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Best 5 Hip Hop Albums For Every Year
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| EmSeeD |
Date: Saturday, 31/Jul/10, 9:03 PM | Message # 1 |
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We're putting together a list of top 5 hip hop albums from every year from 1984 all the way up until 2010. we're already doing it in the youtube group but we should use the other networks to contribute to the list too.
the way it will add up is the albums get 5 points if it gets named number 1, 4 points for being named 2, 3 points for number 3, 2 points for number 4 and 1 point for being named number 5 on peoples top 5 lists.
after the lists are drawn the top 2 albums from each year will be put against other albums in a tournament style brackets, we will have votes to see which album will come out as the greatest
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1984 - 1989
1984
1. Run DMC, RunDMC 25pts
2. Whodini, Escape 13pts
3. Treacherous Three, Threacherous Three 9pts
4. Grandmaster Flash, Greatest Messages 7pts
5. Kid Frost, Rough Cut 5pts
1985
1. LL Cool J - Radio 20pts
2. RunDMC - Kings of Rock 13pts
3. Too $hort - Don't Stop Rappin 8pts
4. World Class Wreckin Cru - World Class 7pts
5. DJ Grandmaster Flash - They Said It Couldn't Be Done 5pts
5. Kurtis Blow - America 5pts
1986
1. Run DMC - Raising Hell 19pts
2. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill 11pts
2. Doug E Fresh - Oh My God 11pts
4. Kool Moe Dee - Kool Moe Dee 9pts
5. Whodini - Back In Black 7pts
1987
1. Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full 30pts
2. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded 25pts
3. Public Enemy - Yo Bumrush The Show 20pts
4. NWA - NWA & The Posse 9pts
5. Ice T - Rhyme Pays 7pts
1988
1. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader 22 pts
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back 19pts
3. EPMD - Strictly Business 15pts
4. NWA - Straight Outta Compton 14pts
5. Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane 9pts
1989
1. The D.O.C., No One Can Do It Better - 24pts
2. De La Soul, 3 Feet High & Rising - 17pts
2. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Road To Riches - 16pts
4. Big Daddy Kane, Its A Big Daddy Kane Thing - 11pts
5. Ice-T, Iceberg/Feedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say - 10pts
1990 - 1999
1990
1. A Tribe Called Quest - Peoples Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm 16pts
2. Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth- Funky Technician 13pts
3. Eric B & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit Em 10pts
4. Ice Cube - Amerikkkas Most Wanted 8pts
5. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted: Dead Or Alive 8pts
1991
1. Ice Cube - Death Certificate 24pts
2. 2pac - 2pacalypse Now 23pts
3. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory 19pts
4. NWA - Niggaz4life 15pts
5. Gang Starr - Step In The Arena 12pts
1992
1. Dr. Dre - The Chronic 29pts
2. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother 26pts
3. Gang Starr - Daily Operation 14pts
4. Ice Cube - The Predator 12pts
5. Comptons Most Wanted - Music To Drive By To 10pts
1993
1. Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 38pts
2. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders 17pts
3. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle 13pts
4. De La Soul - Buhlonne Mind State 8pts
5. Guru - Jazzmatazz vol. 1 6pts
1994
1. Nas - Illmatic 39pts
2. Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East 21pts
3. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die 16pts
4. Common - Ressurection 13pts
5. Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik 12pts
1995
1. GZA - Liquid Swords 37pts
2. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 30pts
3. 2Pac - Me Against the World 21pts
4. Mobb Deep - The Infamous 17pts
5. The Pharcyde - Labincanifornia 15pts
1996
1. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst 17.5pts
2. Nas - It Was Written 14pts
3. The Roots - Illadelph Halfife 12pts
3. OutKast - ATLiens 12
5. Fugees - The Score 10
1997
1. Rakim - The 18th Letter 26
2. OC - Jewelz 18
3. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death 13
4. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever 13
5. Common - One Day It Will All Make Sense 8
1998
1. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth 24pts
2. Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are: Black Star 17pts
3. Big Pun - Capital Punishment 12pts
4. Brand Nubian - The Foundation 8pts
5. Killah Priest - Heavy Mental 7pts
1999
1. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP 35
2. Dr. Dre - 2001 21
3. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides 17
4. The Roots - Things Fall Apart 10
5. Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs 8
5. MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday! 8
2000 - 2010
2000
1. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 25pts
2. Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design 24pts
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 23pts
4. Common - Like Water For Chocolate 17pts
5. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 7pts
2001
1. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts 18pts
2. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1 9pts
3. Aesop Rock - Labor Days 7pts
3. Cormega - The Realness 7pts
5. Eyedea - The Many Faces of Oliver Hart 6.5pts
2002
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1. Nas - The Lost Tapes 19
2. Atmosphere - Godlovesugly 11
3. Nas - Gods Son 10
4. People Under The Stairs - OST 8
5. The Roots - Phrenology 8
2003
1. INI - Center of Attention 28
2. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2 16
3. Gang Starr - The Ownerz 15
4. 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin 10
5. Insight - Updated Software V. 2.5 8
2004
1. Madvillainy - Madvillainy 23
2. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer 18
3. MF Doom - MM.. Food 11
3. Kanye West - The COllege Dropout 11
3. Klashnekoff - Saga's of Klashnekoff 11
2005
1. Nujabes - Modal Soul 9
2. Edan - Beauty and the Beat 8
3. Tonedeff - Archetype 7
3. Panacea - Ink Is My Drink 7
5. Common - Be 6
2006
1. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange 25
2. J-Dilla - The Shining 18
3. Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor 9
4. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale 6
5. Vakill - Worst Fears Confirmed 5
5. Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet Treatment 5
5. Darc Mind - Symptomatic of a Greater Ill 5
2007
1. Blue Scholars - Bayani 16
2. Percee P - Perseverance 12
3. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens 9
3. Y-Society - Travel At Your Own Pace 9
5. Cilvaringz - I 8
2008
1. eLZhi - The Preface 10
2. Panacea - A Mind On A Ship Through Time 9
3. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold 8
4. Q-Tip - The Renaissance 5
4. Siah and Yeshua DapoED - The Visualz Anthology 5
4. Pacewon & Mr. Green - The Only Color That Matters Is Green 5
4. K-Rino - Triple Darkness Vol. 1 (Wreck Time) 5
4. Invincible - Shapeshifters 5
2009
1. Fashawn - Boy Meets World 17
2. CunninLynguists - Strange Journey 2 14
3. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 2 11
4. Souls of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge 10
4. Cyne - Water For Mars 10
2010
1. Panacea - 12 Step Program 18
2. Black Sheep - From The Pool of Black Genius 15
3. The Roots - How I Got Over 14
4. Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives 10
5. Random & K-Murdock - Forever Famicom 9
Elimination Rounds:
Round 1:
Run-DMC, Run-DMC vs Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
Whodini, Escape vs Boogie Down Productions, Criminal Minded
LL Cool J, Radio vs Run-DMC, Raising Hell
Run-DMC, Kings of Rock vs Eric B & Rakim, Paid In Full
Eric B & Rakim, Follow The Leader vs De La Soul, 3 Feet High & Rising/Kool G Rap, Road To Riches
Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation of Millions vs The D.O.C., No One Can Do It Better
A Tribe Called Quest, A Peoples Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm vs Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Mecca & the Soul Brother
Ice Cube, Death Certificate vs Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth, Funky Technician
Dr. Dre, The Chronic vs 2pac, 2Pacalypse Now
Wu-Tang Clan, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) vs Jeru The Damaja, The Sun Rises In The East
Nas, Illmatic vs A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders
GZA, Liquid Swords vs Nas, It Was Written
Raekwon, Only Built For Cuban Linx vs Dr. Octogon, Dr. Octogonecologyst
Rakim, 18th Letter vs Mos Def & Talib Kweli, Are Black Star
Gang Starr, Moment of Truth vs OC, Jewelz
Eminem, The Slim Shady LP vs Jedi Mind Tricks,Violent By Design
Dr. Dre, 2001 vs Deltron 3030, Deltron 3030
Masta Ace, Disposable Arts vs Atmosphere, Godlovesugly
Immortal Technique, Revolutionary Vol. 1 vs Nas, The Lost Tapes
InI, Center of Attention vs Masta Ace, A Long Hot Summer
Immortal Technique, Revolutionary Vol. 2 vs Madvillainy, Madvillainy
Nujabes, Modal Soul vs CunninLynguists, A Piece of Strange
Edan, Beauty and the Beat vs J Dilla, The Shining
Elzhi, The Preface vs Percee P, Perseverance
Blue Scholars, Bayani vs Panacea, A Mind On a Ship Through Time
Fashawn, Boy Meets World vs Black Sheep, From the Pool of Black Genius
CunninLynguists, Strange Journey Vol. 2 vs Panacea, 12 Step Program
Round 2:
Run-DMC, Run-DMC vs De La Soul, 3 Feet High & Rising
Run-DMC, Raising Hell vs Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Eric B & Rakim, Paid In Full vs Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Mecca and the Soul Brother
Dr. Dre, The Chronic vs Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the 36 Chambers
Nas, Illmatic vs Boogie Down Productions, Criminal Minded
GZA, Liquid Swords vs Ice Cube, Death Certificate
Raekwon, Only Built For Cuban Linx vs Nas, The Lost Tapes
Rakim, The 18th Letter vs InI, Center of Attention
Masta Ace, Disposable Arts vs Deltron 3030, Deltron 3030
Gang Starr, Moment of Truth vs Madvillain, Madvillainy
CunninLynguists, A Piece of Strange vs Panacea, A Mind On A Ship Through Time
Edan, Beauty and the Beat vs Fashawn, Boy Meets World
eLZhi, The Preface vs Panacea, 12 Step Program
Round 3:
De La Soul, 3 Feet High & Rising vs Rakim, The 18th Letter
Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back vs Deltron 3030, Deltron 3030
Eric B & Rakim, Paid In Full vs Madvillain, Madvillainy
Nas, Illmatic vs
GZA, Liquid Swords vs
Raekwon, Only Built For Cuban Linx vs
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| Adam |
Date: Monday, 20/Dec/10, 2:42 AM | Message # 376 |
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1. deltron 3030 - deltron 3030
2. Binary Star
3. Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
4. Common - Like Water For Chocolate
5. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
I JUST EXPLODED INTO RAINBOWS AND LOLLIPOPS!
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| El_Matador |
Date: Monday, 20/Dec/10, 10:06 AM | Message # 377 |
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No, wait. I'm changing my list 1. Jurrasic 5 - Quality Control (classic album!)
2. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (another fucking classic with only 1 wack song)
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
4. Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent by Design
5. Pep Love - Ascension
MENACE 2 JOKER: Go back to Mexico you damn spic
JOKER 2 MENACE: Shut up you fake nigga your a damn sand nigger not a full nigger 
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| barut |
Date: Monday, 20/Dec/10, 1:05 PM | Message # 378 |
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There was a real passion and anger in The Marshall Mathers LP. Encore, Relapse, even Eminem Show were wack, but his second was good. Bitch i'ma kill you:)
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| EmSeeD |
Date: Monday, 20/Dec/10, 5:18 PM | Message # 379 |
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alright new 2000 list Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design 24pts
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 24pts
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 23pts
Common - Like Water For Chocolate 17pts
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 7pts
Jurrasic 5 - Quality Control 6pts
Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2 6pts
Dead Prez - Lets Get Free 5pts
Binary Star 5pts
K-Rino - No Mercy 4pts
D.I.T.C. - D.I.T.C. 3pts
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - RTNHResurrection 3pts
Screwball - Y2K: The Album 2pts
Lyricists Lounge 2 2pts
Necro - I Need Drugs 2pts
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought 2pts
De La Soul - AOI: Mosaic Thump 1pt
Pep Love - Ascension 1pt
Masterminds - Underground Railroad 1pt
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| Adam |
Date: Monday, 20/Dec/10, 7:28 PM | Message # 380 |
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TAHST RIGHT BABY DEL DA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN IS WINNER!
I JUST EXPLODED INTO RAINBOWS AND LOLLIPOPS!
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| Abstract |
Date: Tuesday, 21/Dec/10, 12:26 PM | Message # 381 |
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Quote (Adam) TAHST RIGHT BABY DEL DA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN IS WINNER!
Can't leave out Deltron 3030... 
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| eboyd |
Date: Tuesday, 21/Dec/10, 4:11 PM | Message # 382 |
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Quote (Abstract) Can't leave out Deltron 3030... smh!..... please tell me you're joking lol
my new theme song
erikboyd60@hotmail.com
"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"
-T.S. Eliot
battle record:
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| eboyd |
Date: Tuesday, 21/Dec/10, 4:28 PM | Message # 383 |
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2001: 1. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
2. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1
3. Aesop Rock - Labor Days
4. Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein
5. Percee P - Now and Then (if this doesn't count then Nas -Stillmatic which i haven't even heard more than a couple of tracks off of. 2001 sucked. possibly the worst year in hip hop history)
my new theme song
erikboyd60@hotmail.com
"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"
-T.S. Eliot
battle record:
7-0-0
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| Treach |
Date: Wednesday, 22/Dec/10, 4:53 AM | Message # 384 |
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havent heard enough albums i guess, cus only 2 albums ive heard are worthy of being top 5
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Now you gotta have some sex appeal to get a record deal"
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| eboyd |
Date: Wednesday, 22/Dec/10, 12:27 PM | Message # 385 |
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Quote (Treach) havent heard enough albums i guess, cus only 2 albums ive heard are worthy of being top 5 that's what i'm saying! well, check my top 4 if you haven't yet. those are all dope and worthy of the list.
my new theme song
erikboyd60@hotmail.com
"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"
-T.S. Eliot
battle record:
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| s0dr2 |
Date: Wednesday, 22/Dec/10, 5:01 PM | Message # 386 |
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Quote (eboyd) 2001 sucked. possibly the worst year in hip hop history)
thank you
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
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| EmSeeD |
Date: Wednesday, 22/Dec/10, 5:33 PM | Message # 387 |
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i've just realized Jay-Z wasn't shit without the Nas beef, his albums weren't even on anybodies radar until the blueprint and the beef with nas Nas - Stillmatic
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 1
CunninLynguists - Will Rap For Food
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Cannibal Ox - Cold Vien
Cormega - The Realness
J-Dilla - Welcome 2 Detroit
Pete Rock - Petestrumentals
J-Live - The Best Part
Ghostface Killah - Bulletproof Wallets
Sticky Fingaz - Blacksrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones
KRS-One - Sneak Attack
Dilated Peopls - Expansion Team
De La Soul - AOI: Bionix
Tha Alkaholiks - X.O. Experience
RZA - Digital Bullet
Hi-Tek - Hi-Teknology
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save me
Aceyalone - Accepted Eclectic
Necro - Gory Days
The Beatnuts - Take It or Squeeze It
Kurupt - Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey
Molemen - Ritual of the...
Tech N9ne - Anghellic
Edo. G - Truth Hurts
Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag
Thirstin Howl III - Serial Killer
Redman - Malpractice
Chino XL - I Told You So
Guru - Baldhead Slick & Da Click
2Pac - Until the End of Time
Freestyle Fellowship - Temptaions
Self Scientific - The Self Science
Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star
G.Dep - Child of the Ghetto
Canibus - C! True Hollywood Stories
OC - Bon Appetit
Grand Puba - Understand This
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| El_Matador |
Date: Wednesday, 22/Dec/10, 5:33 PM | Message # 388 |
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1. Eyedea - The Many Faces of Oliver Hart (AMAZING!!!!!)
2. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
3. Cormega - The Realness\Nas - Stillmatic
4. Sticky Fingaz - [Blacktrash] The Autobiography of Kirk Jones
5. Chino XL - I Told You So Quote (eboyd) 2001 sucked. possibly the worst year in hip hop history Disagree. Have you heard one of my top 5 albums?
Or have you hear Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein? That shit is classic. But the most important album of this year to me is Eyedea's LP. Everyone, if you haven't heard it, please cop it, buy\download. You need to know that shit.
MENACE 2 JOKER: Go back to Mexico you damn spic
JOKER 2 MENACE: Shut up you fake nigga your a damn sand nigger not a full nigger
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| eboyd |
Date: Wednesday, 22/Dec/10, 6:18 PM | Message # 389 |
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Quote (El_Matador) Have you heard one of my top 5 albums? no, i will admit that i have not. Quote (El_Matador) have you hear Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein? is it not on my list? lol. even shitty years have dope albums. there's just so little material from 2001 that i found to be dope though. that's why i'm saying that. have you not heard Immortal Technique's "Revolutionary Vol. 1" (admittedly Vol. 2 was better but the other albums from 2001 don't touch that shit), Aesop Rock's "Labor Days" or Masta Ace's "Disposable Arts" (which was better than "A Long Hot Summer" btw  )? you have none of them on your list. just sayin' Quote (El_Matador) But the most important album of this year to me is Eyedea's LP those tracks you posted were ok. does he have anything on that album that just grabs your attention though? like some shit that just forces you to nod your head? post that if he has any on that album.
my new theme song
erikboyd60@hotmail.com
"True poetry can communicate before it is understood"
-T.S. Eliot
battle record:
7-0-0
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| El_Matador |
Date: Wednesday, 22/Dec/10, 6:59 PM | Message # 390 |
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Quote (eboyd) those tracks you posted were ok. does he have anything on that album that just grabs your attention though? like some shit that just forces you to nod your head? post that if he has any on that album. this album is dope overall, it's hard to just put the single tracks up. I really recommend you the whole album when you'll be bored Quote (eboyd) no, i will admit that i have not. Cormega's
- I Used to Love H.E.R. part II Sticky's (great concept album)
Jay's
Chino's
MENACE 2 JOKER: Go back to Mexico you damn spic
JOKER 2 MENACE: Shut up you fake nigga your a damn sand nigger not a full nigger
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