Hip-Hop Thread [ARCHIVED] Genre • Page 417

Lol I remember the thread on AP. It wasn’t fun to be around for the most part, you would just get ripped to shreds for having a dissenting opinion. Found plenty of great artists by lurking that thread though.

This thread >>>>>>>> that thread.

 

Guys I just realized the cover to Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a desk. Holy shit

 

Now im curious to see the diversity in here. What are everyones top 10 hip-hop albums of all time?

 

I’d post mine but I’d get clowned hard

 

Illmatic
The College Dropout
The Black Album
Enter the Wu Tang
Acid Rap
Ready to Die
Da Drought 3
Purple Haze
Late Registration
The Low End Theory


Pretty standard

 

DO IT

 

get hyped

 

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Yeezus
808s and Heartbreak
Take Care
Good Kid Maad City
Big Fish Theory
Aquemini
Flowerboy
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
DAMN

 

I've been thinking about making another all time list for my self, not a ton of hip hop in the higher part of my top ten. Does Blonde count?

A lot of the shit I listened to growing up has not aged well, and all of the stuff I've been really into lately still needs time to like coalesce. I only feel really connected to a handful of albums each year, so I'm way biased towards more recent shit.

Blonde
MBDTF
TPAB
Acid Rap
Speakerbox/The Love Below

XXX by Danny Brown
I Don't Like Shit I Don't Go Outside
So the Flies Don't Come by Milo
Peak by Choker

Maybe like the Blueprint or Reasonable Doubt, but haven't listened to those in a while. I'm into the new Smino but haven't played it a ton, the Isaiah Rashad record was really good but does it reach that high? Maybe an MF Doom, probably Mm Food, maybe Madvillainy, that one Wale mixtape I really like but haven't heard in years, I got into the Roots by playlists when i was like fifteen, I'd probably have to do a catalogue relisten to even pick a favorite by them. I like my top five and the rest is a mess, how the fuck am I gonna do this overall.

 

this would be my list just random order:

Scum Fuck Flower Boy
Yeezus
Big Fish Theory
The Chronic
Illmatic
Finally Rich
The Documentary
My Krazy Life
Get Rich Or Die Trying
Good Kid MAAD City

 

this thread is fucking awful and ive stopped frequenting it this year

point proven

 

Ready to die
Xxx
Mbdtf
TPAB
Aquemini
808’s
36 Chambers
The Blueprint
The Eminem Show
Tha Carter 2

No order

 

tbh my list would probably be different if I also just did top 10 mixtape/albums since then there be first asap rocky album, joey badass 1999 and id be debating with myself for a while

 

Tough question, I can try to pick 10 later. Definitely not a lot of the standard picks

 

If the old heads think this is mainly a non-old head thread (which it really is, you could easily go back through the thread and and see that) and the non-old heads think it is an old head thread, we might have actually struck a good balance?

Also like whatever you like but there’s definitely too much hyperbole in today’s rap conversation

 

I don’t think I’ve ever thought about my album top 10

Nas - Illmatic
LL Cool J - Mr. Smith
Cam’ron - Come Home With Me
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang
Ja Rule - R.U.L.E.
Common - Be
Jay Z - Blueprint
Biggie - Life After Death
Bun B - Trill
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens / Kanye West - Late Registration / Living Legends - Classic / The Roots - Game Theory / YG - My Krazy Life / Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

I made this in 2 minutes and I’m already thinking of other albums

Also I know like half of it is very predictable, but classics are classics for a reason

 

Lmao what, what did you see before when you looked at it?

 

My personal favourite albums/mixtapes of the genre.

Kanye West - Late Registration
Outkast - Aquemini
The Roots - Rising Down
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Danny Brown - XXX
Young Thug - Barter 6
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back


Which looks pretty "old head" but isn't fully representative of my tastes.

 

That’s the thing isn’t it, it usually isn’t. In my case that’s because I could never make a rational top 10, all of these albums have personal stories and memories attached to them.

 

It's hard to come up with an all time top 10. I had to leave a lot of more recent albums that I love off of my list because I feel like I need at least 5 years with them before I can consider them all time favorites. I made an exception for TPAB.

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West - Yeezus
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Drake - Take Care
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Nas - Stillmatic

This. Also shout out to you for having Rising Down on your list. Great album.

 

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these lists should require the age of poster, and then albums be arranged by year they came out. Just for curiosity sake

 

On the old head subject: I’m probably one of them, yet I post a lot of new music. Just because I’m not really interested in music clearly made for people younger than me (i.e. emo rap) doesn’t mean the new music I post shouldn’t count, I think. I mean, I’ve even been the one in this thread that has posted about Cardi B like a year before the rest, so it’s not like I’m Mr. Nothing But Boom Bap.

 

tbh i think just one look at mine and anyone can guess mid to late 20s lol

Also guys I'm open to suggestions for good emo rap. I'm not entirely closed off to the idea. I just haven't liked much of what I've heard other than Lil Peep.

 

I’m 28 but I started listening almost exclusively (like 80%) to rap and r&b in 2001, plus I also went back to the 90s and 80s immediately, so that explains why my list looks maybe a little older than me