Hip-Hop March Madness Tournament 2016
 

Okay this sub-forum isn't very active anymore so I hope this is a fun way to get people involved without doing another album survivor series. This is slightly different but with the same goal in mind - determining MB's favorite album for this genre.

Here's the vision:
-People nominate 10-20 of their favorite/most essential hip-hop albums
-The master list is narrowed down to 64, albums are seeded based on favorability and placed in a bracket format like so
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-One on one battles, where people vote on which album they like better and discuss why, occur every few days until a winner is crowned (the idea is for this to move quickly as long as people keep voting)

Just an idea I had. More than willing to take suggestions to improve it, or move on if there is lack of interest. thanks!

I approve. I'll start thinking on a list. 10-20 means that there's no set number in between those boundaries?

I am definitely in for this. will be back with my list.

Great idea, it's a nice change from all the survivor threads going on currently. I'll come up with a few to nominate shortly.

As above.

1 Makaveli - The Don Killuminati
2 Wutang - 36 Chambers
3 Hieroglyphics - Full Circle
4 Binary Star - MOTU
5 Last Emperor - Music, Magic, Myth
6 Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
7 Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full
8 Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
9 Louis Logic - Sin-A-Matic
10 Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
11 OneBeLo - SONOGRAM
12 Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
13 Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
14 Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2
15 Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
16 Ludacris - Incognegro
17 Onyx - Bacdafucup
18 Common Market (self-titled)
19 Emanon - The Waiting Room
20 Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

El-P - Cancer for Cure
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Kanye West - MBDTF
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
GZA - Liquid Swords
Danny Brown - XXX
Madvillian - Madvilliany
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

EDIT - 10 more

Death Grips - The Money Store
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
J Dilla - Donuts
Killer Mike - RAP Music
Game - The Documentary
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Run the Jewels - RTJ 2
Outkast - ATLiens
DJ Shadow - Entroducing

FaSho is on it! This will be fun. Will hit you with a list tomorrow.

1. Aesop Rock - Labor Days
2. El-P - Fantastic Damage
3. Madvillain - Madvillainy
4. K Dot O Dot - Trap Jesus
5. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
6. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
7. Boom Bip & Dose One - Circle
8. Dälek - Absence
9. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
10. Coin Locker Kid - Traumnovelle
11. Danny Brown - XXX
12. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
13. Himanshu - Nehru Jackets
14. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
15. Aesop Rock - Skelethon
16. Death Grips - The Money Store
17. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
18. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
19. OutKast - Stankonia
20. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Madvillain - Madvillainy
JJ DOOM - Keys to the Kuffs
Killer Mike - RAP Music
Aesop Rock - Float
Billy Woods - History Will Absolve Me
Armand Hammer - Race Music
dalek - Absence
Death Grips - Powers That B
Deep Puddle Dynamics - The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel?
Eyedea and Abilities - First Born
Hail Mary Mallon - Bestiary
L'Orange - The Orchid Days
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
B L A C K I E - IMAGINE YOUR SELF IN A FREE AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

First Born... nice.

1. De la soul - 3 feet high and rising
2. A tribe called quest - Midnight marauders
3. Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions..
4. Eric B and Rakim- paid in full
5. Pete rock and CL smooth - Mecca and the soul brother
6. LL cool J - Mama said knock you out
7. Beastie boys - Paul Boutique
8. Run DMC - Raising Hell
9. Wu tang Clan - Enter…
10. Gang starr - Step in the arena
11. Digital underground - Sex packets
12. Mos def - Black on both sides
13. Pharoahe monch - Internal Affairs
14. Lauryn hill - Miseducaton..
15. Busta rhymes - when disaster strikes
16. Cypress Hill - Cypress hill IV
17. BDP - By all means necessary
18. Digable Planets - Reachin'..
19. Ice - T - Power
20. Big Daddy Kane - Long live the kane

Alright cool this is actually happening thanks guys. I'm still working on my list but will post it and some other updates shortly.

I'll throw down my 20...

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb
NASA - The Spirit of Apollo
Death Grips - Exmilitary
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Dalek - Abandoned Language
Dalek - Absence
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Rubberroom - Architechnology
Run the Jewels - RTJ 2
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Action Bronson - Rare Chandeliers
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d City
The Roots - Undun
Clipping - CLPPNG

Bump.

wow this i so overwhelming... im probably the only female hip hop head in this forum so my choices may vary but this is what my albums will be ...
i have more of a conscious rapper preference

Kanye west - Late Registration/ orchestration
Notorious BIG - Life After Death
Wu Tang Clan - enter the wu
A tribe called quest - Midnight marauders
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (greatest album of MODERN DAY (2005-now) hiphop so far)
The roots - Illadelph Halflife
MF Doom - madvillany
Tupac - the 7 day theory
The roots - things fall apart
Nas - Illmatic (of course)
The Pharcyde - bizzarre ride II
Black Star album ( Talib Kweli and Mos def)
Dr. Dre - 2001
Eminem - Slim shady LP
Common - be
Lauryn hill - the Miseducaton of lauryn hill
Missy Elliot - Da Real World
Outkast - ATLiens
NASA - The Spirit of Apollo
Jay z - reasonable doubt

You're not the only female hiphop head don't worry.

Is this ever going to kick off?

What's the point? Madvillainy is just going to win anyway.

Most of the ones I like have been listed already, I would just add:

1. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (still their best by far imo)

2. L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae - The Night Took Us in Like Family (thanks to Exo, I heard about this album from his 2015 list)

^Have you heard Time? Astonishing!? The lyricism isn't as good, but I think it's superior on all other fronts.

^I listened once and didn't like it as much, will definitely give it another shot

CYNE - Time Being
Mos Def - Black on both sides
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Rakim - The 18th Letter
Nas - Illmatic
Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick.
Outkast - ATLiens
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Big L - The Big Picture
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
CYNE - Water for Mars
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1
MF DOOM - Mm.. Food
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Goldie Lookin Chain - Greatest Hits