'essential' Rap/hip Hop Albums

[3rd gen noob]

i've got quite a collection of rap/hip hop music, but i was wondering if anyone can suggest any albums i might not have that they consider to be 'essential'

tia :)

[Busyman]

Don't know what you have already

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by Busyman@18 December 2003 - 19:26
Don't know what you have already
i was worried about that...erm...i have ~60GB of music...it'd be hard to list it all
the only way would be to do a dos list of the files or to create a list with a program like list maker, but i'm not sure if that'd fit in a post here, and i don't want to host the list...

[BigBank_Hank]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@18 December 2003 - 15:30
...i have ~60GB of music...
60 gigs of music and you still want more? My my my aren't we greedy :P

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by BigBank_Hank+18 December 2003 - 20:32--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (BigBank_Hank @ 18 December 2003 - 20:32)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-3rd gen noob@18 December 2003 - 15:30
...i have ~60GB of music...
60 gigs of music and you still want more? My my my aren&#39;t we greedy :P [/b][/quote]
:lol:

[sparsely]

what I consider essential:

Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

LL Cool J - Bigger & Deffer

Fat Boys - i dont&#39; remember which one :P

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He&#39;s The DJ, I&#39;m The Rapper

Eazy-E - Eazy Duz It

Scarface - (solo self-titled)

Geto Boys - Geto Boys

DJ Quik - Quik Is The Name

NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa&#39;s Most Wanted

Too Short - Shorty The Pimp

Dr. Dre - The Chronic

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle

that&#39;s about all I can remember for now, but I&#39;m sure you have most all of these.

[Schumacher_Skaife]

Nate Dogg - Music And Me

Dave

[sparsely]

nate dogg???&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;
:blink: :huh: :lol:
...riiiiiight

[Evil Gemini]

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle

The best one imo.

[dingoBaby]

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by Sparsely@19 December 2003 - 00:41
Eazy-E - Eazy Duz It
don&#39;t have this one, thanks :)

got the rest though

[Evil Gemini]

I dont like Eazy-E&#39;s voice because he sounds like a mosquito.

[N£MO]

anti pop consortium - shopping carts crashing

Dr. Dooom - First Come First Served

Jay-Z-The Black Album


mf doom is viktor vaughn vaudeville villain


Mos Def&Talib Kweli-Black Star


mr. lif - i phantom


A few quality Hip Hop albums IMO. :D

[Desert Eagle]

Nas - Illmatic

2Pac - Me Against the World

Notorious BIG - Ready to Die

JayZ - Reasonable Doubt

Outkast - ATLiens

Run DMC - Raising Hell

Beastie Boys - Licence to Ill

Ice Cube - Death Certificate

Fugees - The Score

Westside Connection - Bow Down

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory

[TRshady]

I consider these essentials:

Snoop dog - Doggystyle
Eminem - Marshall Mathers lp
Nas - Illmatic
2pac - All eyez on me
Biggie - Ready to die

Not to say whats already been said ...
Good idea for a post though, i need more variety :)

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by N£MO@19 December 2003 - 09:15
anti pop consortium - shopping carts crashing

Dr. Dooom - First Come First Served

mf doom is viktor vaughn vaudeville villain

mr. lif - i phantom


A few quality Hip Hop albums IMO. :D
not got these, cheers for the idea... :)

[Skillian]

7L & Esoteric - Dangerous Connection
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
Non Phixion - The Future Is Now
Arsonists - As The World Burns
Common - Like Water For Chocolate
Lost Boyz - Legal Drug Money
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Scarface - The Fix
Talib Kweli & DJ Hi Tek - Reflection Eternal
Soundbombing II

and if you get into the UK sound you&#39;ll find loads of new stuff.

[2Pac_4_Life]

All the 2pac albums are good

i recommend the 2pac - All eyez on me album

Ludacris - back for the first time
Ludacris - word of mouf
Ludacris - chicken and beer

[adjective-noun-number]

Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner

[slick nick]

alkaholiks 21 & Over & Coast II Coast
chino xl - Here to Save You All
cella dwellas realms n reality (met them on 34th street in the train station under macy&#39;s)
common sense - can i borrow a dollar & resurrection
goodie mob - soulfood
(met ag in a train station in downtown manhattan)
az - sugarhill
krs one - sex and vioence
freddy foxxx aka bumpy knuckles - Freddie Foxxx Is Here, industry shakedown
ras kass - soul on ice. if you like this get his other two albums rassassination and van gogh
diamond d - Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop Chemistry & Hatred, Passion & Infidelity
fat joe - represent & jealous ones envy (95 not the recent one)
organized konfusion - extinction agenda
oc - word life
kurious jorge or kurious george - constipated monkey
das efx Dead Serious & Straight Up Sewaside
akinyele - vagina diner (met him last year at my health insurance office)
apache - self titled
black moon - enta da stage
mop - to the death and firing squad
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal Priority & Magnum Force
smif n wessun - dah shinin (got the one with the dreadlocks autograph on a train platform coming from a university library back in september :D )
jemini the gifted one - Funk Soul Sensation(yet another mc i met on a train. i said to him "you look familiar...are you a cop. he said hell no. then a couple minutes later it came to me and i asked him when his next album was coming out)
brand nubian - One for All, In God We Trust, Everything Is Everything (saw sadat x at a yankees parade in the canal of heroes in downtown manhattan)
grand puba - Reel to Reel & 2000
Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect, Pure Poverty, Black Business, New World Order
special ed - Youngest in Charge, Legal, Revelations
onyx - bacdafucup & all we got iz us
killa army - Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Channel Live - Station Identification
digable planets - Reachin&#39; (A New Refutation of Time and Space) & Blowout Comb
saafir - Boxcar Sessions
souls of mischief - &#39;93 &#39;Til Infinity & No Man&#39;s Land
black sheep - A Wolf in Sheep&#39;s Clothing, Non-Fiction
artifacts - between a rock and a hard place
big l - lifestyles of da poor and dangerous
mc eiht - We Come Strapped
spice one - spice 1, 187 he wrote, amerikkkas nightmare, 1990 sick and the black bossalini
mystikal - Mind of Mystikal & Unpredictable
master p - the ghettos tryin to kill me
tru - tru 2 da game
gridlock&#39;d - original movie soundtrack
west coast bad boys 2 - 2pac tribute
ganksta nip - The South Park Psycho
mc ren - shock of the album
jay z - reasonable doubt and in my lifetime vol 1

most are essential hip hop classic albums from the early to mid albums that are a must hear stuff like bob dylans blonde on blonde or blood on the tracks while others are some of the best gangsta shit on wax. all of this is findable on soulseek since i downloaded most of these albums from there. classics in most respects .

Edit: mispellings and labels albums were released on being in the titles corrected. here are the corrections:

showbiz and ag - goodfellas & runaway slave
diamond d - Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop & Hatred, Passion & Infidelity
krs one - sex and violence
mc ren - shock of the hour
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal & Magnum Force

you&#39;ll definately feel all these joints.

[3rd gen noob]

thanks for all the suggestions...there&#39;s quite a few here i haven&#39;t got :)