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I'm 25 and definitely count as Millennial, but I've seen that bracket go from 1980 to 2000, and I have little in common in terms of shared experience with a 34 year old or a 14 year old. And it sounds like you mean the kid variety of Millennial, which I know nothing about.
But defining mid-2000s albums:
-Below the Heavens
-God Loves Ugly, Seven's Travels, You Can't Imagine, The Seasons EPs, ..Lemons...,
-Something or other produced by 9th. I'd go with the first two Murs projects, but the first two LB projects are equally valid options
-College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation
-Blueprint, Black Album
(I stopped keeping up with new music a little before So Far Gone exploded, and I don't know how it is received in retrospect, but I'd guess that's a huge one.)
Not exhaustive (and obviously coloured by my own preferences), but the important thing to note is that unlike the golden age (as I understand it), things were so fragmented that you could create a full list of "classic" albums for underground listeners (from Doom to Atmosphere to Sage) and another list for mainstream listeners. As far as I can tell, the only artists that crossed onto underground lists from the mainstream are Jay and Kanye.
(Obviously I could be forgetting people.)
Then there was the whole hardcore scene, exemplified by the Necro camp and in a different way Cage, and the whole abstract scene, including a wide range of people from Aesop to Busdriver, and the whole experimental beat scene, from El-P to Edan, some or all of which tended to alienate the neo-golden-age listeners who were into 9th and Atmosphere and Doom.
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