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Chemical Smile

What happened to Hip Hop? The golden age for me ended around '96 and, with a few exceptions, Hip Hop is boring, mundane nowadays.
My top ten Hip Hop albums are:

1. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
2. Artifacts - That's Them
3. Common - Resurrection
4. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
5. Guru - Jazzmatazz
6. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
7. Souls Of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity
8. Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
9. Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
10. Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East

My top ten Hip Hop singles are:

1. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Catch A Bad One
2. Mos Def - Brooklyn
3. Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear
4. Dream Warriors - Are We There Yet
5. The Fugees - How Many Mics
6. Group Home - Livin' Proof
7. Lords Of The Underground - Funky Child
8. Nas - The Message
9. Public Enemy - Give It Up
10. Feel Me Flow - Naughty By Nature
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purple

Ready to Die? Illmatic? Blueprint 3? 3 Feet High and Rising? Low End Theory? My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? 36 Chambers? Supreme Clientele? The Chronic? Staight Outta Compton?

I would discount any hip-hop top ten that doesn't have at least two of these on the list.

Postmodern_Beatnik

purple wrote:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy?

Haha?? You know, not everything has to be centered around Pitchfork...

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Postmodern_Beatnik

Chemical Smile wrote:

What happened to Hip Hop? The golden age for me ended around '96 and, with a few exceptions, Hip Hop is boring, mundane nowadays.
My top ten Hip Hop albums are:

1. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
2. Artifacts - That's Them
3. Common - Resurrection
4. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
5. Guru - Jazzmatazz
6. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
7. Souls Of Mischief - 93 Til Infinity
8. Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
9. Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
10. Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East

My top ten Hip Hop singles are:

1. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Catch A Bad One
2. Mos Def - Brooklyn
3. Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear
4. Dream Warriors - Are We There Yet
5. The Fugees - How Many Mics
6. Group Home - Livin' Proof
7. Lords Of The Underground - Funky Child
8. Nas - The Message
9. Public Enemy - Give It Up
10. Feel Me Flow - Naughty By Nature

Good stuff btw :p

Hayden

Location: Vietnam

Postmodern_Beatnik wrote:

purple wrote:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy?

Haha?? You know, not everything has to be centered around Pitchfork...

Doesn't really matter if Pitchfork likes it, like, good for them and stuff, but it's still one of the best hip-hop albums of all-time.

Top 10:

1. Nas - Illmatic
2. Kanye West - MBDTF
3. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
4. Outkast - Stankonia
5. Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
6. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
7. Classified - Self Explanatory
8. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
9. Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
10. Kanye West - College Dropout
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Chemical Smile

purple wrote:

Ready to Die? Illmatic? Blueprint 3? 3 Feet High and Rising? Low End Theory? My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? 36 Chambers? Supreme Clientele? The Chronic? Staight Outta Compton?

I would discount any hip-hop top ten that doesn't have at least two of these on the list.

Have to agree with Low End Theory & 36 Chambers - great albums. Straight Outta Compton has its merits, 3 Feet High & Rising is pretty good overall - minus the skits which i find a bit annoying. Can't believe i forgot about Illmatic - thats an awesome album.

Unfortunately i have to skip over Ready to Die - I relate Biggie to around the time Sean Puffy Combs appeared - which IMO was also when Hip Hop started to go down hill...
Blueprint 3 - I never understood why Jay-Z is so highly rated - always thought he was an average MC. Also the same with Kanye West too.
Supreme Clientele - will check this out, big fan of any Wu Tang stuff - Method Man is my favourite.

Also noticed that i've left off any mention of Jurassic 5 - always put out quality albums!
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Wombi

Postmodern_Beatnik wrote:

purple wrote:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy?

Haha?? You know, not everything has to be centered around Pitchfork...

why are you giving pitchfork any credit for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? anyone with half a musical bone loved that album

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Location: Paris

Jhereko wrote:

Postmodern_Beatnik wrote:

purple wrote:

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy?

Haha?? You know, not everything has to be centered around Pitchfork...

douchebag, why are you giving pitchfork any credit for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? anyone with half a musical bone loved that album

right !

i'll add Dr. Dre /2001 (my favorite hip hop album) to the other vitals albums mentioned before.

purple

chemical, you can't discount an album based on its associations; just listen to Ready to Die and love that poopoo (it's like a hardcore Illmatic). I don't like Kanye as a person but like his music; disassociate the music from the maker, and you will love so much more music. You're not trying to make friends with Biggie or anything

purple

here's another top ten

1. Ready to Die- Notorious B.I.G.
2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy- Kanye West
3. Illmatic-Nas
4. 36 Chambers- Wu-Tang Clan
5. 3 Feet High and Rising- De La Soul
6. The Low End Theory-Tribe Called Quest
7. Madvillainy- Madvillain
8. Critical Beatdown- Ultramagnetic MCs
9. Late Registration- Kanye West
10. It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back-Public Enemy