I'm not quite sure if there was (though I'm sure there are some strong contenders)

Tribe-Midnight Marauders
Wu- 36 Chambers
Snoop- Doggystyle
Black Moon- Enta Da Stage
De La- Buhloone Mind State
Souls- 93 Til Infinity
Master Ace- Slaugtherhouse

7 albums I can just about listen to straight through. Put these on rotation, and you can get through the better half of a day without really having to push the skip button ONE TIME.

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there is no way i can be honest with myself and say when i was 7, the best year for the hip hop album happened. but going back to some of those records as a young adult early 20s, i don't trip on anyone saying so

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illmatic
Ready to Die
Dare Iz A Darkside
Hard to Earn
Resurrection
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
SuperTight
The Diary
The Sun Rises In the East
Tical
The Beatnuts/Street Level
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Fear Itself
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Like It Should Be
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classics

>illmatic
>Ready to Die
>Dare Iz A Darkside
>Hard to Earn
>Resurrection
>Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
>The Sun Rises In the East
>Tical
>The Beatnuts/Street Level
>Stress: The Extinction Agenda
>Blowout Comb
>The Main Ingredient
>6 Feet Deep

never heard

>Between A Rock And A Hard Place
>Fear Itself
>IV Life
>Like It Should Be
>We Come Strapped
>A Constipated Monkey
>Word...Life
>Riders of the Storm: The Underwater Album
>SuperTight
>The Diary

Nas - Illmatic
Biggie - Ready to Die
Gang Starr - Hard to Earn
The Beatnuts - The Beatnuts: Street Level
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Common Sense - Resurrection
Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Jeru Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Scarface - The Diary
Redman - Dare Iz a Darkside
UGK - Super Tight...
O.C. - Word...Life
Digable Comb - Blowout Planet
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep

There's more I'm forgetting/leaving out. Either way, that's a thorough list.

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i forgot how great 91 was. i was only 12 (as of August 1st) but i'll never forget hearing LET for the first time. I don't think i heard A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing in it's entirety until January 92. Great album as well.

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Aquemini - Outkast
Rhythm-Al-Ism - DJ Quik
It's Dark & Hell Is Hot - DMX
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood - DMX (dude was on fire in 98)
Vol II Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z
Still Standing - Goodie Mob
My Homies - Scarface
Legends - Above the Law
40 Dayz & 40 Nightz - Xzibit
E.L.E. - Busta Rhymes
Ruthless for Life - MC Ren
Moment of Truth - Gang Starr
Capital Punishment - Big Pun
Steal This Album - Coup
War & Peace Vol I - Ice Cube
The Recipe - Mack 10
Shadiest One - Wc
Da Game Is To Be Sold Not To Be Told - Snoop Dogg (didn't like it when it first came out but gornw to like it since)



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....and maybe that groups 3rd best album at that ..fall 98 saved that year from sucking completely (Blackstar, Tribe, SV, Brand Nubian, Pete Rock)

Not telling you what should be yours but from those acts you just named I can see why you feel that way. You're down more with east coast acts and that's fine.... for you.

Quik, The Coup & ATL's albums alone made 98 a good year. Throw Goodie Mob's & DMX on top of that and you had the last year I was really down with hip hop.


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Have you heard Still Standing?

...very little stuff I like very much

classics IMO

>Aquemini - Outkast
>Moment of Truth - Gang Starr
>Capital Punishment - Big Pun

good to great

>Vol II Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z
>Still Standing - Goodie Mob (i remember i liked it, but was disappointed when it dropped. i haven't heard it in years)
>40 Dayz & 40 Nightz - Xzibit
>E.L.E. - Busta Rhymes

such strange records these too. who denied they were "hot", damn near classic in 98? no one; but 13 years later they sound dated and gimmicky/corny IMO

>It's Dark & Hell Is Hot - DMX
>Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood - DMX (dude was on fire
>in 98)

these bordered on decent to terrible

>War & Peace Vol I - Ice Cube
>The Recipe - Mack 10
>Shadiest One - Wc
>Da Game Is To Be Sold Not To Be Told - Snoop Dogg (didn't like
>it when it first came out but gornw to like it since)

to this day haven't heard any of these

>Steal This Album - Coup
>Ruthless for Life - MC Ren
>My Homies - Scarface
>Legends - Above the Law
>Rhythm-Al-Ism - DJ Quik

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

It ain't seein any yr from 88-96

Aquemini - Outkast
Rhythm-Al-Ism - DJ Quik - Classic
It's Dark & Hell Is Hot - DMX - good
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood - DMX - Good
Vol II Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z - Wack
Still Standing - Goodie Mob - good
My Homies - Scarface ehhh for Scarface
Legends - Above the Law - good
40 Dayz & 40 Nightz - Xzibit - Classic
E.L.E. - Busta Rhymes -okay
Ruthless for Life - MC Ren - solid
Moment of Truth - Gang Starr - Classic
Capital Punishment - Big Pun - Great
Steal This Album - Coup - Classic
War & Peace Vol I - Ice Cube - solid
The Recipe - Mack 10 - okay
Shadiest One - Wc - okay
Da Game Is To Be Sold Not To Be Told - Snoop Dogg - Downright Terrible(only good song was the 1st single)

people here aren't bumpin it and will front like they weren't on it back then. I thought that shit was like 8.5/10 at the time...it might be a 7/10 now

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Atliens alone makes a strong case for 96. If All Eyez on Me was a more focused single disk I would have went with 96 for sure.

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Atliens
The Score
Reasonable Doubt
Muddy Waters
The Coming
Ironman
It Was Written
Beats Rhymes and Life
All Eyez on me
Wrath of the Math
The Infamous
Enigma
High School High Sdtk
Hardcore

and that's off the top... i know im forgetting a couple

>i know im forgetting a couple

96 had so many good-great lps it's ridiculous.

add on please

illadelph
stakes is high
nocturnal

edit - (actually I might be wrong on that!)

April 95

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Hell on Earth fellas... you know that's what i meant

'88! "That's my favorite shit God!"

if there is a year...there were not many....93 was crazy!!!

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88 was the greatest yr BUT 91 was it's most creative overall. Sampling was at it's appex right before the stranglehold on sampling occured.

"Slaves got options...cowards aint got shit." --PS
"Once upon a time, little need existed for making the distinction between a nigga and a black�at least not in this country, the place where niggas were invented" -- Donnell A

Yeah I think this yr might be the best yr in hip Hop since 98.

So many dope albums came out this yr from new artists like Kendrick, Thurz, Big Krit and Schoolboy Q to vets like Wise Intelligent, Casual, Monch and Quik.

Let alone, 87-96.

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It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Str8ight Outta Compton
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Long Live The Kane
Follow The Leader
By All Means Necessary
Road To The Riches
He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper
A Salt With a Deadly Pepper
Road To The Riches


1991
The Low End Theory
Breaking Atoms
Death Certificate
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
De La Soul is Dead
Efil4zaggin
Cypress Hill
Naughty by Nature
We Can't Be Stopped
A Future Without a Past
Quik Is The Name

Hell, 89 and 90 may have something to say too....

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always leave out the most popular albums in favor of obscure shit.

onyx - bacdafucup
and naughty by nature - 19-naughty-3
were in fact probably the most popular albums of that year behind the chronic.

and the albums listed for 93 are far better.

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>and the albums listed for 93 are far better.

i don't really think slaughterhouse by masta ace is better than either of those.
i think the majority of fans of hip-hop that actually were buying and enjoying hip-hop albums IN 1993 would agree with that too.
that album was less than a footnote in the history of hip-hop.
the only reason people still talk about it is because people like chairman mao and other mind squad members liked it.

it's better than the Naughty album and especially the Onyx one. the only thing 19Naughty3 and Bacdafucup have over Slaughterhouse is popularity/sales.

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than anything on slaughtahouse.

slaughtahouse is defintely masta ace best album,
and it's not a bad album.
but it's not as good as advertised.

the source liked it due to the way they viewed rap music back in the early 90's and mostly because it was probably the first album to diss the west coast.

meanwhile bacdafucup & 19-naughty-3 took east coast sounding hip-hop mainstream and allowed for acts like the wu-tang clan to become popular afterward.

but of course, that means nothing...

Onyx was a gimmick and Naughty always had huge monster singles. Bacdafucup had about four songs that still get played by me today. you can keep the rest of that album. Their followup, All We Got Iz Us is a far superior album. Shit, i'd even take the third album over Bacdafucup.

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...but was also severely played out by late 93 (pop radio was playing "Slam") ...I guess the same could be said about Naughty

personally, i think discovering older shit w/o any of those "other" factors swirling around gives the purest look... i can def. see the argument of not "getting" the times and not having some of the context... but i think there's something to be said for the shit that you can listen to w/o any preconceived notions and still dig it..

Midnight Marauders a 2mil selling album obscure. Doggystyle, probably the most successful rap debut / 4mil seller, obscure. 36 Chambers which was a critical darling and sold a mil by 96 obscure. Souls' album that has one of the most recognizable rap songs "93 til Infinity", which an 18 yrs old rapper like Mac Miller raps over on his mixtape, obscure...

L, O, F, L!

i guess one can call Slaughterhouse and Enta Da Stage obscure, but whatever.

Onyx's album is gimmicky/corny as fuck now and sounds VERY DATED. I'll give you Naughty, for some reason they've been erased from our Hip Hop memories

>Midnight Marauders a 2mil selling album obscure. Doggystyle,
>probably the most successful rap debut / 4mil seller, obscure.
>36 Chambers which was a critical darling and sold a mil by 96
>obscure. Souls' album that has one of the most recognizable
>rap songs "93 til Infinity", which an 18 yrs old rapper like
>Mac Miller raps over on his mixtape, obscure...

no i didn't.

>i guess one can call Slaughterhouse and Enta Da Stage obscure,
>but whatever.
>
>Onyx's album is gimmicky/corny as fuck now and sounds VERY
>DATED.

lot of stuff is corny and dated. it's still enjoyable on some level.

>I'll give you Naughty, for some reason they've been
>erased from our Hip Hop memories

they were erased for the same reason cypress hill, heavy d, queen latifah, salt-n-pepa, house of pain, domino, etc. were erased.
they had white dollar success before it was en vogue.
this is what east coast rap journalist/taste makers favored in the early 90's. thankfully some never caught on...
ex.
warren g's 1994 album was wack.
k-dee's 1994 debut album was dope.
well, i've heard both. and uhh...
so many of these biases/opinions have been perpetuated by "knowledgeable" rap fans to formulate many rap fans "opinions" today.
a lot of you don't even know it but you have people like reginald dennis' and sascha jenkins opinions and favorites transplanted to your brain over where you formulating your own taste would have been.

or where you talking about another piece/post.

uhm in the west Cypress aint erased AT ALL. Domino had one hit record. Latifah, lol, who done erased her? She is imbedded in the hip hop lexicon.

sure if you wanna hate on writers of color who helped define the 90s rap world and who can hardly get print in mags now cause arrogant white writers like Bradon Soderberg, Noz, Tom Breihan, Alex Mcpherson and Sean Fennesy are preferred over them, that's you. i still respect what they have to say over those just listed who waste Guardian, New Yorker, Vulture, Spin, Rolling Stone, XXL, Pitchfork Tumblr space talkin about the greatness of Gucci, Souljah Boy, Rick Ross, Lil B and having hard-ons for the Clipse, Diplomats and 50.

than I discovered 90's hip hop in the 00's?? Not the case at all. I was born in the 70's. Well into my 30's. When I bought those albums, they were $10 cassete tapes. I listed albums like Slaughterhouse as opposed to Naughty and Onyx, because it was a better album...to me at least. The Chronic was a sick album, but as far as I remember, it dropped in late 92.

either way, it was a strong year. My friends who are a bit older tend to lean more towards some of those late 80's years. The guys I graduated with tend to lean more early 90's.




>always leave out the most popular albums in favor of obscure
>shit.
>
>onyx - bacdafucup
>and naughty by nature - 19-naughty-3
>were in fact probably the most popular albums of that year
>behind the chronic.

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1. 1988
2. 1991
3. 1998
4. 1994
5. 1999

NO! LIST
Tom Petty
M J
Zeppelin
Springsteen
Neil Young
Eagles
Ray Charles
Madonna
Chuck Berry
South Park TV Songs
Justin Timberlake
"Food Glorious Food"
"Twilight Zone" theme
"A Boy Named Sue"
"Night Moves"
"The Situation"
"Superbowl Shuffle"

99, that's when shit began to get a bit over-the-top IMO

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Things Fall Apart
Black on Both Sides
Operation: Doomsday
Internal Affairs
The Slim Shady Album
In My Lifetime Vol. 3
Murda Muzik
I Am...
Chronic 2001
Streetz Iz a Mutha
N@#$a Please
So, How's your Girl?
Blackout (Meth and Redman)
Soundbombing 2
Beneath the Surface

Ones that I like but I'm sure most wouldn't include:
Swollen Members - Balance
Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote
Atmosphere - Se7en
Dr. Dooom - First Come, First Served
Kool Keith - Black Elvis
Rubber Room - Architechnology

And few decent, but not great ones:
Inspecktah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance
O-God - Golden Arms Redemption
PGC - Mpire Strikez Back

Probably some I'm forgetting in there. Regardless, I personally wouldn't rank it THAT high in terms of great years for hip-hop.

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>Ones that I like but I'm sure most wouldn't include:
>Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote

TFA is the only great album on that list you could put against the cream
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i can't think of any classic material from those years that can compete with 93. Doggystyle, 36 Chambers, MM, 93 Til Infinity, Buhloone Mindstate, etc, what from 98 or 99 was fucking with that? Maybe Aquemini in 98 and TFA in 99

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The original version of Mad Flava's FROM THE GROUND UNDA was meant for an August 1993 release but was delayed until the spring of 1994 due to a sample, and that canceled it out from gaining the momentum Priority Records set for it in the summer of 93.

With that said, hard to say if 93 is a solid year. For me, it would be 1988 or 1989, with a preference towards 1989. But then again, 1979-1999 was an incredible period.




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It was a good year. Off top you had Dah Shinin, The Infamous, OB4CL... Soul Food And Liquid Swords. Still don't think it was better than the three years I mentioned as far as classic LPs go.

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and to me 94 felt magical and 96 was very very good.

98 was real good and then after that one here and there.


but to me 94 felt magical and lets remember the carry over of death records had that buzz in the air.

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

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