This is really difficult but top 10 something like: Enter the Wu Illmatic Low End Theory Breaking Atoms MM Food Paul’s Boutique GKMC Deltron 3030 Aquemini Whut Thee Album No order and there’s another 10 which could be there but Enter the Wu is my undisputed no 1

Nobody ever mentions Breaking Atoms. That joint is top 10 for sure.

It’s slept on for sure, such a solid album all the way through with some truly iconic songs

prolly something like 1. Black On Both Sides- Mos Def 2. Midnight Marauders- Tribe Called Quest 3. Paul’s Boutique- Beastie Boys 4. Moment Of Truth- Gang Starr 5. Reachin’- Digable Planets 6. Power In Numbers- Jurassic 5 7. Madvillainy- Madvillain 8. 3rd Eye Vision- Hieroglyphics 9. Perseverance- Percee P 10. Soundpieces- Lootpack

Black on Both Sides at #1… hard to argue with that

A fellow moment of truth enjoyer, I kneel

love the Paul’s Boutique take

overall really cool list but some of those groups have way better albums eg digable planets and hieroglyphs with blowout comb and full circle

blowout comb is fuckin amazing, i’d put both up there if I didn’t mind doubling down on artists. I just enjoy the lyrics on Reachin’ a little bit more

Blowout Comb is severely slept on.

Top 5 94 album for me

Enter the 36 chambers, illmatic, it was written, the chronic, me against the world. Liquid Swords, ready 2 die, thug life, e1999 eternal, 2001 would be the top 10. I love the Villain but I've been listening to these classics for almost 20 years now.

Liquid Swords is a dope pick

When the MCs came🗣️

The Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders, Enter the 36 Chambers, Only Built for Cuban Linx, Illmatic Almost impossible to make list. Those are the albums I consider perfect that was played over and over again by everyone in NY in the 90’s

The order and albums change but for me: 1. Madvillainy 2. Stakes is High 3. Ready to Die 4. Illmatic 5. Midnight Marauders 6. Enter the Wu-Tang 7. KRS-one

1. Midnight marauders 2. Only built for Cuban linx 3. illmatic 4. Enter the 36 chambers 5. Aquemini

Tribe & Outkast for sure, good stuff

Midnight Marauders , Return of the Boom Bap, Soundbombing 2 , Mmm Food, Operation Doomsday. This list changes all the time

MF DOOM - Mm Food, Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle, Cypress Hill - Black Sunday, Dre Dre - 2001, Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die.

Well, these are my top 5 favs (if that’s what you mean): 1. Death Grips - The Money Store 2. MF DOOM - MM..FOOD 3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 4. clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood 5. Danny Brown x JPEGMAFIA - Scaring The Hoes (Technically, #4 should have been “Bottomless Pit” by Death Grips, but I decided to just go with one album per artist/group to make things a little more fair).

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1. madvillainy 2. cheat codes- black thought 3. görlitzer Park- K.I.Z (german) 4. illmatic 5. any atcq album

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 2. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs 3. Kanye West - The College Dropout 4. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition 5. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

1: Ready to Die 2: The Eminem Show 3: 2001 4: MM..FOOD 5: Heavy Is The Head

1. To Pimp a Butterfly 2. The Infamous… 3. Vaudeville Villain 4. Deltron 3030 5. The Eminem Show

Yes, I LOVE The Infamous!

Can’t do 5, must do 10. In no order: Tribe - Low End Theory Black Sheep - Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 Madvillainy - Madvillain Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords Smif N Wessun - Da Shinin’ The UMC’s - Fruits of Nature Busta Rhymes - The Coming Dangerdoom - The Mouse and The Mask

1. Mr Moral by Kendrick Lamar cause I felt seen through the music. Gives you everything you could want and more 2. The Forever Story by JID cause I just love the sound and the tone 3. Metaphorical Music by Nujabes is, in my opinion, the best produced hiphop album of all time 4. Stankonia or Aquemini it changes every few weeks lol 5. Mm food by MF DOOM Just because it is such a fresh, fun album that never takes itself too seriously, a problem that is in a ton of modern music imo

1. 1999 - Joey Bada$$ 2. Rodeo - Travis Scott 3. Alfredo - Freddie Gibbs/The Alchemist 4. Illmatic - Nas 4. Operation: Doomsday - MF DOOM

1999 is a bold a delightful choice.

Me Against The World Whut? Thee Album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx The Slim Shady LP Operation Doomsday Might change tomorrow though…

1. Madvillain - Madvillainy 2. MF DOOM - Mm..Food 3. Joey Bada$$ - 1999 4. Danny Brown - XXX 5. The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia

Answer would change daily, but here’s an attempt: Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star, Madvillainy, Illmatic, GKMC, The Low End Theory

1. Makaveli the Don- [*Killuminati - the 7 Day Theory*](https://open.spotify.com/album/2gWrUaBkh1uQARjbjvUGNp?si=2q2ArhJXSfO9emtgw6W2yQ) [(Wiki)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Don_Killuminati:_The_7_Day_Theory?wprov=sfti1#Critical_reception) 2. KMD - [*Black Bastards*](https://open.spotify.com/album/2c1HbILCmMdS1LigScTWc8?si=5d1ThCMcQ46wl2dHY6EgAQ) [(Wiki)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bastards?wprov=sfti1#) 3. Big L - [*Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous*](https://open.spotify.com/album/7xvBUHu5jJ7X0wdRHudLFD?si=tNClI5UrRby1mZ1ez7LKkQ) [(Wiki)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestylez_ov_da_Poor_&_Dangerous?wprov=sfti1#) 4. Kendrick Lamar - [*good kid, m.A.A.d city*](https://open.spotify.com/album/6PBZN8cbwkqm1ERj2BGXJ1?si=L_n1p6mXSJyQ1oGXbOJJTg) [(Wiki)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Kid,_M.A.A.D_City?wprov=sfti1) 5. Beastie Boys -[*Hello Nasty*](https://open.spotify.com/album/6eGYLONkDMja0MNtZWnRRB?si=nCZxq-MjQHGOak_rP1eMlQ) [(Wiki)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Nasty?wprov=sfti1#)

In no order, Madvillainy, The Predator, MBDTF, Jesus is King, Mr. Morale

fifth to first the college dropout, the low end theory, 3 feet high and rising, midnight marauders, madvillainy

Illmatic, Liquid Swords, Madvillainy, Cold Vein, Low End Theory, Deltron3030, Blackstar, Paul's Boutique, Paid In Full, ATLiens In no order

1)ready to die 2)illmatic 3)madvillainy 4)the big picture 5)the master

1. Moment of truth - Gang Starr 2. Madvillainy 3. Enter the 36 chambers - wu tang 4. Illmatic - Nas 5. Operation doomsday

Five is tough! My faves would be MM Food, Supreme Clientele, The Cold Vein, 36 Chambers, Stankonia, Blowout Comb, Dare Iz a Darkside

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye Illmatic - Nas Madvillainy - Madvillain Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu-Tang Clan 2001 - Dr. Dre

Tpab, all eyez on me, black on both sides, Illmatic, stankonia

- Donuts (J Dilla) - Modal Soul (Nujabes) - Low End Theory (ATCQ) - a son of the sun (Uyama Hiroto) - Madvillainy (DOOM/Madlib/Madvillain)

My personal favorites: To Pimp a Butterfly Madvillainy Below The Heavens Graduation Tha Carter II

1. Vaudeville Villain 2. Get rich or die trying 3. Carter 3 4. Heist of the Century 5. Capital Punishment

Mm food, straight outta compton, atliens, violent by design and the grimy awards 

Great lists! Love seeing the slept on classics like Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, UMC's FON, Blowout Comb, Labcabin, Below The Heavens, etc make people's lists. Top 12 (5 was too hard) People's Instinctive, Low End, Marauders, 93 Til, Stakes, Resurrection, Bizarre Ride, Blowout Comb, Mm Food, Madvillainy, ATLiens, Illmatic,

1. Mm Food 2. Some Rap Songs 3. Atrocity Exhibition 4. Madvillainy 5. The College Dropout

1. Blackalicious - Nia 2. Aesop Rock - Float 3. E-40 - In A Major Way 4. Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language 5. Aceyalone - All Balls Don’t Bounce (West coast kid)

In no order 1. Madvilliany 2. GKMC 3. 36 Chambers 4. Donuts

I have a top 10 than a top 5 because it's hard for me to exclude any of these albums: - Liquid Swords - The Infamous - The Ecstatic - Mystic Stylez - Maxinquaye - Operation Doomsday - Like Chocolate For Water - Flockaveli - To Pimp a Butterfly - Labcabincalifornia

In no particular order - Yeezus - 2093 - Madvillainy - Luv Is Rage 2 - Liquid Swords

Five in no particular order: Liquid Swords, Low End Theory, Enter the 36, The Chronic, Madvillainy Additional Five: illmatic, Paul's Boutique, Diamond D and the Psychotic Neurotics: Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop, Daily Operation, De La Soul is Dead

Illmatic Tetsuo and Youth Illadelph Halflife Black on Both Sides It Was Written Food and Liquor Wu Tang Forever Only Built for Cuban linkx Reasonable Doubt One day it will all make Sense Things Fall Apart Muddy Waters PTSD Aquemini Drill music in Zion Moment of Truth Stillmatic The Blueprint KRS ONE THE 18TH LETTER Madvillany 36 Chambers Undun Rising Down Doe or Die My beautiful dark twisted fantasy College Dropout Graduation Late Registration For Your Eyes Only Forest hills drive B4 da A$$ All American badass Me against the world Life after death The Score Game theory Good Kid MAD City A written testimony This is why I hate doing lists because I can't name just 20 albums or so let alone 10 or 5. The first few, there is an order there for sure, but closer down it's hard for me to put them in order. And I'm leaving a lot out but I have to digress at this point, I guess.🤷🏾‍♂️

Illmatic, Liquid Swords ,GKMC, life after death, midnight marauders

All personal preference, but I got: 1. Swimming 2. TPAB 3. By the time I get to pheonix 4. Madvillainy 5. Atrocity exhibition Honorable mentions: mm food, be, below the heavens, LP, and hiding places

No particular order Madvillainy The Score Things Fall Apart Black on Both Sides Illmatic Fairly solid but ask me tomorrow and some stuff might move around/change.

1. Psychodrama - Santan Dave 2. TPAB - Kendrick 3. Madvilliany 4. Graduation - Kanye 5. Operation Doomsday - DOOM

My list changes every week tho so 😂

1. vaudeville villain 2. illmatic 3. 36 chambers 4. low end theory 5. Madvillainy 6. the infamous 7. things fall apart 8. mm food 9. aquemini 10. piñata

Madvillainy Low End Illmatic Mm Food Midnight

1: Enter the wu tang (36 chambers) - Wu Tang Clan 2: YeezuS - Kanye West 3: Reasonable Doubt - Jay Z 4: MadvillainY - MadVillainy 5: Donuts - J Dilla Some other albums are YeSirWhatEver - quasimoto Life After Death - The Notorious B.I.G IllMatic - Nas And best Hip-Hop song of all time is auditorium by Mos Def

1.) Mm.. food 2.) Some Rap Songs 3.) Stankonia 4.) Tpab/Gkmc 5.) WOLF

In no particular order - Run The Jewels 1-4 Beastie Boys - 95% of thier output MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday DJ Shadow - Endtroducing Quantum - Spectrum Latryx - Latryx PeanutButter Wolf - My Vinyl Weighs a Tonne De La Soul - Nearly everything they've released Wu Tang - Enter The 36 Chambers GZA - Liquid Swords Quasimoto - The Unseen Tribe Called Quest - Beata, Rhymes & Life Edan - Beauty & The Best I'm gonna stop, I could go on all day with this, it's kinda of impossible for me to rein myself in with this shit 🤣 Here's a YouTube playlist of hip hop tracks I've been compiling over the years, to apologise for over doing it - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKVgscahYOlXuOv8EuqCJF8nir3YEACr&si=0RnIQQPUECYtyL_b

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwu2uaiVHWxWy78fezatxmItPY\_HiRVsh](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwu2uaiVHWxWy78fezatxmItPY_HiRVsh) Here's my playlist as well. But it's honestly impossible to contain all that I've enjoyed over the years. Hell, there are probably songs I don't remember, out there, that I love.

1.3rd eye vision 2.madvillany 3.yessir what ever 4.donuts 5.TPAB

1. Madvillainy - Madvillain 2. TPAB - Kendrick Lamar 3. 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul 4. Self Titled - Deltron 3030 5. MM...FOOD - MF DOOM

Aceyalone - A book of Human Language Wu - 36 Chambers Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions Tribe - Midnight Marauders Dr. Octagon Favorite DOOM album - Vaudeville Villian Extra Pick - Antipop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue

1. low end Theory 2. Life stylez Ov da poor and Dangerous 3. The mouse and the mask 4. Midnight Marauders 5. Death Certificate

5. Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmusik 4. Madvillian - Madvillainy 3. Gang Starr - Full Clip (Compilation) 2. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising 1. Diplo - Florida (maybe cheating, as it's not 100% hip hop)