If you had to do away with your entire record collection only being able to keep 5, which 5 would you keep? Me

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

Aquemini
Still Standing
Ridin Dirty
Fear of a Black Planet
Death Certificate

this could change in a minute tho lol

Excellent fucking 5

Illmatic
ATLiens
The Main Ingredient
Midnight Marauders
Liquid Swords

I'd fight you to keep 7 though and throw in Only Built 4 Cuban Linx and The Infamous.

>Illmatic
>ATLiens
>The Main Ingredient
>Midnight Marauders
>Liquid Swords
>
>I'd fight you to keep 7 though and throw in Only Built 4 Cuban
>Linx and The Infamous.

LOL! Great selections.

>>Illmatic
>>ATLiens
>>The Main Ingredient
>>Midnight Marauders
>>Liquid Swords
>>
>>I'd fight you to keep 7 though and throw in Only Built 4
>Cuban
>>Linx and The Infamous.
>
>LOL! Great selections.

I was gonna say take out liquid swords and replace it wtih Cuban Linx..

Illmatic
Midnight Marauders
ATLiens
Fear Of A Black Planet
Stakes Is High

3 of the 4 lists have ATLiens and all four have an OutKast album listed. I'm liking this pattern.

i wanted to list some different answers than the usual

smif n wessun - da shinin

casual - fear itself

cnn - the war report

scarface - the diary


the roots - illadelph

For me these are

>smif n wessun - da shinin

Top 20

>
>the roots - illadelph

Top 10

>i wanted to list some different answers than the usual
>
>smif n wessun - da shinin
>
>casual - fear itself
>
>cnn - the war report
>
>scarface - the diary
>
>
>the roots - illadelph

Da Shinin is def my fav boot camp album and Hiero all day.

Whatever 5 you want to keep fam. Physical, digital whatever.

streets disciple
all eyes on me
life after death
blueprint 2
we got it for cheap vol 1 & 2

>streets disciple
>all eyes on me
>life after death
>blueprint 2
>Wu-tang forever
>

i forgot about the wu....don't know how i did. lol

The Main Ingredient
Low End Theory
Illmatic
Aquemini
Business As Usual

ATCQ - MM
PHarcyde - bizarre ride
Kast - Aquemini
Nas - IWW
Roots - phrenology

fucking love that album... and it might make my top 10 favorite hip hop albums (who am i kidding, it DOES make my top 10), but if i only have 5 albums that i can play, each one of them needs to be something i can listen to damn near all the time... and sometimes that's the flaw of great material for me... i can only take it in doses... in terms of albums that i love, i've got some "i can play everyday" albums and i've got some "ok pull this one out when you want to be reminded of what a masterpiece is" albums.. sometimes they intersect, but i'm not sure if Phrenology does for me... i'm just excited to see someone else like it THIS much...

too cause that album came out during a great time for me but didn't make the cut by >< this much

illmatic
OB4CL
Midnight Marauders
ATLiens
36 Chambers

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3 Feet High And Rising
Paul's Boutique
Geto Boys (Def American pressing)

You know, the above four came pretty easy to me, but it's always the one that will wrap up a list... that's the most difficult. I thought of everything from DONE BY THE FORCES OF NATURE to PEOPLE'S INSTINCTIVE TRAVELS AND THE PATHS OF RHYTHM to Dr. Octagon's album to SEX PACKETS, and for a few seconds, I thought of ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS). As I write this, I'm also thinking of ALL HAIL THE QUEEN.






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These aren't necesarilly my favorite rap albums, but definitely ones that have the biggest combination of quality and meaning. For example, Dropout is my third favorite Kanye album, but the nostalgia and memories I have associated with it make it more important to me than the 2 I'd put in front of it in terms of quality.

The others represent my favorite albums by 4 of my other favorite artists (definitely wanted to avoid having 2 albums by the same artist) each with a lot of meaning to me.

Joe Budden "Mood Musik 2"
Jay-Z "The Blueprint"
Slum Village "Fantastic Vol. 2" (the double disc w/the instro's)
De La Soul "The Grind Date"
Jean Grae "Jeanius" (the original version)

Amerikkka's most wanted

mama said knock you out

the chronic

doggiestyle

Aquemini

Midnight Marauders - A Tribe Called Quest

ATLiens - OutKast

A Tribute to Lisa Bonet - FELT

Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar

Illadelph Halflife - The Roots

Me Against The World
The Untouchable
Ridin Dirty
The Chronic
Library Of A Legend - Max B

Low End Theory
Nation of Millions
De La Soul is Dead
One for All
Madvilliany

Man!!!!!!!!!!

Hard

Midnight Marauders
Illmatic
Only Built for Cuban Linx
The Infamous
Me Against The World

Like, 36 Chambers is unquestionably on the list...except that if it's one of only five albums I can listen to, it'd be the one I listen to least because I've been listening to it since I was 12 and I'm done with that album, frankly.


So I'm going to go ahead and pick some albums I think are classics but are also newer to me and thus not played out the way most of the albums in my Handbook's Top 50 are:

#8 - Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
#18 - Edan - Beauty & The Beat
#19 - Redman - Muddy Waters
#35 - Big K.R.I.T. - Returnof4eva
#53 - Kingpin Skinny Pimp - King ov da Playaz Ball


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OutKast - ATLiens
OutKast - Aquemini
Common - Resurrection
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Kanye West - Late Registration

lol.. obviously kidding about yeezus.. and not sure if Donuts counts... final 2 (if Donuts doesn't count):

- BlackStar (probably.. also, i get Respiration (flying high remix) if i go w/ this album)
- Covert Coup or Pilot Talk 2

... now granted these aren't my absolute *favorite* 5 rap albums (i'd actually rank ATLiens over Aquemini in terms of enjoyment.. but i can listen to Aquemini more often)... but i had to get some variety in there, some shit i like to rap along to.. and some shit that's impossible for me to get bored of, like Supreme Clientele (granted that one would be on the list for top 5 favorite rap albums too... but the replay value is maybe the highest of any rap album for me)..

Hard to Earn
Low End Theory
Enter the 36 Chambers
Fear of a Black Planet (this was a hard pick over Nation of Millions)
Eyes on This (I must have bought this album 6 times over the years)

The Blueprint
OB4CL
Midnight Marauders
Madvillainy

The Roots - Illadelph
Outkast - Aquemina
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Eminem - Slim Shady LP

I could easily change this numerous times...but I'm gonna go with that...

1. The Chronic
2. Resurrection
3. Train of Thought
4. Buhloone Mindstate
5. Aquemini


Fuck that. I have no idea. Cause Doggystyle would need to be there. I don't even have any Nas albums on that list. Sometimes I prefer LWFC over Resurrection. The Blueprint deserves a spot probably.

I fucking hate you for this question.

dogg food - tha dogg pound
atliens - outkast
400 degreez - juvenile
ridin dirty - ugk
soul food - goodie mobb

I'll play...not easy...

Illmatic
Train of Thought
Let the Rhythm Hit'Em
Madvillainy
Midnight Marauders

Illmatic
Aquemini
The Main Ingredient
Midnight Marauders
Ready To Die

1. Critical Beatdown
2. Fan-Tas-Tic Vol. 2
3. Long Live the Kane
4. OB4CL
5. The Infamous