100 Most Underrated Rap,
Hip-Hop Albums

album covers '93 Til Infinity by Souls of Mischief, Breaking Atoms by Main Source
Criteria: These Underrated Rap/Hip-Hop Albums were chosen for being either grossly ignored commercially or underrappreciated critically.

Last Updated: 2005-01-16
Newly added names are in  Red 
Underrated Rap, Hip-Hop Albums
  1. '93 Til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
  2. Breaking Atoms - Main Source
  3. Uptown Saturday Night - Camp Lo
  4. No One Can Do It Better - The D.O.C.
  5. I Wish My Brother George Was Here - Del the Funkee Homosapien
  6. A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing - Black Sheep
  7. Illadelph Halflife - The Roots
  8. The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World - Keith Murray
  9. Here Come the Lords - Lords of the Underground
10. Foundation - Brand Nubian
11. Thug Life - Thug Life
12. Tougher than Leather - Run-D.M.C.
13. Capital Punishment - Big Pun
14. Eyes On This - MC Lyte
15. Mecca and the Soul Brother - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
16. Comin' Out Hard - Eightball & MJG
17. Business Never Personal - EPMD
18. ATLiens - Outkast
19. Eazy Duz It - Eazy E
20. The Love Movement - A Tribe Called Quest
21. Da Art of Storytellin' - Slick Rick
22. Liquid Swords - GZA/Genius
23. The Fix - Scarface
24. Watermelon, Chicken, & Grits - Nappy Roots
25. Aziatic - AZ
26. Still Standing - Goodie MOB
27. Quik Is the Name - DJ Quik
28. Enta Da Stage - Black Moon
29. Derelicts of Dialect - 3rd Bass
30. Station Identification - Channel Live
31. Done By the Forces of Nature - Jungle Brothers
32. Poverty's Paradise - Naughty By Nature
33. Dere Iz A Dark Side - Redman
34. Sun Rises In the East - Jeru Da Damaja
35. Runaway Slave - Showbiz & A.G.
36. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
37. Soul Food - Goodie MOB
38. Dr. Octagonecologyst - Dr. Octogon
39. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
40. And the Winner Is... - Chubb Rock
41. Bacdafucup - Onyx
42. 21 and Over - Tha Alkaholiks
43. Ain't A Damn Thing Changed - Nice & Smooth
44. Lost Tapes - Nas
45. Tical - Method Man
46. A Future Without A Past - Leaders of the New School
47. Blue Funk - Heavy D and the Boyz
48. Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion
49. The Master - Rakim
50. Kollage - Bahamadia
51. Ridin' Dirty - UGK
52. War Report - Capone-N-Noreaga
53. 613: Ashy to Classy - Field Mob
54. Ironman - Ghostface Killah
55. Trap Muzik - T.I.
56. The Album - Questionmark Asylum
57. Do You Want More?!? - The Roots
58. Scorpion - Eve
59. Same As It Ever Was - House of Pain
60. Ain't No Shame In My Game - Candyman
61. The Natural - Mic Geronimo
62. Stone Cold Rhymin' - Young MC
63. No Mercy - Da Youngstas
64. Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 - Guru
65. Internal Affairs - Pharoach Monche
66. Holy Intellect - Poor Righteous Teachers
67. Kwame: The Boy Genius - Featuring A New Beginning-Kwame
68. A Prince Among Theives - Prince Paul
69. Thugs Are Us - Trick Daddy
70. The Ruler's Back - Slick Rick
71. 400 Degreez - Juvenile
72. Death Is Certain - Royce Da 5'9
73. Guerillas In the Mist - Da Lench Mob
74. Sleeping With the Enemy - Paris
75. Steal This Album - The Coup
76. Shock of the Hour - MC Ren
77. The 18th Letter - Rakim
78. Dead Serious - Das EFX
79. Home - Spearhead
80. Sons of the P - Digital Underground
81. Youngest In Charge - Special Ed
82. No Pressure - Erick Sermon
83. Fantastic, Vol. 2 - Slum Village
84. Philadelphia Freeway - Freeway
85. First Family 4 Life - M.O.P.
86. Escape - Whodini
87. Attack of the Attacking Things - Jean Grae
88. Industry Shakedown - Bumpy Knuckles (Freddie Foxxx)
89. Blowout Comb - Digable Planets
90. Behind the Front - The Black Eyed Peas
91. Fruits of Nature - U.M.C.s
92. Hello Nasty - the Beastie Boys
93. 2nd II None - 2nd II None
94. Gravity - Da Bush Babees
95. Dah Shinin' - Smif-N-Wessun
96. Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine - Cee-Lo
97. Broken Silence - Foxy Brown
98. Jealous One's Envy - Fat Joe
99. The Ecleftic: II Sides to a Book - Wyclef Jean
100. Close To You - Father MC


'93 Til Infinity album cover
Breaking Atoms album cover
Uptown Saturday Night album cover
No One Can Do It Better album cover
I Wish My Brother George Was Here album cover
A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing album cover




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