Criteria: These Top 10 Must Listen To Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums for each year 2000‑2009 were ranked based on popularity, innovation, and overall quality of music.
Edited By: R. Thomas
Last Updated: 2010-01-29
Rap Albums 2000‑2009
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2009
1. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt.II - Raekwon 2. The Ecstatic - Mos Def 3. The Blueprint 3 - Jay Z 4. Man on the Moon: The End of Day - Kid Cudi 5. Boy Meets World - Fashawn 6. Born Like This - DOOM 7. Never Better - P.O.S. 8. Strange Journey - CunninLynguists 9. Chamber Music - Wu-Tang Clan 10. Jay Stay Paid - J Dilla
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2008
1. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne 2. Tronic - Black Milk 3. Late Night Cinema - Blue Sky Black Death 4. The Renaissance - Q-Tip 5. I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind Pt II - Killer Mike 6. Paper Trail - T.I. 7. Rising Down - The Roots 8. Untitled - Nas 9. When life gives you lemons... - Atmosphere 10. Madvilliany Pt 2 - Madvillian
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2007
1. Graduation - Kanye West 2. Kala - M.I.A. 3. Desire - Pharoahe Monch 4. Dirty Acres - CunninLynguists 5. American Gangster - Jay-Z 6. 8 Diagrams - Wu-Tang Clan 7. The Big Doe Rehab - Ghostface Killah 8. The Scenic Route - Panacea 9. The Offering - Killah Priest 10. Ear Drum - Talib Kweli
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2006
1. Fishscale - Ghostface Killah 2. Game Theory - The Roots 3. Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse 4. Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco 5. Hip Hop Is Dead - Nas 6. Donuts - Jay Dee 7. A Piece of Strange - CunninLynguist 8. Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell - Jedi Mind Tricks 9. YoYoYoYoYo - Spank Rock 10. A Heap of Broken Images - Blue Sky Black Death
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2005
1. Late Registration - Kanye West 2. Be - Common 3. S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. - One Be Lo 4. The Mouse and the Mask - DANGERDOOM 5. A Healthy Distrust - Sage Francis 6. A.W.O.L. - AZ 7. The Minstrel Show - Little Brother 8. True & Livin - Zion I 9. Reloaded - Smif-N-Wessun 10. The Documentary - The Game
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2004
1. Madvillainy - Madvillain 2. The College Dropout - Kanye West 3. No Said Date - Masta Killa 4. MM.. Food - MF Doom 5. The Pretty Toney Album - Ghostface Killah 6. A Long Hot Summer - Masta Ace 7. Connected - The Foreign Exchange 8. Legacy of Blood - Jedi Mind Tricks 9. The Grey Album - Danger Mouse 10. Street's Disciple - Nas
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2003
1. Speakerboxxx / The Love Below - OutKast 2. The Black Album - Jay-Z 3. Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent 4. Rip the Jacker - Canibus 5. Southernunderground - CunninLynguists 6. Revolutionary Vol. 2 - Immortal Technique 7. Shadows on the Sun - Brother Ali 8. The Ownerz - Gang Starr 9. Boy in da Corner - Dizzee Rascal 10. Birth of a Prince - RZA
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2002
1. Phrenology - The Roots 2. God's Son - Nas 3. The Eminem Show - Eminem 4. Legend of the Liquid Sword - Genius / GZA 5. Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious 6. Quality - Talib Kweli 7. The Lost Tapes - Nas 8. The Fix - Scarface 9. Personal Journals - Sage Francis 10. Power in Numbers - Jurassic 5
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2001
1. Stillmatic - Nas 2. The Blueprint - Jay-Z 3. The Realness - Cormega 4. Disposable Arts - Masta Ace 5. Iron Flag - Wu-Tang Clan 6. Will Rap for Food - CunninLynguists 7. The Best Part - J-Live 8. Expansion Team - Dilated Peoples 9. Revolutionary Vol. 1 - Immortal Technique 10. Bulletproof Wallets - Ghostface Killah
Top 10 Rap/Hip‑Hop Albums 2000
1. Stankonia - OutKast 2. Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah 3. Masters of the Universe - Binary Star 4. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 5. Violent By Design - Jedi Mind Tricks 6. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 7. Quality Control - Jurassic 5 8. Train of Thought - Reflection Eternal 9. Like Water for Chocolate - Common 10. Let's Get Free - Dead Prez
