What are some essential discographies?

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In Hip Hop some I feel are essential are...

2 Pac
Biggie
KRS-One
Big Pun
K-Rino
Scarface
Nas
Rakim
Big Daddy Kane
Slick Rick
Guru/Gang Starr
Common
Bizzy Bone
Kool G Rap
Fat Joe
Dr Dre
Brother Ali
Ice T
Chuck D/Public Enemy
Canibus
Big L
Kool Moe Dee
Queen Latifah
 

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I wouldn't recommend getting these artists entire discographies, just the albums when they were in their most creative period.

Tribe (First 3)
MJ (Off The Wall - Dangerous)
Prince (1978 - 1988)
Parliament/Funkadelic (everything)
Stevie Wonder (Music of my Mind - Hotter Than July)
Portishead (All 3)
De La Soul (First 4)
Gangstarr (Daily Operation - Moment of Truth)
UGK (Too Hard 2 Swallow - Riding Dirty)
Outkast (First 4)
Ghostface (Iron Man - Fishscale)
The Beatles (Rubber Soul - Let It Be)
Led Zeppelin (everything)
Alice Coltrane (everything)
D'Angelo (everything)
The Roots (Do You Want More - Game Theory)
Common (Resurrection - Finding Forever)
Erykah Badu (Baduizm - New Amerykah pt 1)
Ice Cube (Amerikkka's Most Wanted - Laugh Now, Cry Later)
Public Enemy (It Takes A Nation... - Apocalypse '91)
Jimi Hendrix (First 3)
Bob Marley (Catch A Fire - Uprising)
Anita Baker (The Songstress - Giving You The Best That I Got)
R. Kelly (12 Play - Chocolate Factory)
Eric B & Rakim (All 4)
EPMD (Strictly Business - Business Never Personal)
Mary J. Blige (What's the 411 - Share My World)
Aaliyah (everything)
Beanie Sigel (everything)
 
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If we're talking about artists who have whole discographies that are really solid besides one or maybe two albums

D'Angelo
Jaco Pastorius
The Smiths
Parliament/Funkadelic (Everything, like another poster said)
Bjork
Diana Ross
Black Flag
The Doors
Erykah Badu
Frank Zappa (Crazy amount of quality)
Gil Scott-Heron
Marvin Gaye (Although there are more than a couple albums I'd skip; Mostly in his earlier works)
James Brown (Of Course)
King Crimson
Otis Redding


There are probably a lot more I'm forgetting; and there are plenty who have some really good albums but a lot of average ones or below average too

and plenty who have a long string of bad albums in the tail end of their career
 
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