Top 56 Greatest Music Albums
by catalam1234 
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Here's some of the most interesting, musically rich, deep and overrall brilliant albums that the genre of hip hop has given.
The music in this list is grimy, jazzy, rock infused, R&B and soul flavoured, experimental, futuristic, organic, funky, spriritual, etc. Also, you'l find here a great variety of styles, sounds, lyricism and characters. Enough to drown yourself into and discover the genre.
When listening to an album you need to dechiper what the MC's is telling, I highly recommend checking the Genius.com page.
- Chart updated: 10/19/2018 22:15
- (Created: 09/09/2016 13:18).
- Chart size: 56 albums.
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It’s an opulent and introspective exploration of desire, success, ruination, absolution and love. The music is varied, lavish, expansive and earth shattering. It’s the apotheosis of one of the most brilliant hip hop artist of all time (of all time!!!). The lyricism is revealing, complex, sometimes joyous sometimes remorseful, but, above all, painfully poignant.
Its an album full of sprawling ideas and motifs and grandiose soundscapes, a landmark masterpiece and one of the most dazzling and brilliant albums of the 21 century.
IT REPRESENTS: How hip hop can achive sonic perfection combining it with evocative lyricism and emotional depletion. [First added to this chart: 09/17/2016]
Its an album full of sprawling ideas and motifs and grandiose soundscapes, a landmark masterpiece and one of the most dazzling and brilliant albums of the 21 century.
IT REPRESENTS: How hip hop can achive sonic perfection combining it with evocative lyricism and emotional depletion. [First added to this chart: 09/17/2016]
Year of Release:
2010
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It's a minimalistic work that requires the listener to drown in its aura and be enveloped in the artist's remorse and melancholy to fully appreciate it. It's an album of atmospheres, contrasts and refined darkness that puts to the forefront of its canvas the dissonant and apprehensive mood of a dejected soul.
The music is composed of hazy synthesizers, heavily modulated vocals and manipulated percussion, all embellished with piano and string sections, conveying a sparse and desolated yet colorful soundscape. The artist leaves most of hip hop conventionalisms behind to reach to genres like electro-pop, techno, shoegaze and R&B, giving the genre a most intimate form of expression.
IT REPRESENTS: The genre's epitome of unconventional and one of its most influential albums. [First added to this chart: 09/17/2016]
The music is composed of hazy synthesizers, heavily modulated vocals and manipulated percussion, all embellished with piano and string sections, conveying a sparse and desolated yet colorful soundscape. The artist leaves most of hip hop conventionalisms behind to reach to genres like electro-pop, techno, shoegaze and R&B, giving the genre a most intimate form of expression.
IT REPRESENTS: The genre's epitome of unconventional and one of its most influential albums. [First added to this chart: 09/17/2016]
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2008
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It's a unique and powerful work that serves both as an ambitious canvas for an emerging artist and as a commentary about the choices one makes in life, and the reasons behind them. From senseless consumerism, to self-hatred, sexuality, escapism, institutional prejudice, faith, family, hope, and everything in between, the MC delivers a most human critique on modern societies that's wrapped in both ironic humor and childlike goofing.
Musically, the album works as a rich study and celebration of themes in the history of black music, touching genres like funk, soul, gospel, doo-wop and R&B, of course, all put together with some hard hitting yet polished hip hop. The music is audacious, confident, melodious and crisp and warm, all the elements needed to create a smooth, classic sound that makes the listener feel good.
The album was a major turning point in the genre because it diverged from the then-dominant gangster persona in hip hop in favor of a more human, emotional and complex sense of what being a hip hop artist could be. [First added to this chart: 09/17/2016]
Musically, the album works as a rich study and celebration of themes in the history of black music, touching genres like funk, soul, gospel, doo-wop and R&B, of course, all put together with some hard hitting yet polished hip hop. The music is audacious, confident, melodious and crisp and warm, all the elements needed to create a smooth, classic sound that makes the listener feel good.
The album was a major turning point in the genre because it diverged from the then-dominant gangster persona in hip hop in favor of a more human, emotional and complex sense of what being a hip hop artist could be. [First added to this chart: 09/17/2016]
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2004
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[First added to this chart: 09/17/2016]
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2005
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5,760
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[First added to this chart: 09/12/2018]
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2013
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7,593
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[First added to this chart: 04/26/2018]
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2007
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Top 56 Greatest Music Albums composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1970s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1980s | 6 | 11% | |
| 1990s | 26 | 46% | |
| 2000s | 17 | 30% | |
| 2010s | 7 | 13% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Kanye West | 6 | 11% | |
| OutKast | 5 | 9% | |
| A Tribe Called Quest | 3 | 5% | |
| Kendrick Lamar | 3 | 5% | |
| Public Enemy | 2 | 4% | |
| Jay-Z | 2 | 4% | |
| De La Soul | 2 | 4% | |
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Top 56 Greatest Music Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 4 from 25th to 21st Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 21st to 23rd The Blueprint by Jay-Z |
| Down 1 from 23rd to 24th The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem |
| Down 1 from 24th to 25th The Money Store by Death Grips |
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I liked the list once I realized it was a best 40 hip hop albums of all time.
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From catalam1234 09/09/2016 13:29
Yes, this is a 40 Best Hip Hop albums of all Time, with some mini-reviews of the 5 Very Best. If you're interested in knowing my opinon on certain albums on this list, just PM me.
PS. Could not wait until being allowed to make Custom Charts. When I reach that point, i'll make the Custom chart and modify this to put the best albums of all time, ALL Genres.
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