Runny-Ray's 40 Most Essential Hip-Hop Albums Of All-Time

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

dr dre - the chronic
snoop doggy dogg - doggystyle
wu-tang clan - enter the 36 chambers
nas - illmatic
mobb deep - the infamous
raekwon - the purple tape
bone thugs-n-harmony - e.99 eternal
2pac - all eyez on me

 

[mobbinfms]

dr dre - the chronic
snoop doggy dogg - doggystyle
wu-tang clan - enter the 36 chambers
nas - illmatic
mobb deep - the infamous
raekwon - the purple tape
bone thugs-n-harmony - e.99 eternal
2pac - all eyez on me

I see the Infamous. We good. Have a feeling I'm gonna vehemently disagree with the last 8.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

I see the Infamous. We good. Have a feeling I'm gonna vehemently disagree with the last 8.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

only 8 more to go folks.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

makaveli - don kiluminati.....the 7 day theory
notorious big - life after death
master p - ghetto d
dmx - its dark & hell is hot
juvenile - 400 degreez
the lox - we are the streets
jay-z - the blueprint
young jeezy - thug motivation 101

 

[mobbinfms]

makaveli - don kiluminati.....the 7 day theory
notorious big - life after death
master p - ghetto d
dmx - its dark & hell is hot
juvenile - 400 degreez
the lox - we are the streets
jay-z - the blueprint
young jeezy - thug motivation 101

Actually only disagree with half of these.
Ghetto D
400
Lox
Jeezy

Some of the others maybe I wouldn't have picked - but I ain't mad at it.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Actually only disagree with half of these.
Ghetto D
400
Lox
Jeezy

Some of the others maybe I wouldn't have picked - but I ain't mad at it.

whats ur beef with these?

and who would you replace them with?

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

ghetto d is the album that changed the entire landscape of the rap game. i dont see how thats not an essential album.

and 400 degreez was the cement to ghetto d's foundation.

we are the streets = the quintessential & influential post-90s east coast street album

tm101 - most influentrial album over today's current rap game.

 

[JuvenileHell]

I'm actually not mad at this list

 

[ISO]

makaveli - don kiluminati.....the 7 day theory
notorious big - life after death
master p - ghetto d
dmx - its dark & hell is hot
juvenile - 400 degreez
the lox - we are the streets
jay-z - the blueprint
young jeezy - thug motivation 101

Don't see how Makaveli is an essential or LOX or DMX tbh. Like you can talk about hip hop history without mentioning those albums.

 

[JuvenileHell]

Don't see how Makaveli is an essential

Makaveli came out at the peak of the fukkery surrounding Tupac. Not to mention that Pac went at

Nas
Jay z
Mobb Deep
Big
Hatian Jack

and others on that album. And if I remember correctly it came out after Pac died? How is it not a landmark album?

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Don't see how Makaveli is an essential or LOX or DMX tbh. Like you can talk about hip hop history without mentioning those albums.

@ the bolded, i agree. and i believe that you saw my original top 25 list, and none of these albums were on it. in fact, these were prolly amongst the last 5 that made the cut.......which poses the question, sure youre correct with the bolded, but could you say the same if you were told that you had to mention a minimum of 40 albums?

makaveli is the essential soundtrack to the hottest topic in rap history. now that i think about it, i actually took its importance for granted when i was making this list. it shouldve prolly been on that original top 25.

edit: @juvenile hell just beat me to the punch on that makaveli response.

i just explained the lox pick in my previous post. and i dont see how you can gloss over that album unless youre ignoring the east coast after '99.

you cant talk hip-hop history without DMX.

 

[ISO]

Makaveli came out at the peak of the fukkery surrounding Tupac. Not to mention that Pac went at

Nas
Jay z
Mobb Deep
Big
Hatian Jack

and others on that album. And if I remember correctly it came out after Pac died? How is it not a landmark album?

I don't care about that fukkery , how you gonna have Makaveli but no Ready to Die?

 

[JuvenileHell]

I don't care about that fukkery , how you gonna have Makaveli but no Ready to Die?

Sure you may not have cared, (were you even around then? ) But the Pac rape case, his beef with Big were HUGE, you can't deny that.

Point blank, you can't talk Hip Hop history without Pac, and you can't talk Pac without Makaveli.

With that said I agree that Ready To Die is an essential album too.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

so i should have put "ready to die" on there instead of "life after death"?

its no point in having both.