These 10 albums from 1996 beat any 10 albums from any year imo. GOAT year

[I love Latina women]

94’

Dare Iz A Darkside
Illmatic
Constipated Monkey
Word…Life
Blowout Comb
The Main Ingredient
Southernplayasticadalliacmuzik
Hard To Earn
Stress: The Extinct Agenda
Resurrection
The Diary


Shall I continue? lol

 

[L $ C]

94’

Dare Iz A Darkside
Illmatic
Constipated Monkey
Word…Life
Blowout Comb
The Main Ingredient
Southernplayasticadalliacmuzik
Hard To Earn
Stress: The Extinct Agenda
Resurrection
The Diary


Shall I continue? lol

yeah thats not better than 96 tho....

 

[Cladyclad]

98 for me

 

[I love Latina women]

yeah thats not better than 96 tho....

They are; valleys and peaks better too

 

[28 Gramz]

98 for me

Underrated year. Probably 3rd after 96 and 95.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

1988 for me.. H.S. years.

• Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
• Slick Rick - Adventures of Slick Rick
• NWA -Straight Outta Compton
• Eric B & Rakim -Follow the Leader
• Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
• Boogie Down Productions -By All Means Necessary
• EPMD - Strictly Business
• Too Short - Life is Too $hort
• Marley Marl - In Control
• Ultramagnetic MC's- Critical Beatdown

 

[Tribal Outkast]

1988 for me.. H.S. years.

• Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
• Slick Rick - Adventures of Slick Rick
• NWA -Straight Outta Compton
• Eric B & Rakim -Follow the Leader
• Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
• Boogie Down Productions -By All Means Necessary
• EPMD - Strictly Business
• Too Short - Life is Too $hort
• Marley Marl - In Control
• Ultramagnetic MC's- Critical Beatdown

The year I became a hiphop head Thank God for having older brothers who would play the classics… also BET and MTV

 

[Fresh]

Its insane the quality we once used to get, the classics, the flavor, the different sounds. 1996 imo is the goat year apex of it...argue me....


It Was Written
All Eyez on me
Resonable Doubt
The Score
ATLians
Ironman
Ridin Dirty
Hell on Earth
7 Day Theory
Muddy Waters



Yeah nah you're not touching that 10, I could easily add another 5 classics from the year too

this is the correct answer

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

96 was a great year, but 88, 90, and 95 were better. Even 87. In 90 alone you had 2 Ice Cube projects, LTRHE, Fear of a black planet, Business as Usual, Mama said..., People instinctive travels...., All for one..., and I'm just touching the surface..

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

1988 for me.. H.S. years.

• Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
• Slick Rick - Adventures of Slick Rick
• NWA -Straight Outta Compton
• Eric B & Rakim -Follow the Leader
• Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
• Boogie Down Productions -By All Means Necessary
• EPMD - Strictly Business
• Too Short - Life is Too $hort
• Marley Marl - In Control
• Ultramagnetic MC's- Critical Beatdown

3 of my personal top 10 favorite hip hop albums are from 88 (slick rick, kane, PE). And 2 are from 1990 (PE, Rakim). That should tell you what I think about those years.

 

[MurderToCassette]

Never liked The Score

Replace it with Nocturnal and then

 

[GeeEffKay]

hard to top for sure although 95 has an amazing argument

 

[JMD]

Id pick '95 personally

but it shows you how good the 90s were competitively when you can make a case for any year from about '93 on

 

[L $ C]

Id pick '95 personally

but it shows you how good the 90s were competitively when you can make a case for any year from about '93 on

99?

 

[African Peasant]

2001

"The Blueprint"
"Stillmatic"
"Dillinger & Young Gotti"
"The Realness"
"Against All Odds"
"The Reason"
"I'm Serious"
"Duecez N Trayz"
"The Autobiography of Kirk Jones"
"Kiss The Game Goodbye"