Your favorite Rap Album Pre-1990s

[FreshAIG]

What is your favorite rap album before 1990?

 

[threattonature]

Great Adventures of Slick Rick for me. Slick is just too underrated at this point.

 

[the cac mamba]

paid in full

criminal minded second

 

[FreshAIG]

Great Adventures of Slick Rick for me. Slick is just too overrated at this point.

Mine too.

Why do you say he's overrated though?

 

[threattonature]

Mine too.

Why do you say he's overrated though?

My bad, meant to say too underrated when talking about great MCs. I fixed it.

 

[Thizzlam]

EPMD - Strictly Business

 

[MartyMcFly]

Paid in Full although my favorite song pre 1990s is The Moment I Feared

 

[Hondajettz]

eazy e ez duz it

 

[Big Mel]

Criminal Minded

 

[ThaRealness]

3 feet high and rising

 

[Big Mel]

3 feet high and rising

Top 5 for sure

 

[ISO]

 

[Ian1362]

Pretty much those listed

beyond the EMPD, Slick Rick, De La, and Ra albums, I'll add:

-3rd Bass Cactus Album

-the first two Biz albums

-Doc's No One Can Do It Better

-first two Boogie Down records

-G Rap's debut

 

[Big Mel]

I do love cactus album.

We haven't even had anyone mention LL, NWA, Kane, Biz, PE, JBs or Ultramagbetic yet.

 

[MarioDaDon]

EPMD - Stricly Business
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
BDP - Criminal Minded & By All Means Necessary
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane & It's A Big Daddy Thing
Biz Markie first two albums
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick

I picked these because these were all the albums my older cousins played in my house in the late 80s when I moved to The Bronx from Jamaica when I was 4