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Originally Posted by Phzed
Personally I think they really downplayed hip-hop's importance as a genre, I know the list was done back in 2003, but even so.
Also a lot of their additions and placements are questionable, I think most hip-hop fans would disagree with quite a bit of it.
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Have there been that many great, high-profile hip-hop
albums released in the the past 30 or so years? Sadly, the answer to that is, no.
Hip hop has always largely been geared toward the marketing of singles and not albums. This isn't to say that there have not been some amazing hip-hop albums.
Does the sparseness of Hip-Hop albums on Rolling Stone's list of top 500 albums downplay Hip-hop's influence on music as a whole? No, not really. Hip-hop has pretty much influenced hip-hop, with some exceptions, but nothing noteworthy, and hey, rock and roll and its derivatives (soul, R&B, Heavy metal, etc.) had a 30 year head start, so naturally there's gonna' be a lot more albums from rock and associated sub-genre's than from hip-hop.
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Originally Posted by Phzed
Personally, Ready to Die is way too high, Life After Death shouldn't be on there, Illmatic is too low, Low End Theory too low, all of Jay-Z's albums too high, all of Eminem's albums too high, Paul's Boutique ridiculously high, 36 Chambers way too low, no inclusion of Endtroducing, Deltron 3030, Midnight Marauders, Bizarre Ride II, Illadelph Halflife, Liquid Swords, Black on Both Sides... all of these albums were released a good few years before the list was made.
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I'm actually quite quite, umm... not surprised by all of this. First of all, this list is subjective to a certain degree, as are your tastes to a greater degree, so the ranking of certain albums on the list is somewhat arbitrary.
Secondly, like Matious said, it's ****ing Rolling Stone, and if any of us on here really placed any serious weight on what they've tried to dictate as being good, classic, essential, etc. We'd have bled to death in our bathtubs a thousand times over.
If I had to be incredulous about anything, it would be the lack of the founding fathers. Where's Afrika Bambataa, Melly Mel and the Furious Five, Eric B and Rakim. ****, where the hell is Sugar Hill Gang!
There's a lot missing, but the moral of the story is: **** Rolling Stone.