Top 10 Hip-Hop/Rap artists

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Basically just post your top 10 hip-hop/rap artists, best album by that artist would be appreciated as would links to said albums. Starting this thread because I'm keen to discover some new hip-hop.

This is my personal list, I've tried to make them in some kind of order but I could be asked again in a few weeks and this list would be most likely be different but oh well. Also, excuse the lack of links in my top ten, I'm new to this site so I'm not level 2 yet :-(

1.Kendrick Lamar
Favourite album: good kid, m.a.a.d city (2012)
Favourite track: The Art of Peer Pressure (Track 4)
2.Madvillain
Favourite album: Madvillainy (2004)
Favourite track: America's Most Blunted (Track 6)
3.Death Grips
Favourite album: The Money Store (2012)
Favourite track: System Blower (Track 8)
4.Beastie Boys
Favourite album: Check Your Head (1992)
Favourite track: Stand Together (Track 12)
5.A Tribe Called Quest
Favourite album: Peoples' Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm (1990)
Favourite track: Youth Expression (Track 9)
6.Nas
Favourite album: Illmatic (1994)
Favourite track: One Love (Track 7)
7.Dr. Dre
Favourite album: The Chronic (1992)
Favourite track: Stranded On Death Row (Track 14)
8.Drake
Favourite album: If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (2015)
Favourite track: 6 God (Track 7)
9.Earl Sweatshirt
Favourite album: Doris (2013)
Favourite track: Hoarse (Track 14)
10.Joey Bada$$
Favourite album: 1999 (2012)
Favourite track: Survival Tactics (Track 4)
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So I listed many rappers here with my favorite albums by them below. If you like what you hear, I provided other albums by the artists that are certainly worthy of your time.

1. Kendrick Lamar
Favorite Album: Good Kid Maad City
Albums to check out: To Pimp a Butterfly, Section .80
2. Kanye West
Favorite Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Albums to check out: Late Registration, Graduation, College Dropout
3. Chance The Rapper
Favorite Album: Acid Rap
Albums to check out: Surf (By Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment)
4. Logic
Favorite Album: Under Pressure
5. Killer Mike
Favorite Album: Run The Jewels 2
Albums to check out: RAP music, Run The Jewels
6. Childish Gambino
Favorite Album: Royalty
Albums to check out: KAUAI / STN MTN, Because The Internet
7. Wale
Favorite Album: Festivus
Albums to check out: The Album About Nothing, The Mixtape About Nothing, More About Nothing
8. J. Cole
Favorite Album: Forest Hills Drive
9. Earl Sweatshirt
Favorite Album: Doris
Albums to check out: I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
10. Snoop Dogg
Favorite Album: Tha Last Meal
Albums to check out: DoggyStyle, BUSH

Other Artists to check out:
- Frank Ocean(Mainly R&B)
Favorite Album: Channel ORANGE
Albums to check out: Nostalgia, Ultra.
- A$AP Rocky
Favorite album: Live.Love.A$AP
Albums to check out: LONG.LIVE.A$AP, At.Long.Last.A$AP
- Action Bronson
Favorite Album: Mr. Wonderful
Albums to check out: Blue Chips, Rare Chandeliers
- Czarface
Favorite Album: Every Hero Needs A Villain
- Big Sean
Favorite Album: Dark Sky Paradise
- Mac Miller
Favorite Album: Faces
Albums to check out: Watching Movies With The Sound Off


Also deeper in the underground I think these guys are very talented and you should check them out..
- Your Old Droog
Kinison EP
The Nicest EP
- Mick Jenkins
The Water[s]
- Deniro Farrar
The Patriarch

Also check out this song, this song goes harder than anything I've heard before. Representing my home city of Charlotte haha. Also the first verse is by Deniro Farrar, who I mentioned above.


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I will have forgotten somebody and done this list wrong, but never mind

1. Serengeti
Favourite album: Kenny Dennis LP
Favourite track: 50th Birthday (which unhelpfully is like one massive skit - this is the first Serengeti album I listened to and I fell in love with it straight away, but it's probably not the best starting point, listen to C.A.R. or Sisyphus album instead)

2. J Dilla
Favourite album: Donuts
Favourite track: Waves, but needs to be listened to as a whole

3. A Tribe Called Quest
Favourite album: Midnight Marauders
Favourite track: Electric Relaxation

4. El-P
Favourite album: The Cold Vein (Cannibal Ox)
Favourite track: Pigeon

5. MF Doom
Favourite album: MM…FOOD
Favourite track: Rapp Snitch Knishes

6. Madlib
Favourite album: Madlib Medicine Show: No. 5 - History of the Loop Digga, 1990-2000
Favourite track: C.D.P. Assassins, Pt. 2, again, needs to be listened to as a whole

7. The Pharcyde
Favourite album: Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Favourite track: Otha Fish

8. Pete Rock
Favourite album: Mecca & The Soul Brother (Pete Rock & CL Smooth)
Favourite track: They Reminisce Over You

9. Armand Hammer
Favourite album: Race Music
Favourite track: Frog And Toad Are Friends

10. Panacea
Favourite album: Ink Is My Drink
Favourite track: Burning Bush

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1. Eminem
Favorite Album: Recovery
2. Kendrick Lamar
Favorite Album: Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
3. Kanye West[b]
Favorite Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Drake
Favorite Album: Take Care
5. Jay Z
Favorite Album: The Blueprint
6. Notorious B.I.G
Favorite Album: Ready To Die
7. 50 Cent
Favorite Album: Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
8. Janet Jackson
Favorite Album: Rhythm Nation 1814
9. Mary J. Blige
Favorite Album: No More Drama
10. Lauryn Hill
Favorite Album: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

Bubbling Under:
M.I.A
Favorite Album: Kala
Lil Wayne
Favorite Album: Tha Carter IV
Chance The Rapper
Favorite Album: Surf
Mac Miller
Favorite Album: Blue Slide Park
J. Cole
Favorite Album: 2014 Forest Hills Drive

[PanduArya]

Frank Ocean could blast off to the Top 5 but I'm not sure, "is he a Hip-Hop artist?"

[Precedent]

thank you for making this thread!!!!!!! i love you


1. Drake
Favourite album: Take Care (2011)
Favourite track: Marvin's Room




large, large, large gap, Drake is my favorite artist of all-time by an ocean, i really need to get the X<3O tattoo or something, my gosh i love him so much, i can't imagine my life w/o Drizzy Drake <3 <3


2. Lil Wayne
Favourite album: Tha Carter III
Favourite track: IANAHB (off of I Am Not A Human Being II)

3. Kanye West
Favourite album: Graduation (2007)
Favourite track: Flashing Lights

4. Future
Favourite album: Dirty Sprite 2 (2015)
Favourite track: Blood On The Money

5. Nujabes
Favourite album: Modal Soul (2005)
Favourite track: World's End Rhapsody

6. A$AP Rocky
Favourite album: At.Long.Last.A$AP (2015)
Favourite track: Palace (on Live.Love.A$AP)

7. J. Cole
Favourite album: 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014)
Favourite track: Love Yourz

8. Earl Sweatshirt
Favourite album: Doris (2013)
Favourite track: Chum

9. Nicki Minaj
Favourite album: The Pinkprint (2014)
Favourite track: Buy A Heart

10. Hoodie Allen
Favourite album: Pep Rally (2010)
Favourite track: Party At The Beach House

bubbling under:

Kendrick Lamar
Milo
Young Thug
Chief Keef
Big K.R.I.T.
Nas
Jay-Z
Childish Gambino

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1. Wu-Tang Clan (as a collective)
Fav album: Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)

2. J Dilla
Fav album: Donuts

3. Kanye West
Fav album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

4. Madlib
Fav album: The Unseen/ Shades of Blue/ Pinata/ Madvillain... I can't pick one.

5. MF Doom
Fav album: Madvillain/ MM...Food

6. Nujabes
Fav album: Metaphorical Music

7. Kendrick Lamar
Fav album: Good Kid M.a.a.d City

8. Blu
Fav album: Below The Heavens

9. OFWGKTA (as a collective)
Fav album: Earl's Doris

10. Nas
Fav album: Illmatic
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