This is a good shout. Just consistently awesome club rap beats with the endlessly charismatic Meth and Red rhyming in unison on top of them.

I doubt it, I think The Low End Theory will but up there also.

anything up till the due date which will predictably be towards november is eligible, meaning i'm putting R.A.P. Music on my list lol

Clams Casino, Lauryn Hill, eligble?

yeah, as long as rym categorizes in some way as hip hop or a subgenre of it it's cool. I feel like most of you will think in terms of what's the best album within the genre rather than feeling that something that just has traces of hip hop is the best album overall. I think you should think in terms of genre first before, meaning closer to what you hear sounds like hip hop (as pave says). Genre already means categories and trying to extend out too far seems more of an argument to what's considered hip hop than conjuring a list of pre-established signifying traits that we know. Give yourself tighter and more focused limits and you can dig deeper and deeper rather than being overwhelmed by elusive definitions of the genre.

looked at all the rap stuff i have in my itunes and i've changed my mind bros, i'm mos def down for a rap list, though i have a few queries:
1.) are we counting actual rap albums and mixtapes as separate? should we make different lists for each?
2.) are we doing songs lists as well? coz i'm actually down to do a songs list this time around
3.) are we doing a 2012 PT list? the november due date seems to clash a bit with this as some might have to cram in order to make both
otherwise LET'S DO THIS SHIT

1. same. I always felt mixtapes were practically albums
2. yeah, but it's optional. I love song lists to death so I'll be doing one.
3. We are, which is why the due date will be around november. We've been working on 2012 lists throughout the year so a month or so should give you ample enough time to concoct a list.

sweet

requesting links/dropbox for:
Funcrusher Plus
Like Water for Chocolate
Deltron 3030
Original Pirate Material
Boy in da Corner
Check Your Head
Ill Communication
A Piece of Strange
Dirty Acres
Los Angeles (FlyLo)
Life is Good
Elmatic
The Lost Tapes
Underground Vol. 1: 1991-1994
Bigtyme Recordz Volume II: All Screwed Up
Metaphorical Music

Much love for your #1.

I've been meaning to get around to listening to more hip hop anyway, so this won't be too hard.

Right now, the only albums that'll definitely be in my Top 10 are "Paid in Full", "It Takes a Nation of Millions" and maybe "Ten" by cLOUDDEAD. "Boy in da Corner" , "Low End Theory" and "Never Better" will probably be in the Top 50.

Don't know what to do with WHY? albums given the high amount of non-rap songs on their albums.

Oh man i've already got my songs list done, it'll probably change but i feel it's pretty solid:
1.) B.O.B.
2.) Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang
3.) Gold Digger
4.) The Message
5.) Mo Money Mo Problems
6.) Soul Flower (Remix)
7.) Rapper's Delight
8.) Bowtie
9.) Country Shit (Remix)
10.) California Love
11.) So Fresh, So Clean
12.) Get Ur Freak On
13.) Freestyler
14.) N.Y. State of Mind
15.) Big Beast
16.) Rosa Parks
17.) Shook Ones Pt. II
18.) Keep Ya Head Up
19.) Yonkers
20.) Elevators (Me & You)
21.) I Used to Love H.E.R.
22.) Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
23.) Orange Juice
24.) Check the Rhime
25.) 99 Problems
26.) Ms. Jackson
27.) Machine Gun Funk
28.) A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
29.) The World is Yours
30.) 212
31.) Definition
32.) Juicy
33.) Children's Story
34.) Stronger
35.) The Breaks
36.) M.E.T.H.O.D. Man
37.) The Way You Move
38.) Steve Biko (Stir It Up)
39.) Me Myself & I
40.) Feel Good Inc.
41.) Monster
42.) Liquorice
43.) My Name Is
44.) Jumanji
45.) Murder
46.) In da Club
47.) Big Poppa
48.) Niggas in Paris
49.) I'm Not Crazy
50.) Lose Yourself

This is roughly every hip hop album I own in alphabetical order. Can I get some recs to go with that?


2Pac – All Eyez on Me
2Pac – Me Against the WorldThe 5th Dimension – The Age of Aquarius
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Big K.R.I.T – Return of 4Eva
Binary Star – Masters of the Universe
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
Clipse – Lord Willin’
Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Dr. Dooom – First Come, First Served
Dr. Dre – 2001
Dr. Dre – The Chronic
Eminem – The Eminem Show
Eminem – The Marshal Mathers LP
Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
GZA – Liquid Swords
J Dilla – Donuts
Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt
Jay-Z – The Black Album
Jay-Z – The Blueprint
Kanye West – Late Registration
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West/Jay-Z – Watch the Throne
Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
Lil B – I’m Gay
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
Madvillain – Madvillainy
MF DOOM – Mm... Food
Method Man – Tical
Missy Elliott – Miss E... So Addictive
Missy Elliott – Under Construction
Mobb Deep – The Infamous
Mos Def – Black on Both Sides
Nas – Illmatic
The Notorious B.I.G – Ready To Die
N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All - Radical
Organized Konfusion – Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Outkast – Aquemeni
Outkast - ATLiens
Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Outkast – Stankonia
The Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt II
Raekwon – Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
The Roots - Phrenology
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Tyler, The Creator - Bastard
Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
UGK – Ridin’ Dirty
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan – The W
Wu-Yang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever

here's some from my list I think you might like, you've probably heard most of these

Camp Lo- Uptown Saturday Night
Jurassic 5- EP and Quality Control
Kanye West- The College Dropout
Cunninlynguists- Dirty Acres, Southernunderground and Oneirology
De La Soul- 3 Feet High and Rising
Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
MF Doom-Operation: Doomsday
Talib Kweli- Quality
Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite
Nujabes- Metaphorical Music
k-os- Joyful Rebellion
The Roots- Game Theory ,Illadelph Halflife, Do You Want More

Based on that list, you'd probably like (all of these are going on my list, too)...

De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
Del the Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
Eric B & Rakim - Follow the Leader
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Run DMC - Run DMC
Run DMC - Raising Hell

Cool, thanks guys! These are all the ones I haven't heard before. I will get downloading.