Hardest part was trying to balance what I was really rocking with them, and the ones I rock with a bit more now. Hell of a decade, really. The era where I both had the money to buy more music, the ability to download anything for free, the time to listen to everything, and the time to talk and especially read about everything on OKP. I could’ve made a top 500 and still forgot some. I’m sure I forgot something, but I did my best to take my time and think a bit, and look through some music.

1. Little Brother - The Listening
2. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
3. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
4. Little Brother - Minstrel Show
5. Scarface - The Fix
6. Common - Like Water for Chocolate
7. Foreign Exchange - Connected
8. De La Soul - Grind Date
9. Kanye West - College Dropout
10. UGK - Underground Kingz
11 The Roots - Game Theory
12. Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
13. AZ - Aziatic
14. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
15. Black Milk - Tronic
16. Common - Be
17. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2
18. Jaylib - Champion Sound
19. Sean Price - Monkey Barz
20. Snoop - Blue Carpet Treatment
21. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
22. Nas - Stillmatic
23. Kanye West - Graduation
24. Evidence - Weatherman
25. LEGACY - Project Mayhem