What 10 rap albums you think every rap fan should have heard?

[wingzboy]

You can't pick more than one album from a single artist just to increase the diversity of your lists. What 10 albums from rap artists throughout the ages would you say is among the top 10 that every rap fan should have listened to from beginning to end?

 

[newarkhiphop]

It's dark and hell is hot
Reasonable doubt
Get rich or die trying
400 degreez
Life After death
The chronic
College dropout
The Marshall Mathers lp
The miseducation of lauryn hill
Makavelli

 

[Big Mel]

Criminal Minded
Raising Hell
Death Certificate
Paid In Full
Cuban Linx
Low End Theory
Straight Outta Compton
Illmatic
The Infamous
A PAC or BIG album of your liking

 

[Shammago]

Low End Theory
Midnight Maurauder
Atliens
Doggystyle
One for All
Long Live the Kane
Criminal Minded
Like Water for Chocolate
Death Certificate
Me Against the World

 

[ThaRealness]

MBDTF
Cuban Linx
ATLiens
Madvillainy
Ready To Die
Liquid Swords
The Chronic
Cant think of three more that Id say are must haves... Just personal favs and objective classics that Im not gonna be going out of my way to recommend

 

[King Biko]

2pac-All eyez on me
Nas- illmatic
Outkast- aquemini
Goodie mob-Soul food
Blu- below the heavens
Ice cube-Death certificate
T.i.-Trap muzik
Jay z-Reasonable doubt
Kendrick lamar-Good kid maad city
Lupe fiasco- food and liquor advance

(More r&b than rap)
Sleepy theme- vinyl room
Lauryn hill- the miseducation of
Society of soul- brain child.

 

[phatphuck]

36 chambers (which spawned ob4cl)
straight outta compton (which spawned chronic/dc)
raising hell
low end theory
it takes a nation
illmatic
criminal minded
doggystyle
paid in full
long live the kane

 

[Mac Casper]

The Chronic
2001
Me Against the World
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Illmatic
Straight Outta Compton
Paid In Full
Ready to Die
Enter the 36 Chambers
Amerikkkaz Most Wanted

 

[Mac Casper]

2pac-All eyez on me
Nas- illmatic
Outkast- aquemini
Goodie mob-Soul food
Blu- below the heavens
Ice cube-Death certificate
T.i.-Trap muzik
Jay z-Reasonable doubt
Kendrick lamar-Good kid maad city
Lupe fiasco- food and liquor advance

(More r&b than rap)
Sleepy theme- vinyl room
Lauryn hill- the miseducation of
Society of soul- brain child.

Kill Yourself

 

[observe]

Stackin Chips
Operation Stackola
Explicit Game
Lesson to be learned
Real talk 2000
Born to Mack
Lunatik muzik
The gas chamber
Unforgiven
Thugged out the albulation

 

[King Biko]

Kill Yourself

U must be one of them stuck in the 90's nikkas nas was talking about.

 

[Mac Casper]

U must be one of them stuck in the 90's nikkas nas was talking about.

Not at all . . we're talking about hip-hop essential albums and that's what you bring to table? You getting voted off the island breh

 

[Mac Casper]

Stackin Chips
Operation Stackola
Explicit Game
Lesson to be learned
Real talk 2000
Born to Mack
Lunatik muzik
The gas chamber
Unforgiven
Thugged out the albulation

Let me tell you why I respect this . .

The underlying theme of "Same Song" by Digital Underground is actually a message that comes from an interpretation of a psychedelic wisdom that can be accessed in the Bay Area . . you can go ALL AROUND THE WORLD AND HEAR THE SAME DAMN SONG! . . A song can be playing while a couple is making love and while a couple is breaking up. The same song could be played while someone is dying in London or a while a baby is being born in Nebraska . . at the SAME DAMN TIME! All of you people listen to the same music and it's whatever is being shoveled down your throat with a marketing budget

 

[King Biko]

Not at all . . we're talking about hip-hop essential albums and that's what you bring to table? You getting voted off the island breh

That's not my top 10 favorite albums those are my ten favorite to listen to from start to finish no skipping. Those are the albums that flows the best to me. Like I like ready to die and doggy style better than a lot of shyt but I always skip around songs even if I listen to every song or almost every song it's usually not in order and I end up hitting the repeat on my favorite shyts but them albums I posted are the ones that I let ride.

 

[Mac Casper]

That's not my top 10 favorite albums those are my ten favorite to listen to from start to finish no skipping. Those are the albums that flows the best to me. Like I like ready to die and doggy style better than a lot of shyt but I always skip around songs even if I listen to every song or almost every song it's usually not in order and I end up hitting the repeat on my favorite shyts but them albums I posted are the ones that I let ride.

We didn't ask about your favorites . . we're talking essential albums that every rap fan should have heard . .