what rappers have 5 or more great/excellent albums (counting collab/group albums)
- Thread starter MiC
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I would say
Nas - Illmatic, It Was Written, Lost Tapes, Life is Good, God's Son, Hip-Hop is Dead, Does Queensbridge: The Album count?
Cube - Straight Outta Compton, Death Certificate, Lethal Injection, The Predator, Bow down
Ghostface Killah - Enter the Wu, Wu-Tang Forever, The W Ironman, Supreme Clientele, Big Doe Rehab, Wizard of Poetry, Fishscale
Com Sense - Resurrection, One Day It'll All Make Sense, Be, Finding Forever, Dreamer/Believer ( he just made it, cause Dreamer really is a good album)
Fat Joe - Jealous One's Envy, Don Cartegena, Jealous One's Still Envy, Me, Myself and I, The Darkside
Raekwon - Enter the Wu, Wu-Tang Forever, The W, Cuban Linx, Cuban Linx II, Shaolin vs Wu-Tang
RZA - Enter the Wu, Wu-Tang Forever, The W, Digital Bullet, Bobby Digital in Stereo, The Pick, The Sickle and the Shovel
Nas - Illmatic, It Was Written, Lost Tapes, Life is Good, God's Son, Hip-Hop is Dead, Does Queensbridge: The Album count?
Cube - Straight Outta Compton, Death Certificate, Lethal Injection, The Predator, Bow down
Ghostface Killah - Enter the Wu, Wu-Tang Forever, The W Ironman, Supreme Clientele, Big Doe Rehab, Wizard of Poetry, Fishscale
Com Sense - Resurrection, One Day It'll All Make Sense, Be, Finding Forever, Dreamer/Believer ( he just made it, cause Dreamer really is a good album)
Fat Joe - Jealous One's Envy, Don Cartegena, Jealous One's Still Envy, Me, Myself and I, The Darkside
Raekwon - Enter the Wu, Wu-Tang Forever, The W, Cuban Linx, Cuban Linx II, Shaolin vs Wu-Tang
RZA - Enter the Wu, Wu-Tang Forever, The W, Digital Bullet, Bobby Digital in Stereo, The Pick, The Sickle and the Shovel
Big Mel
@bigboss
Shameful list. This, madams & sirs is what we call "west coast ears". It's hilarious.
Big Mel
@bigboss
All souled out
Mecca & the soul brother
Main ingredient
Soul survivor
Petestrumentals
Bam! In yo face!
Mecca & the soul brother
Main ingredient
Soul survivor
Petestrumentals
Bam! In yo face!
Big Mel
@bigboss
Fantastic vol 1
Fantastic vol 2
Trinity
Detroit deli
Slum village
T3 the unexpected entry!
Fantastic vol 2
Trinity
Detroit deli
Slum village
T3 the unexpected entry!
Kool G Rap
Road to the riches
wanted DOA
live and let die
4, 5, 6
roots of evil (shyt is underrated, but you can substitute giancana story too)
masta ace
long hot summer
disposable arts
sittin on chrome
slaughtahouse
take a look around
Road to the riches
wanted DOA
live and let die
4, 5, 6
roots of evil (shyt is underrated, but you can substitute giancana story too)
masta ace
long hot summer
disposable arts
sittin on chrome
slaughtahouse
take a look around
EA
A Pound & A Prayer
Phonte:
The Listening
Connected
The Minstrel Show
Leave It All Behind
Charity Starts At Home
Q-Tip:
Midnight Marauders
Low End Theory
Beats, Rhymes & Life
The Rennaisance
Kamaal The Abstract
Elzhi:
Trinity
Detroit Deli
Out of Focus
The Preface
Elmatic
The Listening
Connected
The Minstrel Show
Leave It All Behind
Charity Starts At Home
Q-Tip:
Midnight Marauders
Low End Theory
Beats, Rhymes & Life
The Rennaisance
Kamaal The Abstract
Elzhi:
Trinity
Detroit Deli
Out of Focus
The Preface
Elmatic
Big Mel
@bigboss
all day i sat with these two submissions but i think they both fall a bit short.
I definitely don't think Masta Ace falls short, but G Rap's 5th is a little weak comparatively.
Techniec
Drugs and Kalashnikovs
The only undisputed answer I can give to this question is Ice Cube
I cant speak for KRS im not into his music like that, but judging from what i know and have read he has at least 3-4 definitive excellent albums
Cant speak for Kool G Rap
Ghost is close but he doesnt qualify for 5 simply on account of the fact that unlike hard core Wu heads i dont consider Wu Tang Forever to be excellent by any means. He has 3 great/excellent albums (i liked bulletproof wallets, fishscale etc but to me those were good albums but not excellent). So he has 36 chambers, ironman and supreme clientele, but really if we re gonna count 36 chambers how can we not count ob4cl?
To me Pac has 4, but Im a Pac fan and i love Thug Life but i can respect that is not a universal statement
Outkast can make an argument for 4
Quik can make an argument for 4
Scarface has 4, i dont consider the world is yours, or even the fix to be excellent and i fukks with face
Jay and nas definitely dont have 5 excellent albums
So yeah, Ice Cube...
I cant speak for KRS im not into his music like that, but judging from what i know and have read he has at least 3-4 definitive excellent albums
Cant speak for Kool G Rap
Ghost is close but he doesnt qualify for 5 simply on account of the fact that unlike hard core Wu heads i dont consider Wu Tang Forever to be excellent by any means. He has 3 great/excellent albums (i liked bulletproof wallets, fishscale etc but to me those were good albums but not excellent). So he has 36 chambers, ironman and supreme clientele, but really if we re gonna count 36 chambers how can we not count ob4cl?
To me Pac has 4, but Im a Pac fan and i love Thug Life but i can respect that is not a universal statement
Outkast can make an argument for 4
Quik can make an argument for 4
Scarface has 4, i dont consider the world is yours, or even the fix to be excellent and i fukks with face
Jay and nas definitely dont have 5 excellent albums
So yeah, Ice Cube...
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Big Mel
@bigboss
the thing about Ace, whom i love more so than the typical Ace fan, is he really only has 1 maybe 2 GREAT albums. Slaughterhouse & Sittin' On Chrome. Take a Look Around has great songs but it was sort of a sleeper, late 80's juice crew joint that not many people connected with (or even heard...his name was even MASTER ace)....but 'Postin High' is an all time Ace song IMO.
the disposable arts era is when mad trustafarians got into Ace and in truth the beats were a bit tinny.
the disposable arts era is when mad trustafarians got into Ace and in truth the beats were a bit tinny.
I love Take a look around, Marley Marl's production was fukking incredible on that record and Masta did his thing. Disposable Arts and Long Hot Summer are GREAT albums too, imo, if only for the conceptual part alone.
Big Mel
@bigboss
The Predator isn't excellent. But given how watered down this thread has become i'd accept it. That still leaves him one short. Bow Down SUCKS. i guess KILL AT WILL gets him to 5 but he's crawling there.
KRS & Ghost make it there more readily.
Techniec
Drugs and Kalashnikovs
I was considering Predator and Bow Down to be honest but I also have "west coast ears" (although certainly alot more refined that our resident Mack 10 fan from earlier)
However i definitely respect the argument that Cubes complacency and slide into gangsterism should never be considered excellent especially by the standards
Of his earlier work.
In light of this, i can say then that i cannot think of one hip hop artist that has 5 definitive excellent albums, if we stick to a respected concept of excellence