What are your all time favorite Hip-Hop albums?

In no particular order...

1. Run DMC: Raising Hell
2. Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique
3. De La Soul: Three Feet High and Rising
4. A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory
5. The Pharcyde: Bizarre Ride II
6. Company Flow: Funcrusher Plus
7. Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein
8. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
9. Blackstar: Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Blackstar
10. The Roots: Things Fall Apart
11. Aesop Rock: Labor Days
12. Antipop Consortium: Arrythmia
13. Jurassic 5: Quality Control
14. Ghostface: Pretty Toney Album
15. Dilated Peoples: Platforms
16. Jay-Z: The Black Album
17. Common: Like Water for Chocolate
18. Cage: Movies for the Blind
19. Murs: 9th Edition
20. Brother Ali: Shadows on the Sun

That is an interesting list.

Cage in the top 20 ever??
Ayyy...i guess that is why its your list and not mine.

1. GZA - Liquid Swords
2. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
3. Non Phixion - The Future Is Now
4. Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
5. Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers
6. Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
7. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
8. Louis Logic - Sin-A-Matic
9. Onyx - All We Got Iz Us
10. Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside
11. Ras Kass - Soul On Ice
12. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
13. Chino XL - I Told You So
14. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
15. Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In
16. Big Pun - Capital Punishment
17. Danger Mouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
18. Ice Cube - The Predator
19. Cormega - The Realness
20. Reef The Lost Cauze - Invisible Empire

Not in any order either, except Liquid Swords being no. 1.

Liquid Swords would be in my top 10 as well.I think it is the finest wu-tang affiliated album ever.

No love for madvillian or B.I.G. ?

I would not put madvillain in my top 20 EVER.
maybe of the past 5 years or so.

BIG would for sure be up there.

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Originally posted by Imprezu21:
Cage in the top 20 ever??

Cage is a dope emcee and Movies for the Blind is a sick album but I hastely placed him on my list.

I'd revise and put Ice Cube: Death Certificate in there. Then I'd probably add Souls of Mischief: '93 til Infinity, Nas: Illmatic and Gangstarr: Moment of Truth in there.

Five off the top of my head quick:

Low End Theory (probably my favorite)- Tribe
Three Feet High and Rising - De la Soul
Stankonia - Outkast
Paid In Full - Eric B. and Rakim
Liquid Swords - GZA

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Originally posted by cpa13:

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Originally posted by Imprezu21:
Cage in the top 20 ever??

Cage is a dope emcee and Movies for the Blind is a sick album but I hastely placed him on my list.

I'd revise and put Ice Cube: Death Certificate in there. Then I'd probably add Souls of Mischief: '93 til Infinity, Nas: Illmatic and Gangstarr: Moment of Truth in there.

I agree about cage...that album is nice.But not top 20 for me.Nice swap adding SOM and G-Starr.Both would be in my top 10.

I see a couple cats mentioning De La's "3 Feet High....", but I gotta say....

"De La Soul Is Dead" and "Stakes Is High" are better albums from De La...

Also add these to my list:

Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Outkast - ATLiens
The Alkaholiks - Coast II Coast
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Mood - Doom

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Originally posted by GZAGenius1415:
I see a couple cats mentioning De La's "3 Feet High....", but I gotta say....

"De La Soul Is Dead" and "Stakes Is High" are better albums from De La...

That's true about other De La albums but I think that "3 Feet High..." introduced me to hip-hop that wasn't all about gangsta hardcore rap. On their debut they're lyrically on point and their production is some totally different shit then what was out at the time.

But, to each his own...

Outkast - ATLiens

My all-time favorite album.

1.Nas - Illmatic
2.GZA - Liquid Swords
3.A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
4.DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
5.Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
6.Dr. Octagon - Octagonecologyst
7.Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
8.De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
9.Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
10.Dr. Dre - The Chronic

Honorable mentions:

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Mos Def - Black Star
cLOUDDEAD - S/T
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Outkast - Stankonia
Tha Alkaholics - Coast II Coast
Edan - Primitive Plus
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Dälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots

Something like that.

Me Against The World - Tupac
All Eyez On Me - Tupac
The Infamous - Mobb Deep
Hell On Earth - Mobb Deep
Step In The Arena - Gang Starr
Daily Operation - Gang Starr
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Ready To Die - Notorious B.I.G.
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli
The Chronic - Dre

Cannibal Ox - Blue Vein
El P - Fantastic Damage
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Roots - Things Fall Apart
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
cLOUDEAD - cLOUDEAD
Styles of Beyond - 2000 Fold

I would also like to add:

Capital Punishment - Christopher Rios (Big Pun)
J.O.S.E. - Jose Cartagena (Fat Joe)

The only two hip-hop artists I like...

Eminem-The Marshall Mathers LP
The Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique

Maybe I'm a white boy, but I think it's just chance that the only rappers I like are white...

I was thinking about it....and my definiteive top 5 would probably look like:

GZA - Liquid Swords
Raekwon - OB4CL
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth

Whodini - Escape
The Showdown: The Sugarhill Gang Vs. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show

Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money
Office Space Soundtrack