Post your unpopular opinions.

[DJoe]

yeah post that list magma.

[chekov]

2pac sucks

everything i've heard from him's been mad corny

[mIrReN]

gave it another go gare, still not funny

care to forward the PM magma?

[magma]

Might as well post it here... as I said, very much inexhaustive as it's just what popped into my brain over half an hour earlier this morning, but I think I've hit most of the essentials in my collection... I keep thinking of shit I've missed though. I almost sent it to Riddles without any Outkast or Wu-Tang solo projects.

Hip Hop 101 with The Albionist - Course Materials

"Golden Era"

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live The Kane
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions (To Hold Us Back)
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded / By All Means Necessary
KRS-One - Return Of the Boom Bap
LL Cool J - Radio / Mama Said Knock You Out
Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be
Ice T - Power
Wrecks 'n' Effect - Wrecks 'n' Effect
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - And In This Corner...
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Brand Nubian - One for all
MC Lyte - Eyes On This


90s

Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop
EPMD - Business As Usual
Souls Of Mischief - '93 to Infinity
House Of Pain - House Of Pain
Ice T - O.G. Original Gangster (also Body Count - Body Count)
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted / Death Certificate / The Predator
Onyx - Bacdafucup
Westside Connection - Bow Down
O.C. - Word... Life
2Pac - 2Pacalypse / Me Against The World
Notorious BIG - Ready To Die
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers (Enter The Wu Tang)
Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx
Gza - Liquid Swords
Method Man - Tical
Gang Starr - Step In The Arena / Daily Operation
Masta Ace - Slaughterhouse
Redman - Whut? Thee Album
Jeru The Damager - Wrath Of Math
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill / Black Sunday
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
The Beatnuts - The Beatnuts
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Big L - The Big Picture
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt / The Blueprint
Nas - Illmatic / Stillmatic
Fugees - The Score
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot / Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood / And Then There Was X
Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Timbaland & Magoo - Welcome To Our World
M.O.P. - Firing Squad
Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacfunkymusik / Aquemini

00s

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP / The Marshall Mathers LP
Dr Dre - Chronic 2001
Missy Elliot - Miss E... So Addictive
DMX - The Great Depression (actually, maybe just every DMX album )
Adam F. - Kaos
Princess Superstar - Princess Superstar Is...
Bubba Sparxx - Deliverance
Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer
M.O.P. - Warriorz
Spooks - Spooks Is On Some Other Shit
Outkast - Stankonia / Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Kanye West - College Dropout / Late Registration
Timbaland & Magoo - Under Construction Pt 2
The Neptunes - Clones
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Cam'ron - Come Home With Me / Purple Haze
Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter I, II and III
Cee Lo - Cee Lo Green Is The Soul Machine
Ludacris - Back For The First Time
Foxy Brown - Broken Silence
213 - The Hard Way
Nate Dogg - Nate Dogg

10s

Kendrick Lamar - Overly Dedicated / Section.80 / Good Kid, Maad City
Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Mac Miller - Watching Movies With The Sound Off
Kanye West - Yeezus
Action Bronson - Dr Lector / Well Done
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot
Juicy J - Stay Trippy
2Chainz - Based on a T.R.U. story


Backpacker Essentials

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory / Midnight Marauders
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control / Power In Numbers
The Roots - Do You Want More? / Phrenology
Mad Skillz - From Where??? / I Ain't Mad No More
Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Brother Ali - Champion
MF Doom - Mmm... Food
Victor Vaughan - Vaudeville Villian
Dangerdoom - The Mouse And The Mask
Madvillian - Madvilliany
Madlib - Shades Of Blue
Soul Position - 8 Million Stories
RJD2 - Deadringer
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Edan - Beauty And The Beat
Kool Keith - Dr Octagonecologist
Common Sense - Resurrection / Be
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
Q-Tip - The Renaissance


UK Essentials

Blade - The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength
Roots Manuva - Brand New Second Hand / Run Come Save Me / Dub Come Save Me
Skinnyman - Council Estate Of Mind
Jehst - The Return Of The Drifter
Verb T/Harry Love - Bring It Back To Basics
Mystro - Diggi Down Unda
Blak Twang - 19 Longtime / Kik Off
Credit To The Nation - Take Dis
Gunshot - Patriot Games
London Posse - Gangster Chronicle
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Monie Love - Down To Earth
Braintax - Biro Funk
TaskForce - New Mic Order / Music From The Corner Series
Klashnekoff - The Sagas Of...
Tommy Evans - The Turbulant Times Of...
Deckwrecka - A Better Tomorrow?
Skitz - Countryman
Phi Life Cypher - Millennium Metaphors
Ty - Upwards
Foreign Beggars - Asylum Speakers
Fallacy - Blackmarket Boy
DJ Format - Music For the Mature B-Boy




Basically, I miss the 90s. A lot.

[Nihilism]

Funny, i've listen to most of those LP's mentioned.

[magma]

Funny, i've listen to most of those LP's mentioned.

Yeah, shouldn't be too many surprises if you've been a hiphop fan for the last couple of decades. Riddles wanted a list to help start his collection.

[Liam92]

Gotta mention this:

[Pedro Sánchez]

List at a glance is

[magma]

Gotta mention this:

AHHHH FUCK I DIDN'T PUT ANY BEASTIE BOYS

Apart from Betty Boo when I was about 7, they were the first rap act I ever loved. And I forgot them.

[Pedro Sánchez]

Add Cormega's albums to the '00 I reckon.

[mIrReN]

thx! thats why I posted my question to get some lists going

[chekov]

Roc Marciano's album Marcberg's probably my favourite recent hip hop album atm

[garethom]

Big up Magma, will go through that list for the ones I've not heard.

Would defo add Outkast - ATLiens to that though, one of my all time faves!

[particle-jim]

Nice list Mags, will have to check a load of that stuff out, I need to listen to more decent hip hop.

while I'm at it check out Illogic - Celestial Clockwork, great album, reckon it might be up your street. Also check out Rhyme Asylum, ridiculously OTT UK horrorcore type shit but their wordplay is unbelievable... That's about the limit of my hip hop knowledge though so your list will be a massive help

[Laszlo]

00s

Dr Dre - Chronic 2001

Came out in 99. Just sayin.

[garethom]

That was the 2nd CD I ever got. I was 9, big up parents not giving a fuck, exposing me to the realness of the hood at a young age.

[Jizz]

I kinda rate that Pusha T album My Name is My Name, only just checked it. I dunno if I just find it funny or genuinely good though lol

[Laszlo]

Can the people who are into Metal do a similar list or point me in the direction of one please?

[magma]

Nice one Jim - I'll check them out!

Pedro - WORD. For some reason I don't think I actually own any of Cormega's albums which is probably why I forgot about him, but yeah, he should definitely be included. I think I might have been a little bit too Pro-Nas during his best period..

Garethom - I was kind of torn on Outkast albums... almost ended up just putting every single one of them down. My lady won't be pleased with me missing out ATLiens either.

Laszlo - Haha, was waiting for someone to point that out. I was going to put it into 90s, but it kind of kicked off the 00s for me as I got it a few months late and it seemed to herald the start of a slightly new era.

Also, Capone and Noreaga - The War Report should have gone into the 90s section.

[Laszlo]

Yeah fair enough. I suppose I was being too pernickety.