What are some essential Hip Hop albums
Been getting into Hip Hop
Listened to 36 chambers and illamatic what next
What are some essential Hip Hop albums
Charles King
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Luke Scott
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Ryder Perez
Painting Pictures
Nolan Gomez
I really enjoy "Lyfestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous" by Big L. I think it's pretty important, but many would not say it's essential.
Carson Davis
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Josiah Smith
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Jeremiah Anderson
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Jaxon Price
>oh yay, another essentials hip hop thread, if only we had a sticky full of charts or other hip hop threads already
Austin Campbell
>oh yay another bitchy user, who only complains and doesn't contribute
Evan James
Try the other wu tang albums from that period, Tical, 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, Only Built For Cuban Linx, Liquid Swords, and Iron Man are all fantastic. Each album expands upon different elements of 36 chambers, but they all have distinctive styles of their own. 1993-1996 RZA is my favorite hip hop producer by a longshot.
Aiden Perry
>contribute
The sticky is full of charts about hip hop essentials and there's already a related thread below this one, stop spamming threads about the same topic
Tyler Murphy
I didn't listen to kendrick for years cos I assumed he was trash but holy fuck is this a good album, been listening to it on repeat for like a month now
Colton Martin
Liquid Swords if you really liked 36 Chambers if you really liked Illmatic
A Tribe Called Quest or if you're looking for something a lie different.
Jeremiah Campbell
Also general reccs
>solo wu albums (GZA liquid swords and ODB nigga please for sure)
>Geto Boys
>earl sweatshirt
>chance the rapper
>gambino (idk about this one but a lot of people like him)
>danny brown
>j cole (controversial but 4 your eyez only is a legit album)
>death grips
Aiden Hall
it's his only album that lives up to its hype though. TPAB and DAMN were only good when comparing them to other mainstream hip hop albums.
John Cook
Liquid Swords
MBDTF, College Dropout
Midnight Marauders and other ATCQ albums
MM..Food
Madvillainy
cLOUDDEAD
Mystic Stylez
Blake Jenkins
Yeah I'm with you on that, after all the hype TPAB was disappointing and DAMN just isn't up to scratch at all
Zachary Cook
Honestly, just listen to everything by:
Jay Z
Biggie
2pac
Eminem
and Kanye
Once you're done with that, who ever had the best feature in your opinion, listen to all of their stuff, rinse and repeat
All of these people naming their favorite rappers are whack
Grayson Hall
Kendrick is one of the greatest rappers ever
Grayson Flores
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Matthew Scott
i enjoyed DAMN a lot for about 2 weeks, then i felt like o never wanted to listen to it again. what is this feeling?
Brody Barnes
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Angel Powell
In the vein of illmatic and 36 chambers, more east coast 90s boombap
Brody Cox
Sample song from each album accordingly
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Josiah Edwards
Besides what's already been mentioned I really really liked these lately:
>Lil Wayne - Carter 3
>Lil Wayne - Carter 2
>Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
>Denzel Curry - Imperial
Oliver Foster
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Oliver Long
All of these.
Nathan Martinez
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Cameron Wright
kanye sucks
Alexander Powell
wtf i hate kanye now!
Adrian Diaz
Look for the producers first and then the rappers
RZA
J DILLA
Dan the Automator
Prince Paul
Diamond D
Large Professor
DJ Premier
Madlib
The Alchemist
Kanye
Beat Junkies
This are the basics. Happy search my frin
Jack Ward
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David Cruz
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Nolan Richardson
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Dylan Harris
This is his best album (imo)
Samuel Foster
I think they are both equally fantastic but at the same time I feel as if Biggie never really reached his full potential as an artist. Ready to Die had those [imo] pretty awful skits and Life After Death had some features I'm not a fan of.
He is my favorite lyricist in rap so it makes me sad he didn't make a completely flawless masterpiece like so many other legendary artists did before they died.
Jonathan Walker
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Jackson Baker
good pick. I feel this album is pretty underrated.
Christopher Jones
Listen to Liquid Swords right now
Alexander Long
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Jaxon Ramirez
If you're a spic, listen to Big Pun- Capital Punishment
Jaxson Ward
Jay Z - the blueprint
Kanye west - college dropout
Watch the Throne
2pac - all eyes on me
The fugees - the score
Eminem - slim shady lp
Kendrick Lamar - good kid maad city
That's some basic shit to get you started. I'm sure they've been mentioned multiple times already but that's because you should listen to them faggit
Oliver Hall
UK Boom Bap
Daniel Wood
Twinz is still hard as nails
Juan Watson
>Essential Kanye
The College Dropout
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
>Also good
808s and Heartbreak
Late Registration
>If you want...
Graduation
Yeezus
>Just don't
The Life of Pablo
Watch the Throne
Eli Allen
You clearly haven't even listened to WTT if you're putting it that low and MBDTF up that high. It's one of his best albums imo. Yeezus and Pablo should also be swapped.
Henry Brooks
This is nearly as good as Illmatic and better than 36 Chambers. It's weird how Sup Forums doesn't seem to hold it in high regard, most other publications list it as the clear #2 behind Illmatic. In some ways it's even better.
Jose Flores
I agree desu. I don't understand why you autists love him so much.
Brody Mitchell
>Yeezus above TLOP
mate yeezus is absolute garbage
Graduation and Late Reg are superior to 808s in every way
Leo Watson
>nearly as good as Illmatic
wrong
>better than 36 chambers
Right
Anthony Roberts
somebody already mentioned Black Milk in those image grids but i've been listening to Popular Demand
Leo Taylor
listen to all Flacco Bey, one of the unsung greats
Sebastian Phillips
best album in this thread
very good
just listen to these albums OP
Leo Mitchell
Not essential, but comfy as fuck.
Xavier Diaz
This. Definitely.
I'd also recommend trying Black Star and the Ecstatic.
Mos Def doesn't get mentioned on here much, which is strange since The Ecstatic is strongly influence by Madvillainy and was produced in part by Madlib.
Adam Roberts
pic related
Eminem's early stuff
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Outkast - Aquemini
Deltron 3030
Big L - Lifetylez ov da Poor and Dangerous
Luis Murphy
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Dylan Rogers
One of the greatest albums production wise imo