best rap album ever

[toucan82]

EPThorn is correct

 

[GatorHorn]

1. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

2. People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Funk And Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest

3. Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest

4. Fear Of A Black Planet - Public Enemy

5. Mecca And The Soul Brother - Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth

6. Aquemini - OutKast

7. Def Certificate - Ice Cube

8. Muddy Waters - Redman

9. Radio - LL Cool J

10. Raising Hell - Run DMC

 

[addison4ya_28]

Im going:

1) The Chronic
2) All Eyes On Me
3) BIG Notorious
4) Aquemini

 

[sportswriter]

I gotta go with:

Nas' Illmatic
Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders

and, as a darkhorse (not the best of all time, but one that is quite slept on)...

Jeru tha Damaja's "The Sun Rises in the East", album is almost 15 years old, and I still listen to it.

 

[D-mack01grad]

The Foreign Exchange - Connected

Little Brother - The Chitlin Circuit, The Listening, The Minstrel Show

Rapper Big Pooh - Sleepers

All GREAT post 2000+ albums

Pre2000...

Have to go with Tribe: The Low End Theory

 

[Anastasis]

Outkast is one of my favorite groups, but The Chronic is the correct answer. Lots of other good ones already mentioned. I'd submit two more for consideration:

 

[HornsHornsHorns]

Post-2000, I'll pick these five

OutKast - Stankonia
Eminem - Eminem Show
Common - Finding Forever
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Nas - Hip Hop is Dead

There are some other good ones, some of which have been mentioned above. And this is just off the top of my head, so I may be missing a record I might put in there if I really thought about it. But these strike me as the top 5 of the decade.

 

[AustinBadger]

Biggie's 'Ready to Die' is without question the best rap album in history. I was just listening to it tonight - for about the 4387th time - and literally every rap is sick.

And, yes, Blackstar is insanely good.

Also.....any album by Jurassic 5 is on this list.