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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?
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Lil Pump
Lil Boost
Playboi Cardi
Lil Xian
Lil Benzo
You are missing Ice Cube. Get Death Certificate and Amerikkka's Most Wanted.
Throw away Puff Daddy.
Paid In Full - Eric B and Rakim
Strictly Business - EPMD
Ridin Dirty = UGK
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
Sex Packets - Digital Underground
Slick Rick - Great Adventures of Slick Rick
southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast
ATLiens - Outkast
Soul Food - Goodie Mob
21 and Over - Alkaholiks
redzero provided a great link too.
Predator too.
Kill at Will tambien
I can only recommend pretty old school stuff, but some must haves of the 80s-90s that you haven't listed would include
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
Ice T - Power
Ice T - Rhyme Pays
Ice T - OG Original Gangster
Nas - Illmatic
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Ice Cube - Kill At Will (it's an EP though, not a full album)
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
EPMD - Strictly Business
Too Short - Life is Too Short
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
Geto Boys - Till Death Do Us Part
Bushwick Bill - Little Big Man
Scarface - Mr Scarface is Back
Run DMC - Run DMC
Run DMC - King of Rock
Run DMC - Raising
Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather
Redman - Whut? The Album
Ras Kass - Soul On Ice
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot but these are some incredible hip hop albums, every single one of them.
Silk the Shocker.. Even with the nostalgia factor I can't stomach any of his discombobulated bull verses anymore
All that No Limit has aged horribly. I can't believe I used to like Kane & Abel and the Down South Hustlers tape. When I listen to it now the only good song on the album is Point Blank's My Mind Went Blank, and that song got kind of ed since it's screwed. The original at normal speed is so much better.
Souls of Mischief - 93 till Infinity
Oddisee (The Iceberg, The Good Fight, People Hear What They see)
Organized Konfusion - Stress (The Extinction Agenda)
Outkast - Aquemini
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Roc Marciano (Marcberg, Reloaded, Rosebudd's Revenge)
Skyzoo (Music for my Friends, In Celebration of Us)
MF DOOM (Operation Doomsday, Vaudeville Villain)
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Aw man, how did I leave these three off? Also, The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde is a must. Also Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over is an incredibly underrated album from the west coast. I'll put that on my list too, every song on the album is strong.
Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language would definitely be one of my hidden gems. I really liked Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst also, but that album is weird as . Then again, so is Quasimoto - The Unseen, but damn the beats on that are epic.
I need to fire this up, it's been forever tbh
I don't give a who your cousin used to just I just wanna , damn I wanna
It's time to roll my sleeves up, a few MCs up.
Another rough cut from the crew that don't ease up.
Tha Alkaholiks aka the forty downers
Flips rhymes like Calvin flips fries and quarter pounders.
I never drink & drive cause I might spill my drink.
I filled the breathalyzer so they put me in the clink.
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
This commercial
I still listen to a lot of the old No Limit stuff, but from the main members only.. TRU, Master P, C-Murder, Mystikal, Fiend.. all the other fringe members were pretty crappy except for maybe Soulja Slim and Mac, but one killed, and the other got killed. I'd have to disagree about the screwed stuff too, I been banging Screw for the last 20 years and still prefer the screwed and chopped versions.
I had that Down South Hustlaz CD too it was like 3 discs or some
Damn Tru's album True is terrible outside of Master P's verse in I'm Bout It. I can't get into screwed records man, all that sounds re ed. Lil Keke's Still Pimpin Pens is 100x better in the original version, as is ESG's Swanging and Banging.
UGK - Riding Dirty gotta be on this list too. timvp rollin in his grave at that omission.
yeah... you're not going to find a better list than this
I didn't like the TRU album either.. too old.. their production quality stepped up around TRU 2 Da Game
Another classic album.. I asked in another thread mentioning old school UGK if anyone thought Bun B (and Pimp C if he was alive) regretted some of the lyrics in Pregnant Pussy
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