in 2016 if you could only keep 5 hip hop albums, what are they?

[soulfuljah]

Man, just 5......


ATLiens
On Top of the World
E. 1999 Eternal
Adrenaline Rush
College Dropout

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

It Was Written
All Eyez On Me
The Infamous
It's Dark & Hell Is Hot
Public Domain 6 (Max B Mixtape)

 

[ThaRealness]

36 Chambers
Cuban Linx
Mecca & the Soul Brother
Madvillainy
Ready To Die



(Edit) I gotta relegate Reloaded to the honorable mentions

 

[Wudo75]

Purple Tape
Blueprint
One Day It all Make Sense
Doctors Advocate
Atliens

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Liquid Swords
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Ironman
Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
Wu-Tang Forever

 

[milik_19]

MBDTF
Be
GKMC
Blueprint
Something from Outkast

 

[JustCKing]

nice

i think i might listen to graduation in a little it

I was just about to listen to that myself.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

It Takes A Nation
Zaggin For Life
Step Into The Arena
Blueprint of Hip Hip or Edutainment
Southernplayeristicaddilacmusik

 

[The Dust King]

Nas I am
Killah Priest Psychic world of walter reed
The show soundtrack
Tribe called quest Midnight marauders
KRS Return of the boom bap

 

[NasirJr]

Illmatic - Nas
Moment of truth - Gangstarr
TPAB - Kendrick
Operation Doomsday - MF Doom
Hell on Earth - Mobb Deep

5 is not enough I need my carolina Little Brother Minstrel Show

 

[RalphKramden]

iT WAS WRiTTEN
ME AGAiNST THE WORLD
REASONABLE DOUBT
THE WAR REPORT
THE iNFAMOUS

 

[arel]

Question: is anyone's list different from their top 5 albums?

Can't do five anyhow... would have to be pushed far to give up any of:

Critical Beatdown; Unfinished Business; Death Certificate; The Fix; Spice 1; Mr. Predicter; Conversation With a Devil; C-Bo's Mob Figaz; Tear Gas; Grit & Grind; Me Against the World; Genocide & Juice; Mecca and the Soul Brother; Return of the Boom Bap; Stress: The Extinction Agenda; The Infamous; Reasonable Doubt; In My Lifetime, Vol. 1; The Dynasty; Moment of Truth; Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star; Black on Both Sides; Bone Hard Zaggin; Ridin' Dirty; Look What You Did To Me; On the Outside Looking In; Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik; ATLiens; Aquemini; I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II; Pluto; G-Code; Chopper City in the Ghetto; Dedication 2; Da Drought 3; Give It 2 'Em Raw; For My Thugz; Diplomatic Immunity; From Me to U; Purple Haze; We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 2; Late Registration; Food & Liquor.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Cuban Linx
Illmatic
Death Certificate
Midnight Marauders
Muddy Waters

The Infamous missed the cut

 

[WuDatWuDat]

1. Lowkey - Soundtrack to the Struggle
2. Wu Tang - Forever
3. Nas - Illmatic
4. Nas - It Was Written
5. GZA - Liquid Swords

 

[NoHalfWay]

Nas - The Lost Tapes
Outkast - Aquemini
Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Reason - OB4CL
Nas - It Was Written