List of all the 5 Mic & XXL Rated Albums...Which do you remove, which are missing

[RajWatts]

5 Mics:

* Peoples Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest
* Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em -- Eric B. & Rakim
* AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted -- Ice Cube
* Grip It! On That Other Level -- Geto Boys
* One for All -- Brand Nubian
* De La Soul Is Dead -- De La Soul
* The Low End Theory -- A Tribe Called Quest
* Run-D.M.C. -- Run-D.M.C.
* Radio -- LL Cool J
* Licensed to Ill -- Beastie Boys
* Raising Hell -- Run-D.M.C.
* Criminal Minded -- Boogie Down Productions
* Paid in Full -- Eric B. & Rakim
* By All Means Necessary -- Boogie Down Productions
* It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back -- Public Enemy
* Long Live the Kane -- Big Daddy Kane
* Critical Beatdown -- Ultramagnetic MCs
* Straight Out the Jungle -- Jungle Brothers
* Strictly Business -- EPMD
* The Great Adventures of Slick Rick -- Slick Rick
* Straight Outta Compton -- N.W.A.
* No One Can Do It Better -- The D.O.C.
* Breaking Atoms -- Main Source
* Death Certificate -- Ice Cube
* The Diary -- Scarface
* Doggystyle -- Snoop Doggy Dogg
* The Chronic -- Dr. Dre
* Illmatic -- Nas
* Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) -- Wu-Tang Clan
* The Infamous -- Mobb Deep
* Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... -- Raekwon
* Me Against the World -- 2Pac
* Ready to Die -- The Notorious B.I.G.
* Reasonable Doubt -- Jay-Z
* All Eyez on Me -- 2Pac
* Life After Death -- The Notorious B.I.G.
* The Score -- The Fugees
* Aquemini -- Outkast
* 2001 -- Dr. Dre
* The Blueprint -- Jay-Z
* Stillmatic -- Nas
* The Fix -- Scarface
* The Naked Truth -- Lil' Kim
* Trill OG -- Bun B
* My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy -- Kanye West

XXL:

* The Chronic by Dr. Dre
* Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan
* Illmatic by Nas
* The Diary by Scarface
* The Infamous by Mobb Deep
* All Eyez on Me by 2Pac
* Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z
* The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory by 2Pac
* Life After Death by The Notorious B.I.G.
* The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
* 2001 by Dr. Dre
* The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem
* The Blueprint by Jay-Z
* Get Rich or Die Tryin' by 50 Cent
* The Lost Tapes by Nas
* The College Dropout by Kanye West
* Be by Common
* Late Registration by Kanye West
* Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse
* My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
* Life Is Good by Nas
* good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Feeling the 5 mic list more, I'd add college drop out and 3 ft high and rising and common's BE, I'd remove life after death and all eyes on me, and I'd argue for E. 1999 Eternal

Edit: hell nah, the only Kim album that should've be considered a classic is hardcore

 

[DaveyDave]

there was a Bob Marley album/compilation back in the very early issues that got XXL as well.

i've got them all except the Lil Kim atrocity

 

[50CentStan]

Source lost all credibility with giving Bun B 5 mics, dude hasnt spit a hot verse since like 2002.

XXL list is legit!

 

[RajWatts]

For the 5 Mics list I would swap out the Lil Kim & Bun B albums for Hardcore & UGK Ridin Dirty. In the XXL list switch Hell Hath No Fury to Lord Willin

 

[.....]

Remove Trill O.G. from Source and Life is Good from XXL

 

[Ziggiy]

Take out Lil Kim's disgrace to Hip Hop and add Life Is Good and Be on the Source's list.


Take out Lost Tapes (its a compilation) and add Stillmatic on XXL's list

 

[Yecht]

1) Reasonable Doubt got re-rated a decade later, that shyt don't count

2) I'm a Nas Stan, but the lost tapes wasn't a real album

 

[Heelish]

Add Midnight Marauders, Enta Da Stage, Goodfellas, The Awakening, Doe or Die, & E. 1999 to The Source/XXL list

Some of the albums listed are near classic status though. Remove Run DMC albums, Miseducation, The Score, LAD, AEOM, GRODT, Kim, Bun B, Kanye albums, Be, The Fix, Stillmatic, Reasonable Doubt, & BP1 (last five are 4-4.5 mics). Ditto for XXL list + MMLP, HHNF, & LIG

Never listened to KL joint yet

 

[ISO]

Stillmatic and the Lost Tapes don't deserve 5 mics and Im a Nas fan. Midnight Marauders and Liquid Swords deserves 5 mics.

 

[DoomzdayzV]

I always wondered if they got blunted before they listened to and reviewed a lot of these albums like we did when they dropped. has nothing to do with the thread just sayin.

edit: Kim getting 5 mics for fukkin dave mays is downright pitiful. both those individuals are fukkin clowns, kim even looks like a damn clown.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

They both need to add Adrenaline Rush, Food & Liquor, and The Cool

they need to take a lot of BS off

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Feeling the 5 mic list more, I'd add college drop out and 3 ft high and rising and common's BE, I'd remove life after death and all eyes on me, and I'd argue for E. 1999 Eternal

Edit: hell nah, the only Kim album that should've be considered a classic is hardcore

1st ballot unanimous decision ,BE is a perfect album

 

[god shamgod]

All eyez on me aint no damn 5 mics that album wakk as hell 27 songs with 9-10 good songs

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Stillmatic and the Lost Tapes don't deserve 5 mics and Im a Nas fan. Midnight Marauders deserves 5 mics.

Stillmatic, no. But Lost Tapes I consider a classic and can see why they put it there, regardless of it being "throwaway tracks", that shyt was ill