I think nyc_eagle put up a list like this in the "Greatest albums ever" thread, but I'd like to humor 50 Cent's thread by having a separate space to reminisce over great rap records. My random top ten of the moment:
Schoolly D - Schoolly D
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Anti-pop Consortium - Arrythmia
De La Soul - 3 feet High and rising
EPMD - Strictly Business
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Probably shows my biases and history with rap. I was heavily into it as a kid/teenager, loved all the classics, got disgusted with the mainstreaming and endless critical praise of the Puff/Biggie/TuPac thing by the mid 90's, and am now slowly getting back into the more eclectic new stuff and figuring out what I missed or overlooked from the 90's (I'm finally beginning to appreciate the Wu Tang clan, for example, though I'd still not put any single album up there as a classic).
Thoughts?
Schoolly D - Schoolly D
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Anti-pop Consortium - Arrythmia
De La Soul - 3 feet High and rising
EPMD - Strictly Business
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Probably shows my biases and history with rap. I was heavily into it as a kid/teenager, loved all the classics, got disgusted with the mainstreaming and endless critical praise of the Puff/Biggie/TuPac thing by the mid 90's, and am now slowly getting back into the more eclectic new stuff and figuring out what I missed or overlooked from the 90's (I'm finally beginning to appreciate the Wu Tang clan, for example, though I'd still not put any single album up there as a classic).
Thoughts?
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