The Best Hip Hop Albums
 

If you choose another.
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EDIT:Haha......I made it "Rappers Delight-8th Wonder"
It should be "Sugarhill Gang-8th Wonder"

tha's a genuinely tough choice, I'm not being sarcastic, for once..
lotsa good stuff in there

Even though I'd choose a few in there my ultimate choice would probably be Whodini's "Back in Black'

murder junkie is down with the PE/Now every single b1tch wanna see me

gangstarr - the ownerz

BUMPage!!!!!!!!!!

Beastie Boys, they made it cool for white people to rap IMO

for me its definatley midnight maruders, but theres some other albums i think you might consider.
J5-J5 LP
biggie-ready to die
dilated peoples- expansion team
wu tang -enter the 36 chambers.
pete rock- Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics
method man-blackout

but it was a tough choice for me, midnight maruders is definatley my favourite with tunes like suck nigga,award tour, all good man. tribe are probs my fav.hip-hop group. but then youve got de la, and that is a revolutionary album, recorded in like late 80s i think. theres a tune on there called buddy and it has q-tip in quality tune. thats a good list but i think j5 should be taken into consideration, not sure about dilated good album, there best one by far. i think the biggie album should be taken into consideration as should wu tang, enter the 36 chambers. but with j5 i dunno if people agree if j5 lp is their best, some people like power in numbers.

some people, even though im not an avid fan of him, may wish to include dre either the chronic or 2001 in there, still good albums, 2001 i feel is better than ems marshall mathers lp.

also im not sure if my personal favourite beasties album is license to ill, i like hello nasty aswell..but still they are both quality albums.

true say. but some white rap is terrible. the only rapper i really like that is white is skinnyman, and hes repping UK. i think beastie boys made way for other artists coming through, but saying making white rap cool aint quite right. some of the white rap that came through like vanilla ice and bubby sparx is poor. but em is good but i dunno if beasties affected peoples perception of white rap.

Beasties are Ill, whether or not they increased white raps cred...i dunno.
But they are amazing

BILL you are one post away from 1111!!!

I will murder you if you spam my thread.

I chose Public Enemy.
They did so much for Hip Hop and for punk.
That album is amazing.

i own most of those albums-nas,de la, tribe,nwa,beasties. but for some reason i have never ever listened to that public enemy album, i have a few tracks and i respect them from what ive read and all the various articles and tv shows this has been about. so im thinking, tomoro im gunna go buy it, its obviously a good album and yeah as you say its been said its done alot for hip-hop.

i think de la influenced hip-hop alot though, but in different way, dre and nwa brought out a completely differnent side of hip-hop. chuck d of public enemy speaks of de la being the 'most influecial hip-hop group of the last 20 years'.

public enemy, de la soul and groups like that put hip-hop in a good direction whereas dre, nwa decided to push their musical message as what chuck d descibes as 'nigga nigga nigga self degrading stuff,' he describes this as a easy way out for artists, whereas bands like public enemy pushed it in a better direction, more intelligent rap.

I pick Illmatic...pretty easy decision for me actually....your missing several ridiculous albums though Reasonable Doubt, 36 chambers, OB4CL, Ironman..etc

beastie boys and eminem are my favorite here. I have to choose...Beastie Boys. Now its tied with public enemy

The rap acts of today could learn a lot from Public Enemy, all they ever did was tell the truth and everyone listened.People were not used to receiving a whole lot of information in that particular time period, you could learn more about black history on a Public Enemy album than what was ever taught in a classroom

illmatic hands down

Illmatic changed the face of hip hop. Number one record of all time.

Public Enemy changed hip hop before Nas even picked up a mic

word. i think de la did alot aswell for rap, and they were long before nas aswell.

Nas was on a totally differently level when writing Illmatic. Only a couple other times in Hip Hop History has someone gotten into that kind of a zone. Illmatic is the epitome of a hip hop album, if you dont like it, or at least respect it, you dont like Hip Hop.
Years after Illmatic dropped, Nas said in an interveiw that he couldn't even beleive some of the sh*t he spit on that record. NOw thats some sh*t right there. And to go along with the best street/gritty/New York style rhymes ever layed down, were some of the best beats, from the best producers on the planet.
Its pretty safe to say that your favourite artists, favourite album, is probably Illmatic

It did not change the genre as much as Public Enemy

^^^first off, you would have to be a retard to not think that Illmatic changed the game more then PE. We are talking about how it affected the music in later years, not Popular Culture...and second off, the title of the thread is "The Best Hip Hop Albums", not "What albums Changed Hip Hop The Most" if you want to discuss that, make another thread. Illmatic is on a totally different level,,,if you dont agree, check your ears

^ i dont think i can argue with that man, i need to check more of these albums out. right im going shopping after xmas. but yerr i have a few tunes off illmatic but i need the whole thing, so in all faireness is houldnt comment whether thats better or not, but saying that out of the list tribe just hits mer straight away, hip-hop isnt my forte it isnt my main genre and when i first getting into it i got that tribe album and it blew me away just the way tip Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Phife combines just got to me and the beats in it aswell. i just really like q tips flow and the same with muhammad and phife, just their styles seem unique.

also no ones voted for de la aswell, they would probs be my second choice, 3 feet high and rising is what hip-hop is about its true and has some good tunes on it, the tune buddy with tip on it is the best and seeing it is coming from the late 80s its is still widely reconised as a good album.

again from what ive heard id have put some wu tang in there, i listened enter the 36 chambers again the other day for the first time in ages and its there best i think, ive got 3 of there albums and i think that was their best.

^ You really need to buy Illmatic. Essential hip hop. For this poll, I have to go with PE - It Takes A Nation Of Millions.

Eric and Rakim- Paid in full without a doubt. Atmosphere lp Lucy Ford is one hell of a dope album! I was surprised not to see that on there!

yerrr man, im going a hip-hop after christmas shopping ting. i'll get that and probs a meth album and some other tribe and pete rock albums.

get Method Man- Tical, Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders- Tribe Called Quest, and The Main Ingrediant and Mecca and The Soul Brother- Pete Rock and CL Smooth. CL Smooth is actually a beast on the mic

pharcyde - the pharcyde

what?


i think you mean

Rappers Delight- Sugarhill Gang

^ 8th wonder is the album by the sugarhill gang.

Asamov - And Now

Nation of Millions wasn't even the best record out at the time (By All Means Necessary- BDP). There is no way you can claim that their impact on hip hop was greater than Nas with Illmatic. The influence of that album is everywhere, even today. Public Enemy's popularity was due more to politics and controversy than actual hip-hop skills.

^ You don't think Chuck D has skills?

Nope.......
I meant exactly what I put.
Please.......dont try and point out every mistake I make to make yourself feel superior.

I agree wiv u.... I love listening to skinny man, i also like jesht..... white uk rappers are getting better, they just need to be noticed more......

yeah skinnyman is good. but like some uk white mcs are good, scratchy being one, but some are terrible aswell, like the guy from southside allstars and some of the white rappers on channel U that ive seen are rubbish. uk rap, skinnyman, klastnekoff and sway is it for me.

ahh safe man, ive had that tribe album for a while..i voted for it!

Beastie Boys were very influential to the rap of today. Many list them as their greatest inspirations, which is pretty cool considering they are three dorky white kids. I'm impressed with the list of albums. Usually polls end up in stupid choices that reult in everyone complaining. I see you've been looking through your collection a bit here, Bill.

KRS-1 on "By All Means..." was light years ahead of Chuck lyrically on "Nation of Millions..." Chuck doesn't even come close to someone like Nas. Like I said, PE had a bigger impact outside of hip-hop than in.

Dre's detox, Em's Encore, N tupacs ALL Eyez on me