Apple Music Top 100 Best Albums Of All Time
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This list was clearly just for clicks and to make them stream popular albums. Like a bunch of people here would have multiple albums in here if it was a serious top 100 instead of trying to fit in every artist in here 
I'm honestly not mad at the list. Obviously, I don't agree with it but that's never gonna happen with this list. They didn't go super safe and they went with albums that fir the most part I was familiar with. I feel like alot of millennials were a part of crafting this. I was surprised that Lauryn Hill was one but I aint mad at it.
Some gripes
-Kanye should have another one in there. CD def deserves to be on the list.
-You gotta have one of Linkin Parks first 2 albums on there. You talk about impact. They were the gateway band for lot of hip hop fans. They were a game changing band
-I get AEOM being there but I would much rather have MATW being there instead. That album more showcases who Pac really was an artist.
- Alicia Keys "Songs of A Minor" gottta be on the list.
- Illmatic should be higher.
But its all opinion so what evs. Gives folks something to talk about and thats always cool
Some gripes
-Kanye should have another one in there. CD def deserves to be on the list.
-You gotta have one of Linkin Parks first 2 albums on there. You talk about impact. They were the gateway band for lot of hip hop fans. They were a game changing band
-I get AEOM being there but I would much rather have MATW being there instead. That album more showcases who Pac really was an artist.
- Alicia Keys "Songs of A Minor" gottta be on the list.
- Illmatic should be higher.
But its all opinion so what evs. Gives folks something to talk about and thats always cool
tehparadox
All Star
Have you seen the video? They're saying TPAB is better than gkmc, but gkmc makes the list because its a more traditional rap album...but this list features all genres, wtf are they even talking about lol..."he had to make gkmc first in order to make better albums afterwards but we put gkmc in there because its the introduction" 
They're really making a weird list that looks way different than all these other lists lmao...they just trying to be different for the sake of it
They're really making a weird list that looks way different than all these other lists lmao...they just trying to be different for the sake of it
Metal Face
Superstar
GKMC > Illmatic confirmed 
Meaning albums that all came out before 1985. Boring and ridiculous, especially for a voting panel that is mostly under 40 years old.
I like the list. I don't care about the order; there's no sequence that would please a majority of people. I've listened to about 80-85 percent of the top 50 at least once, and I don't see a single one that I'd call bad or even mid.
Knockout_LR_Freshmart
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I would definitely put some newer albums in the top 50, but like I said for a general consensus #1 (which is meant to be safe) I’m not putting Miseducation. It’s definitely a great album, and it could be top 50 for this type of list (maybe even top 20), but it’s not going over any of those.
Blonde is more culturally significant than CO. It changed the landscape of pop music for male artist. Blonde is still #41 on the billboard 200, think about that shyt for a second. It’s the longest reigning independent album on the billboard #200. Ever. GKMC has been on the charts for 12 years straight, you can’t ignore these things
The top 3 could have been in any order tbh.
Y’all should be happy black artist are being recognized for their greatness, instead y’all in here arguing over semantics.
if i'm using the rationale you laid out to defend blonde, then the #1 album on this list is thriller, and it's not remotely close. sales wise, cultural impact, the actual quality of the music, how it shaped everything that came after... it is the bar that every other album is measured against for a reason.
purple rain won an academy award, won a grammy award, has been entered into the library of congress and made prince a megastar... on top of moving 25M units. at one point abbey road sat on the billboard 200 for 329 weeks and sold nearly 30M units.
so nah, i dont personally think miseducation is easily interchangeable with all three of those records. and i dont think it belongs ahead of songs in the key of life either. i'm good with it in the top 10 though.
and if sales/impact/relevance is part of the criteria... how are whitney houston and mariah carey both omitted from the list? and lol at the criteria they provided to justify their choices when they left rhythm nation off the list entirely.
just because i critique the list doesn't mean i dont understand the significance behind their choices. if they got it wrong they got it wrong, doesn't mean that i'm hating.
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She got accused of stealing music and not crediting musicians on it. There was a lawsuit after it got rewarded. Robert Glasper backed those claims a few years ago.
There will never be an album where everybody likes every song. Yes, "Jigga That nikka" is wack, but it doesn't change the status of that album. Reasonable Doubt had "Ain't No nikka" and people swear its Jay's best album.
I would encourage to actually research the lawsuit and the commentary from people who actually worked on the album. It wasn't like what that lawsuit claimed it was. Lauryn didn't do everything solo, which is why she was sued. Even the credits to the album debunked the claim that this was 100% Lauryn writing and producing on her own. The New Ark group that sued her even had help and they got credited on the album, but it wasn't properly distributed.
Robert Glasper is irrelevant to that album as he wasn't a part of the creation.
IIVI
Superstar
No DS2.
Instead Tyler the creator and Astroworld.
Tells you all you need to know.
Instead Tyler the creator and Astroworld.
Tells you all you need to know.
Kendrick has the greatest industry machine in hip hop history after EminemGKMC being a top 10 album of all time is genuinely out-fukking-rageous.
Media publications and Kendrick man... make it stop.
It is a monster. When it’s all said & done 15 years from now he will go down as the greatest rapper of all time on the majority of these publications, and only a portion of it will be due to the music & skills and an emcee