Best Hip Hop Collaboration Albums
 

With the release of Watch the Throne coming up. I wanted to have a discussion about two great artists coming together for collaboration albums.

My favorites would have to be BlackStar.

This one album with Jay-Z and R. Kelly. The world's greatest or something like that. I remember loving it so much when it came out.

Gang Starr - moment of truth

Felt - A Tribute to Christina Ricci by Murs
On this album Murs teamed up with Slug from Atomsphere.

Reflection Eternal/Train of Thought by Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli teaming up with DJ Hi-tek.

I'm pretty sure there are a load more but share your favorites and we will have a discussion about them.

oh I haven't listened to it but the Nas and Damian Marley album.

Blackstar easily.

MF DOOM & MF GRIMM collab
Jaylib

what is the name of the Jaylib album? and the MF Doom and MF Grimm? and who the heck is MF Grimm anyways? lol

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MF EP

Champion Sound

Deep Puddle Dynamics

That was the first that came to my head for some reason...

Deep Puddle Dynamics (Doseone, Alias, Slug and Sole)

I'm going to have to get some of these albums because I haven't heard them yet.

Which album should I get from Deep Puddle Dynamics? The Taste of Rain?

No fucking way. Didnt see your post at all

Yep. Absolutely amazing album.

I forgot to mention the super group Gravediggaz

Prince Paul (The Undertaker), Frukwan (The Gatekeeper), Too Poetic (The Grym Reaper) and RZA (The Rzarector)

The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel is the album to check out if you haven't already.

The Taste of Rain is sick, so much going on in that album, I love Deep Puddle Dynamics.

I also like Murs & 9th Wonder together, they just fit.

Dark Time Sunshine is another collaboration I dig. Vessel is one of my favourite albums of 2010.

Yup, that album was very, very good.

Hmm,

The Mighty Underdogs
Gift of Gab, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Headnodic
Album: Droppin' Science Fiction

Did not know you like Murs.

Should rappers hooking up with producers really be considered a collaboration? Because that's pretty much how the industry works. Many rappers have multiple big name producers work on their albums.

Some projects are TRULY collaborations, and are released as such (Murs & 9th Wonder, for example).

Deltron 3030

Greatest Hits with my Buds - Potluck
features - Hed PE, Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, D12, King Gordy, Kottonmouth Kings, E-40, Twiztid, Chali Zna, The Luniz, and Mystik Journeymen

check it out

Huh?

:whythis:




What?

I just wouldn't call Gang Starr a collab. Duo or Group. The way I see it, collabs are only for one album and feature two big names joining up. Gang Starr released 5 albums, and it's the project that made both members well known.

Collabs aren't only for one album.

Jay -Z and R-Kelly did two albums together do you want to call them a group/duo?

Sure.

say what!?!?!

Jay-z and R. Kelly is a duo? ummm okay

that's the official definition of it

Well according to that definition, Gang Starr isn't a collab. Like I thought.

YES. Also 9th Wonder and Jean Grae- Jeanius

how so? it doesn't state in that definition that it's just a one time get together thing.

It says that a collab is between two established artists from already established groups.

it clearly says artists or groups

Primo was around and established before coming together to work with Guru.

Whatever. Still not a collab and wikipedia doesn't mean ****.

:eek: Blasphemy

yes indeed whatever. That's your opinion that it's not a collab.

But my opinion is that it is.

We will just have to agree to disagree.

All really good recommendations thus far.

I'm gonna say Slaughterhouse just to get it out of the way.

Sadistik's album 'The Balancing Act' is entirely produced by Emancipator, so I suppose you could go someway to call that a collabo. If not, Sadistik & A Kid Called Computer - The Art of Dying.

DJ Dangermouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
Dangerdoom (MF Doom & DJ Dangermouse) - The Mouse & The Mask

Remember when, MF DOOM & Ghostface Killah were supposedly doing a collaboration album? Wonder what happened to that.

The Nas & Damien Marley album is aight too.

To add flame to the fire, in my opinion Gangstarr isn't a collaboration, there a group. Sure primo might've been producing for other artists before and during Gangstarr, but the main focus & bulk of his work focused on Gangstarr and Gangstarr itself is the combination of Guru & Premier. It's not Guru's album produced by preem, there just as much a part of the overall group as each other.

Oh & Monster Island Czars, another of DOOM's many collaborations!

I've thought of a few more too:

EMC (Masta Ace, Punchline, Wordsworth, Strick)





The whole album is one of the better concept albums I've heard, and it's pretty much fresh all the way through.

http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/u...4/thomdoom.jpg

pitchfork:
"File under “dream collaborations”: reclusive rapper DOOM recently told Australian music magazine Super 3D that he and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke are collaborating and might make an entire album: “We’re working on some duets, some duet songs and ****. Just like preliminary **** but we’ll probably end up doing a whole record together.”

Who's excited?

Actually, if I remember correctly, The Balancing Act wasn't entirely produced by Emancipator.

I will give it a listen but I'm not excited as you may know by now that I think Radiohead is overrated.

I'm the least excited, as I think Radiohead and MF Doom are both overrated. :laughing:

MF Doom is average in my books but I wouldn't go so far as to say he's overrated :rofl: