cube-Amerikkka's Most Wanted, Death Certificate (most copies come with Kill at Will- his EP from around that time), and the Predator.

Dr. Dre-The Chronic

Eminem-Slim Shady LP, MMLP, Eminem Show

Kanye- College Dropout, Late Registration, MDTF,

Kendrick-Good Kid Maadd City, To Pimp A Buttterfly, Damn.

Scarface-Mr. Scarface is Back, The Diary




^Thats a pretty good start

[baseline bum]

I've always thought NWA was overrated, once Ice Cube left, it was downhill fast. Even on SOC the only tracks I love are Express Yourself, Gangsta, Gangsta, and tha Police. Illmatic is still number 1

IDK about Express Yourself. I thought that was one of the weakest tracks on the album as Dre is the weakest rapper in the crew. If I was going to pick a top 3 songs from that album they'd probably be Gangster Gangster, If it Ain't Ruff, and Straight Outta Compton.

[Spurminator]

Need to revisit this one but I remember liking it.

[lebomb]

Pete Rock N CL Smoove
Lords of the Underground
Das EFX
Gangstarr

[DJR210]

Ch.2 World Domination

The End also a good listen

[Chucho]

Need to revisit this one but I remember liking it.

If that's the album with "Bridgette" on it, that's good . Sad his career was cut short. Apparently he got his voice back tho.

[DeadlyDynasty]

courtesy of Veterinarian iirc

[leemajors]

Pete Rock N CL Smoove
Lords of the Underground
Das EFX
Gangstarr

DJ Quik had some good too.

[benefactor]

I mentioned this in the other thread, but a great album that flew under the radar in the 90's was Conversation by The Twinz. West coast G-Funk at its best.

[lebomb]

MC Eiht............ Straight up Menace........ G-Up!!