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im glad yall lists showing love to mr. morales....Brilliant album.
top 5 should be Kendrick only tbh lolBtw, hiphopdx released their 20 best TDE albums just before gnx came out
TDE's 20 Best Albums: Ranked - HipHopDX
In honor of TDE's 20th anniversary, we ranked the powerhouse label's 20 greatest albums.hiphopdx.com
They have:
1. To Pimp A Butterfly
A jazz-rap masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly elevated Kendrick Lamar above anyone that could be billed as his contemporary with a ruthless interrogation of what it meant to be Black in America in the 21st century. The album was to Hip Hop what The Beatles’ Revolver was to rock ‘n’ roll and almost a decade on, it still swirls with a hypnotic surrealism. It’s not only the crown jewel of TDE’s catalog, but the best album of the 2010s.
2. Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
The West Coast was back and it was being carried on Kendrick’s diminutive shoulders. The blog rap star, coming in with the hype of a Dr. Dre co-sign, was the shot in the arm Hip Hop needed in the early 2010s as he mixed cinematic storytelling with stacked rhymes and radio-friendly hooks, without sacrificing authenticity. good kid, m.A.A.d city still sounds as fresh as ever.
3. SZA — SOS (2022)
The long-awaited sophomore album from TDE’s First Lady gave her the status deserving of her talents. The sultry-voiced singer went from cult queen to mainstream superstar seemingly overnight as women everywhere appeared to resonate with SOS‘s themes of female angst. It also spent a remarkable 10 weeks atop the Billboard 200.
4. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. (2017)
Further developing some of the ideas and sounds he explored on To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN. is a more personal project but no less vast. Aside from being Kendrick’s first album to sell over half a million units in its first week (603,000, to be exact), it wrote the Compton kingpin into the history books as the first ever non-jazz or classical musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music — just in case any Drake fans thought about doubting his credentials.
5. ScHoolboy Q — Blank Face LP (2016)
While Q has not quite kicked on commercially in the way that Blank Face LP promised back in 2016, the album remains a scorching, ominous and often psychedelic masterpiece. Q, at his best, has arguably the most engaging voice in Hip Hop as songs such as “Groovy Tony,” “Str8 Ballin” and “Ride Out” prove.
The rest of the top 20 on TDE's 20 Best Albums: Ranked
I'm pretty sure it's 2. (In terms of general consensus)
Not Crodie
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the fact everybody in here has different lists on here is a credit to his discography, it’s also made me relisten to his discography the last few hours..
Every album has a carefully pieced together concept, or at least some kind of ongoing theme/sound/narrative that ties the project together, with a lot of the songs that are designed to be singles and do numbers still fit within the album conceptually and not sound out of place
Bro is different, and imo the only artist since 2009 that belongs in the Goat discussion with the rest of the goats…that used to be taboo thing to say a few years back, but he has the lyricism/rapping ability, Discography, Impact, numbers/sales, is a great live performer, and has now proven he’s a great battle mc too…you might not agree, but he definitely belongs in that discussion now
Every album has a carefully pieced together concept, or at least some kind of ongoing theme/sound/narrative that ties the project together, with a lot of the songs that are designed to be singles and do numbers still fit within the album conceptually and not sound out of place
Bro is different, and imo the only artist since 2009 that belongs in the Goat discussion with the rest of the goats…that used to be taboo thing to say a few years back, but he has the lyricism/rapping ability, Discography, Impact, numbers/sales, is a great live performer, and has now proven he’s a great battle mc too…you might not agree, but he definitely belongs in that discussion now
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Joe Budden podcast talked about this yesterday (or was it the day before?)
They said general consensus is 4 classics if you consider s80 an album, which it is.
Nope and I've made my peace with it
dope interview
Common Says Kendrick Lamar Has Four Classic Albums
He put the Compton MC just outside of his top five favorite rappers.
genius.com
S80 isn’t a classic to me but i know so many that hold it in high regard. I know fans who put it above GKMC and TPAB
he damn right“These are my favorites. Biggie, Nas, André 3000, Kanye, and I’m probably going to say KRS-One. The Teacher,” said Common, putting Kendrick “right there” with the other rappers. “You put Kendrick’s albums just against the five that I named, it’s like that dude got four classics probably.”
Each of Kendrick’s studio albums—Section.80, good kid, m.A.A.D city, To Pimp a Butterfly, and DAMN.—has received critical acclaim. In addition, the latter three albums were each nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. DAMN. even won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018.
This isn’t the first time Common has gone out of his way to praise the TDE rapper. In a 2017 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he praised Kendrick for being one of the few rappers keeping the spirit of hip-hop activism alive.
“I definitely have to first say that it was music in the late ‘80s and '90s that was truly reflective of a movement. It was the movement of black empowerment, black love, consciousness, just being aware,” said Common. “I don’t feel like we have that as a whole in hip-hop, I don’t think hip-hop is the place we go to listen for that voice of a revolution or to say, 'This is how we’re changing things.’ But there are artists that do it, like Kendrick Lamar.”
Yeah I know a lot of people still have it as his best album. Thats not my case, but I have to admit thats probably the one I revisit the most, so I can't be mad at that take
VegetasHairline
Veteran
Redemption at 20?!Btw, hiphopdx released their 20 best TDE albums just before gnx came out
TDE's 20 Best Albums: Ranked - HipHopDX
In honor of TDE's 20th anniversary, we ranked the powerhouse label's 20 greatest albums.
They have:
1. To Pimp A Butterfly
A jazz-rap masterpiece, To Pimp a Butterfly elevated Kendrick Lamar above anyone that could be billed as his contemporary with a ruthless interrogation of what it meant to be Black in America in the 21st century. The album was to Hip Hop what The Beatles’ Revolver was to rock ‘n’ roll and almost a decade on, it still swirls with a hypnotic surrealism. It’s not only the crown jewel of TDE’s catalog, but the best album of the 2010s.
2. Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
The West Coast was back and it was being carried on Kendrick’s diminutive shoulders. The blog rap star, coming in with the hype of a Dr. Dre co-sign, was the shot in the arm Hip Hop needed in the early 2010s as he mixed cinematic storytelling with stacked rhymes and radio-friendly hooks, without sacrificing authenticity. good kid, m.A.A.d city still sounds as fresh as ever.
3. SZA — SOS (2022)
The long-awaited sophomore album from TDE’s First Lady gave her the status deserving of her talents. The sultry-voiced singer went from cult queen to mainstream superstar seemingly overnight as women everywhere appeared to resonate with SOS‘s themes of female angst. It also spent a remarkable 10 weeks atop the Billboard 200.
4. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. (2017)
Further developing some of the ideas and sounds he explored on To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN. is a more personal project but no less vast. Aside from being Kendrick’s first album to sell over half a million units in its first week (603,000, to be exact), it wrote the Compton kingpin into the history books as the first ever non-jazz or classical musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music — just in case any Drake fans thought about doubting his credentials.
5. ScHoolboy Q — Blank Face LP (2016)
While Q has not quite kicked on commercially in the way that Blank Face LP promised back in 2016, the album remains a scorching, ominous and often psychedelic masterpiece. Q, at his best, has arguably the most engaging voice in Hip Hop as songs such as “Groovy Tony,” “Str8 Ballin” and “Ride Out” prove.
The rest of the top 20 on TDE's 20 Best Albums: Ranked
