Aight, this is how it works;

I name the location, you list the top 5 albums from that spot on the map below.

I like to see if I'm missing anything.

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how did black star make the top 5 fam?

Ready to die
Blueprint
Blackstar album
Enta da stage
Reasonable doubt

*cue typical "only in okp" or "ur just mad jay has money/is popular" response

you're saying "blackstar" is better than "reasonable doubt," "blueprint," or "black album"? what a fanciful idea!

IMO RD is the best out of those three(which are all great album btw), between RD and Black Star its close, but I gotta give it slighty to Black Star, though I do really love reasonable doubt aint nothin on reasonable doubt like: respiration, KOS, Theives in the night

i don't even think black star is a good album, let alone one worth mentioning as the best from BK. talib kweli was unlistenable, there were a bunch of songs about rappity-rap shit, and the beats were yawn-inducing. it's an album that only has significance to people who were too young to enjoy BDP, public enemy and cube, but craved something "substantive." the idea that it's better than "blueprint" or "black album" is wildly absurd to me.

cauthe reality of ur post shows u got really shitty taste in music "GUCCI GUCCI" "BLOW BLOW BLOW WAKAWAKAWAKA". if u found Talib unlistenable and the beats yawn inducing there is nothing to debate. also that album wasn't rappity-rap at all, it was a social and political rap album. Reasonable Dount is much better than Black Star, and the Blueprint and Black Album may be better but that depends on taste and context

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M.O.P. - Warriorz
Gang Starr - Step In The Arena
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
Jay Z - Blueprint
XClan - To The East, Blackwards



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bigger and deffer
those should be listed just for impact alone

Run DMC - Run DMC
LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer
ATCQ - Midnight Marauders
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Salt N Pepa - Hot, Cool and Vicious


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Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, Only Built for Cuban Linx, Supreme Clientele, Liquid Swords, Tical

Am i lame for not being able to think of anyone outside of Wu? Maybe, but those are all classics right there.

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Weren't they still in jersey?

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DYWM
illidelph halflife
Things fall apart
he's the dj im the rapper
game theory
three times dope original stylin'

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I'd say 100 Miles & Running at #1.

Tabi's first one would probably be in the Top 5.

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they are from dc!? damn i love this album!

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Lord Willin
Supa Dupa Fly and/or Da Real World from Missy

In Search Of count as Hip Hop?

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Not really. I just wanted to throw that out for the heads who might recognize.


Best album is The Listening by Little Brother.

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Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Soul Food
ATLiens
Still Standing
Aquemini

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It feels like Florida has heeella hits, mainly on the club/partying tip, but not many ALBUMS that are respected nationwide. I got there in 02...so all the Tampa music, up to the modern Bing Ah and "I'm so high" shit was based off singles, and the albums all had weak album cuts.

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then we can get the convicts' self-titled LP in there. also, shout out to bottom posse's "2 saggin' straight from hell."

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dirty acres
a piece of strange
n*ggaz wit lattitude
oneirology

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in a few years, we could be throwing Blueprint's "Adventures in COunterculture" around. not necessarily a classic. but definitely an album the state of Ohio can be proud of.

and we got 2/3 Tonya Morgan so I count Brooklynati too.

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Resurrection
One day it'll all make sense
LWFC
Graduation
Be

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ghetto boys grip it on another level
ghetto boys we cant be stopped
scarface the diary ,mr scarface is back.last of a dying breed . the fix
ugk riding dirty,too hard to swallow,super tight,
pimp c The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones (recent favorite)

>ugk riding dirty,too hard to swallow,super tight,

Port Arthur, TX

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"The Message" by Dem Southernfolkz is pretty damn dope as well

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This wouldn't be my personal top five, but it's a good guess at the more canonized top five based on the general feelings of everyone I know:

Atmosphere: "You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having" might be their most solid album front-to-back, but I think most people love the older work like "Overcast" and the Lucy Ford stuff the most.

Brother Ali: "Shadows on the Sun"

P.O.S.: "Never Better" (or "Audition," depending on taste)

Eyedea and Abilities: probably "E&A," though I never really got into their stuff that much so I might be wrong about which album most people consider their best. Eyedea also has a bunch of solo material.

Toki Wright: "A Different Mirror" would be my pick, though it's newer, just because I think Toki is super underrated nationally and he's spitting with the very best out there.

Others worth a mention: The Abstract Pack (TC hip hop pioneers), Kristoff Krane's "Hunting for Father," No Bird Sing's self-titled debut, anything from Kill the Vultures, Dessa's "A Badly Broken Code," Big Quarters' "Cost of Living," the list goes on. And then there are acts like Hieruspecs, Maria Isa, Muja Messiah, Junkyard Empire, Ill3, I Self Devine, the other Doomtree acts and many more who have great material here and there, though I wouldn't list specific albums.

Minnesota has one of the strongest indie hip hop scenes in the country, and has for a long time.

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I think a lot people might argue for God Loves Ugly but YCIHMFWH is the better album, IMO. And I prefer The Undisputed Truth is the better album from Brother Ali but I get preferring Shadows on the Sun.

A Different Mirror definitely deserves to be mentioned with the best albums made by any Twin Cities rappers. It's excellent and terribly underrated.

I think Cecil Otter's Rebel Yellow deserves to be mentioned too, I love that album, front to back. Doomtree's self-titled album as well.

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Dogg Food. I hate sounding biased since those all come from the same tree, but that's what I'd pick.

Chronic
Doggystyle
Death certificate
Cypress hill (self titled)

N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce

Ice Cube Death Certificate
DOC No One Can Do It Better
Dr. Dre 2001
Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia
So Bay wit it.

Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted
The Pharcyde - LabCabinCalifornia
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
Eazy E - Eazy Duz It
Tha Alkaholiks - 21 & Over


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Short Dog's in the House - Too Short
In A Major Way (or The Mail Man) - E-40
Fear Itself - Casual
93 til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
Sex Packets - Digital Underground

Showing my age, no?

Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity
Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf - Big Shots
Saafir - Boxcar Sessions
E-40 - The Mail Man
Too Short - Life is...Too Short

Blackalicious' Melodica on my list. Don't know how I forgot that one. That was my soundtrack in the mid 90s. I'd probably bump Saafir off my list for Melodica.

2Pac - Me Against the world
The Coup - Party Music
Del The Funky Homosapien - both sides of the brain
Too $hort - Can't Stay Away (i know he has better, but this one is my fav)
Casual - Fear itself

E-40 In A Major Way
Souls of Mischief 93 Till
The Team World Premiere
Too $hort Get In Where You Fit In
Mac Mall Illegal Business

Personal
Souls of Mischief - '93 til Infinity
Too Short - Born To Mack
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Del the Funky Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
E40 - Mr Flamboyant EP

National Success/Impact/Reach
Too Short - Life is Too Short
Souls of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity
The Luniz - Operation Stackola
E40 - In A Major Way
Tupac - Me Against The World

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Mac Dre - Rompalation Vol. I
Andre Nickatina - Raven In My Eyes

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And mack daddy.

Macklemore x Ryan Lewis - the VS EP

Blue Scholars - Bayani

Grieves & Budo - 88 Keys and counting

Boom Bap Project - Circumstance Dictates
Sir Mix A Lot - Swass