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Rolling Stone’s Top 200 Hip Hop Rap Albums of All-Time


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4 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

well, a cardi b album is ranked 16th, so yeah...it's garbage. :lol:  

Yeah. I figured that was a prank. 

At least Public Enemy gets some respect.

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6 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

well, a cardi b album is ranked 16th, so yeah...it's garbage. :lol:  

 

1 minute ago, vikas83 said:

Yeah. I figured that was a prank. 

At least Public Enemy gets some respect.

 

Some notable omissions.

 

IMO, the greatest hip hop album ever made and should be #1, The DOC, No One Can Do It Better

You have a bunch of female rappers, but the best female rap album not on the list, Da Brat, Funkdafied

Ice Cube, The Predator

Method Man, Tical

Redman, Muddy Waters

Outkast, Atliens

Spice 1, 187 He Wrote or AmeriKKKa's Nightmare

Del the Funkee Homosapien, I Wish My Brother George Was Here

 

Some of my personal favorites that I would have top 100

Sir Mix A Lot, Seminar

College Boys, Radio Fusion Radio

3rd Bass, The Cactus Album

Kurupt, Streets is a Mutha

 

 

 

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Still tweaking it, but here is my list so far.

 

Artist Album Rolling Stones Rank Year
The D.O.C. No One Can Do It Better Not ranked 1989
Dr. Dre The Chronic 40 1992
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 4 1988
N.W.A Straight Outta Compton 49 1988
Outkast Stankonia 2 2000
Nas It Was Written 140 1996
Ice Cube The Predator Not ranked 1992
2Pac All Eyez on Me 29 1996
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die 1 1994
Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle 35 1993
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 25 2000
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 8 1993
Eric B. and Rakim Paid in Full 15 1987
Ice Cube Death Certificate 93 1991
Nas Illmatic 24 1994
Ice-T Power 96 1988
Jay-Z Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life Not ranked 1998
Outkast Atliens Not ranked 1996
Dr. Dre 2001 13 1999
Kendrick Lamar good kid m.A.A.d city 38 2012
DMX It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot 22 1998
Method Man Tical Not ranked 1994
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 5 2015
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 2001
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E. 1999 Eternal 127 1995
EPMD Strictly Business 50 1988
Ice Cube AmeriKKKas Most Wanted 58 1990
Kanye West Late Registration 41 2005
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory 9 1991
Genius/GZA Liquid Swords 44 1995
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would have liked to see EPMD in the top 30 but i'm good with 50th.

 

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3 hours ago, downundermike said:

Still tweaking it, but here is my list so far.

 

Artist Album Rolling Stones Rank Year
The D.O.C. No One Can Do It Better Not ranked 1989
Dr. Dre The Chronic 40 1992
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 4 1988
N.W.A Straight Outta Compton 49 1988
Outkast Stankonia 2 2000
Nas It Was Written 140 1996
Ice Cube The Predator Not ranked 1992
2Pac All Eyez on Me 29 1996
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die 1 1994
Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle 35 1993
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 25 2000
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 8 1993
Eric B. and Rakim Paid in Full 15 1987
Ice Cube Death Certificate 93 1991
Nas Illmatic 24 1994
Ice-T Power 96 1988
Jay-Z Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life Not ranked 1998
Outkast Atliens Not ranked 1996
Dr. Dre 2001 13 1999
Kendrick Lamar good kid m.A.A.d city 38 2012
DMX It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot 22 1998
Method Man Tical Not ranked 1994
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 5 2015
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 2001
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E. 1999 Eternal 127 1995
EPMD Strictly Business 50 1988
Ice Cube AmeriKKKas Most Wanted 58 1990
Kanye West Late Registration 41 2005
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory 9 1991
Genius/GZA Liquid Swords 44 1995

No Ill Communication = keep trying 

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following that first link you can see top 500 songs. how in the hell did they come up with half of these. the top 30 has multiple garbage songs. Who the hell is Robyn. I listened on youtube because I mean it’s 20 of best songs ever made. It was pure crap

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LOL 

I can't stop laughing at this. 

The further you scroll down, the worse it gets. 

No album after like 2003 should even be in the top 50. 

Cardi B 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I can’t believe they didn’t put any Kidz Bop albums on that list.

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Not on their 200 and not in any user posts here. I’m I vastly overrating The Documentary? I don’t know where I would rank it, but with zero thought it would easily make my top-20. 
 

Appreciated seeing Thug Motivation 101 and 400 Degreez in the top-100, given how many trash albums/artists made up their overall 200. 
 

another wild notice is zero Ludacris and one T.I. I don’t know how many artists had more cultural relevance in the 00’s than those two. Especially with each successfully crossing over into film. 

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11 hours ago, DEagle7 said:

No Limp Bizkit :nonono:

I wonder wear that Method Man song would rank on all-time songs. what level of the 100s would it fall into? over/under of 500-599 range?

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downunda just beggin' for somebody to argue with him about d.o.c. at #1 :lol:   

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12 hours ago, Agent23 said:

Not on their 200 and not in any user posts here. I’m I vastly overrating The Documentary? I don’t know where I would rank it, but with zero thought it would easily make my top-20. 
 

Appreciated seeing Thug Motivation 101 and 400 Degreez in the top-100, given how many trash albums/artists made up their overall 200. 
 

another wild notice is zero Ludacris and one T.I. I don’t know how many artists had more cultural relevance in the 00’s than those two. Especially with each successfully crossing over into film. 

The Game had quite a bit to say about The Documentary not being on the list on Twitter.

No Ludacris, Method Man, Naughty by Nature.

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2 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

downunda just beggin' somebody to argue with him about d.o.c. at #1 :lol:   

No One Can Do It Better was a preview of the Death Row sound, came out in 1989 and still holds up against anything since.

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1 minute ago, downundermike said:

The Game had quite a bit to say about The Documentary not being on the list on Twitter.

No Ludacris, Method Man, Naughty by Nature.

I guess I'll include 50 since he's on the list with GRODT, but I always have The Documentary and Thug Motivation 101 up there as some of the greatest debut* albums of all time (using debut as a mainstream release, since everyone has some kind of "album" prior to their big break)

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Just now, downundermike said:

No One Can Do It Better was a preview of the Death Row sound, came out in 1989 and still holds up against anything since.

oh, i know all about it...i love d.o.c.'s music & that album has some bangers. i even bought that album he put out after he lost his damn voice.

f'n tragedy that his career as an artist was cut so short.  

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13 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

oh, i know all about it...i love d.o.c.'s music & that album has some bangers. i even bought that album he put out after he lost his damn voice.

f'n tragedy that his career as an artist was cut so short.  

Kind of funny, two weeks before they don't include him on their top 200, Rolling Stone did an article about his documentary, and said the following

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-doc-documentary-interview-1364849/

Between 1988 and 1992, the D.O.C. released his platinum-selling, still-jaw-dropping debut album, No One Can Do It Better, and ghost-wrote rhymes for N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, Eazy-E’s Eazy-Duz-It, and Dr. Dre’s The Chronic.[/quote}
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i know i saw 2 kanye albums in the top 17...and some cat named chief keef who i've literally never heard of with the 32nd best hip hop album of all time...but did i miss krs-one's return of the boom bap or is it not on their list?  :lol: 

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9 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

i know i saw 2 kanye albums in the top 17...and some cat named chief keef who i've literally never heard of with the 32nd best hip hop album of all time...but did i miss krs-one's return of the boom bap or is it not on their list?  :lol: 

No KRS-One on the list.

BDP has two on the list

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I get recognizing what Cardi has done for women in rap but that's pretty high

I tried to see who the people are that created the list but couldn't. Makes me think they're all young

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Straight out of Compton at 49? License to Ill out of the top 50? That list is invalid. 

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1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

I get recognizing what Cardi has done for women in rap but that's pretty high

I tried to see who the people are that created the list but couldn't. Makes me think they're all young

And the best female rapper not even on the list, Da Brat

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23 hours ago, downundermike said:

And the best female rapper not even on the list, Da Brat

I don't listen hardly ever these days, but I think I would have Missy as my #1

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