Best Hip Hop Albums of All Time by Larcx13

Like all my charts this is my personal favorites. I am not a big fan of Jay and Kanye and even Snoop and Biggie are quite low on my list. I've heard their music, it just doesn't reach me as much as everything else you'll see here.

Top 10 Hip Hop Artists:
1. Cunninlynguists
2. The Roots
3. A Tribe Called Quest
4. Wu-Tang Clan (+ solo releases)
5. The Pharcyde
6. Digable Planets
7. Outkast
8. Masta Ace
9. Common
10. Mos Def (Black Star)

Runner-ups: Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Gang Starr (+ Guru), CYNE, MF Doom

Tailing albums per decade:
1980s:
1- The Cactus Album - 3rd Bass
2- Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
3- It Takes A Nation of Billions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
4- It's a Big Daddy Thing - Big Daddy Kane
5- Grip It! On That Other Level - Geto Boys
1990s:
1- No Need for Alarm - Del the Funky Homosapien
2- Daily Operation - Gang Starr
3- The Predator - Ice Cube
4- Step in the Arena - Gang Starr
5- The Chronic - Dr. Dre
6- Soul Food - Goodie Mob
7- Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
8- Check Your Head - Beastie Boys
9- Dr. Octagonecologyst - Dr. Octagon
10- The Miseducation of Ms. Lauryn Hill - Ms. Lauryn Hill
2000s:
1- The Future is Now - Non Phixion
2- Violent By Design - Jedi Mind Tricks
3- Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah
4- The Best Part - J-Live
5- Hope - Non-Prophets
2010s:
1: Masta Ace & MF Doom - MA Doom: Son of Yvonne
2- PRhyme - PRhyme
3- Pinata - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
4- To Thine Own Self Be True - La Coka Nostra
5- Gravitas - KXNG Crooked & Bronze Nazareth

The reason for the lack of classic 80s hip hop on my list is only because of the quality of the recording and song-writing. Look at it as putting Bob Dylan, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones instead of Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf and Little Richard on a list; they're all great classics, but the former evolved in song-writing and production compared to the latter. I also find that underground/independent hip hop from the 2000s is often over-looked. There is a lot of good stuff people are missing out on, but I make it a goal to discover the most I can about a genre.

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2006
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1994
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1991
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2011
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2005
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1993
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1994
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2015
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2007
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1993
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Best Hip Hop Albums of All Time composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 0 0%
1970s 0 0%
1980s 3 3%
1990s 57 57%
2000s 32 32%
2010s 8 8%
2020s 0 0%
Artist Albums %


The Roots 6 6%
CunninLynguists 6 6%
A Tribe Called Quest 4 4%
Cyne 3 3%
Common 3 3%
OutKast 3 3%
Nas 2 2%
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Country Albums %


United States 94 94%
Mixed Nationality 4 4%
United Kingdom 2 2%

Best Hip Hop Albums of All Time chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 17 from 68th to 51st
Ready To Die
by The Notorious B.I.G.
Climber Up 14 from 57th to 43rd
People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm
by A Tribe Called Quest
Climber Up 8 from 66th to 58th
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
by Ice Cube
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 30 from 35th to 65th
Home
by Spearhead
Faller Down 9 from 59th to 68th
One Day It'll All Make Sense
by Common
Faller Down 6 from 50th to 56th
Mecca And The Soul Brother
by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

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