Your collection is being taken away from you but you get to keep 10 albums. Ain't no honorable mentions either. 10, that's it! Choose wisely.

My 10

The Low End Theory
Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
93 'til Infinity
Soul Food
ATLiens

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Paul's Boutique
Death Certificate
illmatic
Ridin' Dirty

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

Ten favorite hip hop albums are:

Illmatic
36 Chambers
Midnight Mauraders
OB4CL
ATLiens
The Infamous
Blowout Comb
Black Star
Stress: The Extinction Agenda
93 Til Infinity

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Cuban Linx
Midnight Marauders
Hell on Earth
Southernplayalistik
Liquid Swords
Low End Theory
Illadelph Halflife
Supreme Clientele
Stakes is High
The Cold Vein

amerikkka's most wanted

illmatic


safe + Sound

the diary

the chronic

doggystyle

it takes a nation of millions

straight outta compton

ready to die

mama said knock you out

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

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

Nas - It Was Written
Mobb Deep - Infamous
Slum Village - Fantastic Volume 2
Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside
Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
Smif N Wessun - Dah Shinin
Purple Tape
JayZ - Reasonable Doubt
Kool G Rap - 4 5 6

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albums I really like but are still relatively 'young'.

To Pimp a Butterfly
Let's Get Free
Black On Both Sides
Train of Thought
Tetsuo & Youth
Game Theory
Like Water For Chocolate
Stankonia
American Gangster
Distant Relatives

http://islasoul.bandcamp.com

It Takes a Nation...
Doggystyle
ATLiens
Soul Food
It Was Written
Fantastic, Vol. 2
Illadelph Halflife
Low End Theory
Strictly 4 My...
Whut? Thee Album

"Dressed up like an evil villain dressed up like a soccer dad"

Black on Both Sides
Aquemini
To Pimp a Butterfly
Things Fall Apart
Illadelph Halflife
The Minstrel Show
The Blueprint
It Takes A Nation of Millions...
Like Water For Chocolate
ATLiens

Midnight Marauders
Illmatic
Graduation
Life After Death
The Fix
Moment Of Truth
The Blueprint
Train Of Thought
Internal Affairs

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Train of Thought
Like Water for Chocolate
Illmatic
The Blueprint
Connected
PRhyme
Aquemini
Buhloone Mindstate
Rhythm-al-ism
The Chronic

Those are my ten after a lot of deliberation but I had trouble leaving The Fix and Doggystyle off, after looking through this post. But I decided on The Chronic over Doggystyle because I find it to be more diverse in production (same reason I took Rhythm-al-ism over Safe & Sound...I like Safe & Sound better but Rhythm-al-ism is way more diverse). The Fix I just couldn't fit in but once I saw someone else list it I was like...shit. Cause I don't know that I could go the rest of my life without hearing Guess Who's Back.

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Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

dre - the chronic
odd squad - fadanuf fa erybody
curren$y - covert coup
little brother - minstrel show
tha dogg pound - dogg food
8ball & mjg - comin out hard
juvenile - 400 degreez
ugk - ridin dirty
beastie boys - paul's boutique
project pat - mista dont play


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Volume II
Madvillain
Purple Haze
Boy Meets World
Lil' B- I'm Gay
Hell Hath No Fury
Midnight Marauders
Brooklynati
Blaqkout
Illmatic


In no order.

Not all universal "classics" but probably my favorite albums to listen to at this moment. I excluded mixtapes otherwise I probably would've thought to include one of Lupe's F&F mixtapes, Cam's Public Enemy, Drought 3, and a few others. 10 is hard.

Paid in Full
It's a Big Daddy Thing
93 til Infinity
Makaveli
ATLiens
Soul Food
Let's Get Free
3 Feet High & Rising
Liquid Swords
Hell Hath no Fury

*If we could have used mixtapes, I'd replace HHNF with We got it For Cheap, volume 2.

Ready To Die
Dare Iz A Darkside
Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop
Illmatic
College Dropout

Reasonable Doubt
Southernplayalisticcadillacmuzik
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Midnight Marauders
Dogg Food

>Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop

so underrated

the production is ridic for that era and i just love diamond d's rap style on it. it's on some fun shit mostly but has just enough of that "don't test me" mixed in.

>the production is ridic for that era and i just love diamond
>d's rap style on it. it's on some fun shit mostly but has just
>enough of that "don't test me" mixed in.

that "i went for mine" loop hypnotizes me like nothing else. my favorite hip-hop beat, period.

blowout comb
stunts, blunts & hip-hop
hard to earn
breaking atoms
midnight marauders
illmatic
liquid swords
black on both sides
do you want more?!?
bizarre ride II pharcyde

Damn I forgot the Roots, I would have trouble picking one though.

Nice list-I could live with these ten

some lesser stuff with some more enjoyable things going on, or just for variety's sake?

yea, I can't just take my top 10 can I? Be too boring, or stuff I've heard too much. Hmmm.

I'll include where these are on my list though just for fun.

Madvillainy (3)
Kanye - MBDTF (6)
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb (8)
Edan - Beauty & The Beat (18)
Beat Konducta Vol. 5 - Dil Cosby Suite (23)

OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (25)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint (34)
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (53)
Curren$y - Pilot Talk (67)
Lil' Wayne - Da Drought 3 (101)

the one I REALLY wanted to keep but couldn't find room for is Three Six Mafia's Underground Vol. 1. I'd have also taken Kingpin Skinny Pimp's or Koopsta Knicca's album. I just couldn't find a spot for 'em...

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in no order

Midnight Marauders
Bastard (tyler the creator)
400 Degreez
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Operation Doomsday
Supreme Clientele
To Pimp A Butterfly*
Illmatic
Below The Heavens
Moment Of Truth

*it's still new and I want to hear it a lot more. not that it's in my top 10

I'm assuming no compilations because that would make things too easy.

Regardless, here's my 10, in no particular order.

Enter the 36 Chambers
Illmatic
Midnight Marauders
It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
'93 'til Infinity
Paid In Full
Straight outta Compton
One Day It'll All Make Sense
Stakes is High
License to Ill

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Never Tired, Always Sleepy

Moment of Truth
Aquemini
It's Dark and Hell is Hot
The Blueprint
Be
College Dropout
The Listening
Donuts
I Do What I Do
Jewelz

Illmatic
OB4CL
Midnight Marauders
Doggystyle
Like Water For Chocolate
Illadelph Halflife
Aquemini
Fantastic. Vol. 2
Madvillainy
Hell Hath No Fury

*I really hate that I can't include Things Fall Apart, Blueprint or Labcabincalifornia. But with only 10 some classics ain't gonna make it.


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Pete Rock and CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Nas - Illmatic
Slick Rick - Great Adventures
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Outkast - ATLiens
Little Brother - The Listening
Dogg Pound - Dogg Food
Big K.R.I.T. - 4EvaNaDay

That was way too hard. I think I initially had all 10 being east coast albums released between 1990-1995, as that's what I tend to favor. But then I decided to try to get some albums that featured different sounds, from different eras to account for different moods.

Definitely not my top 10 albums ever, but 10 albums that I love, where I tried to mix it up a bit in both sound and content.

But damn....no Redman, EPMD, Wu Tang, PE, De La, Scarface, LL, Kane, BDP....let me stop before I edit my list again.

Same issue with me. Are we wanting more variety or just going with what we can't live with out. I had three Wu albums at first but then took one off.

Criminal Minded
Death Certificate
It Takes A Nation
Southerplayalistic
The Sun Rises In The East
No One Can Do It Better
Raising Hell
Strictly 4 My Niggaz
Let The Rhythm Hit Em
Game Theory

These are in no particular order, just the cds that I listen to on the regular that I can't go without.

Slum Village "Fantastic Vol.2"
Jay Dee "Welcome 2 Detroit"
Group Home "Livin' Proof"
Cella Dwellas "Realms 'N Reality"
Pharoahe Monch "Internal Affairs"
Quasimoto "The Unseen"
Common "Like Water For Chocolate"
Pete Rock "Soul Survivor"
Soul In The Hole Soundtrack
Dj Magic Mike "Bass Is The Name Of The Game"

It's so many I had to take off the list but that's my top ten "I gotta listen to at least once every few weeks" cds.

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i ALMOST put a skratch album in my 10.

I've been a fan ever since I kept hearing people blast "Feel The Bass" in their cars and I just had to find out what it was, and have it for myself even though all I had was a cheap boom-box.

When his 2nd album dropped, I got it on cassette, and a year later special ordered it on vinyl, but it's more than just an instrumental scratch album cause it has rap songs on it too, and not all the songs are fast the majority of them are mid-tempo joints, so he covers all bases and nothing really compares to that album back then or now.

I still get people hunting that album down cause they miss it so.

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

huge Magic Mike fan.

if i had more to bring I'd probably a couple of his albums. he is one of the most unheralded hip hop pioneers, hands down.

>Soul In The Hole Soundtrack

It's got hard to not-so-hard track on it, but it's got almost an all-star selection on it, the funny thing is I've been listening to the album since it came out but still haven't seen the movie for it.

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
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I never hear people talk about it much. Every track on there is dope though. This got bumped down to my 11-20 list. I love that Wu-All Stars track. That Xzbit song is so ill as well.

It's surprising to me how little it gets mentioned. I don't even think there's another hip-hop soundtrack close to it.

Look at the fucking line up

Dead Prez - second song I ever heard by them...first being Happiness on a Loud sampler.
Wu
Sauce Money over a Primo banger
MOP
Big Pun's first full joint after killing Off The Books
Xzibit with one of his illess joints ever
Cella Dwellaz...I stay souped up like Won-Ton
Mobb Deep with one of my favorite Havoc beats of all time
Common...maybe my favorite song by him period
Brand Nubian with a classic joint off their shelved album
Smif-N-Wessun will the ill back and forth joint
Wu All-Stars...Shyheim kicks the illess basketball verse ever here
Darc Mind...maybe the only slacker but Loud was pushing a new act
Organized Konfusion
OC comes through the kill it at the end with maybe the best song on the album.

This shit is damn near flawless!

The Unseen was like # 10 and a half...lol

I felt bad not adding it to the list. That and Deletion 3030

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A Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders
De La Soul- Stakes is High
Redman- Muddy Waters
Black Moon- Enta Da Stage
Smif N Wessun- Dah Shinin'
Heltah Skeltah- Nocturnal
Madvillian- Madvilliany
Ghostface Killah- Ironman
Gangstarr- Hard to Earn
Slick Rick- The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

Wow that was tough...AND I left off Nas AND Jigga AND Biggie AND Snoop

1. Criminal Minded
2. Enter The Wu
3. Cuban Linx
4. Operation Doomsday
5. Peoples Instinctive
6. Stunts, Blunts



I'm legit stuck here. I wanna take like 20 of my fav Moka Only songs but they span mad albums.

...it's just kind of hard to chose one and the funny thing is I only have ten of them and he puts out anywhere from 2 to 5 albums every year.

>I wanna take like 20 of my fav Moka
>Only songs but they span mad albums.

I'm am partial to "Lowdown Suite" & " Carrots & Eggs"

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& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

>...it's just kind of hard to chose one and the funny thing is
>I only have ten of them and he puts out anywhere from 2 to 5
>albums every year.
>
>>I wanna take like 20 of my fav Moka
>>Only songs but they span mad albums.
>
>I'm am partial to "Lowdown Suite" & " Carrots & Eggs"
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>
>



He's an absolute beast. I have a playlist from all his albums from 2003 to present that's over 300 tracks. Crazy that he remains so unknown. I think he's the best sangin' rapper of all time.

Cause I fucking love MOkA. Would love a long compilation of his work, I have much of it, but be nice to see something edited.


werd.

>Cause I fucking love MOkA. Would love a long compilation of
>his work, I have much of it, but be nice to see something
>edited.
>
>
>werd.



my playlist is 274 songs. everyday there's like 5 songs that come on i have to run back 10 times in a row.

Airport 4 sticks out as well (at least I think it's 4, haha)

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Common - Resurrection
OutKast - ATLiens
OutKast - Aquemini
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Kanye West - Late Registration
CunninLynguists - A Piece Of Strange
Jay Dee - Donuts
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Drake - Nothing Was The Same

Wanted to keep the majority of the selections fairly recent (post 2000's) because as much nostalgic value a lot of 80's and 90's rap albums have for me, I'm more likely to revisit something that I haven't played to death yet. Only regret is not being able to fit Enta Da Stage and De La Soul Is Dead.

Esteemed author of the celebrated, double-platinum post: "Drake - Wu-Tang Forever".

Raekwon - OB4CL
Digable Planets - Reachin'
De La Soul - Is Dead
Jay Z - American Gangster
Kanye West - Late Registration
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
Notorious BIG - Ready To Die
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

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Earl's debut album
The Main Ingredient
2000 Grand Puba
De La Soul Is Dead
Midnight Marauders
93 Till Infinity
To Pimp A Butterfly
Mama Said Knock you Out
Iron Man
Illmatic

In order of release...

1 Illmatic
2 Liquid Swords
3 ATLiens
4 Moment of Truth
5 Soul Survivor
6 The Fix
7 Donuts
8 Never Better
9 Skelethon
10 Tetsuo & Youth

I tried to span my years of listening. A few that were the hardest to leave out;

The Main Ingredient - I elected to go with Soul Survivor for the various MCs.
The Infamous & Dah Shinin' - both are the epitome of mid-90s NYC hip-hop but so is Liquid Swords and I needed a Wu album in the mix.
Stakes Is High - hard to not have De La.
Aquemini - couldn't have two Kast albums and ATLiens always edges it out.
TFA, BOBS, LWFC, & TOT - wish I could take the best of this era.
Trophies - this album is tied to my wedding and honeymoon so it represents a great time in my life.

Last note...no west coast albums but I just don't reach to play any of them very often for whatever reason. Sorry R-Tistic! At least Aesop was living in SF while writing and recording Skelethon so maybe that counts?

madvillain - madvillainy
cannibal ox - the cold vein
company flow - funcrusher plus
de la soul - stakes is high
de la soul - the impossible mission
gravediggaz - 6 feet deep
pete rock & cl smooth - mecca and the soul brother
prince paul itstrumental
rjd2 - your face or your kneecaps
a tribe called quest - might marauders

Death Certificate
Mm Food
Aint a Damn Thing Changed (WC and the MAAD Circle)
Rhythmalism
Edutainment
Fear of a Black Planet
Time Will Reveal (ATL)
Aquemini
Guerillas in the Mist
Chronic

UGK - Ridin Dirty
Big Mike - Somethin Serious
ATCQ - Midnight Marauders
Redman - Dare Iz a Darkside
Outkast - ATLiens
The Best of KRS One
Eric B n Rakin - Pain in Full
K Dee - Ass Gas or Cash No One Ride For Free
Ice Cube - Death Certificate

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

It Was Written
Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Soul Food
Operation Doomsday
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Ironman
Illadelph Halflife
Wu Tang Forever
It Takes A Nation Of Millions
Doggystyle (version with G's Up Hoes Down)

I went for albums that had some length to them. Gotta maximize my 10 slots.

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...but we could only put 10 albums on the list, but these three would be there if he aksed for 15

>De La Soul is Dead
>Runaway Slave
>Stunts Blunts & Hip Hop

I use to listen to these three album religiously for mad years, not as much these days but I still go back to it like once a year but those three are like staples in changing how hip-hop albums sounded.

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One For All - Brand Nubian
Don't Sweat The Technique
Fruits Of Nature - UMC's
Low End Theory
Illadelph Halflife
Liquid Swords
To Pimp A Butterfly
No One Does it Better- The Doc
Stakes Is High
Muddy Waters - RedMan

1. Supreme Clientele
2. Ironman
3. The Unseen
4. Donuts
5. The Ecstatic
6. Pilot Talk 2
7. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
8. Madvillain
9. Wu-Tang Forever
10. When The Smoke Clears

just off the top of my head

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It's not fair man. How can I choose between so many classic albums?

I did my best, but I'd probably need to spend a year to really do this. There's so many emcees that aren't in this list but it's just albums so I have to leave them off. This list is like 55% nostalgia. Some of these albums haven't been tested recently though. I'm not sure I'm going to feel the same way now. I can't believe I have to leave off ATLiens, De La Soul Is Dead, Nokturnal. Anyway...

Tribe Low End Theory
Mos Def Black on Both Sides
X-Clan Xodus
Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers
The Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
De La Soul Bahloon Mindstate
Souls 93 'Til Infinity
Xzibit Foundation
Goodie Mob Soul Food

-Jay-Z-The Blueprint
-Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek-Train Of Thought
-Notorious BIG-Life After Death
-Foreign Exchange-Connected
-A Tribe Called Quest-Midnight Marauders
-Joe Budden-Mood Musik 2
-OutKast-ATLiens
-Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
-Kanye West-College Dropout
-Bubba Sparxxx-Deliverance

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Thanks for mentioning this. This is a fantastic album that was criminally slept on. It probably won't make a top 10 for me but I can't be mad at someone for putting it on their list.

Deliverance DEFINITELY made the list. Fantastic rap album that kinda got lost in that early G-Unit time period and discounted because a white, country rapper made it (even though Bubba did have a couple decent hits).

>-Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek-Train Of Thought

Kweli is not one of my favorite MCs but this album is just something special

I get it for the most part, but for emcees that are almost universally considered at the top of their profession, it is interesting that they are for the most part missing from these lists.

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For me personally, I love Rakim and KRS. Not big on BDK though I respect his legacy. I just had to put the albums I grew up with in the mix. I included my two favorite albums from the 80s and unfortunately they didn't make the cut. My third would be Slick Rick's The Great Adventures...

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which is why you won't see them.

obviously in the rap pantheon those guys aren't going anywhere...and their best songs are still fucking great...but their whole albums? i don't think they hold up to most of the albums that people have listed in this thread.

And I came to a similar conclusion as well. BDP/KRS and Kane were primarily singles artists for me (Criminal Minded being one of the biggest exceptions).

But I kept coming back to Paid In Full. I think everyone can admit it's a classic album. It's definitely not perfect, but it is a masterpiece. I think those 2 songs (and everyone knows what two songs I'm talking about) are the weak link in an album full of hits. A case could be made for Follow the Leader as well, but it didn't spawn the singles and airplay that Paid in Full did.

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early to late 80's hip hop is the innovations in sampling/production (along with new equipment that was available).

it allowed for a wider diversity of beats vs. a lot of early drum machines (SP12, TR 808, TR 909, LINN, DMX) so that on one particular album from, say...1993, the likelihood that your ear is gonna wear out is lower because you're not hearing 3 tracks in a row that are built solely off the 808 and 909 or whatever. i think this becomes an ever bigger problem when you're revisiting an album from 1987 in 2015 vs. judging that album in 1987 when it came out.

I hate the word "dated" because everything is dated, but the advancement, production wise, when you compare some of the 90s classics listed hear compared to the albums people usually cite to by the legends (KRS, Rakim, BDK) is kind of undeniable IMO. This is probably why my favorite album by KRS is actually The Return of the Boom Bap, with By All Means Necessary being a close second.

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I'll play, here are my 10:

Ghostface: Ironman
Ghostface: Supreme Clientele
Rae: OB4CL
Juggaknots: Clear Blue Skies
Prince Paul: A Prince Among Thieves
Beatnuts: Street Level
Common: Like Water For Chocolate
Kast: Stankonia
Can Ox: Cold Vein
Gang Starr: Moment of Truth

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>Your collection is being taken away from you but you get to
>keep 10 albums. Ain't no honorable mentions either. 10, that's
>it! Choose wisely.
>
>My 10
>
>The Low End Theory
>Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
>93 'til Infinity
>Soul Food
>ATLiens
>
>It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
>Paul's Boutique
>Death Certificate
>illmatic
>Ridin' Dirty

The Low End Theory
Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
93 'til Infinity
Soul Food
ATLiens

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Paul's Boutique
De La Soul Is Dead
Death Certificate
illmatic

Sorry UGK. I had to do it

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

As stated, this is hard as hell. I tried to grab a mixture of my favorite classics as well as recent, as I see them, masterpieces. Things that speak to me on various levels.

ATCQ - The Low End Theory
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Drake - Take Care
Goodie Mob - Soul Food
JAY Z - American Gangster
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Nas - It Was Written
Outkast - ATLiens
Rick Ross - Teflon Don

I play that album at least three or four times a month. Dark Man X came through with this one. The beats were greasy. Pun intended. He was spittin!

Nation of Millions
In a Major Way
Death Certificate
Life is Too $hort
Good Kid Maad City
Illmatic
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Makavelli
Aquemini
Stunts Blunts and hip-hop


So Bay wit it.

Buhloone Mind State
Atliens
Train of Thought
Mr. Hood
Illadelph Halflife
Supreme Clientele
Internal Affairs
Illmatic
Hard to Earn
The Platform

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you have sexually transmitted crazy mouth...DEALBREAKER!

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> Buhloone Mind State

Gets better every year

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob