"The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)"
Last year we voted on our favorite hip hop albums of all time. 27 Lessonheads participated and the list resulted in a pretty good mix of universal classics and Lesson favorites. However, with the exception of three 2000 releases, the top 25 was all 80s and 90s albums.
The year I’ll be bringing this back, only this time lets focus on 2000s albums (the 2000-2009 decade). Clearly the three albums that were featured in the top 25 of all time (Like Water for Chocolate, Train of Thought, Fantastic, Vol. 2) will finish near the top of the list, but what else are the definitive great 2000s hip hop albums according to The Lesson?
Post up to 25 of your favorite hip hop albums (key word: favorite, not best) of the 2000-2009 decade, starting with your favorite/#1 and going down.
1. Favorite album (please use Artist - Title format, ex: Common - Like Water For Chocolate) 2. Second favorite 3. 3rd favorite .. .. .. .. 25. 25th favorite
I'll log all the responses and count the votes, with points being distributed on a weighted basis.
1. If you don't want to submit 25 albums, submit however many you want (up to 25) and they will still count. Anything greater than 25 won't be counted. 2. If you don't include #'s with your rankings, I'm assuming the top album is your #1 and so on unless otherwise noted. 3. After this post is about a month old and seems to have died down (no new entries), I'll close out voting and post the results in a new thread.
01 Slum Village "Fantastic Vol. 2" 02 Madvillainy "Madvillain" 03 J-Live "The Best Part" 04 Jay Dee "Welcome To Detroit" 05 Ghostface Killah "Supreme Clientele"
06 Common "Like Water For Chocolate" 07 Jaylib "Jaylib" 08 Jay Dee "Donuts" 09 OutKast "Stankonia" 10 Common "Electric Circus"
11 Black Milk "Tronic" 12 De La Soul "The Grind Date" 13 Common "Be" 14 Masta Ace "Disposable Arts" 15 O.C. "Starchild"
16 Little Brother "The Listening" 17 Kanye West "Late Registration" 18 OutKast "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" 19 The Roots "Phrenology" 20 Cali Agents "How The West Was Won"
21 Jay-Z "The Blueprint" 22 MF DOOM "MM..Food" 23 Viktor Vaughn "Vaudeville Villain" 24 Little Brother "The Minstrel Show" 25 The UN "UN or U Out"
I missed that when I was putting my list together. It wouldn't had made it in my 25 (definitely worthy), I think I probably would have it around Fishscale.
1. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow 2. k-os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco 3. The Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon 4. Common - Like Water for Chocolate 5. Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2 6. k-os - Joyful Rebellion 7. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 8. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control 9. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought 10. Little Brother - The Listening 11. JAY-Z - The Blueprint 12. J-Live - All of the Above 13. One Be Lo - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (Sounds Of Nahshid Originate Good Rhymes And Music) 14. Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers 15. De La Soul - The Grind Date 16. Del the Funky Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain 17. Blackalicious - Nia 18. eLZhi - The Preface 19. Little Brother - The Minstrel Show 20. J Dilla - The Shining 21. Q-Tip - The Renaissance 22. Nas - Stillmatic 23. Kanye West - Graduation 24. Common - Electric Circus 25. Gift of Gab - 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up
I decided to leave out Badu and keep these to ones that mostly contain rap songs. I was going to cross check these with my all time favorites list to make sure I kept them in the same order but decided to just post as is. This is how I feel right now, any discrepancy just goes to show how close these all are. It's hard finding the balance between what I remember listening to the most at the time and what I still go back to more often. All in all I feel pretty good about the above list.
The next 25 I was considering incase anyone is wondering.
J Dilla - Donuts JAY Z - The Black Album Binary Star - Masters of the Universe dead prez - Let's Get Free The Roots - Game Theory Common - Be Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly Slum Village - Detroit Deli: A Taste of Detroit Blackalicious - The Craft k-os - Yes! Ghostface Killah - Fishscale Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange The Roots - Phrenology Sérgio Mendes - Timeless Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Return of the Magnificent JAY-Z - American Gangster De La Soul - Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump Zion I - The Takeover The Black Eyed Peas - Bridging the Gap Snoop Dogg - Tha Last Meal Black Milk - Popular Demand k-os - Exit
6. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Nov-16-21 08:59 PM by DJR
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
7. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Nov-16-21 11:22 PM by blueeclipse
This was a weird decade for me. I graduated high school in 2001. So I spent the next 10 years basically trying to soak up the 10 years before I graduated and what came out new at the same time. I wouldn't start DJing until around 2007. I'm glad I waited and got my ears all the way right. I'm going to include only my heaviest of rotation hip hop for that decade. Expect for the Tech N9ne (was never pressed) and Kanye (Won't spend a dime to support this nigga EVER AGAIN).....I have every one of these records on vinyl.
1. Outkast - Stankonia 2. Nas - Stillmatic 3. The Roots - Game Theory 4. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool 5. Kanye - Graduation 6. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens 7. Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly 8. Talib Kweli - Quality 9. DJ Quik - Balance and Options 10. N.E.R.D. - In Search of.... 11. Del the Funky Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain 12. Tech N9ne - Killer 13. Lil Wayne - The Carter II 14. Little Brother - Minstrel Show 15. Black Milk - Tronic 16. Common - Like Water for Chocolate 17. T.I. - King 18. Elzhi - The Preface 20. Q- Tip - The Renaissance 21. MURS - 3:16 the 9th Edition 22. Skyzoo - Cloud 9: The 3 Day High 23. Eminem - The Eminem Show 24. Dead Prez - Let's Get Free 25. People Under The Stairs - O.S.T.
8. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 0
1. Vaudeville Villain—Viktor Vaughn 2. Fantastic Damage--EL-P 3. Reflection Eternal-Reflection Eternal 4. Koolmotor – 5 Deez 5. Madvilliany- Madvillian 6. The Cold Vein—Cannibal Ox 7. Like Water for Chocolate – Common 8. Black Up – Shabazz Palaces 9. Connected – Foreign Exchange 10. Beauty and the Beat – Edan 11. R.A.P. Music – Killer Mike 12. Thank You for Your Service—ATCQ 13. I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead – El-P 14. None Shall Pass- Aesop Rock 15. Undun -The Roots 16. Not Aloud – Spote Breeze 17. Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes-Open Mike Eagle 18. Things that happen at day/night—Milo 19. To Pimp a Butterfly—Kendrick 20. Kala – MIA 21. Dennis 6e- Serengeti 22. The Further Adventures of Lord Quas - Quasimoto 23. Raw Money Raps – Jeremiah Jae 24. The Lost Tapes – Nas 25. Late Registration – Kanye West
---- I check for: Serengeti, Zeroh, Open Mike Eagle, Jeremiah Jae, Moka Only.
11. "to be fair, that feels older than it is, lol" In response to Reply # 9
I would have put that right near 2009 in my head, but my listening from that period was spotty and my memory is ridiculously fuzzy...
When RTJ4 came out, I went back and listened to RAP for the first time in a long time and was really impressed with how well it has held up ... one of those albums that practically gets better over time.
24. "Updated list for 2000-2009" In response to Reply # 8
1. Vaudeville Villain—Viktor Vaughn 2. Fantastic Damage--EL-P 3. Reflection Eternal-Reflection Eternal 4. Koolmotor – 5 Deez 5. Madvilliany- Madvillian 6. The Cold Vein—Cannibal Ox 7. Like Water for Chocolate – Common 8. Connected – Foreign Exchange 9. Beauty and the Beat – Edan 10. I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead – El-P 11. None Shall Pass- Aesop Rock 12. Kala – MIA 13. The Further Adventures of Lord Quas - Quasimoto 14. O.S.T. – People Under the Stairs 15. The Lost Tapes – Nas 16. The Renaissance – Q-Tip 17. Rising Down – The Roots 18. Game Theory – The Roots 19. Primitive Plus – Edan 20. Martian Xmas 2009 – Moka Only 21. Late Registration – Kanye West 22. Deliverance – Bubba Sparxxx 23. Blazing Arrow -- Blackalicious 24. 1969 – Myka 9 25. Deltron 3030
---- I check for: Serengeti, Zeroh, Open Mike Eagle, Jeremiah Jae, Moka Only.
14. "Mine:" In response to Reply # 0 Wed Nov-17-21 07:28 PM by mrhood75
Rankings have changed a bit since the last time I posted this -
1. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele 2. Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein 3. Madvillain – Madvillainy 4. Edan – Beauty and the Beat 5. Outkast – Stankonia 6. Jay-Z – Blueprint 7. People Under the Stairs – O.S.T. 8. Mr. Lif – I, Phantom 9. Blueprint – 1988 10. Reflection Eternal – Train of Thought 11. Blu and Exile – Below the Heavens 12. People Under the Stairs – Fun-DMC 13. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 14. Masta Ace – Disposable Arts 15. De La Soul – The Grind Date 16. Third Sight – Symbonese Liberation Album 17. Roosevelt Franklin – Something’s Gotta Give 18. Viktor Vaughn – Vaudville Villain 19. Slum Village – Fantastic, Vol. 2 20. El-P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead 21. Asheru and Blue Black – Soon Come… 22. Atmosphere – You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having 23. J-Zone – A Job Ain’t Nothin’ But Work 24. Count Bass D – Dwight Spitz 25. MURS – End of the Beginning
Oh, and the next 25:
26. CunninLynguists – A Piece of Strange 27. Insight – The Blast Radius 28. Jaylib – Champion Sound 29. Little Brother – The Listening 30. The Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury 31. Wu-Tang Clan – Iron Flag 32. The Roots – The Tipping Point 33. Immortal Technique – Revolutionary Vol. 2 34. People Under the Stairs – Stepfather 35. Aesop Rock – Labor Days 36. Brother Ali – Shadows of the Sun 37. Juggaknots – Use Your Confusion 38. Porn Theater Ushers - Taxachusetts 39. Kanye West – Late Registration 40. Quasimoto – The Further Adventures of… 41. The Roots – Rising Down 42. J-Zone - $ick of Being Rich 43. Wu-Tang Clan – The W 44. J-Live – All of the Above 45. Illogic – Celestial Clockwork 46. The Roots –Game Theory 47. Willie Evans Jr. – Communication 48. Akrobatik – Balance 49. Kanye West – Graduation 50. Mr. Lif – I Heard It Today
19. "Here we go.....things going a little left as usual." In response to Reply # 0
Mostly went off the dome.
That said, I remember the prior list so I named some other albums I love and didn't double dip too much.
01. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 02. De La Soul - The Grind Date 03. Joe Budden - Mood Musik 2 04. Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek - Train of Thought 05. Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang 06. Mos Def - The Ecstatic 07. Jean Grae & 9th Wonder - Jeanius 08. Jadakiss - Kiss of Death 09. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale 10. JayLib - Champion Sound 11. Common - Be 12. The Roots - Rising Down 13. Lupe Fiasco's The Cool 14. Talib Kweli - Quality 15. Missy Elliott - Under Construction 16. Evidence - The Weatherman LP 17. The Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury 18. Foreign Exchange - Connected 19. Cam'Ron - Come Home With Me 20. Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx II 21. Snoop Dogg - Rhythm & Gangsta 22. Kanye West - Late Registration 23. Elzhi - Europass 24. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day 25. Foxy Brown - Broken Silence
22. "Aight… I tried " In response to Reply # 0 Wed Nov-17-21 09:51 PM by Anonymous
25 Starchild - OC 24 Aziatic - AZ 23 In The Ruff - Diamond District 22 Dirty Acres - Cunninlynguists 21 The Grind Date - De La Soul 20 Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious 19 I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead - El-P 18 None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock 17 Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah 16 The Renaissance - Q-Tip 15 Fantastic, Vol 2 - Slum Village 14 Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse 13 Stankonia - OutKast 12 Never Better - P.O.S. 11 Train Of Thought - Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek are Reflection Eternal 10 Madvillainy - Madvillain 9 The Ecstatic - Mos Def 8 Below The Heavens - Blu & Exile 7 Like Water For Chocolate - Common 6 Game Theory - The Roots 5 The Lost Tapes - Nas 4 Mm..Food - MF Doom 3 The Cool - Lupe Fiasco 2 Donuts - J Dilla 1 The Fix - Scarface
27. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 0
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele Scarface - The Fix Common - Be dead prez - Lets Get Free OutKast - Stankonia Reflection Eternal - Train Of Thought Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 M.O.P. - Warriorz Prodigy - H.N.I.C. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein Freeway - Philadelphia Freeway Jay-Z - The Blueprint Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury Dungeon Family - Even In Darkness Gang Starr - The Ownerz Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 MF Doom - MM..Food Kanye West - Late Registration Madvillain - Madvillainy Beanie Sigel - The B.Coming Little Brother - The Minstrel Show T.I. - Trap Muzik Quasimoto - The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas Masta Ace - Disposable Arts Murs And 9th Wonder - Murray's Revenge
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28. "This was really tough" In response to Reply # 0 Sat Nov-20-21 10:21 PM by javi222
A bunch were left out…
1. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow 2. Atmosphere - When Life Gives you Lemons Paint That Shit Gold 3. Zion I - Mind Over Matter 4. Five Deez - Koolmotor 5. Madvillain - Madvillany 6. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 7. Del - Both Sides of The Brain 8. Aceyalone - Accepted eclectic 9. Myka 9 - 1969 10. Haiku Detat - Coup De Theater 11. The Roots - Phrenology 12. Common - Electric Circus 13. Common - Like Water for Chocolate 14. Reflection Eternal - Train of thought 15. J Live - The Best Part 16. One Be Lo - Sonogram 17. Atmosphere - You cant imagine how much fun we are having 18. Grouch & Eligh - No more greener grasses 19. Cyne - Evolution Fight 20. Q-Tip - The Renaissance 21. People Under The Stairs - OST 22. Pase Rock - Bullshit as Usual 23. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol.2 24. Diverse - One AM 25. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
29. "appreciating this this morning" In response to Reply # 0
Stuff like this gets me pulling out stuff I haven't listened to in a long time. This morning it's Deltron 3030, probably been six or seven years since the last time I listened --- so good! Forgot how many of these verses I remember by heart and how much I wore this out. Thanks for doing this.
31. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Nov-23-21 01:16 PM by reaction
1. Likwit Junkies - The L.J's (I just found out they released a sequel last year, it's great too, don't understand why more people don't use DJ Babu for production, he's incredible) 2. KRS-ONE - Prophets vs Profits 3. Sticky Fingaz - Autobiography of Kirk Jones 4. Ian Kamau - September Nine Mixtape 5. dead prez - Let's Get Free 6. KRS-ONE - The Sneak Attack 7. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 2 8. DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Magnificent 9. Common - Be 10. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts 11. Pace Won - The Only Color that Matters is Green 12. Blu and Exile - Below the Heavens 13. Kanye West - Graduation 14. Gang Starr - The Ownerz 15. KRS-ONE and Marley Marl - Hip Hop Lives 16. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 1 17. Nas - Stillmatic 18. KRS-ONE - Kristyles 19. Kanye West - College Dropout 20. The Roots - Phrenology 21. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer 22. Kanye West - Late Registration 23. KRS-ONE - Life 24. Common - Like Water for Chocolate 25. DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Return of the Magnificent
33. "I love these polls but I feel like I pull my hair out doing this LOL!" In response to Reply # 0
1 Be - Common 2 College Dropout - Kanye West 3 We Got It 4 Cheap 2 (mixtape) - Re-Up Gang 4 Let's Get Free - Dead Prez 5 Stillmatic - Nas 6 Grind Date - De La Soul 7 Black Milk - Tronic 8 Dirty Acres - Cunninglynguists 9 Get Rich or Die Trying - 50 Cent 10 Death Is Certain - Royce da 5'9 11 Lord Willin' - Clipse 12 So Far Gone (mixtape) - Drake 13 Graduation - Kanye West 14 Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse 15 The Blueprint - Jay Z 16 Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco 17 God's Son - Nas 18 Monkey Barz - Sean Price 19 Black Album - Jay-Z 20 Madvillainy - Madvillain 21 Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams 22 D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) - Heltah Skeltah 23 Speakerbox/Love Below - Outkast 24 The Carter III - Lil Wayne 25 Stankonia - Outkast
37. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 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.
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 - King - T.I. 20 - Petestrumentals - Pete Rock 21 - Shades of Blue - Madlib 22 - Quality Control - Jurassic 5 23 - Electric Circus - Common 24 - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco - K-Os 25 - God's Son - Nas
Tried to balance what I was actually super into during these years as well as what I look back on and enjoy in present day.
1. Kanye West - The College Dropout 2. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3. The Roots - Game Theory 4. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens 5. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought 6. Madvillain - Madvillainy 7. J Dilla - Donuts 8. Common - Like Water For Chocolate 9. Kanye West - Graduation 10. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor 11. Edan - Beauty & The Beat 12. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 13. Jay-Z - The Black Album 14. 50 Cent - Get Rich of Die Tryin' 15. Kanye West - Late Registration 16. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth 17. Little Brother - The Minstrel Show 18. Drake - So Far Gone 19. Q-Tip - The Renaissance 20. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange 21. Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having 22. Black Milk - Tronic 23. The Game - The Documentary 24. Common - Be 25. The Roots - Phrenology
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45. "In no particular order...." In response to Reply # 0 Tue Dec-28-21 08:11 PM by Shaun Tha Don
50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2003) Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000) J-Zone & The Old Maid Billionaires - Pimps Don't Pay Taxes (2001) Clipse - Lord Willin' (2002) Jay-Z - Blueprint (2001)
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (2008) TI - Paper Trail (2008) The Game - Doctor's Advocate (2006) Young Buck - Straight Outta Cashville (2004) Little Brother - The Minstrel Show (2005)
Buckshot & 9th Wonder - Chemistry (2005) Murs & 9th Wonder - Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition (2004) Big L - The Big Picture (2000) Nas - God's Son (2002) Nas - Stillmatic (2001)
Kanye West - Graduation (2007) MOP - Warriorz (2000) Various Artists - Lyricist Lounge Vol. 2 (2000) Dead Prez - Let's Get Free (2000) Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz - Crunk Juice (2004)
46. "here are my 25 - could not decide whether or not to include voodoo" In response to Reply # 0
1. Reflection Eternal - Train Of Thought 2. Madvillain - Madvillainy 3. Common Like Water For Chocolate 4. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Vol. 1 5. Slum Village - Fantastic Vol. 2 6. J Dilla - Welcome 2 Detroit 7. Pete Philly & Perquisite - Mindstate 8. The Foreign Exchange - Connected 9. Mos Def - The Ecstatic 10. Jaylib - Champion Sound 11. J Dilla - Donuts 12. Q-Tip - The Renaissance 13. MF DOOM "MM..Food" 14. Kanye West - College Dropout 15. Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens 16. Little Brother The Listening 17. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange 18. Pete Philly & Perquisite - Mystery Repeats 19. Common - Electric Circus 20. Mos Def - The New Danger 20. JAY-Z - The Blueprint 21. The Roots - Game Theory 21. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow 22. Kala – MIA 25. The Roots - Phrenology
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47. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 0
1. Outkast- Stankonia 2. Nas- Stillmatic 3. Ghost- Supreme Clientele 4. Scarface- The fix 5. Kanye- Graduation 6. NERD- In Search of.. 7. Jay-Z- Black Album 8. Jeezy- The Recession 9. Mos Def- The Ecstatic 10. 8ball & MJG- Living Legends 11. Clipse- Hell Hath No Fury 12. Common- Be 13. Outkast- Speakerboxx/The love below 14. Qtip- The renaissance 15. TI- Urban Legend 16. K-Os- Atlantis Hymns for Discos 17. Nas- The Lost Tapes 18. Dungeon Family- Even in Darkness 19. Scarface- Emeritus 20. Jay-Z- American Gangster 21. Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange 22. UGK- Underground Kingz 23. Little Brother- The Listening 24. Project Pat- Mista Don't Play 25. Devin the Dude- Just Tryna Live
_________________ When you control a man's thinking, you don't have to worry about his actions. -Carter G. Woodson
48. "RE: The Lesson's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of the 2000s (Voting)" In response to Reply # 0
Busy time period in my life so there a lot of albums I didn't get to then and still haven't caught up with...also left off instrumentals
1. Scarface - The Fix 2. Madvillain - Madvillainy 3. Slum Village - Fantastic vol. 2 4. Sean Price - Monkey Barz 5. Little Brother - The Listening 6. Q-Tip - The Renaissance 7. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought 8. Blue & Exile - Below the Heavens 9. Little Brother - The Minstrel Show 10. Common - LWFC 11. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 12. Ghostface - Supreme Clientele 13. Mr. Lif - I Phantom 14. The Foreign Exchange - Connected 15. Dead Prez - Let's Get Free 16. Asheru and Blue Black - Soon Come 17. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth 18. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary vol. 2 19. People Under the Stairs - O.S.T. 20. Kanye West - Graduation 21. Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having 22. Black Milk - Tronic 23. Masta Ace - Disposable Arts 24. The Roots - Rising Down 25. Murs & 9th Wonder - Murs 3:16 The 9th Edition
Also Receiving Votes 26. Nas - The Lost Tapes 27. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead 28. The Roots - Game Theory 29. De La Soul - The Grind Date 30. OutKast - Stankonia 31. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain 32. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass 33. Del - Both Sides of the Brain 34. J Dilla - The Shining 35. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein 36. Nas - Hip Hop is Dead 37. Binary Star - Master of the Universe 38. Quasimoto - The Unseen 39. Blueprint - 1988 40. Aesop Rock - Labor Days 41. MF Doom - Mm...Food 42. Jaylib - Champion Sound 43. The Roots - Phrenology 44. K-Otix - Universal 45. Nas - Stillmatic 46. Murs & 9th Wonder - Murray's Revenge 47. Aesop Rock - Float 48. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer 49. Blackalicious - Nia 50. DangerDOOM - The Mouse and the Mask
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