YOUR top ten on the albums you feel that every TRUE Hip-Hop/Rap fan should have in thier collection. I tell the Lil' homies all the time if you dont have __________ than you aint no real rap fan/folks. (90's babies may get lost with this one) So here are mine in NO PATICULAR ORDER:
1. PUBLIC ENEMY "It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold Us Back" (Groundbreaking album, political messages, waking up the sleeping masses, Flavor Flav wasnt a reality show star then, Revolutionary) *Honorable Mention: Yo! Bumrush the show
2. ERIC B. & RAKIM "Paid in Full" (Classic, they plays cuts from this 1986 album in the clubs today, and it STILL can get everybody on the floor, Rakim lyrics ahead of thier time)
3. ICE CUBE "Death Certificate" ( Hard ass album, lyrics, beats ON POINT)
4. TOO SHORT "Short Dogs In the House" (This was the shit, back to back you can play all the way through) *Honorable Mention: Born to Mack
5. ICE T "Rhyme Pays" (Classics like Squeeze the Trigger, 6 n da Mornin, and my favorite PAIN) *Honorable Mention: POWER
6. BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS "By All Means Nescessary" (Classic shit, My Philosophy, Jimmy, cant fuck with it...THIS IS TIED WITH THIER OTHER ALBUM "Criminal Minded"
7. NWA "efil4zaggin" (Eazy, Dre, Yella, Ren. There it go) *Honorable Mention: Eazys albums, and the first single that had Dopeman on one Side, and 8-Ball on the other
8. Tupac "Makaveli" (this album is THE SHIT, you wanna get into West Coast mindset, lifestyle Mid-90's, here it is) *Honorable Mention: Me Against The world.
9. BIG DADDY KANE " It a Big Daddy Thang" (One of the tightest lyricist to ever touch the Mic, one of the men that inspired Jay-Z, and countless others, peep the track he laid with Pac on one of them bootleg Makaveli disc)
10. SNOOP DOGG "Doggy style" (Selfexplanatory.) *Honorable Mention: Rhythm & Gangsta
These are a few more that could have made this list
The Click "Down & Dirty"
Scarface "Mr. Scarface is Back"
NAS "Stillmatic"
De La Soul "3Ft High and Rising"
MAC DRE "Rapper Gone Bad"
1. PUBLIC ENEMY "It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold Us Back" (Groundbreaking album, political messages, waking up the sleeping masses, Flavor Flav wasnt a reality show star then, Revolutionary) *Honorable Mention: Yo! Bumrush the show
2. ERIC B. & RAKIM "Paid in Full" (Classic, they plays cuts from this 1986 album in the clubs today, and it STILL can get everybody on the floor, Rakim lyrics ahead of thier time)
3. ICE CUBE "Death Certificate" ( Hard ass album, lyrics, beats ON POINT)
4. TOO SHORT "Short Dogs In the House" (This was the shit, back to back you can play all the way through) *Honorable Mention: Born to Mack
5. ICE T "Rhyme Pays" (Classics like Squeeze the Trigger, 6 n da Mornin, and my favorite PAIN) *Honorable Mention: POWER
6. BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS "By All Means Nescessary" (Classic shit, My Philosophy, Jimmy, cant fuck with it...THIS IS TIED WITH THIER OTHER ALBUM "Criminal Minded"
7. NWA "efil4zaggin" (Eazy, Dre, Yella, Ren. There it go) *Honorable Mention: Eazys albums, and the first single that had Dopeman on one Side, and 8-Ball on the other
8. Tupac "Makaveli" (this album is THE SHIT, you wanna get into West Coast mindset, lifestyle Mid-90's, here it is) *Honorable Mention: Me Against The world.
9. BIG DADDY KANE " It a Big Daddy Thang" (One of the tightest lyricist to ever touch the Mic, one of the men that inspired Jay-Z, and countless others, peep the track he laid with Pac on one of them bootleg Makaveli disc)
10. SNOOP DOGG "Doggy style" (Selfexplanatory.) *Honorable Mention: Rhythm & Gangsta
These are a few more that could have made this list
The Click "Down & Dirty"
Scarface "Mr. Scarface is Back"
NAS "Stillmatic"
De La Soul "3Ft High and Rising"
MAC DRE "Rapper Gone Bad"
