37. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to In response to 0
1 - Phrenology - The Roots 2 - Stankonia - OutKast 3 - Like Water for Chocolate - Common 4 - The Private Press - DJ Shadow 5 - Game Theory - The Roots 6 - Joyful Rebellion - K-Os 7 - Graduation - Kanye West 8 - The Minstrel Show - Little Brother 9 - The Black Album - Jay Z 10 - Rising Down - The Roots 11 - American Gangster - Jay Z 12 - The Ownerz - Gangstarr 13 - Late Registration - Kanye West 14 - Fantastic, Vol 2 - Slum Village 15 - Act I: The Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) - Jay Electronica 16 - Voodoo - D'Angelo 17 - The Ecstatic - Mos Def 18 - Train of Thought - Reflection Eternal 19 - How I Got Over - The Roots 20 - King - T.I. 21 - Petestrumentals - Pete Rock 22 - Shades of Blue - Madlib 23 - Quality Control - Jurassic 5 24 - Electric Circus - Common 25 - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco - K-Os
Needless to say, I was a big fan of The Soulquarians in this decade (The Roots especially). K-Os was a big go-to during this decade as well.
I have a few instrumental albums in here along with D'Angelo. Since these are all made either by hip-hop producers or featuring a strong influence by hip-hop producers (D'Angelo), I thought they may apply. If they don't let me know, I'll add some other albums to fill out the list.
The twenty-five were easy to fill out. But ordering the back half of the list was harder than I thought it would be. I'm more of tiers than number ranking guy so breaking down the list in this amount of detail took a bit of time.
It's interesting that for as much as I thought hip-hop was trash, there was a good deal of really good music throughout. Especially towards the beginning and end of the decade.